"This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal"--"government by consent of the governed"--"give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives.
Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being. To apply any other test--to deny a man his hopes because of his color or race, his religion or the place of his birth--is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom." -Jai LBJ! ..delivered in "The American Promise" before an assembled joint session of the US Congress. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : "I urge every member, ..to join me in that cause." -LBJ In revolution their rhetoric in leadership is inclusive, comprehensive and a gathering language which by contrast we have not heard projected from inside the vacuum state of leadership in TM for some time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Yep,residing in that great transcendence of inalienable human right I say, 'Jai! Lyndon Banes Johnson'! As I say 'Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi! Maharishi saying, "Anyone who can think, can meditate." Jai! for both of their coming along and having pluck enough as millenarists and revolutionaries to stand forward in our times. Evidently at a time LBJ was quite successful with his Great Society and quite evidently with a lasting effect. LBJ: "Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man." "I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, from every section of this country, to join me in that cause." “And should we defeat every enemy, should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation. For with a country as with a person, "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" “This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal"—"government by consent of the governed"—"give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries,” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : LBJ is actually a good example of the rhetoric of leadership within millenarian revolution. [notice spelling with one 'n', not millennial] change. For instance LBJ's articulation of transcendent and larger promises in America of an evolving dharma-like progression of equal rights for all. Gathering people in, see what and how he said it. Read a few of the first few paragraphs where he lays things out and see how he reaches for it in rhetoric. He was quite successful with “The Great Society” and then with civil rights and voting rights legislation in turn. Was a remarkable point of leadership in broad cultural change. Time was ripe and he led rhetorically. Text of “The American Promise”.. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise March 15, 1965 http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise March 15,... http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise March 15, 1965 [As delivered in person before a joint session at 9:02 p.m.] View on www.lbjlib.utexas.edu http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp Preview by Yahoo You can watch him deliver it on YouTube.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvPhiuGZ6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvPhiuGZ6I ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Anartaxius says here that millenarians, 'they seem to never take the direction and form intended'. Never? It could be well argued that these four millenarians created broad and lasting cultural changes, for instance. It is informative in an examination of organizations and their sociology to look at how in leadership they went about doing it, by contrast. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote : Yes, Doug, but transformations occur in society almost as a matter of course, but they never seem to take the direction and character that those who believed there was an upcoming transition would have it. So having a belief, which is a pretence to knowledge, one's imagination of what might be or is, is simply a superfluous mental attitude that traps the mind in a particular rut while the world goes on its merry way. Obviously these beliefs, even if they are wrong which they tend to be, do have an influence on the progress of change because they alter a person's behaviour, but the underlying forces of change are not concerned with imagination. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Mao, Maharishi with his 'Ideal Society', even LBj with his 'Great Society', also Roosevelt and the 'New Deal' by effect in culture were the larger 'revolutionary millenarians' of the last Century with their leadership towards creating 'Heavens on Earth'. As a study I find it informative to look at their speeches for the language that activated people and brought people along in revolution, by contrast with a TM movement of this Century which in its own character of leadership has been unable and in decline for 40 years. The contrast around 'inclusiveness' is stark. Millenarianism (also millenarism) is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed. Millennialism http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism [by contrast] is a specific form of millenarianism based on a one-thousand-year cycle, which many sects of different religions believe. A Chaney, Princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Millenarianism.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Millenarianism.html Revolutionary as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor. Dictionary.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Maharishi's Little Blaze-Orange Book Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Defence | Maharishi University Press http://www.mumpress.com/government-administration/a14.html http://www.mumpress.com/government-administration/a14.html Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Defence | Maharishi Univ... http://www.mumpress.com/government-administration/a14.html Maharishi offers the indomitable strength of invincibility to the military by bringing military power into alliance with the invincible power of Natural Law. View on www.mumpress.com http://www.mumpress.com/government-administration/a14.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Thanks, you raise really interesting points. Buck spent considerable time looking for form of leadership in inspirational speeches by finding historic famous speeches of historical famous leadership rallying moments. In experiment then transposing them over to try to stem the breech in Dome numbers, you will find those throughout Buck's many contributions to FFL: Washington, Frederick, King Richard, Asad, Chamberlain and others. No, Buck never did Adolf as Adolf is way too loaded to have much of a conversation about. Though that passage in that in the band of brothers movie given by the German general to his surrendering troops Buck did use at a point with good effect against the haters. You hit upon a distracting problem though where people may miss the import of how leadership is done whence there is attribution given. People get easily distracted by attribution, like you did with the Mao attribution. The quotations themselves are real interesting to look at if separated from his name. Yes, he was a miserable administrator and made errors in decisions of governance like some other famous millenarian revolutionaries of the 20th Century we know. But as a revolutionary at a time he was effective in the 20th Century. The Little Red Book is interesting to look at for its study in leadership. It is relevant still in the 21st Century. Your last point about transparency given the nature and speed of data in the internet world is absolutely right. Survival for any group in the modern world is going to be readily marked against ethical behavior. There is no hiding bad behavior.. that is a lot of the wrangling going on now within TM.. how to proceed. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : The Little Red Book? Looking at leadership qualities a while ago I got to wondering about Mao's voice of leadership in their revolution and sat down and read his 'quotations', the little red book. I was wondering 'how' he did it? It is quite a tight organizational prompting and type of capable leadership. Seemed something that our own movement has been missing for quite a few years. In process I did a mash-up of “Mao in to TM” to see how it sounded. "Showing it around to local folks here, if they are not first prejudiced by knowing the quotations come from Mao, they generally recognize it as effective leadership that we do not have and could wish for in our own movement organization." Did you ever have the same idea about 'Mein Kampf' of Adolf Hitler? About Mao: His policies caused the deaths of tens of millions of people during his 27-year reign, more than any other Twentieth Century leader... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Legacy Maybe at the time of Mao it was possible to clue people together by a single book, and to mass control peoples thoughts. This time is over now, with the advent of the Internet transparency has increased so much, that it will be hard to control people in the same way. Finally, the TMO has to come to realize this too, all the TM secrets are written down in the Internet. Deal with it. # All we are saying is let's give peace a chance. John Lennon- Give Peace a Chance with Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyiqGIJQus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyiqGIJQus John Lennon- Give Peace a Chance with Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyiqGIJQus Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon with Lyrics :) The music in this video does not belong to me View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyiqGIJQus Preview by Yahoo
