--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure why it is important to some to make TMO into a cult; > And then try to inform others to save them from making their own > decisions, concerning their relationship with Maharishi, and the > movement. > Everyone has his or her life to life, and everyone has the right to > make their own decisions, especially those of a spiritual nature. > To mock someone's sincere belief, is a kind of fascism, and reminds > me of the mocking of the Jews by the Nazis; what's the difference? > The Nazis considered the Jews a cult... > You speak so much of the 'Bliss-Nazis'; but you follow their > example...
For the record, this is EXACTLY the mindset I've been talking about this morning. RG is the kind of person who is so attached to his description of self that he believes that what he believes and who he is are the same thing. And that anyone who mocks his beliefs mocks him. IT'S NOT TRUE. We are NOT what we believe. We are NOT the groups we identify with. Robert is NOT a "TMer." He is NOT a Jew. When it all comes down, he does NOT even have a self. But because he hasn't realized yet that he doesn't have a self, he clings to that illusion of self and thinks that it exists, and furthermore that it belongs to some "group" of equally non- existent selves he calls Jews or TMers. Then he gets fearful and threatened when someone disses his "group." The Iranians diss the Jews, and he get so terrified that he advocates nuking them here on FFL. A few folks describe the TMO differently than he'd like the group described, and he gets so fearful and threatened that he compares those folks to Nazis. THIS is what happens when you don't know who you really are, and start to identify with that silly, non-existent thing you call "self." Even sadder is what happens when one of those non- existent selves is so weak and so lost that it feels whole only when it considers itself part of a group. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
