> > I ask you, why do you care? > > I dunno. Could it be wondering how someone > -- anyone -- could be so stupid as not to > realize that he could pay for this program > (that he claims is so important to the world's > future) himself from mere *interest* on existing > funds, while never depleting the principal. > > Because it's either that or wondering how > that same someone could be so greedy as to > realize this and *not* do it, and in fact > expect other people to pay for everything, > yet again. > > Those strike me as the only two options. > Do you see more?
There are probably lots of possibilities, some of them positive, some of them not quite so positive. But the one possibility that never seems to come up, and hasn't come up now for 40 years or more, is for Maharishi to actually put *his* assets where his mouth is. *He*, after all, is the person saying that the world is in such shit shape that if 2000 people don't do the Hemorrhoid Hop twice a day it's in danger of being destroyed. *He* is the one appealing to fear, and to the admittedly noble desire in his followers to see their world survive into another day. But at the same time, *he* is not willing to pay for helping it survive another day. And he never has been. Doesn't that *tell* you something? I mean, the guy is as much as predicting that the world is fucked if these 2000 people don't do the Gluteus Maximus Dance, and soon. But he is completely willing to allow the world *to* be fucked if the funds don't come through from Someone Else. He's got the money to pay for all this himself -- *more* than enough to pay for all this himself. But given the trends we've seen so far in TM history, he would clearly allow the world to blow itself up rather than dig into his *own* pockets to keep it from being blown up. I'm ranting a bit here because the other day I saw an old movie called "The Shoes of the Fisher- man" that reminded me of Another Possibility. The movie was a big Hollywood epic based on a best seller, and had many flaws. But at the same time, it had a few good points, too, one of them being a great performance by Anthony Quinn as a simple man who suddenly finds himself named as Pope, and during trying times. The times are *so* trying that there is about to be a nuclear war between the USSR and China, because the Chinese have been hard hit by famine and are starving, and neither Russia nor any other country will help them out by sending sufficient aid. For reasons of simple survival, they're about to invade their neighbor Russia, just to find food. So what does the simple man who has just become Pope do in this fictional movie? He does what Christ would have done, and what NO ONE around him in the Vatican wants him to do. He vows to dedicate the total assets of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church to battling this famine, and thus to preventing this war. It's fiction, of course. No Pope in history has ever been that altruistic. To be honest, no Pope in history has ever really given a damn how many people starved or how many of them died in wars, and no Pope ever will. They're politicians and economists, not men of God. Similarly, as far as I can tell, Maharishi has never given a damn about the people of the world. He talks about them ONLY as a way to get people to give him more money. If he really believed the words he speaks, and really cared about the world he pretends to want to save, he'd walk his own talk and put some of his *own* funds to work right about now. But he doesn't. All he does is use the world's suffering as a way to get people to give him more money. It's a pretty simple rule. When someone tells you that the world will end soon unless X amount of dollars are contributed to his cause, does the person saying this have X amount of dollars? If it turns out that he does (or in this case, has easily a thousand times that many dollars) but hasn't contributed them to the cause that he's trying to convince you to contribute to, you're being had. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
