dharmabum Wrote:
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> Pam Ho, I do not know you personally, I have no
> interest in your views and I despise your role as
> a mouthpiece or an advocate for cults. Is this an
> attack? Absolutely not. You are everywhere, with
> the same repertoire: cults are just as the same as
> any religion. That’s fine and is within your
> freedom to espouse what you believe in. Hey,
> it’s a free country. But do not play the
> “victim” card when people dispute your woowoos
> – this is a public forum based on freedom of
> speech. Nobody gets a free pass here.
>
> You seem to be a very articulate person and have
> invested a lot of lifetime in the cult. I fail to
> see why would a free society welcome your advocacy
> – they are diametrically opposed to one another.
> The value of “free market of ideas” is to
> discuss openly everything under the sun within
> reason. There is no way a cultic authority of
> thought will have a place in a modern and free
> society. Either you are of the former or of the
> latter, never both. You claim to have left the
> cult and seem to have accumulated vast knowledge
> of the “unrealities” of a cult, specifically
> Krishna/Vaishnava theology. I don’t doubt that
> – socially, yes; but psychologically? You’re
> still very much in the cult, and remain
> complicit.
>
> My next question is – what is your true
> motivation speaking for the cult? Here, knowing
> that the premise of this forum is: Cult by
> definition and practice is bad. Whatever your
> arguments are, pass that, are irrelevant, or are
> “off-topic”. If you can argue why cults are
> not a menace to society and a threat to all
> decent-living families, only then can we talk
> about why should we stop concerning ourselves with
> Tulsi, yoga and other misleading tools Chris
> Butler obviously using to surreptitiously insert
> your “values” upon uninformed public?
>
> I’m not sure if you have a family or understand
> what it is like to have one – what is it like to
> be disowned by; what does it feel like; what is a
> biological bond; or in what context do you define
> what love really is? Like the “people” you
> advocate for, to tell Rama, Lalita, Radhika, the
> gurukuli children to suck it up, you are not your
> body, tough luck, lick up, move on … I really
> doubt you do, or ever will. You need help.
If you read my book you will see I am against gurus, not against them in the traditional sense of a a guru where the guru is defined solely as a teacher, but against worship of and treatment of gurus as anything more then how you would treat a professor in college class. So how does that jive with your determination that I am a cultist? Because I still promote the teachings of the ancient traditions? By that account any Hindu is a cultist by your definition and therefore since "cult" by definition is bad by your account, therefore all Hindus are cultists and therefore all bad.
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