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________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The C-word Clique I think it's appropriate, towards the end of a "posting week" in which they have embarrassed themselves even more than usual, to spend a little time examining the motivations and mindset of a small group of people here, whom I will refer to (sparing poor, sensitive Share the horror of words actually spelled properly) as the "C-word Clique." At this point, there are pretty much only four diehard C-words left -- Jim, Judy, Ann, and Nabby. They have become such a parody of themselves lately that even Ravi is distancing himself from them, and Raunchydog stopped mindlessly piling on some time ago. Former C-word alumni like Robin and Bob Price seem to have bitten the dust and can't be relied upon to pile on to the group hate-screeds any more, and most posters here pretty much ignore what they say, so as a result the C-word Clique has devolved to "talking amongst themselves, *to* themselves. Just as a hint to any C-word Clique members who may be reading this -- you should KNOW you're in deep shit when even RAVI is too embarrassed by your behavior to be associated with you...just sayin'. :-) Everyone is pretty much aware of what the C-word Clique members DO. It's *not*, after all, as if they have the option of doing anything *else*, being driven by their obsessions and all. Their habitual behavior is to react mindlessly any time that someone on their Hit List posts something that other posters find interesting or worth discussing, and then attempt to smear them any way they can think of. With three of the CC -- Judy, Jim, and Nabby -- there is almost always a "get the anti-TMer" undercurrent to what they DO, as they try to demonize any critic of TM, Maharishi, and the TMO who presents arguments that people find believable. Their quest at that point is *consistently* to say anything they possibly can to undercut the critics' credibility. Since they cannot challenge the actual points the critics bring up, they expend all their efforts on trying to "get" the people who brought up the points, making up things about them or calling them liars. Classic C-word behavior. The fourth CC member, IMO, just piles on because she's more than a little of a B-word, and is trying to emulate and gain the praise of this forum's Queen B-word, Judy. So in a sense she's sadder than the other three -- she doesn't even have a belief system to protect; she's just doing it to impress the other members of the clique. As to WHY they consistently DO this, that's anyone's guess. My guess is that all three of them have been so unconsciously indoctrinated by behaviors they've seen around them in the TM movement for so many years that they've come to believe that acting like a C-word is not only normal, but admirable. Like C-words the world over, they feel that it's *normal* to overreact to someone challenging a mere *idea* that they believe in, and that such an intellectual challenge is the equivalent of a physical slap in the face, and thus an invitation to a duel. In a very real sense, they're "duellists," addicted to opposition. One of the reasons for this, of course, is that none of the four of them seem to have anything to say *unless* it's in opposition to one of their perceived "enemies." Their lives are essentially boring, but unlike, say, Curtis and myself, they can't even think of ways to write them up so that they become entertaining enough for other people to read. So what they do instead is become intensely, sometimes pathologically JEALOUS any time one of their announced "enemies" gets some attention for writing up their beliefs or the events of *their* boring lives in an entertaining fashion, and lash out in a fit of jealous rage, trying to "bring them down a notch or two." This compulsion is one of the hallmarks of a C-word -- reacting to someone else's good fortune or good news or just having written a good rap as if by putting them down they'll raise themselves up. Never happens. All they wind up doing is embarrassing themselves, as even Ravi commented on this morning. I think it's all very sad, and lamentable. *In theory* these people could possibly have interesting things to say here, but IMO they've all become intellectually lazy, falling back on the same old same old behaviors and lashing out at the same old same old enemies. Their behavior is a perversion of the olde Maharishi-ism "Every question is the perfect opportunity for the answer we have already prepared." For the C-word brigade, every question and almost every post becomes a perfect opportunity for them to lash out with their prepared putdowns of the same enemies, usually Curtis and Barry, now that Vaj is no longer around. Sometimes they bash Vaj *anyway*, in absentia, just to stay in practice should he reappear. :-) One of the other hallmark behaviors of the C-word bunch is something that they actually *admit* from time to time, as Jimbo did yesterday. They don't just want to put down the people they consider enemies, they want to drive them off the forum. Judy has admitted as much many times over the years, and gloats when she manages it, as she did with Sal Sunshine. Of course, when she *does* succeed in driving someone away, she doesn't STOP ragging on them; maybe she hopes they're lurking, and will come back and do battle with her again, now that she's established her supposed dominance. All very curious and sad, if you ask me. Three of these four C-words actually seem to believe that they are representing the belief system they are attached to well, and presenting it in a good light to lurkers or bystanders. Now THAT is delusion. The fourth doesn't seem to *have* much of a belief system, and IMO is just into emulating the C-word behavior because she thinks it's cool, which when you think about it is even *more* curious and sad. I don't think there is anything that anyone can DO about the C-word Clique -- these people are what they are and seem to have no *possibility* of ever changing. They're stuck in a stasis of attachment to dogma and belief and a cycle of overreaction when anyone or anything presents a challenge to it and its dreams of superiority and specialness. But that's what happens when you're a Cultist. Oooops. I slipped, and spelled out the C-word accidentally. Sorry, Share.
