tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627112.post8928972366214515990..comments2023-11-05T05:00:40.722-06:00Comments on The Complacency Chronicles: Idle Time-shane-http://www.blogger.com/profile/10208833447055231529noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627112.post-87763313166736668402008-05-12T09:30:00.000-05:002008-05-12T09:30:00.000-05:00Shane writes:"Made me wonder just why they were so...Shane writes:<BR/><BR/>"Made me wonder just why they were so concerned about making sure all the journalists were monitored..."<BR/><BR/>In the years before the fall of the Soviet Union, visiting Western journalists were also escorted around by KGB agents, thus minimizing contact with the locals...MUM does the same thing. It's all about thought control. <BR/><BR/>To understand MUM just pick up a copy of Orwell's 1984; you'll get the whole picture in that book.<BR/><BR/> MUM is unfit to be trusted with the education and intellectual development of young adults and children. <BR/><BR/>History has shown that an atmosphere of freedom of inquiry is the requisite condition for moral, intellectual and spiritual growth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627112.post-3928558801801099622008-05-10T04:44:00.000-05:002008-05-10T04:44:00.000-05:00Intriguing, Radi. I'd love to hear more about your...Intriguing, Radi. I'd love to hear more about your experiences in Dometown.<BR/><BR/>The whole time we were there, we were shepherded about campus by a liaison -- and it looked like each team of journalists had their own liaison as well. Made me wonder just why they were so concerned about making sure all the journalists were monitored...<BR/><BR/>I was there 3 years for Lynch's first visit, too -- and it seemed a lot less Big Brother-esque that time, we were free to come and go, students talked to us, etc.<BR/><BR/>This time we didn't hear a peep out of one single student.<BR/><BR/>I'm not trying to gloss over TM or paint it in flowery prose... I'm definitely NOT on board with a lot of their basic tenets & beliefs. But at the same time I'm open-minded enough to hear them out without pointing a finger and yelling "CULT!," y'know? So yeah, I'd love to hear more about your experiences at MUM and what it's really like to go to school there.-shane-https://www.blogger.com/profile/10208833447055231529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12627112.post-50045214166564361172008-05-09T16:08:00.000-05:002008-05-09T16:08:00.000-05:00Shane writes:"Yet these are some of the nicest peo...Shane writes:<BR/><BR/>"Yet these are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet."<BR/><BR/>Yes at first...but try enrolling as a student and then expressing some skepticism, and show an interest in alternative ideas and MUM behaves like NAZIS.<BR/><BR/>Once day in the Golden Dome, during mediation session, I observed a male student, forcefully picked up and carried out of the building.<BR/><BR/>This was because he was known to practice an alternative form of meditation inside... HIS OWN MIND.<BR/><BR/>MUM has a high school and elementary school. What happens when some student shows an interest in Tibetan Buddhism and starts practicing it?<BR/><BR/>MUM is devoted to an ideology not to helping people. They are the worst kind of pathetic fascists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com