--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > But BILL O'REILLY? That's going too far. > > > > > > > > ******* > > > > > > > > I've never liked Howard Stern's schtick, and I don't > > > > like O'Reilly's schtick, but so what? They both are > > > > displaying an enthusiasm for TM, and I like that. > > > > Like MMY always said, even a sick man can run a > > > > health-food store. > > > > > > The analogy might work with O'Reilly, but Stern is a > > > meditator and has been for years. And he is not who > > > you would point to as on the road to enlightenment, > > > would you? > > > > Which of us is in a position to determine who is on > > the road and who isn't? > > > > > You think he has reached cosmic consciousness yet? > > > > Who knows, and who cares? > > > > His sidekick, Robin Quivers (also a committed TMer), > > says when people tell her they can't believe Stern > > meditates, she says, "Think of what he would be like > > without TM." > > > > (No, that's not meant to be proof of anything. The > > point is, you can't tell where a person is on the > > path and shouldn't attempt to judge.) > > > > > So how healthy is that health food? > > > > Stern's fabulously successful at what he does. Seems > > like TM was pretty healthy for him. > > > > (But that's kind of not the point of MMY's analogy > > of the owner of the health-food store, you know?) > > OK, so TM can make you a fabulously successful shock jock. > Well, that doesn't do it for me. > > I maintain that it is fair to form an impression of TM > by looking at long term meditators and their lives
So Howard Stern just doesn't measure up in your eyes, right, because he's a shock jock? What other occupations do you consider to be beneath you? <snip>
