--- In [email protected], "llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, human volition spans every moment and all human work > within limitations, for instance, Turq, your lack of ability to > respect a pundit or their tradition.
I reserve the right to give them no more respect than I would give anyone else. Less, if it appears that they're just superstitious people ripping other superstitious people off. > My guess is they would say they really chose their life if > you had the privy to ask one. Neat. But irrelevant. > However, in one way you are correct, and that is, that a pundit, > just as any shaman, will give up the result of their rite for the > benefit of the sponsor. Ah, but would they perform the rite if the sponsor could not pay? If the answer is No, then they're really not "giving up" that much now, are they? It's a business, dude. > This is why pundits are also priests and not just > spirit-captives as some love to imagine. Since I have no idea what a "spirit-captive" might be, I can assure you that I have never imagined that any pundit is one. > (As for TM Pundits nobody can say- and without any > checks and balances anything goes really). And, given the establish rip-off history of the TM movement, why should we assume that their pundits are any different than their other scams? Look, am I willing to accept that there are well- meaning pundits out there who believe that they are doing a tremendous service for those who pay them to do so? You betcha. Am I willing to accept that their "service" actually *does* anything? Well, on the level of the placebo effect, yes. On any other level, I kinda doubt it. It's a business, pure and simple.
