Agreed Sal. None of these spiritual movement starters claims to be a medical doctor, a lawyer, a financial planner (lol), or anything except someone who purports to take us from A to B, assuming we want to take such a journey, whatever that might be. They derive all of their power from those they attract. It is very much cafeteria style. Time to pick and choose carefully, or not at all.
The world is a smaller place now too (FFL is a good example of that). The mystic holy man from the east type of thing doesn't have the automatic allure and charisma about it that it once did. With all of the choices out there for spiritual growth today (including none of the above), there's very little likelihood anybody is going to get swept up into the guru's fold these days without an already strong commitment vs. approaching it casually. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:34 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > > >> If people asked him, he wasn't breaking any laws in > >> stating his opinion. Do you need a license now to > >> have opinions? > > > > There may, in fact, be a place in future law for > > the "potential societal impact" of things expressed > > as opinion. For example, if you or I or pretty much > > anyone on this forum (which, as I suggested, prob- > > ably reaches a total of 20 people weekly) said, > > "Smoke cigarettes all you want, because they don't > > cause cancer," there is pretty much no harm, no foul. > > Nobody cares what we say, or the fact that we said it. > > > > But what if Oprah said it? > > What if she did? I've never watched her show, > but I gather she gives her opinion every day on > a variety of topics. Has there ever been a > lawsuit against her? Successful? There was > that brouhaha with the beef industry after > she said she wouldn't eat hamburgers anymore, > but as far as I can remember it went nowhere. > Nor did people stop eating hamburgers. > > > What if a person whose words thousands (and in MMY's > > case tens of thousands) of people considered synonymous > > with the "word of God" said it? > > Oprah, like MMY, is a private individual not licensed > to give professional advice in any field, right? If > someone wants to give her, his or anyone else's > words magic powers, that's their decision. > > > When *he* says, "Don't > > have anything to do with Western medecine," (which he > > did, in public and on tape, numerous times), it has > > more of a potential societal impact than if we nobodys > > said it. Just sayin'. > > If you say so, Barry. But I don't see it. > > Sal >
