--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > How many newsgroups and forums have > > you posted your stuff to, Unc? > > Only seven. So far. > > Here, four large Unix listservs, and two > Google (Usenet) groups. Oh, and today I > provided links to the FFL versions on > TM-Free, so that their readers can read > for themselves the ways in which strong, > long-term TMers react to those who speak > critically of TM, the TM organization, > and Maharishi. > > That's the point, y'know. If these repre- > sentative TMers had contented themselves > with responding only to the *ideas* that > these TM critics proposed, without trying > to systematically demonize them, there > would have been nothing for me to collect > up and publish. > > But that's not the case, is it? The first > two issues of THINGS TMers BELIEVE catalog > some of the ways that strong TMers react > to ideas that run counter to their own over > a period of no more than NINE DAYS. > > Just imagine the things I'll be able to > collect and publish as this series goes on...
Just to point out the effectiveness (IMO) of this approach, in which I say nothing critical of TM, the TM organization, Maharishi, or even the TMers who are attacking me and others on this forum (other than to post their *own* quotes, in their *own* words, that is), here's a preview of a few quotes -- made since last night, in the space of only a few hours -- that will be included in the next issue of THINGS TMers BELIEVE: "No sane person spends time compiling things like this. It's beyond right or wrong - it's pathological. Get a life. Now." Same person: "Yawn, I don't keep track of every muse of the twisted meanderings of a mega-poster, I just rattle in now and again with something rational. Not something you seem to have a flare for if you think I fell into his so called 'trap'.......OOOooooooo." "Wow, what kind of born-again fanatic goes to all the trouble of compiling something of so little significance?" "Good point ! This B fellow seems to be oneofakind. It's alkohol, no ? B seems to enjoy the cheap french vino..." "He's [TM critic, the compiler of this list of quotes] never been able to handle challenges to his opinions; his freakouts typically occur when he's been getting more opposition than usual. This time I think there's just been too much of it for him to deal with. Whether alcohol is exacerbating things, who knows?" To a person he's never met, in *any* city, but who compiled this list of quotes, many of which are his: "Besides, I am pissed off that my post that said that I saw you staggering along on the streets of Paris, clutching an almost empty bottle of wine, and mumbling over and over something about 'TM bastards'......that post never made the list." "I think he [the compiler of this list, on which her quotes appear consistently, and about which quotes he has made absolutely no comment] may be having a breakdown. He's always had periodic freakouts, but I've never seen him in such a manic, irrational tizzy." Same person: "Wanted to add that I'm pretty sure B doesn't behave like this [that is, quoting *her* words and those of others like her] in his everyday life. Internet forums are an outlet so that he *doesn't* behave like a monster otherwise." Same person, after writing dozens of lines 'analyzing' the person who had done nothing more than quote her, and other TMers like her, and who didn't respond to her 'analysis' except to collect more of her quotes: "I'm sure he'll 'intuit' some conclusions about me right back. Y'all can decide which of us has the clearer mind..." Another TMer often quoted in this series, this time one who describes himself as fully Self Realized, replying to the above: "You have demonstrated time and time again to have an exceptionally clear mind." On the suggestion that these issues be archived: "Good idea. Then any rational person looking at it in the future will be able to conclude the extent of the ego-centrical nature of the posessed anti-TM fanatics. Believe me, any person of insight will quickly conclude that this is a fundamentalists fanaticism ranting at a group of fairly reasonable people who have normal civilized disagreements and bantor with each other." Responding to the person who suggested that this series of quotes be archived (two different long-term TMers): -- "You just outed yourself, R." -- "Just what I was thinking. Moral vacuum time." Responding to a person who had said: "No one has any higher moral ground here." -- "Only someone who, like R [founder of the TM-related forum on which criticism of TM is allowed], is living in a moral vacuum could say such a thing. P.S. Sod off."
