"a reminder that people who proclaim their enlightenment are not always to be trusted"
This may be big news to you Turq, but the rest of us grown ups figured out *a long time ago* that it takes a lot more to follow someone around by the nose, like you did with crazy Freddie, than them saying they are enlightened. This is what I mean by you feeling secure when everything is in black and white. After all, once you define it that way, it is a lot easier for you to take a stand *against* those who automatically "trust people who proclaim their enlightenment". Except that YOU are the only one who has done this!! LOL- No one else on FFL *EXCEPT YOU* has surrendered their time, freedom and money to some doofus who said he was the seventh incarnation of Vishnu (before he offed himself). Don't you see how funny this is? I'll spell it out: You are taking a stand *against yourself*, oh dimmest of bulbs. Pretty darn funny if you ask me. And not even a day late in securing your title as Master Of Inadvertent Irony into the New Year! Happy 2012! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Ringing in the new year, a reminder that people who proclaim their > enlightenment are not always to be trusted, nor are the personality > cults they build around them. The real chiller in this article is the > last sentence. > Aum Shinrikyo cult fugitive surrenders to Japan policeA former member > of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult has turned himself in to police after > nearly 17 years on the run, one of three remaining fugitives. > Japanese police said Makoto Hirata gave himself up at a police station > in Tokyo just before midnight on New Year's Eve. > > He had been in hiding since the cult's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo > subway in 1995, which killed 13 people. > > He was immediately arrested on suspicion of conspiring to kidnap the > brother of a follower of the cult. > > The man he is accused of abducting died after being given an injection > at Aum's main commune at the foot of Mount Fuji, officials said. > > Only two other members of the cult are still being sought by police. > They went on the run after the gas attack in Tokyo, which injured 6,000 > people. > > Nearly 200 Aum Shinrikyo members have been convicted of that attack and > other crimes. > > Thirteen are awaiting execution, after judges in November upheld the > death sentence against the final member of the cult to be charged over > the 1995 attack. > Reinvented > Aum Shinrikyo began as a spiritual group mixing Hindu and Buddhist > beliefs, but developed into a paranoid doomsday cult obsessed with > Armageddon. > [Former cult leader Shoko Asahara, accused of masterminding the 1995 > sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway] > Cult leader Shoko Asahara is among those on death row > Former yoga teacher Shoko Asahara started the group in the mid-1980s, > and later claimed to have reached enlightenment after a trip to India. > > By the time of the Tokyo attack, the group was reputed to have > thousands of members, including rich and powerful members of Japanese > society. > > But Asahara became obsessed with the idea that World War III was about > to break out, and began ordering attacks on people he regarded as > enemies. > > Some 189 Aum cultists have been put on trial over the various attacks > carried out by the cult, and 13 sentenced to death, including Asahara. > None of the sentences has been carried out. > > Aum Shinrikyo reinvented itself as the Aleph group, which continues to > operate as a spiritual group. >
