--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/31/05 9:33:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ogroups.com writes: > > 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? > > > > > > > I can't speak for the TMO and the claim of 200 schools, but when I was in > Uttar Kashi in the mid 90's there was a Maharishi Vidya mandir or whatever they > called it. I was invited with my traveling companion to see the place and > speak before an assembly of the students. However the place didn't look > anything like these places on the web sites. A few small buildings with tin roofs > and a couple hundred students ranging in age from 5 or 6 to late teens. And it > wasn't free. But I'm sure the community was happy to have the school.< I > could easily see 200 such places in India that the TMO could have started with > maybe a few larger places to show off and give the impression they are all > like that.
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