--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > Geezer,
> >
> > This is one of the most dubious of the grandiose claims made by
> > MMY. I would have thought that by now his "I am number one"
> > bravado would have soured a bit for the adults in the movement.
> > It was more understandable when we were all very young. It
implies
> > a lot of knowledge about other spiritual movements and the
states
> > of consciousness they are achieving that would be impossible.
For
> > all we know any one of the many spiritual movements around the
> > world could be popping out people in UC like a Chinese sweatshop
> > filling a Wallmart order. This kind of spiritual oneupmanship
> > certainly isn't restricted to MMY's tiny group. Think of the
> > spiritual arrogance at the basis of huge factions of
Christianity
> > believing that they alone will go to heaven while people
believing
> > a slightly different version of the same myth will suffer in
hell
> > for their lack of growing up in the "right" version.
> >
> > But they all fall in the category of pretending to "know" things
> > that you couldn't possibly know. It is a self inflation of value
> > relegating poor Yogananda to fluffer status in this spiritual
> > regeneration skin flick.
>
> Not to mention relegating those who believe it to
> the level of a guy sitting in a porn theater jacking
> off to a porn movie, when it would have been so much
> easier just to get laid.
>
I see that its been awhile, eh?;-)
