--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Barry has a bee under his bonnet on this issue because > > > > it gives him yet another opportunity to denigrate the > > > > TMO and its TBs. > > > > > > Which is, itself, just another form of fundamentalist TBism. > > > > Yeah, or TNBism, True Nonbelieverism. Knee-jerk-wise, > > black-and-white-no-shades-of-gray-wise, it's > > indistinguishable from TBism. > > Hey, you guys believe what you want. Me, I'm just > fascinated by the self-importance thang in *any* > spiritual tradition. You should hear me lay into > ex-Rama students who are still whining about being > persecuted by the anti-cult groups. In their case, > it *was* persecution, legitimate persecution, > complete with blacklists so that people couldn't > get jobs, people getting kidnapped by deprogrammers, > and entire 'strike groups' out there monitoring the > group's activities so that they could fuck with > them. But IMO the *enduring* fascination with such > things is all about the self importance of the > students themselves, and the inability to let go > of these things that made them feel important at > the time. > > Feeling persecuted is an important part of *many* > spiritual trips; the more persecuted the followers > can be made to feel, the stronger and tighter the > TB tradition they can build. *That* is my interest > in all of this.
Except that most of the folks who have been talking about it here are insisting persecution was *not* involved. TM and its particular manifestation > of the general phenomenon, or 'bashing TM' is not. > That you guys believe it is is just more self > importance. :-) :-) :-) Uh-huh. Eleven years' worth of determined TM-bashing from you on alt.m.t, plus the same here ever since you signed on, strongly suggest otherwise. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
