Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back barnacles
I read them all too. But it took longer than the 2 minutes it took Judy. And I skimmed! Very bad! As my karmic retribution I missed the barnacle comment. I LOVE barnacle comments. I think we need more barnacle comments on FFL. Well technically use of the word more is not completely accurate. I mean we need more DIRECT barnacle comments not simply all this referring to another source. We need our very own FFL barnacle comments. Like: turq! very creative to give Ann a barnacle as a prom corsage. But I'm not 100% sure it will match her dress. oy, comedian still in training, have mercy, don't throw barnacles, thank you From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back Talk about devotion. To which cause, I don't know. But reading all the comments? Is barnacle a derogatory word? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: and if you have read all of the comments, you will see the TM people are bitching about the article not being positive enough! From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 3:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back  Hah! Was I ever wrong! They just posted another eight comments, seven of which were positive, and the eighth of which was...Michael's. (Don Sosin made one too, BTW--positive, obviously.) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html#commentsContainer http://tinyurl.com/atqaxgx --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: So since they aren't posting my comment - here it is: FWIW, no new comments have been posted since the seven positive ones that were up last night. I'd guess that there will be another batch up soon (checking the comments for this piece is most likely not that high on the Times's priority list). I further predict that when the new comments go up, there will be a number of negative ones, but they will not include Michael's. Michael, just for the heck of it, I've edited your comment to reflect what I think they would be a lot more likely to publish: I began TM in 1974 and enjoyed it enough to become a real TM cheerleader. But as the years went by, I left the TM Movement due to what I perceived as the huge disconnect between the promises of TM and what it actually delivered. Lynch is spearheading a very carefully orchestrated effort to restore TM's image to a pre-1976 luster. TM is not a simple mental technique making use of meaningless sounds. It is in fact a Hindu devotional practice of chanting (silently) the names of Hindu goddesses. And that would be all right as long as the organization was upfront about it. In my observation, the Times likes its Comments sections to reflect many different points of view, but it avoids comments that are likely to start fights or, goodness knows, invite legal problems. Your comment as submitted had a good chance of doing both. I began TM in 1974 and enjoyed it enough to become a real TM fanatic and cheerleader. As the years went by, I left the TM Movement due to the huge disconnect between the promises of TM and what it actually delivered, especially the awful, arrogant deceitful behavior of even the low to mid level managers of the TM organization, much less the leaders of the Movement. Lynch is spearheading a very carefully orchestrated effort to sanitize the TM's image to a pre-1976 luster. 1976 was the year their Maharishi announced the TM Sidhi program to the world. The TM Movement can honestly be characterized as a decades long flow of dishonesty and deceit, taking money under false pretenses and very unpleasant behavior on the part of those who administrate the Movement. I had the pleasure of speaking at some length with someone who spent years as Maharishi's personal secretary and for all his praise of the man, this person told me that it was clear that the leader of the TM movement was totally focused on sex, money and personal power. What the Big M created, his Movement perpetuates. TM is not a simple mental technique making use of meaningless sounds. It is in fact a Hindu devotional practice of chanting (silently) the names of Hindu goddesses. And that is alright as long as you are upfront about what you are doing. For my money and in my experience, TM is one big scam. After more than 20 years I stopped doing TM and never looked back.
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back barnacles
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I read them all too. But it took longer than the 2 minutes it took Judy. And I skimmed! Very bad! As my karmic retribution I missed the barnacle comment. I LOVE barnacle comments. I think we need more barnacle comments on FFL. Well technically use of the word more is not completely accurate. I mean we need more DIRECT barnacle comments not simply all this referring to another source. We need our very own FFL barnacle comments. Like: turq! very creative to give Ann a barnacle as a prom corsage. But I'm not 100% sure it will match her dress. I do believe you could be right, it will certainly match my hat. oy, comedian still in training, have mercy, don't throw barnacles, thank you From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back  Talk about devotion. To which cause, I don't know. But reading all the comments? Is barnacle a derogatory word? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: and if you have read all of the comments, you will see the TM people are bitching about the article not being positive enough! From: authfriend authfriend@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 3:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back àHah! Was I ever wrong! They just posted another eight comments, seven of which were positive, and the eighth of which was...Michael's. (Don Sosin made one too, BTW--positive, obviously.) