In the past day or so there have been 30 posts to FFL and 8 to the Peak. Since
I am on both forums, I redid my email, sorting them into FFL and Peak folders,
and one particular poster also on both goes directly to the trash, so these
figures here represent everyone else. The intellects here are much more likely
to jump on inconsistencies and sloppy thinking here. There have been a few
conversations of note on the peak, but mostly it is kind of tepid with a halo
of woo fluff. Without a challenge the mind gets soft. Right now there seems to
be a conversation about Vernon Katz's new volume. While here I can wonder what
percent of my DNA matched that of Australopithecus Afarensis, or whether Buddha
would have liked coffee if he had had access to it. Here you can say what you
really think. For example, watching Maharishi on tapes some 35 years ago, I was
watching him pounding a flower against his face chuckling to himself and I was
really thinking, is this guy some kind of saint or a daemon, it was like there
was this experience of a dark thread running through that session. I have
lately been reading a bit about sociopaths, and it certainly does not seem
inconceivable that Maharishi was a sociopath considering the way he dealt with
people and because of his incredible focus on getting what he wanted. There are
certain features of sociopathy and states developed via meditation that cross
over, and 'bad' socipathic traits might get enhanced by practice.
From: "TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Meet the Ancestor!
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
LOL. I was going to make the same comment. :-)
I just took my first ever look at the Peak, it's a bit too anodyne for my taste
but I totally get why they didn't like hanging around with us! I'm almost
embarrassed at having actual opinions about things.
At least now you understand the irony I've been pointing out about The_Leak
since its inception. People like Ann, Steve (seventhray), and Buck *claim* that
they're there on The_Leak because it's higher vibe and they prefer that. But at
the same time they make a surprising number of posts *about* FFL. And *in*
those posts they make it clear that they still come to FFL and *read every word
of every post made by the people they hated while they were here* -- you, me,
and Michael. What's up with that, eh? The_Leak is "higher vibe," but they can't
get their rocks off without slumming at FFL?
Meanwhile, while claiming "28 members," the 107 posts made on The_Leak in the
last week were primarily made by 5 people, with another 4 contributing one
each. Compare and contrast to contentious and "abyss-mal" Fairfield Life, which
during its last full week contained 321 posts, made by 18 people, with another
8 contributing one post each. (And in fact -- and to counter your assertion
that they "don't like hanging around with us" -- three of The_Leak members
posted more *here* on FFL than they did there.)
I stand by my original predictions -- I don't see The_Leak surviving. I see it
headed for the same fate as the similarly anodyne BATGAP messages forum, which
still nominally has 116 members, but which had ZERO posts last week. Statistics
don't lie -- there simply is no lasting market for namby-pamby.
What's going to be fascinating is how Jimbo is going to try to spin things when
The_Leak fails and he comes back here seeking his attention fix. Now THAT is
going to be entertaining. :-)
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