Thanks for keeping the thread alive Michael. We have a fascinating power dynamic in play here that students of cult bullshittery like us can have some fun dissecting.
Buck/Doug felt abused by the TM group when they yanked his badge for not following their rules about seeing other "saints." This was before your posting period but his group spamming back then was all about the unfairness and lack of transparency in the TM group. Post after post on how badly he was treated. He finally wore them down and got back in the dome. From that moment he began the routine of glorifying the dome and castigating the "quitters" using every weird term for someone who does not go along with the group think. His lowest point was invoking the Maoist term "running dog" in his contempt for nonbelivers. As you are well aware he has used the images of drone strikes to silence critics like yourself. I don't know when the "Buck" persona arose. At first it seemed to be a parody of movement rigidity but then it became clear that Buck IS Doug and that the artifice was a dodge to be personally accountable for his actual intolerant views. With such a huge target of hypocrisy to shoot at, Barry posted a number of posts that Buck did not like. So became the gollum-esque campaign for Buck to have his "precious" the right to silence an outspoken critic and not be held accountable for it. He wore Rick down and got his one ring to rule them all. First he tried to make it appear as if there was a justification for removing his enemy by contriving a fey interpretation of the guidelines and pinning it on an idiotic example, criticism of Lynch. This was a classic new-to-power rookie mistake. In his eagerness to assert his personal agenda he miscalculated how transparent his agenda would be if he used an obviously bogus excuse. So backing off of that he switched to a lie, that Rick was the driving force and he was just a servant. Anyone can verify this was a deliberate lie with an email to the list owner. I did, and it turned out to be a fabrication. The abused is now the abuser. Because Barry made some enemies here, people are going along as if nothing happened. It is a classic case of people's values being exposed about what is right and wrong because of their personal self interest and petty vendettas. So here we all are back in the movement. Maharishi is too busy to micro-manage a course so a "leader" arises using lots of poetic bullshittery to make it seem as if they are speaking for their master. He was carrying a secret wound of when the leader had been abused by the movement's authoritarian policies, Then the leader carries out his personal revenge vendetta against people he does not like to get them kicked off the course. And the people who didn't like the person look the other way and say,"let's move along and not be negative." And the people who have seen this all before and know where it leads stand up and speak out. Then one of two things happen. Maharishi visits the course and kicks out the power-grabbing guru wanna-be for abusing his power, or the other voices get quelled one by one. Time will tell. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : And I notice that Dougy is still not responding to Curtis' request for an explanation to Turq's getting the boot - ignoring what needs to be addressed and blabbering about a bunch of other stuff is spot on TMO behavior. From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 8:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote : This is not a place for someone who has a stated agenda to prove his point that an organization is a cult, and to label anyone who may defend the organization as cult apologist. According to the spiel on the Fairfield Life home page, this is the perfect place to discuss whether the TM Org is a cult. If what you say is true, then you feel this place has a stated agenda to prove the point that the TM Org is not a cult. This is a blatant statement showing you wish to suppress opposing points of view, as do many others here. Remember the first quotation on that page: "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite." ~ Bertrand Russell
