--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > > > Not exactly Judy, read the book. > > Not much chance of that. About the same chance as, > say, her watching "Apocalypto." It's so much easier > to make snide, disparaging comments about authors > or filmmakers when you haven't read or viewed their > work. :-)
Just to forestall more of this, I point out a favorite TB "smear tactic" -- insinuate something about a critic of Maharishi or the TMO that most people would find negative or that would bias them towards disliking or disbelieving the critic, but (and this is the important part) phrase the innuendo as a question. Then, when called on the insinuation, the person can act all offended and say, "I never said that Judith had an affair with a married man, or that she was paranoid enough to think Maharishi would have her killed...I just asked a question. You are misrepresenting me." Two comments from her so far, BOTH finding a way to "ask an innocent question," BOTH embedding a negative spin on the author of a book she hasn't read. Just a reminder, folks. "Have you stopped beating your wife?" is not an innocent question. Neither is "Has she stopped being an adulterer?" or "Has she stopped being paranoid about Maharishi wanting her dead?" The INTENT is to undermine the credibility of a TM critic. Same as it ever was... > > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I think you'll be as pleasantly suprised as I was. I'm not > > > > sure what I was expecting, but my feeling as I finished was > > > > of tremendous admiration for Judith's courage in coming out > > > > with this, knowing full well that she would be attacked. > > > > There also was a degree of fear that had been there as a > > > > result of the sudden death (in a private plane crash that > > > > also took the life of two other movement higher ups in the > > > > mid 70s) of the woman who "replaced" Judith as MMY's sexual > > > > partner a few months after she suddenly left Mallorca > > > > sending MMY into a tizzy. > > > > > > The fear being that MMY had the plane sabotaged to take > > > revenge on the woman who had left him, so if she said > > > anything, he might murder her as well? > > > > > >
