=-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Here's a thought: How would it look different if > > TM *were* the "best" (specifically, the most > > efficient technique currently easily available to > > householders for developing higher states of > > consciousness)? Would no TMer ever then say so? > > If they were an "on the program" TMer, they > would be UNABLE to say so.
You forgot to add, "In my opinion." > Because they would never have been able to > try any other technique, and thus could never > know for sure that TM was "better" than any > of these other techniques, let alone "best." > > And only an idiot, after all, would be stupid > enough to say "The thing I've experienced is > better than all these things I've never exper- > ienced." Again you forgot to add, "In my opinion." > And yet if memory serves me right you have > chosen in the past to be one of those idiots. > You have put yourself on the record -- on > a.m.t. if not here on FFL -- as defending the > notion that "TM is the best." You forgot to include my qualifiations: the most efficient technique currently easily available to householders for developing higher states of consciousness. > For the record, could you do it again? Refresh > my memory. How exactly is it you can be certain > that TM is better than or more effective than a > technique of meditation you have never personally > practiced? I never really "got" that. Could you > explain it to me again? I'll remind you of my bicycle-riding analogy. That should be enough. > The "TM cocoon" I was speaking of is being able > to make the statement "TM is the best technique > of meditation on the planet" with a straight face. No, it wasn't. Only five days, and already you've "forgotten" which lie you told: "I honestly think that part of the disconnect going down between you and Curtis over this issue is that he doesn't realize how *isolated* and *cocooned* you have to have been for the last 30+ years to still hold the views of Maharishi you hold." It was all about how I didn't realize anybody thought MMY was a "charlatan." Even though you know otherwise for a fact.
