--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > [Doug wrote:] > > Yeah, evidently the Hagelin, the TMmovement presently > are in the middle of a larger cultural/spiritual > revolution and these TM-haters are no better than counter- > revolutionaries. You know what history does with counter- > revolutionaries? Is something about a right to bare arms. > <snip> > These people are dangerous and should be dealt with directly. > > One of the dangers which people have to guard themselves > against is getting so attached to an ideology that they > start to believe that "unbelievers" should be "dealt with > directly". History records that when such ideas take over > a group of people, e.g. communism, nazism, various forms > of religious zealotry then the end is disaster. Not only > that but the accumulated experience of the 20th century > would make new entrants to TM become incredibly wary of > talk along the lines of "These people are dangerous and > should be dealt with directly." when referring to > dissidents. How many new TMers are going to get the hots > for JH if he starts giving speeches about "dealing > directly with unbelievers". It turns on the old faithful > and turns off new entrants.
I seriously doubt it would "turn on" many of the "old faithful," and I think the likelihood of Hagelin taking such a tack in his speeches (or even privately, for that matter) is just about nil. As to Doug, I strongly suspect he was doing some of his usual trolling.
