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Re: SRH "moderation appeals committee" flaws
Hello,
In an eloquent manner, Global Hindu Electronic Network <ghen@netcom.com>
elucidated:
>Namaskar Ken,
>
>Please read the *entire* post made by the poster to see that your contention
>is completely incorrect.
>
>On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Ken Stuart wrote:
>
>> Here is another great example of the "anything goes" moderating on SRH.
>>
>> The following message just appeared TODAY on SRH.
>>
>> NOTE that it is asking for information on WICCA and "Wicca-like philosophy",
>> NOT HINDUISM. For some reason, the author was confused enough to think that
>> he had the right newsgroup ! The moderator's policy of "if it has words, it
>> must be relevant" was clearly in force here:
>>
>
>Please note that the author said, Buddhist, and also Other
>religions/spiritual books. He also sent a separate note saying that he
>would like to make this a list of books of *all* the religions. Of course
>just as if one wears blue color glasses everthing appears blue, once one has
>determined his/her mind that *anything* goes on SRH, all posts will
>appear irrelevent.
>
>> PS Duh, Hindus have "their own book", too! Duh.....
>
>
>Perhaps you missed it, but the author rquested books from all religions
>and also books about spirituality. IMHO, we ought not to shut out people w
>ho have genuine desire for inter-religion study and service.
>
>Here are the relevent portions of the post for everyone to judge...
>
>>you all your favorite books for beginners. (Does not have to be on just wicca
>> or even religion in particular. Spirituallity books are fine)
>
>...
>
>>Religion: (Wiccan, christian, Buddist, etc. If it is on general spirituality
>> just OTHER will be fine)
>
>If I had rejected this post, there would have been people screeming from the
>rooftop accusing me of supressing the attempt at inter-religious study.
>
>I seek more open-mindedness amongst my fellow Hindus towards
>interfaith projects . . .
You are the one who didn't read the whole post.
Otherwise you wouldn't have missed the following wonderful open-minded
statement in the post:
>And no I did not include any christian news groups,
>They have their own book!!!! <SMILE>)
To me, this invalidates the post as a true open-minded interfaith project.
As someone who is *very* familiar with Wicca philosophy, it is clear that the
post is simply about gathering reference material from the various bits of
other religions that have been appropriated in creation of the current
neo-pagan system.
However if one wears rose-colored glasses...
Namaskar,
Ken
kstuart@mail.telis.org
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