--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 4/18/06 10:12 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I don't find anywhere that Bob suggested there was a > > modern-day, real-world example of an ideal society. > > > > Seems to me he was talking about (a) why someone might > > have confidence in the Vedic account of a Sat-Yuga > > golden age, and (b) why someone who had such confidence > > might believe in the possibility that there could be > > another one. > > > > Why would anybody assume Bob had some modern-day, > > real-world example in mind? >
> No, but if lots of people meditating is what makes an ideal society, it > would follow that the TMO should be a microcosm of such a society, yet Bob > is one of it's strongest critics. So if Bob thinks the TMO is a flop as an > ideal society, how does he believe that if the TMO were to become > predominant population group, an ideal society would result? > ******************* Lots of enlightened people are what makes an ideal society. If a million Sems (the meditator who killed a student at MUM) are practicing TM, this does not constitute an ideal society. The fact is, the great majority of people today are too disordered to grow in awareness very quickly -- that's just life in the Kaliyuga, or as MMY said, it's the luck of the world: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/71700 The pundits in the Brahmastan of India are purifying the atmosphere there so that Vedic culture can be restored to India -- when that happens, there will be an ideal society serving as a lighthouse to the world. 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/
