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by joel
26 Oct 2006
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: Help with Brahma Kumaris Wikipedia Article
Replies: 41
Views: 26407

Re: Wikipedia

There is right now an on going campaign by the BKs to whitewash an article written about them on Wikipedia , they are trying to rewrite an article that many BKs and ex-BKs have contributed to in an attempt to define the BKs and their history ... It is incredible what these people are heading, such ...
by joel
26 Aug 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: Brian Bacon / Oxford Leadership and charging for Raja Yoga
Replies: 79
Views: 82461

Or put it another way, why doesn't Mr Bacon (tough name for a vegan) travel to all the BK centres around the world and give the course to all the BKs who, with their local awareness, can give the course and provide service to the souls and other BKs in their respective countries. He did create a Po...
by joel
22 Aug 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: Honour Roll - suicide
Replies: 64
Views: 73492

Coming and leaving cul-de-sacs of depressive shutdown

I am battling with suicidal tendencies, I've had another bout just these last 3 days, today I stood on a 5 story roof (ironic and almost funny thinking about the Murli references). I suffer from intense depression, loneliness etc, this seems to build to a crescendo once a month or so. The funny thi...
by joel
26 Jul 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: Dadi Janki and the Janki Foundation
Replies: 90
Views: 77860

Hi Sparkal! Still walking the path? Given that weakness is illusion, are we not all enlightened? Or is that cutting to the chase for some? Maybe they want to spin the glory hunting thing out a bit longer. Who gave us that weakness is an illusion? What does enlightened really mean? Not that I want an...
by joel
18 Jun 2006
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: Channeling and the Psychic Dimension of BKWSU
Replies: 213
Views: 144353

ex-l wrote:[Perhaps he means repeated and gone over again rather than "revised" in the re-write meaning the BKWSU seemed to have adopted? [ My own point of view only ].
Yes, that is the conventional interpretation of this BK / Indian-English jargon.
by joel
10 Jun 2006
Forum: For PBKs - supporting 'Advanced Knowledge'
Topic: Why do PBKs just keep on quoting Murlis??
Replies: 71
Views: 52329

I don't recall this - maybe you can point it out when the ex-BK Chat archive appears. The archives are up, with smilies temporarily rendered as text, but otherwise with avatars as of old: http://ex.brahmakumaris.info/xbkchat/ for your pleasure and edification. Our sysop measures the success of his ...
by joel
08 Jun 2006
Forum: All & Everything
Topic: Soul mate
Replies: 18
Views: 15766

I suppose the only real soul mate - the mate of the soul can only be ShivBaba and no one else, because everyone else will dupe you a little bit. In the vayakt Vanis it is said yes, one may take supoort for namesake, of a companion, of the familly, but if we make someone else / a human being/ our tr...
by joel
08 Jun 2006
Forum: For BKs - to discuss BK experiences
Topic: Who does ShivBaba speak through ? (no PBKs please)
Replies: 7
Views: 9072

Aside, there are ex-BKs (meaning those who left the mainstream BK) but are there ex-PBKs ? Sorry for raising another group of forum members :oops: I too, would be interested to hear some revelations from ex-PBKs about Virendra Dev Dixit and the PBK version of the gyan-trance life of mouth-born prog...
by joel
06 Jun 2006
Forum: All & Everything
Topic: Vegetarian animals
Replies: 10
Views: 7247

bansy wrote: Not just dogs but other pets in the Land of The Rising Sun eat these nori, I have heard.
So Baba comes to transform husbands and wives into brothers and sisters, and dogs and cats into vegetarians.
by joel
06 Jun 2006
Forum: Admin back up
Topic: [Policy] ex-BK Chat archives
Replies: 1
Views: 2989

[Policy] ex-BK Chat archives

There is some work going on to host the ex-BK Chat archives . Please let me know by private message or mail to joelz ATTO pobox DOTTO com if you have problems with any of the material you've previously posted being published. In particular, the XBK-only forum was not widely readable before. Posters ...
by joel
31 May 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: My Maryadas-Do's and do not's at "the centre "
Replies: 6
Views: 5501

why do you keep posting in the ex-BK bit ... Maryadas please, some of us have followed these strange life choices to the letter for a long time before true spiritual awakening ... In other words the realisation 'what the hell am I doing this for??????' :lol: That was why you were following them, ye...
by joel
30 May 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: Extracts of ex-BK Chat
Replies: 0
Views: 2982

Extracts of ex-BK Chat

I've finished extracting "joel's classic posts" from my writings on ex-BK Chat. To speak frankly, I am astounded at the depth and perception of this amazing ex-BK. 8) To provide context, i've included a few lines (and sometimes paragraphs) from a good number of you, Uddhava, Mr. Green, ex-...
by joel
30 May 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: My Maryadas-Do's and do not's at "the centre "
Replies: 6
Views: 5501

Okay, Sparkal, I can begin to warm up to you. Howie, your list is good, too. Please don't twist the knife too hard; I cannot stop laughing. Bansy obliged me with a recent list of maraydas (thanks!) but I am still looking for the original English language ones with nice calligraphic flourishes that w...
by joel
29 May 2006
Forum: For BKs - to discuss BK experiences
Topic: Start up of BK forum
Replies: 12
Views: 9986

You mentioned the poor behaviour of the sister in Charge. Maybe you're referring to the course leader but assuming you mean the SIC of GRC, many will know that is sister Manda. Is Manda a short woman with an impish face who used to do some translation duties during double-foreigner season in Madhub...
by joel
28 May 2006
Forum: Ex-BK
Topic: BKs at the UN
Replies: 6
Views: 5769

in actual fact fact the BKs have been downgraded in status by the UN and the UN also requested that the wording the BKs were using on their blurb about the UN connection should be changed as it was untrue. they were making out they had cunsultative status as if the UN turned to the BKs for spiritua...