--- llundrub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sri Sri can do this.
And I'm sure MMY could too if that was his true intent. In fact he already has with MIU. But MIU was founded by people who actually knew how to start a university and actually wanted to start a university. This "thing" in "Can's Ass" has another purpose. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Peter > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Central University: > from announcement to > web site > > > > In a message dated 3/11/2007 11:53:58 P.M. Eastern > > Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > > > Peter, answer some points for a change instead of > > barging in like > > some fundamentalist in denial. > > What specific points would you like me to answer? > You > don't make an argument against anything I said. You > draw a parallel between something SSRS is doing and > what MMY is doing, see them as the same thing, and > then infer that the same criticism I have towards > MMY > can be applied towards SSRS. You must think I'm a > SSRS > fundie or something. I'm not. But I have noticed > that > SSRS is much more rational than MMY. This is neither > good nor bad, just a difference between the two. > Most > likely the university that SSRS is talking about > will > actually get built because the discussion will be > grounded in the waking state realities of creating > such a project. If SSRS wants to build a university, > I > believe that his actual agenda is to build a > university. Not so with MMY. Through personal > experience and the personal experience of many > others > it seems that MMY is rarely doing what he appears to > be doing. On the surface MMY wants to build a > university. From a waking state rational perspective > this is insane. Why? Well, there already is MUM. Why > not sink capital into that university? Why build a > university in the middle of nowhere? Why would more > students come to such a school? This university will > never occur and I truly believe it is not MMY's > intent > for it to occur. Also, what do you mean by a > fundamentalist in denial? Denial of what? A > fundamentalist of what or whom? Also, why not post > using your name? > > > > > > ""The Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir Trust and > > the Government of > > Orissa signed a Memorandum of Understanding on > > December 18, 2006 to > > establish a full-fledged multidisciplinary > > university near the state > > capital, Bhubaneswar within two or three years. > The > > goal of the > > university would be to provide holistic education > > that is firmly > > embedded in Indian culture and ethos to the global > > leaders of > > tomorrow. Admission into the university will be > > based on merit alone, > > which will be assessed based on an entrance > > examination. Admission > > into the proposed varsity will be open to Indian > as > > well as foreign > > nationals. It will be designed to cater to the > needs > > of 1,500 faculty > > members, an equal number of non-academic staff > > members, and 15,000 > > students. The proposed university will impart > > postgraduate education > > in various disciplines to approximately 15,000 > > Indian and foreign > > students. These disciplines will include both > > traditional Indian as > > well as modern fields of study.""- > > wikipedia.org/wikipedia.wikipedia.org/<Wwi > > > > And so Peter Sutphen is saying that : > > > > ""anyone who seriously believes that such a > project > > by Sri Sri Ravi > > Shankar is possible has spent way too many years > > drinking the > > koolaid. That being said, if you approach your > > involvement in this > > as, on one hand, total absurdity, and on the other > > > hand, as something > > your mind can do to break all boundaries, then > fine. > > It will be > > your "controlled folly" to borrow a term from > Carlos > > Castenada. But > > failure to recognize the absurdity of this and to > > delude yourself > > into thinking that it will actually occur without > > acknowledging the > > absurdity of it just makes your mind and intent > > very, very weak. Why > > let Sri Sri Ravi Shankar enslave you? Does he have > > to hammer nails > > into your palms to get you to wake-up to your own > > spiritual intent?"" > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > , Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > The whole thing is just absurd and anyone who > > > seriously believes that such a project is > > possible has > > > spent way too many years drinking the koolaid. > > That > > > being said, if you approach your involvement in > > this > > > as, on one hand, total absurdity, and on the > > other > > > hand, as something your mind can do to break > all > > > boundaries, then fine. It will be your > > "controlled > > > folly" to borrow a term from Carlos Castenada. > But > > > failure to recognize the absurdity of this and > to > > > delude yourself into thinking that it will > > actually > > > occur without acknowledging the absurdity of it > > just > > > makes your mind and intent very, very weak. Why > > let > > > MMY enslave you? Does he have to hammer nails > into > > > your palms to get you to wake-up to your own > > spiritual > > > intent? > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ________ > Get your own web address. > Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. > http://us.click.yahoo.com/0It09A/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! 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