Rajneesh/Osho published enough books and videos worldwide for there to be no need for commune membership. Bernard and/or his brother was in the learning tapes/language business himself and may have just spotted an opportunity to do a hybrid of the two--especially after he went bankrupt in his 'legitimate' business. He's acknowledged Rajneesh as a mentor though, as mentioned e
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There is a first person account from a monk who went to war and then retook his vows: It is on the other DL thread here:
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Yep, lovely. Worth a replay. Equal opportunity pipers too.
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We would expect nothing else but such mealy-mouthed, opportunist propaganda from the hypocritical 'religious' fascist Dave McKay. Has he met Bernard Poolman? They have a few things in common. Perhaps Haw Haw can do the dirty work for both of them, and I will have to stock up on a few crates of rotten tomatoes. Here's some Joe, filmed when he was dying of cancer, but still p
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Bernard Poolman picked up this garbage from the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, filtered it through South Africa's very troubled relationship with the indigenous peoples of Africa, (racial hatred, apartheid, the white man's burden, 'manifest destiny,' slavery and just plain exploitation of the masses) and then Bernard had some psychotic revelation that he is destined to be the meister
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This jive is good too, although a different style of dancing:
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Haw Haw, who claims a deep and penetrating interest in Wikileaks as well as the CoG and some other thing, was here invited to start a new thread to explore and discuss his particular points: He hasn't done that so my guess is that he was less interested in discussing and exploring and a lot more interested in disrupting what was already there.
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No-one is preventing Haw Haw from posting on the thread, but he seems to prefer to send personally directed PM's and emails and seems astonished that these barbed personal missives are not kept private. But that is the problem with open dialogue, it is subject to scrutiny from others with differing viewpoints and often does not stand up to such close scrutiny. It is a very long time since
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reply From: Lord Haw Haw To: Stoic Date: 11/27/2011 02:38AM It's a shame that you are so angry that somebody differs in opinion so you go the attack. Linking me with another poster you dislike and encouraging other posters to engage in simillar activity is cult like in its self. I am NOT the person in question and I ask that the victimisation ceases. Instead of dealing w
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This is good, James Ray's new internet page, with bio:
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Hi Mysstyk, 'I would hope the forum could have patience with such members.' Even if the forum participants here wanted to, they are unable to adequately help people still in thrall to lying, conniving, conning, hypnotising gurus. Such people first need to accept that they themselves are in need of personal outside help before any help can be extended--still believing the BS keep
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I picked him up here: ....after seeing a few odd random posts earlier. Wondered where he was heading and it turned out to be this thread, with a trail of breadcrumbs left for me. I keep meaning to watch BoB, as it has good rep as a story, but I have learnt to appreciate the real thing, though its never so neat and tidy. Edit: I'll try the book, it sounds good.
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From Haw Haw's derided Wikipedia--which nevertheless covers the etymology quite well for our purposes here: Ptolemy, name Ptolemy is an originally Greek name, (what isn't originally Greek in western culture?) the most famous holder of which is the Macedonian founder and ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy himself was Greek/Egyptian. (I am parti
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cease your victimising. From: Lord Haw Haw To: Stoic Date: 11/26/2011 12:48PM I state again, you have falsely accused me of being someone I am now. How dare you, i am surprised anybody stays around with you acting as a moderator, asking people to reveal themselves, while you stay hidden. I am asking that you stop your witch hunt, it is not fair and it's outrageous that you f
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Lord Haw Haw, you revealed yourself, all by yourself--and now I am doing the same.
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Your latest post is childish From: Lord Haw Haw To: Stoic Date: 11/26/2011 06:46AM Choosing to link me to a forum member you do not like,is very childish. It has only came about due to your views on Julian Assange and mine are opposite. I did not realise some adults could be petty on a forum that states one does not have to reveal their identity. A FACT you dislike,so you plan to
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I should imagine that he is feeling quite bereft with no easy adversarial action to be found anywhere else in his sphere of interest, (which is culty stuff--remember he's an ex-$cientologist as well as an ardent Australian facist supporter, too)
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I took a look at McKay's site, prompted by your link Malcolm, just to see how the Wanker is getting on with his recruitment efforts. I followed another hunch also and looked at the last writing that Glenn did there. Both Glenn and Lord Haw Haw share a curious habit of omitting the space before a comma in their writings. It piqued my interest when reading Haw Haw's posts on another th
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Actually, Karma Mudra, I am way past trying to prove anything. I agree with the scientific method that sets out to observe phenomena and attempts to validate such phenomena as either a general principle or an anomaly in order to come up with a general workable theory that provisionally explains what all of us see and experience in the world around us. I don't do proof at all since I d
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Something else that could benefit from some personal research by meditators is the dissociated state. Prolonged periods of involuntary dissociation are called 'psychosis' in western culture. There is no guarantee that practising meditation and entering and leaving dissociated states at will is any protection from the onset of an involuntary extended period of dissociation, known as
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I am in total agreement--this thread is about the Wikileaks website and the campaign to close it down, not about one man's sexual behaviour. If Assange has raped anyone then I want him tried and prosecuted for that. So far it is an allegation by one woman--not of rape, as she admits that she consented to sex--but that he did not use a condom during it. There was a similar allegation fro
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Karam Mudra, from my point of view you can believe whatever you want to believe but a bit of investigation into 'altered states' and the meaning of that phrase would not go amiss. An 'altered state' is any that is not a normal, focused, waking functioning state--that means that trance, dreaming, driving on auto-pilot, and dissociation can all be described as 'altered s
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Electroencephalography, EEG, which is the testing Nydahl underwent, does not measure altered states of awareness, permanent or not. Neither does it prove a permanently changed chemistry in the brain--it records the flow of electrical activity along the scalp (see below)--a flow that is recognised to be in constant flux and change unless the person is clinically brain-dead. It can be inferred t
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A neat piece of propaganda engineering there--to turn a whistle-blowing website that exposes what is being done secretly 'in our name' and paid for by our taxes into an issue of whether a website operator gained consent or not for condom use. And people are buying it. What concerns me is that each year the UK Border Agency cannot be bothered to deport the thousands of illegal immi
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It seems that Judge Darrow has decided to take early retirement, according to this info on Cosmic Connie's blog: 'Judge Darrow, who spent nearly two years refereeing a consistently contentious adjudication, has announced that he will retire early next year. In an email, he wrote a brief summation of his thoughts on a decade on the bench. "I cannot overstate my appreciation
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Just a starter in case you're interested...
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He has yet to be arrested, let alone questioned and convicted for the crime for which you are already relishing his punishment. Says more about you than about him. The European Arrest Warrant under which he is being threatened with deportation to a state with a very poor record on extraordinary rendition is very dodgy law that most thinking UK citizens see as a betrayal of their citizenship a
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Well, Lord Haw Haw, we now know which side of that mythical line you have positioned yourself. You do know Haw Haw's eventual fate, I take it? And what motivated him in the fir$t place? Can't have any military actions jeopardised at all, whoever is instigating them--way too bad for busine$$.
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A peek inside his head from a different perspective, should make for some interesting observations. Thanks from me too, Sceptic Watcher.
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Dr Dickson was a star, no doubt about that. Some of the other witnesses were impressive too, Ted's wife and daughter impressed me--even without Dr Dickson's education and experience they not only stood up in court but took useful practical action in the chaos. I bet they'd never read DeathRay's opus 'Practical Spirituality' either. Just as well, maybe, or then
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