I think Barry and Vaj both have the mindset that if they are going to be miserable, which they are, one, it can't be due to anything they are doing or not doing, and two, if they are going to lead miserable lives, they will ensure everyone else around them will too.
This idea that they are somehow opening the eyes of those who continue to practice TM is so laughable it is truly crazy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > These ex-TM people who spent a decade or less in the TMO > > and then spend the rest of their lives "coming to terms" > > with their cult "indoctrination" make me scratch my head. > > "Coming to terms with it" is exactly what they're > *not* doing. There's something distinctly wrong with > people who spend huge amounts of time for many years > longer than they spent in the TMO compulsively > complaining about their experience and doing their > best to interfere with other folks' enjoyment of the > practices. > > But I don't think it really has much of anything to > do with TM. That kind of behavior is a personality > trait; they get some kind of twisted satisfaction > from complaining and going to great lengths to be > unpleasant. Their situation vis-a-vis TM simply gives > them an opportunity, an excuse, to indulge in those > behaviors. > > If they "came to terms with it," they'd have to find > some other justification for being obnoxious. This one > works just fine for them, so why bother? >
