--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" > <Irmeli.Mattsson@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" > > > <Irmeli.Mattsson@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I have met Chopra a few times by participating in his seminars. > Last > > > > time I think it was in Stockholm in 2002. I like him a lot. I > think > > > > he is a person of great integrity and insight. > > > > > > So you believe what he told the India Times, that the > > > Beatles didn't leave MMY's ashram of their own accord > > > because they thought he had been fooling around with > > > a woman follower, but rather were thrown out because > > > they were doing drugs? > > > > How could Chopra know about that? He was not in the TMO at that > > time. He probably has heard about it from someone, whose word he > > trusts. > > But that person is apparently untrustworthy, since > that information is pretty clearly false. So he > doesn't seem to have the insight to question it. > > > And I don't base my judgement about a person on a single detail like > > this. I look at general patterns in a person's behaviour. > > When a person says something that is patently > untrue--whether deliberately or through lack of > judgment--I begin to wonder about the truth of > other things they've said. > I have made myself several such mistakes. I have repeated without thinking too much someone's words I have found somewhat trustworthy. Maybe I find this feature in a person's character not so problematic, because I have precisely the same tendency myself.
If I perceive somebody having been gullible or having told a lie, I would scrutinize more accurately his other claims. I draw conclusions only, when I see there a repeating pattern. IrmeliI have made myself several such mistakes. I have repeated without thinking too much someone's words I have found somewhat trustworthy. Maybe I find this feature in a person's character not so problematic, because I have precisely the same tendency myself. If I perceive somebody having been gullible or having told a lie, I would scrutinize more accurately his other claims. I draw conclusions only, when I see there a repeating pattern. ------------------------ 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/
