TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> >> wrote: >> >>> --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" >>> <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: >>> >>>> My guess is that the threat of a lawsuit by the fundies had >>>> more of an impact on killing the TM club than the vocal >>>> ex-TMers. >>>> >>> I think you're probably correct. They (the Lynch >>> Foundation) was afraid of having a precedent set. >>> >>> As noble as Mr. Lynch's intent is to help enable >>> more people to learn TM, I can't help but think >>> that his "solution" is ignoring the fundamental >>> problem -- the price is too damned high. >>> >>> As far as I can tell, this $175,000 grant "to the >>> school system" is just a disguise for funneling >>> $165,000 of it ($600 per person instructed) directly >>> to the TMO, >>> >> That sounds very sinister. >> > > It's the reality of the situation. As I understand > the "grant," the school system gets to keep only > $10,000. All the rest of the money goes to the TMO. > > >> If Mr. Lynch wanted to "funnel" $165,000 to the TMO, he could have >> done it by just writing the TMO a check for that amount. He would >> have gotten virtually the same tax benefit either by giving the >> money to his foundation first (as he did) and then having the >> foundation pay for the instructions or originally giving the money >> to the TMO. >> > > Yes, but then 275 people would not have learned to > meditate. I believe that David Lynch honestly wants > *that* to be the effect that giving away his money > has on the world. I also believe that he's hip > enough to know that if he gave the money to the > TMO that *no one new* would start TM as a result. > They'd piss it away on some building or some new > bagpipes for the "Rajas" or send it to India where > it would disappear into the pockets of Maharishi's > relatives. So he's doing what he can to try to get > the TMO to focus on what it should have been focusing > on all along -- teaching TM. > > >> I believe the reason he is doing everything through his foundation >> -- as we've discussed here before -- is that he wants more control >> of his own money. >> > > We are agreed on this. I'm thinking that Lynch might need a "Kaplan" moment. ;-)
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