Nabby rails on about how "desperate" Curtis and I are. Judy claims we're "distraught." I Am The Eternal calls me "sick."
And yet, when you examine it, *they* are the ones who are melting down and "acting out" lately, and over WHAT? The fact that Curtis and I have been discussing Maharishi Mahesh Yogi AS IF HE WERE A MAN. THAT is what has them so uptight. All I did originally, while stating clearly that I was *not* suggesting that MMY had a gay relationship with Guru Dev (and I do not believe that he did, in the sense that he ever acted upon it), was look at the story of his life the way a normal person would look at ANY man's life who had spent that life in the pursuit of a clearly overwhelming love for another man. Curtis did the same. >From my point of view, we did so fairly dis- passionately. To us, IT WOULDN'T MATTER if MMY and Guru Dev were gay and acted upon it or not. Neither of us has any stake in seeing Maharishi any particular way. To us, he was JUST A MAN. And *think* about that. If he really was enlightened, as many of you believe, he was JUST A MAN who became enlightened. In my view that is BETTER than if he were some "special" being who only got enlightened because he was "special." Same with Christ or the Buddha or any other spiritual figure in history. Where is the "payoff" in considering these people "special" or "more than human?" If they were, and you're not, that sorta means that you can't achieve what they did, because you're NOT "special" like they were. But if they were JUST MEN, and achieved what they did *anyway*, then SO CAN YOU. Basically, the way I see it, all these TBs are melting down for two reasons. The first is because we're talking about sex as if it were normal to have sex. Many of these people are so uptight that they don't believe that. But the second reason is that we are talking about Maharishi the way we would talk about any other man on the planet, as if he weren't in any way "special." We're cutting him no special breaks for being "holy." AND THAT MAKES THEM CRAZY. Well, I hope that they *enjoy* being crazy, because I for one am not going to stop talk- ing about him as if he were JUST A MAN. That's all he was.
