--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <fest...@...> wrote: > > My guess is that the bigger problem than people being > banned is that many people here simply don't want to > go to the domes any more. They did it for 10-20 years > in many cases but no longer have the same interest in > it. Seems inevitable to me. Perspectives change. You > can't expect people to do the same thing forever. The > only way to keep up the numbers in the dome is for the > movement to replenish itself with younger people who > are new and keen, but it has not proved very effective > at doing that.
I thought that this was an interesting post, not only because of its refreshing honesty, but because that honesty was completely ignored and not followed up here on FFL. Feste makes probably the best point made so far with regard to the "desperation to fill the domes" -- the inability of those who want to fill them to figure out why they're empty. Duh. It's because people don't want to go sit on a bunch of slabs of foam among a bunch of sweating, grunting people and bounce on their butts. And the reason *WHY* they don't want to do this was expressed by Maharishi clearly in the early years of his teach- ing, which I paraphrase as "The natural tendency of the mind is to want to go towards that which is more charming or blissful or enlivening." The only reason the "dome numbers" are as high as they are is that the TMO has imported a great number of brown-skinned slave boys to raise those numbers. Let's face it -- if sufficient "bliss" were really there to attract other people to the domes, not only is "banning" not the issue, *money* isn't the issue, because Mr. Settle is willing to pay them to bounce on their butts as a full-time job, just as he pays the brown-skinned slave boys. The larger issue is what Feste says. No one *wants* to go bounce on their butts twice a day. So been there, done that, they can't even be paid enough to do it any more. THAT strikes me as the issue that the "Trustees" meeting in Fairfield should be discussing, not more ways to get people to pay for more brown-skinned slave boy pundits. They're trying to get people to do some- thing that violates the natural tendency of the mind to want to go towards that which is more enjoyable. They're trying to get people to do something that is no fucking fun.
