Prattle.
On 5/20/2014 4:25 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
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.
We *understand* that you're attached to the things you were taught to
believe by Maharishi and his talking parrots (TM teachers). We
*understand* that these beliefs on your part are deeply established,
often so deeply that you do not recognize that these beliefs were
carefully TAUGHT to you. We *understand* that sometimes the things
that critics of Maharishi and his technique and his organization write
sometimes piss you off, push your buttons, make you reactive, and make
you want to lash out at the critics. But PLEASE don't insult our
intelligence by pretending you're doing this because you're trying to
"protect others" from the evil influence of these critics.
You're doing it because you enjoy being angry and lashing out. End of
story.
You *know* (as do we) that the criticisms push your buttons, trigger
your own cognitive dissonance, and make you crazy. EVERYONE reading
the things you write knows this, no matter how hard you try to deny
it. But there is a simple solution to this, one practiced by the vast
majority of TM practitioners and believers (and in fact recommended by
the TMO itself) -- just don't read FFL.
You're here on FFL after all these years because YOU LIKE TO ATTACK
PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE, all in the name of a spurious "spiritual
teaching." You're Vedic Vigilantes.
With very few exceptions, none of you are actual TM teachers
yourselves. The one or two actual TM teachers who regularly attack the
critics haven't taught TM in a decade or more. The others hung around
on the periphery of the TM movement for decades, quietly pissed off
because you were treated like second-class citizens, and noticing that
the only time TM teachers *did* praise you or give you any attention
was when you 1) parroted back some "knowledge" they'd told you to
memorize, and 2) when you "stood up for" MMY or TM or the TMO in
response to some criticism. So that's what you *still* do today on
FFL. You've convinced yourself that parroting the things you were
taught and attacking people (especially ex-TM teachers) who no longer
believe the things you believe is "dharmic," the work of God.
But it really isn't. It's just you feeling the need to attack someone.
You're the Vedic equivalent of Ku Klux Klan members, pretending that
you're doing the things you do and writing the things you write to
"protect" others. The "TM critics" are your niggers.
In reality, I think you're all still here on FFL because you ENJOY
lashing out the way you do, and in fact ENJOY the state of
near-constant anger your continued presence on FFL causes in you. You
keep trying to raise the question, "What are these non-meditators
still doing on this forum after having left the TM movement years
ago?" Well, we're here because the forum was *explicitly created* to
be a forum on which people can express their opinions about the TM
movement, free from the persecution that would quickly follow critical
opinions if people tried to say these things within the TM movement
itself.
But I honestly think that the reason the Vedic Vigilantes are still
here is that THEY DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT THIS IS A TM "FREE SPEECH
ZONE." The very fact that people are *allowed* to say the kinds of
things critics are allowed to say here PISSES YOU OFF. But on another
level, rather than just go to some other namby-pamby TM forum where
you'll never hear a critical word, you stay here. I have to believe
that the reason YOU'RE still here is that you are trying to DESTROY
this TM Free Speech area that Rick set up, and drive away those who
actually dare to take it seriously, and speak freely.
We're not going away. Rick set up this forum for US.
If you don't like it -- or us -- why don't YOU go elsewhere? Or just
don't read the things we post. Or read the things we post and try to
comment intelligently about the *ideas* we bring up.
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.
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