> It has nothing to DO with your opinion of Maharishi > and the TM movement. That's not what I'm talking > about. It has to do with your opinion of the people > you are speaking to on THIS forum. > > You cruised into town with a big fucking elitism chip > on your shoulder, assuming that everyone here believed > the same things you think that TM True Believers believe. > > They don't. Most of the folks here walked away from the > TM movement years or decades ago. They come here to talk > about it because here you can actually HAVE your own > opinions on all that stuff. In the TM movement itself, > you couldn't. > > Bottom line, dude, is that you're being an asshole. You > refuse to LISTEN. If you just shut the fuck up for a > little while and listened to what most of the people here > are really saying, you'd realize that it has almost > nothing to do with your fantasies of what they're saying. > "What we have here.... is a failure to communicate."
I see your point and you are correct that I was under the impression that I was corresponding with forum members currently living in Fairfield and involved in the activities of the TM Movement. My initial response was to some guy named Rick Archer and the subject of the thread was/and is: Special Broadcast on Maharishi Channel. If you read my initial response, you should see that my response was in no way directed towards people who had actually left the TM Movement. Quite to the contrary, I applaud you for having the good sense to do so. When I read your responses, it was my assumption that they were targeted to the thread subject matter as initiated by Mr. Archer. The purpose of a subject line in a thread is to keep responses within an overall context in order to stay on point. You actually sound like a pretty good guy, so I won't take serious offense at you repeatedly calling me an asshole, but I don't mind pointing out that you are actually the one responding on the wrong thread with regard to the subject topic and it's initiation. It's an honest mistake on both of our parts. I was responding to a thread initiated by a "true believer," Rick Archer, with the hope that I might stir up a dialog with either him or people who share his convictions. Probably wishful thinking on my part. Instead, I was preaching to the choir without being aware of it. It's a shame really because right now TM Movement members have what appears to be a real opportunity to throw off the chains of tyranny people like you had the wisdom to recognize years and even decades ago. And to any other Ex-TMers out there, please understand that all of my postings have been directed to what I believed was a TM Movement yahoo group in the context of a TM Movement staff member's press release.
