See? That's why I bothered. I found this reply charming and real, and revealing that there really is a person behind the one who just posts Other People's Stuff. Welcome, and I hope you post more, as yourself. Other comments inline.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > So merudanda...dude. ?? > > Sir! Dear Barry Wright ! > > Dude?=Doodli Do ? > > =Jude?=Judy(Stein?) > > Jude (UML Tool) ? > > Dude ?Dude ?Dude ?Dude ?Dude ? > > Now I remember: > > heard this expression almost 40 years ago from You > > in an encounter of the "third kind" with your karateka Id > (identity card ) in hand trying to impress me and MMY..... That sounds imagined, for many reasons. My previous karate experience never once made an appearance during my time in the TM movement, much less in an attempt to impress Maharishi. He was clueless as to the spiritual value of the martial arts. Trying to explain to him the value of a black belt would have been like attempting the same thing with a turnip. :-) > than later read this expression in your beautiful Internet > exposé and hopefully not your first publication > > (a la style Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye ":Compliment) I guess I don't get that one, not being a Salinger fan. > But still been too old and too European to feel uneasy to be > called that: a guy and/or a dude. 'Dude' is a compliment. It implies that the person you are addressing has the potential for coolness within them. As opposed to someone who someone who seems to lack any possibility of developing coolness. Maybe you could call the latter a jude, but never a dude. :-) Being European does not IMO prohibit dudeness, but can put a crimp in its style. Also, "dudeness" transcends petty concepts such as age. One is *never* too old to be a dude. cf. Willie Nelson. Your response seems to validate my extension of the hand of dudenessability. :-) So what *IS* your take on this whole TM scene, eh? Both in its Burger King crown Western incarnation and in its Fat Relative Trying To Slip Into Maha- rishi's Former Role Indian version? Was that harsh of me? :-) What *IS* your take on TM, the TM organization, Maharishi, and his successors? If you feel like expressing it, that is. If you don't, that's cool. It's just that many of us have so Been There Done That with what we think about these things that we pretty much know each others' positions on such topics. You're the New Guy, so if you feel like filling us in, I for one would be interested. I'm a big fan of funny. Or even those who try to be funny. You get points for that. > You have been in Europe quite a while yourself, didn't You? A few years now. > Even you called Your personal GurU Dr. Frederick Lenz, AKA > "Rama," "Zen Master Rama," Anatmananda," "Vishnu," "Shiva." > in Your above mentioned book... I would have never used the last two names. He may have tried to convince others that he was an incar- nation of those two dudes, but I never bought it. > playful a dude... That he was. Like I said, I'm a big fan of funny. > and may be Yourself, too If I ever had a tombstone ( I won't, and will have them burn my ass and scatter the ashes in the under- wear drawers of supermodels), I could hope for no greater epitaph upon it than: "Here lies Barry Wright. Dude really made us laugh."
