---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Blimey! I hope you're not leaving us - or about to get the order of the boot. I thought I would be booted - it isn't like I don't try - Buck's cheap excuse to kick off everyone he doesn't like makes me livid. That Rick has let a True Believer loose on this place is a travesty of what it was intended to be about. Especially as he's behaving exactly like the leaders of the TMO that he's had so much disgust of over the years. It's like living in Stalin's Russia, every time I wake up I'm not sure which of the politburo will have survived the night. But rest assured, he won't twist the guidelines to get rid of anyone that he doesn't consider an "apostate". Losing Xeno's careful writing and knowledge is another big loss to this place, and MJ's companionship was great joy too, anyone who brings so much of their life here is worth keeping but the ones left aren't like that. Buck seeks uniform blandness. I've praised your writing style twice in recent weeks so I won't repeat myself. I've found your contributions some of the most thought-provoking on FFL. Heretics are essential for an orthodoxy to gain self-understanding and to learn to become self-critical. Are you a member of any other groups, Yahoo or not? Thanks, but no I only post here. This place is - was - good because we aren't limited to just talking about beliefs but where the beliefs came from and even why they mean so much to some and not others. The neuro-psychology of cult mechanics. And this is the sort of thing that the TB's don't like. Questioning of cherished beliefs is a tricky subject but luckily, TM claims to be a science so it is therefore open to criticism. That's my excuse anyway. Like you, I can't understand while FFL members get so upset by robust, critical posts. I'm happy to meet true believers defending MMY and the TMO and also happy to meet those who have long since fallen out of love with the Movement. I read what both parties have to say and make my own mind up in each case. So sometimes debates become heated and insults get exchanged . . . but why would anyone allow a little argy-bargy to spoil their day? It's beyond me. Perhaps because the TMO is a dictatorship and people aren't used to having avoice? Or maybe it's because the TMO is a fundamentalist organisation and it comes as a shock to the faithful that people who have been exposed to it's wondrous teachings disagree with it. It really does. Try lviing in a TM centre and telling them that you don't believe that Maharishi had absolute knowledge of everything. They stare at you slack-jawed like it's the most astounding thing they ever heard. Before starting to tell you why you are wrong. Like you say there is now a real danger that this site could become terminally boring if the more colourful members drift away. We'll just have to start another. But I'll be damned if I'm going to leave. If Buck wants to can me for expressing an opinion he's welcome to. How depressing that Rick has let the place slide to such an extent.But as he obviously doesn't care about the place any more, we should buy the home page off him before we go. They clearly don't agree with its message of free thought any more.... ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : ---In [email protected], <geezerfreak@...> wrote : The hypocrisy from Doug/Buck is breathtaking. What's next from you, Poland? The bloke is an arsehole. If he'd had a millionth of the things to say that the people he's just deleted have this place might limp on for a bit longer but he's just a dumb fuck who reads off the TM bliss brochure to make up for the fact he gave up free thought decades ago. You'd have to be as brainwashed as he is to think otherwise.
