--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Bob Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, I get your point, and I realize that people experience stuff > > > differently. No big deal. I must say that Ramtha person makes some > > > pretty good common sense points, whether all the channeling stuff > > is > > > true or not... > > > > > > Anyway it was great entertainment! And Hagelin comes across as > > > credible too in the film. I am probably closer to the mindset of > > > there's no such thing as bad publicity. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > ********** > > > > So all the bad publicity that Scientology gets is good? I don't think > > so...that saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity was > > popularized by Hollywood actors, who benefit from both good and bad > > publicity because it keeps their image alive in the press, and nobody > > expects actors to be good, merely to be entertaining, so publicity > > about drunken spats and all that does serve as well as good publicity > > in keeping an actor's image alive as being entertaining. > > > > It's no good for the TM movement to be positioned as a partner of a > > known hoax like Ramtha: http://skepdic.com/channel.html because the > > TM movement is not selling movie tickets, but selling a means of > > enjoying life more, and people want sincerity and utility, not > > goofballs sharing a stage with hoaxers. > > > > Bob > >
> Bob, > > I don't think that the TMO is selling a means to enjoy life more, > anymore. At $2500 the basic means of 'enjoying life more' is for all > practical purposes unavailable. Stripping teachers of the official > ability to teach confirms it. The TMO is in the real estate, > fundrasing, bond, and monitary (RAAM) business and aspirering to the > spa business in malls. > I make it clear at my web site that I regard the TMO's current policies as not workable, especially the $2500 fee, but TM remains what it is, a means of enjoying life more by means of expanding awareness. I think the subtext of what is happening in the West (the obviously dysfunctional policies of the TMO) is that the time has come for the natural home of Vedic culture, India, to get the focus of the TMO's efforts -- it no longer matters what happens in the West (and in fact there are plans to get together one lakh pundits in India). The TMO will either succeed among India's 820 million Hindus or it will be subsumed into the darkness of the Kaliyuga -- and better days on earth may just have to wait 427 centuries until the Sat Yuga. I'm OK with either outcome -- the 432,000 years of the KY is just a blip on the radar of cosmic life, and the horrible conditions in the KY are actually good to get people to abandon trivial life and seek enlightenment. Bob 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: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
