after that, did you notice if your TM co-workers looked askance at you and tended to not look you directly in the eye when speaking to you?
________________________________ From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 4:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Laughable ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote : I have not been at MIU/MUM for some time, but I think I was one of the few who actually watched an annular or partial eclipse of the sun there. I can't quite remember when that was. Just about everyone else hid. I was living at an academy when there was a near total eclipse of the sun. Everyone was told by The Boss (a PHD in physics no less) that it was bad karma to watch an eclipse, I pointed out it was simply standing in a shadow but the jyotishees had spoken and we'd be doomed to inauspicious influences if we disobeyed. So he and another PHD in physics stayed inside with the rest of the staff and I was the only one "brave" enough to go outdoors and watch one of the wonders of nature. If you ever get the chance to see an eclipse you must, the way the light is drained from the sky like someone turning down the contrast on an old TV is one of the eeriest things I've witnessed. And as the shadow of the moon races over the landscape towards you it gives you a reminder of where you are, on a ball of rock flying through space with other huge bits of rock flying around you. The inability of not trying to look directly at it reminds of just how powerful the sun is too. It's all on a blinding and massive scale and gives one a profound and much needed sense of perspective. I found it both very humbling and completely awesome. And I felt sorry for the superstitious idiots sitting in their offices with the curtains closed. Physicists! Pah! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Another tid-bit from Joe Weber's book that I was not aware of is the fear MUM people have about using Wi-Fi and any form of wireless communication, all based on Marshy's own fear and paranoia that it might do him some damage somehow or another. The fact that "enlightened" men aren't afraid of wi-fi or cell phones slipped by everyone in the Movement I guess. Didn't expect to see a photo of our very own Buck in the Dome in this book either!
