--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <<<In very much the same way that > > a few TMers feel the need to label and stigmatize > > anyone who dares to criticize either Maharishi > > personally or the TM organization as an "anti-TMer." >>> > > No , Anti-Jewish is bad, no-one cares about someone being anti-TM. > The only thing that I think is rather pathetic is when it comes > across as fundamentalist (irrational) anti-TM. It is more a problem > for the fundamentalist's own evoltion than for the reader. > > > Both terms are used in this context as "thought > > stoppers." The intention is to demonize the critic > > and convince others to pay no attention to the > > criticism itself because the critic is an "antisemite" > > or an "anti-TMer.">>> > > Do you have a better word for an anti-TM'r? One could write TM- > critic I suppose. Is that better?
Why not just 'critic?' Or just 'human?' The thing that gets me is when people blur boundaries in the use of the term "anti-TMer." Criticism of MMY personally, for example, of his stance on Britain or democracy, is portrayed as "anti-TM," that is, anti the technique of Transcendental Meditation. Criticism of the TM organization is often portrayed the same way. It's like the dogma of "never entertain negativity" has gone WAY too far, and people have been trained to interpret anything criticial of one aspect of the organization that *deserves* criticism as criticism and clear opposition to *everything* in the organi- zation, including TM itself. Fundamentalism, as you said. > > Don't get me started on modern Newspeak, the words > > that have been perverted to connote something com- > > pletely different than what they really mean, or > > to hide what they really mean. I tend to rant. :-) > > Just think of the word "collateral damage." What > > does this near-pornographic euphemism *really* mean? > > It means killing civilians -- men, women and children > > -- blowing their bodies into tiny, bleeding pieces. > > It means blood and screams and suffering and untold > > horror. >>> > > The warmongers are blind to this. They have some kind of brain > damage or genetic defect, that allows them to turn a blind eye, > but, in time, they reap the terrible karma they sow. If it were only the "warmongers," that would be one thing. When an entire population seems to swallow these euphem- isms, and use them to keep from ever considering what they really mean, that's quite another. See, I told you I rant when I get on this subject. :-) Soon I'll log out and start listening to some of the Live 8 stuff. Maybe that'll help. Or make it worse. Whatever. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
