--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <geezerfreak@> wrote: > <snip> > > So when a spoof, a very well written one as this > > one was, comes along, ya know ANYTHING is possible. > > In my wildest dreams from back in the day (and I > > was there) I would never have believed it could all > > turn into the current madness. And I was quite used > > to a certain level of madness that anyone who was > > around MMY then experienced. (Hey, let's all get up > > for a 2am meeting!) > > > > You who think the spoof was so obvious, check your > > high and mightiness carefully and ask yourself if > > any average person off the street would think > > ANYTHING that goes on in Vlodrop or any of the > > Shrivastava/Varma centers in India is anything > > other than off the rails cult-gone-wild behavior > > then friend, your own grasp on reality is shaky. > > The person on the street is a non sequitur. Of > course they'd think it's all totally bonkers. > > There are two things involved here. > > One is the ability to recognize *any* spoof as > a spoof. The most prolific spoofer on this forum > deals in crude, burlesque-type spoofs that are > instantly obvious as such. After being fed that > kind of spoof for a while, you're less likely > to recognize more subtle spoofs; your spoof > detector gets dulled because you've gotten used > to the crudity. > > This one, in contrast, was quite subtle. But > there were still telltale signs that *should* > have clued you in. > > And that's the second thing involved: the TM > critics here *want* to think the worst of the > TMO, so you're absurdly gullible, ready to > believe anything--as you acknowledge above--and > that willingness dulls your alertness to the > telltale signs as well. You're invested in its > *not* being a spoof; you want it to be real so > you can wallow in scorn and disgust. > > Those of us who got that it was a spoof have a > more realistic view of the TMO (and perhaps a > more finely honed sense of humor as well). Not > that we don't see that the TMO has become > ridiculous--I certainly do--but that we have a > better sense of what's merely ridiculous and > what would go over the line into seriously > warped, like that rogue Mormon group. The TMO's > not *that* warped; you have to be warped > yourself to think it would go that far. > > When I learned TM in the mid-'70s, I gave the > TMO a bit of a whirl. It didn't take long for me > to decide it was sillier than I could tolerate. I > "ran away" while you were still crawling out of > bed for Maharishi at 2 in the morning. > > So you might want to think about checking your > own high-and-mightyness, pal. > > Yes, you were young and foolish; I had the > benefit of being older and more resistant to > nonsense. Maybe I'd have been better able to > tolerate it when I was your age and would've > gotten sucked in as you did. But, ya know, I'm > *still* older than you, and you're not looking a > whole lot less foolish to me now than the TMO > does. You've switched sides, but you're just as > heavily into nonsense. That's why you didn't > recognize it as a spoof. > > (That's 50 for me. See yez later.) >
This is all a bit rich coming from someone who thought Nablus was having us on.
