--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> 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.
"Some [people] see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Robert F. Kennedy
