--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Wouldn't the truer response be: who only visited his meditation > teacher after his kids wanted to see this person, many years later?
No, on the basis of what he said on Charlie Rose, that would be a false response. Here's what he said, again: And I actually met him quite recently, just about a year and a half ago, I think. He lives in the Netherlands now. And he is a spry old codger. He's in his 80s. And he's still working, he's still spreading the message. CHARLIE ROSE: He's still the Maharishi, and he-- PAUL McCARTNEY: He's still going. And I took Stella, my daughter, and James, my son, with me, and I said, "Would it be OK if we all came to see you?" And they said, "Yes, OK." So we went in for a meeting with him. > Of course it's hard to grok the context of these comments-- No, it's not. I posted the entire section of the interview having to do with Maharishi. > he could have been grinning from ear to ear when he said this. No, in fact he was completely straightforward and quite earnest about the whole thing. > It sounds to me as if it was just a family fun day. Four hours in a room talking to an old man the kids had never met? Sure, Vaj. <snip> > Well, again, an exaggeration. I understand you have a big > emotional investment in this. He actually took his kids on their > request. I'd suggest there's at least as much emotional involvement by the person who makes stuff up to fit his agenda. *Nothing* in the Charlie Rose interview suggests he only went to see MMY on his kids' request. To the contrary, in fact: "I took them with me," he says. *He* was going to see MMY, and he brought them along. > Before that, he had never visited his meditation teacher. One > wonders if the kids hadn't begged him, would he have ever bothered? > My guess is he would not of. Again, *nothing* in the Charlie Rose interview suggests his kids "begged" him. And from what he *does* say, it sounds as though he didn't ask if he could bring the kids in to see MMY until they'd arrived at Vlodrop, so it doesn't seem likely he'd have turned around and left if the answer had been no. As far as I'm concerned, what Paul McCartney did or didn't do or say or does or doesn't think is not the issue here. The issue is the hypocrisy of the TMO/MMY critics who mock "True Believers" for their rigidity and rationalizations and bias and rumor-mongering and "desperate disinformation" but who demonstrate these very same characteristics themselves to an even more extreme degree. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
