Years ago, when the internet was just getting started (1994) I was
surfing around and ran across Usenet - discussion groups. At first I
subscribed to a site that discussed ISKCON, because I had been a
participant in one of their temples for about a year (3716 Watseka Ave
in L.A.) and I was taken with their devotion and depth of knowledge.
Some members had started a news group discussion on the internet and I
started to read and lurk there for a few weeks. I was very impressed
with some of the topics discussed and the responses.
Then I discovered alt.meditation.transcendental (now Google Groups) and
so I decided to join. What a disappointment! It was like a bar room
brawl - Judy was there and Barry and Lon P. Stacks (RIP) and they were
thrashing it out with that "Asshole Nick" (Andrew Skolnick) the science
journalist. Judy did her best to defend her position but for appearances
the whole group was just an exercise in futility - it was, and still is,
a "cess-pool" of misinformation.
So, I decided to post some of my own messages, not so much to prove
anything, but just to improve the look and feel. Anyone surfing there
would have thought TMers were all buffoons and gimcracks, for all
appearances. So, I started writing up some nifty essays with fancy
subject lines, not so much to get attention but to make the place look
like a forum with useful and insightful analysis.
So, for years I posted my essays to AMT to try and make the forum look
good. I must have posted 8,000 essay from 1999 - 2003. I didn't get a
response from Judy for close to fours years to any of my cogent
postings. And, only two from Barry. Maybe they were JELLOS - I don't
know. Then, they started spewing and posting political propaganda, in
what I thought was an attempt to make the site look like a pile of crap
and they tried to make the place look like a dung heap. One day I
disputed Judy's claim that George W. Bush was a "liar" and so I posted a
retort. That's about when it hit the fan!
Ever since then she has hated my guts - nothing to do with TM or the
mechanics of consciousness - just hateful slander and personal attacks,
all directed at me. So, I either had to shut up or leave. But look, I've
got an ego about as big as Mt. Rushmore so I don't back down without a
fight - never have and never will. I am a military brat from Texas and I
know everything about everything and I'm living at the center of the
universe.
So, at some point several of us left the Google Groups and came over to
Yahoo Groups. Now it looks like this place going to shit too - there's
no moderation, nobody gives a crap, and nobody will stand up for the
Maharishi. They aren't even proud of their past. All they want to do is
post fluff and drivel - you can read it here every day. It's sometime
just pathetic what some people will post to the internet. Myself included.
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