--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> Lurk,
>
> The guy has not been observed long enough to declare a miracle. And,
as we know, bribery is the life blood of India. Sounds like a pretty
harsh, even bigoted judgement. So, Indians are likely incapable of a
honest inquiry about this? The guy could be merely fasting and secretly
pissing in a wad of tissue which he hands off to a friend.
>
> I saw this article yesterday about an American guy, decades ago, that
went around showing folks how he could be run completely through by a
sword. Turns out he had taken a year and built a shaft thought his body
like one has through an earlobe for an earring -- talk about your
dedicated scammers!
>
> Same deal with this yogi -- even two dollars is big time motivation in
India. Get international acclaim, no matter how temporary, and the guy's
going on a speaking tour for the rest of his life as "the saint."
>
> Western science is not going to have a second thought about this.
That's pretty easy. Just dismiss it as impossible. Goes against what
we know about human phsyilogy, (at least so far), so dismiss it. I'm
not there yet, for better or worse.
>
> Edg
>
> --- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000"
steve.sundur@ wrote:
> >
> > I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance to
comment on it. Recently Edg commented that had Fred Lenz really been
able to levitate that you would have gobs of people and press, and even
the govenrment all over it.
> >
> > And I said that sometimes the things you expect the press and
culture to jumb on, they don't. To me this is an example of this. If
this is true, is this not as remarkable a feat as leviatation? I saw
this story on a major media web site, on the front page, Tuesday or
Wednesday. Is this getting more than a passing interest from the press,
and culture. Doesn't seem like it. And then, why not?
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The BBC's 2-minute video-report on an Indian saint who has lived
with no
> > > food, no water, for over 70 years:
> > >
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8652837.stm
> > >
> >
>
