Like the two classic theatrical masks, comedy and tragedy
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Posted by: Jim ® 03/21/2005, 22:18:41 Author Profile Edit Alert Moderators

Paddy, On a certain level, it's true, one could easily describe the entire long soray into Maharaji's World as a comic (mis)adventure.  If need be, the worst aspects of the story could be whitewashed, minimized or left right out of the picture.  I think that if it was all over now and Rawat wasn't still living large, exploiting people as fully as possible, if we didn't still have friends, or former friends, caught up in his cult, if we didn't feel it necessary to counter his gross and insulting revisionism, it might be a bit different here.  We might just laugh off a lot of what happened.  But this is a bit of a PR war.  We try to tell the truth about Rawat and we get back threats, insults and outrageous defamation (have you seen the website they've put up about me, for instance?).  I'm sure a lot of people had a lot of fun being premies at times.  I had many happy moments too, I must admit.  But it's like I told Raja Ji when he asked me if I'd been happy all those years in the ashram, that's not the question, the question is whether or not it was true, whether or not my being there was based on anything even close to truth.  The answer is that it wasn't.  I was had, dedicating my life to bringing the world to the feet of Guru Maharaj Ji.  Funny?  Yeah, kind of.  Modified by Jim at Mon, Mar 21, 2005, 22:36:34

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Re: Like the two classic theatrical masks, comedy and tragedy --- paddy ( Mon, Mar 21, 2005, 23:00:01 ) ( 766 bytes ) +1 Were Dracula's victims happy? --- Jim ( Mon, Mar 21, 2005, 23:13:42 ) ( 282 bytes ) +1 Re: It's not as if he's a lawyer --- paddy ( Mon, Mar 21, 2005, 23:34:42 ) ( 496 bytes ) +1 If this were a debate, I'd say you just shot yourself in the foot --- Jim ( Tue, Mar 22, 2005, 10:36:20 ) ( 584 bytes ) +2 well said, Jim --- lesley ( Tue, Mar 22, 2005, 15:25:10 ) ( 534 bytes ) +1 Re: Not much longer on the merry-go-round --- paddy ( Tue, Mar 22, 2005, 16:57:39 ) ( 390 bytes ) +1 one foot nailed to the floor --- lesley ( Wed, Mar 23, 2005, 15:55:52 ) ( 1259 bytes ) +1 Re: one foot nailed to the floor --- paddy ( Wed, Mar 23, 2005, 17:12:45 ) ( 495 bytes ) +1 Something extra to be gained in life --- JHB ( Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 01:02:20 ) ( 1190 bytes ) +2 Good one, John --- Jim ( Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 01:22:59 ) ( 982 bytes ) Re: Something extra to be gained in life --- paddy ( Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 16:26:12 ) ( 1379 bytes ) +2 Re: Something extra to be gained in life --- Cynthia ( Fri, Mar 25, 2005, 07:07:06 ) ( 3153 bytes ) out of the frying pan and into the fire --- lesley ( Fri, Mar 25, 2005, 14:32:48 ) ( 966 bytes ) Re: If this were a debate, I'd say you just shot yourself in the foot --- paddy ( Tue, Mar 22, 2005, 17:05:03 ) ( 1021 bytes ) +1 It's not ad hominem if there's a relevant interest --- Jim ( Tue, Mar 22, 2005, 17:43:48 ) ( 754 bytes ) +1 Re: It's not ad hominem if there's a relevant interest --- paddy ( Tue, Mar 22, 2005, 19:39:02 ) ( 825 bytes ) +1 Involvement is based on deception... --- Cynthia ( Wed, Mar 23, 2005, 06:45:19 ) ( 2263 bytes ) +1 Re: Involvement is based on deception... --- paddy ( Wed, Mar 23, 2005, 15:09:52 ) ( 826 bytes ) +1 Re: Involvement is based on deception... --- Cynthia ( Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 06:26:25 ) ( 2846 bytes )