you see this across the spectrum - in the political arena, culture arena. Critics love to say, "now, so and so has really sunk to a new low"
Maybe they really don't realize that they said the same thing, probably two weeks ago, or maybe two days ago. Two hours ago, Michael? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Not surprising but it feels like the Movement has sunk to a new low. Are the UK TM'ers stupid enough to accept that excuse? From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] King Lear: The Sequel ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Oh come on! Are you hearing this from official Movement people there in the UK??? Yep, it's a fairly common excuse to cover the almost complete failure of the big projects. I think it's a rationalisation that shows them in a good light, as in "It wasn't supposed to work anyway because it was for our spiritual development". Coincidentally, The Towers of Invincibility was the last project that they got away with asking for donations without a guarantee that the money would be used solely for that particular project. The next one was the world yagya programme, 'Give me a billion dollars and I'll save the world!' said Marshy. No, said everyone else - not unless we get our money back if it doesn't happen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The excuse they use now for all the constant disappointments and failed projects is that it was all a yagya for the people taking part, a way of breaking down ego's and developing new skills." From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 4:43 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] King Lear: The Sequel I was at the presentation of "our" Tower of Invincibility, they had a little model of it and brochures about how many units have been sold, both apartments and offices. There were photos of the foundation stone being laid somewhere and it all sounded very positive. It wasn't my first brush with movement hyperbole though and I was sceptical they were going to achieve it. I'd realised by the that they went through regular phases of The Idea, then the fundraising, then....nothing. I don't think they are deliberately just taking money - I think they really had the intention to build/achieve everything they set out to. At least at the grassroots level. The excuse they use now for all the constant disappointments and failed projects is that it was all a yagya for the people taking part, a way of breaking down ego's and developing new skills. Tune your mind to the master, nothing to do with the actual projects! It's a fine excuse for a life spent not achieving anything and I wouldn't mind a bit IF they hadn't involved the unwary punter in donating fortunes towards it all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Since no one replied with any hard data, I have to assume that none of the pledged "Maharishi Towers of Invincibility" ever got built. The only things one can find on Google about them are pitches to suckers and governments to donate money to build them. The only photo of one I can find on Google is the tiny one at MUM; all others are drawings and computer simulations on the begging sites. Looks to me as if even Maharishi's last mad act was a failure. http://www.maharishitowerofinvincibility.org/welcome/ http://www.maharishitowerofinvincibility.org/welcome/ http://www.maharishitowerofinvincibility.org/a-tower-of-total-knowledge/ http://www.maharishitowerofinvincibility.org/a-tower-of-total-knowledge/ http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/current-projects-2/tower-of-invincibility-for-every-nation/ http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/current-projects-2/tower-of-invincibility-for-every-nation/ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 1:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] King Lear: The Sequel OK, here's a question for those "closer to the action," TM-wise. Do you remember Maharishi's last days, when he was acting out his own version of Shakespeare's "King Lear" by having all the Rajas gazing at him over closed-circuit television vie with each other to see who was willing to pledge to build the biggest, tallest, and most phallic "Tower Of Invincibility" in his honor? I do. And as I remember it, several of these guys who had already paid a million bucks just to be in the room promised -- Goneril- and Regan-like -- to build these magnificent edifices. So did they ever get built? Other than at MUM and Vlodrop and probably at Maharishi's gravesite in India, did these guys follow through on their pledges to "erect" these testimonials to Maharishi? Just curious...
