When I first came to FFL it was because I wished to contact Richard Williams (because he seemed the most prominent voice of those looking for answers about Maharishi). Well, I was politely pointed in the direction of AMT. But whilst here I noticed it was a pretty orderly restrained sort of a gentleman's club sort of atmosphere, with some well-reasoned and polite debate going on. I was glad I had found FFL. They marshalled their arguments with information that they had worked hard to find. I cite L B Shriver in particular, not because I agreed with his viewpoint, but he actually bothered to research before he put forward his thoughts.
Well, at Google AMT I attempted to level with those who had unfairly criticised my bio, only to find the criticism was founded on ignorance, the critic had not actually read the book, and someone else just assumed they knew what they were talking about, so more uninformed criticism! That was my introduction to TM forums. After a time I mentioned FFL at AMT and Uncle Tantra (Turquoise) migrated to FFL and it seemed that things at FFL were thereby improved, not that they needed to really. However, something else happened, there was a change in the ethos, for the worse. This might have been the time that certain other individuals turned up too, but it soon turned into what AMT had been, a playground without any supervision. That would have been fine of course if things had stayed playful. Interestingly, the deterioration in the standard of debates where the postings are now usually reduced to personal insults, racism, the use of hate vocabulary 'evil','wicked', 'rakshasa' 'dog' etc etc. has meant that there is no longer any real point in contributing.
