--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/28/06 9:37 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > >> > >> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > >>> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Sounds like sensible advice to me, as sensible as > >>>> realizing that such an email was necessary. > >>> > >>> So you're saying that no other organization would have > >>> needed such an email? > >> > >> I am saying that no college in America *except* > >> one founded by and run by a cult would have needed > >> an email warning its students not to come off to > >> visitors like cultists. > >> > > > > Hmmmm... I think I'd almost agree, except other such universities > > would not see themselves as cults and wouldn't feel a need to warn > > their students not to try to convert people BECAUSE they would > > believe it the most important thing their students could be doing. > > It's not that MUM administrators don't want people "converted" (inspired to > learn TM and become students), it's just that they realize that the natural > behavior of many on campus might have the opposite effect. So they were > asking people to check their natural tendencies and try to act more normal. >
Well, if they're natural tendencies, how would they be more normal if they supressed them? I was referring to the apparent realization that MUM administrators have that proseltizing would have a detrimental effect on recruiting. Most universities with a cult orientation would take the attitude that anyone turned off by the proselitizing was simply not worthy, or so I believe. ------------------------ 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/
