--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > What a wonderful story, thanks for sharing it! It speaks volumes > > to your integrity that you have not cordoned off parts of your > > past but bring them so nicely into the present. Very open minded > > and whole. > > Kind of like having no fences, as opposed to surrounding > oneself with barbed wire and the expectation that anyone > who approaches it is an enemy. Can you imagine a couple > of the TM apologists here actually having a good time at > a party of people who are no longer part of the TMO? > They'd be on their guard every moment, waiting for the > offhand remark they could interpret as an attack. > > For that matter, can anyone imagine these people having > fun at a party of any kind?
Speaking for myself, my two best friends and several other good friends are former TMers (were never "part of the TMO," but then I wasn't either), and we have terrific parties. Once in a while one of them will ask me if I'm still doing TM, and when I say I am, they'll say, "Well, good for you!" Otherwise the topic doesn't come up much. I've never had any arguments with any of them about TM, nor do they seem to feel the need to trash it. A couple of them have said they kind of wished they'd kept it up but just couldn't find the time. At least one of them still recommends TM to people she knows that she thinks could benefit by it. I do suspect I wouldn't much enjoy attending parties composed of folks like Barry and Curtis who can't leave their experience with TM behind and who appear to be compelled to dump on it constantly (and especially those who, like Barry, have surrounded themselves not just with barbed wire but with machine- gun turrets to shoot down any TMers who might dare say something positive about TM or MMY in their hearing). Actually, I suspect my friends who are former TMers wouldn't enjoy such a party either. 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/
