--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Perhaps it has to do with misdirected sexual energy?" > > If you had any evidence to support the claim I was challenging then > you wouldn't need to make degrading personal comments. Casting > aspersions on me personally doesn't help your cause, it just reveals > your own limitations in a discussion of ideas.
I think he was referring to the fact that you grossly and insultingly misstated what Jim had said about MMY and Guru Dev, equating it with fundies claiming "they alone will go to heaven while people believing a slightly different version of the same myth will suffer in hell." As Robert correctly noted, this is the type of deliberate, malicious distortion we see from people like Karl Rove; decent people are at a loss to find an explation for it. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <babajii_99@> > wrote: > > > > (snip) > > "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. > > > > > > > So, you are saying that I have at least a 50 percent chance of > > being > > > completely correct? And you have an equally 50% chance of being > > > completely wrong, right? > > > > > > > > And where did you get this notion that what I said is anything > > > remotely like the TM folks go to heaven and the rest go to hell? > > > That implied exclusivity is something Turq brought up also. I don't > > > get it. I have never implied or assumed anything like that. :-) > > > > Well, I guess you could declare that the -Ego~ made me do it. > > > > -Take a perfectly good explanation, and somehow polarize it. > > In a way, we are so used to polarization, these days. > > -Karl Rove, who guided the Bushes into the WH, is a master of this > > type of thing... > > -Perhaps it has to do with misdirected sexual energy? > > Who knows, but if you asked Sigmund??, you know what he would say... > > So, who knows?
