Michael, my friend, I am afraid you are losing it. Or is it.... "lost it". I'm not sure. But listen, I have just the solution. This posting stuff is obviously taking its toll. Take a break for a few days. Maybe until, say, Friday evening. Whaddya think? You'll thank me, you'll bless me. And hey, really, I enjoyed hearing about your wonderful childhood. The one thing you left out was anything about your schooling. You did attend school, right. Well, of course you did. Sorry about that. But did you take any courses that dealt with analytical thinking. What? You didn't. Well no worries. Many here say it's not my strong suit either. But one starting point may be to try to remove any obvious biases from your thinking. When you come to every situation with a fixed mindset, it sort of closes the door on any opportunity to learn something. And yes, in case you were wondering, I do "love ya like brother"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > Every exchange like this just reinforces my belief that long term TM makes ones brain turn into mush and removes the ability to think clearly. > > How many times do you hear reporters give a show of hand wringing over the fate of convicted rapists? > > A reporters job > is to report the facts, not commiserate with the criminals - in no way shape or form was Crowley's remarks objective and the other reporters were even worse. > > Yeah Poppy Harlow started it - could Crowley not have used her TM enhanced Creative Intelligence to say "Hey what are you doing Poppy!?! > > The standard of conduct I was referring to in my other post has nothing to do with 1950's - Jesus you people are beyond hope - its no wonder Turq cusses > you out from time to time. > > Your attitude seems to be - "Oh Candy is a TM'er and so anything she does is beyond reproach" - you people really are screwed up. > > Take a look at what the non-TM world thinks of this crap: > > "CNN's unconscionable coverage of the Steubenville Rape Case verdict is > pissing everyone off. Newscaster Candy Crowley, general correspondent > Poppy Harlow, and legal expert Paul Callan all did their very best to > focus solely on the guilty verdict's repercussions on the two rapists. > There's next to no coverage of the girl who was brutally raped; instead, > they talk almost exclusively of the rapistsâ" the two teenagers who had > such bright futures, and now their lives are completely ruined from this > one little indiscretion. Isn't it a shame how they suffer?" > > http://jezebel.com/5991018/heres-what-cnn-shouldve-said-about-the-steube\ nville-rape-case > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Share Long sharelong60@... > To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:40 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and its Rock Stars > > >  > Thank you for this balanced view, Steve. It helped me clarify my own thoughts and feelings about it. Isn't it usually the news director who chooses the angle of a news story? I thought Crowley's intro of the reporter was objective. It was the reporter Harlow who was initially sympathetic to the 2 boys. And the legal expert Callan who came after her was very sympathetic. I'm just wondering if the news director chose him too and was attempting to present a balanced story. Crowley herself is the single mom of two teenaged boys but nonetheless I thought her comments were mostly objective given what she was commenting on, meaning the less objective angles taken by the reporter and the expert. In any case, I think for some on FFL it's damned if you do and damned if you don't. Meaning if you do TM and you make mistakes then TM isn't what it claims to be. But if you are successful and do TM and promote it, then it's because you're afraid of > angering Oprah (-:    > > > > > ________________________________ > From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:11 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and its Rock Stars > > >  > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: > > > > And what do you consider whining about the effects of a relatively light sentence handed down on two punks who abused an unconscious girl? > It has been suggested here, that a person does not have full brain development until they are 25.  And I think the part of the brain that is not fully developed, IIRC is that part which evaluates the future consequences of our actions. I am just putting that out there as one thing to consider. > > > And are you losing sight that our criminal justice system is a more merciful system, with second and third chances.  Maybe you don't like that fact. > > Juvenile? Insensitive? Adding to the already atrocious attitudes about women who are raped and sexually abused and the boys will be boys attitude > about their attackers? > What are you talking about?  Not sure what you feel would be an appropriate punishment in this case.  And evidently you feel it is out of line to feel sympathy for those boys.  I feel sympathy for them. As well as the young woman.  That goes without saying. > > Or is it ok to express such attitudes when one is a TM Practitioner? > Finally.  Well it took a little while for you to get to your main point.  I suspect, this case has little meaning for you, outside of the "tie in".  > > If TM celebrities are people to be looked up to since their TM practice makes them phenomenal people, surely they should be held to even a modicum of decent behavior, I am not even suggesting a higher standard of behavior than poor non-TM'ers. Now here is a subject for discussion on FFL and I have probably posted out. > I am not sure what behavior you would consider exemplary in your opinion, but I suspect that you want to see 1950 stereotypes of model citizens.  I don't think it works that way. > > As regards Girish, unfortunately, you see it in every strata of life, where people who hold positions of power, will abuse that power.  Those in the TMO are not immune to that.  But I'd suspect that it may be more prevalent in countries where there has not been much progress in women's rights.  But likely these types of incidents move cultures in that direction. > > ________________________________ > > From: feste37 feste37@ > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:48 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and its Rock Stars > > > > > > à> > You are not a > disciplined thinker, MJ. You just pour out anything that enters your head, and you seem obsessed with criticizing other people's behavior. I find it all very juvenile. > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: > > > > > > tell it to the tens of thousands of people who are reviling her for her sympathy for a couple of true idiots and abusers of a passed out 16 year old girl - in true TM addle-headed fashion, you are excusing asinine behavior purely because it is behavior of a TM'er and a TM'er who has been used to tout the greatness of TM - deal with it feste - TM is no panacea and a whole bunch of these celebrities like Howard Stern, Russell Brand, and Lynch himself are, perversely excellent poster children of TM for their bad behavior because it unintentionally highlights all that is screwed up and hypocritical in the Movement, but much like those who post some trivial bull manure that is > happening in Latin America as "proof" of Raja Luis's phenomenal success in setting up flying groups there, while ignoring the other 25 things that are gong wrong in the same geographical area, you continue to embrace fantasy as reality. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: feste37 feste37@ > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 9:24 PM > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and its Rock Stars > > > > > > > > > Ãâà> > > Only an idiot would use this to take a swipe at TM. Time to grow up, MJ. I watched it. She is not "oozing sympathy." There's nothing wrong with what she says. She's pursuing the story, that's all. The youth of the defendants, and what will happen to them, is part of that story. > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson > <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Candy Crowley Oozes Sympathy for Steubenville Rapists > > > > http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/candy-crowley-oozes-sympathy-steubenvil\ le-r > > > > > > > > Candy Crowley, proud practitioner of TM is nearly as good an example of what TM can do for folks as cussing chain smoking David Lynch > > > > > > > > > >
