--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > > > The only problem was that you could replace the word "absolute" > > > > that the Movement used in the book with the word "God" and it > > > > would have meant exactly the same thing...so if the court > > > > didn't catch the TMO on the puja they would have caught them on > > > > the book which was set up in such a way that it DID violate the > > > > separation of church and state. > > > > > > Yes and no. > > > > > > The appeals court judge who wrote a long concurring > > > opinion, incidentally, discussed exactly this point. > > > It's very interesting reading; it's been posted to > > > alt.m.t a couple of times. If anybody wants to read > > > it, let me know and I'll dig up the URLs. > > > > > > But you could be a hard-core atheist, in the sense of > > > rejecting the forms of God proclaimed by the religions, > > > and still find the idea of the Absolute entirely > > > compatible with your beliefs. You can teach > > > metaphysics, in other words, without actually > > > teaching religion. > > > > What I found objectionable in the high school book was the way that > > the absolute's attributes were declared as fact. If they had only > > treated it like a scientific theory that had YET been proven > > instead of as fact, then I think it would have passed muster. > > (Scientific theories are never "proven," Shemp.)
I thought that was the whole idea behind science: that the theory gets proven by repeatable, verificable scientific experiments. > > I never saw the book, so I don't know what the wording > was that you object to. But TMers are supposed to be > able to verify all of it for themselves in their own > experience. I agree. But the SCIENCE of creative intelligence was supposed to be the theoretical scientific knowledge of the experience of TM that was supposed to be scientifically verifiable. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
