From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 8:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
--- In [email protected] <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , Michael Jackson <mjackson74@... <mailto:mjackson74@...> > wrote: > > > > That was brilliant Curtis! And funny too. But who knows, maybe Buck will use his farm muscles to out maneuver all of them on the foam. I don't really understand what the 'competition' is all about. Do the men compete against the men and do the women have a competition too? And do the men always outdistance the women? And do the younger always outdistance the older? If so, then it seems doubtful any of this is flying. It sounds like a competition of strength - pure and simple. I don't think the mechanics of pushing off a piece of foam with brute force and intention would be the same as having some other physical law that governs the ability of a human being to fly, even though they have no jet engine or feathers or leathery wings or wings like an insect, and therefore lift off is not governed by strength at all but by that mysterious force of nature that would allow (although not, seemingly, so far yet in the history of TM) a humanoid to lift spontaneously off the floor. In other words, I don't buy it; having this competition is sort of like a strange parody of what the siddhi is all about. I think it sort of demeans the whole thing although on another level I kind of like the fact that this event occurs because it is almost like a sort of self-imposed joke by the people who organize this. It is, in the end, an athletic event, IMVHO. You're right Ann. These competitions have been going on for over 30 years and Newtonian physics has never been violated in the slightest. It's an Emperor's New Clothes event. Bizarre even to the believers, but believe engines are running at full tilt in order to rationalize it. What is needed is for some innocent to proclaim "but they're just using their muscles" and for everyone to wake up. Probably ain't gonna happen any time soon.
