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OrgoneConclusion
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Yogananda, Assassination and Naivete
#14069423 - 03/05/11 01:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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As a young man I read 'The Autoboigraphy of a Yogi' and was enthralled. One story that I swallowed hook, line and sinker was when Yogananda was giving a lecture in a large hall in New York City. In the middle of the sermon, he came off the stage and walked down the aisle and stopped in front of a man who was allegedly hired to kill him. Yogananda said nothing, but just stared at the man with love and compassion. The would-be assassin trembled, broke down in tears, confessed and became a devotee.
Looking back, this type of a 'plant' is no different than Evangelical preachers who heal an 'unknown' audience member from a debilitating disease that they never had in the first place.
Need to believe = blindness.
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OrgoneConclusion said: Need to believe = blindness.
I need to believe this.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Icelander
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That was a fun book at the time. Now it just seems like pure fantasy.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Yogananda, Assassination and Naivete [Re: Icelander]
#14070292 - 03/05/11 10:40 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Exactly. Folly of youth.
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Grapefruit
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Ahem, just because you were an idiot sir...
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Re: Yogananda, Assassination and Naivete [Re: Grapefruit]
#14070365 - 03/05/11 10:58 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I transcended idiotism.
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Grapefruit
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I thought that was where you went when you transcended.
-------------------- Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. "Chat your fraff Chat your fraff Just chat your fraff Chat your fraff"
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Poid
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OrgoneConclusion said: I transcended idiotism. 
How many 'shrooms did you have to eat in order to accomplish that?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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