--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > Agreed. Each of the criticisms of Maharishi and each of > > the praises of him, or responses to the criticisms should > > be judged on their own merits. I agree that Barry looks > > pretty one-sided sometimes, as if he has already made up > > his mind regarding any responses to a criticism of > > Maharishi and what that represents to him. > > Jim, this is an *assumption* on your part, and, as > it turns out, an *erroneous* assumption. I have NO > OPINION on the questions Paul asked
Even if this were true, you've misstated Jim's assumption. Read what he wrote again. <snip> > I think that what you're upset about is that Paul is > asking the questions that YOU should have asked 'way > back when, and never did. > > These questions should have been asked back in 1959, > and by every person who learned TM along the way. But > they weren't. Most people just treated everything that > Maharishi said as if it were automatically some cosmic > truth, and accepted it as Truth. Or, Barry, THEY DIDN'T CARE. What they cared about was the meditation and what it did for them. <snip> > I do NOT necessarily agree with the commentary Paul > included in his last "question." But it doesn't bother > me in the least that he included it. That is his right. > What he expressed was his *opinion*, formed after years > of doing the legwork that no one else was ever willing > to do. Actually, the post wasn't titled "My Opinion of MMY." It was titled, "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Separating Fact from Fiction." And nobody said he didn't have the *right* to include it in any case; that's your big fat straw man. He has a perfect right to post whatever the hell he wants. But by the same token, others have the right to comment on it without being hassled and insulted and demonized *merely for responding to it*. You're trying to intimidate those who disagree with Paul into SHUTTING UP. You've been trying for 12 years now to keep the critics of TM's critics quiet. It isn't working. Give it up. It really doesn't matter AT ALL to me what Paul > or anyone else says about Maharishi. WHY does it bother > you? Do you somehow believe that it is impolite or > insulting to ask questions of Maharishi that you'd > probably ask of any other salesman trying to sell you > something? The only *important* question is whether TM works for those who practice it. Like you, Paul is trying to keep people from even giving it a try by casting aspersions on MMY's honesty. You wail and bitch and moan about TM supporters questioning the credibility of the TM critics, but it's perfectly OK with you when the critics question MMY's credibility (and label their own answers "Separating Fact from Fiction").
