Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 In a message dated 9/10/2003 : some saintly soul has written: > > Another example: the granting of equal social status to female devotees. > Seeing as this is a major departure from traditional and sastric standards > and from the actual praxis of Srila Prabhupada, this should if at all been > adopted have first been discussed for months, considering long-term effects > and an overall social manifesto for ISKCON. But no, it took merely one > afternoon session of the GBC. A few women came in and cried a bit, the GBC > crumbled and the women got their job done. Is this brahminical or even sane > management? > Is the writer sane? Is this really how he thinks things are going or were done? In my 50% less intelligent mentality, I feel like sending him a sympathy card. an unfortunate fool, Malati dasi Quote
Guest guest Posted September 16, 2003 Report Posted September 16, 2003 Malati dasi wrote: > Well,I thought that a great deal of teachings took place over a politcal > hotbed (the battle of Kurushtra) meaning to say that politics is not > necesarrily a bad thing. True. But it is lamentable that GBC members consider politics and its attendant duplicity an appropriate expedient for effecting ISKCON policy. Quote
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