--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Behalf Of hugheshugo > > > > So anyone who's been wondering what will happen to the > > TMO without MMY, we're about to find out. > > I heard him make the same announcement several times as > early as 1974.
It seems to me that a similar "I'm outa the everyday affairs of the movement" pronouncement was reposted here on FFL only a few months ago. Isn't it fascinating, though, that there are hundreds of people among the TM TBs who literally are incapable of remembering back that far. They live in a world more ephemeral in its way than that of pop music. (A common trait among people who work in the marketing side of the music biz is that they seem incapable of remembering any song or album that came out any further back than last month, or in some cases, last week.) >From one point of view, I guess one could regard this as "living in the moment." From another, it can be regarded as "Never learning from the lessons of history because one can't *remember* history." I have a good friend who was always fun to go to the movies with because on exiting the theater he would invariably give the same "review" to what- ever film it was that we had seen: "That was the BEST film I've ever seen." I often laughed, because sometimes the film really wasn't any good at all, but after awhile I realized that my friend was serious, every time. It really *was* the best movie he'd ever seen, because he couldn't really remember any others. He got so completely into the moment that no other film he'd ever seen in his life was available as a reference, or to practice discrimination with using it as a reference. Only the latest film existed. I sometimes envy him this ability. But most of the time I don't. Discrimination is important. As long as one still perceives both shit and shinola in the world, discrimination helps you tell one from the other. I remain open to the claim from some folks that they no longer perceive a difference between shit and shinola -- both are just "particles" of their Self. It's possible, and more power to 'em if they really do perceive that way. But to be honest I don't want to smell their shoes after they shine them. :-)
