On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:44 AM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This week is the 30th anniversary of Jonestown. I was in Iran on the
world
peace project when it happened and my buddies freaked out when I went
missing one night. I didn't show up for a meeting because I was in a
friend's room reading about the incident in his TIME magazine. When
we got
back to Switzerland Maharishi commented that "a Christian cult had
committed
suicide." He was gloating a bit, as he was pissed at the
fundamentalists for
opposing TM in the schools, etc., and he was lumping the Jonestown
cult in
with them. A year or two later, MMY send a small delegation to
Guyana to ask
government officials there to give land and support for a Sidhaland
in the
jungle. The government bureaucrat's reaction was basically, "Are you
nuts?
Don't you know what we've been through down here?"
My recollection is that MMY's response was: if they can't see the
difference
between us and Jim Jones, we're not interested in them (either).>>
What a mature and thoughtful response.
Sal
