My attitude is that I made a promise not to reveal certain things and I won't regardless of what the other person does regarding that promise.
--- curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand your desire for freedom of speech but > the limit comes > > with your responsibility to the promises you made > and the intention > > of this website. > > No teacher promised to suppress this information > expressed by others. > Exposing details of the practice has nothing to do > with the movement > destroying itself. IMO the attitude that > information must be > suppressed is a much bigger threat to the movement > than someone > talking about their advanced technique. > > Everybody has their own relationship with promises > made it the past > and sometimes people feel that the integrity of > those promises was > broken by the movement. Expecting someone who no > longer values the > movement to abide by promises made when they were in > it seems so > unrealistic. It can be very liberating to discuss > secrets openly. I > think it is polite to include a spoiler alert for > people who don't > want to read such posts but deleting posts is a dark > path IMO. > > Stay true to your beliefs about such things. But > leave people alone > who don't share your values. There are way too many > POVs being > expressed here to have any deletion policy be fair > and unbiased. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m2smart4u2000 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick > Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Behalf Of m2smart4u2000 > > > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:02 PM > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Promises and Ethics > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick > Archer" <rick@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Which ones have I broken? > > > > > > Confidentiality of the techniques. You are the > moderator of this > > > website so you can delete things that break that > promise. > > > I am sure you promised not to reveal the > techniques and that you > > > accepted that you were not guaranteed that you > would be satisfied > > > with the results of them. > > > > > > Even if you divorce yourself from someone,you > don't go speak all > > > their secrets. > > > > > > I have seen, in the past that you are careful to > not reveal names > > of > > > people who you have suggested had inappropriate > relations, and yet > > > you allow the techniques that you promised to > protect to be > > discussed > > > in full. > > > > > > Your point is not without merit. I do feel a bit > squeamish when > > people start > > > revealing mantras and techniques. I have > occasionally deleted posts > > when > > > something was said that left a permanent record > on the net > > embarrassing > > > someone. For instance, there was a fellow in > town who had some > > mental > > > problems and there were some posts about him > here which his mother > > didn't > > > want him to find. So she asked me to delete them > and I did. I also > > have to > > > contact the webmaster of a mirror site and have > him delete stuff, > > which is > > > an imposition. But if I agreed to delete > everything which the TMO > > didn't > > > want posted, it would be a full-time job. That > info about the > > mantras and > > > techniques is posted elsewhere on the web, in > numerous places, so > > having it > > > on FFL is merely redundant. I want to maintain > freedom of speech > > here, and > > > that means that very few things are going to > qualify for censorship. > > > > I understand your desire for freedom of speech but > the limit comes > > with your responsibility to the promises you made > and the intention > > of this website. Alot of the stuff I don't really > care about, people > > vent,have different opinions about ayurveda, > chopra, stapatya veda > > etc. If those opinions bothered me, I wouldn't > read the messages > > here.Allowing posting of the details of > techniques makes you > > squeamish for a reason. Listen to your gut > reaction and keep the > > promises you agreed to. I realize that that > imformation is available > > on certain other sights, however the point of > those sites is > > extremely anti TM. They want to completely destroy > the movement and > > the revelations are intentionally to hurt. That is > not the object of > > this website. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
