--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > on 1/2/06 9:28 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Different cultures define "caring" in different ways. The TMO's > > > founder is Hindu, and charity work isn't always the top of the list > > > for Hindus, I guess due to the reincarnation/karma thing. > > > > Amma's a Hindu, and it's at the top of her list. Karunamayi is a > Hindu. She > > too sets up hospitals, schools, etc. Gandhi was a Hindu. The list > goes on. > > > > When you've got the answer to all of life's problems (i.e. TM), why > waste your precious time setting up hospitals and stuff like that? > > And I'm not trying to be glib here. Assuming for the moment that you > accept the premise that TM is everything it is claimed to be, why > waste precious and limited resources on charity work like schools and > food banks? > > Indeed, I would make the argument that the TMO is wasting precious > resources with side issues like Vastu, Yagyas, NLP, etc. when you've > got limited time, money and man power and you've got the solution -- > TM -- primed and ready to get to the world's people... >
The NLP was relatively free publicity for TM. It also got manypeople off their duffs and working in the real world. Wasn't a bad use of limited resources in the long run, I think. The New Age community, for instance, still reveres John Hagelin for running for President of the USA on the Enlightenment Ticket. ------------------------ 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/
