--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> > > You don't answer the questions put to you... (that little 
> > > matter of message #70057...)
> > 
> > We've been over that a few times now, Shemp.  As you
> > know, I'll be happy to answer it as soon as you tell
> > me how the question was relevant to the post of mine
> > you were responding to.
> 
> Consider it a stand-alone question that has nothing to do with any 
> previous post.
> 
> Now, will you answer the question?

Oh, come on, Shemp, give it the old college try.

Here's the post you were responding to (which is
referring to a satirical TMO press release Barry
crafted, which you said you had taken seriously
until halfway through it):

--------------
> --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> We say this over and over again on this newsgroup, but
> it speaks volumns about the present state of the TMO
> when outrageous satire of the TMO is initially
> perceived as "rational" movement discourse!

Does it speak volumes about the present state of
the TMO, or about how people on this forum tend to
perceive the TMO?

I knew this was satire after reading the title.
---------------

Now, what could have been the connection with
the question you went on to ask?

Just take a stab at it.  Be brave!

To help you out, here are the first four
paragraphs that you said you read without
realizing it was satire:

MAHARISHI'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD PRESS - SEPTEMBER 1, 2005

Katrina 'Devastation' Seen as Golden
Opportunity for World Peace and Windfall
for Builders Invited to Participate in
Global Reconstruction Program

As previously announced, the World Government's Global
Reconstruction Program will raise the world's population
from problem-ridden life to problem-free lifeĀ—life in
accord with Total Natural Law -- life in enlightenment,
perfect health, affluence, invincibility, and peace.

However, many cynics and problem-ridden people, attached
to their cultures and traditions and to the non-Vastu-
friendly buildings in their countries, did not immediately
see the wisdom of tearing the whole lot of them down and
starting over with Vastu-correct buildings constructed by
TM front companies.

Enter Nature. Hurricane Katrina should be viewed as the
response of the realm of Natural Law to the failure of the
world to immediately tear down all the old buildings and
reconstruct the world in accord with Natural Law and to do
it -- as we demanded in our initial Press Releases --
simultaneously and quickly. "Time and tide wait for no one,"
Maharishi said at that time. The world didn't listen.

So the realm of Total Natural Law responded by 'devastating'
the first of many non-Vastu cities. Just look at the word
'devastate.' Could the meaning be any clearer? The city
of New Orleans was not Vastu-compliant; therefore it was
de-Vastu-ated, to clear the way for a *proper* Vastu city
to be built on its ruins.





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