--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > [sparaig wrote:] > > The TMO has been most concerned with use of the NAME of > > > transcendental meditation during the past few lawsuits. This > > > makes sense to ME because the TMO has always offered followup > > > programs based on the assumption that everyone they're dealing > > > with started wioth the same basic instruction and they're > > > protecting their clientelle as much as themselves. > > > > > > Do you really object to this stance? Why? > > > > Because it's not true. > > > > When I worked at National I was assigned to be the > > "point man" in the efforts to strengthen the use of > > copyrighted terms like "TM" and "Transcendental > > Meditation." So I had to interface between the > > copyright lawyers who had been hired and the then > > heads of the US movement. I can guarantee you that > > at no point during any of the discussions was the > > welfare of TMers or their "clientele" discussed. > > Is it possible that this was simply *assumed*?-- > > > It was simply a question of protecting a monopoly > > and keeping other people from offering for a cheaper > > price what they were offering for an expensive one. > > --i.e., that "protecting the monopoly" > was seen to be essential to preserve the > "purity of the teaching," and thus > automatically (in the TM view) more > beneficial to the welfare of TMers? > > Lawyers talk about what's important to > lawyers. It doesn't *necessarily* mean > there are no other considerations > involved.
I wasn't talking about what the lawyers talked about, but about what the TM National leaders talked about. Other than that bit of clarification, I have no further comment or replies, and will never have. As I stated here earlier, there is a certain cyberstalker who seems to live to argue, and in particular to argue with me. Things have gotten boring at a.m.t. lately, with no one posting much of anything but political screeds and endless Willytext. So IMO a few of those people are coming here to get their "argument fix." They won't get it from me. I prefer discussion. One can only hope that the individuals who are migrating here can learn from the openness and (generally) mutual respect of this forum rather than trying to replicate the operating system of a less evolved one. 'Nuff said... Unc 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/
