--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: > [...] > > Generally I agree with this. My only comment is to ask > > how much of that stockpile of money is liquid. 3.5 billion > > would yield at 3%, 105 million a year. That would take care > > of a lot. It would have to be invested in equities and > > corporate bonds, not the low interest of government > > securities that are current. If the money is mostly in > > land, its not going to generate cash unless it is leased > > out to paying customers. The amount of available cash is > > probably considerably less than that total. And how much > > of that land is being siphoned off to private parties is > > another consideration. > > All of these are good points EXCEPT there is no way that > the TM organization has $3.5 billion in capital stashed away. > > The height of initiations in the USA and around the world was > just after the Merv Griffith show appearances where *up to* > 35,000 people a month were starting in the USA, the most of > any country. > > Assuing that they had that 35,000 x $125 revenue for the past > 480 months, you get: $2.1 billion, about 1/2 of that going to > the teachers so slightly over $1 billion gross revenue for the > international TM organization in the past 40 years. > > MMY would have to be REALLY good to triple that money since you > still have to pay *something* for the international organization, > and I'm assuming that initiations were 3.5 million a year for > the past 40 years which of course they were not. > > The latest figures from India brag that 45,000 people started > TM last year in India. > > The TM organization claims that about 6 million people have > learned TM in the last 40 years. Assuming they all paid $2500, > that would be $13 billion, half of which went to the TM > organization, so $6.5 over 40 years. > > You'd still have to have only 50% expenses to get that $3.5 > billion, and knowing how the TM organization operates, do you > really think they saved 50% of their gross revenue per year? > > It's a stupid figure plucked out of the air.
And if I might suggest it, yours is a stupid attempt to keep from dealing with the real issue. *Whatever* amount of money the TMO has, it is *more than enough* to fully fund any attempt to gather the "magic number" of buttbouncers in Fairfield. They've had the money to accomplish this for decades, but never did. Why do you think that is? I can suggest two reasons. The first is that dangling the never-quite-reached-carrot of some "magic number" in front of TMers allows the organization to keep using that carrot for begging/fundraising (pretty much the only income the org has these days). The second is more likely; if the TMO really ever *did* do what any ethical spiritual organization would do and spent its own money to test out the ME theory, and they gathered the "magic number," what would they do if nothing happened as a result? No world peace, no "heaven on Earth," nada. They can't risk that. Do you really think it's *ethical* for an organization that claims to have the secret to achieving world peace, and that *clearly* has the money to fund such an effort themselves, to not do so? If so, please explain your reasons for believing this.
