Did We Have Choice? Of course!
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paddy ®

09/10/2005, 17:56:21
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Lexy posted the following below:

"A long time ago, when we became ensnared by the cult , How much of it was really our choice as Paddy likes to suggest ? I feel that given our ( often) Judeo-Christian religious backgrounds, once we had been convinced ( and those early premies were fervent and persuasive to a young mind) that the tubby Indian boy was the awaited Messiah (and the Mahatmas knew all the right Biblical quotes to confuse and hook us) and all the other garbage about the purpose of our human body, we had no choice but to join the "mission".Many of us were working class or of indeterminate social group and not, as Paddy suggests, mostly middle class."

Now I upset a few people here with my insistence on presenting the DLM that I remember rather then the one they remember. I don't enjoy that but I believe all sides of the story should be told.

Lexy states that many of the 70's premies were working class or of an indeterminate social group contrary to my saying we were mostly middle class. Now I live in Australia and maybe there were differences in England and when I say "middle class" I mean of middle class background because here in Australia in 1973 it looked and sounded like nearly everyone was an ex-hippy so that might mean they were currently of indeterminate social class though that seems of little importance compared to her idea that we had no choice in joining DLM.

I don't just suggest we had a choice. I am stating it overtly and unequivocally. She says "once we were convinced" that the tubby Indian boy was the awaited Messiah" we had no choice but to join the "mission". Once we were convinced of that it certainly would have been silly not to join but there lies the rub. We had every choice in the world not to be convinced that such an incredibly unlikely thing was true. There were and are millions of fervent and persuasive true believers doing everything in their power to convince people to join their cults from the smallest and most obscure to the most successful and well-known. We have the choice whether to accept them or not at all times. As nearly all media statements about DLM were condemnatory if not derisory and as nearly all of us joined against our parents' wishes we not only had a choice, we have nobody to blame except ourselves.

If someone wants to believe they had no choice that is their business and I would not try to convince them otherwise but if they wish to propagate that as the truth about DLM then I will publicly argue against it.







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