Opouf Shemp, straight to the mark of a cult of the culture there inside.
Shemp writes: <He encouraged the slow death of the TMO by participating...). ...This is not courage but complacency. This is not courage but enabling. Like most in the TMO, he sold his soul for a few shekels of darshan. > > [snip] > > > > > 'Courage' comes to mind. David Lynch walks the walk to bring TM >to > the masses again. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a totally different take on courage in this context. > > Courage would mean Lynch confronts MMY and pleads with him to stop > all the bullshit that has been going on in the TMO for the last 30 > years and to stick to promoting the TM Program. No more political > parties, pontificating on politics, paranoid ramblings about the CIA > infiltrating the TMO, setting up your relatives in India with access > to multi-million dollar bank accounts, and all those trappings of the > Hindu religion (Vastu, yagyas, vedic peanut butter cups, etc.) > > Lynch didn't do that; rather he is encouraging and enabling more of > the same by sharing the same stage with nutjobs like Rajah Kohoutek > Emannuelle. > > He encouraged the slow death of the TMO by participating in the NLP > campaigns (he actually shot and directed a commercial for Hagelin). > > This is not courage but complacency. > > This is not courage but enabling. > > Like most in the TMO, he sold his soul for a few shekels of darshan. > > > > > > > > > > After tiptoeing through the elephants of bizaar narcissim that > characterizes the TMO today > > ( and that brought the TMO to the brink of irrelevance and > obscurity ) he courageously is > > dragging the TMO from its delusional cloud of self-reassurance to > meet the 21st century's > > need for TM. He's not playing it safe, career-wise, but neither do > his movies, which poke, > > plunge and twist a hot stick into the eye of the culture of film- > making. In both arenas, > > David Lynch excels- his reputation is secure. > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings > <no_reply@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Looks like Lynch saved the day: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_5VPd93Ytk&feature=related > > > > > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/2clhen > > > > > > > > > > OffWorld > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If that's "saving the day" then the TMO is in big trouble. > > > > > > > > Lynch is using up alot of his goodwill as an "artiste" and one > of the > > > > greatest acclaimed directors with all this TM Cult stuff. The > sooner > > > > he realizes that they are making him a laughing stock, the > better it > > > > will be for him.
