--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 12/21/05 7:27 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > But if the beach is loaded with people throwing back starfish, > > > > and you know of an isolated cove that no-one goes to where a > > > > rare starfish makes its home, which is a better use of your > > > > time? Throwing back one in millions, or one in ten? > > Clearly, in your example, some starfish are better than > others, and thus are more deserving of being saved. The > clear analogy to the way that the TMO does business is > that the people who can pay the most deserve the attention. >
In my example, I was using Rick's metaphor to point out the appropriateness of triage. > I just find it fascinating that the TM movement has so > thoroughly indocrtinated its adherents into into "elitism > as spiritual path" that they manage to fit elitism even > into their analogies, without realizing it... > Except I was quite explicit in suggesting that trying to save 1/10 made better use of the throwing-arm of the kid than trying to save 1/1,000,000. If you want to call that "elitist," be my guest. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/CQDrNC/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/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/
