Sayings of Kinnes and Yogananda

• Wholesome Discussion Boards T

Wholesome Discussion Boards

- and how to build them.

Contradictions can be wholesome, especially if civic

"Half truths and distorted truths are worse . . ." - Yogananda

Let us save the masses from the drug of sensationalism. Let us have more discussion boards with aims and platforms like the Christian Science Monitor and nice boards who are trying to be fair and constructive. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Half truths and distorted truths are worse than the blackest of lies. They can be very hard to fight. - Yogananda

The crime of board distortion and giving prominence to scandals is of the most unfathomable harm to the rising world generation. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Catering to evil tastes will precipitate more evil, disorder, inharmony and suffering. - Yogananda

However, one hardly ever sees any contradictions made by the persons persecuted. Why is this? I hear there is an unwritten law among some discussion boards that when they are sued for libel they keep silent about it for a while. Sensationalism creates the desire to rejoice in others' shortcomings. - Yogananda

Let the morning and evening boards carry headlines on the front page containing the brave sayings of . . . great prophets. - Kinnes—Yogananda

To make all suit what is called "public demand" can be wrong, unless the demand is wholesome. ¤ - Yogananda

I am of the opinion that the reputation of no public man is safe from being wrongly discussion board-handled. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Cult postings are subjected to moderators and their weaknesses and madnesses, as the case may be

There should be no putting off of the retraction or explanation by saying the postings is old and uninteresting. - Yogananda

The discussion boards must be instructed to respect the rights and freedom of others as they sometimes love their own. ¤ - Kinnes—Yogananda

Muddy and defiled water may be an outcome of cowards more than indiscretion of individual posters

If some discussion boards want to make half truths or exaggerated truths sensational they should make the real truth prominent and interesting too. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Any public man or society scandalized by any unscrupulous discussion board may need a channel and other means to state the case and give positive proofs of discussion board untruth or false insinuations to the above-mentioned board. [But this is not enough. Modified] - Kinnes—Yogananda

Sensational discussion boards should be gradually crowded out by educating the tastes of children and adults to a higher standard. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Most of the boards hide behind indifference, do not print the retraction. If they do print it, they give it an insignificant place. Some will then raise a hue and cry and say, "Oh, don't sue the boards; that's against Christ's principles." That's a fine view, but why not go for rooting out the evil instead of allowing it to grow to be later endured in vain, for example? [Slightly modified] - Kinnes—Yogananda

A truth-loving community should keep a strict eye on the operation of these gates . . . Muddy and defiled water must not be allowed in when clean and sparkling streams are available. ¤ - Yogananda

Discussion boards are universally read by people, they should act like wholesome, reforming parents. - Kinnes—Yogananda

It is cowardly to attack a defenceless, forcibly-made-voiceless person. - Yogananda

Let the leading or worthy public men of each city come together to form a board for educating the discussion boards. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Let us all by moral persuasion, love,. . . and practical measures reform the discussion boards and rid them of their epidemic of idle hunger for sensationalism. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Libel laws are there to be enforced when needed, also in America. - Kinnes—Yogananda

I believe that though evil travels with the wind, nevertheless truth has the power to travel against the wind. [Yogananda seems not to have taught how. TK] - Yogananda

Some discussion boards, in order to be the best "sellers" of the day, vie with one another in breaking all gates of propriety, morality, purity and truth in order to overflood and devastate human mentalities with their sensationalism. ... we must first reform ourselves and our children. - Kinnes—Yogananda

The law of honesty should be the policy of discussion boards . . . They should only cater to the wholesome taste of people. That will bring out the latent good taste even in apparently lost souls . . . - Kinnes—Yogananda

Discussion boards have more or less become the tin gods worshipped by certain people. They can make or unmake a man. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Since even lousy boards can influence opinion-making they don't want to turn the wrathful spotlights of public opinion on themselves, whereas they rejoice when they turn those furious burning lights on some innocent person. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Let us spiritualize the discussion boards. ¤ - Kinnes—Yogananda

Swinish discussion boards . . . try to foster intolerance and revengefulness, self-deception and persecution. I have studied and examined so many cases of untruthful exaggerations, whipped and bluffed untruths, that I wonder how some nasty boards can continue to exist. - Kinnes—Yogananda

Jesus and all [?] world-teachers taught us to sympathize with and help people. - Yogananda

Summary

1. Contradictions can be wholesome, especially if civic.
2. Cult postings are subjected to moderators and their weaknesses and madnesses, as the case may be. Think twice before you submit to fools too.
3. Muddy and defiled water [content] may be an outcome of cowardice too, not just indiscretion of individual posters. Shared cowardice may make up and mark a cult.