Peter: > > I love powerful women and always enjoyed her posts on > > AMT as she eviscerated the castrated boys who whined > > for her to be kind. A regular Kali. Strings their baby > > balls around her neck.
Vaj: > Unfortunately dear ole Judy doesn't have any perspective from which to > "argue" from. She clearly is totally sold on TM as the greatest thing > since HaShem on Mt. Sinai. But she doesn't have any perspective > whatsoever outside the movement from which gain a broader View. > Consequently she often ends up just parroting TMO buzz-phrases ad > infinitum. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so sad. To try to move this to more generic ground and away from individuals, that's a fairly common issue in *many* spiritual trips. The dogma (and even more important, the assumptions that underlie the dogma) is transmitted so continuously that after a few years the True Believers come to believe that the canned phrases they are repeating are their own thoughts. They lose touch with the fact that those thoughts were *taught* to them, often for the express purpose of being trotted out whenever certain questions and objections arise. Everyone here who is a TM teacher remembers the parts of TTC in which we were taught the canned answers we were to trot out in repsonse to each of these questions. We passed them along as we were taught. The rank-and- file TMers pass them along in their turn. Add to this an environment in which curiosity about other spiritual paths is actively stifled, and an environment in which paranoia about "persecution" is cultivated, and the TBs tend to fall upon these canned phrases almost in the same way that a Catholic crosses himself when confronted with a frightening situation or in the same way that a devout Muslim reflexively shouts out a phrase in Arabic to ward off evil. I like the attitude here a great deal better. There are obviously a *wide* range of points of view repre- sented here, and some equally obvious old grudges, but on the whole there is a spirit of openness that very much reflects the "credo" on the home page for this group. I for one think that's pretty neat, *especially* because probably the only thing we've all got in common is TM. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
