Online privacy, was: Gurus and teachers

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Hello,

 

In the question of teachers and gurus, maybe it is we who are too

little critical ?

 

As you say, it is a business and ppl are offering services and

goods.

 

It is then up to the purchaser to make sure the services and goods are

of proper quality.

 

This reminds me of something that happened way back when the first

time I joined a mailing list dedicated to spritual matters.

 

The list had newly been started up and to be honest, we were all

absolute or close to absolute

beginners, except for a long time practitioner of Buddhism,

who also turned out to be about the oldest of us, being about 60.

 

The list owner and the two moderators knew each other before and had

invited most of the members from other groups they themselves

were members of, so while some ppl knew each other from before, not

everyone did, so we were all kind of sounding each other out.

 

Someone made a question on list about socalled "Ascended Masters"

and what they were. Then comes a message from the Buddhist

practitioner, who was a thoroughly kind soul and not likely

to start up malevolent gossip,

warning everybody that none of us were in any way

obliged to give out personal e-mail or snail mail addresses,

or meet ppl we knew from online, even if they stated that they

were an "Ascended Master" out to bestow teachings on us.

 

Turned out someone had called themselves an "Ascended

Master", mailed some female members of the list in private

and offered them "private tuition" in the hope that someone would be

naive enough to fall for it.

 

I cannot picture the same thing happening on this list with so many

experienced members, and Ascended Masters in their own right

but I just want to remind everyone that they

are in no way obliged to give out personal information,

including home addresses, to anyone on the net, no matter the

reason you are asked for this information.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

Thanks for sharing this interesting story Amanda. I would certainly agree

with that. No one should feel obliged to give out any personal information

about themselves at all on the internet. This is particularly good advice to

young people who might be new to the internet and discussion lists.

Sharing and Caring for all - This is our motto on a.

Love you all

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

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