>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer
> > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > > on 5/20/06 10:29 AM, Sal Sunshine at salsunshine@ wrote:
> > >
> > > > Judy, I really don't know what to say. If you haven't come
> > > > across the fear factor in dealing with the TMO, or in dealing
> > > > with people who have dealt with it, consider yourself lucky.
> > > > The pragmatism people employ when they follow everyday,
> > > > commonsense rules that are almost universal, and the strain
> > > > they resort to when dealing with the TMO's incredibly dumb,
> > > > capricious rules that change with the wind and often seem
> > > > motivated by little else other than sheer
> > > > meanness, are totally different.
> > >
> > > A friend of mine once told me how mortified he was when his
> > > dentist started asking him about TM during a treatment,
> > > because he (my friend) wasn¹t wearing a suit and tie.
> >
> > Hah. :-)
> >
> > But let's face it, someone who has never been a
> > teacher or lived in a TM community is just never
> > going to get the level of fear that the movement
> > exerts over people. Give it up. They'd prefer to
> > believe their fantasies.
>
> I lived in a TM community for nine months back in
> 1994-95, the one in the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel in
> Asbury Park. I've written about the experience
> extensively, including on this forum, so Barry is
> well aware of that fact.
>
> Never once did I experience any "fear" over what
> the TMO might "do to me."
>
> Oh, and I was a regular participant on alt.m.t
> throughout that period.
Just to clarify (not that Barry will read any of this,
let alone correct his misstatement; what he's afraid
of is cognitive dissonance):
I am *of course* not suggesting that the TMO never
does anything horrible to people, or that fear isn't
justified in some cases.
The original remark I was commenting on, again, had to
do with someone saying they needed to change their
screen name on FFL, presumably because they wanted to
avoid being identified with a group of naysayers.
That maneuver was characterized as an example of "fear"
of what the TMO might "do to" the person.
I didn't even feel the need to do that on alt.m.t--
I was using my real name--but I might well have done
if I'd been interested in, say, going on TTC, just
out of prudence.
But there's a big difference between doing something
out of *prudence* and doing it out of *fear*, if you
want to be able to do something you might be prevented
from doing if you didn't exercise the prudence. We
"go along to get along" in all sorts of ways just in
the course of daily life.
Save the fear-mongering for the cases in which it
actually applies.
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