On 10/30/2014 6:55 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Barry, what are you going to do about this?! People are still
bouncing on their butts on foam with this misguided notion that they
are doing something positive for the world. This is a national, nay, a
global scourge, and your efforts to enlist the LR, evidently is not
paying off.
Again, you've got to do more. It's either them or you, and "they"
seem to be winning, at least in the area of driving you "bat shit crazy"
P.S. I did get to at least the second paragraph of you manifesto.
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Hey good people of the Netherlands, if you see some guy frantically
pacing back and forth in one one your cafes, muttering something along
the lines, "they're not listening to me. WTF are they not listening
to me? My LR are letting me down". Buy him a beer or something. Put
in on our tab, or just do it as a Good Samaritan.
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I couldn't read this piece because I couldn't get past the first
paragraph. Whatever the author's intention in writing it is or was,
his cluelessness in that first paragraph stopped me in my tracks, and
kept me from reading any further:
"I learned how to fly when I was 17. I’m not talking about a plane,
and this isn’t some euphemism. 'Yogic flying,' which is basically
meditation at the black-belt level, offers the potential of human
levitation -- although in actuality it looks more like energetic, if
not rather effortless, cross-legged hopping."
This person (although his intention may have been to suggest the
opposite) is IMO *still* suffering from the ill effects of growing up
in an insane asylum. Bouncing around on one's butt and calling it
'yogic flying' is NOT 'meditation at the black belt level,' it's
INSANITY at the black belt level.
Try picking any town in America, walking along its streets, stopping
people at random, and explaining to them, "I'm doing a survey. Twice a
day I bounce around on my butt on big slabs of foam, along with other
people who do the same thing because we are convinced that doing this
will reduce crime, affect the weather, and create world peace. What do
you think of this?"
My bet is that you would get answers like, "Uh...sounds fine to
me...good luck with that..." spoken over the interviewee's shoulder as
they were edging away, watching you carefully and hoping that you
weren't following them so that they didn't have to break into a run.
See, this is the thing that makes interacting with long-term TMers on
this forum so challenging -- they really have NO IDEA how insane they
are, and how insane the things they believe are.
For many of them, it seems as if it's been so long since they've
actually talked with anyone who WASN'T indoctrinated with all of this
cult nonsense they way they were that they've forgotten how these
normal people think and act. They're used to interfacing with people
who don't bat an eyelash when you announce to them, "Sorry...got to
go...it's time for me to go fly now."
Hint: That's insane. No one is "flying." No one has EVER "flown" in
*any* of the TM "flying" halls. And no one ever will.
Most people, told that this would even be *possible*, would react with
either laughter or derision, and walk away. TMSPers reacted by paying
several thousand dollars to learn how.
Hint: That's insane.
And it's as insane now as it was when you first paid those thousands
of dollars. The only reason people on this forum and around you in
Fairfield don't think so is that you live in an enormous insane
asylum, in which the residents are reinforcing their shared delusions
by pretending that they're "saving the world" instead of acting out
less-than-sane fantasies.
Some of these inmates who post to this forum get upset when I or
Michael or Salyavin or Curtis point out HOW far away from mainstream
definitions of sanity they are to believe that there actually IS such
a thing as the 'Maharishi Effect.' I imagine that inmates in mental
hospitals feel the same way when doctors and nurses point out that
they're not *really* Napoleon or Jesus Christ.
To these people I say, "GET OVER IT." Wake the fuck up, take a look
around at international standards for sanity, shake yourself, and
realize that if you actually believe that bouncing on your butt can be
called 'flying' and that performing this bouncing is creating world
peace...uh...you're INSANE. You're NOT "special" or "more evolved" or
"10,000 X more powerful than lesser people," you're INSANE.
It's OK to *be* insane, if your insane beliefs give you some sense of
comfort and don't hurt anybody. After all, millions of people believe
in an invisible man in the sky who watches everything they do, and as
long as they don't get in other people's faces about it, they can be
that insane and still be considered productive members of society.
But ferchrissakes don't pretend that the things you believe AREN'T
insane, and don't pretend to be outraged because other people point
out the insanity. You CHOSE to be considered insane the moment you
signed that check and paid thousands of dollars to learn how to 'fly.'
Live with that choice now, and try not to pretend that you're still
sane after having made it. Having made that choice makes you an
outlier, an anomaly within human society. A nut case.
99% OR MORE OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET ARE GOING TO CONSIDER YOU A
NUT CASE IF YOU TELL THEM YOU BELIEVE THAT BOUNCING ON YOUR BUTT IS
'FLYING' AND THAT IT'S 'THE BLACK BELT OF MEDITATION'.
It's not. And no amount of claiming will ever make it so.
