--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > > > I was around when the first sutra/"flying" attempts > > were made. We were all sitting in chairs in a circle... > > there was no sitting on foam mats at that time. (This > > was in one of the hotels around Lake Lucern....I forget > > which now.) This would have been probably late 1975. > [...] > > Tellingly, about 1/4 of the group thought it was > > hilarious. The rest were horrified and made it clear > > that this enlightenment business was NO laughing matter. > > I think that was probably the moment that the first real > > crack in my belief system started. > > > > When you get busted for eating ice cream (another story) > > and laughing....well, it's time to exit. It took a few > > more years but I finally did. > > Well, for most of the rest in the room, you were poking > fun at a terribly important moment in their lives which > almost certainly was going to cause ill-feeling and you > must have realized this at some level, right? > > And you're still trying to pretend what you did was > "just a joke" 35 years later.
Gawd. The humorlessness of TMers blows my mind. Not to mention the tendency to see nefarious intent in pretty much everything. It was just a joke. Then and now. Sane people are laughing. If you're not, that says something about YOU, not the jokester.
