--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- sparaig wrote: > > --- Gillam wrote: > > > --- Rick posted this announcement: > > > > > > > > This evening (holland time), full moon day, > > > > in the Global Family Chat, Raja Wilhelm > > > > declared that Holland is now invincible. > > > > > > Gee, I hope. > > > > [snip] > > > > > > If the Netherlands go without assassinations and > > > riots, I might be inclined to believe it's risen to > > > the optimistic levels of social coherence that Raja > > > Wilhelm decrees above. > > > > A little black and white in your thinking, aren't you? > > What if there is only a drastic reduction in vioence > > rather than 100% reduction? > > My point is, Holland is something of a geopolitical flash > point right now in terms of the Islamist leanings of many > of its citizens. It's a great place to falsify any claims > of invincibility. > > I don't pay close attention to Holland's doings. If something > happens there that's bad enough to catch my attention, I'll > know Raja Wilhelm spoke too soon. > > If - and it's a big if - in coming years I read an article about > how the Netherlands is setting an example of how to reconcile > Islam and the West, I may go so far as to think, "Maybe Raja > Wilhelm was on to something."
It's certainly a good "test case." I've been to Amsterdam many times in the last two decades, and in my opinion the country has grown more polarized and less tolerant with every visit. The thin veneer of liberality and tolerance that masks the ultra- conservative Amsterdammer underneath is pretty frayed and worn thin. The thing is, those who actually believe in the ME and in Maharishi's pronouncements are going to see examples of them wherever they look. Whatever *really* happens in the Netherlands, TBs will see the trends they expect to see, and skeptics will see the trends that they expect to see. It's just human nature. It's like Bob Brigante, first in line to post any "news" from the UK that indicates that Maharishi's fatwa on England had some effect, but remarkably silent about the recent events in India, home of (according to him) most of the Maharishi pundits and thus a strong candidate for being "in tune with Natural Law." I wish the Netherlands luck. As far as I can tell from the time I've spent there, it's got a tough time ahead of it. I agree with the person who described it as at a flash point. That's it. It's a country on the cusp of one of those major chaos theory shifts. 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/
