--- In [email protected], anonybliss_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One lurker's view of "the feud":
I'll bet it felt good to get that off your chest. :-) You are welcome to your opinion, even though it seems that you are expressing it using a script that has been thoughtfully provided to you, and from behind a veil of anonymity. :-) I respond only to one part of your rant: <snip> > A few posts back Rick made a point about living in the now: > Imagine not even being able to go to a concert in a church > in France and just enjoy it without spending your concert > time making up a dark fantasy about how the history of that > church is just like Maharishi oppressing people and forcing > TM down their throats and then coming on here and writing > about it. Talk about not living in the nowJust shuddup and > enjoy the music already! The music was wonderful, thank you. Jordi Savall is a real musical treasure. But I think what you are really pissed off about ( and...talk about 'not living in the Now'...have been pissed off about and carrying around on your back for almost a week now, fuming about, getting more and more pissed off about until you finally had to let it out in a flamefest of your own :-) is that the history of that cathedral -- Catholics forcing Protestants to attend a mass they didn't believe in, "for their own good," *IS* exactly like Maharishi declaring that people should be forced to practice TM. He has said this many times over the years. He clearly believes it. My point is simply that this makes him a religious fanatic, not a great seer. In taking this stance, he declares himself as someone who is *just* as fanatical as the Catholics who forced their neighbors to stand behind iron bars in a gallery and watch the "real" Christians hold their mass. And he declares himself as someone who cares as little about their sensitivities and beliefs as those 17th century Catholics cared about their Protestant neigh- bors. The clear message is, "These people are *deluded*. They don't know The Truth and what is really good for them and *I* do. Therefore if they don't accept it on their own they should be *forced* to accept it." I stand by my original point -- ANYONE who can justify *forcing* people to follow his or her spiritual beliefs, for *ANY* reason, has crossed a boundary from inspired believer into the realm of dangerous fanatic. Maharishi crossed that boundary many years ago. If you believe similarly, that there is *ANY* situation in which you would support mandating TM, then I suggest that you have crossed that boundary, too. 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/
