>
> "Regarding the pacifist first-person shooter I designed in 2000-2001
> to teach Hindu principles of non-violence using the Unreal Engine,
> you may justly feel skeptical.
>
> This Hindu non-shooter was conceived and produced entirely by -
> nobody ever believes this part - recent graduates of the Maharishi
> University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Yes, really. In early
> 2000, a gaggle of upscale white American 20-somethings with fresh MUM
> animation and graphics degrees thought it would be fun to create a
> computer game based on Hindu teachings. Funded by the young heir to a
> chain of furniture stores, who scraped by on a parental allowance of
> half a million dollars a year, they licensed Epic Games' hotly
> anticipated Unreal Warfare engine - six months' allowance right
> there - and set to work."
>
> (more at link)
>
> http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/66/8
>
>
> http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2006_271/news/12295-1.html
>
too bad those MUM animators equated Hinduism with non-violent pacifism.
as Deepak Chopra well knows, there is lots of "first-person shooting" goin on
in the vedic literature, like for instance, the Mahabharata.
check out Deepak's new Mahabharata comic book! -- sample pic here:
http://virgincomics.com/images/freeissue/virgin_0_12.jpg
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