--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:10 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
>
> > In arguments with you about meditation she takes the party line
on TM,
> > so you get a high dose of that. But IMO it is about the
arguing, not
> > the party line. Since the whole tone is so out of favor with
the TM
> > PR model, and so many doctrine critical beliefs are not shared
with
> > true blue TM believers, I decided that there had to be another
> > explanation. If it isn't devotion to MMY or the movement, then
I feel
> > it might be a devotion to the fight itself. TM is just a
convenient
> > prop. But hey what do I know, I'm just a simple sod!
>
>
> Or could it be someone trapped in the first stages of grief:
denial
> and anger?
>
> I guess it depends on what specifically you mean by "doctrinal
> beliefs"--that would tend to denote a TMO TB, not a TM TB,
wouldn't
> it? My take is, when most people use the term "TB" in regard to
TM
> and/or TMSP practitioners, they are talking about True Belief in
TM/
> TMSP and NOT the TM org.
>
> TM org TB's would probably be better called "TM bots"--although
there
> does seem to be a certain amount of overlap between the two,
which
> makes it rather confusing.
>
> TM TB's can be and probably most often are independent. TMO TB's
are
> not. It's the relative independence of the former that makes them
> insist they are not TB's--but to someone object outside of either
> mindset, it's clear they are.
>
I will state here unequivocally that I AM a TM TB, given the
definition above. Given my 31 and 1/2 years of uninterrupted
practice I would be a hypocrite if I said otherwise.
