It was Judy who brought that phrase about being open minded, attributed
to her dad, after I accused her of being close minded on a topic.
What is happening to FFL is we are getting old and cranky. Some of us
are approaching our 70s and some are already there. And we have some
that are a generation younger (apparently Salyavin and MJ).
It is kinda unusual to watch a group fly this out of control. Usually
moderators will keep things civil but then there's nothing like a "free
for all" either. Some of us like to keep our anonymity because we don't
want (having been TM teachers) unwarranted reprisals from the TMO. Even
Judy recommended it.
But anyway the places also has to keep up it's appearances as a "loony
bin" which doesn't seem to hard to do. :-D
On 11/29/2014 09:33 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I am just trying to keep from being so "open minded" that my brains
fall out!
Glad it made you laugh.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
Curtis, I'm still LOLing as I reply. What got me laughing was your
comment about what is overrated at this stage of life. Being vague so
others can enjoy it for themselves...
Have fun tomorrow and I look forward to your report.
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*From:* "curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:47 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Apologies...
I've watched this will some alarm because last time I was posting here
I had to try to back down Jim and Nabby from creating fantasy ill-will
scenarios about my personal life in response to me posting my opinions
about Maharishi's teaching. It was an escalation of their MO since I
began posting here. I am happy to see it resolved with Jim creating
his own page while hilariously claiming that it was because OTHER
people were not being civil here! I do not believe it will last any
more than his participation on then other "enlightened" forum, but
hope to be proven wrong.
I think you were right to go the legal route because they were
crossing a weird and disturbing line Barry. There is no parity between
how you post here and what those guys were up to.
FFL has gone through many different incarnations as strongly
influential posters come and go. I viewed the end of the Judy era as a
positive thing, but was disturbed to see how others escalated to fill
the gap. Judy ran her routine in a much more interesting way IMO, so
despite strongly dissagreing with her most of the time, I was
entertained and prompted to write more many times because of her
participation. That degraded in the era of the clique she led that
involved the Share bashing era in the girl's locker room. Shit got
weird and unpleasant, but worst of all boring.
I don't know where FFL is headed now but I am an optimist. I intend to
report on my experiences tomorrow at the "event" in Alexandria. Last I
checked almost 800 people had reserved a seat. I had some contact with
people from the old days who were kind enough to share their
perspective. Although I remain a skeptic and am not really going with
anything close to an "open" mind (overrated at this stage of my life I
believe) I will go for the many layers of entertainment. One of the
greatest aspects of the entertainment will be posting here about it.
FFL has been a great resource for my thinking and writing. It has been
so useful that I have put up with some people with unfriendly agendas
against me here. It was the ticket for admission.
Sorry to see things spiral out so far here but I am encouraged to see
the changes.
