--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaizues ! You harp on and on and on about a joke that I made and > call me a fundamentalist because of a joke that I made. Some sense > of humor you got there bud.
No, Offworld, it was not your "joke," though you're right, I certainly didn't see any humor there! Mea culpa, although I generally do enjoy the high-spirited flavor of many of your posts. It is other statements you have made over time that have smelled of TM-fundamentalism or even (sorry, Judy) cultism to me: some recent examples would be your denouncing Rick as a lost yogi, maligning his logic, dismissing his evidence and experience out-of-hand because "the accusers are anonymous," dismissing the reporter's opinion piece on TMO and Amma, and accusing MMY's critics of short- term thinking (a classic cult maneuver is to justify short-term abuse in the name of lofty long-term ideals; i.e., "ends-justify- means" enabling). To me, all of this points to a completely idealistic image of MMY that is seriously threatened by other viewpoints implying any "fallibility" or humanity on MMY's part, which (it seems to me) you often attempt to deny through attack, ridicule, insult, and so on. In like manner, you seem to need to cling to a self-image of invulnerability, omnipotence, and grandiosity. (Although I suppose these may all be "jokes" too, for all I can tell with my apparently- limited sense of humor.) If however you have been serious, I respectfully suggest that if you can open up to the paradox of MMY's being both divine *and* human, perfect *and* flawed, that you can then allow yourself the same luxury. And of course, I may be way off base, in which case you can tell me to go take a flying leap. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
