--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], hermandan0 <no_reply@> wrote: > > >> > > >> The whole question is elementary and not really worth > > >> arguing about. > > > > > > I think the whole point is that some TMers have turned > > > it *into* an argument, and do so again every time this > > > subject comes up here. As some have suggested, it kinda > > > looks as if they have done so because they are more > > > attached to the dogma they were taught being "right" > > > than they are to common sense. > > > > It does take courage to deviate from the memorized scripts > > we all tend to keep and re-run like little tape loops. > > You might believe this, after a number of years > outside the TM movement spent examining other > traditions and other ways of seeing things, but > I think it's important every so often to remember > that many TMers do NOT have that kind of perspective. > > And, in fact, they have been taught to look upon > deviating from their scripts by even one *word* as > being a challenge to the "purity of the teaching," > and thus as verboten and potentially punishable by > excommunication. The fear of messing with that runs > really deep.
There's another script followed by some TM critics, which says that if a TMer espouses "purity of the teaching," it can *only* be because the TMer is afraid of being excommunicated. And they're just as afraid of deviating from that script as the TMers it describes are of deviating from their own script.
