That's a spirited response but I stand by my points as written. --- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: feste37 > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:53 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Email from an old friend > > > > > > This is interesting. It seems that despite his protests that he > > means the > > movement no ill, Rick Archer does in fact work behind the scenes to > > undermine the TM organization. > > What exactly is "behind the scenes" here??? > > The article in question was obviously > > biased, > > since it quoted two dissaffected ex-TMers (Archer and Petrick) but > > did not > > bother to seek out anyone who is happy with the TMO, relying instead > > on > > official spokesmen. > > First, it wasn't an article, it was an opinion piece on the editorial > page, written not by Rick Archer but by Erik Gable, who works for the > Fairfield Ledger and has visited the Amma event for the past 2 yrs. > > Gable quotes both Pierson and Wallace which explains the MUM policy > quite thoroughly. Does "biased" mean anything critical of the TMO?? > > And Amma's organization was held up as an ideal > > and > > used to trash the TMO. (In fact, these two organizations have very > > different > > purposes in the world and should not be compared.) > > "Trashed"?? Maybe there's a good and cosmic for what the TMO does, > but for an average midwestern citizen, like Gable, to be spiritually > turned off by the local tmo's fundraising obsession and guys in white > robes and golden crowns driving around fairfield in stretch limos > should be understandable. The Amma org. is surely not ideal either, > but the contrast is stark in this regard. Maybe you expect every > single published word on the TMO to sound like a TMO press release?? > > > I think it is fine if people want to promote their own spiritual > > path, but Rick's > > decision to do so by encouraging a reporter to present another > > spiritual > > organization in a bad light is, shall we say, regrettable. It reminds > > me of the > > Christian fundamentalists. They can't just say what they believe; > > they have to > > attack what others believe as well. > > Well maybe Gable will respond here to how the editorial came about, > but I think the viewpoints expressed were his not Rick Archer's. > > Regarding fundmentalists, it's the TMO that kicks people out for even > visiting other teachers and that goes ballistic and views as > "negativity" when anyone suggests reasons for its slump for the past > 20 yrs (slump other than fundraising that is).
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