--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:10 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > Allegedly MMY was poisoned. So much for TM reducing the effects of > > > poisoning, you meant to say... > > > > No, a myocardial infarction, a heart attack. > > > > "Maharishi had suffered severe abdominal pain and inflammation > > of the pancreas, along with kidney failure followed by a heart > > attack. " > > > > -Deepak Chopra > > Man, you really have to admire the chutzpah of Vaj's > dishonesty. Note the sentence below that immediately > follows the recitation of MMY's medical problems that > Vaj quotes: > > "...When I entered the makeshift ICU I saw Maharishi lying > unconscious in a bed with IV tubes and a respirator just > as I had foreseen. My father informed me darkly that after > drinking a glass of orange juice given to him by "a foreign > disciple," Maharishi had suffered severe abdominal pain and > inflammation of the pancreas, along with kidney failure > followed by a heart attack. Poisoning was suspected...." > > IOW, they thought the suspected poisoning was responsible > for the heart attack. But Vaj doesn't quote that last > sentence; that's the only way he could make his flat > contradiction of Lawson's remark seem even remotely > plausible. He just hoped nobody would go check the actual > article. >
When Vaj apparently attempt to score brownie points in an argument this way, and never bother to apologize (that I am aware of), it just confirms the rather nasty impression I have gotten of Vaj-as-a-person, not just just his style of arguing and such. Lawson
