--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 7/13/06 10:27 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > But to your point, I have personally seen Maharishi > > lie his socks off to someone (Charlie Lutes) for > > the very reason you mention, to give the impression > > that someone else had done what he himself had done > > (kept Charlie waiting in a hotel hallway for a long > > time, which pissed Charlie off so much that he > > threw a tantrum and stormed out of the hotel). > > > Partly, it¹s an Indian cultural thing. Indians hate to say no. So they say > yes even when they mean no. MMY often did this. He would say yes to someone > then a few minutes later tell his secretary to tell the person no. People > interpreted this as his cosmic way of helping their evolution. >
Indians are all very cosmic, obviously. Japanese are even worse. You CANNOT say "no" in polite Japanese. Japanese engineers converse in English to get around this issue. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/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/
