--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > But I think that you know (and, like me, have probably > > > seen it happen) that even if the legal system found some- > > > thing dreadfully illegal about the TMO's activities, or > > > about Marharishi's activies, there are people who would > > > *refuse* to believe a word of it. Their trust in their > > > existing beliefs is stronger than their trust in the > > > legal system. > > > > > > So, again, why even *bother* to try to sway those beliefs? > > > We can talk about the things we believe here, and they > > > can talk about the things they believe in the groups they > > > hang with. No harm, no foul, no need for either "side" > > > to try to convince the other that it's "right." To do > > > so just seems like an awful waste of time and energy > > > to me. > > Yeah, that Bonhoeffer guy for instance, he could have saved > himself a > lot of trouble and probably have saved his neck if he just would > have, kept his mouth shut. http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/ A real > negativist. What was with him anyway, moralist fool. Huh? You > enjoying France now?
Are you still back on this subject? :-) I forgot it and moved on long ago. And I don't have ANY idea who Bonhoeffer is and why you're referencing him. > What i am reading here in what you write now is the urging that, we > should not be divided on moral cause about how we do things? An > advitan newage-ie thing, be one, are all one and... > > Yet people do have a sense of what is fair. With MMY, TM and the > TMorg, there are just a few hundreds left and many who have walked > away. And? What makes them -- either those who stuck with TM or the ones who walked away -- important enough to concern myself with?
