--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "matrixmonitor" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Maharishi was a target of the CIA > > > This is utter, unproven crap.
Not to mention being a fantasy based in self importance, both for the person who thought it up (Maharishi) and the ones who perpetuate it (TMers who desperately want to cling to the idea that their lives were important enough to be persecuted). > There is ZERO evidence -- and never has been -- that the > TMO or MMY is or ever was the "target" of the CIA. Paranoids don't need evidence. In fact, the less hard evidence there is, the more it's a sign that the persecutors are doing a really good job. :-) > Of course, claiming that one is the target of the CIA is > always a convenient scapegoat for one's own failings. > > But I can't help getting a bitter taste in my mouth whenever > an individual or organisation is accused of illegal shenanigans > -- as the CIA has with the TMO -- without evidence or proof. > I find such declarations reprehensible. It's not *about* the CIA. It's about eltitists' innate need to feel important. The TM organization panders to elitism. It tells its members that they're so important that when they meditate they clear "stress" from the atmosphere and that when they bounce on their butts they create world peace. It tells them that their belief systems are better than anyone else's in the world. And to put the cherry on top of the self-importance cake, it tells people that they are SO important that the CIA and other evil forces are trying to persecute the founder of this So Very Special And Important Tradition, and thus are indirectly trying to persecute *them*, the really important ones, the ones who make it all happen with their cash. It's so common in religious and spiritual traditions that the mind boggles that people still believe this crap. But people still believe this crap, because they're more desperate to be "important" than they are to be rational. > >because he was targeted by that > > peanut-farming moron, Jimmy Carter. Rick Archer has posted here > before > > about MMY's meeting with Carter in the Georgia governor's office > not > > long before Carter became President (a hilarious scene -- Carter > > praying on his knees when MMY walked into the office). Carter felt > > that MMY was a threat to Christianity and determined to meet the > enemy > > and find a way to derail him -- fortunately, like most of Carter's > > muddled thinking, the CIA's efforts fizzled out. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
