--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I have no real qualms with SSRS himself, his organization, at > least when I was involved (which was only for a little over a year in > the 90s), almost made the TMO look good--and that ain't easy. On the > first course I took, without telling us before hand, they made the > announcement at the first meeting that we would all be on a fruit diet, > for the entire course--6 days. Not only was that a dirty trick (IMO of > course--perhaps others liked it) but couldn't that possibly affect > someone's health, if they were diabetic, or had digestive problems? To > make matters worse, I and a number of others were housed in the > building adjacent to his...with the lovely smell of delicious Indian > food wafting over 3 times daily. Try fasting with **that** happening. > Anyway, of course we cheated--why not, he was--and went into town where > I and a few others had at least a couple of decent meals. But we sure > didn't appreciate having to shell out yet more $$ after having paid for > room and board for the course...the worst part being, IMO, that nobody > had bothered to tell us beforehand--a deliberate omission, because they > were afraid nobody would come otherwise? Who knows. Then there were > the meetings themselves, at which any number of people would be > fighting with each other--literally--to sit as close to the front as > possible. > > The second course, the one in Pittsburgh, was another classic "Oops, > they did it again..." scenario. This one was so bad it would make a > great plot for a movie where nothing goes right. It wasn't enough that > they put all of us into smoking rooms--so when you turned on the heat > (it was February) you got blasted with enough cigarette smoke to choke > an elephant--they then pulled Trick #2. Into tiny rooms in which we > barely had enough space to walk, those of us on the long part of the > course (6 days) then had to share whatever microscopic amount of free > space was left with the 2-day course participants--I doubt they knew > that was going to happen, and I know we didn't. Add to that that there > were a couple of TM vagrants who hadn't registered and were staying at > the hotel illegally, seriously ticking off the management, and you have > the makings for, possibly, the Worst Course Ever. > > I have no idea how much of all of this SSRS knew about, but it was his > organization and he does bear some of the responsibility. On a > personal level, I felt he was much warmer and more approachable than > MMY. But after those two disasters, I pretty much gave up on all of > them. > > Sal
Perhaps you should try Jesus...or masturbation. > > > On Jun 20, 2006, at 4:26 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > >> > >> Jody at http://guruphiliac.blogspot.com/ has an entirely different > >> perspective on SSRS. > > > > Gosh, you mean Sri Sri *isn't* MMY with all > > the mistakes taken out? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Your favorite religious organization? Make a donation at Network for Good. http://us.click.yahoo.com/EOl1HB/LPaOAA/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/
