on 10/24/05 10:37 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> Maharishi doesn't like labor governments. >>>> His comment on Britain's Labor >>>> Party: "They are laborers. They shouldn't >>>> be running the government. Give >>>> them a shovel and tell them where to dig." >>> >>> This shows that he may well have lost the plot. History >>> will rate this particular Labour governemnt to be >>> the best Conservative government that we have ever >>> had. But it is still a Labour government. MMY's >>> advisors are more concerned about rubbing oil >>> into his feet and keeping their jobs than retailing >>> the truth, and taking the consequences. Can't he see it? >> >> I don't think he understands what a Labour government is. >> He's just ragging on the term "Labour" because he's mad at >> Blair and the UK in general. > > I don't think Maharishi understands what a government > is, period. > > He's lived in never-never land all of his life, inside > ashrams and then at the center of one (his movement). > The only "governmental" structure within those organ- > izations is Big Boss Man telling everybody what to do. > No one gets a vote, no one else's opinion is solicited > or valued; it's Big Boss Man's way or the highway.
The reason he doesn't like democracies is that he doesn't consider the common man qualified to have a say in governmental policy. He thinks that individuals should just concern themselves with their individual lives and leave the big government stuff to those whose dharma qualifies them to manage it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
