--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 7, 2007, at 8:19 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > > > > > Barry, all of us--including yourself--understand > > > > what you're attempting here: you're trying to > > > > shut your critics up > > > > > > He's trying to shut you up by reposting your words and actually > > > encouraging you to say more? Wow, that Barry sure is clever. > > > > My take on Judy's response is that Barry is quoting posters out of > > context or in a misleading context to make points of his, whatever > > they might be. Why she thinks it will shut up anyone, least of all > > her I don't know, but her point is valid. > > Jeez, I certainly don't think it will shut anyone up, > least of all me! I'm pointing out that this is what > *Barry* is hoping his quote-posting will accomplish.
Au contraire, Pierre. I am hoping that your out-of- control ego will cause you to *keep* doing what you have been doing for over a decade now. And I'm hoping that the *result* of that, captured in the tone and intent of your posts, will be read by tens of thousands of spiritual seekers who might have been tempted to learn TM. What they read may well will give them pause and cause them to look more critically at the TM tech- nique and its associated dogma, and I think that's a Good Thing, whatever they decide. *I* will not be doing any of this; YOU and the other people quoted in THINGS TMers BELIEVE will be doing this. You can keep believing that I'm trying to "silence" you if you want. That's just your own self importance speaking. What I'm really doing is USING that self importance to broadcast a warning to a lot of people about what long-term exposure to the TMO and its dogma might do to them. And you *personify* one of the best such warnings I can possibly imagine. Are we clear now? Maybe what I should do, every time you rave about me trying to "silence" you, is add another forum to the distribution of THINGS TMers BELIEVE. Then maybe you will get the point that "what Barry wants" is for you to KEEP writing, and thus KEEP warning people away from something that, in my honest opinion, has the potential of turning them into someone just like you.
