Well said. That's a problem. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guyfawkes91" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How many billion USD are in the Brahmananda Saraswati Trust and how > many generations will it last, in your opinion ? >For an organization dedicated to spreading its ideas in the world the only asset worth having is credibility. The movement doesn't need any money at all, it needs credibility. Currently it spends the money on credibility reduction programs. <snip> The product is good enough that there's a black market in it. Black markets only happen when something is preventing the normal laws of economics from connecting suppliers with buyers. Presently the TMO is standing in the way of people who want to teach connecting up with people who want to learn. So nature routes around the obstruction.
> > > How many billion USD are in the Brahmananda Saraswati Trust and how > > many generations will it last, in your opinion ? > For an organization dedicated to spreading its ideas in the world the > only asset worth having is credibility. The movement doesn't need any > money at all, it needs credibility. Currently it spends the money on > credibility reduction programs. Money on its own is worthless. Without > people behind it, the TMO is nothing and there are not enough new > people entering the TMO to replace those leaving or dying. The simple > fact that teachers live in poverty while the money in the Brahmananda > Saraswati Trust is used to fund delusional plans and wasteful excesses > is enough to repel new entrants. If teachers have most of their income > taxed to go into the Brahmananda Saraswati Trust, then they won't > teach because they have to make a living. > > It's a measure of how lacking in creative intelligence the present TMO > is that I should have to explain the elementary natural laws of > economics, slowly, using simple words. To everyone one else it's > blindingly obvious. The only reason simple economic realities are not > obvious to people in the movement is that they are protected from > those simple realities by donations. Giving money to the TMO is like > giving to money to a drug addict for their next fix. It prevents them > having to face up to reality and make their own way in the world using > their own abilities. > > The product is good enough that there's a black market in it. Black > markets only happen when something is preventing the normal laws of > economics from connecting suppliers with buyers. Presently the TMO is > standing in the way of people who want to teach connecting up with > people who want to learn. So nature routes around the obstruction. >