--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 8/5/05 4:32 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> on 8/5/05 10:10 AM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> My dirty little secret is that, for me, it's MORE than "brief > > > >>> moments": I wish I had the capacity to "believe" as TM Acolytes do > > > >>> all the time, and unthinkingly be devoted to the craziness of the > > > >>> TMO. LIfe would be a hell of alot easier. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Would it? I don't see too many of them living easy lives. > > > > > > > > Are they happy? > > > > > > Too general a question. Some surely are. Others sure don't look that > > > way. > > > > And some are really worried, because the have been older and have > > difficulties to make money, because they have spend all these years in > > the Movement. They do not owe anything, has a lot of debts, and are > > looking into a very poor future economically. > > And, in other organizations I know of where this same True Believer > phenomenon exists (I don't know enough long-term TB TMers to say > if it's present in them or not), there is an even more shocking trend. > > I know quite a few people who have been "sold out" to their spiritual > organization for decades, and now find themselves in the exact > economic situation you describe. The shocker is that many of them > are actually hoping for "death before disillusionment." > > It's sadly true. I've heard guys and gals in their 50s talking about > death as if it were imminent, and *preferable* to having to deal > with retirement without a pot to piss in.
No money to go to the dentist (all the teeths has fallen out), no money to buy new glasses, no energy - . This is the reality for one old TM-Teacher that I know. Ingegerd To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
