While I was looking for something else, I came upon this wonderful post of Barry's from April 2006:
"I probably won't be around here that much longer anyway, because the wimps seem to have succeeded in silencing most of the interesting people. "You'll notice that most of the people who *have* had interesting experiences of higher states of consciousness or of extraordinary phenomena rarely, if ever, talk about them any more. Jim's about the only one who dares to brave the boring, terrified turd-throwers any more. Rory's silent, Tom's mainly silent, and a few people have left altogether. "The bottom line, as I see it, is that the wimps have WON, *especially* after the migration of a couple of compulsive-poster wimps from alt.m.t. Those two, together with anon_couscous and a few others who don't even have the balls to use their own names here, have made Fairfield Life a distinctly UNFRIENDLY environment in which to talk about one's own spiritual experiences. "In other words, they've turned it into the TM movement. "What's to stick around for?" Since you've joined the boring turd-throwers, Barry, I guess you won't be leaving any time soon, eh?
