wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- 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.
>
I would be afraid to live in either NYC or DC because I am deathly
afraid that those two loctions are the first places where suitcase
nuclear bombs are going to be detonated.
Fear or prudence?
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