TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Astrology has been around for centuries so if it truly >> had no value it would have disappeared long ago. >> > > Belief in God has no proven value, and it's > still around. People *like* to believe in > fantasies. > Unless you define "God" as everything that is, was and will be, right? > >> As for the naysayers, most are talking out of their >> butt because they've never done their homework. ;-) >> > > And, quite honestly, it seems to me that a > few of the yea-sayers are talking out of > attachment TO having done their homework, > and having "invested" a great deal of > belief and time and effort into something > they can't prove has value, any more than > they can prove the existence of or the > value of God. > > What's fascinating is that the same folks > who occasionally poke fun at the TB TMers > for holding onto beliefs that they can't > prove are acting remarkably *like* those > TB TMers now that a few of the things that > *they* believe in have been challenged. > > We''re not talking Maharishi Jyotish here, are we? When TB TM'ers are poked fun at those poking fun are not poking fun at meditation in general, are they?
> Attachment is attachment in my book. > You're attached to your book?