--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: >
> Doug, in all honesty, I think you have been toking > on the Maharishi Bong far too long. You make assump- > tions about things that are not only unwarranted, > they are far more offensive to thinking, feeling > human beings than the behavior you find "offensive." > > Your position (if it isn't parody) is that of the > classic religious fanatic and elitist. WE (the > people who do what *I* say and who live the way > *I* want them to live) live in a state of "Grace." > Those who don't are "offenders" who require > "judgment" and punishment if they won't do what > *I* say. >"Marek Reavis" <reavisma...@...> >wrote: > > Most people who've been participants in the criminal justice > system as defendants, have had pretty shitty lives, are used > to be shit on, and frequently (and not surprisingly) have > internalized all that shit and believe it to be true. They've > been told that their whole lives and in the context of the > criminal proceedings, the same message is being given. But I > know that there is very little difference between them and me, > and that difference I don't perceive as being that substantive. >Attention is love. They feel that (even if they don't >think about it that way) and they respond to it. >With rare exceptions I really like my clients, regardless of what >they've been accused of or what they've actually done. Yeah, I don't necessarily like representing the TM T=B view point here either but, I see the pure TMB'er viewpoint is so readily attacked here yet so important to the community as they say it. Under-represented, attacked and even hurt as they occasionally try to come out in to public discourse here. I feel for their plight. Theirs is incredibly utopian and very possibly they have a version of a best solution to many things human. Volunteering here as a public defender of the faithful in this particular thread, I do it now because it is only so right to give them representation in our progressive system. In public or this open forum it is how ideas are progressed, or rendered down or stopped, on merit in our system. FFL could possibly be more effective than it has been in the meditating community if some more of the writers could occassionally also take the voice of the under-represented TM'ers here in rotation and help them articulate what they are thinking and doing. Public defending might be and is re-pugnant at times because of who some of the hardcore are but is important for the larger communal discussion. There used to be observant `plugged-in' writers on FFL who would edit, bring over, and publish significant press releases, e-mails and web pages from the TMmovement for discussion here. Often the pure TM writers seem to have been suppressed in cross-fire of ad hominid here, then moved on or have to become silent for whatever reasons. This open site of Rick Archer's has played an important significant check to marauding of the TM administration only because this is an open forum where a truth can get rendered more quickly down. In the light of day. FFL's Transparency and quick open discussion is much what has helped things in the community work more honestly. The few TB's who try to represent it evidently can't do it alone here, so I have recently joined their camp to help them, against so many of you all. I have had to do it only because it is a right public service at this time. Though practically, I have only so much time to give to it. Spring planting is here again & got horses to shod. I got to git back and hope others will take up the cause, because it is right. So dear friends, I got some other work to do now & I got to go off line. Jai Guru Dev. -D in FF
