--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2007, at 10:00 PM, authfriend wrote: <snip> > > Here's the lie Vaj told: > > > > "if you do a web search for 'Do nothing and accomplish > > everything' the phrase is usually tied to get rich > > quick schemes." > > > > In fact, virtually every Google hit on the phrase > > is tied to Gratzon's book, which is not, of course, > > a "get rich quick scheme." > > Well, since you failed to define a "get rich quick scheme" I find > your lame response unconvincing.
Most people (including you) know what "get-rich-quick scheme" refers to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get-rich-quick_scheme More importantly, though, your lie suggested the links were to lots of different get-rich-quick schemes, not to a single book. > So let's look at Judy's assertion that Gratzon's book is not > part of the genre of "get rich quick scheme" books and whether > or not it aims a quicker approach to starting a business > compared to the more traditional approaches. Irrelevant argument on both counts. There are no "schemes" in Gratzon's book, so it isn't part of the genre of books advancing such schemes. Rather, it attempts to prepare readers psychologically to approach the endeavor of making money without thinking it has to involve great effort on their part. His basic thesis is that once you stop thinking this way, things begin to fall into place (whatever the specifics) more or less automatically. No "schemes" involved, just a change of attitude. <snip> > The 'attuning oneself to the lazy approach', to natural law, would > take (if TM research is to be believed) only about three months > maximum--the typical amount of time for TM "benefits" to level off. > > In other words it's much less time, very quick in comparison, this > path to "success" and alleged riches. Let's say six months or less. Er, no. While Gratzon does recommend TM, it's as an adjunct, an extra; it's not the basis of his approach. More significantly, though, in none of the material I've read about and from his book, including his blog, is getting rich "quickly" a goal; it isn't what he emphasizes at all. As far as I can tell, what he advocates and promises has nothing to do with speed, only with not exerting effort. So it would appear you've spent a whole lot of time, Vaj, painstakingly knocking down a straw man, in your continuing attempts to pretend you didn't tell a blatant, knowing lie. Once again, here's what you said: "If you do a web search for 'Do nothing and accomplish everything' the phrase is usually tied to get rich quick schemes." Here's the *truthful* version of what you said: "If you do a web search for 'Do nothing and accomplish everything,' the phrase is almost always tied to a book by a TMer about how to make money without a lot of effort." But you didn't say that, because it doesn't sound as though there are lots of TMers out there trying to rope vulnerable dupes into investing in ethically and/or legally dubious *schemes* for getting rich quickly, using MMY's phrase (from a very different context) as the hook. There may well *be* such TMers. But instead of going to the trouble to document your claim, you fabricated the evidence out of whole cloth. You tried, in fact, to "do nothing and accomplish everything"; you attempted the "Lazy Way to Success," but you didn't do it honestly, and you got caught at it, showing yourself to be a person lacking in credibility instead of achieving what you'd hoped for.
