---In [email protected], <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote : snip How about you? That seems to be how you roll here to me concerning spiritual perspectives. You seem able to discuss them as ideas separate from the person. That has always been my experience in our discussions.
Well, as you said once, to paraphrase, each day is new day and why not reply in the spirit in which the discussion is started, or the question is asked. There's no benefit in holding a grudge, if possible. And as I said a few weeks ago, some of the best insights I have gotten here have come from Barry, Xeno and Jim. And Judy once said something that totally nailed an aspect of my personality that I had not been fully aware of. Good stuff! ---In [email protected], <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote : snip. With the exposure of the inner world of TM on the Internet, most of my objections to their cult behavior have become moot. If a person can't Google them before joining, they deserve to end up believing that butt bouncing creates world peace as far as I am concerned. My objections pre web concerned their deceptive recruitment practices by training teachers to hide their true beliefs so people couldn't properly evaluate what they were getting into. They still run that game but the free access to their beliefs takes away the problem. I think this is the perspective most of us have here, and is, I would say, a balanced perspective. But, in some quarters here, I think this perspective would get you labeled as a cult apologist, or true believer, since you are not demeaning those who have a "live and let live" attitude, or have found some way to feel comfortable participating in the movement. The spiritual game has always been a caveat emptor affair, and I think this site, at it's best can challenge beliefs without finding a way, or need, to ridicule opinions to the contrary. What do you think?
