--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > on 8/25/06 9:44 AM, sparaig at sparaig@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What size organization are we talking about? > > > > > > > Size doesn¹t matter. > > > > Heh. Au contraire. Women generally agree that size > > DOES matter, amongst themselves, (though they don't > > always agree with HOW it matters--I've been the ghost > > at female only conversations where everyone forgot > > about the lone guy sitting in the station wagon's > > trunk). > > > > And size matters in a more consistent way when dealing > > with how dysfunctional an organization gets. > > Back to sparaig's original question, if you think > about it, when you're discussing the actual TM > organization at this point, you're discussing a > group of maybe two to three thousand people world- > wide. They can't get more than that together even > when some sucker pays for everything and they can > invites people to come for free. Scaring the others > with stories of impending doom doesn't work, and > badgering them with shame isn't going to work, > either. The organization is shrinking with every > passing day. > > How difficult is it to run an organization that > only consists of a couple of thousand people in > an ethical manner? If it had been run that way > all along -- as Rick says so well, if Maharishi > had actually walked his talk -- the enormous inter- > national organization sparaig imagines and is trying > to use as an excuse for inefficient and unethical > behavior might still actually exist. >
I didn't say the current organization is that large, only that it was considerably larger than some claim. At one point, the TMO was able to do a simultaneous demonstration of Yogic Flying in hundreds of cities around the world. That's a pretty big organization. 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/
