In that last part he was referring to me because I have stated here on FFL that
I practice chi gung, which has nothing to do with religion, nor kung fu for
that matter, except that some martial arts practitioners use chi gung to
increase their chi for their martial arts practice. Richard is just a guy who
likes to disparage anyone that is not a rabid TM fan, frothing at the mouth in
bliss over every little thing Marshy and the TMO ever did and said.
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On Fri, 5/2/14, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com <curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM
Movement:
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, May 2, 2014, 3:20 AM
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FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote
:
On
5/1/2014 7:48 PM, Michael Jackson
wrote:
Only to a Marshy/Benjy Creme
sycophant like you
Nabster - Curtis comes across as pretty rational and
balanced to
people not wearing a My-Guru-Makes-Me-Special
blinders.
>
What you need to realize is that Curtis and Barry sold the
names of
the Hindu gods for money and THEN they did a 180 after
twenty
years - so why would anything they say now be
taken as
rational?
C: I've done
180 on beliefs I held yesterday Richard. Haven't you?
Your standard for judging rationality from the perspective
of the past is seriously flawed. But on the other hand I
don't ever expect anyone to assume anything I say is
anything, that is up to you to decide its value today. Not
from the perspective of ideas I once held and then
discarded. When Lincoln was accused of flip flopping on a
POV he said "I do not
think much of a man who is not wiser today than he
was yesterday."
R:According to Sam Harris, if a person declares a belief in
something
like human levitation, this alone should immediately make
their
every statement suspect in the eyes of anyone they are
dialoging
with - because asserting a similarly non-evidentiary point
on a
religious doctrine ought to be met with similar disrespect.
C: I guess it is precisely
the evidentiary nature of the experience you are referring
to that is the relevant issue isn't it?
R: Which is not to say they aren't nice people and
talented, but even
common sense would dictate that they be questioned closely
concerning their own beliefs. Which is not to say that you
aren't a
nice person and talented, but you are acting like a True
Believer
yourself, if for no other reason than you are practicing a
Chinese
Kung Fu religion for two years and sucking up to Curtis and
Barry
now. Go figure.
C: I
didn't get that last part but I would be the first to
advocate being highly skeptical of anything I write here and
use your own proof system and bullshit detector. i certainly
try to run the same thing on myself and others here but am
as subject to human folly and personal bias as anyone. That
means anyone. We do our best and still get it wrong anyway.
I am happy to approach being less obviously wrong about what
I believe. That seems like enough to bite off for me.
Are you doing any better?
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