We love critics, but not so much the fanatic insane haters such as you Turq, with no basis in reality for your claime -- You are a lot like Rush Limbaugh. Despite all your fanatic hate, we still love you though.
OffWorld --- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." - Exodus 22:18 > > This Biblical passage was used to justify some of > the greatest injustices ever seen on this planet. > The Christians of the Medieval and Renaissance > periods used it to justify demonizing or torturing > or burning at the stake anyone who was "off the > radar" of mainstream society. Women living alone. > "Uppity" women. Scientists. Astrologers and > alchemists. Priests and nuns who would not bow > to dogma and the God-given Authority of the Church. > And above all heretics, those who challenged the > Divine Right of the Church to claim Divinity, and > sole access to Divinity. > > The passage was brought to the New World by Prot- > estants, who had been chased out of every country > in Europe for (as Alex put it so well today) repre- > senting the stypic buttplug approach to morality > and spirituality. > > It landed in full force in Salem, Massachusetts, > where Cotton Mather and his Puritan ilk used it > as an excuse to persecute and press to death (no > burnings there...they were "civilized" and threw > the supposed witches and warlocks into a hole and > piled rocks on them until they suffocated from > the pressure) the same sorts of people. > > So what is the TM movement counterpart of "Thou > shalt not suffer a witch to live?" > > I propose, given the evidence of the TMO's long > history and this discussion group, that Maharishi > Mahesh Yogi's and the TM movement's variant of this > tried and still untrue piece of shit...uh, sorry... > dogma is "Thou shalt not suffer a TM critic to be > thought well of." > > Is this not the recurring theme we see over and > over in the TMO? Is it not the recurring theme we > see on this group? > > Those who have taken the mantle of Defending That > Which Only An Idiot Would Try To Defend onto their > own shoulders run this number day in and day out > here, and the TMO lawyers run it on a larger scale > in public. Whenever someone criticizes them or > their belief system or their organization or above > all their access to money, their *first impulse* is > to try to destroy the credibility of the person who > is doing the criticisizing. Their second impulse, > when that doesn't work, is to become insanely > jealous and out of control every time the critic > is treated as if he or she were a thinking human > being, or worse, a cool human being. Nothing pushes > the TM TB's buttons more than to see one of their > enemies being liked. > > It's as if the mere *possibility* that someone > accepts or -- <crossing myself to ward off evil> > -- actually *likes* a TM critic sends the compul- > sive TM Defender into paroxisyms of jealousy and > spite. THEY GO CRAZY. > > And their next impulse is to lash out, to do some- > thing -- anything -- that will restore the social > order, "bring things back into accord with the Laws > Of Nature," reveal this evildoer (who *must* be > one because he believes something different than > the TM TBs believe) to "justice." He or she *must* > be discredited, or if the TM Defenders cannot do > that, they must *claim* that the critic has been > discredited. > > And who are these claims *made* to? > > Not the objective and fairly dispassionate lurkers. > They are capable of -- and have always been capable > of -- coming to their own conclusions about posters > on this forum, be they TM supporters or TM critics. > What the compulsive TM Defenders have to say in > their attempts to demonize the critics probably > isn't going to affect them much one way or another. > > No, the appeal of the TM Defender is to *Other TM > Defenders*, or to those they want to recruit to > that cause. And if you watch the traffic here on FFL, > those are the *only* people who play "pile on" and > "reward" the demonizers for their efforts. > > It's called "preaching to the converted." Which, > interestingly, is pretty much the only people that > the TMO or its compulsive Defenders *can* preach > to any more. Those who can think for themselves > do so. The only people who fall for "Demonize the > critic" are those who are already programmed to > do so. > > Just my opinion... > > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has > endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended > us to forgo their use." > -- Galileo Galilei, from God and Reason, hounded and > demonized during his life by the same sorts of people >
