--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that the TMO and the TB's want to physical > kill somebody, because they are very aware of their own > Karma (I hope).
I'm not convinced. I knew people within the TM movement *and* the Rama trip who were so "gone" and so detached from any meaningful definition of reality that they would have committed murder in a heartbeat if they had been asked to do so by the teacher whom they had placed on a pedestal right beside their warped notion of God. Fortunately they were never asked to do anything more illegal than smuggle money across international borders or lie to the press. They had *no problem* with doing these things. They had actually managed to convince themselves that they were accruing "good karma" by breaking the law. > It is some really crazy people out there. > So far as I know the > threats has been on the psychology level. But in the > future - when MMY has gone - and some even more material > guys is taking over the TMO, and more and more critical > questions is coming up, you never know what will happen. Exactly why I am writing these kinds of stories. As Ray Bradbury once put it so well, "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." One reason I'm still here on FFL is that it provides me with a lot of great dialog for these stories. If I had to try to *make up* the way that True Believers think, I'd probably run out of ideas within a day or so, but here I get new input material every week. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <premanandpaul@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Frank Lotz wrote everything on that posting. > > > . . . > > > His reply seemed to contain some sort of implicit threat, > > > therefore I thought it best to make his rant more public. > > > > A wise precaution. I've been doing research for > > a story idea about religious fanatics who are > > willing to commit serious crimes (including > > murder) to "protect" their fanatical ideas of > > what is "true" and what is not. The more you > > read about the real things that these kinds > > of real people do in the name of God and > > religion, the scarier it gets and the more > > precautions you feel like taking in your life > > if you are perceived by one or more of them > > as a "heretic." > > > > Suffice it to say that this kind of fanaticism > > didn't end with the Inquisition or the Protestant/ > > Catholic conflicts. Every year around the world > > there are dozens -- if not hundreds or thousands -- > > of murders performed in the name of God. It really > > lends credence to the idea that religion is a > > disease, and that what the world needs is not > > more religion, but an antidote to it. 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/
