--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
[Adding back the necessary context:] [Barry wrote:] > > > THAT is the issue I've been seeing in Judy in > > > this thread. The challenges she sees to her cult > > > believership in the TM Is Not A Religion Religion > > > are not JUST intellectual challenges. They are > > > meanspirited challenges, challenges made with > > > evil intent, as a kind of personal "attack." > > > > Barry does a little more "creative thinking" so > > as to miss my point. > > > As I said earlier, it seems to me that the > > arguments against teaching TM (minus SCI) in > > schools are so exaggerated and artificial, so > > fundamentally unreasonable, that there has to > > be something else behind them, conscious or > > otherwise. It's not the disagreement per se > > but the quality of the arguments, their > > mountain-out-of-a-molehill character. > > > I never said or suggested that Curtis's > > challenges were "mean-spirited." Barry made > > that up (more "creative thinking"). I don't > > believe that. I do think they may be colored > > by residual resentment of which he's most > > likely not even aware. > > Judy, > > I find this not only insulting, but unworthy of > an otherwise excellent conversation about our > different POVs on this subject. It is a version > of ad hominem and has no place in our discussion. Oh, boo-freaking-hoo. Let me run get my tiny violin. Apparently I really hit a nerve. There's so much that's dishonest and wrong about your tirade here-- including your gross distortions of my arguments at the end--I don't know where to start. So I'm not going to start; I'm going to let you stew in your own juice. You and your pal Barry can just enjoy yourselves crying on each others' shoulders about how horribly I treat you. How perfectly *vile* that anyone should suggest you might have some residual resentment! Goodness knows it *never* shows up in your TM-related posts. "The thing is I do feel a mixture of contempt and affection for Maharishi personally. So I can be disrespectful too. I don't see any reason why respect should be expected from someone who has rejected his teaching as thoroughly as Vaj and I have. The thing is there is no other place to express such feelings if not here.... "I am appreciative of your challenges to what I write about him. That always adds some balance and gives me something to think about. My thoughts and feelings about Maharishi are never one dimensional although they might appear so in a specific post."
