--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > How do you know its faux enlightenment? > > > > > > Come on Spraig, cuz they act like dicks. If there was an > > > enlightenment, don't you think that it would at least include > > > not acting like a dick? > > > > > > (I know the movement line on this but I am appealing to the > > > guitar playing Spraig who knows these guys are just pompous > > > asses} > > > > Eh. I see guys acting just as their guru has requested that > > they act. > > > > What's pompous about that? > > I don't think anyone held a gun to anyone's head, to wear a crown. > Perhaps they like wearing crowns.
It's a kind of "peer-pressure gun." These are people who have decided that "being close to the guru" or (even sadder) "being *perceived* as being close to the guru" is the most important thing in their lives. This phenomenon exists in many spiritual trips. But in most of them, the "guru" doesn't make someone pay a million bucks for the "privilege" of being perceived as close to him. In the TMO, he does. And there are people who actually go for it. As a personal choice, I guess it's acceptable. But if you're suggesting that they're not *laughable* to have *made* that choice, I don't think you're going to find very many people on the planet who agree with you. The rest would consider these people fools. A question for Sparaig the Professional TM Apologist: Do you actually believe that Maharishi *respects* these people? If so, think that many here who (unlike you) have actually had some experience being around him and watching how he treats people would disagree with you. I'd be willing to bet that Maharishi considers them fools, too. 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/
