--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html > > > > "Currently, almost 2,000 Assembly participants practice the > > TM and advanced TM-Sidhi program together every day in Fairfield, > > Iowa, creating a powerful influence of coherence throughout the > > nation. As this number rises to 2,500enough, according to > > research, to produce a phase transition to a permanently peaceful, > > prosperous, and harmonious societywe expect to see a measurable > > shift in national trends that will quickly resolve any remaining > > imbalances in the country and permanently establish the nation on > > a high level of invincibility." > > OK, I know that I have garnered somewhat of a reputation > for being cynical here on FFL, but I for one *welcome* > this latest pronouncement by the TM movement and this > latest push to "achieve the magic number." > > They have, in essence, stated categorically *and in > print* that the only thing needed to "resolve any remaining > imbalances in the country and permanently establish the > nation on a high level of invincibility" is to achieve > the "magic number" of 2,500 butt-bouncers in Fairfield. > > I think that is bold of them. It is a claim that is both > achievable (if they bribe enough of the few remaining TM > practitioners to join in the gluteous maximus glee of > 'butt-bouncing for invincibility,' or hire enough brown- > skinned slave boys to 'achieve the numbers') and testable. > > Surely those who thought up this pronouncement believe > that the results of this Grand Experiment In Consciousness > will result in the proving of Theorem #1 below. Their > faith is strong enough that this will be the result that > they don't even seem to entertain the possibility of it > proving Theorem #2 instead. > > THEOREM #1: > We -- "the 2,500" -- rule! We have *proved* that despite > the naysaying of critics and those who have lost faith, > *we* are the most important people on the planet. Even > better, we have *proved* that all along we have been > RIGHT and they have been WRONG. Butt-bouncing really > IS as cool and as world-transforming as we've claimed it > was all these years, and that makes us -- "the 2,500" -- > MIGHTY and everyone else big, fat losers. Nyaaah nyaaah. > > THEOREM #2: > We -- "the 2,500" -- are the World's Biggest Suckers. > Not *only* were we duped 30 years ago into moving to a > backwater pisshole in the middle of nowhere by promises > that it -- and by extension *we* -- were the center of > the universe, we still believe it, despite even the > contrary evidence of this study we've just completed. > The only thing wrong with the theory is that our Vedic > Math was a little off. We need 3,000 butt-bouncers to > bring about invincibility, not 2,500. The person respon- > sible for the math error has been tarred and feathered > and chosen to serve as our scapegoat so that we can > continue to live in our fantasy world. We - "the 2,500," > soon to be "the 3,000" -- *still* rule. We are *still* > RIGHT, and all of you others are *still* WRONG. > Nyaaah nyaaah. >
Dear Turq, Nice summation. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the hyperbole in that. My eye popped too on reading that both from the Institute web page and their recent mailing. -Buck
