Someone told me you have days of the week panties, but that you wear each day, for an entire week! Gross! I obviously cannot compete with your stupidity, so I'll leave it all to you. Toodles.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: --- In [email protected], doctordumbass@... wrote: > > Have you been smoking weed, again? :-) > > Who gives a shit, about who gives a shit, about TM? > What's the issue? What's the problem? > > Some people find TM the bees knees, and some couldn't > care less about it. > > Your point, please? Are you actually trying to increase > the marketing potential of TM? Unless the "one" is Supposedly Enlightened, I guess. :-) :-) :-) > ---In [email protected], [email protected] wrote: > > Just a note of caution to those who still believe that "If we charge > more/less/enough for TM, they will come," *they* in this case being the > untold millions you think are required to make the world a better place and > who are out there, just waiting for the right TM marketing approach. Consider > who you're talking to, and what *they* believe. > > The latest Gallup poll doesn't seem to indicate that John Q. American Public > is quite on the same wavelength that you are. 58% of them probably wouldn't > make it through the "15 day waiting period." The legalization of marijuana > has five times the number of supporters as Congress does. 63% are > unthreatened by homosexual behavior, and 53% believe that same-sex marriage > should be legalized. The more-puritan-than-the-Puritans lifestyle ethic of > many die-hard TMers just doesn't map to the way that most Americans see the > world. > > > http://www.businessinsider.com/gallup-legal-marijuana-is-more-popular-than-almost-anything-else-2013-10 > > http://www.businessinsider.com/gallup-legal-marijuana-is-more-popular-than-almost-anything-else-2013-10 > > > Me, I find these Gallup findings positive, and hopeful, because they're > *pragmatic*, and on the whole they seem to indicate that Americans aren't > quite the hyper-conservative know-nothings that the Tea Party and others > would have you believe they are. But such pragmatism is not gonna be appealed > to by Woo Woo propaganda about how many Yogic Flyers can butt-bounce on the > head of a pin made of polystyrene foam, and how that's gonna magically create > Whirled Peas. > > The thing that would make TM "marketable" again IMO would be a return to the > more pragmatic approach of the late 60s, in which it was marketed as a simple > relaxation technique that would help to make you less stressed and more > productive in your real-world activities. Nobody gives a shit about > enlightenment; if the Gallup organization polled for that one, my bet is that > the percentage of people they'd find who believe it exists wouldn't crack two > digits, and the number who would actually pay money for it would be a > fraction of that. > > A non-drug technique that takes only 40 minutes per day and could help to > lower stress levels is marketable. A Woo Woo "gateway drug" that only seeks > to hook people on a path to spending several hours of their day bouncing on > their butts with other people to create Whiled Peas is not. Just sayin'... >
