--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote:
> >
> 
> > So, the mutterings of a beloved  85-year-old 
> 
> I KNOW those funny old people with their "mutterings"!  I'm guessing that you 
> don't hang out with people in their 80's who are with it?
> 
> [at that time] man
> > are going to be used to prove what... THat he's 85 and somewhat
> > out of touch?
> 
> Well we are talking about a pitchman for FULL human potential here so it 
> isn't exactly JUST some guy on a park bench.  And his "mutterings" were 
> ironclad policies that affected the lives of many people.  Not to mention the 
> blatant hypocrisy of a guy whose own life was extended by Western medical 
> doctors acting as if they were witch doctors to avoid at all cost.
> 
> > 
> > It's already obvious that some of those suggestions have been
> > overruled in someway by King Tony or that MMY himself modded
> > the system at some point (like gasp, HE never changed his mind
> > about something).
> > 
> > L
> 
> The "Aw shucks routing doesn't fly here.  Here is a guy who is supposed to be 
> the embodiment of his own system revealing that it didn't work very well in 
> increasing his own mental capacity and whose physical state not only reveals 
> that he was NOT in possession of knowledge worthy of the grandiose claim of 
> being "the supreme 
> authorities on health", he falls waaaay short of a man I have witnessed using 
> the rasayana "Dry Martini" followed by sacred cow in as many forms as he 
> could find it.  Maharishi was in poor health starting in his 70's in a decade 
> where the martini system produced a man who could still beat me in tennis.  
> (Not trying to make to much of a point of this since I kinda suck at tennis.)
> 
> I can feel nostalgic for Maharishi too.  But that doesn't cloud my vision of 
> the counter evidence to every claim he made about his system that the end of 
> his life represented.  If Maharishi in his 70's represents the "after" 
> picture I'm amazed anyone still follows his "supreme" health advice.
> 
> And if he, with his ability to set himself up with the most ideal possible 
> life conditions according to his own theory couldn't at least give us the 
> vitality of the average octarian farmer in the Tuscan countryside knocking 
> back the rocket fuel grappa between bottles of Chianti wine (expect more such 
> references in the coming weeks) what do you think his system is going to 
> accomplish for all those whose economic circumstances don't allow for such 
> perfect compliance to his "ideal" system? (You know, all the non 
> multi-millionaires)

So the fact that his health failed him is proof that his system doesn't work, 
period?


Lawson

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