--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > For the past few days, I've been contributing to the > wikipedia > > > entry on Transcendental > > > > > > Meditation. Boy, is that fun in dysfunctional sort of way. > > > Between Peter, Andrew > > > > Skolnick > > > > > and > > > > > > myself, we've managed to completely rewrite the whole thing > > > about 10x over. > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.wikipedia.org keyword: "transcendental > meditation". > > > Click on the "history" > > > > > tab to > > > > > > see what I mean... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Due to the "vandalism" by peter and myself, Andrew has asked > for > > > an editorial lock to be > > > > > placed on the TM entry in wikipedia. Here is my response to > > > andrew's claim that my last > > > > > contribution was vandalism. I think he's more paranoid than > ever, > > > to be honest: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > vandalism by moi? > > > > > > > > > > Andrew, you justified your reverting of my edit of the > lawsuit > > > text because I was being a > > > > > vandal. Here is your original text, followed by my revision: > > > > > > > > Andrew has since apologized to me twice. I'm under the > impression > > > that he gets so mad at > > > > New Agers or anyone who believes in anyting that smacks of the > New > > > Age stuff, that he > > > > automatically assumes the worse. > > > > > > > > I'll say this for Andrew. He's an equal-opportunity cynic. Look > at > > > this apparently ongoing > > > > exchange between him and Brian Josephson concerning Josephson's > > > psychic-oriented > > > > stuff. He goes for the throat, automatically: > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Natasha_Demkina/Archive2 > > > > > > Andrew Skolnick--with whom I had many disputes when > > > he was posting to alt.meditation.transcendental--is > > > one of the sleaziest people I've ever encountered. That > > > he gets to call himself a *journalist* is just mind- > > > boggling. > > > > Eh. He's on a Mission From God, what can I say? > > Completely missing the, um, let's call it *irony* > that he uses the same ends-justify-the-means > approach that he complains about: being on the side > of the angels, in his mind, validates his use of > deceit and other thoroughly unscrupulous tactics. >
He doesn't miss the irony: he revels in it. Payback's a bitch. My understanding of his background is that he watched his dumpster-diving mom spend every penny on new age crapola rather than buy food and clothing. He hates all things new age, and with good reason. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
