--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "shempmcgurk" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Malls centers ARE kooky and selling Maharishi honey, candy bars, > > > soap, etc. is kooky cubed. > > > > Why? It brings in money, does it not? > > This is pretty hilarious. On the one hand we've got > the conservative greed-is-good capitalist arguing > that these business ideas are kooky and out of place > in an organization that should be focusing on teach- > ing meditation to as many people as possible. On the > other we've got the liberal saying that anything that > brings in money is good for the movement. Go figure. :-)
The above was obviously tongue in cheek, but there is a question I've been wanting to ask sparaig for a while. You seem to be consistently in favor of anything that "brings in money" so that the organization can survive into the future. Is that a correct assessment? My question is, "Survive as what?" The Catholic Church has survived for a long time. As an organization that no longer offers any technique or method by which followers can be like the supposed founder of the organization (Christ) or achieve any of the things he lived on a daily basis. In fact, all of the dogma even *suggesting* that followers could ever be on the same level as Christ has been carefully purged and eliminated. It's an organization whose major goal can be accurately viewed in terms of history as self preservation. The primary goal of the Catholic Church IS the preservation and continuation of the Catholic Church. Always has been. In my opinion, that's where the TMO is headed. They've *already* all but eliminated the teach- ing of TM. But they're raising money like gang- busters to be able to continue teaching the technique they no longer teach and seemingly have no interest in ever teaching on a mass scale again. The emphasis is all on Grand Schemes (big buildings) and robes and crowns to impress the lingering rank and filers (think the pomp and circumstance of the costumes worn at the Vatican). What is is that the TMO is raising all this money FOR? In your opinion, it seems to be a way of ensuring that this valuable "rediscovery" they call TM will never be lost, and will be made available to future generations. However, even in *this* generation, the organization has done everything in its power to make sure it is NOT available. TM, the *foundation* of the "church," is passé, forgotten. It is rarely even *discussed* in the TMO any more, as far as I can tell, much less taught. I think the TM organization is already caught in self perpetuation mode. They want to keep on keepin' on forever, and need more and more money TO keep on keepin' on forever. But they have forgotten WHY they wanted to keep on keepin' on in the first place. ------------------------ 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/
