I see Buck as a Stephen Colbert-type figure. He plays a certain role here but what he really believes is a different matter.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > > > > Yeah, what Turq said! > > > > Bucky, before I die, can you at least just send me a private email telling > > me you're a living parody and not the nutcase you come off as? I won't > > tell anyone! > > > > Edg > > Dear Edg, > > No one will ever know if I'm nutcase or just jerking your chain. I'm not sure > about it myself, so why spoil the fun? > > Buck in the dome. > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > Damned apostate meditators. > > > > Well, I must admit here in considering this that being > > > > practical as an experienced and an old practiced meditator > > > > on FFL I find myself sorting by apostasy and deleting > > > > through posts for merit to read by whether the writers are > > > > meditators or not meditators at all, whether being disciplined > > > > practicing meditators or not, being just critical meditators > > > > or apostate and non-meditators. It saves a lot of precious > > > > time spiritually. > > > > > > > > For after all what spiritually speaking could non-meditators > > > > or even apostate meditators who quit along the way possibly > > > > have to say anyway.. > > > > > > "Buck," I'm replying because you captured perfectly the > > > mindset I was trying to explain to Share earlier. > > > > > > Can you actually *remember* what you signed up for when > > > you first started TM? I can. It was "20 minutes twice a > > > day of meditation, with no required lifestyle changes, > > > and no mandatory things you must believe in or do." > > > > > > There also was no hint in those early days (1967) that > > > TM would make you "better" than other people, such that > > > you'd someday come to believe that if they didn't do > > > the things you do and believe the things you believe, > > > you consider them not even capable of having anything > > > to say. > > > > > > Compare and contrast to your talk of apostasy, which > > > just REEKS of elitism. Somewhere along the way you got > > > so brainwashed that you seem to believe (or pretend to > > > believe...it's hard to tell with you) that believing > > > the shit you believe and doing the shit you do is so > > > great that not only everyone should do it, everyone > > > HAS to do it to be worthy of interacting with you. > > > > > > That just makes you a fanatic, and an elitist one at > > > that, not more "evolved" or "better" in any way. > > > > > > You speak of "apostasy," as if those who signed up > > > for vanilla TM "owe" something to either Maharishi > > > (who is...uh...dead, if you hadn't noticed) or to the > > > soulless dweebs who run things in his absence. Or even > > > worse, to the world, because being a TM meditator > > > you're so...so...SO special and all. Y'know...as in > > > the literal TM dogma that practicing the sidhis in > > > a group makes your thoughts "10,000 times more power- > > > ful" than other people's. What insanity. > > > > > > Can you even comprehend how elitist this is? Can you > > > comprehend how classically CULT THINKING it is? > > > > > > I read the things you write and I just roll my eyes. > > > > > >
