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The Sathya Sai Organization?s Treatment of Dissidents: A Desertion of Ethi
2012-04-23 13:34:00
Among other reasons, there is a much less reported reason for the success, at a very deep and far-reaching level, of the former Sathya Sai Baba devotees' long and gruelling exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult. This has been the response from non-devotee family members, friends, neighbors, and school, college, university, professional, trade and other and associates of devotees. They had no compunction in consulting the internet and in judging the critical offerings on the basis of commonsense and reason. Some of them saw the almost daily attacks upon us, and how viciously set-upon and libeled have been those who have made great personal, financial and other forms of sacrifice in getting the abuses investigated by responsible world media, the United Nations, and so on Profoundly blinded devotees would not hear a word said against their idol. He was God walking the earth. He could do as he pleased. One had to love him for his mystery. And not question his plethora o...

By: Call for media and government investigation

Charisma
2012-01-29 21:23:00
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â There Exists No Greater Gift Than That Which Results In Delivering One FromÂ Certain Eternal Death Unto An Absolute Eternal Life Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel ( The Good News ) to every creature. ( Mark 16:15 NKJV ) It seems to have become the norm that in these harsh economic times that which comes to us in the form of information and or news seems to lack hope and optimism as much as a lot of hard working people lack jobs. And though any nations economic policy can be found as one cause of their economic woes with regard to hope and optimism the root of such issues stems from whether individuals understand that truly good newsÂ has at its core eternal life and therefore is the healthiest means by which we should relate to and or deal with all other issues, good or bad. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â In Romans chapter 16 the apostle Paul refers to how we can become enslaved to sinful ways. He goes on to say in verse 23 that though ...

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Democratic Societies Need To Face Issues On Cults
2010-01-08 23:21:00
In my colleague's and my extensive experience in exposing the global Sathya Sai Baba cult and its leader, India's most famous guru, we have found a striking fact: governments, and indeed whole societies, fail to face the problem of cults. The 'answers' of totalitarian regimes is of course to be repudiated at the outset. Indeed, in their authoritarianism, these closely resemble a great many cults, in any case! In some sense, they can indeed be deemed cults. Charismatic, autocratic leadership, enforcement of group-think, and punitive styles exercised against those who question are some characteristics that loom large.

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Sathya Sai Baba On Magnetism. Science or Sai-ence?
2009-08-12 02:39:00
Sathya Sai Baba is wildly at odds with some of the most basic scientific facts. His jumping between from physical to metaphysical notions, vague at best, are at grave odds with the physics being taught in his colleges and universities - and in any respectable classroom. In an early blog of mine in 2007 - A Great Deceiver ? Laughable But Still Dangerous - I wrote: "Sai Baba?s many scientist followers must have to block their ears or don magical-thinking hearing aids when he opines on matters scientific. Some of his pronouncements are comic, to be sure. But the smile disappears from one?s face when considering that Sai Baba?s devotees number many leaders in the top power echelons of politics, government, the sciences, the judiciary, diplomacy, industry, finance, the arts, medicine, and so on. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism" ..... Since then, Sai Baba's critical commentator's have noted many past and current absurdities .....

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Who is a Center of Influence?
2009-07-14 02:10:00
Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell Unleashing the Ideavirus, by Seth Godin The Influentials, by Edward Keller and Jonathan Berry The phrase ‘Center of Influence’ or COI is used often in sales & marketing, especially within the Insurance, investment, and financial services sector. Rather than marketing to them, we market through Influentials. Favoring the hub-and-spoke model, I agree with ...