Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM and Ramtha: a winning team...

[rudra_joe]

But it was a mistake for an official spokesman for the TM movement, John Hagelin, to appear in a film directed by the Ramtha-hoax people (an error compounded by Hagelin's speaking at a Ramtha-sponsored "Prophets' Conference" in Santa Monica earlier this year.     ---It only seems to be a mistake when one thinks of what should have been and what will be but not when one looks at the situation exactly for what it is.     It links a derided cult (the Ramtha one) with a "group" (the TM folks) that's trying for respectability and receptivity in the scientific community,   ----Well that's never going to happen as TM is not science. The experience anyone has from TM is not quantifiable. Only people who are more into hypotheticals and proving a point, whether it is true or not, ie., people of the same ilk, nay conspiracy to make links that don't truely exist for whatever allegorical or religious reason are into TM or any religion as being some sort of scientific thing. Who wants a god of science. That's crude, crass, inhuman, and vulgar. Religion should be administered by humans, and science by science. Maybe you want your computer telling you how to meditate. I have no doubt that this will be so. But where then is the inner experience?  That's the extrapolation of science as religion. Machine say, you human prostrate because that means you are humble and therefore pious, never understanding that to prostrate is to take refuge in the unfathomable Dharmata. (From my POV, feel free to believe me or not, if I was a real fucking asshole I would tell you that it's very scientific to make prostrations to the Dharmata, and beneficial in a scientific manner).   Any scientist who entertains the notion of a religion being scientific isn't a scientist but a philosopher. It's only fair to make these statements since science is science and religion is religion and when they cease to have any meaning then grasshopper you may go.       To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.