How many atrocities have been committed by TMers? Your reasoning reminds me of the Rodney King trial in LA in 1992, when the defense managed to deconstruct the case to the extent that what was obviously true no longer appeared so. You take a few concepts and ideas, compare them to a few other ideas held by another group in a different time and culture, and then try to show how similar they are. What you ignore is a host of ways in which these two movements are completely different, and you end up making statements that are plainly ridiculous, not to mention offensive to the many people in this town who have helped to create it as the place that apparently you choose to live in. Anyone with an iota of balanced judgment could see through your arguments in a moment--a child could do so--but you, carried away by your own cleverness, cannot.
--- In [email protected], Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Research has shown again and again that ordinary folks are very willing to hurt others with electric shock in laboratory settings. Experience has shown again and again that folks do not interfere when they see someone hurt someone else. Add to that absolute devotion to a guru, the brainwashing of minds made susceptible through meditation (the beliefs about not being the doer etc), egos willing to do anything to prove they're enlightened, group isolation, belief in establishing heaven on earth, and doing God's will, and you've got a recipe for what happened in Germany. Call it psychosis or what you will, it happened on a very large scale in Germany. I don't think Germans are any more psychotic than anyone else. We are all subject to social engineering when you get us young enough. a > > jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In [email protected], Angela Mailander > <mailander111@> wrote: > > > > Atrocities are very possible when you believe that a) you are not > the doer, b) it's all an illusion anyway, c) the atrocities are > committed as a means to heaven on earth for a thousand years, and d) > death is not real. a > > > > I think in order to commit attrocities, there has to be a fundamental > lack of empathy for our fellow human beings, and I've heard that > called sociopathy. Whatever else the sociopath uses as justification > for hurting and killing others is just rationalizing this basic lack > of empathy for others. > > It doesn't follow at all thnat if we are experiencing a), b) and d) > above, that we are therefore capable of comitting attrocities. As for > c), that sounds psychotic. > > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >
