> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Leaving aside the debate about whether or not the ME
> > > works, why do you say that I should take my medication
> > > because I say that the ME strategy is completely benign?
> >
> > Relying on the Maharishi Effect to solve the world's
> > problems is 'benign' in the same way as walking by a
> > family starving in the gutter and saying, "God will
> > provide for them." It's putting one's fantasies
> > where one's wallet or sweat should be.
>
> So, people who believe in the ME should forgo group
> meditation because the time spent heading to the dome
> or someone's house or whatever could be spent working
> for habitat for humanity?
Do you ever *listen* to the things you say before you
write them?
Someday, dude, you really have to get beyond the black-
and-white way you see things. What's to prevent some-
one from doing *both* -- going to the dome *and* doing
things for humanity? The thing is, *most* TB TMers
*don't* do both, and the reason is that they've been
taught for decades that the latter is ineffective or
a waste of their time, and that only bouncing on their
butts and giving their money to the TMO is worthwhile.
Same with a lot of other faith-based approaches to
solving the world's problems. I know people who are
strong Christians and *both* go to church and support
their church's programs for the poor and disadvantaged
*and* get down and dirty helping those people them-
selves. As opposed to those who just go to church and
slip a few bucks in the collection plate and think
that covers their responsibility to humanity.
What I'm suggesting is that the predominant teaching
in the TM movement is the latter. There has *always*
been a strong dogma against gettin' down and dirty and
working to solve the world's problems on the level of
the problem. And there has *always* been an equal
reluctance to use any of the immense amounts of money
that the TMO has accumulated to actually help people
who are starving, and thus not really potential
candidates to learn TM.
I know that you probably believe the bullshit you spout
here, that the important thing is to convince all the
rich people of the world to pay for TM for those who
can't afford it, but I think that's just a line of bull
that you've been indoctrinated in by the TMO. Let's
face it, dude...given what you've said here about your
success in finding consulting gigs regularly, if you
hadn't learned TM decades ago, you would never be able
to afford to learn it today. You certainly wouldn't
take out a loan to learn it, and so its benefits would
pass you by.
And the True Believers in the TM movement would not lose
a moment's sleep because you couldn't learn TM. It wouldn't
touch them in the least, because they've been taught to
not really care about the *individuals* in society who
are needy. Instead, they've been taught to care only about
generalities, vague descriptions of the problems of humanity
that they don't have to *feel* or participate in.
Hey, you got me started... :-)
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