---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Exactly what Salyavin said. As far as I can tell, the charge of "obsession" falls completely on the shoulders of those who are so attached to their beliefs and so petty as to get uptight when they encounter ideas contrary to their own. Bitching about others having such ideas is weird, and IMO the sign of a weak mind. Becoming *so* uptight about it that they feel the need to try to *silence* the contrary ideas -- and then, when that doesn't work, run away and form a forum where no one is *allowed* to express contrary ideas -- is the sign of religious fanaticism. > You did seem to get uptight and run away from the un-moderated Usenet forum to the moderated FFL forum on Yahoo. I guess you got upset when I questioned your veracity concerning your *obsession* with Rama levitation events. You got real *silent* about your witnessing. Go figure. Apparently your weak mental state just couldn't take any close scientific inquiry - it looks like your religious beliefs won't allow any questioning of your faith, even if it has been demonstrated not to work or even to be true. I mean, if you can't poke fun at yourself for believing in bun-hopping and levitation, you must be a religious fanatic. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, but I guess questioning human flying isn't *allowed* in your religion - a sure sign of Rama fantacism. LoL! > As Curtis and I (and Sal) have said many, many times -- and as the religious fanatics refuse to believe -- we come here for FUN. It's an "alma mater" kinda place, as Sal suggested. Here we can talk about things we *used to* take seriously but don't any more, and we can explore those ideas in more depth now that we're not part of a cult that's trying to keep us *from* exploring them more deeply. If there is an "obsession" here, I suggest it's on the part of those who literally HATE the people who express ideas contrary to the TM/MMY dogma, but who keep reading every word they write, just so they can get off on the righteous indignation they've become addicted to. I have no more respect for them than I do for the idiots who feel that killing cartoonists is their divinely-given right. From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> I feel the same as Sal, except that I don't do TM anymore. Sal, you summed it up very well. BTW which Star Trek you watching? Original? Nex Gen - my favorite was always Deep Space 9, and I make no apologies for it! From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : <snip to> Regarding this "obsession" with the TMO, what I have is an interest in what my old spiritual almer mater is up to because it was a wild time and I met some crazy people (in both good and bad ways) and got to see the inside of a cult and saw how it works and how it affects affects people. I still like TM as it goes and have fond memories of my time living there, but you've got to transcend the crap you are in to evolve. It's the movement types who aren't curious and carry on like everything is great that worry me. Finally, FFL is something to do at work and during the adverts on TV - watching Star Trek at the moment - it's not an obsession either. It's a bit of fun. So lighten up. BTW what are you doing here?
