--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On the other hand, given that MMY is still alive, it's > > > > > > not clear why Tony's going along with the standard bull > > > > > > tells us anything about what he's going to do once MMY > > > > > > is gone. > > > > > > > > > > I think it tells us that he has no spine, and > > > > > is not likely to develop one. > > > > > > > > It might, or it might not. If he actually does want > > > > to take over the movement after MMY's death, it > > > > wouldn't make a lot of sense for him to create a ruckus > > > > at this point and kill his chances of doing so. > > > > > > Yes, that's the approach someone without a spine > > > would take, all right. > > > > Not if his plan is to remake the movement once > > MMY dies. > > We must agree to disagree. In my book, someone who > wanted to remake the TM movement would not do so > by pretending to go along with its current line > of bullshit.
That isn't what *you* would do, you mean. If you consider that ethical, I suggest > that it says a lot about your own ethics. Hmm, I don't believe I said anything about ethics, did I? I believe you made that up. > > Sometimes it takes more spine to go along with > > something and just absorb the scorn for the sake > > of a future goal. > > There you have it. You are suggesting that it would > be ethical for a person to lie and pretend to be > something that he's not if his intent somewhere > down the road was to "do the right thing," eh? Again, I didn't say a word about ethics. I didn't even say I approved of doing what I suggested he might be doing. I'm just pointing out that your criteria for judging him to be without spine don't hold up. > It's back to the olde "ends justify the means" > issue. You think they do In some cases, certainly. But the bar is pretty high. ; I think that the means > *are* the end, and that if one attempts to do > something ethical by acting unethically, then > one deserves the karmas one gets. Since this > seems to be your chosen path in life, It does? What unethical things do you imagine I've done? I wish > you well with the karmas such an approach > create... I would hope whatever choices I make are such that the karmas involved at least balance out. All any of us can do is what seems to us to be right, then let the chips fall where they may. ------------------------ 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/
