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joel

Re: Help with Brahma Kumaris Wikipedia Article

24 May 2006

Interesting. Yes, following the discussion and changes, one can see how someone who casually attempts to use The Big Hammer(tm) is shown up to be an uncommunicative bully ... and their changes don't stick. First the guy changed the article, then he (most likely a testosterone-crazed he) deleted the...
joel

Re: BKs at the UN

23 May 2006

Yup. A typical quote is this from one of their websites. Does it mean anything? Can someone write to the UN and ask them? The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is a non-governmental organisation in general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in ...
joel

Re: Help with Brahma Kumaris Wikipedia Article

21 May 2006

As it reads, what they are suggesting is to make new pages that create links that forward to the one article. That is the way the Wiki works. Okay, I misread. Well, BKs, if you want to have a part of frosty third-party descriptions of the BKs, please do so! I am rather out of touch with official Gy...
joel

Help with Brahma Kumaris Wikipedia Article

21 May 2006

If anyone is interested, there is some discussion going on at BKWSU Wikipedia aticle on various aspects of the BKWSU and its teachings. For example, is Raja Yoga a form of channeling? (I argue not.) And are the five vices a fixed and central tenet of the BK teachings? (I argue so.) However my statem...
joel

Re: Way off topic

18 May 2006

I think that for the sake of your own - and the forum's - credibility that you ought to qualify what you write with , " allegedly ", or "some people believe ", " they say " or something.On topic went that way ---> But, but ... surveys show that 31% of those surveyed be...

Re: The Cycle of time.

08 May 2006

Well worth a read. I looked at the site. The writer is a journalist who is a BK. The fact that she says there is no evidence for evolution has nothing to do with whether there is evidence or not. Actually there is excellent evidence. Believing the BK cosmology, one is forced to conclude, "all ...
joel

03 May 2006

Hi All, Hope to talk to you here. Is this the right place to start complaining? My next question: "Answering the questions you want to ask?" Is this final or provisional? Seems to emphasize the 'info' aspects of the site, rather than the community, which probably includes friendship, suppo...
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