--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:44 AM, sparaig wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> 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
>
all things being equal, and without knowing what else he said, it
sounds like a reasonable assessment- why enter a market where the
consumers already have a bias against your product, if other
alternatives are available?
