--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], gimari03 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > http://www.cultnews.com/?p=2101 > > > > "At thirty bucks a day the guru's billions could fund a virtual > > wave of "yogic flyers" to cover the earth, but something tells > > me that if Maharishi had to personally pay for his peace plan > > the guru's spiritual air force would be grounded." > > Oh yeah, there's a cogent comment. Does he think they'll be > eating and sleeping at the local county jail?
No, per the present plan, they'll be eating for 30 bucks a day and sleeping on someone's sofa. All while giving up their paychecks from work for two months. :-) But here's a riddle for you. I remember in the past that you've been a big proponent of the "the TMO can't spend its capital because it needs it for the future." So explain this to me -- Maharishi's doing the Big Fear Trip again, implying that if people don't flock to this course, at their expense (albeit less expensive than some courses in the past), Dire Things are going to happen to the world. Did I get that right? Ok, so here's the quandary: if the times are so tough that there may not *BE* a future, what is the purpose of all those billions the TMO has stashed away? Seems to me that if *HE* believed the stuff he's saying, he'd have made some of that money available to make the room and board of this course free, and in fact offer to make up for at least a portion of the participants' salary. Do the math -- if we're talking a total of 3000 siddhas, at a cost of $30 a day for food, add in another $70 a day for housing, and compensate each of them who has to leave a job (say 60%, because many may be married and unworking or retired or well-to-do), say, %3000 a month for lost salary, that comes to a grand total of $1,380,000. One could make the case for that being a drop in the bucket compared to the billions that the TMO is reputed to have as assets. One could also make the case that this "drop in the bucket" might be worth spending if the situation is as dire as he implies, and the very future of the planet is at stake. Or one could make the people who have been paying for such "emergency" courses for decades do so again. Oh, what's a person who really cares about world peace to do? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
