--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > > <shempmcgurk@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > On Behalf Of shempmcgurk > > > > > > > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:49 AM > > > > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Trial Balance? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As such, the American cultural predisposition to demanding > > > > > > > accountability will come forward like it has never done > > > > > > before...and > > > > > > > the Movement will NOT be successful invoking Maharishi or > > > > anything > > > > > > > else that may have worked in the past to squelch > > accountability. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Could be. Trouble is, the TMO hardly reflects American > > culture. > > > > > > It's a very > > > > > > > Indianized, Guru-fied sub-culture. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it is. But it is a culture that is now WITHOUT a guru, > > > > which is > > > > > > the point I'm trying to make. > > > > > > > > > > > > One of the reasons we all -- or at least I did -- got into TM > > was > > > > > > because devotion and surrender to a guru was NOT part of the > > > > > > program. For whatever reason, many of us if not most of us > > who > > > > > > became active in the movement fell into that very > > relationship. > > > > Some > > > > > > of us, like myself, found ourselves doing it against our > > better > > > > > > judgement. > > > > > > > > > > > > I believe that the original non-guru "sense" that prevailed > > when > > > > we > > > > > > started TM will now come to the forefront. In this same > > vein, > > > > Rick, > > > > > > it was with great relief that several years ago Maharishi > > came > > > > out > > > > > > with his recertification program. Why? Because I felt that > > with > > > > the > > > > > > new requirement to be recertified I had, as a TM teacher, > > become > > > > > > UNcertified; that is, I was freed from any constraints that I > > may > > > > > > have signed away to be an unquestioning "devotee" when I > > signed > > > > that > > > > > > form (of which I never got a copy so who the hell knows > > whether > > > > it > > > > > > was legal) on the day I became an initiator. > > > > > > > > > > > > We're all kinda free of that constraint now with Maharishi's > > > > death > > > > > > and the continued non-compliance with full accountability > > simply > > > > > > won't pass muster with most any more. > > > > > > > > > > > > The culture of financial accountability that is attached to > > > > American > > > > > > donations should follow it to every corner of the world to > > which > > > > it > > > > > > is sent, including India. That's that money's "karma", so to > > > > speak, > > > > > > and that's all right with me. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd venture to say that any 'culture of financial > > accountability' in > > > > > the USA has practically gone the way of the Dodo bird. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Aside from the anally retentive Swiss and Germanic cultures, > > America > > > > is probably the most financially accountable country in the world. > > > > > > > > I think Bongo Brazil is getting "corruption" mixed up > > with "financial > > > > accountability". Assuming that is what he means, I would like to > > ask > > > > him why he believes this. > > > > > > > > > The Congress and the Bush administration and the Big Money corporate > > > and K Street financial industry behind it that's put the country of > > > regular Americans in it's current fiscal horror story, comes to > > mind. > > > > > > The American people [excluding the small percentage of the obscenely > > > wealthy] also seem to have actually developed a status of negative > > > savings. > > > > > > The only real 'accountability' I see happening is the inevitable > > cause > > > and effect results of fiscal irresponsibility disastrously coming > > home > > > to roost. > > > > > > > > > The accountability system is probably fine; it's whether people > > actually read the financial statements and interpret them properly > > that is lacking. > > > > Enron is a case in point. Enron didn't "doctor" their financial > > statements...they had them coming out of the wazoo! In fact, when > > the first business journal articles started coming out questioning > > whether Enron was a viable business enterprise (and which eventually > > led to their demise), a team from the Enron accounting department > > would get on the corporate jet and fly to wherever the reporters were > > and present them with mountains of financial documents...all > > legitimate financial documents. > > > > Indeed, the fact that they fulfilled their accountability > > responsibilities completely that was part of the problem of their > > downfall. The special purpose entities that they created in order to > > do business required not thousands of pages of financial statements > > but 100s of thousands of pages of financial statements which were, > > for the most part, all done properly. > > > > But who could read them all and make sense of them? > > > > It's funny; the one government agency that did NOT have a problem > > with Enron was the IRS. They never bothered Enron because Enron > > practically never made money, as their annual corporate income tax > > forms attested to. > > > > But Enron is the opposite of the TMO; Enron had too many financial > > statements, the TMO not enough. > > > The Enron bunch in charge were crooks - just like the Bush > administration and the Big Money corporate and K Street financial > industry behind it that's put the country of regular Americans in it's > current fiscal horror story. >
How much do you know of the Enron story? Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker wrote a piece on Jeffrey Skilling - - who was sentenced to over 20 years of hard time -- in which he lays down the case that he is COMPLETELY innocent. If you want a really good read and can keep an open mind on the subject, read his piece here...at the very least, read part 1 and see if it doesn't hook you: http://gladwell.com/2007/2007_01_08_a_secrets.html
