Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00111)

Kim,

How do you like "a nucleus of humanity"? Is that any better for you than
"human family"?
LFD



>Liesel:
>>In answer to your not wanting to change this nomenclature, I'm very
>>definitely against calling it "Brotherhood". I'm not a brother, in or out
>of
>>the ES. I'm a sister, & I feel excluded, as would any number of younger
>>women in the US.
>
>Dear Liesel,
>
>actually I did not advocate to reinstate the term, I merely regretted the
>loss of some of the meaning. In my opinion the meaning "a nucleous of the
>spiritual hierarchy within humanity" is completely lost. I can easily sign
>my name under the new objects however.
>
>>Kim, if you can come up with something that suits you better than
>>"nucleus of the human family", I'd probably go along with it, but calling
>me >a brother just rubs me the wrong way.
>
>   :-)  I have tried to figure something out for months. Sister- and
>brotherhood sounds rather silly. By the way, a lot of the gender-related
>terms in english are neutral in my language.
>
>>I hope you can understand my point of view.
>
>   Easily, Liesel. It may be that the idea cannot be rendered satifactorily
>in english. It is the *idea* I like. Alan put the "universal" back in,
>which is a great improvement. "Brother-" is obviously hopeless.
>
>In friendship,
>
>Kim
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