Well, Turq devotes an entire rant to me. I'm truly honored.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I feel sorry for you, that you are so willing to judge a man
> > > adversely when you know so little about him.
> >
> > Number one, do you think he would read anything I write here?
> > Number two, you are being offended on his behalf.
> > Number three, that is soooo lame.
>
> Bingo.
>
> From my point of view, feste woke up Saturday
> morning identifying overmuch with Maharishi and
> his chosen spiritual path, so much so that he
> could not tell the difference between something
> said about either that was merely *different*
> than what he believed, and something said about
> either that was an attempt to (in his words)
> "memorably insult, defame, and vilify Maharishi,
> the man who gave most of them their very first
> start on the spiritual path." He went on to say,
> "There's gratitude for you."
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but I think that
> feste lost it a tad here. First, not much really
> got said that was "defamatory." In my case, I have
> only made two posts this week that said anything
> that anyone could react to negatively about MMY.
> The first gave my *honest* experience of being
> around the man for many years, and suggested that
> I had seen no evidence that he had mastered any
> siddhis at all (which is true) and that I didn't
> think he had very much charisma or "shakti" at all
> (which is also true, from my POV and based on my
> experience). That seemed to set him off. The only
> other mention I made of MMY was an obviously funny
> suggestion that someone could use some of his rants
> about Scorpion Nation or about being gay as a video
> tryout for Joss Whedon's Evil League Of Evil.
>
> A few people may have said some things more overtly
> negative about MMY or about TM, but SO THE FUCKIN'
> WHAT?! What's that got to do with feste?
>
> They're NOT insulting him. They're NOT ragging on
> him. They're ragging on Maharishi, or Bevan, or
> in some case a silly idea based in self-importance,
> that Maharishi was somehow more "special" than
> other people.
>
> So I just felt the need to wade in here and agree
> completely with Curtis' assessment above:
>
> > Number one, do you think he would read anything I write here?
> > Number two, you are being offended on his behalf.
> > Number three, that is soooo lame.
>
> Soooo lame.
>
> If someone "insults" YOU, in this culture you have
> the right to react, and you can either choose to
> "refute" the insult, or do the smart thing and
> ignore it and the person who hurled the insult
> completely. Spiritually, the former indicates IMO
> that you haven't evolved much further than an animal
> and the latter indicates that you might have some
> chops, but it's your choice.
>
> But when someone "insults" an IDEA that you believe
> in, or someone who ISN'T you and you get bent out
> of shape and uptight about that? That isn't "grat-
> itude," that's just lame.
>
