PADA: Thanks Henreic for your question on the status of our site:
http://harekrsna.org
I know, it is quite a jumbled up mess and there are some dead links etc. It was in the old html format, and then was changed to wordpress, so a lot of stuff was not really fixed over in the transition.
A younger devotee helped me get it up and running on the wordpress, but he is very busy with his own life and it looks like he does not have a lot of time to make all the link repairs and etc. Basically its going to take a lot of time and effort to get it all re-arranged, and it remains to be seen if that will even be done eventually. Its over what I can do at present to fix it all.
However, we think it served its purpose well over the years, and it still serves as a sort of encyclopedia on post-1977 ISKCON despite all its problems. Its currently linked to over 200 other sites, so it is still a reference point for a lot of people, including at least one Christian church group who posts links to our stuff on their bulletin board. It always amazes me that some Christians can relate to our site, and yet we have some Krishna "devotees" saying PADA is the whole problem. Well yep, it is a problem -- for the molester messiah's lover's club.
Of course this site has already been used and cited: In many mass media accounts including newspapers, magazines, TV shows etc.; Police and FBI investigations; College term papers (where we gave the students permission to copy materials); Professionally authored books like "Monkey On A Stick"; Lawsuits; Is sited on poison issue sites and books; And was used as a reference for the book "Killing for Krishna" and other similar books on the history of post-1977 ISKCON. So the site has been used as a source of reference for a lot of people for a long time, because for quite a while it was the only counter web site to the GBC guru process running -- at all.
Others, like the Krishna Kanta IRM originally, said our site was bogus for "being too critical," but a short time later they also started making critical comments on GBC guru affairs. Can't beat em, so join em!
Later on Rocana made at least some sort of complaint site, and others have followed suit with a number of sites, and thus currently "there are more opposition sites than GBC guru sites" complained one of their followers to me recently. Maybe so! So we shall see what happens, but if I could find a volunteer to help trim up the site and get it better re-organized that would be helpful.
However, I am not too worried if that happens or not, it seems our idea is sort of spreading into many other venues and formats at present. We also have folks all over the planet who agree with the basic message, and they will continue on with that message whatever happens -- or does not happen -- to the original site.
That being said, yes the site has a lot of material that may not be there forever, and so those who find the contents useful should start to copy it over to save it somewhere else. And maybe they can post the contents later on as a historical site of their own at some date. I am also the current owner of the domain and would only hand it over currently to a person I had a lot of confidence in, and who could keep the message on point.
We have to see if such a person can emerge. Anyway, yes, I know its a bit of a mess and needs a lot of fixing. We still get nice questions from readers of the site even recently, so its still relevant to some folks. But its just like me: its a mess, its old, yet it still gets quite a few hits all considered, so it has done the job, hee hee.
The fact that so many GBC people, Gaudiya Matha people, even some alleged ritvik people -- and many other assorted folks -- have complained about us over the years, must mean, its having an impact. Of course we also get lots of people who love the message and a number of folks who even say it has saved their lives. So we shall have to see what the future holds for it. ys pd
angel108b@yahoo.com
http://harekrsna.org
I know, it is quite a jumbled up mess and there are some dead links etc. It was in the old html format, and then was changed to wordpress, so a lot of stuff was not really fixed over in the transition.
A younger devotee helped me get it up and running on the wordpress, but he is very busy with his own life and it looks like he does not have a lot of time to make all the link repairs and etc. Basically its going to take a lot of time and effort to get it all re-arranged, and it remains to be seen if that will even be done eventually. Its over what I can do at present to fix it all.
However, we think it served its purpose well over the years, and it still serves as a sort of encyclopedia on post-1977 ISKCON despite all its problems. Its currently linked to over 200 other sites, so it is still a reference point for a lot of people, including at least one Christian church group who posts links to our stuff on their bulletin board. It always amazes me that some Christians can relate to our site, and yet we have some Krishna "devotees" saying PADA is the whole problem. Well yep, it is a problem -- for the molester messiah's lover's club.
Of course this site has already been used and cited: In many mass media accounts including newspapers, magazines, TV shows etc.; Police and FBI investigations; College term papers (where we gave the students permission to copy materials); Professionally authored books like "Monkey On A Stick"; Lawsuits; Is sited on poison issue sites and books; And was used as a reference for the book "Killing for Krishna" and other similar books on the history of post-1977 ISKCON. So the site has been used as a source of reference for a lot of people for a long time, because for quite a while it was the only counter web site to the GBC guru process running -- at all.
Others, like the Krishna Kanta IRM originally, said our site was bogus for "being too critical," but a short time later they also started making critical comments on GBC guru affairs. Can't beat em, so join em!
Later on Rocana made at least some sort of complaint site, and others have followed suit with a number of sites, and thus currently "there are more opposition sites than GBC guru sites" complained one of their followers to me recently. Maybe so! So we shall see what happens, but if I could find a volunteer to help trim up the site and get it better re-organized that would be helpful.
However, I am not too worried if that happens or not, it seems our idea is sort of spreading into many other venues and formats at present. We also have folks all over the planet who agree with the basic message, and they will continue on with that message whatever happens -- or does not happen -- to the original site.
That being said, yes the site has a lot of material that may not be there forever, and so those who find the contents useful should start to copy it over to save it somewhere else. And maybe they can post the contents later on as a historical site of their own at some date. I am also the current owner of the domain and would only hand it over currently to a person I had a lot of confidence in, and who could keep the message on point.
We have to see if such a person can emerge. Anyway, yes, I know its a bit of a mess and needs a lot of fixing. We still get nice questions from readers of the site even recently, so its still relevant to some folks. But its just like me: its a mess, its old, yet it still gets quite a few hits all considered, so it has done the job, hee hee.
The fact that so many GBC people, Gaudiya Matha people, even some alleged ritvik people -- and many other assorted folks -- have complained about us over the years, must mean, its having an impact. Of course we also get lots of people who love the message and a number of folks who even say it has saved their lives. So we shall have to see what the future holds for it. ys pd
angel108b@yahoo.com
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