--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know what they say about doing the same thing and expecting > different results as the definition for insanity? At this stage > it is my own disorder I am concerned with! The cautionary tale > of the frog and the scorpion is one of my favorites and I > appreciate your reminding me of it. My dad fought on Quam in > WWII, so I have the stories of the hell that it became.
I think it's a very *appropriate* cautionary tale. Many people came to Guam (Fairfield Life) because they thought it would be a "safe place" where they could actually express their ambivalent feelings about TM and Maharishi and the TMO. They'd suffered for years in an environment where expressing doubts, much less conclusions that were Off The Program were met first with stony silence, then with censure, and finally with being shown to the door. So they came here, to FFL, and they read the opening page, which states very clearly that this is a place that BY DEFINITION is an environment in which it is permitted to question everything we've been told to believe. And it *was* that kind of environment for a long time. And then I had to fuck it up by mentioning it on a.m.t., and presto -- like magic -- the person who almost single- handedly turned that newsgroup into a War Zone comes zooming over to Fairfield Life and starts trying to do the same thing here. Have you *looked* at alt.meditation.transcendental lately? Even *Judy* hasn't bothered to post there for over two weeks. It's now a wasteland, full of pretty much nothing but politics and personal squabbles and name-calling. Does that sound familiar, you who have complained lately about what FFL has mysteriously turned into? Well, in my opinion there is a reason. And that reason is the current subject of discussion -- a person whose goal, in my honest opinion, is to *destroy* environments in which people can freely challenge the myths of TM and the TMO and Maharishi, to bring them down to her level, the level of endless argumentation and name-calling. She did it to a.m.t., and she's well on her way to having done it to Fairfield Life. Judy will probably trot out her favorite word, Liar! (do a search on Google Groups and I think you'll find that Judy has used that word more than any other poster in its history), but I'm not lying. This is what I honestly believe is her intent. I don't, however, think that she KNOWS that it's her intent. I have never in my life met a person who is more unaware of her own motivations and is more in denial about them than Judy Stein. She *has* to believe that people are LYING about her when they say things about her like I am saying now. The only other alternative is to consider, even for a moment, that there might be some truth in them. And I think that anyone who has been paying atten- tion to her posts since she arrived here has figured out that this is never going to happen. Never. Judy is OUTRAGED that there is a place where people can express their ambivalent feelings about TM honestly, without being *punished* for expressing them. Think about it -- what is it that she consistently berates people here for not doing? They don't CONFESS to the "sins" she brands them with, that's what. She sees herself as the unofficial enforcer of The Truth, the person who has to expose the "sins" she seems to see everywhere here, and badger the "sinners" until they CONFESS their sins publicly. I wrote not long ago quoting passages from a book written by Bernardo Gui on how to be an Inquisitor. Judy follows the training manual he wrote for the Inquisition centuries ago *to the letter*. It could be her Handbook. She talks a lot about respect. Well, I respect those here who remember what this place is, and what it was created to be. And I respect those who stand up to this wrinkled old bully when she tries to make it something else. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/zAINmC/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/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/
