> > > Your posts today have been really garbled and > > > off-target. You sound as though you're so mad > > > at the world you can't think straight. > > > > > > Not a great way to start the new year. > > > > Sounds to me like someone is not happy > > about being reminded that as far as the > > TM movement goes, she was never a player. > > (Says Barry, trying, as usual, to change the > subject so he won't have to address his own > goof, but inadvertently demonstrating the > accuracy of both my observations about his > posts today, as well as my previous observation > about his tendency to shoehorn non sequitur > slams into his posts.) > > No, Barry, *you're* the one who gets all riled > up about my not having been a TM teacher. I > made the right choice and have never regretted > it.
I was merely using the game metaphor to explain to you what your real stature within the TM movement is, as opposed to what you seem to believe it is. I shall continue, expanding on the metaphor. Say that the TM movement is a high school football team, the Horny Heiffers. Maharishi is the coach. As a team, they started out well back in the 60s, but haven't really had much of a winning season since then. Now, as to where you "fit in" in this metaphorical scenario -- you're not a player; never have been, never will be; that's a given. You've also never been a coach or an assistant coach or the water boy or even the person putting the numbers up on the scoreboards. You were never a cheerleader or one of the pushpam girls. To tell the truth, you don't even attend the games. What it is that you do is that you wear your Horny Heiffers T-shirt (the one with the levitating cow on it) and you read the local newspapers after every game. Then when someone who *has* been a player or an assistant coach writes a letter to the editor saying what a pity it is that the team is on such a losing streak these days, *you* write back and tell the world what an uninformed idiot the first letter-writer is, and that the current record of 1 win, 21 losses for the season does NOT mean that the Heiffers are on a losing streak. It means exactly just the opposite. The local folks in the town, including the *real* supporters of the team (known affectionately as the Moo-Makers) tolerate your letters to the editor, but most of them stopped reading them long ago. They would rather read the comments of someone who's actually been on the field a few times himself, or at the very least has been in the grandstands. There you have it -- your position within the TM movement. Consider it my "clarification gift" to you this new year. :-)
