Thanks, Laurence, you fundie nut bag!
--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Letter to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger by
> Laurence Topliffe, August
> 18. Again, if you want to write a letter to the
> editor in response to this
> or the other one, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> include your real name and
> where you live. Keep it under 500 words.
>
> To the editor:
> A couple days ago, I was sitting at my computer when
> a gentleman knocked on
> my door. When I asked what he wanted, he asked me if
> I was concerned with
> what was going on in the world such as child
> abductions and other crimes. I
> said of course I was. He replied that he would like
> to speak with me about a
> solution. I said that he must not know about the
> U.S. Peace Government and
> what we were doing which would end this and other
> crimes. He said he know
> about it but that the whole thing was just a sham.
>
> When I tried to tell him that he was wrong and
> basically didn¹t know
> anything about it, he said he didn¹t want to debate
> me and when I tried to
> show him how he was wrong he literally jumped off
> the porch and ran down the
> sidewalk.
>
> I know that this person was going to tell me what
> his religion says and to
> try to convince me that the only way to end the
> crimes is to become a member
> of his religion or pray with him and others.
>
> For anyone to think that the U.S. Peace Government
> and the knowledge it is
> based on is a sham is frankly quite absurd, for a
> number of reasons. First,
> it would mean that all those who benefited from the
> technique really didn¹t.
> (They must be deluded.) Second, it would mean that
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
> who brought the TM technique to the world, is a liar
> or is also deluded or
> something. Third, it would mean that all the
> research (or perhaps only some
> I\of it), research that has been published in some
> of the most prestigious
> scientific journals in the world and which shows,
> among other things, that
> the crime rate falls when the number of TM
> meditators (or yogic flyers) in
> an area is high enough, that the practice reduces
> illness by as much as 90
> percent, that it increases mental potential, etc.,
> is all fake and that the
> scientists who did the research and also the ones
> who accepted the research
> for publication, were somehow in collusion to
> perpetrate a hoax on the
> entire human race. It would mean that the yogic
> flyers are not really
> levitating but are only pretending to and that the
> research that shows that
> the brain wave coherence within and between the
> hemispheres increases
> dramatically when they are levitating is nothing but
> a bunch of lies. It
> would mean that the seven judges in St. Louis, Mo.,
> who are sentencing
> offenders to practice the TM technique are basing
> their decisions on
> nothing. It would mean that the students who said
> they found schoolwork
> easier, more enjoyable and got better grades and
> enjoyed school more, have
> been lying or are also deluded.
>
> It¹s clear that it¹s not the meditators who are
> deluded. It¹s those who
> think that the meditators are who are deluded. It is
> very unfortunate that
> many of those who think that way do so because of
> what their religion tells
> them.
>
> When I was going to church, I remember being told
> that Jesus was an example
> of what we could all become. By now, it should be
> clear that one can¹t
> become like him by going to church or praying. If
> that was true, by this
> time, thousands of members of all religions would
> have become like him and
> would have gained the ability to perform ³miracles.²
> Not only have religions
> not achieved this, many clergy have committed some
> of the heinous acts
> imaginable. Yet those who practice the TM technique
> can describe what Jesus
> called the ³Kingdom of Heaven within.² They can
> describe it because the TM
> practice allows one to experience it.
>
> Laurence Topliffe, Fairfield
>
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