It is tiresome to go over the same ground time and time again but I have the patience. "
The producers were contacted" on the 6th of March before any controversy arose and never came back. I took Tamasin's intervention to be the official response. and am grateful for all it illustrated. I found it ridiculous that the leading star and daughter of the producer, who all share the same address as the production company, could not answer straight questions either on or 'off forum'.
Robin Ramsay wrote:Brahmakumaris info is promoted as a discussion site, which I applaud, but last time I visited, it was largely a sandpit for a few people's 'Electronic Bravery': persons being abusive while hiding behind pseudonyms, which is not my favoured means of communication. Any enquiries or comments about the film 'Tao of the Traveller' are welcomed at
info@taotraveller.com, and the producers are very happy to respond.
I composed a poetic response referring to the "
DISPUTATION OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER ON THE POWER AND EFFICACY OF INDULGENCES" and my imagined response of the Holy Roman Empire or Catholic Noble man to the start of the Protestant Reformation when Martin Luther nailed his "
95 Theses" to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Many Christians were troubled by what they saw as false doctrines and malpractices within their Church, particularly involving the teaching and sale of "indulgences", the practice of buying and selling positions (simony) and what was seen at the time as considerable corruption within the Church's hierarchy.
This corruption was seen as systemic, even reaching the position of the Pope. For "Pope" today and in our context, read "Dadi". The Reformation effectively ended the Pope's pan-European political power (but they did manage to keep their hands on considerable wealth and real estate and continue to exist until this day). Fully aware of the loss, Pope Innocent X declared the protesters "null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all times." Most people ignored him.
I can just imagine the loyal Bishops referring to "the Paper Bravery" of the Protestants. What does Robin (
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expect us to do? Lay seige to Mount Abu ... roll our trebuchets up to the doors of Gyan Sarovar media editing suite? BK follower Robin RamsayWhat made the Reformation possible, and the consequent shaking up of Europe was Guttenberg's printing press which for the first time made copying and transmitting ideas cheaply and widely possible and took the centralised control of "the message" out of the hands of the centralised Vatican and royalist political elite. Both the Reformation and printing press essentially made possible the industrial revolution, the Enlightenment, a new social order that finally led to socialism and democracy developing and so on.
For us today, the "electronic" internet is playing, and has played, the same role ... I mean, how "Taoist" has yours, theirs, the BKWSU's response been? Anyone else had any luck getting a straight answer out of them?