--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > The TMO is now publishing "research" in UFO journals. > > > > > > No, it isn't. Vaj is lying. > > > > Geez, Judy you caught Vaj in three whopper in a > > row. Jackpot! > > I *do* not understand the liar's mentality, > especially that of the casual, reflexive liars > like Vaj and Barry. <snip>
Speaking of Vaj's endless stream of casual lies, I came across one by accident the other day when I was looking through the archives for something else. It's in his post #226539 of August 4, 2009: "That they have members of the TM Org scouring the web has been known for some time. For example, I've heard a number of people comment that TM org plants and volunteers have for a long time taken control of all Wikipedia articles related to TM or the Maharishi." While there are TMers who work on editing the TM- related Wikipedia articles, and it's certainly not impossible they've been assigned to do so by the TMO, it's also just as likely they're doing so on their own hook. But as I pointed out at the time, that they've "taken control" of the editing process is a flat-out lie. Anybody can check that for themselves; the editing process for every Wikipedia article takes place in the Discussion and Talk sections, which you can access at the top of the article page. All edits are recorded in the History section, likewise available at the top of the page. What you'll find (as I noted in my original response to Vaj's post) is extensive and largely cordial *interaction* among TMers, neutral parties (sometimes including Wikipedia editorial administrators), and TM critics as they work on hammering out a consensus about an article. It's quite impossible for anyone to "take control" of the process; it simply wouldn't be permitted. This is what I had missed the first time around, the last sentence of the paragraph quoted above: "One is even alleged to be a certain editor." At the time, I thought Vaj meant that one of the Wikipedia editorial administrators was alleged to be a TMer. I doubt that's the case, but I have no knowledge either way, so I didn't comment specifically. Now I realize I had misread what he was saying. Vaj was suggesting that *I*--"a certain editor"--was one of the people who had "taken control of" the Wikipedia TM-related articles. In fact, the only person who "alleges" that is Vaj, and he has *zero* basis for saying so. His allegation is made up out of whole cloth solely for the purpose of sliming me. I have never participated in editing a TM-related Wikipedia article (or any other Wikipedia article, for that matter, with the exception of a very minor bit of copy editing some years ago that I did on impulse; I don't even remember what that article was about, but it wasn't anything TM-related). So just one more reflexive, casual, gratuitous lie from Vaj to add to the accumulating steaming pile.
