On 9/4/2014 6:04 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Sal, I guess Share will have to take you to task cuz you just NUKED
this Marshy sycophant!
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Non sequitur. It has not been established that Share "NUKED" anything or
any "Marshy sycophant". In fact, she said she liked my message - a lot.
It's yours and Barry's violent tendencies she doesn't like. Where are
you going with that gun in your hand?
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Well done, and well said.
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How's that DELETE key working for you?
Thanks for bringing my post to everyone's attention.
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Richard J. Williams wrote:
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Years ago, when the internet was just getting started (1994) I was
surfing around and ran across Usenet - discussion groups. At first
I subscribed to a site that discussed ISKCON, because I had been a
participant in one of their temples for about a year (3716 Watseka
Ave in L.A.) and I was taken with their devotion and depth of
knowledge. Some members had started a news group discussion on the
internet and I started to read and lurk there for a few weeks. I
was very impressed with some of the topics discussed and the
responses.
Then I discovered alt.meditation.transcendental (now Google
Groups) and so I decided to join. What a disappointment! It
was like a bar room brawl - Judy was there and Barry and Lon
P. Stacks (RIP) and they were thrashing it out with that
"Asshole Nick" (Andrew Skolnick) the science journalist. Judy
did her best to defend her position but for appearances the
whole group was just an exercise in futility - it was, and
still is, a "cess-pool" of misinformation.
So, I decided to post some of my own messages, not so much to
prove anything, but just to improve the look and feel. Anyone
surfing there would have thought TMers were all buffoons and
gimcracks, for all appearances. So, I started writing up some
nifty essays with fancy subject lines, not so much to get
attention but to make the place look like a forum with useful
and insightful analysis.
So, for years I posted my essays to AMT to try and make the
forum look good. I must have posted 8,000 essay from 1999 -
2003. I didn't get a response from Judy for close to fours
years to any of my cogent postings. And, only two from Barry.
Maybe they were JELLOS - I don't know. Then, they started
spewing and posting political propaganda, in what I thought
was an attempt to make the site look like a pile of crap and
they tried to make the place look like a dung heap. One day I
disputed Judy's claim that George W. Bush was a "liar" and so
I posted a retort. That's about when it hit the fan!
Ever since then she has hated my guts - nothing to do with TM
or the mechanics of consciousness - just hateful slander and
personal attacks, all directed at me. So, I either had to shut
up or leave. But look, I've got an ego about as big as Mt.
Rushmore so I don't back down without a fight - never have and
never will. I am a military brat from Texas and I know
everything about everything and I'm living at the center of
the universe.
So, at some point several of us left the Google Groups and
came over to Yahoo Groups. Now it looks like this place going
to shit too - there's no moderation, nobody gives a crap, and
nobody will stand up for the Maharishi. They aren't even proud
of their past. All they want to do is post fluff and drivel -
you can read it here every day. It's sometime just pathetic
what some people will post to the internet.
So, now I've got a 26 inch screen, a screaming quad-core CPU
and I can key in test at 100 wpm - that's what I do for a
living -make money. It's easy for me to whip out a short post
and hit Send. The real challenge is to write cogent, on-topic
essays that anyone would want to read. But, let's face it -
there's hardly anybody out there interested in TM, TMers or
anything to do with discussing the mechanics of consciousness.
All some people want to do is wreck the place and sound off.
That's cool too.
I don't take any of this seriously anymore - I'm here for the
entertainment. I've already written a book while they were
posting one-liners that end on one line and all begin with RE:
But, it's true that I sometimes get caught up in the
conversation. Some people really do feel better when they have
someone to talk to. It's not personal. It's just like a video
game. Some people like World of Warcraft. To each his own. It
keeps me at home and out of trouble. I'm on Facebook too.
So, I don't have a real formulated viewpoint or a goal - /I
believe in life; what it does to you and what your do back/.
I'm already perfectly enlightened - just trying to burn off a
little karma before I go into that good night. Sure, I do want
to leave a legacy of some sort. These words are forever, or at
least until the vandals are at the gate and the servers go down.
Selections from the Usenet Archives:
Archives <http://www.rwilliams.us/archives.htm>
image <http://www.rwilliams.us/archives.htm>
Archives <http://www.rwilliams.us/archives.htm>
"jus b reg 2 x y med, ne alt sans 3 guns, seps abs, n'
eyes-wide shut; nodoze, no bear down, u enjoy." (Wallah Sutra 1.5)
View on www.rwilliams.us <http://www.rwilliams.us/archives.htm>
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Richard,
Yes, there is nothing more important than this life. Here's an
encouraging word:
Google Groups
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21topic/alt.meditation.transcendental/4XLzqM_waj0>
Google Groups
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21topic/alt.meditation.transcendental/4XLzqM_waj0>
Google Groups allows you to create and participate in online
forums and email-based groups with a rich experience for
community conversations.
View on groups.google.com
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21topic/alt.meditation.transcendental/4XLzqM_waj0>
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P.S. Steve, please check your email inbox from sbcglobal from
Labor Day.
From the beach,
Marko
