--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: (snip) > he's angry because he's realised he got duped by a > cult* and is directing his feeling of being had by > a con man into anger at the scam he willingly went > along with.
Michael's problem, as I see it, is that in his anger he tends to go *way* overboard, and his mind is completely closed to any moderating influence. He can't tell the difference between the blissninny TM TBs and the more objective TMers here. He rarely addresses reasoned arguments; he just issues flat contradictions and restates his own positions. I don't think you can properly process something from which you've become alienated unless you can form a realistic picture of it. If your image of it is grossly unrealistic, you're railing against a straw man, something that doesn't exist except in your own mind. Nobody is trying to convert him *back* to TM. (Well, maybe Buck and Nabby.) But he will be much more successful in freeing himself from his experience with TM if he doesn't make a monster of it that's vastly worse than the reality. He isn't the only TM critic here to do that, but he's the most extreme. > It's a process, sooner or later it evens out. Everyone makes peace with the > past and learns to see their own part in it, and finally the funny side of > having once thought that nature (whatever that is) might give you some > "support" just because you sit with your eyes closed twice a day. At the > moment MJ seems to be happy railing against his previous beliefs and pointing > out their absurdity. We've all either been there or will > go there or will die before we even realise we got had. > > *Cult: a religion without political influence. Tom Wolfe. >
