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Bhakta Corey missed the post where I explained why his blog feed was dropped.

The format here is accountable authors who talk about what they are doing and what they are thinking.

I specifically set up and structured the policies of Planet ISKCON to make it speak with a whole person, human voice.

Krishna-kirti prabhu's blog is interesting and valuable and I read it regularly via RSS, however it doesn't fit that definition because he doesn't carry enough information on his personal activities. A lot of his posts are carried on Planet ISKCON via the ISKCON Constitution.com feed.

Now, even if Corey makes himself accountable (contactable), I'm feeling a little put out personally. The whole "I know what Sita-pati is really thinking" angle is impersonal. It's like an impersonalist commentator who jumps in front of Krishna and says: "What Krishna really means is.." Corey likes to talk about people bringing their western culture into ISKCON with them. To me this feels like an example of that very thing. Nirvesesa sunyavadi pascatya.

I don't know what Corey is thinking. I only know what he has done and how it makes me feel.

Seeing how Corey has characterized me, my actions, and my motivations when they were clearly demonstrable to be different, makes me wonder about the quality of the rest of his writing.

It's not about politics, it's about human relationships. As Corey is discovering during his time in India, and writing about on his blog, devotee culture and human life are actually the same thing, because humans are humans when they are existing in relation to Krishna, otherwise they become animals.

You see Corey, reality is personal in nature. Krishna is a person and Krishna's devotee is a person. Devotee relationships, sadhu-sanga, are the essence and substance of bhakti.

Before you were just uncontactable. Now you've gone and offended me personally. Very bad manners to offend the host, you know. Not very cultured behaviour. What am I to do?