--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 10/14/06 11:48 AM, gimari03 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The school district already approved it! > > > I was thinking about what I would say if I were at that meeting. Since I'm > not a black and white sort of guy, I would have to credit TM for getting me > off drugs as a teenager and back into a wholesome lifestyle and awakening me > to spiritual values, and I would admit that I practice a form of meditation > to this day. But I believe that parents and students should have the whole > picture. I would want them to consider > * that PR is the TMO's primary motivation for supporting scientific > research, and research outcomes that don't suit that purpose are squelched.
According to rumor. Certainly, when teams of TMing and non-TMing researchers perform a study, at least using government grant money, there is no squelching done. > * that much of the money raised through course fees and donations in the > West ends up being misappropriated my Maharishi¹s Cosa Nostra in India. According to rumor. At best, you can argue that the TMO is exceedingly inefficient in how it spends its money, but that isn't relevant to members of a club which is getting 100% sponsorship unless they choose to start donating/spending money themselves. > * the Hindu connection that you¹re focusing on Which does't really apply at the level of the club, unless you agree that use of the meaningless TM mantras IS identical to worship of Hindu deities (nevermmind that the original dwelling place of devas, according to the earliest Hindu writings on the subject, is inside the brain/nervous system (stomach?)). > * MMY¹s womanizing (which they may or may not consider relevant, but which > reveals hypocrisy from the top down) Even YOU find it difficult to rationalize this on the level of a high school club of the type proposed here. > * MMY¹s praise of Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Ferdinand Marcos, etc. As above. The club's only activities, as far as I can tell, are to provide a place for faculty and students to practice TM before and after school, and to provide funding for faculty and students to learn to practice TM. > * many more things which could be listed here. None of which appears to be relevant to this club. > > Having said all that, I¹d say that I still think that meditation, and even > TM specifically would be good for many kids, as it was for me, but that they > should be concerned that participation may lead kids into involvement with > an organization of which they might approve if they were fully informed. > The only valid point, IMHO. 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/
