--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > This is an example of what the caste system is *really* > > like, not what Maharishi and you present as an idealized > > picture of it. Maharishi's portrayal of what caste is all > > about in India today is as accurate as his portrayal of > > what life was like in India in Vedic times. > > MMY talks about an *ideal*. Whether or not that ideal ever > existed or can EVER exist isn't germane to what he says > about the ideal.
This statement is one for the ages. :-) It's *extremely* germane. That was my whole point in asking you the questions I did a while back about "Vedic times." You seem to have *bought* the "ideal" hook, line, and sinker, and like so many other TM followers, believe that if we just get enough butt- bouncers and pundits together, we can *re*establish this "golden age" on planet Earth. The problem is that historically this "golden age" NEVER HAPPENED. It's a fantasy. So is the fantasy of how the caste system is "supposed" to work. It's a set of plans for the world that are based on UNREALITY, on one man's fantasies. I *applaud* the desire to work for a better world; I just wish that the "template" that some of those folks have for that better world were based on reality. > Now, you can take the stance, as a practical matter, that > such a thing simply can't happen in the real world, but > you never discuss things that way that I can recall... Just did. Deal with it.
