--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- Rick Archer <groups@> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Another way of putting it would be that he does have
> > > > > a handle on Absolute
> > > > > Truth, but that that doesn¹t qualify him as an
> > > > > authority on all matters of
> > > > > relative truth.
> > > > 
> > > >      And this is when the "cult-like" quality enters
> > > > in the TMO. People handover their authority over their
> > > > own experience to another (MMY/TMO) under the
> > > > erroneous assumption that there is a "perfect" or
> > > > objectively "correct" way to live their life. This is
> > > > an infantile wish of the "perfect parent" being
> > > > projected and acted out. The TMO, at least in my
> > > > experience in the USA, strongly encourages this, but
> > > > ironically MMY doesn't engage in this on a one-to-one
> > > > level. When people ask MMY what they should do in a
> > > > particular situation many times he'll ask what they
> > > > think they should do and then he'll say," Do that." 
> > > > This lack of authority over ones own life is a deep,
> > > > deep attachment that so many hardcore Ru's have. I see
> > > > MMY as doing his best to break it with all the crazy
> > > > nonesese over the last 20 years. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ...but you do get alot of free labor for your organisation by 
> > > encouraging the "nonsense".  And as cynical as it may sound, I 
> > > really believe that is one of the motivations for the TMO to 
> > > encourage the cultism around it.  Because let's face it: it 
> doesn't 
> > > take a genius to figure out that the lifestyles of the people in 
> the 
> > > TMO and the way the TMO conducts its affairs is in direct 
> > > contradiction to the way the TM Program is taught.
> > > 
> > 
> > Lifestyles of SOME of the people, true. The way the TMO conducts 
> SOME of its affairs, also 
> > true. Don't maket he mistake of painting everyone with the same 
> brush...
> 
> 
> Okay.  Yes, there are exceptions to the rule.
> 
> For every 100 TM TBers in and around Vladivostok or whatever the 
> cult town in Holland is called where everyone is esconced, there is 
> probably 1 person who has his head set straight on his shoulders.
>

Do you think there's more than that in the average organization of any size?







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