Excellent points! I dug your "keep'n it reeeeeaaal" version. Here is another version of the letter:
Yeah, he banged a younger chick. Don't sweat it, Mama Ganjaji is carving her own nubile slice. She just wasn't dumb enough to nail a folower, so she gets to keep the house with the big-screen TV and dude has moved into a condo. Dumbass. Over and out. --- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > The thing with her husband must be crushingly sad for her. Since I > > view them as ordinary people, no matter what their subjective > > experience, it is no news flash that powerful dude cheats on gray > > haired wife. I'm going to make a wild guess that the chick was > > younger, and looked at him in the adoring way that Ganjaji used to, > > before she got all gurued up. But the letter was perfectly written > > with the right spin. It shows their sensitivity to feelings. I can't > > imagine the TM movement producing such a letter. > > > > While I am sure what they are doing is all good, when reading the > letter I sort of felt like it was a parody of how a new age group > would deal with a sex scandal. Maybe something on SNL. Or a John > Stewart rift. After wave after wave of stuff they said they were going > to do to help mitigate any damage to students, I expected them to say: > > "...and Dr Phil and Oprah will seperately will be on 24/7 call for > personal counseling and griefing for each student, past, present, > future, and those whoe intended to attend a lecture, but didn't get > around to it, plus we are buying condos in Hawaii for all students so > that they can grieve in dignity and uplifting surroundings, and a > hi-def video of Eli thrashing himself with boughs of thorns on a > 48-hour purification vigil, plus .... > > Possibly, it might be a good thing, if they were more "authentic": > > "Eli and Gangaji will make a public statement once Eli gets out of the > hospital from the huge gash on his head from the cut crystal vase > gangaji threw at him, and from the internal bleeding from the > shit-kicking she gave him. For now, they offer the following thoughts: > > "Frankly, this is a personal matter between Eli and myselfe. Get a > life people. We are ordinary people. You are ordinary people. Ordinary > middle age people lust after hot chicks and guys in their nubile 20's. > WAKE-UP! Thats the inner truth. Its a fact of life, a fact of the > Universe. Its Real. Get Real. Be Real. What do you expect when on the > road lecturing, or at our centers, when adoring gorgeous fans throw > themselves at you. Its one of the hazards / perks of being a new-age > guru type. I have been tempted -- and have been human enough to act > the feelings, not keeping them bottled up. Eli did the same. Its OUR > business, not yours. If you feel betrayed, do some deep breathing -- > it will pass. Wake up to Life. Celebrate Life. We do." > 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/
