--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Did I miss something? Why are we assuming he wasn't down > > > > and dialing till the end? He, like many smart guys, may > > > > have just gotten better at it. > > > > > > And the folks who knew about it, like the guys who put > > > together the "Sexy Sadie" files, got better at keeping > > > their mouths shut? Right. > > > > I'm guessing that the ones who talked about it don't represent > > all the people who were involved. And it a group like TM > > secrets are the norm not the exception. > > One might ask, for example, anyone who disputes that > "secrets were the norm"
Of course, nobody is disputing that. and the willingness of TBs > to keep them without giving a second thought to it > whether they, personally, have ever told anyone their > TM mantra. On the other hand, to suggest a parallel between not telling one's mantra and keeping one's mouth shut about MMY's dalliances is obviously absurd. > If they have not, then they kept for decades a secret > that in many cases here they only paid $35 for, or $75. > Imagine being someone who had invested tens of thousands > of dollars and decades of his life, becoming privy to a > deep, dark secret, and being told that revealing it would > not only get him kicked out of the movement, but imperil > his everlasting soul, squelch his chances of enlighten- > ment forever, and end him up in the Hell worlds for > many, many incarnations. Do you think such a person > might...uh...tend to keep the secret? Problem here is, you see, that quite a few people did *not* keep this secret, or we wouldn't have been talking about it here and elsewhere for years.
