--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > This latest round of TMers claiming that they have been > personally insulted by someone criticizing or making fun > of their teacher or their path has caused me to think > back to my time in the TM movement. Those memories are > full of people -- my fellow TM teachers -- making all > *sorts* of jokes about and poking fun at Maharishi, TM, > the hours we spent on "program," our completely artificial > way of speaking in SIMS-speak and, most of all, ourselves. > People back then weren't so *touchy*. We had senses of > humor. We could *laugh* about ourselves, and the silly > thing we'd gotten ourselves involved with. > > So WTF happened? [...] > So WTF happened? If you have theories other than my > "stayed too long at the party" theory, I'd love to > hear them. >
This group group is hardly representative of the TM population living in Fairfield, IA, letalone the TM population worldwide. Anyone who stays on a group like this has issues with TM, one way or the other. L.