I have heard that every time someone mentions ms orange ... another smiley dies.At this moment, BK Tamasin Ramsay is being given Australian government finance to, basically, do Brahma Kumari PR. She even stated on this forum that was so. A perfect example of where this is going is, her piece co-written with Wendy Smith,
here. Another bit of BK "YAH-YAH" ... (Yet Another Hagiography - Yet Another Hallucination). I just wish more folks in the BK world knew what a hagiography was, never mind recognised one when it hit the press.
chai Bhai wrote:I know some of her story and I can tell you she is no 'vanilla BK' as you said it. No, not at all. I know that she really supported this site in the beginning too - she was telling everyone to go on it and look. I thought that her postings were honest. She answered your questions and if she did not know something she just said that she did not know it.
So do I, chai. Which is why I said without any fear of contradiction that she is someone that has benefited from a privilege experience within the Brahma Kumari system not on the basis of her own innate spirituality ... or adherence to the Maryadas ... but on the basis of her family's money and her Father's social status and talents. Money, fame ... the BKs just love it. On the basis of that, her loyalty and judgment are suspect. Anyone with any integrity would not have accepted such privileges ... but that appears to be the BKWSU and BKs these days.
The baseline in academia is the sharing of the commonwealth of knowledge ... especially within public funded academics. I offered her all the assistance I could and to share my source - on the basis that she would share her's. I asked if she would get some other stuff from Madhuban ... she did not even have the respect to acknowledge my question. And, in my opinion, she made the fatal error of speaking to us as if we were stupid and could not see through her.
Whereas she was excited by all the history stuff. In my opinion, she was willing to take but not to give. She is in a position to get but was not going to share. I asked for details such as about the Tsunami Aid ... nothing. Why was she here?
Tamasin told me she had a grant to go do the BK United Nation VIP service but according the public records, she did not get the Endeavour grant until the year after ... I am still waiting for clarification.
Do you honestly think she does not know more than she said, or could not have easily found out? Of course she does and could. I mean ... who talks about their own Father as "The Producers" like she is some Hollywood starlet?
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. There is such a thing as "willful ignorance" you know.
In truth, I found her a little arrogant, and much more to the point,
academically I find her lazy and dishonest. That article is pretty much a copy and paste of 10,000 other BK Public Relations shots (
note the Taoist reference there folks). If Wendy Smith is NOT a BK, then I can only presume the co-opting of her as "co-author" (to an article that could have been written by Neville Hodgkinson out of Global Co-Operation House) is just another typical BK guise of adopting a non-BK as a front person to their service ventures.
Ethically, Tamasin Ramsay SHOULD HAVE publicly indicated in her article that she has a privileged personal interest in the new religious movement she was reporting on. I wonder if she will in her thesis? Ethically, she has a problem with her responsibility to the general public of Australia who are funding her Brahma Kumaris escapade. On the level of personal integrity, any academic would have thought long and hard about choosing a topic so they were personally involved with. If nothing else, it is just too easy.
Deception, deflection and subterfuge ... all typical BK service methods.
For the record, the reference to "vanilla" came from private correspondence with Tamasin and the making public of private correspondence was a very low trick because others could not see or know the context in which it was said. It was neither labeled at her nor was it negative. Vanilla is sweet. If she agrees, I am perfectly willing to make all of our correspondence public so that other can judge themselves what passed.