Ha!
All this put me in mind of that funny ceremony when the navy launches
a new ship.
In the UK, with what's left of our Royal Navy, when a new ship of the
line is launched, we have our Queen breaking a champagne bottle over
the bow. "God bless this ship and all who sail in her".
And of course if the bottle fails to break, she's an "unlucky"
ship. ("She" - what's that all about, eh?).
I wonder if the good folks of our land are aware of this religious
indoctrination of their sons and daughters? They should be told!
What superstitions are US sailors "obliged" to take part in?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> And drinking wine is totally Catholic!
>
> Have you seen the funny hats their leaders wear? And the weird
ceremonies?! They believe wine to be the blood of God. Not just the
name of God -- like those crazy mixed up Meditationists, but 10 steps
above that in crazy religio talk -- they give out wine as the Blood of
God. Far more twisted than those cheap bastard Meditationsts who just
give out measly names of gods.
>
> So clearly mantras and wine are religious things, they are the name
and form of God. Thats what the people who give them out say. Ergo
meditating and drinking are religions.
>
> (Mind you, like richard and maybe curtis, I think causation is just a
projection, so I can't be for sure they are really "giving" them "out",
just that the mantras and wine are found "out" and the Catholics and
the Meditationists were found "giving" -- so I project onto it all they
are "giving out" -- but causality, thats another story)
>
> So, no more wine in schools! We cannot have these religious acts in
publicly funded schools - it violates the constitution man! (or so I
have been told, I haven't actually read the darn thing.)
>
> And those wine bars!! Luring in innocents by getting all gussied up
and secular. But they are just fronts to lure in the innocents to get
them drinking wine -- and next thing you know they wake up with a huge
funny hat on their head. You know, that insidious practice far out
eclipes those secular looking religious fronts known as meditation
centers that those crazy Meditationists put up all over the place.
>
> So ban wine from public schools! Particularly the boxed kind -- thats
so trailer park! (Not that I can precisely link the "banning" with the
"absence" of wine in schools. Jesus, I am not even sure there are
schools -- that might all be my projection too. Maybe Jim knows.)
>
> But one thing I AM sure of: the practice of meditation and of
drinking wine in the home are absolutely related to and based on the
crazy inner worlds of the groups that give them out. Crazy religious
practices. I mean that's fundamental. No projection there!
>
> And don't get me going on football games. Did you know that the
players huddle around (so gay!) and pray just before the games. And
some KNEEL! Kneeling man! Thats the core of all religious acts.
> They pray and kneel IN schools just before those religious pagents
known by their secular disguise -- football games. No more religious
based football games in schools!
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > From the "Maharishi Channel," thanks to TM-Free:
> >
> > http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2009/04/still-not-religion-video-of-
puja.html
> >
> > This page contains an embedded video of Maharishi
> > leading a group performance of the TM puja, sur-
> > rounded by the Rajas in full costume.
> >
> > I'm sorry that I can't figure out a way to post
> > a direct link to just the video, but it's embedded
> > in such a way that I don't know how to do that.
> >
> > For those who see nothing the least bit religious
> > about the TM puja or the way that the 'Rajas' dress
> > and conduct themselves, this video should reinforce
> > those beliefs.
> >
> > For those who believe that just maybe what this
> > video captures is very much religious indeed, it
> > should reinforce *those* beliefs.
> >
> > Compare and contrast this videotaped occasion and
> > *its* style and presentation with the current
> > "cleaned up" style and presentation of the tm.org
> > website and the "new face" that the TMO wants to
> > show the public following the recent DLF concert.
> > Whatever your beliefs, ask yourself WHY they want
> > to present this "new face."
> >
> > Whatever your stance about the "TM is/isn't a
> > religion" issue, ask yourself, "If the TMO was
> > proud enough of this occasion to broadcast it on
> > its 'Maharishi Channel,' why don't they place this
> > or similar videos on the tm.org website, so that
> > all of the million kids they hope to teach TM to
> > can see a preview of the ceremony they will soon
> > be participating in?"
> >
> > Further ask yourself, "If the TM Rajas dress this
> > way normally, why didn't they dress this way at
> > the DLF concert?"
> >
> > Maybe think about Maharishi's introduction itself,
> > "We have the opportunity to do puja to Guru Dev."
> > Notice the language: "TO Guru Dev." Compare and
> > contrast to some of the descriptions of the puja
> > and what it's about that have been presented here
> > on Fairfield Life.
> >
> > Ponder recent claims that "kneeling is kneeling"
> > and that it's not really a "bowing down" to what
> > these practitioners of the TM puja do at 09:35 into
> > the video. The person who created the puja and in
> > this video defines it as a ceremony "TO Guru Dev,"
> > and the costumed leaders of the TM movement that
> > surround him seem to have a slightly different
> > interpretation of what 'namah' means and how to
> > demonstrate it than the person who said "kneeling
> > is kneeling." Looks a lot like "bowing down" to me.
> >
> > Check out the paintings on the walls and the way
> > that the room is decorated.
> >
> > Check out the scene at 00:35 into the video and
> > the guy seated on a raised dias, higher than Maha-
> > rishi, and how he is dressed and the offerings and
> > adornments laid out at his feet. Dat's Da King,
> > the current leader of the TM movement. Nothing
> > religious about him and how *he* is presented and
> > treated and his relationship to other people,
> > right?
> >
> > Enjoy, in whatever fashion you choose to enjoy it...
> >
>