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-me\ ditation.html#commentsContainer http://tinyurl.com/atqaxgx --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: So since they aren't posting my comment - here it is: FWIW, no new comments have been posted since the seven positive ones that were up last night. I'd guess that there will be another batch up soon (checking the comments for this piece is most likely not that high on the Times's priority list). I further predict that when the new comments go up, there will be a number of negative ones, but they will not include Michael's. Michael, just for the heck of it, I've edited your comment to reflect what I think they would be a lot more likely to publish: I began TM in 1974 and enjoyed it enough to become a real TM cheerleader. But as the years went by, I left the TM Movement due to what I perceived as the huge disconnect between the promises of TM and what it actually delivered. Lynch is spearheading a very carefully orchestrated effort to restore TM's image to a pre-1976 luster. TM is not a simple mental technique making use of meaningless sounds. It is in fact a Hindu devotional practice of chanting (silently) the names of Hindu goddesses. And that would be all right as long as the organization was upfront about it. In my observation, the Times likes its Comments sections to reflect many different points of view, but it avoids comments that are likely to start fights or, goodness knows, invite legal problems. Your comment as submitted had a good chance of doing both. I began TM in 1974 and enjoyed it enough to become a real TM fanatic and cheerleader. As the years went by, I left the TM Movement due to the huge disconnect between the promises of TM and what it actually delivered, especially the awful, arrogant deceitful behavior of even the low to mid level managers of the TM organization, much less the leaders of the Movement. Lynch is spearheading a very carefully orchestrated effort to sanitize the TM's image to a pre-1976 luster. 1976 was the year their Maharishi announced the TM Sidhi program to the world. The TM Movement can honestly be characterized as a decades long flow of dishonesty and deceit, taking money under false pretenses and very unpleasant behavior on the part of those who administrate the Movement. I had the pleasure of speaking at some length with someone who spent years as Maharishi's personal secretary and for all his praise of the man, this person told me that it was clear that the leader of the TM movement was totally focused on sex, money and personal power. What the Big M created, his Movement perpetuates. TM is not a simple mental technique making use of meaningless sounds. It is in fact a Hindu devotional practice of chanting (silently) the names of Hindu goddesses. And that is alright as long as you are upfront about what you are doing. For my money and in my experience, TM is one big scam. After more than 20 years I stopped doing TM and never looked back.
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back barnacles
Okay, Ann's sense of humor,which was always good has now been upgraded to top tier. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: I read them all too. But it took longer than the 2 minutes it took Judy. And I skimmed! Very bad! As my karmic retribution I missed the barnacle comment. I LOVE barnacle comments. I think we need more barnacle comments on FFL. Well technically use of the word more is not completely accurate. I mean we need more DIRECT barnacle comments not simply all this referring to another source. We need our very own FFL barnacle comments. Like: turq! very creative to give Ann a barnacle as a prom corsage. But I'm not 100% sure it will match her dress. I do believe you could be right, it will certainly match my hat. oy, comedian still in training, have mercy, don't throw barnacles, thank you From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back  Talk about devotion. To which cause, I don't know. But reading all the comments? Is barnacle a derogatory word? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: and if you have read all of the comments, you will see the TM people are bitching about the article not being positive enough! From: authfriend authfriend@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 3:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back àHah! Was I ever wrong! They just posted another eight comments, seven of which were positive, and the eighth of which was...Michael's. (Don Sosin made one too, BTW--positive, obviously.) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-me\ \ ditation.html#commentsContainer http://tinyurl.com/atqaxgx --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: So since they aren't posting my comment - here it is: FWIW, no new comments have been posted since the seven positive ones that were up last night. I'd guess that there will be another batch up soon (checking the comments for this piece is most likely not that high on the Times's priority list). I further predict that when the new comments go up, there will be a number of negative ones, but they will not include Michael's. Michael, just for the heck of it, I've edited your comment to reflect what I think they would be a lot more likely to publish: I began TM in 1974 and enjoyed it enough to become a real TM cheerleader. But as the years went by, I left the TM Movement due to what I perceived as the huge disconnect between the promises of TM and what it actually delivered. Lynch is spearheading a very carefully orchestrated effort to restore TM's image to a pre-1976 luster. TM is not a simple mental technique making use of meaningless sounds. It is in fact a Hindu devotional practice of chanting (silently) the names of Hindu goddesses. And that would be all right as long as the organization was upfront about it. In my observation, the Times likes its Comments sections to reflect many different points of view, but it avoids comments that are likely to start fights or, goodness knows, invite legal problems. Your comment as submitted had a good chance of doing both. I began TM in 1974 and enjoyed it enough to become a real TM fanatic and cheerleader. As the years went by, I left the TM Movement due to the huge disconnect between the promises of TM and what it actually delivered, especially the awful, arrogant deceitful behavior of even the low to mid level managers of the TM organization, much less the leaders of the Movement. Lynch is spearheading a very carefully orchestrated effort to sanitize the TM's image to a pre-1976 luster. 1976 was the year their Maharishi announced the TM Sidhi program to the world. The TM Movement can honestly be characterized as a decades long flow of dishonesty and deceit, taking money under false pretenses and very unpleasant behavior on the part of those who administrate the Movement. I had the pleasure of speaking at some length with someone who spent years as Maharishi's personal secretary and for all his praise of the man, this person told me that it was clear that the leader of the TM movement was totally focused on sex, money and personal power. What the Big M created, his Movement perpetuates. TM is not a simple mental technique making use of meaningless sounds. It is in fact a Hindu devotional practice
