Are you sure that "think" is the right word? The pundits have an average age of 26, according to the article we are discussing. But if they were underage I would be even more likely to talk about them. I find the idea of keeping a bunch of foreigners as pets in the hope of giving yourselves a better life to be astoundingly offensive.
Not least because it doesn't actually work, as anyone who has thought objectively about it for at least a minute will be aware. The amount of people I know who have desperately given money in the hope of a turnaround in bad circumstances is beyond count. I know disabled people who have paid a fortune for these bullshit yagyas. I know someone I can't even talk about who gave his life savings in exchange for a few prayers that quite obviously did nothing. The list is endless, in one way we have to say that if God didn't want them sheared he would not have made them sheep. On the other hand I can't see a wrong without wanting to see it righted. Either prove that this superstitious crap works or let the pundits go home or earn some money in Fairfield or get them a degree that might mean something in the real world. What I think is that the whole thing is a scam and you should be ashamed for trying to shut down debate about it on a public forum. But you are right in that they are religious, but they claim to be scientific and that makes them fair game. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: On 2/13/2014 8:04 AM, salyavin808 wrote: > I wonder why no one in the press questions the purpose of keeping > these people in Iowa? > It would probably be in the best interests of the poor Hindu pandit boys if they were left alone to pray and get an education in Vedic City. Most of us here probably think it would be better not to involve the children in a sordid FFL debate. There's nothing good going to come from discussing the private life of under age children on a public forum. It would probably be much better to just leave the children alone and raise our own - that's more appropriate and rewarding than smearing some religious group in Iowa. That's what I think.
