--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], hermandan0 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], hermandan0 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > So when I found out about all this stuff about > > > > > "King" Tony getting his weight in gold, and "Rajas" > > > > > and gold crowns, it was really a mindboggler. I > > > > > think sometimes that those who lasted long enough > > > > > for that kinda stuff to have become commonplace > > > > > don't understand just how weird it really is. > > > > > > > > > > > > > You mean like the proverbial frogs in the vat of lukewarm > > > > water over a continual flame where you don't realize you're > > > > done until your blood > > > > is boiling and your brain is cooked? > > > > > > > > :) > > > > > > > > > > Heh. Some of these frogs had to pay a million dollars for the > > > privilege of jumping in the > > > pot in the first place. I don't think you can claim that they're > > > being fooled on some level. > > > > Who said anything about anyone being fooled? The comments have to do > > with people being around long enough for that behavior to become > > commonplace, millionaires or not. BY the time folks were asked for > > the million they'd been in there a long time already. > > > > Besides--the frog thing was a tongue-in-cheek throw away line. > > It was *also* a completely accurate metaphor for > what's happened to these silly people. > > If Sparaig weren't in Professional TM Apologist > mode, he'd be talking about how brainwashed they > are, too. :-) >
Er, no. I see a bunch of guys duitfully following a script laid out by their guru/teacher/ whatever. Some may believe in the whole thing, some partially, and some may be doing it simply because the Old Man wants them to. Doesn't matter. They're doing it specifically because they were told to. 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/
