Please excuse the silliness of me having to communicate in this mannager but ... this is a Message to to Mr Blandford ... as I am banned from posting on the BKs' "Open" forum and was banned from privating messaging before that (ho hum) ... re: I am in the news today, oh boy! (Facebook and bkinfo site)
No, Matrimony for BK Followers is nothing to do with us here. If you have any queries about it, contact the clever and courageous organizer, Shweta Arora.
For you and other readers information:
I am, of course, interested from the point of view of documenting the development of the BKWSU, how you might develop a relationship and marry and still call yourself a BK. I am interested in the internal psychological negotiation that goes in such cases, how the current generations of BKs view such contradictions and how the leadership is handling them. As you see, my interests are all perfectly reasonable.
Given your extensive role in the unethical legal action and elsewhere, I do think there is are a number of 'public interest' factors relating to the nature of Brahma Kumarism.
Personally, I do respect private individuals' privacy, whereas I will take the liberty to comment on 'public figures' who have used or incorporated BKism and promote themselves where I believe there is a valid public interest ... and until the Brahma Kumari leaders sort out their **** and stop wrecking other families and robbing family wealthy on the basis of their End of the World beliefs, I think there is a valid public interest in all this.
In the case of you and your wife, the matter has reported elsewhere in public and so I am able to discuss that. You certainly had kept it from me in our private communication (... yes, no wonder!).
Perhaps now, instead of taking sides with the BKs and over-exciting them to more nastiness and negativity, you might join with us to resolve matters?
I think that those of you involved with supporting the Western BKWSU Elite have an additional responsible to do something about all that. Or at least not support it.
If you would care to join us to discuss this, either please do so ... or allow me to respond on your "Open" forum.
If you stop throwing rocks at me and this forum (attempting to damage our credibility with false allegations), I'll stop delivering them back to you.
Simon, I remember having to fight against you to record in public evidenced facts that the BKWSU now, years later, is finally admitting was true all along (and only just). You were even willing to go as far as to use knowingly false arguments, in the public domain, to support what the BKWSU leaders knew was false. You had a choice to to to the BK leadership and check what we have been saying is, indeed, true. Instead you chose to invest 100s of hours trying to suppress the truth and damage or inhibit those who were promoting it ... as a representative of the BKWSU and for the benefit of the BKWSU.
Now, we discover that (without needing to go as far as discussing one's sex life) at the same time you appear to have broken Shrimat and done the unthinkable for most Brahma Kumaris ... married. I am sure even you can see the ethical problems in all that.
I suggest you withdraw your false and damaging comments, apologise, and we find some other way to resolve this.
No, Matrimony for BK Followers is nothing to do with us here. If you have any queries about it, contact the clever and courageous organizer, Shweta Arora.
- a) I have no idea who they are nor who is behind it
b) I was not and am not involved in setting it up or running
c) As far as I know, no one here was or is involved in setting it up. Certainly no one asked me about it.
- i) I think is wonderful and should be supported,
ii) Which asks some very good questions (who ever is behind it is way ahead of my curve as far as inside information goes)
iii) Should not be spoilt by your habitually nasty insinuations and false representations (that's a terrible sanskar you developed further during your Wikipedia days)
iv) I hope you are your BK wife do speak out about your experience, now it is in the public domain
- • Basically, there is no 'off forum' communication or collusion, and
• no 'off forum' conspiracy (that I know of)
For you and other readers information:
- • Here at Brahma Kumaris Info we have attempted to establish and keep open channels of information to individual BKs and the leadership of BKWSU, even suggested that it was in their best interests to have one in order to resolve issues such as this.
We have been refused, rebuffed, had doors closed, being condescended to and insulted at pretty much every level.
• Out of respect for Simon's privacy, despite the efforts he and the IT team invested against us (including willing collusion with Dr BK Hansa Raval's private legal action and persistent efforts to discredit me and fudge the truth of the BKWSU on the Wikipedia), we previously anonymised all references to him.
As you are now back making false and damaging statements against us and out work, Simon, we'll have to remove that in order to communicate in this rather silly and very public manner.
I am, of course, interested from the point of view of documenting the development of the BKWSU, how you might develop a relationship and marry and still call yourself a BK. I am interested in the internal psychological negotiation that goes in such cases, how the current generations of BKs view such contradictions and how the leadership is handling them. As you see, my interests are all perfectly reasonable.
Given your extensive role in the unethical legal action and elsewhere, I do think there is are a number of 'public interest' factors relating to the nature of Brahma Kumarism.
Personally, I do respect private individuals' privacy, whereas I will take the liberty to comment on 'public figures' who have used or incorporated BKism and promote themselves where I believe there is a valid public interest ... and until the Brahma Kumari leaders sort out their **** and stop wrecking other families and robbing family wealthy on the basis of their End of the World beliefs, I think there is a valid public interest in all this.
In the case of you and your wife, the matter has reported elsewhere in public and so I am able to discuss that. You certainly had kept it from me in our private communication (... yes, no wonder!).
Perhaps now, instead of taking sides with the BKs and over-exciting them to more nastiness and negativity, you might join with us to resolve matters?
- • Yes, the inequality of opportunity and manipulation of the following within the Brahma Kumari movement and its unwritten system of privileges concerns me.
• Yes, the lack of transparency and openness within the Brahma Kumari movement concerns me.
• Yes, the falseness of their presentation to the world, of which you willingly played a part wasting my precious time, concerns me.
I think that those of you involved with supporting the Western BKWSU Elite have an additional responsible to do something about all that. Or at least not support it.
If you would care to join us to discuss this, either please do so ... or allow me to respond on your "Open" forum.
If you stop throwing rocks at me and this forum (attempting to damage our credibility with false allegations), I'll stop delivering them back to you.
Simon, I remember having to fight against you to record in public evidenced facts that the BKWSU now, years later, is finally admitting was true all along (and only just). You were even willing to go as far as to use knowingly false arguments, in the public domain, to support what the BKWSU leaders knew was false. You had a choice to to to the BK leadership and check what we have been saying is, indeed, true. Instead you chose to invest 100s of hours trying to suppress the truth and damage or inhibit those who were promoting it ... as a representative of the BKWSU and for the benefit of the BKWSU.
Now, we discover that (without needing to go as far as discussing one's sex life) at the same time you appear to have broken Shrimat and done the unthinkable for most Brahma Kumaris ... married. I am sure even you can see the ethical problems in all that.
I suggest you withdraw your false and damaging comments, apologise, and we find some other way to resolve this.