From: "garyrrenard" <garyrrenard@...>
To: <Disappearance_of_the_Universe@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: [Disappearance_of_the_Universe] Re: Wishing you a mind at peace
Hi Ossie. That other Gene and Stephen are regular posters at another
message board called trcm on Google, which has been referred to by
some (not me) as "The Newsgroup From Hell." (I think they're proud of
that name.)
Gene and myself most certainly do not belong to the camp that delights in
TRCM being "The Newsgroup From Hell".
Gene actually has kind of a bet going there about how
long it will take him to get kicked out of the yahoo Disappearance
club. I guess when he posted that over there he didn't realize we
have no rules. In any case, these guys are legally opposing the
copyright of the Course, (notice that Stephen said in one of his
posts to me, "When the copyright's over..") they hate Ken Wapnick and
they hate me because they think my book supports Ken,
Who exactly are you to assume you can make this staggeringly judgemental
claim? A disagreement over the copyright policy is hardly the same as
hatred. Similarly, a belief that you simply made up Arten and Pursah is not
hatred either. This is a foolish and irresponsible statement to make, Gary,
and it goes back to something I said yesterday about people having an
internal problem with people who disagree with them. You've got a big one.
Get over it. I think the copyright policy as it is now is extremely wrong
for various reasons - and that's it. The fact that you are the kind of
person who would label someone as 'hateful' so easily just because they
question the party-line does not show you to be very right minded at all.
plus I received
permission from him to use all those quotes from the Course in my
book, so I must be conspiring to get the "official" published version
of ACIM to the world! (Shame on me.)
I do not believe there is any 'conspiracy', and you might find it a useful
practice to adopt to find out what people really believe rather than giving
into the temptation of projecting onto them what is most satisfying and
tempting to the ego to believe.
I would be very happy with a situation in which FACIM/Ken simply decided
that the copyright policy on ACIM (all versions) was the same as that
applied to, say, the NIV Bible which is very ammicable. FACIM's preference
for works that either flatter Ken or at least adhere to his metaphysics even
if they don't totally agree with every theological point he makes is plainly
wrong.
To say they have alterior
motives and axes to grind would be an understatement! They'd like to
ruin the Yahoo club. (The ego works in mysterious ways.)
Not true.
~
Stephen
