--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > But this time he went too far. He made some claims > that *almost everyone here*, who sat in the same > rooms that he did, doing the same stupid TM-siddhi > butt-bouncing program that he was doing, watching > the other guys grunting and using their muscle power > to out-testosterone the other guys by bouncing a > few feet on their bums -- *know* is not true. > > *IF* it were true, given the organization we're > talking about, Nablus's sorry face would be plastered > all over posters and websites from here to Timbuktu, > touting the benefits of TM "flying," and being used > to sell it to other dumb suckers and dumb governments > worldwide.
Actually, Barry (TurquoiseB) either didn't pay attention to what Nablusos said, or he's trying to deceive you, hoping you didn't read Nablusos's posts carefully either (both typical behaviors from Barry). Nablusos told us explicitly that the superhops he described happened only a few times many years ago and haven't happened since; he can't do them on demand, which would be required if the movement wanted to use him as a "poster boy." So Barry's fantasy about what would have happened had the superhops actually taken place is just that, a fantasy, not a basis for concluding that Nablusos is lying about the hops. (I'm *not* claiming he achieved the superhops he described, simply pointing out that Barry's rationale for saying he didn't is false.) As to Barry's follow-up post, the bit about some of us "smarting" because he announced he wasn't reading our posts is another of his many grandiose narcissistic fantasies. If he's claimed he was going to ignore his critics once in the 12 years I've known him, he's done it many scores of times, almost always after he's been nailed on a particularly ugly falsehood. He *does* continue to read our posts, he just responds to them in posts to others rather than directly. And even that rarely lasts more than a week before he's back to putting us down to our faces. The "prediction" bit is one of his standard tactics designed to try to intimidate his critics into not pointing out that something he said was not true. It hasn't worked yet, but he keeps trying, apparently because the idea of being "predictable" is so frightening to him that he assumes everyone else is terrified by it as well. *Of course* it's predictable that he'll be corrected when he tells falsehoods, just as predictably as that he'll tell them. His propensity to post things that simply aren't true in his attempts to put others down and make himself feel superior is one of the main reasons for his very negative history with some of the participants here. He'd be a hero to the TM movement, instead > of persona non grata, hiding away somewhere in Europe, > unable to show his face around anything official in > that very movement. He wouldn't be allowed within > a hundred *yards* of one of the flying halls he claims > to have jumped 8 yards in. And this is another of Barry's fantasies. He has no idea whether it's true, he just thought it sounded good. <snip> > Also bear in mind that you're partially correct, and > that this forum -- like all Internet forums -- loves > to "pile on." Some folks who would normally be silent > in silly exchanges like this might have "piled on" > because Nablus had been hideously insulting to them > in the past. Others who have put up a pretense of > defending him are doing so because it gives *them* a > chance to "pile on" and trash someone they hate even > more than they hate Nablus I seriously doubt whether anyone, except perhaps Barry, "hates" Nablusos or has been nursing rage because he had been "hideously insulting" to them. In my observation, nobody takes his insults very seriously (except, again, evidently Barry). <snip> > In other words, this place is a lot like ordinary > life. They're aren't any saints here, only the occasional > person like Nablus who *claims* to be saintlike. I don't believe Nablusos has ever claimed to be "saintlike," so you can add that to Barry's fantasy score. There are many more such fantasies in both his posts, but the sampling I've noted here should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of person you're dealing with.
