--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <reavismarek@> > wrote: > > > > Living well is the best revenge. > > That is really the secret. > > Yesterday we saw a concerted effort by a couple of > people to *bring down* the level of the group to > their level, the level of anger and spite and fear > and constant argumentation and constant attempts > to "prove" many people here "wrong" and them "right."
Actually, what we saw yesterday was a concerted effort by several people, including moi, to figure out a way to stop the constant baiting by a few other people, primarily of TM supporters by TM critics. Some first steps are already being taken along those lines. > And the *reaction* to that effort, by at least a > few people here, was to treat *them* as a non- > sequitur and get back to appreciating the shiny > moments in their day. > > So much of the TM movement, and of other spiritual > movements, is about "selling futures." And people > *buy* this shit. They go around saying things like > "Life will be good when X happens." "The world will > be at peace when Y happens." "I'll be enlightened > when Z happens." And y'know what...if you watch > the posts of the people who believe this and say > this, and the mindstates behind them, X Y and Z > never seem to happen, do they? Do you remember > Judy or Lawson *ever* having written a post about > how beautiful and fulfilling their day was? Can't speak for Lawson, but when I have a beautiful and fulfilling day, my instinct is not to run to this group, of *all* places, to share it, for reasons that should be obvious. <snip>
