--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> I find the manner in which a number of people post here
> (referring to the form, not the content) quite irritating,
> but I rarely complain about it. Everyone's entitled to
> their own "style."
>
> But Buck's "Burma-Shave" approach, in which he responds to
> his own posts over and over, quoting everything he's said
> each time and then adding a new line or two--often one post
> right after another with no time in between--is really
> beyond irritating.
>
> It's insulting because it's manipulative: he wants to
> force us to read every word he writes, and we might not
> do that if he put it all in a single post.
How do you know what he *wants*? Maybe he does, but do you really know his
intention? Maybe he just has a sort of creative stroke, so he posts one
sentence after the other.
> But it wastes
> our time and wastes space. I read the posts on the Web
> site, but I should think those who get them by email
> would find this flooding of their inboxes particularly
> annoying.
Maybe you are not as neutral on the topic, as you want it to look like. Compare
this to your defense of Lawson at the time:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/241921
Lawson was notorious for shooting out TM defending one-liners, not always
witty, sometimes seemingly witty (if you like, no so for everybody), here is
the thread:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/135627
Now the group has a posting limit, to handle cases like this. Why not leave at
that?
>
> Buck, if you're afraid we're going to lose interest and
> not read to the end of a longer post, *make the post
> more compelling*.
>
> If it weren't for the fact that you do occasionally say
> something I find of interest, I'd start skipping all your
> posts.
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008
> > > > > > > > > > > > <no_reply@> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Whoa. Why? But 'why'? Three things at least, 1.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > I live here and this is in my neighborhood, it
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > effects me. 2. I'd like to see them succeed for
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > large and small reasons. And 3. How they behave
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > affects a lot of my friends here. It is about that
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > simple. -Buck
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Nothing is as simple as not doing something. Don't
> > > > > > > > > > > > > see "saints". Very simple, your problem solved.
> > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > Except that *it* is become a communal problem because
> > > > > > > > > > > > the Rajas link their anti-saint policy with meditating
> > > > > > > > > > > > in the dome. Theirs is simply a bad corrosive policy
> > > > > > > > > > > > for communal success with the dome numbers.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > That their policy has bled the dome of numbers should be
> > > > > > > > > > > a concern of everyone here.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Even the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce too really ought to
> > > > > > > > > > step in to mediate the situation.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Linking that old anti-saint policy with getting in to the
> > > > > > > > > group meditation has always been a long-term problem with
> > > > > > > > > getting sufficient numbers meditating in the domes.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > It is more than past time to change it. It is time come to
> > > > > > > > de-link the sitting with saints from meditating in the domes.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Like, they even teach the little children in the Maharishi School
> > > > > > > to keep the company of wise people.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As has been said before, many times, Maharishi himself is the
> > > > > > person who established this "link" between seeing other saints or
> > > > > > teachers and being banned from TM courses and Domes and advanced
> > > > > > programs. The Rajas did not think up this policy - it came straight
> > > > > > from MMY and he enforced it his entire life - and they have decided
> > > > > > to stick with the Master's policy. To change this, they will have
> > > > > > to be honest about that and then make a decision that it is okay to
> > > > > > modify what Maharishi himself set up. Not sure that will happen
> > > > > > anytime soon. Not with Bevan around. Of course with Oprah
> > > > > > interested and also seeing other saints and being very ecumenical
> > > > > > indeed, that may push things a bit. THe Rajas could announce that
> > > > > > in this day and age of rising enlightenment globally, it is okay to
> > > > > > be more open and less restrictive. If they wanted to they could
> > > > > > figure out how to change this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Like Jeesus, even Guru Dev told people to sit with saints, mahatmas
> > > > > and the wise.
> > > >
> > > > Any of us who know the TM initiation puja have done the puja to Guru
> > > > Dev a whole lot more than to Maharishi. Even Maharishi would do it to
> > > > the Guru Dev picture and say "Jai Guru Dev"!
> > >
> > > It is time. It is time to put Guru Dev ahead of Maharihsi and go with
> > > Guru Dev on this communal problem with that anti-saint problem. It is
> > > time to de-link sitting with saints from meditating in the domes.
> >
> > I've done a lot of Pujas to Guru Dev in my life. I'm going with Guru Dev
> > on this one over Maharishi. The hardcore taliban Maharishi Rajas are
> > clearly in his pocket and going against Guru Dev about the sitting with
> > saints. They are a problem here.
>
