--- In [email protected], "gullible fool" <ffl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote: > > > > On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:00 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], fflmod@ wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > > >> I remember the evening in the late 1980s when Doug > > >> gave an exciting talk about Veda Land to a packed > > >> dome. Easily one of the most exciting nights at MUM > > >> I had experienced. > > > > I remember seeing a tape of that talk (or something > > very similar, where Doug was talking about VL) and > > remember thinking, even then, that the claims were > > so grandiose and vague that it was difficult to believe > > anything would ever come of them. > > > > > That's what the movement was. That's what kept > > > us going. That's why so may of us devoted years > > > of our lives at poverty levels. But what were we > > > embracing? - visions that never got past the > > > talking stage. And you remember those times fondly? > > > I don't regret my time spent in the movement. In > > > fact I am grateful for much of it. But looking back > > > om evemts like you described, one after another, > > > where nothing came of them? I view them now from a > > > more jaded lens. > > > I certainly don't blame Doug for such a grandious talk, > because I believe he was totally sold on the belief that > Veda Land was going to come about.
You know, I do blame him. I blame anybody--including MMY--who heard those plans, such as they were, and thought they were even remotely feasible. The *concepts* were dumb. They weren't the sort of thing that could be translated into actual physical reality. If Henning was sold on the belief that they'd come about, the more fool he. The strength of his belief doesn't excuse his lack of common sense.
