---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :
Again, it does strike me as weird this preoccupation of some with how other people spend their money. It is their money after all, and most people enjoy spending money. I don't think they need someone looking over their shoulder saying "Stop. I disapprove of you spending your money this way" I might be inclined to tell them to take a flying fuck in a rolling doughnut. I surely might. (-: HAHA well be careful, that activity could prove dangerous to someone's health if they actually tried that. What is a "flying" fuck, though? I figure if you're rolling on a doughnut it's a rolling fuck. On the subject of those who get all vigilante and ready to take on the Movement for giving grown adults the opportunity to spend their hard-earned (or not hard earned) dinero on Ayurvedic treatments or Maharishi honey then so be it. Look at all those spending money on hair grow products and cheap soon-to-be-out-of-fashion clothes or cable subscriptions in order to watch the pap available on most TV stations. It's called freedom to make a choice. It's not like spending money on some guys chanting yagyas that you're going to die as a result, or that ten firstborn children are going to be drowned at dawn. The best that could happen is that you feel good about having invested in yagyas (the placebo effect) and at worst some busy body comes and talks your ear off later and tries to convince you that you just wasted $500. Who needs it? It 's like those bores who insist you're a "cultist" all the while you haven't had a thing to do with the Movement for over three decades. LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : snip 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.
