On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote: >>> If people asked him, he wasn't breaking any laws in >>> stating his opinion. Do you need a license now to >>> have opinions? >> >> To them he wasn't merely stating an opinion, it was the word, the promise of >> an omniscient sage. > > Since when does magical thinking make someone > else responsible for that person's decisions?
Unfortunately, I doubt HH the Maharishi thought he using magical thinking, nor did his students. They expected a cure--and acted accordingly--costing them their lives and/or a peaceful transition. > >> Practicing medicine without a license is a fairly serious charge. > > Of course it would be. But if giving an opinion when asked > constitutes "practicing medicine without a license" > we should all be in jail. Vaj, no offense or anything, > but in your zeal to accuse MMY of something, anything, > I think you're sort of losing it here. That's just it, I don't feel any great, imagined "zeal". These are just facts, and old news, for me. When I hear it coming from former prominent students and his personal physician, I'm sorry, I stop and take notice. I consider him responsible for these people's deaths--as do many others. I hope you eventually get to talk to these people as I have. Then you'll be singing a different tune.
