--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > > on 8/12/06 7:51 AM, authfriend at jstein@ wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife% > 40yahoogroups.com> > > > , Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > >> > > > >> > on 8/12/06 6:36 AM, Bill (William)Simmons at unclewas@ wrote: > > >>> > > > > >>> > > When I first started dating me she was absolutely convinced > > >>> > > she "levitated" meanwhile I'm down stairs listening to the > > >>> > > floor upstairs squeak like hell as she bounced up and down > > >>> > > on the bed. One things for certain,,,she's got great thigh > > >>> > > muscle development. > > >>> > > > > >> > I used that phase often during my TM career. It¹s based on the > > >> > assumption that Maharishi has a handle on Absolute Truth. > > > > > > Or, that he has a handle on the truth about the > > > nature and mechanics of consciousness. > > > > > > "Absolute Truth" is often a weasel phrase in this > > > context designed to load the argument. > > > > > Another way of putting it would be that he does have a handle on > > Absolute Truth, but that that doesn¹t qualify him as an authority > > on all matters of relative truth. > > I'm not sure what having "a handle on Absolute Truth" > even means, actually. > > I'd say instead that having a handle on the truth about > the nature and mechanics of consciousness doesn't qualify > him as an authority on all matters of relative truth. > > How does any of this apply to a TM-Sidhis practitioner > referring to hopping as "levitation" while being aware > that hopping isn't actually levitating in the standard > sense of the term?
P.S.: That's why "Absolute Truth" in this context was a weasel phrase. It had nothing to do with the particular issue being discussed, it was just thrown in to make True Believers sound especially ridiculous. > 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/
