In addition to a small organizing plenary group we will likely need a refugee service committee for supporting repatriating refugees of the previous era of unkindness and trauma on FFL coming back on to a kinder more civil FFL. -Buck
I still feel that at the least, peace proly needs to start with a dis-engagement, like a cease-fire. Suspending FFL for a good while should be a place to start in a reconciliation process with all these negative people that caused such fragmentation as the separation of some really good people from the FFL community at Yahoo-groups. Dear Alex, That is fine. I am confident that you would come to the meetings when Rick asks for help on this problem. Craig Pearson is doing an awesome and quite a fair-minded job moderating the extremely anxious community meetings of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance. Rick, we should ask him if he could help mediate our FFL steering committee meetings even hosting them on campus somewhere like in the Board of Directors' Room. It would be nice to meet somewhere symbolically in between the Global Country up in Vedic City and the Fairfield meditating community. The student union might be a good place. -Buck j_alexander_stanley writes : I would not attend such a meeting, as I'm content to leave well enough alone. It strikes me that Rick is also content to leave well enough alone, so your continued complaining is only so much pissing into the wind. The Peak exodus has put an end to much of the squabbly bullshit, and IMO, that's a good thing. Perhaps, you should focus your energies over there. The Fairfield FFL meeting should proly just be a small working steering committee of older meditators from Fairfield to look after the larger communal welfare of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Like Rick, Dick Mays and me as patricians of FFL. And, Alex for the sensibility of his long-time moderating technical support. Most everyone else are new-comers by comparison. The Patriarch of Positivity, -Buck in Fairfield Yes hold a face-to-face in Fairfield, a meeting over some strong black coffee or Vata and Pitta tea, a conference amongst ourselves in Fairfield, Iowa to take back the brand of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. It is time, -Buck in Fairfield We should have a peace and reconciliation conference here in Fairfield for FFL. I do not feel we should necessarily be sexist like you are suggesting about this, Share. But if the practical need be for additional input let us track down Hinda and get her back to Fairfield for a meeting. She was here in the beginning and quite evidently had a good sense for the potential of the community forum aspect of FFL. Wayback71 too would be a good candidate too for clear depth of experience committee work. She has been here almost all along and witnessed so much of what has gone by. -Buck mjackson74 wrote : Excellent point Share! But let's not forget that Marshy included lots of women in his younger days - they just had one purpose though, and it wasn't anything that required clothes. I guess Buck has forgotten that one point FFL was the place where Rick gathered and disseminated all the info that could be gathered on Marshy's sexual proclivities. From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 5, 2014 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye Buck, I think these days, in order for a group to be full and rich and thus thrive, it has to include women, especially in the decision making process. In fact I'd say this is a major problem in the TMO. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 5, 2014 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye The Fairfield FFL meeting should proly just be a small working steering committee of older meditators from Fairfield to look after the larger communal welfare of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Like Rick, Dick Mays and me as patricians of FFL. And, Alex for the sensibility of his long-time moderating technical support. Most everyone else are new-comers by comparison. The Patriarch of Positivity, -Buck in Fairfield Yes hold a face-to-face in Fairfield, a meeting over some strong black coffee or Vata and Pitta tea, a conference amongst ourselves in Fairfield, Iowa to take back the brand of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. It is time, -Buck in Fairfield We should have a peace and reconciliation conference here in Fairfield for FFL. At the least, peace proly needs to start with a dis-engagement, like a cease-fire. Suspending FFL for a good while should be a place to start in a reconciliation process with all these negative people that caused such fragmentation as the separation of good people from the FFL community at Yahoo-groups. Rick could initiate this peace by instilling a period of silent reflection. Let there be peace on FFL; let there be total silence on FFL for a period of time, -Buck Like those Jews of old looking back across the River Jordan I hope for a better time for FFL, -The Old FFL Patriarch Of Positivity, Buck in the Dome Dear jamesalan735 whoever you are; you seem a recent arrival here. There is a manifest bitterness in the people left here on FFL, the place has been overtaken. It is a very sad situation for what was the community of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. What was a culture here has been overrun. There is a refugee camp, however. A safe-keep. I would invite you to a New Jerusalem, over on The_Peak. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/conversations/messages https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/conversations/messages jamesalan735 writes: Buck, For crying out loud, will you just let it go already? The Apostle of Kindness, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> writes : I have to also add that when I first arrived on FFL I was much, much more charitable towards both M and his Movement. A lot of my current point of view was shaped from conversations I had and read here, information I gained from so many posters here, the info Rick has collected on Marshy's escapades and even more so by the ridiculous defenses put up by TM defenders towards indefensible behavior on the part of the Movement and its founder. Also in that mix was the picture that emerged on the part of certain posters who just can't bring themselves to deal openly and honestly with the past and present of the Movement so that they won't feel they have wasted a good portion of their lives. Lastly, the pitiful state that some long term TM'ers come to like George Hammond have shaped my current assessment and view of Marshy and the TMO. So on balance it has been the sycophants, the Marshy sez people, the raving lunatics and other people who won't face reality about TM, Marsy and all things Movement that have contributed to my becoming a neganaut. As much as anyone [ with his slavish insistence that yagyas and the Marshy Effect will one day save the world have helped me jump into neganaut status, and I wear it proudly too! From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye Om Son, the way you and your IS-like terrorists have overtaken it here on FFL and thus driven a whole cultural exodus over to The_Peak, the FFL forum that is left remaining here is extremely vile, oppressive and all the more difficult to get hardly any spiritual positivity in edgewise between all this angry bitterness of these mean people in apostasy that has laid siege to this board, our old home. FFL.. “in a sea of sceptisism and irony”. Dear Nablusoss, you meant to write septisism? I think that if you stop whining and read what we actually post here (except Willytex obviously) you'll see nothing vile or oppressive. So where do you get it from and, more importantly, why don't you join the exodus if you prefer it there? Things change, it's the nature of life. Sorry we aren't all True Blue TMers any more but we got here through thinking about it and re-evaluating everything we'd been taught and experienced. What you need is a TB site where no independent thought (known to you as "negativity") is allowed. Plenty of those on the net, why stick around here wallowing in self pity? Get a life dude. JaiGuruDev, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> writes : Buck could at least have some good thing to say to Dick May's occasional posts - Dick ignores all the other stuff on FFL and consistently posts PR fluff about TM. I don't believe any of it, but at least it gives Buck and opportunity to do something other than complain, but he don't do it.
