From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> ---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote :
It was apparently the suggestion that MIU/MUM has gotten its accreditation by bribery with cash and whores that outraged our Dome Centric friend here on FFL. Of course that was satire, but were it to turn out to be fact in part or in whole I would not be surprised. Actually that would surprise me but I got the humorous intention behind it. Especially as it was adapted wholesale from the bit that "Buck" posted. It's funny how Doug can get upset about an obvious joke like that but not get upset about the news that the national yagya program (cash for completely ineffectual prayers) costs people he probably knows millions every year. The fact that the supposedly scientific MUM hasn't even attempted to validate such an impressive cash cow surprises me. They try and prove that other supernatural powers exist but here's an obvious one that would elevate their standing in the world of science immeasurably. Proving the efficacy of prayer! They'd be legends overnight and people would flock to the movement and bring about the golden age in a heartbeat.. I suspect that there's a reason they haven't attempted to validate this and that is that even they know it's a load of deluded crap. That's people you know Doug, getting conned. Doesn't that rile you at all? It does me. I once would have thought this, that no one could be so far gone as to believe that yagyas actually do anything, but the figures you posted the other days shocked me into realizing that I was trying to give people more credit than they deserved. I mean, let's face it...any group that actually spend FIVE MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR on this demented psychobabble really isn't sane.
