--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snip) > > "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." > > When I was reacting to the threats of the Iranian President, > to the 'wiping Israel off the map', and that the 'holocaust > is a myth'. I was reacting in self-defence...
Oh yeah? You live in Israel? You *were*, in fact, reacting in "self" defense. You live nowhere near Israel. If it were nuked off the face of the earth tomorrow nothing would happen to you. Your fears are completely without basis. But you've chosen to *embrace* and *cling to* those fears, to elevate them in your mind as if they were noble. You've chosen to identify your self with a group of equally non-existent selves that you call "Jews," and to feel afraid any time any of them feels afraid. If that's the way you want to live, fine, but I think it's pretty sad. > If you think mocking is a good thing; > I guess that's your perogative. I actually do. I believe that it is beneficial to help people laugh at the things they take too seriously. And I believe that the thing that the *most* people on the planet take the *most* too seriously is religion. I essentially believe the same things that Christian scholar/writer G.K. Chesterton (a rather funny man himself) believed: "Any religion that feels that it is in danger of losing its way if people laugh at it has already lost its way." and "Seriousness is not a virtue." I think that a sane, balanced view of the TM move- ment is that it is a basically well-meaning but insufferably incompetent cult. Believing that doesn't mean that I hate the TMO, or even think ill of it. One can admire the well- meaning part while laughing at the incompetence and the cult tactics. Face it, dude...more than anything else, the TM movement is LAUGHABLE. Better in my estimation to join in with the laughter than to get all uptight about 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/ <*> 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/
