---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote :
Jeez. Talk about a river in Egypt. Talk about a guilty conscience. Talk about projection. Talk about shooting the messengers (good point, Steve). Talk about out-of-control reactive! This rap is for those long-term FFL members who claim that their continuing *personal attacks* against those who raise questions about the beliefs and behaviors of long-term TMers are for noble, altruistic, and non-self-serving reasons. WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU. (snip lots more garbage) Continuing to attack us personally because we use this forum AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE USED raises more questions about YOUR sanity and YOUR motives than it does ours. This forum was NOT intended to be used to personally attack TMers. As I said in a previous post, you may have "earned the right" to challenge ideas, but you haven't earned the right to dump on the people who hold them. It's your behavior that's the problem, not your challenges to ideas. Doesn't matter whether it's TM, or politics, or feminism, or theism, or the Grateful Dead, or America. You virtually always use your "challenges" as vehicles for personal attacks on FFLers, usually TMers, and for exalting yourself. It really is nauseating, as Ann observed. Bawee challenges nothing except one's endurance at reading the same "thoughts" over and over and over. He challenges one to not spew one's coffee out of one's nose while reading post after post designed to "enlighten and free" us from our limited, cultish and brainwashed sorry state. He challenges me to find a place in my heart to empathize with him for his need to puff himself up, even if it is with his own baseless assertions. I am challenged by Bawee alright, just not in the way he is hoping.
