--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > So one more time, just for the record, here's what I > do for fun on this forum, laid out for those I do it > to. My theory is that the *least* spiritual trait or > characteristic is attachment -- to one's ideas or > concepts or chosen dogma, to one's teacher or spiritual > tradition, and most of all to one's self image. So > when I notice someone who consistently wears "Push Me" > attachment buttons on their sleeve, I push them. The > pushees *almost always* react by going bat-shit crazy > and *demonstrating* their level of attachment.
You know what, Barry? Not even you would believe this excuse if the shoe were on the other foot. If a TMer consistently demonized and lied about TM critics and claimed he was doing it to make them demonstrate their "level of attachment," you'd see through it in a nanosecond. Nobody believes you, either. It's just barely possible *you* believe you, but if so you're doing an incredible job of deluding yourself. You demonize and lie about people because you're a psychological sadist. And you're a psychological sadist because your own self-image (the image you have of yourself, not the image you try to sell others of the light-hearted button-pusher) is so feeble. You lack the self-confidence to interact with people you disagree with in a healthy way. The only way you feel safe in such an interaction is to bluster and attack, trying to make the person you're talking to--or *at*--feel even smaller than you do. But Barry, it just doesn't *work*. Nobody is fooled. You're simply not skillful enough to hide your real motivations, at least not from other people. You'll either ignore this post because you can't deal with it, or you'll put on a big show of crowing that you made me go "bat-shit crazy" by pushing my buttons. You didn't. I'm not bat-shit crazy. Nobody believes that (although you might get your dittoheads to pipe up to support you). Don't you ever wish you could *stop* this self- destructive cycle and be *real*? You might find it wasn't so bad. You might even find it a whole lot more rewarding than what you've been doing to yourself for so many years.
