On 9/25/2014 9:05 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
It seems to me that the best thing you could do with "quitters" is to
(dare I say it) QUIT reading them.
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/For the record, Barry is the only informant that claims he doesn't read
all the messages posted here./
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I don't know about MJ and Salyavin, but I'm not here "selling"
anything. I write for the fun of it, and to express my opinion. I
don't much give a fuck whether you share my opinion or hate it, and
I'm not trying to persuade you to share it. It's just an
opinion...that and a buck-fifty will get you a bad cuppa Java at
Starbucks.
I (again, I can't speak for MJ and Sal) am also never offended by
anything said here. Amused, yes. Incredulous, yes. Offended, never.
In contrast, Buck, you and the others you're preaching your doctrine
to seem to get offended a LOT. After all, you seem to spend the
majority of your FFL time reading these people you consider not a part
of your community, calling them names like "quitters," and complaining
about them. In between saying how this is all because you pity them
because they're just not as evolved and "special" as you are, of course.
Pardon me for suggesting it, but if you don't like the stuff we write
here, wouldn't be a better use of your time and energy just to STOP
READING THE STUFF WE WRITE?
Do less, accomplish more. Just sayin'... :-)
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*From:* "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Thursday, September 25, 2014 1:59 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi: When one starts TM, cruder
values are replaced by finer values, speech is less sharp
Thanks You Pundit-sir, for defending the honour of all us
transcendentalists left here on FFL.
In fact I have great empathy for both MJ and Turqb in their state. It
does not follow though that I must see their POV's as 'valid
expression of life'. I'd sit and drink strong coffee or whiskey with
either of them down a Paradiso Cafe or Revelations if ever they were
to visit Fairfield, Iowa; they have mindsets, we have shared
experience with the TM movement and I understand where they are at but
clearly the current range of their spiritual experience diverges from
a larger spiritual validity of life that is our experience here in
Fairfield. They simply are no longer part of our community. Quitters.
That is pitiable. I can understand their POV though unlike
Xenophaneros Anartaxius here I do not find their POV necessarily life
supporting but pitiable at best. In empathy I feel for them a lot and
that is the sweet truth,
-Buck in [meditating] Fairfield, Iowa
punditster...wrote :
MJ:
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What a crock of nonsense. What a big load of baloney.
anartaxius@...> wrote :
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EMPATHY: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
If you have empathy, then you ought to be able to understand and share
the feelings by MJ and Turq, and see their point of view as a valid
expression of life.
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We understand that what MJ and Barry are posting is a crock of
nonsense. It's not that we don't understand them, we just recognize
them for what they are: sellers of nostrums and baloney claiming to
know what's good for us and what we should think.
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According to some posters here I have no feelings, so you can skip me.
If you look at the universe at large, observing how it operates, it
really does not seem to have feelings either, it just rolls on and on,
steam-rolling everything in its path. As if it did not know what it
was doing.
'Empathy is the experience of understanding another
person's condition from their perspective. You place
yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling.
Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping)
behaviors. While American culture might be socializing
people into becoming more individualistic rather than
empathic, research has uncovered the existence of "mirror
neurons," which react to emotions expressed by others and
then reproduce them.'
Groups are notorious for lack of empathy when a member of the
group begins to behave and believe differently from the
collective norm.
