--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <snip> > > 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 > > Man, you really lack insight. I have a less ideal image of MMY > than you and half the people here. You just don't see it.
In my observation, some critics (of TM or most anything else) will respond to a person who criticizes their critiques by accusing them of being a partisan supporter of the other side. T'ain't necessarily so. I and others are routinely painted as cultists on alt.m.t by He Who Must Not Be Named when we point out that a criticism of the TMO or MMY or TMers is inaccurate or unfair or illogical or exaggerated. The notion that critics of others' criticisms must be blind True Believers may be a sincere misunderstanding on the part of the person who voices it (as I suspect is the case with Rory) or it may be (as, er, He Who Must Not Be Named himself pointed out on FFL not long ago) a thought-stopper intended to deflect attention from the substance of the criticism of the original critique and invalidate it without having to actually deal with it. (I've been known to defend Dubya from what I thought was unfair criticism, and I yield to no one in my loathing for the little pr*ck.) Some critics can be more cultishly protective of their own criticisms than those whom they are pleased to label as cultists. Shades of gray, folks, shades of gray. 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/
