--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[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. > > So do you and Barry have the guts to deviate from > your "TMers are just mindlessly repeating the dogma > they've been taught" tape loop and incorporate the > possibility that they're telling you what their > personal experience is? > > One of Barry's maxims is "Trust your own experience." > But somehow that's never extended to "Trust someone > else when they tell you what their experience is" > if that someone else happens to be a TMer.
Well, having been a TM teacher, I do have a few problems sometimes believing what people WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD IN ADVANCE WHAT THEIR EXPERIENCE WOULD BE tell me of what their experience was. In other words, when dealing with a situation in which one knows that the speakers have been programmed (because you were once one of the programmers), and when they repeat as "personal experiences" exactly the things they were told to EXPECT as their personal experiences, it's not as easy to believe these people as it seems to be for *them* to believe it.
