--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Vaj,
> > > 
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > For what it's worth, I agree. However, a very 
> > common tactic as I see it is to argue the TM
> > Party Line, and then later claim that she was
> > just trying to "clarify" what that Party Line
> > IS. Then, after several rounds of posts in 
> > which she *was* arguing the TM Party Line, and
> > rather strongly, she then acts offended and says 
> > something along the lines of "I was just clari-
> > fying what the Party Line really is, and trying 
> > to point out your intentional distortions of it. 
> > What made you think that's what *I* believe?"
> 
> Lots of deliberate misrepresentation here.
> 
> There's no "tactic" involved, unless Barry wants
> to consider fairness a tactic.
> 
> TM critics like Barry and Vaj and Paul and John 
> Knapp and Andrew Skolnick think it's perfectly OK
> to misrepresent the TM "party line" in the
> interests of making it look worse than it actually
> is.

Don't fool yourself. Andrew Skolnick is, was and always will be convinced that 
the TM 
organization he sees  is the only one that exists. True Believers who say 
otherwise are 
either insane, or part of the conspiracy.

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