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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : All you have to do is read the comments at the bottom of the Youtube video to see what people think of it.A sane person would distance themselves from such *nonsense*. I wouldn't be caught dead endorsing yogic flying and the TMO to create world peace. Might pull for it secretly though, kind of like a Muslim secretly pulling for a Caliphate. Oh, I'd endorse it if I believed it, no problem. Trouble is, I can't see it working or how it could be working if I could see it! It's a nice idea that people can influence each other towards peaceful cooperation without them even being aware of it though. One of the best. I used to think there's no harm in trying, but there's been a lot of financial harm over the years. Marshy's last big idea was a wealth fund to keep a bunch of pundits chanting non-stop to create world peace. An awful lot of people gave up an awful lot of money for that, a fool and his money are soon parted you might say but surely we have to raise the alarm if they keep trying the same scam every time the world goes banana shaped... I left the movement long before all of this yagya/investment stuff. I invested in an education at MIU that I chose and that I subsequently gained/profited from. I paid, I got my money's worth. I chose to learn the Sidhis. It was an interesting experience and worth the few shekels I had to dish out. No biggie. However, I was not interested beyond that in either becoming a TM teacher and "devoting" large swathes of my life to selling the technique nor was I ever involved in giving money to either Ayurvedic or any other TM related product including their honey so I guess it is easy for me to ignore all of that and not make a fuss. If others find it rewarding and helpful to pay money or to engage in all or some of these things, who cares and why? I mean, just look at the cosmetic industry, as one example, and how millions of women dish our their cash in order to look years younger or sexier when, in fact, it's all just so much snake oil? Every minute of every day we are spending time and money on stuff that is either misrepresented or just plain unproven and untrue or simply a waste of time. In the meantime, I'm banking on this lottery ticket I have to win me $50m so I can go out and buy the latest skin care products. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 11:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific Solution to Terrorism and War Deaths: TM found to reduce them by 70%! Any idea why they are bothering with this? It doesn't even mention yogic flying so if anyone takes it at face value and does some research, they'll instantly find this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXAB5L3EIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXAB5L3EIQ And that will be that. Anyone looking still further might wonder why we haven't done it anyway if it works. And then we can say; we have been doing it. And yagyas too! So why doesn't it work? because it just doesn't. There is no action at a distance. None of the research goes anywhere proving that it does. The crime rate in Washington didn't fall any further than it randomly fluctuates over the year anyway, even the editors of the journal that one was published in weren't impressed. And the Lebanon study was even more pointless, does anyone look back at that time and wonder why there was a few fewer deaths than expected when there people meditating in Jerusalem? Of course not, because there wasn't. You can't say that more people would have died if we weren't meditating, how are you going to prove it? There are lies, there are damn lies and there are statistics If this amazing "technology" caused world peace we'd already have it, aren't there 250,000 meditators in South America now? The crime rate in Washington would have dropped to nothing if yogic flying worked. The war in Lebanon would have stopped. Even if it's as good as the claimed unmeasurable effects, how would that help in Syria? 10% fewer beheadings than last month? Wouldn't that interfere with Saudi Arabian justice a bit? They won't like that. Let's face it, it's a nice idea - one of the best, but if they can't even explain how it might work by any known mechanism let alone demonstrate that it does it's dead in the water. Perhaps that's why this advert is heavy on promises and light on explanation? Fess up guys, if it worked the amount of meditators, yagyas and pundits all over the world would have had us all dancing in the streets by now, but we appear to be stuck with having to come up with actual solutions for problems rather than hoping some stirrings of bliss in some mythical unified field will magically save the world. I convert for evidence, but I aint ever seen none for magic, nor even had it explained how it might work.
