[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses
Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read it right here on FFL in a post from Barry (#360950): In other contexts, a great recent quote was that the Republican Party has made satire redundant. Because nothing that people can dream up to say about them is as bad as the stuff they really do. I would suggest that sponsoring Immortality Courses that promise you'll never die if you take them and charging a fortune for them falls into the same ballpark re the TMO. Michael is ready to believe anything, but this description should have clued him in that Barry made it up (as I noted in my response). You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome Michael wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses
The Movement does promise immortality at least obliquely along with promising everything else - so the idea of an Immortality Course is not too much of a stretch On Sat, 10/19/13, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:56 PM Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read it right here on FFL in a post from Barry (#360950): In other contexts, a great recent quote was that the Republican Party has made satire redundant. Because nothing that people can dream up to say about them is as bad as the stuff they really do. I would suggest that sponsoring Immortality Courses that promise you'll never die if you take them and charging a fortune for them falls into the same ballpark re the TMO. Michael is ready to believe anything, but this description should have clued him in that Barry made it up (as I noted in my response). You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome Michael wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses
For some value of at least obliquely and of too much of a stretch. Michael wrote: The Movement does promise immortality at least obliquely along with promising everything else - so the idea of an Immortality Course is not too much of a stretch On Sat, 10/19/13, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:56 PM Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read it right here on FFL in a post from Barry (#360950): In other contexts, a great recent quote was that the Republican Party has made satire redundant. Because nothing that people can dream up to say about them is as bad as the stuff they really do. I would suggest that sponsoring Immortality Courses that promise you'll never die if you take them and charging a fortune for them falls into the same ballpark re the TMO. Michael is ready to believe anything, but this description should have clued him in that Barry made it up (as I noted in my response). You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome Michael wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Immortality Courses
As usual, the flea criticizes the tiger. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* Enlightenment Courses, held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the million dollar course with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, people I knew who attended these courses have since died. Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it and Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. One of his quotes would have been a great tag line for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, This way to see the egress. Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to disc TM, he may be right about that as well. http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg
