--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:36 PM, geezerfreak wrote: > > > > > > Very enlightened thinking here...demonize and minimize > > > those whose opinions differ from yours. > > > > Not to mention another huge non sequitur. Nothing to > > contribute to the religious vs. puja-as-scientific- > > procedure debate. Honestly it's difficult for me to > > imagine anyone but the most ardent of TB's still > > holding onto such a belief. > > I can imagine something stranger. > > Imagine that the person spouting all this TB stuff > *never learned TM*, and is merely *pretending* to > be a TM TB out of loneliness and a desperate need > for attention, just as she did on any number of > Personals forums, by pretending to be whatever got > her the most attention there. She can't discuss > the puja because she's never seen one. > > This *is* the person, after all, who can't tell us > when and where she was taught TM and the TM-siddhis > she claims to practice, and who, after all the 30 > years of her claimed personal experience with TM and > the TMO continues to call Maharishi "the Maharishi." > > How many people does it take to prove that a > blonde is too dumb to change a light bulb? > > Only one, if she's a blonde and keeps trying to > change the light bulb herself, and in public.
Just to put this subject to rest once and for all, I think "it would be good" to spend some time analyzing the age-old koan How Do Blondes Think? As far as I can tell, blondes (whether real blondes or faux blondes, merely *pretending* to be blonde the way some people pretend to be TMers) latch onto an argument that they have convinced themselves is irrefutable and devastating to their opponents. They then repeat this "perfect" argument over and over, more convinced with every repetition that they have "gotten" the people they want to "get." For example, take the recent claim by such a blonde that the people on this forum who are supporting the notion that TM is religious in nature "have all of 4 years of TM between you, total," and that this experience was "a few decades ago." By my count, given the 6 people the blonde is referring to, they have an estimated total of *160 years* of regular TM practice between them. In all cases, as far as I know, the 6 people she characterizes as "monkey minds" with no experience of TM from which to speak were or still are TM teachers. At least three of the people on her list of monkeys have stated explicitly on this forum that they never stopped practicing TM, and do so to this day. *None* of the people the blonde is attempting to characterize as "monkey minds" who do not have the experience to discuss TM are unwilling to post details of their TM experience; in fact, all of them have done so for years -- that is where I got the estimate of "total TM experience" above. I doubt that *any* of them would get their panties in a bunch if asked to play the "name your initiator and when and where you were instructed in TM" game. On the other hand, the blonde very *much* gets her panties in a bunch when asked to provide simple information that she would have to pro- vide if she ever went to a TM course of any kind, or applied for a "dome badge." I guess that what I am suggesting about the age- old koan of How Do Blondes Think is that they think that the worst thing that they can accuse someone they don't like of is to portray them as being JUST LIKE THEM. That is, if a blonde is pretending to be a TMer because she's lonely and can't stop her chattering monkey mind from chattering, she tends to project that chatter and lack of experience onto others. For example, such a blonde might post "damn, this is probably 50 for me this week" in her fiftieth post of the week, and then follow that with 12 more posts demonizing one of her enemies, because she can't wait 6 hours to do so. Now *that* is monkey-mind chatter. Such a blonde might also attempt to challenge the ability of someone who has practiced TM continuously for over 30 years, *as* a TM teacher, and who still practices it daily even though he believes that TM is relig- ious in nature, as a "monkey mind" who has had no experience with the thing he's talking about. Blondes tend to like pointing fingers at others. But these same blondes tend to be so stupid and uncoordinated that they don't realize that their finger is pointing in the opposite direction, at themselves. And now, another example of How Blondes Think: A guy walks into a bar carrying an alligator under his arm. He plops the alligator on the bar and announces in a loud voice, "I'm here to do some drinking, and I want to make a bet with you about who pays for the drinks." This gets the crowd's attention. As they gather around, the guy says, "See my alligator here?" He pries open the alligator's jaws to reveal its awesome teeth. "I am going to unzip my pants and pull out my pecker and put it in this alli- gator's jaws and leave it there for a full 30 seconds. Who is willing to bet that I can't or won't do this? If I don't do it, or remove my pecker from the alligator's jaws before the time I have specified, I buy you a beer. If I do what I said I'd do, you buy me a beer." Six guys all pull out their money and place it on the bar. The stranger does exactly what he said he would do; he pries open the alligator's jaws and puts his pecker inside them. Carefully checking his watch, after 30 seconds he grabs a beer bottle from the bar and whacks the alligator hard on the top of its head. The alligator opens its jaws and the stranger removes his pecker, unharmed. There is lots of shouting and cheering and the six guys all come over and buy the stranger a beer each. After he's finished with them, however, he announces, "Thanks for the beers. But now to give you a chance to have me buy you one, I'm going to propose another bet. If you are willing to do the same thing, I'll buy you a beer." Total silence in the bar. No one is taking him up on the bet. But finally a blonde woman at the back of the bar raises her hand and says, "I'll give it a try. But could you promise not to hit me on the head so hard with the beer bottle?" That's our ED11.
