> > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote:
> <snip> > > Though the stated aims are different, is this incessant fundraising > at MUM really any different than that which goes on at any > university? How do Stanford and Harvard get their billion dollar > endowments? People wake up one day and decide, Gee I guess I'll >make > a substantial contribution to my alma mater...? Nope- it is the >same > kind of deluge of mailings, phone calls, fund raising events that > occurs at MUM. Kind of a big yawn, dont'cha think? > ************* >--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >It's clear that all schools do incessant fundraising, so I don't have >a problem with that. It's just that I find the decision to not use >the original pundit campus for the pundits when they finally showed >to be irrational, and so apparently do 250 people who pledged to >support the pundits, but are not kicking in as promised. Not much like Harvard or Yale actually. The integrity is way higher & much more transparent at the real universities. Differently, at MUM it takes so much more money when half of it disappears abroad. No surprize that 250 people have backed out of providing their money to Maharaishi now and the TMorg. The word is out. It is about integrity and this money thing kind of goes in the same catagory with the movement not being able to easily attract the 2,000 or 1700 people (M.E.) it was wishing for without hirlings. It is a sad story about the loss of integrity and a fallen guru. Look at the money problem, their research and their pr, they are apparently liars, cheaters and stealers in method. Qualities not usually associated with integrity. We'll see if Maharishi can re- write things as they have become at the end of his book in the final chapter. Lots of people will write the epilogue when the time is ready and there is a lot of material for that. -Doug in FF > > > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Instead of temporarily moving 100 Mother Divine onto the MUM > > campus > > > and using the already-built trailer park for 500 of its > originally- > > > intended pundit-occupants, Bevan and John want you to give > > generously > > > to build another pundit campus -- not surprisingly, 250 people > who > > > pledged to donate once the pundits got here are keeping their > > hands > > > in their pockets: > > > > > > > > > Subject: Preparing for 1000 Vedic Pandits > > > > > > http://invincibleamerica.org > > > > > <snip> > > > > Though the stated aims are different, is this incessant fundraising > > at MUM really any different than that which goes on at any > > university? How do Stanford and Harvard get their billion dollar > > endowments? People wake up one day and decide, Gee I guess I'll > make > > a substantial contribution to my alma mater...? Nope- it is the > same > > kind of deluge of mailings, phone calls, fund raising events that > > occurs at MUM. Kind of a big yawn, dont'cha think? > > > > ************* > > It's clear that all schools do incessant fundraising, so I don't have > a problem with that. It's just that I find the decision to not use > the original pundit campus for the pundits when they finally showed > to be irrational, and so apparently do 250 people who pledged to > support the pundits, but are not kicking in as promised. > > Mother Divine could easily move onto campus for a while, and a > facility that is better suited to their numbers (100) could be build > in VC, freeing up the original VC trailer park for 500 pundits. This > new MD facility should be able to be built for ~$1 million, maybe > even stickbuilt for that price? The original pundit campus cost $2.2 > million to build, so using it for pundit housing saves a lot of > money, and MD should have a better facility than they are now using. > Bevan's argument is that all the pundits should be together, but > since the original pundit trailer park is on 40 acres, there is > plenty of room to put another similar trailer park on the same site, > to accomodate the 1000 they are talking about bringing in. The > recently-arrived trailers (so far they have enough housing for 120 > pundits) on the 80 acre site can be used for Purusha or other groups, > or even MD. >
