--- 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." 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/
