Your math looks good, you are a clear, analytic thinker, you have made some excellent points and I think your questions are very relevant. And no one can accuse you of inconsistency or lack of doggedness. All in all, an excellent, non reactive, rational and intelligent post.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Alright especially for Steve and Buck - even though Bob Roth says the TMO has > a "modest income" let's say the Indian English newspapers got it right when > they reported last summer that the Indian arm of the TMO alone is worth over > 1 billion, 114 million US dollars. > > Now if TM and all its other programs are the royal gift and sovereign remedy > for PTSD sufferers, at risk students and prison inmates (as well as everyone > else in the world) why does the TMO through the David Lynch Foundation > continue to beg the public to fund its efforts? > > Why, if TM is as royal a gift as they claim does the TMO not have a dedicated > team of 200 teachers go all over this country teaching TM to these > populations and anyone else who wants it and fund this teaching effort > themselves? > > > If the TMO gave each of these 200 teachers $50,000.00 per year, plus expenses > the total cost of salaries would be 10 million per year. Then adding in > expenses, let's say another 5 million a year. 15 million a year total costs > for teaching, well I don't know how many people a teacher can initiate in one > day, but let's say 7 initiations per teacher per day. > > Let's say that 150 teachers actually initiate and the other 50 have support > roles of some kind. In one week, that would be 1,050 people per week learning > TM, assuming one course per week being taught. Time off for the teacher for 2 > weeks per year vacation, plus no courses on Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth > of July and so on. Let's postulate the teachers have 6 weeks per year off for > vacation and holidays. > > > So in one year there would be 46 courses of 1,050 people initiated for a > total of 48,300 people learning TM every year. In the course of 10 years, > there would be an additional 483,000 TM'ers on planet earth at a cost of 150 > million dollars which if the funds were taken from the Indian branch of the > TMO would leave them with nearly 1 billion dollars US. > > The numbers of new initiates could be higher if 2 courses were taught per > week or more TM teachers were paid to do it. If there was really anything to > the idea that the mantra won't work unless there is "dakshina" or an offering > of fruit, flowers and money, the initiates could each give 5 dollars as > dakshina, this would fulfill the requirements of dakshina, and give the TMO > teachers $241,500 per year to use as petty cash and help pay expenses. > > This would also mean that there would be potentially nearly half a million > new sidhas each year in the US able to do group program together. If the TMO > would also fund local centers and pay maybe four TM teachers per center to > run things, have advanced lectures, checking and of course organize local > group flying. Let's say the cost of this would equal new initiations each > year, so at the end of 10 years the TMO would have paid out another 150 > million dollars. > > > This would leave the TMO with over 500 million dollars in assets (assuming > the Indian TMO is funding things) and more than enough yogic flyers to tip > the balance from negative energy to positive energy all over the world. If > the Maharishi Effect is real, this would create world peace in 10 years for > real. > > Now tell me why the TMO doesn't do this? > > My answer is several fold. > > One: The TMO always existed to fund Maharishi and the Shrivastava boys. Now > it just goes to the Shrivastava boys. > > Two: The TMO has made sure for nearly 60 years that it does not pay, it gets > paid. > > Three: Tony Nader, Bevan and all the other raja's are also clearly on the TMO > payroll and want to get paid, not pay out. > > Three: Laying out the numbers as I have here, it is clear to me that if the > Maharishi Effect is real and verifiable, and that world peace, prosperity, > safety and a good life for all is dependent on large numbers of people > practicing TM and TM Sidhis program, then there can only be two conclusions > one can logically reach which are: > > Conclusion number one - the Shrivastava boys and the rajas don't give a rat's > ass about the well being of the world - if they did care, and the TM and TM > Sidhi Superradiance Effect is real, they should do it now. > > Conclusion number two - the Shrivastava boys and the rajas know damn good and > well the programs they claim will bring enlightenment and world peace won't > do it, so they won't fund them to be proven liars, hucksters and frauds. > > If they keep CLAIMING it works, they can keep getting funding for what is > gonna happen - selling futures that never arrive. > > So have at it FFL! >
