--- In [email protected], "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > jim flanegin wrote: > > > > just like MMY predicted. > > I guess he IS right once in awhile, eh? > > > > http://tinyurl.com/ywdbob > > hey, man. this article you posted seemed so cool to me, > i sent it in, to globalgoodnews.com - figure they would like it. > > btw, i dont see it quite as a "prediction" so much as, > MMY introduces new ideas into the collective consciousness, > kind of like new sutras; and then waits to see what > nature can support, at this stage of things.
That's a nice way of saying: if you throw enough shit on the wall, some of it will stick. The agricultural thing an interesting idea. Whether it will work or have any practical application, only time will tell (assuming anyone has the inclination to put money into it and try it, that it). But to attach the label of "visionary" onto Maharishi because it parallels the idea he had in this area is silly. It reminds me of what people said about Maharishi's predicting ability when the twin towers came down: someone dug up a quote from Maharishi, from several years earlier from about the time of the first attack on the towers when they put that bomb in the basement, to demonstrate that Maharishi had said something to the effect that those towers will come down! Well, gosh, it wouldn't have taken a genius to earmark the towers for some sort of terrorist attack or even flying planes into them after the first unsuccessful attack in '94 I think it was. This is a prediction that any grade 3 students could have come up with if you asked them after the first attack: where and how do you think terrorists will attack if they attack the U.S.? At least 50% would have said the Twin Towers. This attaching the label of "visionary" onto people for predicting future occurances with high probabilities of coming to pass also reminds me of when something bad happens due to manufacturing design flaws, of which automobile manufacturing is the best example. Almost inevitably during the lawsuits that come up as a result of someone has been injured or dying in a car crash as a result of the flaw, a memo from the engineering department will surface during the trial from some engineer who was in on the original planning of the car or of the manufactuirng process and the memo will most surely "predict" impending disaster if production continued with such a flaw. Well, of course, engineers routinely write such memos in the course of their work for every little matter that comes before them...and they primarily do it to save their asses and their jobs in case a disaster does come up. But for every memo predicting disaster that comes true, there are probably 10,000 that don't come true. So, it's meaningless because, again, if you throw enough shit on the wall, some will stick. Sure, Maharishi's prediction for this whole organic agriculture thing may be good and eventually come to pass and work, but that successful "prediction" should be weighed against the success of ALL his predictions over the years. Doesn't cost anything to have ideas. They're a dime a dozen and since they are so cheap to come up with, you're bound to get hundreds of them...and out of hundreds of 'em, at least one is bound to turn out successfully. > > in this case, the new idea seems to be catching on pretty quick ... > guess collective consciousness is evolving more quickly now! >
