>
> shempmcgurk wrote:
>
> >--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> >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?
> >
> >
> >
> You just need to watch out that those "Phoenix Lights" don't beam
you
> up. :)
>
...speaking of which: about 7 years ago at about 7pm at night I
walked down my street to a post box to mail a letter. I live in a
typical suburb of about 300,000 people.
Upon approaching the mail box I saw a fast-moving white light in the
sky moving very quickly...faster than the laws of physics would
suggest it could move...and then it divided into two and the two
separate lights moved up very quickly in the sky in a "V" pattern.
Quite beautiful to look at.
But I didn't think about it for several months because being in the
middle of a suburb I simply assumed that at least 50,000 other
people would have also seen it. It wasn't like I was alone out in
the country where I would have been the only one to have seen it.
Well, apparently, thousands of others did see similar things and I
guess that's what you call the Phoenix Lights.
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