Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00119)

D.M. Bennett, In the news
  
   Carlos mentioned D.M. Bennett, and in 
the Sept-Oct, Nov-Dec, 2001 issues of 
Wheaton's "Quest" magazine (on-line) 
there was a good bio article of him, 
by the author of a recent biography.  
He's refered to in the MLs, was raised 
in a Shaker community (no sex or 
procreation - which is why they died 
out), was a "free-thinker" and editor 
of the "Truth-Seeker" publication, and 
became a member of the TS.  He was being 
aided by the teachers.  (It seems today 
that theosophists have a much more 
cultish or sectarian attitude of what 
is ACTUALLY included in the theosophical 
movement.)
  
"Scrap Metal for Kids"
      This was the humorous headline in 
a local paper.  A percentage was being 
donated to a children's fund.  Recently, 
locally, the Knights of Columbus held a 
good-hearted fund-raiser for a kid with 
leukemia, or something such, and raised 
$10,000 - which was another local story.  
When you think that this big effort only 
paid for maybe a half-day in the hospital, 
you wonder when people are going to wake 
up that there is something seriously wrong 
with the world and the medical establishment 
in the US.  (Does the word "theives" mean 
anything in this connection?)
  
    Last week or 2 weeks ago, in Germany, 
$500 million of knock-off imitation designer 
shoes were seized - mostly tennis shoes.  
They were all destroyed.  'Still quality 
shoes, even tho knock-offs.  Do you think 
a 100,000 pairs of quality tennis shoes 
could be used in poverty-stricken Africa, 
India, Mexico, or whatever?  They could 
have been defaced with spray-paint or 
something, and donated to a charity 
organization - not much effort involved.  
So here is where the heart of big business 
and government is, in spite of all the 
politically conscious PR-crappola in the 
Nike ads, and the like.
  
    My last posting here got heavily 
edited.  One wonders what "vested interest" 
did that?  After all, this is only a
discussion-site, for crissake, and not 
a politically loaded society organ or the 
like! Hope this makes it through.
  
          - jake j.
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