--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For the past few days, I've been contributing to the > > wikipedia > > > > entry on Transcendental > > > > > > > Meditation. Boy, is that fun in dysfunctional sort of way. > > > > Between Peter, Andrew > > > > > Skolnick > > > > > > and > > > > > > > myself, we've managed to completely rewrite the whole thing > > > > about 10x over. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.wikipedia.org keyword: "transcendental > > meditation". > > > > Click on the "history" > > > > > > tab to > > > > > > > see what I mean... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Due to the "vandalism" by peter and myself, Andrew has asked > > for > > > > an editorial lock to be > > > > > > placed on the TM entry in wikipedia. Here is my response to > > > > andrew's claim that my last > > > > > > contribution was vandalism. I think he's more paranoid than > > ever, > > > > to be honest: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > vandalism by moi? > > > > > > > > > > > > Andrew, you justified your reverting of my edit of the > > lawsuit > > > > text because I was being a > > > > > > vandal. Here is your original text, followed by my revision: > > > > > > > > > > Andrew has since apologized to me twice. I'm under the > > impression > > > > that he gets so mad at > > > > > New Agers or anyone who believes in anyting that smacks of the > > New > > > > Age stuff, that he > > > > > automatically assumes the worse. > > > > > > > > > > I'll say this for Andrew. He's an equal-opportunity cynic. Look > > at > > > > this apparently ongoing > > > > > exchange between him and Brian Josephson concerning Josephson's > > > > psychic-oriented > > > > > stuff. He goes for the throat, automatically: > > > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Natasha_Demkina/Archive2 > > > > > > > > Andrew Skolnick--with whom I had many disputes when > > > > he was posting to alt.meditation.transcendental--is > > > > one of the sleaziest people I've ever encountered. That > > > > he gets to call himself a *journalist* is just mind- > > > > boggling. > > > > > > Eh. He's on a Mission From God, what can I say? > > > > Completely missing the, um, let's call it *irony* > > that he uses the same ends-justify-the-means > > approach that he complains about: being on the side > > of the angels, in his mind, validates his use of > > deceit and other thoroughly unscrupulous tactics. > > He doesn't miss the irony: he revels in it.
OK, well, I was trying to be polite. What he revels in is hypocrisy, in additon to his other sins. > Payback's a bitch. My understanding of his > background is that he watched his dumpster-diving mom spend every > penny on new age crapola rather than buy food and clothing. He > hates all things new age, and with good reason. He has good reason to hate new age scams, not all things new age. He's taking out his childhood traumas on things that don't deserve it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
