Seriously, Peter, where do you take issue with Topliffe's 
arguments? You dismiss his facts? All of them? Some?

Thanks.

 - Patrick Gillam

Peter wrote:
>
> Thanks, Laurence, you fundie nut bag!
> 
> > Letter to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger by
> > Laurence Topliffe, August
> > 18. ...
> > 
> > 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....

> > Laurence Topliffe, Fairfield





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