Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00576)

Carlos,

You say that I mention "H. P. Blavatsky's stinking corpse."  You use 
quotation marks around this sentence as though you are quoting me 
directly and accurately.  Do you even realize that you are not?   You 
are quoting your inaccurate recollection of what you thought I must have 
said, based on your psychological need to dismiss me as an insignificant 
disturbance to your world-view.  If your memory were accurate, or if you 
bothered to check your facts you would also note that it was Steve and 
not Chuck who tried to remind me that HPB's body was cremated.  Pointing 
out  these erroneous recollections of yours is important.   In doing so, 
I am giving you the opportunity to realize that  when you are not 
looking,  a part of you is reinterpreting and rearranging the actual 
events of the past  into a satisfactory bouquet  that smells like 
spring-time to you.

In addition, despite my subsequent efforts to identify my post as a 
directly proportional parody of  the "nice" post you sent about your 
brother Paul and my admitting forthrightly that in my post I was telling 
lies at about the same rate as you, and despite my further comments to 
clarify that my reference to decaying corpse and dead carcass was a  
metaphor for her body of literature ( an admittedly failed metaphor for 
sure), you choose to ignore these points because you do not wish to see 
your post to Paul for what it really is (an attempt to shoot the 
messenger), but instead wish to remember it only  for what you intended 
it to be (a defense of HPB). 
We each have a human tendency to reconstruct history to suit our 
present  needs.  Some are aware of this tendency, while others continue 
in ignorance.

peace,


bill



carlosaveline cardoso aveline wrote:
> Bill,
>
> You seem to be liking to tell "killing stories" lately. (See below.)
>
> A few days ago, in one of your nice messages to me, you mentioned "H. P. 
> Blavatsky's
> stinking corpse".
>
> Soon after that, Chuck the Heretic tried to remind you of the well-known 
> fact that HPB's body was cremated.
>
> Since you insist in bringing our dialogue to this level, you will not mind 
> if I ask you something.
>
> Instead of mentioning HPB's physical body after death,  it makes much more 
> sense if you think of your own stinking corpse, doesn't it?
>
> "Mind your business first"  is always a good piece of advice.
>
>
> Peace to all beings, Carlos.
>
>
>
>
>   
> > From: Bill Meredith <meredith_bill@earthlink.net>
> > Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> > To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: Theos-World Shooting messengers vs producing the goods
> > Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:53:50 -0500
> >
> > Once upon a time there was a man who traveled from his own country  into
> > the world known as the Land of Theosophists.
> > He saw a number of people running in terror from a library where they
> > had been trying to Study Theosophy.  "There is a Heretic in that
> > library," they told him.  He looked, and saw that it was a scholarly
> > messenger.
> >
> > He offered to kill the "Heretic" for them.  When he had finished
> > "shooting the messenger,"  he declared the body of work that remained
> > anathema and burned the books.  Seeing his skill at killing and burning,
> > the people were sorely afraid and cried out, "he will kill us and burn
> > our books next unless we get rid of him."  But they were weak and so
> > they lived and died in their own fear doing as the stranger told them.
> >
> > It so happened that at another time another man also wandered into the
> > Land of Theosophists and the same thing started to happen to him.  But,
> > instead of offering to kill the "heretic," he told them they were living
> > in relative illusion and he went into the library and studied  with the
> > heretic.  No one was killed and no books were burned.   By his bold
> > example he taught them the basic fact which would enable them not only
> > to conquer their fear of "heretics"  but also their illusions about
> > truth and heresy.  This enabled them to  live  at  peace with all
> > beings  in  the Land of Theosophists.
> >
> > Morten -  yes I know you care.  You know that I do care, too.  How are
> > the "rugrats" these days?
> >
> >
> > peace,
> >
> >
> > bill
> >
> >
> >     
>