Curtis's time tested strategies OFFENSE
1) That's a lot of ill-will 2) You are full of malice 3) This is meanness 4) This is lot of Weird energy DEFENSE 1) It's all opinion, POV 2) I'm just riffing 3) It's just a writing prompt On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:57 PM, authfriend <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ** > > > None of what you write here (as you know) has anything to > do with my post, Curtis. > > For you act all outraged is pretty funny considering that > all I did was quote from your own two posts. I didn't > write a word of my own, so there was nothing of mine that > *could* have influenced Robin, nothing of mine that you > needed to inoculate him against. > > Did something about what I quoted make you uncomfortable? > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > > > You have such trouble with nuance combined with your obsessive need to > *get* people. The fact that Robin could have been experiencing a mental > breakdown is not off the table for me, nor should it be. I am saying that > we don't know, and that in the context of spiritual groups this question is > not raised so we never know. And what if some attention could have as Robin > said, saved him from years of pain? > > > > On the other hand, the lack of Maharishi's care for someone who even > thought he was in the state his techniques provoked shows how little he > respected or cared about his students. > > > > As I said to those whose reading is not through squinty, gotchya eyes, > there is a 3rd possibility that his state is interesting but misunderstood > by spiritual traditions. > > > > You are acting like a malevolent little trollish twit, not adding > anything to the discussion. If I didn't want to make sure what you wrote > didn't influence Robin's view of what I wrote I wouldn't have bothered to > respond. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I hope you get that I am not tying to use this discussion > > > > as a veiled form of "Robin was crazy". > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > > > > [...] there is no real distinction given the poetic > > > > > > looseness of the language, between the so called higher > > > > > > states and people who are high functioning but suffering > > > > > > from mental disorders which manifest in this kind of > > > > > > belief. > > > <snip> > > > > > > So Robin had his internal shift and was never evaluated > > > > > > to see if these experiences were the "real deal" other > > > > > > than a short time in casual conversation with Maharishi > > > > > > where very vague poetic terms were exchanged. And > > > > > > certainly no one got a psych exam, right? > > > > > > > > > > > > Until the spiritual community has a way to distinguish > > > > > > this kind of claim as the real, real, real, seriously > > > > > > the real deal, even within its own system compared to > > > > > > the many versions of this conclusions drawn by people > > > > > > suffering from serious mental disturbances, the whole > > > > > > thoery of higher states will not be taken seriously in > > > > > > mainstream society. Nor should it be. [...] We already > > > > > > have too many people making this claim while holding an > > > > > > AK or strapped with bombs. > > >
