From:    Tim Maroney                            Area: Thelema
To:      Kevin Bold                             24 Jan 95 12:31:18
Subject: Re: MEMBERSHIP IN OTO                  UpdReq 

 TM> I have a certain concern about the common usage of the term
 TM> "troublemaker" in the Order in general, and more specifically
 TM> in a body whose very name seems to suggest an admiration for
 TM> "troublemakers" -- "Whiskey Rebellion Camp."  If Crowley hadn't
 TM> been a troublemaker, we wouldn't have a tradition now.  If
 TM> Christianity says "blessed are the peacemakers," perhaps we
 TM> should say "blessed are the troublemakers" -- for they are the
 TM> ones willing to take the risks and push forward beyond the
 TM> edge of consensus.
 KB> As for WRC's name, the Whiskey Rebellion wasn't about making
 KB> trouble.  It was about not taking any crap from the government.
We really are failing to communicate here.  Of course refusing to take crap
from the government -- whether that government is the USA, the USSR, or the
O.T.O. for that matter -- is making trouble.  More power to it!
As for your new list of personality failings and crimes of the hated
"troublemakers" to whom you have denied initiation, I can only say that it
is a change of course.  Before, their only motivation was to "make trouble for
the Order."  Instead, now they're egotistical, manipulative, and indiscreet --
a different litany of complaints and an incompatible psychological explanation 
for their behavior.  It seems to me that in your mind, these people are fair
game for any and all criticism.  In short, you've demonized them.  I am even
less convinced now that your original description of their motivations was
correct.
Tim Maroney



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