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Re:Is Y Combinator the next Aum Shinrikyo? by dood on Saturday September 08, 2007 @12:49AM (#52066)
A better test may be simply: does the belief/practice lead to health and happiness for the practitioners, and those they affect and interact with?
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Re:Is Y Combinator the next Aum Shinrikyo? by shiro on Saturday September 08, 2007 @01:07AM (#52072)
Unfortunately, you can make people subjectively happy by mind-control techniques. Being healthy is also difficult to define (to some extent).
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