--- In [email protected], "PaliGap" <compost...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote: > > > > On Feb 26, 2010, at 6:54 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "PaliGap" <compost1uk@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], merudanda <no_reply@> wrote: > > >> > > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Qu7a2lbkw > > > > > > 'scuse my ignorance, but who was that speaking? > > > I'm sticking my head above the parapet here - but I > > > thought he did a fine job. > > > > > And was that substantial chap reading his magazine > > > and making notes Bevan? (And why wasn't he paying > > > attention!) > > > > Richard, you can't be serious. > > Hagelin just mouthed the same banal, > > boring platitudes he always does, and in the > > same creepy sing-songy pseudo-feminine > > voice...not to mention > > that he looks more than ever like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. > > Bevan looks even more overweight and > > sedentary than he ever has. I wonder how > > much energy it takes to get him off that chair? > > The whole thing was ghastly. I thought I'd take > > a look and see if there were any changes of > > note lately--I'm sorry I did. Few things are more > > depressing than these aging Vedic queens. > > Oh! > > As you can see I'm not up on this stuff (Hagelin, who he?). > Each to his own etc etc. I thought he came across quite > natural and sincere. A minority of one here for sure.
I got more of a "well-practiced bullshitter" from him, myself. I would not be surprised to learn that many of the seemingly-spontaneously natural and sincere moments we saw in this talk had been used in many talks before. To use Curtis' term, it feels more like a "language form" he's running to me than it does sincerity. > Bevan (for it was He) - now his body language looked downright > rude and disrespectful. Flicking through his copy of, what? > "Train Spotter Monthly"? - and seeming to me to pointedly > disregard proceedings. Harsh. I'm thinking we need to cut Bevan a little slack because I paused the video and zoomed way in, and what he was perusing so intently was the dinner menu. :-) > Perhaps my radar needs a service. Here's one for your radar, and for anyone else who finds it interesting in light of Hagelin's recent statement about the revelation of Da King having a wife and kids. Can someone who knows the terms used by Hagelin at the end when talking to, and about, Raj Raam please translate them for me? I am honestly not familiar with the terms as he used them. I get the (purely intuitive) impression he's using terms that traditionally are used to refer to a celibate recluse, and one whose worth and importance come from both that celibacy and that reclusiveness. If I'm right about what the terms mean, it must really have been a *shock* for Hagelin to learn that the person he described this way not long before was sitting there beaming not because he had only silence to go home to, but because he had a wife and kids to go home to as well. Really, if Hagelin *believed* what he was saying at the end of this clip, I can imagine that he had some problems with the revelation. That he immediately sent out an email "press release" saying what he did...uh...reinforces my take on him as a "well-practiced bullshitter" above.
