From: wgm4u <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 12:57 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Short History of TMer Newsgroups, Part 1
At first I though Judy was a 'plant' by the tmorg to defend MMY and the TMO's reputation, then I realized she was pretty much just posting her own opinions, some of which I agree with and some not.... I can see why you would have thought that. In retrospect, I think that Judy's biggest failure was that her enormous ego made her assume that everything she believed was "hers," what "she" believed, and that any challenge to one of those beliefs was equivalent to a personal attack. The thing is, in all the time I dealt with her, I don't think I ever heard her express one original idea. 99.99% of everything she wrote was something she had been *told* -- by Maharishi or someone else -- but which she now saw only as "her" belief, something that had mystically originated with her, not something that was ever taught to her. So IMO when she sounded as if she was spouting TM dogma verbatim and thus being a "plant," I doubt seriously that she ever realized she was doing it. She was just writing "her" beliefs, while completely, totally unaware that she had been indoctrinated to not only believe ever one of them, but to believe that she had never been taught them. My bet, by the way, is that she'll miraculously reappear on or shortly after September 23, having taken her version of Patent Oswalt's "summer off." And bully for her if that's what she intended. The big question, however, is whether she'll be any different when she returns.
