--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/31/05 5:43:18 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Tell you what...send this web page to the Times Of India > and ask them to assign a reporter to checking it out. It > would be big news, after all -- a guru who "made good" > in the outside world coming back to India and helping > out his country. Then let's see what the reporters actually > find when they go to all these locations and look for > 100,000 students. > > Oh my! You're so negative! LOL!
That's true. If this were the Kiosk, I'd have been burned at the stake by now. :-) But y'know, the funny thing is that I really *would* love to believe that the TMO has done something non-self-serving with its money in all this time. I think it would be really *neat* if there really *were* 200 schools in India, providing a free or reasonably- priced education, one that involved being exposed to the practice of meditation (as opposed to being forced to practice meditation). It would be really nice to believe this. But I can't. And the reason is because the TMO lost *all* its credibility for me decades ago. After 40 years of broken promises, "pronouncements" that don't come true or have anything to do with what we consensually call reality, consistent abuses of trust, the law, and even its own followers, *how* could I just take the TM organ- ization's word for something like this? How do you tell when Karl Rove is lying? His lips are moving. How do you tell when the TM organization is either lying or lost in some amazingly delusional fantasy? They issue a press release or make a "pronouncement." It's all in the patterns. If the patterns have been clearly established for many years (and they have, in both examples above), how likely is it that those patterns are going to change at the last minute? 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/
