stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

... TO A NUNNERY 347
I was subsequently informed, by the salesman, that
the external company which was supposed to have been the
liaison with the outside world for providing contracts had
“gone under.”
Half a million dollars. Zero dollars. “Divinely guided.”
“Blueprint, schmueprint.”
Again, the Monty Python reference:
[Eric Idle character:] Minister, may I put the first
question to you? In your plan, “A Better Britain for
Us,” you claimed that you would build eighty-eight
thousand million billion houses a year in the Greater
London area alone. In fact, you’ve built only three in
the last fifteen years. Are you a bit disappointed with
this result?
[Graham Chapman character:] No, no. I’d like to answer
this question if I may in two ways. Firstly in my
normal voice and then in a kind of silly, high-pitched
whine.
After all that, my entry on the Dilbert Zone website for
March 22, 2001—“Biggest Promises Broken By Your Boss”
—went as follows:
TRUE: Full-time work, six-figure [Cdn.] salary telecommuting.
REALITY: No work in first two months,
ended up $1000 away from living on the street.
—The Artist Formerly Known As Bert
It placed in the top five.
This life is a cosmic motion picture (Yogananda,
1986).
“I laughed. I cried. If you see only one guru this
year....”
• And just when you think it can’t get any worse, it turns out
that one of Charles Manson’s murderous accomplices in the
late ’60s—still imprisoned to this day—had spent time in
the SRF ashrams as a nun: