--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doug in FF writing: > Turq, i do not know what precedence there may be for this, but for > public safety is it not coming time to have the un-registered non- > dome attending meditators up in Maharishi Vedic City and on campus > wearing armbands identifying themselves as "TM-ex", and a special > catagory of "TM-Gov.-Ex" for those un-recertified TM-Govs.?
Relax. As much as it may seem at times, given the way that the blissnazis think, that this is the next logical step, IMO it'll never happen. The reason is that what Hoffer calls the "True Believer" mentality is the same thing that Carlos Castaneda called the "Petty Tyrant" mentality. And if there are two things that all petty tyrants are, it's 1) cowards, and 2) afraid of doing the things that they do in the open. The secret behind banning people from the domes or excommunicating them from the movement is *secrecy*, the ability to do these things without anyone knowing who exactly is doing it or why. The secret behind being *able* to ban people is that the reasons *why* they're being banned are never made fully clear, never written down, never defined, always a mystery and "open to interpretation." That's to keep everyone afraid of doing something -- anything -- "wrong," and to keep them from ever knowing for sure exactly *what* might be considered "wrong." None of the spiritual True Believers in the TM move- ment have the *balls* to do what you suggest above, as much as they might like to. They're essentially cowards who are terrified of direct confrontation and who can only do this stuff while hiding in closed rooms as part of secret committees that no one knows the real membership of. In Germany (what you're referring to), it was a group of *political* mass movement True Believers who managed to do the sorts of things you're suggesting. They had governmental power and uniforms and weapons to boost their petty tyrant egos to the true tyrant level and get them past the "we wish these people we don't like would just go away" stage and move things to the "if they won't go away on their own, we'll make them" level. That rarely happens with spiritual mass movement TBs. It usually takes a religio-political *alliance* (like the Inquisition working in conjunction with the kings of the Catholic countries) to pull off something like that. Without that politico-religious connection, cowards usually remain cowards and only *think* about doing these sorts of things. Now if the Bushies (who have political and military power out the wazoo) really do get together with the Christian mass movement TBs and get on the "we should make the unwanted go away" bandwagon, *then* you should worry... :-) > Evidently this is a 'public safety' matter as we are being told. > You know, the negative effect is felt in a way that anyone wearing > an arm band identifying them as such probably ought to be picked up > off the streets of Maharishi Vedic City or from the campus and bused > away to that meditator ghetto south of the railroad tracks here. It > would be a felt-effect certainly and make a final solution to the > problem in the meditating community here. Pray will the Maharishi > Vedic City Mayor up there and our Rajas act in our best interests > and remove these ex-people? It evidently would be in everyone's > interest, a grave matter of public safety. > > Yours in Best Faith, -Doug in FF 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/
