---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
turq, I agree with you that the program should be disbanded. But only if greed and other forms of ignorance are at the heart of it. However, if at its heart is a desire to relieve suffering in the world, then I say let the program be reassessed and fixed somehow. I keep thinking: it has been a long, hard winter in Iowa. There have been several mornings where a person could take one step out their door, slip on ice and fall flat on their butt. There was one blizzard in the early evening that caused severe white beyond a short distance. There has been snowfall after snowfall requiring constant shoveling of snow, donning of cold weather gear, walking outside in freezing temps, icy winds from Canada. Now imagine 500 young men from a hot climate trying to deal with that! For one thing, can you say cabin fever?! All I'm saying is perhaps this is a factor in the situation. Of course along with all that you note. But can we really know the motivations of all concerned? The parents, the TMO, the pundits themselves? And what about our own motivations as we ascribe blame without having all the facts? Can we ever know all the facts? Is there such a thing as facts anyway? I feel in this post of yours a lot of compassion. For that I thank you. Compassion?! Share, are you blind and crazy? All Bawwy is doing is using this incident as an excuse to continue to diss the TM movement. He doesn't care one iota about human freedom or the 'imprisonment' or "slave" labour supposedly being inflicted on these particular pandits. Bawwy just built himself another soapbox - this time on the backs of the pandits. On Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:39 AM, TurquoiseBee <turquoiseb@...> wrote: From: "LEnglish5@..." <LEnglish5@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: So what have we learned from the pundit riots? Are you *really* trying to make a case that children essentially sold into slavery by their own parents have an obligation to "fulfill their contract?" Are you saying that if said *adults* are not fulfilling the terms of their legal contract, they should continue to be housed in the USA and paid money rather than flown back to their home country? You seem to be attempting to paint them as victims. Indeed I am. I am furthermore suggesting that the entire program is an ill-disguised form of modern child slavery, promoted by a known rapist in India as a mechanism to suck millions of dollars worth of "donations" from dumb TMers around the world, with the aid of the international TM movement and shills such as yourself. I am suggesting that the entire program -- both here and in India -- be disbanded and eliminated immediately, and that serious investigations be initiated to determine the extent of the abuse perpetrated on these kids and their parents. YOU are the one seeming to *defend* this indentured servitude. I suggest that you stop trying to "shoot the messenger" and instead try to do so. That is, provide some scientific evidence that these kids' chanting does *anything at all*, either for them, or for the world as a whole. If you cannot, I have to assume that you are merely acting out the knee-jerk cult programming you've been indoctrinated with. I would further suggest that this behavior makes YOU more than a little a victim yourself.
