--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > Hey Doug, would you kindly explain in no uncertain terms > > what is motivating your ongoing meditator/non-meditator > > inquiry? > > Om, what the problem ewe people? U might can't believe > that I might write, straight ahead? As a meditator? > > I said already what my interest was in whether people > are writing as meditator, non-meditator, fallen-away, > or quitters as our esteemed `yes=meditator' Nab would > call them. Look back in the messages real quick towards > May 9th . And come forward. Is rather clear. > > Is rather innocently stated really all along through > that thread as it went and then separated. Does say a > lot that folks could not believe or respond straight > ahead in kind. Turq got it bingo some while ago.
And, as I suggested then, the button-pushing may have gone on a bit long :-), but it might have served the purpose of clarifying the issue of whether there *is* a difference between "meditator" and "non-meditator." I found two types of responses to Doug's parody interesting. The first was the number of people suspecting that the guy who compiles an Index of FFL posts critical of the TMO every month might be doing this as a way to suggest that TM meditators were, in fact, better than anyone else. But that's sorta the nature of good satire -- the better it is, the more people take it seriously. I've had fun in the past riffing off some of Doug's posts *as if they were serious*. To be honest, I didn't always know for sure myself, but it seemed more fun to pretend they were serious because...um... there would be more to say about them if such posts *were* serious than there would if they weren't. :-) The second was what I perceived as a slight reluctance on the part of -- interestingly enough -- those who *do* meditate regularly to admit it by "stepping up to the place" as a TM meditator. Well, given what they post, and why, I don't actually find that all that sur- prising. If they did so, there would be no question in the mind of lurkers here that folks can practice TM faithfully for decades and still be petty, small-minded, prudish, hateful, and driven by no higher goal in life than needing to argue and play pseudo-intellectual "gotcha" games with another human being for no more noble purpose than the desire to "make them lose." The reality of the "meditator vs. non-meditator" difference is that there is no difference. People are people are people are people. The only thing one can probably say with some validity about people who seem to believe that "their kind of people" are actually better or in some way superior to "those other kinds of people" is that anyone who believes that clearly isn't. By believing that they are superior in some way to others they, have identified themselves as belonging to that vast mainstream of people on this planet who believe exactly that. Let's face it...the only people on this rock who "stand out" in a positive way are those few who *don't* believe themselves superior to others. They are as rare as hen's teeth -- in spiritual circles or not. And Doug's satire nails that.
