Ha! Well, it's nice to be in the younger crowd. hehe I was a cherry picker and dish washer in The Way. :D I seldom got the higher assignments to rub really close shoulders with the higher and more spiritual leadership.
But I didn't see the hypocrisy, like you did in the TMO. The hypocrisy was there in The Way, but some I didn't see because it went on behind closed doors and the times I did see what *might be an apparent* (barf) hypocrisy, I chose to rationalize it. After all, the leadership knew what was best for the followers and always had our best interest in mind. (sarcasm) It's a long story of course. We all have those...long stories. To cherry picking, strawberries, and dirty dishes! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: > > Barry.(and me too).lol. > > I have a theory back from 1981-ish when I did my last staff stint with The > Movement. I had a good friend, Jack, who mentioned something, after the last > bout of arrogance and power-tripping we were exposed to by A Governor Of The > A Of E And Don't You Forget It, aka TM Teacher. Jack turned to me and said, > "Someone must be telling these guys something [that makes them feel this > way]." > > We were fortunate, that although the construction and farming project had a > lot of Governors, aka fundamentalist overlords (though there were one or two > decent ones), we were doing hard physical work that kept us grounded, and > aware of the hypocrisy. > > So, my theory is that some of these Governors having been taught repeatedly > that they were a special cadre, literally saving the world, left the Movement > with big heads, and either glommed onto other authority figures, or became > teachers of others, themselves. > > This is apparently still an issue for some, after so many years, either > feeling as some do, that their true position above others continues to go > unrecognized (name, here, starts with a T and ends with a B), or continuing > to struggle against that once lofty position. > > T...B commented that one of the posters here was a bigot, because he followed > a bigot, T...B not recognizing that he went a lot further in his allegiance > to the so-called bigot, becoming a Teacher of his, than the person he > criticized. More examples abound. > > So, I ask myself - what makes someone willfully blind? Obviously having been > told wondrous and powerful things about oneself is very intoxicating. The ego > revels at such an opportunity to make this the core of the mind's life story. > This is the trap for the Teachers of TM who chose to leave the teaching, but > retained all the wonderful and inspiring things said about them. > > Glad I was always washing dishes, or planting strawberries...:-) > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Carol" wrote: > > > > Hey doc... > > > > Younger than whom? :D > > > > > > ************ > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > > > Is it because Carol is apparently a younger woman, and thinks you are > > > full of it, which drives you nuts-o, or is there actually more to this?? > > > IMO, I don't think so... > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This one thread, devoted to documenting how awful a person > > > > > John Knapp is, is becoming very tedious. Perhaps Carol could > > > > > find something else to obsess on. I am no fan of John Knapp, > > > > > but I imagine that he had good intentions to begin with. > > > > > Then something went wrong and perhaps he didn't cope with > > > > > it well, and that led to something else, and so on. It's > > > > > time to leave this guy alone. > > > > > > > > Yeah, like that's gonna happen. > > > > > > > > This place is like heaven on earth for cyberstalkers, > > > > especially if the stalkee is male, and *very* especially > > > > if a number of people hold a grudge against him anyway > > > > for his feelings about TM and Maharishi. > > > > > > > > This particular cyberstalker accomplished her purpose. > > > > She got a bunch of people badmouthing her intended > > > > victim. My bet is that she'll leave if they stop, > > > > because she doesn't really have anything else to say. > > > > > > > > > >
