--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > authfriend wrote: > > > > > > > > With such an overwhelmingly major change > > > > on the horizon, whose outcome none of us can predict, > > > > why not bide our time and withhold judgment? > > > > > > Sounds like a prescription for living one's entire life. > > > > Just to present an alternative viewpoint, this > > sounds like a very safe, don't-rock-the-boat > > prescription for living one's life, one that is > > heavily weighted in favor of those who would not > > like the boat rocked. > > > > Anyone can, at any time, rationalize an imminent > > overwhelming major change just over the horizon. > > Therefore, such an approach to life and social > > change can *also* be an excellent prescription > > for never actually doing anything to change > > things. > > > > This advice -- "Bide your time, and withhold > > judgment" -- is, after all, the advice that was > > given to Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and > > pretty much every other figure in history who, > > ignoring it, actually changed things. > > > > Waiting until the time is right to challenge the > > status quo is another term for preserving the > > status quo. > > Good points, though I read Judy's statement as one to not make > assumptions about something we can't possibly predict. Which is > different than taking steps, or not taking steps, in order to > preserve the status quo. "Wait and see" is good advice IMO.
I presented this as an alterative viewpoint, *not* as advice of any kind. Personally, I think you'd stand a better chance of achieving superconductivity (which tends to require extreme cold) in Hell than you would of changing the course of the TM movement at this point. To paraphrase (and distort) Willie Shakespeare, "If t'were done, t'were best done 29 years ago." About the time the Siddhis program started to take things off-line. The TMO is a classic personality-led movement. The personality has decided the course that movement will take after his death and hand-picked the people he wants to take it there. Add this to 40 years of training TBs never to question his word about pretty much anything, upon peril of excommunication, and you've got a locked-in set of karmas, IMO. If the TM technique has a future, I suspect that it lies in the hands of people who still feel that it is valuable and are willing to put that belief on the line, like Ingegerd and the other "independents." I'd really like to believe otherwise, but I can't. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
