Iranitea, Zarzari,
You do not represent the mind of what Maharishi thinks, thought or taught, or 
shared. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote:
> 
> > As you know, zarzari, Robin himself corrected the post
> > around four hours later, after I'd called his attention
> > to the four incorrectly attributed quotes from your
> > exchange with Barry (#299915). 
> 
> No, I didn't know. I had been out of town for a few days then. The wrong 
> post, the wrong attributions are still there, still in place. 
> 
> > I should probably have
> > referred Lawson to the corrected version, 
> 
> Exactly, that's what you should have done. Then I wouldn't have come back. 
> People will not read all references. It is what people see, that sticks to 
> their minds. The wrong attributions will stick, as people see them.
> 
> > but since
> > the part of Robin's post I wanted him to read didn't
> > contain any of the misattributed quotes and didn't have
> > anything to do with what you and Barry had been
> > discussing, it never occurred to me.
> 
> I am aware of that. But this wrong text is still online, will be seen prior 
> to scrolling, without people checking it out. As you pointed to the post, I 
> have every right to point out the mistakes.
> 
> 
> > > Btw. how reliable would a post be, that contains so many mistakes?
> > 
> > Everybody makes attribution mistakes now and then, you
> > included, zarzari.
> 
> But these were grave. It was all topsy turvy, all attributions to me were 
> wrong, he drew his personal conclusions about me from these quotes mainly. He 
> got everything wrong, and that was only references from the close past, not 
> even a week ago. 
> 
> How could his remembrance and interpretation of events in the distant past, 
> decades away, be accurate or reliable in any sense? From a time in which he 
> was allegedly delusional?
> 
> Your interpretation of Maharishi -through his eyes - cannot be accurate and 
> reliable.


^^^^^^ Right there. Neither through your eyes either, Mr. iranitea, zarzari. If 
you are a tm teacher, and I was a raja, I would fire you, just for posting all 
this crapola. 



> 
> > Robin was almost exclusively responding to remarks from
> > Vaj in that post, and Vaj himself had not been addressing
> > anything in your exchange with Barry (in which you were
> > speculating about Robin's mental health).
> > 
> > > > He's responding to a post from Vaj.
> > > > 
> > > > You'll need to scroll down a bit, to where Robin writes,
> > > > "Maharishi summoned me to Seelisberg..."
> > 
> > If Lawson had scrolled down to that point and read just the
> > self-contained section that had to do with what he and I
> > were discussing, he would have scrolled right past the first
> > three mistakenly attributed quotes and stopped reading before
> > the last one. He would have had no reason even to look at
> > the misattributed quotes from your exchange with Barry; and
> > they could hardly have been less relevant to our discussion
> > in any case.
> 
> It's not about this discussion. It is that something wrong is there and being 
> linked to. Period.
> 
> > I don't know why you want to call attention to the four
> > mistaken attributions when you are explicitly telling folks
> > not to look at them, but that's your affair. I seriously
> > doubt anyone but Lawson and I went back to look at that post
> > in the first place.
> 
> Right. It's my affair if I am being misrepresented online to set this 
> straight. I should not rely on others, Mrs. Corrector to do that for me. 
> 
> Posts being sent in the past are being looked upon as being more authentic in 
> a strange way, and they are being pointed to, as if they contain some secret 
> clue or revelation. But as it turns out, they could just as easily be wrong 
> and fictitious. And then your whole building of logic will collapse.
>


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