--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "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
I have an interesting "attributing it to coherence" story. I recently had lunch with two dear friends here in FF -- one a devoted True Believer, the other a dome goer when work allows but pretty much takes the TMO with a grain of salt. The True Believer attributed another friend's change in mood (she is much happier these days, but is no longer a TMer) to the Invincible America course. I attributed it to the fact that the friend has a new boyfriend, the relationship is going well and she is happy be with such a nice guy. My question then is why is one of the guys I work with, a devoted True Believer who is in the dome 2 times a day, seemingly NOT affected by the "coherence"? He throws hissy fits, temper tantrums, spews obscenities, slams the heck out of his keyboard, whines and complains nonstop and behaves like a complete jerk. Every day. (This has been his normal behavior for the past 5 years that I have known him.) Why is the "coherence" of the Invincible America course obviously not having an affect on this guy when he is in the dome twice a day seven days a week? I find it perplexing. :-)
