--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of shempmcgurk > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma does Bill Cosby > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > I suspect that it's because of people with your mindset that saints > > generally don't perform miracles. > > Actually, people with my mindset hold that it is regular people that > perform miracles and, specifically, it is real Saints that go out of > their way NOT to perform miracles. > > It is the place of Saints to TELL us that WE are the ones capable of > performing miracles and that there is no distance between them and > us. When a Saint performs a miracle, he/she creates a divide between > them and us. It is the works of a performing seal, no more, no less. > > Real Saints look upon the world and its inhabitants as their equals > and, in their loneliness of their enlightenment, say "come on, come > on" and join me by realizing your full potential which, by > definition, includes the ability to perform any and all miracles but > which would be beneath my dignity to do for you because it is your > dignity to do yourself. > > Ash-creating, pudding cooking, performing seals. > > Tote-board hugging is pretty much the same thing. > > Good response, and I basically agree with you, but there have been saints > who have said "come on, come on and join me" and have done some miracles > also, most notably Christ. Doing a genuine miracle or two doesn't brand a > saint as a charlatan. > > > > You seem to be hung up on this tote board thing. I think you misunderstood > what you saw in that video (http://tinyurl.com/28klva). When you go to see > Amma, you get a token that indicates your place in the queue. Then there are > signs which indicate which token numbers are being called, so that people > know when to get in line. The signs aren't a way of bragging about how many > Amma is hugging.
Uh, I think you need to resee the video because that is exactly what was going on. What will you do, Rick, if and when Amma decides to STOP doing the hugging and move on to some other gimmick (or non-gimmick)? What will be the appeal? The hugging is a gimmick. Circa 1970, the Who stopped the gimmick that brought THEM to fame: smashing their insruments in concert. And guess what? They got even MORE popular. The hugging is silliness and has nothing to do with holiness of any sort. > They're just a method of crowd control. In fact, a couple > of years ago they switched from a number-based system in which you could see > the total so far in each session, so as to know when your number would come > up, to an alphabetical system in which you couldn't see that. I think Amma > didn't want people to feel discouraged that there were so many hundreds or > thousands in the queue ahead of them. Anyway, I think you're letting a > misunderstanding obscure your view of something beautiful. Ain't that the > way of the universe? >
