--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Dec 11, 2006, at 5:55 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> >
> > > Again, for the record, but not assuming for even
> > > a moment that it'll do any good, what you refer
> > > to above as abuse I regularly dish out to TMers
> > > is your attempt to negatively propagandize what
> > > I say. Here's how it really goes -- I make some
> > > criticism of YOU (Judy Stein) or LAWSON (sparaig),
> > > based on YOUR specific actions, and you character-
> > > ize that as me "dumping on TMers." It isn't. It's
> > > me dumping on YOU. I find *neither* of you terribly
> > > representative of TMers, although you both exhibit
> > > traits that I *would* associate with most TMers.
> > >
> > > On the whole, *MOST* of the strong, dedicated TMers
> > > I have encountered here on FFL exhibit either none
> > > or very little of the anger, arrogance, elitism and
> > > close-mindedness that I sometimes complain of in
> > > you and Lawson.
> > >
> > > Clear now?
> >
> > I doubt it. The same thing just repeats itself over and
> > over and over again.
>
> Boy, does it ever. It's impossible to tear Barry
> loose from his fantasies, his intellectual
> dishonesty, his hypocrisy, and his compulsion to
> abuse TMers, as exemplified in the quoted post, one
> of *hundreds* exhibiting these traits (thousands if
> you include alt.m.t).
>
> > They obviously feel *very* threatened, but then
> > that's not really our fault now, is it?
>
> Obviously, my comment above applies to Vaj as well.
>
I'm beginning to think that since they both now grow their spiritual
roots in the medium of a failed tradition (Tibetan Buddhism), *all*
traditions are then seen as failed. Seeing the world through x
colored glasses, and all that.