--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@> wrote: <snip> > > And the sense of camraderie with your fellow stalkees is > > unmistakable. That is rather humorous actually. Judy, take > > note, they LIKE it! > > Judy would know what this term refers to: It is the fact that > she followed Barry here, after he had left AMT for good, > trying to find a more consensual discussion environment.
"Followed Barry here" (as did a number of alt.meditation.transcendental participants)--*at his express invitation*. He urged us to join him on FFL. "After he had left AMT for good"--no, he stuck around AMT for some time after he started posting here and several alt.m.t participants, including me, had come over. > The conflict between them is one of decades, 14 years as > Barry says. Seventeen years, actually. (And in English, BTW, one doesn't refer to anything less than 20 years as "decades.") Barry and I have been on at least two other TM-related forums: a Yahoo group called TM News; another now-defunct Yahoo group called TM Controversy (I'm not absolutely positive he was on this one); and John Knapp's TM-Free blog. In all three (or two) cases, Barry followed *me* to these groups (and not at my invitation, either). Would I claim Barry's been "stalking" me because he joined two (or three) TM groups after I did? Of course not; that wouldn't be honest. He was interested to see what was going on on those groups; it had nothing to do with my being on them. The "following" was only chronological. I had been a member of FFL for a year or so before Barry joined, as it happens, but I hadn't participated; I just lurked occasionally to see what was going on. And after Barry invited us over from AMT, I stuck largely to lurking for awhile, speaking up only when Barry or Vaj (who was also on FFL) misrepresented something that was going on on alt.m.t. I started reading FFL on a steady basis after Barry's invitation because I was interested in a more TM-insiderish view of the whole Raja and million-dollar-course business, which were the latest developments. I didn't come here for the purpose of "stalking" Barry; after all, as noted, he stuck around on alt.m.t for awhile, so it wasn't as if (contrary to iranitea's implication) I would only have had access to him on FFL. (Before Barry had issued his invitation on alt.m.t., incidentally, he had been busy trashing me on FFL. I wasn't reading FFL at the time; I only discovered this later on.) > When Judy came back this week, her second post was to him. Wow! That's so revealing, isn't it? (Of what, exactly?) Don't feel bad, iranitea, I'll get to your posts from last week shortly. > Now, Ann, beyond all playfulness and humor and teasing each > other, take one deep breath and a minute of silence: 14 > years! Consider this. But consider also that iranitea doesn't really know what he's talking about, as you can see from the above. He's taken Barry's disingenuous and malicious bluster as the definitive story. I guess that's what you do when you're a groupie: You swallow everything your leader says as if it's the gospel truth.
