that is an excellent idea Doc! I absolutely agree - big screen tv, nachos, beer
and football or maybe soccer and cricket for them to watch.
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On Fri, 3/14/14, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com <doctordumb...@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Disciplinary action expected after riot
Today's FF Ledger
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, March 14, 2014, 12:25 PM
I think there is a lot of "Brahmin-worship
idealism" not just from Maharishi, who at least
understood it from his own culture. Mayor Winner and the
others were probably too star struck by the "holy"
pandit boys, to do anything, but imprison them, in this
idealism - "our little brown brothers, of inestimably
high consciousness are too pure to join the ranks of us
western sinners", or some such crap. Someone needs to
go in there, and watch a football game (not soccer) with
these guys, or take them to a country and western saloon.
Its a good program, but only if the culture gap can be
resolved. Otherwise, adios, muchachos!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...>
wrote :
"And how odd that you would find
Lawson's speculation about the pundits' isolation to
be blaming them for it rather than those responsible for
keeping them in isolation."
And that may be the most important
issue here:
the pandits may feel so isolated that they
are lashing out or getting exploited by jumping ship on the
way back to India, etc, and it may be the root of all the
problems we've been hearing about. Maharishi, in
his Brahmin-worship idealism, may have thought that it was
enough simply for Brahmins to participate in the revival of
their cultural tradition, but real world issues have shown
that there's something lacking here and the local TM
organization has to figure out what it
is.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...>
wrote :
This had nothing to do with a
"celebrity endorsement," you twisted twit. Lawson
is addressing a specific factual issue, as to whether Mishra
is the "head pundit," as the news reports have
said; and if not, what his real status is, since he appears
to have been central to what took place..
The truth
is, Barry, you don't want to know what
actually happened. You want to be the one who establshes the
story according to your own bilious viewpoint, regardless of
the facts. And anyone who goes in search of the facts and
reports on what he finds, if it isn't 100 percent
negative to the TMO, is to be demonized as a
cultist.
And how
odd that you would find Lawson's speculation about the
pundits' isolation to be blaming them for it rather than
those responsible for keeping them in
isolation.
http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/Oprah-Meets-Iowas-Pandits-Videoin
the above video, Oprah meets "Bhupendra-ji," one
of the "leaders of the pandits." It is obvious
that he is much older than the 20-40 age group of the
run-of-the-mill pundits mentioned in the
article(s).
My guess
is that the guy they were deporting is either an informal
charismatic spokesman or some kind of sub-group leader who
thought he'd protect his friends from those non-Brahmin
filth, er, Westerners.
I'm also guessing that the
pandits are so isolated that they've developed local
gang leaders who prey on their ignorance of local customs
(which they may not be aware of, either) like
"don't attack
local law enforcement officers" as it gets the
attention of the state and federal law enforcement agencies
who will kill you in an instant if they think you are a real
threat to law enforcement officers in general.
Three comments:
1. When the credibility of a cult organization is called
into question, trot out an old celebrity endorsement from
two years ago in the hope that readers are as easily swayed
by celebrity as you are.
2. When the cult is threatened by events that have become
public knowledge, find someone else to blame for them.
Describe the fall guys using terms like "gang
leaders" for maximum effect.
3. Try not to have any photos taken of yourself as you do
and say this stuff.
