Edg, I just wanted to do a drive-by and say that I've been appreciating your recent rants. They've been very honest and very real and obviously far too real for many here.
I haven't bothered to chime in with, "Yeah, what he said..." yet, but not because I haven't felt that. I just knew that the shaming thing would start and I didn't want to be even a peripheral part of another re-run of that silly soap opera, so I've been staying out of it. But you're a writer and we all know how writers need occasional feedback. So mine is "Good stuff. Keep it up, Bro." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : What the hell don't we understand about "this isn't about us" ? ? ? I'm not even a messenger; just a kibitzer in the crowd, and some of you want me shamed outta here or whatever -- how rare is the truth sought here when all of us are so vulnerable to being correctly dismissed as damaged goods? See someone's flaws and have at it hoss -- but don't call your lust to thrust a personality dynamic of a "knower of reality." Geeze, learn a lesson from Maharishi here...at least he knew how to handle hostility coming from someone on the mike -- almost always graciously....(I can think of a couple exceptions, but . . . ) It's not important if anyone here approves of any statement, or not. What's important is that THIS RECORD of the minds of a few survivors of the TMO be at least registered here. Over the years here, although I've changed my mind, yes I have, due to some of the arguments here, let's face it, this place is not about attempting to formulate statements upon which we all can agree. Instead, we get so much head bashing. Let this be on the record too sayeth moi -- let the whole messy-ness of it, the soul swampy steam coming off of it, let it all be recorded here. If I am a miscreant out to propagandize to a few minds here -- let it be recorded. This...all of this....done by true believers lo these many decades. Hey it's sci-fi now but an actuality that's coming soon enough is that there's going to be a tech that will make use of all this jabbering of ours -- and who the fuck knows what wisdom can be mined herein by some A.I. engine around the corner, eh? Some sooperdooper A.I. that would rule the world would at least be able to buddy up with the likes of the sorry spiritual drunks almost passed out in the corners of Rick's Place. We'd be on our knees e-praying in about ten minutes flat once an A.I. god told us we were "special." Who can't be easily pegged by their postings here? Everyone's put out all this data about themselves without even thinking twice about how it could all be put into a dossier with which A.I. can grok a person 100%. Or the NSA. No diff. I just wanted to and will continue to lay out my POV -- 29 years before the mast and the ship went down. And my story is true for about 95% of all the folks that once invested in the technique -- it just didn't pan out. It's not about me; it's about all the other me-types -- the universal-anyone-who-can-think-a-thought-can-do-it technique simply had no pizzazz and the audience evaporated. Ta ta and thanks for all the.........you thought I'd say "fish," right? You're mind readers! ! ! ! !
