--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 10/7/06 3:01 PM, Rick Archer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > on 10/7/06 2:37 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> He actually suggested "reversing the direction of some of its major rivers" ? > >> Whoa... > >> Hadn't seen or heard that one. > >> > > Just tried to Google it and couldn¹t find it. It might have been Cliff Rees > > that mentioned he had heard that in some presentation. I¹ll ask him. > > > Cliff¹s response: > > > I think he¹s referring to a bizarre presentation Kelly and I were subjected > to over in Vlodrop back in 1998 where Neil, Bevan and Reid were told to show > me a new videotape on Sthapatya Veda which included straightening out the > Seine and the Thames and knocking down every building to the north. My > seat-of-the-pants guesstimate for that type of reconstruction was a trillion > per city, give or take a few hundred billion. > > I don¹t recall any discussion of reversing the direction of the rivers > however. I mean, after all, we have to be practical about these things! > :-) > > BTW our three illustrious presenters all fell asleep within the first few > minutes of the show and snored through the rest of the 45 minutes or so. > Definitely one of the more peculiar moments in my Movement experience > sitting in M¹s house surrounded by luxurious furniture and silk wall > coverings, listening to a very amateurishly produced videotape seriously > discussing the razing of every major city on the planet along with > ³smoothing² out of mountain ranges (so they wouldn¹t get in the way of the > eastern horizon), with the ones presumably responsible for this largest of > all engineering projects ever attempted by a few orders of magnitude all > snoring away next to me. > > In retrospect, I¹m glad it occurred as it did because that was the event > that completely untied the knots I was holding on to in terms of taking the > Movement at all seriously. I finally really ³got² that the emperor had no > clothes. And was OK with it struck me as hilariously funny as we were > walking out of the gate. >
Thanks Cliff, and thanks Rick for posting that. JohnY 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/
