Lying? Here on FFL? Turq, reading your list here and I had not yet even thought of calling someone out here who is being negative about TM and Fairfield a liar. MJ does not seem to be a liar as he evidently just don't know better. Also, there is a big difference between just TB tru-believers an some like me and a few others here who know better by experience. The real TB'ers and real spiritual people who know better by experience seem to be in short supply speaking out here. -Buck
turquoiseb writes: D-E-F-L-E-C-T That's what challenge means to me D-E-F-L-E-C-T Take heart, TBs Now that criticism of the TM movement has hit the fan again, I figured it was time for a post to remind the True Believers how they should react to it. This information has been posted before, but some may have forgotten it, so ignore the repetition the same way you ignored Maharishi giving the same introductory talks for 40 years. Don't worry your little heads about the criticisms themselves. You know they aren't true, because you just "know" those kinda things. Instead, do what True Believers such as yourself have done for centuries, and D-E-F-L-E-C-T. Don't meet the criticism head=on, and try to dispute it. Instead, D-E-F-L-E-C-T, and do something to steer the conversation away from the current criticism and focus it elsewhere. There are many tried-and-true methods of doing this, but here are a few of the best, just in case you've forgotten them. * Shoot the messenger. Do anything you can to demonize the person or persons making the criticisms. Your goal here is to undermine their credibility and get other people on the forum to ignore what they're saying. * Call them liars. One of the best methods of sabotaging a critic's credibility is to pretend that he or she is a chronic liar. The lurking TBs you're trying to appeal to would rather believe that the critics *are* lying than believe the criticism anyway, so if you call them liars enough times, the TBs will stop listening to them. * Call them crazy. Speculate about the horrible things that happened to them in the past that made them this way. If you're of the Willytex persuasion, you can even make up crazy shit. All that's important is that a few fellow TBs see them as psychologically disturbed. * Nitpick them into arguing with you. Any nitpick will do, but the best is some kind of semantic nitpick about one or two words in something they posted that doesn't really have anything to do with the criticism you're trying to D-E-F-L-E-C-T. If you can get them -- or other posters -- all involved in a meaningless nitpick side argument that has nothing to do with the original criticism, they aren't involved in the criticism. You've won. * Trash their supporters. Anyone who says anything positive about the critics you're trying to silence is your enemy, and thus Fair Game. * Do all of these things while claiming that the criticism itself -- the thing that has your panties in a twist and halfway up your anal canal -- isn't what you're really responding to.
