--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > The youthful-looking Evonne, who leads an active life of > > > > walking, bicycle riding, rollerblading, and dancing, said > > > > that when she was 22 she was looking for a way to > > > > 'revolutionize her life', and was introduced to the > > > > Transcendental Meditation Technique. > > > > > > Hmmm. 70 now, 22 then, that makes 48 years ago. > > > Where was Maharishi teaching TM in 1959? > > It's really quite striking how the strident TM critics > here are so threatened by the notion that a woman might > have found TM beneficial and is willing to say so in > public that they have to try to find ways to impugn her > integrity (in one particularly unfortunate case, using > frankly racist language to do so).
It's really quite striking that when ONE person (count them, ONE) does this, Judy inflates that person into "the strident TM critics" and makes what he said into some kind of universal threat against all TMers everywhere. What *I* did was encounter some quoted ages and years, did the math and, my memory not being what it once was and having no Maharishi books about, wondered where he might have been in 1959 to make the math work out. So I went to Google and found out, and posted that immediately after finding it. When the ONE person who suggested hanky-panky on the part of the TM movement did so, I immediately responded offering my opinion that it wasn't true, and if there *was* any hanky-panky involved, it was of the guests-on-TV-shows-often-lie-to-get-on- them variety. I thought Vaj's comments were off the wall, too, and made that pretty clear. And yet Judy portrays this scenario as if the "strident TM critics" have done a hit job on TM, TMers, and her personally. Can you say paranoia and a paranoid agenda? I think you can. > Say, Jim, is this what you think of when you talk about > "a deep commitment to spiritual discovery and > integration" that "binds us all"? *You're* the person who just got caught stalking one of *your* long-term victims to Yet Another Internet Forum so that you can cast doubts on his integrity, babe. I'd throw the same question back to you. There is no other way to see what you were doing there on TM-Free. Paul posted something, and the *first* thing that happens is that Judy The Defender Of All That Is Holy rushes in to drag up things from the past (which is, after all, where she lives) that are irrele- vant to anything he has said in the present, and try to use them to discredit him as a source of information. I would say that there IS a conspiracy afoot here, but it's in the mind of the prime conspirator, the woman who has dedicated the last 12 years of her life to stalking the more well-spoken critics of TM from forum to forum to forum on the Internet and doing whatever she can to smear them. Judy is the Joseph McCarthy of TM. Judy sees "strident TM critics" everywhere because she wouldn't have anything to live for if she didn't. They ARE her life. She has nothing else.
