--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Guru Dev's lifestyle, organisation and methods of gaining > > welfare as depicted in his published biographies (listed > > below), are at variants with the descriptions recently > > offered by 'off_world_beings'. > > While it is understandable given his alien heritage :-), > it's becoming obvious to me that the "source" for the > things that off_world_beings has been posting here > lately is the party line that has been presented to > him over the years by TM teachers. This party line > seems to consist of dogma that the teachers were > told to memorize and then repeat to TMers, combined > with a few stories that they made up or picked up > along the way to bolster their own TBism. > > It's a closed loop. Off seeks to support the TM party > line by simply repeating the TM party line (often using > cut and paste to say the same thing in four or five > posts in a row), while declaring that it's the "truth" > and that any other way of seeing things is "false" > and/or "naive." > > A less compassionate person than I might call it cult- > think. I just call it not thinking at all. :-)
However, of course, labeling it "cult-think" or "not thinking at all" enables the labelers to avoid doing any thinking themselves. ------------------------ 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/
