--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/07/24/ > > > remote_kibbutz_sees_return_of_bad_times/ > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/f283p > > > [...] > > > > > > "Tiberias, usually a bustling tourist city on the Sea of > > > Galilee, is a ghost town. Practitioners of Transcendental > > > Meditation sit in the only open hotel, striving to create > > > a spiritual shield against incoming missiles." > > > > Sigh, indeed. > > > > On the one hand, one cannot help but be inspired > > by the faith of these people, after all of the years > > and all of the follies, that sitting in a war zone > > and doing their siddhis will not only keep them safe, > > but will bring peace to the whole region. > > > > On the other, one cannot help but wonder what Maharishi > > would say if these same people, so full of faith in him > > and the things he has told them, were to be struck by > > one of the incoming missiles. Would he even notice? I > > honestly do not know, and that makes *me* sigh. > > You fool! How could missles possibly break through the invisible > shield of invincibility! Don't you know ANYTHING about science. The > Meisner effect proves the yogic flyers cannot be hit. Intense > coherence will deflect any entropy. Didn't you even see the on TV in > the 50's the "invisible shield" effect Colgate proved existed. Jeez, > its really tiring arguing with anti-science dogmatic morons. :)
Well said. Isn't faith a fascinating phenomenon? I mean, really, these people are fuckin' INSPIRING, man! Such FAITH! Such a strong belief that doing their TM or doing their siddhis or both will not only protect them, but will (I'm sorry...this is a serious subject and I don't want to make too light of it, but I cannot help to use a phrase someone coined here) radiate enough Foo Foo Rays to bring coherence to the region and settle things down. That's pretty astounding, on the level of faith, and to be admired from that point of view. I would be willing to bet that many of these people there are *very* scientific and rational in their daily lives, but their faith in what they've been told is so strong that they resist the scientific, rational urge to get the fuck out of there. From the point of view of faith, that's an act of extraordinary courage and a statement about how strongly they believe the things they believe. >From other points of view, probably including their own as the missles whistle overhead, it's folly. I'm still in Bruce Cockburn mode, so the line that springs to my mind when contemplating this strange rock that we find ourselves living on and its contradictions is from one of his songs: This bluegreen ball in black space Filled with beauty even now battered and abused and lovely Earth. Go figure. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/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/
