Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Karmic "Like Attracts Like" Theory

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:00:09 -0700

Coming from the old days the most crazy experience I had with Christians was when they had infiltrated our sidhis program.   There was a guy Kevin Miller, he did the whole summer program when at the end he comes to me and starts talking very crazy.  Trying to convert me to Jesus.  Also telling me all kinds of things about Maharishi blah blah blah..   There was some minister in town who was converting people.   Kevin had been a plant.   WOW!  I called Dennis.   They talked to him and soon after he left.   I could not believe that someone would have stayed the whole summer and then betrayed the whole system like that.   Then I thought John Shapiro was too busy watching me and not paying attention to people like Kevin this is how these things happened.  

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Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 11:44:04 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Karmic "Like Attracts Like" Theory

--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .> wrote:
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> Very few religions or spiritual groups could be more
> characterized as "jealous religions" than the Christian
> fundies. They feel *threatened* a lot. People who can
> think for themselves threaten them. People who are
> open to other spiritual traditions threaten them. So
> "like attracted like." When TM began to make inroads
> into their numbers, they became even *more* jealous,
> and decided to fight the TMO.

I don't think TM has ever made any "inroads"
into the number of Christian fundies. Some
young people who had been brought up fundie
and had rebelled and gone their own way as
they got older may eventually have gravitated
to TM, but they were already irrevocably lost
to the fundies.

I suspect you'd find there are far more people
who used to be TMers who have become fundies
than vice-versa.

What the fundies fear is that other belief
systems may attract those people the fundies
view as targets for fundie proselytization
and get them before the fundies can.

Certainly they don't want their children
exposed to other belief systems if it can
be prevented, but it's not as though large
numbers of fundie kids have been "converted"
directly to TM.

This doesn't affect your "karma" theory at
all, BTW; it just corrects that part of
your premise.

I don't think it makes much sense to try to
scope out karmic cause and effect, though,
especially when you're talking about the
interactions of large groups, in this case at
least one of which is deeply enmeshed in the
cultural/political/ social fabric of the
country. Individual karma is complex enough;
group karma is vastly more complicated.



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