---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
The fascinating thing from my point of view is that Lawson seems to actually believe that the things you, I, Curtis, and Michael say are some kind of "fringe" opinions spouted by those with a grudge against the TM movement. That belief *alone* is True Believerism to the max. It's like when someone (I think the Judester) pretended that the obit article written at the time of Maharishi's death and posted here was "biased." It really wasn't. It was HOW MOST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET VIEW MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI. That is, as a spiritual con man, he is notable only for the financial success and the number of people he sucked into his cons. That's the only area in which he ever excelled at anything. Except for a tiny, tiny fraction of people who are still brainwashed from their time in the TM movement (probably less than the made-up "square root of 1%) of the population), NO ONE looks at him as a "great saint," much less "the greatest who has ever lived." You have to be REEEAALLLY REEEAALLLY STOOPID to believe something like that. And most of the world isn't nearly that stupid. Lawson's never been on the "inside" of the TM movement to see how it was really run. He's never seen course leaders trying to sneak people who have had nervous breakdowns or who have attempted suicide on courses out of the country so that nothing makes the evening news. He's never been there when the people who commissioned courses like the one at Poland Spring back in the early days discover that the people running the kitchen were buying spoiled and near-spoiled produce to feed to the course participants because it was cheaper -- *and then told them to keep doing it*, because the alternative would have cost them more money. He's never been there when Maharishi told people not to pay law firms and PR firms that the TM movement had contracted with because the results of the court case or the PR attempt they'd contracted for didn't turn out the way he expected it to. He's never been asked to carry a suitcase of money back to India to give to Maharishi's relatives. The only thing I think he *has* seen are the fantasies running around in his head, fantasies that he *desperately* needs to believe are true to justify all the belief and proselytizing and money he's thrown their way for decades. He's desperate to believe "the science" NOT because he really believes it'll convince other people or the public, but because he's desperate to convince *himself* that he hasn't wasted his life on bullshit sold to him by a con man. He is the perfect -- and only -- target audience for all of that bullshit "science." Sad, but that's what happens when you turn your mind over to someone early in life and then never have the balls to take it back. So much time and wasted energy berating others for some perceived error on their part and here you are obsessed with critiquing Lawson (or anyone else) who doesn't exhibit black and white opinions on a subject. Always demeaning, always the same, Bawwy. For a subject you figure you have enough "balls" to have moved past you are certainly heavily invested and compulsively driven to continually comment on. What does this mean, oh testicular paragon of god-like gonads?
