--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> In spiritual movements, the most common criterion
> these days is that if the followers have been 
> trained to believe that the leader is almost by
> definition unable to do anything wrong or make a
> mistake, anyone who suggests that the leader is
> a normal human being and therefore as capable of
> mistakes as anyone else is perceived as *attacking* 
> the leader.
> 
> I think it's good to keep this guideline in mind
> here on FFL. In my considered opinion, those people
> who claim most loudly that they are *not* True
> Believers exhibit this particular behavior in spades.

Whew.  Thanks for providing this guideline, Barry.
It definitively eliminates me, at least, from the
TB list.

> Almost every time that someone portrays Maharishi
> in a way that is different from their image of him,
> they react as if the person who said something diff-
> erent had *attacked* him, and was trying to (to quote
> one of them) "bring him down."

Well, that was my phrase, but of course according to
your guideline above, I'm not "one of them."







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