Why did you CARE? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Your friend has great experience and is pushed out of the TMO. > > Maybe there is some truth to the old rumor that the powers that > > be are reincarnated members of the order of the protectors of > > the faith (inquisitors) ;-) LOL > > Anything is possible. One thing is certain, in my exper- > ience, *whatever* their incarnational pedigree, such petty > tyrants are incapable of handling being laughed at or being > embarrassed in public. > > As you can probably tell from my posts here, I was not the > most "on the program" and tactful guy when I was in the TM > movement. I didn't actually make that many waves, but the > "wave" I'm most proud of also occurred at an ATR course in > Switzerland. > > For a change, I'd gotten assigned a decent room. It was on > the fourth floor, sunny, had its own bathroom. What is not > to like? So it's about two weeks into the course and we get > a new German course leader. He shows up, is assigned *his* > room and, one can presume, doesn't like it much. > > The way I find *out* that he doesn't like his room much is > that I go back to my *own* room after lunch and see my > suitcases outside the door, with a note on them. In it, > he informs me that he has moved into my room. I have been > "reassigned" to the room that wasn't worthy of him, and he > has taken the liberty of packing all of my things for me. > He had the nerve to sign the note with "Jai Guru Dev." > > What he has forgotten is that I still have my key. > > I use it, open the door, and walk in. He's not there, but > all of his stuff is. I gather it all up and throw it out > the fourth-floor window. I don't bother to pack it, I just > gather up heaps of clothes and books and toilet articles > and just toss them out the window onto the lawn below. And > then I move back into my room. > > Know what happened? Nothing. Nada. Rien. Nichevo. > Bupkus. I never heard a WORD about it, either from the > course leader himself or anyone else. Not a word. > > Petty tyrants are able to be tyrants only because people > allow them to do so. Stand up to them, especially in a > way that makes them look ridiculous or causes others to > laugh at them, and they turn back into what they always > were, timid little mice given power before they were > mature enough to handle it. > > Unc
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