Hell no! You put a great line together! Putting, making continual movie and tv reviews on the pedestal of "constructive quest for understanding"
now, there's a top 10 post of the month, and...........more importantly, likely to get a pat on the head from Barry. oh, sometime, id be neat to see how you are able to spend so much time on your job posting to FFL! maybe call center duties, or something? (-; ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : ---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote : Negativity or reality? And what's wrong with TV (and movie) reviews? Lots of folks here watch TV. Are they supposed to be spending their evenings reading the Gita? One man's negativity is another's constructive quest for understanding, or something - I'm too tired to get a good line together.... And I'm all for TV and movie reviews, too much bible talk gets tedious. It's funny though, the only really negative people here are Stevie Wonder and the Lone Star Troll. It's bizarre that anyone would spend so much energy just going "Yah Boo" all day. BTW, did you buy that big pickup truck? On 03/16/2015 07:22 AM, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: FFL has come into the same fate that befell Alt.meditation, mostly just a pool of negativity (and TV reviews) ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <anartaxius@...> mailto:anartaxius@... wrote : What do you conceive the spiritual process to be? As far as I can see everyone is following it to a lesser or greater degree, unconsciously or consciously, lackadaisically or with focus. It seems to me Turq focuses on the pitfalls of the process, the things that lead one astray, he does not talk much about the positive aspects of the process, but that does not mean they are not there in his awareness. Opposition stimulates creativity and intelligence. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <steve.sundur@...> mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote : I'm sorry you don't realize what you sound like here. You really don't understand the spiritual process, and as such, you've ended up in some lonely back water. You have a couple people here who think you are on to something. Everyone else has written you off. As Feste suggested, best to stick with TV reviews. BTW, we know what excessive TV watching does to the brain. Why not check out some peer review studies along those lines. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <turquoiseb@...> mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : Cultist, cure thyself. You and Steve-o seem to feel no compunctions about projecting your "They hate Maharishi" fantasies onto Michael and I. T'ain't true, at least in my case. How is that NOT "assigning us beliefs, emotions, and motivations?" I don't consider myself "obsessed" with Maharishi and/or the TM movement. If I'm obsessed with anything, it's cults and cultists in general. I find them fascinating, no matter what the cult. On FFL, I *admit* to sometimes posting things that have the intention of helping long-term TMers realize what cultists they have become, by pointing out how strongly they *react* to the things I post. I have been hoping YOU would learn from this, but so far you haven't. But I didn't even do that in this case. All I did was do a couple of 10-second Google searches that show that the TMO's latest buzzphrase in their latest propaganda ("global repair mechanism") is ripped off from one of the current "buzzword du jour" you can find in a number of scientific, medical, and IT articles and papers. And how did you react to that? By trying to demonize ME. AGAIN. What am I to *think* about this, other than you got your cultist buttons pushed? AGAIN. Here's a challenge for you, Feste. As a long-time TMer who claims not to be a cultist and who in fact seems to be affronted by the very notion that I suggest you're one, how do you react to the propaganda piece by David Orme-Johnson that srijau just posted, claiming that (per TM dogma) "TM never does any harm." Was that YOUR experience, in all of the years you spent in the TM movement? It certainly wasn't mine. For example, long before the Sidhis appeared, I was on a course in which several dozen people were placed in special "twitching groups" and forced to sit together at the front of the lecture hall because they were twitching and spasming and shouting uncontrollably all the time, 24/7, even when not in meditation. It looked and sounded like a convention of people suffering from Tourette's Syndrome. I personally know that this condition persisted in many of these people for months or years after they went home from this course, and that there had never been any sign of such an affliction before they went to that TTC course. Are you going to join with Orme-Johnson and tell me that TM was not the *cause* of all of this? Just wondering... From: feste37 <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well. You seem to live in a fantasy world, a world all your own, in which other people are there simply to play the roles you choose to assign to them. You invent for them beliefs, emotions, and motivations that bear no relation to reality at all. It's kinda sad. Maybe you should stick to reviewing television programs. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <turquoiseb@...> mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : Michael asked a question, and I did two 10-second Google searches to find the answer. That's "obsession?" It occurs to me that what the two cultists below are *really* upset about is that all it took was 20 seconds to prove how full of shit the TM movement is in the crafting of its propaganda. :-) Or maybe they were both about to lie and claim that the phrase "global repair mechanism" was taught to them on their TTC courses and has been used in TM literature for ages, and my 20 seconds of Googling made that impossible. :-) From: feste37 <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] The level of obsession is indeed remarkable, Seventh. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <steve.sundur@...> mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote : You guys crack me up. I haven't read any of the dozens of pages you've been writing about your favorite subject - just noticing that you just endlessly write about it. Keep it up. It gives you something to fill your days! ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <turquoiseb@...> mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : It's a newly-invented buzzword, Michael. If you do a Google search for the exact phrase "global repair mechanism" plus the exact phrase "transcendental meditation," it shows up only on several MUM web pages with recent revision dates, and on one Dutch site (nl.tm.org). If you go a Google search for *only* "global repair mechanism," you'll understand why the TMO decided to rip this phrase off. It appears to be a popular new buzzword in the world of science and IT. My suspicion is that some dweeb in Vlodrop noticed that it was the new "buzzword du jour" and decided to appropriate it for TM propaganda, the same way Maharishi appropriated Hans Selye's buzzword "stress" many years earlier. From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] To: "[email protected]" mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well. One of the things I would ask about my own original post on this is: Has anyone here ever heard of this business - "As published research has indicated, the TM technique triggers a global repair mechanism in the physiology and psychology of everyone" Global repair mechanism? When did the Movement ever or Marshy ever talk about something like that? And when was it ever in any research papers the Movement loves to blabber about? From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 4:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well. (Message over 64 KB, truncated)
