--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > Om son; Fine speak, But it is important that we place > limits on some things to protect people where there is > a public interest. -Buck
There is NO "public interest" in creating a climate in which people are either discouraged from or prevented from speaking about or dealing with the cognitive dissonance caused by the difference between how an organization *claims* to be and how it really is. Or how the dogma of that organization *says* that things work, and how things seem to really work. Or whether the organization's *claims* about the supposed benefits of TM (or any other technique or belief system) actually happen. Those who do not challenge their own assumptions or the things they've been told to believe on a regular basis are in a state of stasis, one that tends to perpetuate myths and unacceptable behavior. As an example, you continue to play the "blame game" for why the "dome numbers" haven't "worked" as advertised, but never once have I heard you try out as an explanation, "Uh...possibly because the claims about the ME are not TRUE." The "problem" with the "dome numbers" isn't that people are no longer being paid to go there. It's that they *had* to be paid in the first place to go there. If the "program" were as beneficial as it was claimed to be, and if people actually enjoyed doing it, no "stipends" would ever have been necessary. If there had been any noticeable and verifiable real-world benefits of people doing "program," that too would have been noticed, and responded to. If you honestly want people to continue to flock to this boondoggle, find some way to demonstrate to them that it has value of any kind -- either to them or to the world at large. If you cannot do so, then don't point fingers at the "administrators" and try to blame things on them. Joss' speech is about *embracing* cognitive dissonance, not ignoring it or pretending it isn't there. There is wisdom and potential benefit in doing so. There is none that I can see in continuing to do the same old same old and hoping that some day it'll turn out as advertised. "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -- Voltaire "Re-examine all you've been told. Dismiss what insults your soul." -- Walt Whitman "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein "If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's." -- Joseph Campbell > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Great commencement speech by the person I think it the > > best storyteller in modern film or television, a true > > visionary who manages to embrace all sides of everything > > he writes, and with humor and compassion. He touches on > > what I would call the value of cognitive dissonance, and > > what he calls "the dissent in yourself." Ignoring that > > is a way to miss life; embracing it is a way to live > > that turns life into LIFE. > > > > http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/05/joss-whedon-commencement-speech-transcript-2013-wesleyan > > >
