---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
Actually I was of course having you on. I got that ;-) And as far as the "Save Scorpion Land from the Storms" sales pitch, I thought it was one of the most egregious blatantly greedy and manipulative plays the Movement ever perpetrated. I remember being on a big course and a TM teacher announced at dinner that jyotishees had predicted some massively bad karma coming back for some European country or other and they were asking for donations to neutralise the approaching doom. I was actively trying to convince people that NOT giving anything would be a better idea as we could test the jyotish prediction and see how bad the event really would be. Obviously I had got sceptical by that point and I really wanted to demonstrate that it was a bunch of hokum but people didn't care about scientific method and ignored me. They ignored the call for donations too if I recall - or did they? Nothing bad happened that week..... From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Nepal earthquake report from TM Center in Kathmandu ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Now really Sal! What a scurrilous rant about the poor TM peoples who maintain coherence for us all. Now be honest, remember spring of 2014 when Li'l Johnnie Hagelin asked for donations for an urgent national yagya for Scorpionland to prevent any FURTHER big storms and flooding (after the regular rainy season was over of course)? And how Li'l Johnnie reported they had raised $100,000.00 dollars US for that very purpose? And have you had any more big storms and flooding since the sattvic pundits did that national Scorpion Land yagya? Now how's that for proof of yagya? You're right and I apologise humbly. But hang on, we've had virtually no rain at all ever since and are very close to a drought. Maybe it was too effective? Can we sue Shiva? I can't blame Johnboy though, it must be tricky to balance the laws of nature once you've gained mastery over them. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 1:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Nepal earthquake report from TM Center in Kathmandu It must be tough in the yagya selling business. The only way you have to promote your wares is by saying astonishingly unconvincing things like "You know that Earthquake that didn't flatten your village yesterday? That was prevented by us" A sceptic might say that we've no real idea whether an Earthquake would have flattened anyone's village without the awesome yagya performance. But that's just got to be nonsense, how could a system of reality based on the mighty wisdom of the veda's possibly be in error? But it looks like something did go wrong - maybe some interference from that Hell Pit of Shiva agitation in Switzerland forced our normally strong grip on the laws of nature into abeyance for just a second? - and of course, once you've collected the money to pay for a prayer to make good things happen and then something bad happens, you need a ready explanation to get yourselves off the hook. And here it is: It would have been worse if it had happened the day before. Well, you've got to have something to rally round. And this is the trouble with superstitious thinking, your view of the world is based on a nonsense and when - surprise surprise - your dysfunctional iron-age model doesn't work the way you expected it to you need a scapegoat, no matter how obscene, or those all important donations for the next round of pointless prayers to non-existent gods won't be so forthcoming. But just this once, instead of giving money to the TMO why not give it to the Red Cross, at least they are actually doing something to help the victims and it won't seem like you are just throwing your money onto a bonfire... How we're helping in Nepal | British Red Cross http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Preparing-for-disasters/Nepal-preparing-for-earthquakes/How-were-helping-in-Nepal http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Preparing-for-disasters/Nepal-preparing-for-earthquakes/How-were-helping-in-Nepal How we're helping in Nepal | British Red Cross http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Preparing-for-disasters/Nepal-preparing-for-earthquakes/How-were-helping-in-Nepal The British Red Cross is supporting the three-year programme, which is funded by a £4 million grant from the UK government’s Department for Internation... View on www.redcross.org.uk http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Preparing-for-disasters/Nepal-preparing-for-earthquakes/How-were-helping-in-Nepal Preview by Yahoo