some suggestions

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Bhakta Oleg Demtchenko wrote:

 

> In this text I'll try to express some suggestions for this

> conference. Of course, it's up to you to consider them seriously

> or not. But I hope you'll find a piece of common sense in

> my thoughts.

 

I found a lot of common sense in your thoughts, and I generally agree with

you. I will not quote your whole text (since you point out that it would be

better to not do that unecessarily.

 

 

> 3) The GHQ case. Huh, just hearing of these words is heavy,

> yeah? I can understand some feelings (of course, not all) of

> mothers, who were offended in such a harsh way. Sure 'feminist'

> is an offensive word, if someone would call me 'a communist', I

> would also be offended. Especially when this happens in ISKCON,

> where we supposed to treat each other as a vaisnavas. I'll not

> indulge in this discussion, there were many words spoken by

> Jatukarnya, Prsnigarbha, RK MX and others, so I have just to agree. Still

> the interesting thing is that I didn't find any words of asking

> forgiveness from any GHQ members yet. Jivan Mukta, Jaya

> Tirtha Caran and others, who named women as whores, prostitutes

> and n##gers, didn't wrote even hints, "I'm sorry", or I missed

> it somewhere?

 

That is one thing I also have been waiting for all this time, an honest

excuse from those who used harsh words on the GHQ conferance. In one sense,

it is better that they don't excuse themselves, because seeing the mood

behind the texts they wrote, it seems like they really meant what they said

on the GHQ conferance, so an excuse would then be hypocrytical.

 

> 4) I've such an impression, that in many discussions here Srila

> Prabhupada becomes some kind of principle, or a totem, in other

> words, something impersonal, when he was a person, a great

> person first of all. Is there somebody else, who has same

> feelings?

 

Yes.

 

> All right, all right, I'll finish here. I hope that no one did

> feel offened by my words, if you did - just say to yourslef:

> "Ah, anyway, it's just unknown stupid bhakta - what should we

> expect of him?". I promise I'll answer to your comments, but if

> you want some hot-tempered fights, I'll dissapoint you.

 

I am happy that you don't stay unknown, and you are certainly not stupid.

Please don't get hung up if some are judging your text as uninteresting

because you are a bhakta. That tells quite a lot more about them than you.

 

Ys

Jkd