...who had never practiced TM, and was here checking out the scene and trying to figure out whether there was any benefit for you in learning it, would you be favorably impressed by the words and actions of those who act as self-appointed "TM defenders" or "TM supporters" here?
One, a newbie, seems to be dedicated to creating in other people the least favorable opinion possible of a guy who did nothing more than be honest about his TM experience with a filmmaker. Another relative newb is on a campaign to "out" anyone who posts here, so that he can know who exactly they are and where they live; one can only wonder why he wants to know this, and what plans he has for the heretics once he has learned this information. Several others seem to be able to contribute little more than "piling on" to demonize the posters who don't toe the TM Party Line, and call them uplifting names like donkeys. That's pretty much the "side" representing TM, and all that it has done for the TMers in question, who have now been practicing it for many years or decades. On the other "side," consider the simple post made by one of the people these "TM supporters" have been trying to demonize lately. Mark Landau made an honest and forth- right post, containing no antagonism and stooping to no name-calling, expressing more positive sentiments about Maharishi than all of the folks I mention above have made in all of their cumulative posts to FFL. If I were a lurker, I'd be looking at "What you focus on you become." It seems to me that on the whole those who have appointed themselves as "TM defenders" can't seem to do anything but "defend." They seem incapable of saying anything positive about that which they are defending, only negative things about those who they feel are "against" it. Meanwhile, one of the people they are trying diligently to demonize *was* able to post positive things about Maharishi and TM. Go figure. If I were a lurker, I sure know which I'd be more impressed by.
