Ah ha ha...good one, Obba.  


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> From: obbajeeba <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:28 PM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the people 
>who brought it up
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>Buck,
>I am not in the men's dome. Unless, you wish to be my beard.
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>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"  wrote:
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>> I really feel that if we could just sit to meditate together then you'd come 
>> to understand the truly larger Good you rile against.  You guys just need to 
>> come back, get your meditation checked, sit in a group meditation, listen to 
>> an advanced lecture again and then you'd see what mischief in nature you are 
>> doing mucking and raking all this negativity of yours.
>> I live in my skin, the blanket of FFL. You guys and ladies, are my warmth.
>> Obba, get off my blanket,
>> -Buck 
>> 
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>> >
>> > "The unbounded faith which conservative Meditators have in their own 
>> > principles, and the way they regard the principles and practices of other 
>> > techniques, approach intolerance on their part.  They believe they are 
>> > guided to their convictions by the Spirit of Truth, and they really think 
>> > they have arrived at absolutely correct conclusions, and that any other 
>> > opinions are wrong.  They think that all who differ from them would agree 
>> > with them if they had sufficient light…."
>> > -Buck
>> > 
>> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>> > >
>> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Why on earth would anyone make up something like that? 
>> > > > There are far too many stories that abound about unethical 
>> > > > behavior on the part of the TMO for people to have to 
>> > > > make any up.
>> > > 
>> > > According to Nabby, anyone who says such things is on
>> > > the payroll of the CIA, or the Dalai Lama. I don't know
>> > > about you, but if this is true, my payroll checks have
>> > > been lost in the mail.  :-)
>> > > 
>> > > More seriously, there are a number of people here whose
>> > > world view is so precarious that they believe that anyone
>> > > who says anything that threatens that world view is
>> > > attacking them. They're terrified of allowing the (in
>> > > their view) heretical ideas into their awareness, so 
>> > > they either retreat into nostalgic ideas of the move-
>> > > ment and ignore them, or play "Kill the messenger" and
>> > > try to suppress them.
>> > > 
>> > > I think it's sad, and if this mindset is the legacy of
>> > > the decades they've spent meditating, an even sadder one.
>> > > 
>> > > > ________________________________
>> > > >  From: nablusoss1008 
>> > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>> > > > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:42 AM
>> > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the 
>> > > > people who brought it up
>> > > > 
>> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808"  wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@  wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I can honestly say I went on a lot of residence courses, and was 
>> > > > > > never asked to donate money, or purchase *anything*. Wasn't a 
>> > > > > > perfect experience, but this rapaciousness you attribute to the 
>> > > > > > reps of the TMO was just never present whenever I interacted with 
>> > > > > > them. Not once, during major national courses, residence courses, 
>> > > > > > or working for the TMO on staff, was I ever asked for donations, 
>> > > > > > or to get the next big thing. This is some tape loop in your head, 
>> > > > > > that does not match reality. And you know what they say, where 
>> > > > > > there's smoke, there's fire...:-)
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Ah, so we imagined it all. Fascinating evasion.
>> > > > 
>> > > > I've never encountered any form of sales-pitch on ANY course during 
>> > > > decades in the TMO.
>> > > > So far we only have your version of this.
>> > > >
>> > >
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