From: jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:16:05 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mathematics - Pyramid Scheme
--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> It is the same idea as meditating . Some people became teachers
with the belief that they would become rich as teachers. Or better
they would become enlightened. When things did not happen as the
sales pitch proclaimed then they got upset and sued.
Not exactly. The difference between the TMO and Equinox was that
with the TMO, if you paid the fee you received the technique to
meditate. There was no pressure to sign up others and be paid a
commission based on the number of others who were signed up.
Equinox operated by making money from those who signed up other
people, who would then pay to attain specific levels within the
organization. In other words, someone joining the Equinox
organization could pay a lot of money up front, and not receive
anything- no product or service- for their investment unless others
would pay to join the organization, who then recruited others, and
so on.
Quite a different business model from the TMO, and what I call a
fraudulent practice. Believe what you will-- Bill Gouldd is
basically a crook.
> The water filters worked and people still continue to buy them.
The only thing many people did not gain from the millionaire
training they received. Equinox was one of the best things I have
done. Not because of the money because I spent more than I made, but
the training was excellent if one used it. Bottom line life is a
learning if we learn from life and use it there is nothing we can
not do. JGD
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jason Spock <jedi_spock@ ...>
> To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups.
com
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:56:18 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mathematics - Pyramid Scheme
>
>
> Would somebody eloborate on this.?? Pyramid scheme not
mathematicaly sustainable. ??
>
> Somebody tried to sell me a Water Purifier on this scheme. I
backed out at the last minute.
>
> jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] net> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:45:02 -0000
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A theory of Karma, TMOers, and the
TMO's "Persona"
>
>
> If you are talking about Equinox and Bill Gouldd, the reason
people
> sued was he created what is known as a pyramid scheme- those early
> in make all the money. The purpose of the business becomes not
> selling products but getting more and more people to contribute
> money at the bottom of the pyramid for the benefit of the people
at
> the top. Mathematically
this model is not sustainable, and can
only
> be sustained by fraudulent and unethical practices.
>
> Yes, the value in reading the Gita is it aligns your thinking with
> Maharishi's. If that is desirable, then the Gita does a very good
> job of this. I still open mine up sometimes and read for a minute,
> just for a mini-tune up. It cleans the active mind momentarily.
>
>
>
>
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