--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" jyouells@
> wrote:
> >
> > "With great gratitude for your many years of devoted service to
> > Maharishi, and with best wishes for the new year. "
> >
> > We're so grateful, we're going to charge you for that devotion,
> > or kick you out on your ass. :)
>
> Whatever, the inclusion of that statement, along
> with various other changes that have been made
> recently, does suggest the TMO has been paying
> attention to common gripes. No matter what the
> underlying motivation is, that's new.
>
> Could it be that the coherence being generated
> by the current course has actually affected the
> TMO policy makers?
No it doesn't. It's just a pacifying ego stroke statement ("With great
gratitude..."), because what they are doing is the opposite of the
meaning of that statement. In the political world, that would be 'spin'.
And I think attributing it to coherence is just reaching for straws.
JohnY
