These posting problems here have been frustrating over the last 48 hours. Seems Yahoo Groups is getting overloaded. I think it's time for me to quit this group. It's also a downer to me to read so many posts that appear more interested in scoring points than sharing news and inspiration. There are 1376 members here, a few persistently negative voices launching ad hominem attacks in almost every post can really put people off participating. And the almost daily attacks on the moderator Rick are appalling to me! I think the whole nature of the forum is becoming outdated by more friendly interfaces such as Facebook. At least in Facebook most use their own names, show their faces, and give some personal info. It helps to keep discussion civil.
Sal. You seem to be one of the most frequent to use ad hominem attacks. In this case by accusing me of fabrications several times. Simply because I didn't provide any links. Anyone can find the source I quoted with google. Just take the whole phrase, put in inverted commas and do a google search. The Gurr quote with ME has 7 hits - mostly in the UK. I provided the quotes I got from Bermuda business leaders on the ME project we did in Bermuda simply to show more testimonials. Is that "selling" an idea that's not welcome on FFL or offering further opinions of intelligent people who have studied the results of an ME demonstration? Probably because this issue is a paradigm breaker it arouses such strong adverse reactions. Interestingly John Davies's students could teach FFL a lot about how to resolve differences without aggression or ad hominem attacks. I had the pleasure of hosting John and his wife for a week in my home in Bermuda in the 90's and learned so much about the Maharishi Effect. And how he engaged the different audiences I had him speak to. In one lecture I remember him going through many different levels of approach to conflict resolution- I recall about 9. And the last he simply described as "Being" and gave the briefest mention of meditation before ending and opening for questions. It was the softest introduction to a discussion that ensued (in the question time) on the Maharishi Effect that I have ever heard. It was to a Rotary lunch and carried live on the radio and excerpted on the TV evening news. It's rare that I see discussion anywhere close to being this respectful or sincere on FFL. So for me this is goodbye and I wish you all the best on your individual journeys of discovery. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > Can't we just respectfully disagree? > > But you're not respectfully disagreeing, Brian~~you're > fabricating. And you're not providing any links, either. > That is almost de rigeur internet etiquette when you > post something. To not do so makes it look like > you're hiding something. Or fabricating. > > > As to the Maharishi Effect - it's certainly a paradigm breaking concept > > while we may not understand how it works - it's been shown to work many > > times and published in peer reviewed journals. > > Link, please. I could find no citations for this > anywhere on the Web. > > And it's perfectly fine if you want to live in > your own world, Brian, in which you get to set the > rules~~daydreams are like that. No harm > done unless you expect others to live by > the same rules. And when you come to a > place like this and make grandiose claims > that you then can't back up~~don't expect > others to swallow the garbage whole. > > And besides, if you really had found something > you valued and it was working for you, you almost > surely would not come around like a salesman > trying to peddle it to others. Is it your impression > none of us have heard these lines before? > If you had bothered reading for 5 minutes before > coming in here, you might have noted that there > are a significant amount of people here very > skeptical of *any* grandiose claims that can't be > backed up. And so far, yours can't. > > Sal >
