"This forum is like that battle in the Bhagavad-Gita." Is that the best you can do? Let's get even more grandiose and call it, "FFL: Battle For Spiritual Truth And The Future Dominion Of The Universe Itself".
or, alternatively, a bunch of fools talkin' smack.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 7:46 PM, sparaig wrote: > > <snip> > > > > ANdrew accused me of reverting an entire section when I > > > > first came into Wikipedia. He appolgized after I pointed > > > > out that I didn't even know HOW to revert at that point > > > > in time so he double checked and sure-'nuff... > > > > > > Andrew is probably one of the most insightful people when it > > > comes to � and valid criticism. It's that naked, raw insight > > > that so disturbs �-TB's. > > > > ROFL. "Raw, naked insight" unmixed with respect for accuracy. > > > > > And he has a real knack for spotting habitual liars and that > > > always gets their goat. > > > > Andrew is the worst liar I've ever come across, far worse > > than even Vaj, Barry, or John Knapp. The record is still in > > the Google archives of alt.meditation.transcendental. > > I do not know Vaj, I do not know Barry, although we cross paths here, but I > did meet John Knapp very briefly, more than a decade and a half before he > left the TM movement, and I really did not have much of an impression of him > then, and all I know about his 'defection' is he started trancenet, and > became a counselor. I found trancenet interesting. I have never thought that > what John wrote on that site was out of the bounds of reality. But I cannot > vouch for the truth or falsehood of most of what is on the site. > > This forum is like that battle in the Bhagavad-Gita. Former friends and > relatives who once seemed to share the same perspective now are arrayed on > the battle-field with opposing views. Maybe some mercenaries have joined in > too. I just do not see it as black and white. There is a lot of subtle > variation in the displeasure with TM and the TMO. I have experienced > displeasure with TM on brief occasions; I never stopped and I have come out > on the positive side of that release. More displeasure in the way the > organisation behaved. > > I did a cursory search and came up with an assortment on > alt.meditation.transcendental. Judy, you do use the term 'liar' a lot, and > interpolating from then to today, perhaps for a long, long time. Why is it so > important to use that term so frequently? If we consider a lie a bad thought, > or an improper way to present information (since a lie is false information), > we might remember that Maharishi said (something like this anyway - do not > trust my memory that much), a bad thought is rotten to the core. If we > postulate that everything is absolute being, exists because of that, then all > lies come from the pure field of creative intelligence. And until > enlightenment, our lives are a lie, a mistake perpetuated by our own mind in > its inability to see what it itself has wrought. What is it that gets you so > fired up? > > Skolnick seems to be a kind of crusader, and so do you, and you both seem to > be rather precise in your targets and manner of speaking. And it seems you > have interacted with him on that older forum, apparently not in agreement. > Skolnick seems rather different from Barry, at least on my initial > impression, but your mode of interaction seems similar. (That might not be > significant, because my mode of interaction with everyone is similar, so it > is a moot point) >
