Being a ‘self sufficient’ community we presumed that all the food eaten would have been grown locally, by the community. However, Mr. Bosshard didn’t hesitate to tell us that they buy most of there food from the same companies that supply hotel chains, that one of the benefits of being a community is that they can buy food in bulk, at much cheaper rates than an individual could. This is all very well, but to be honest we were more than a little bit surprised by this. For an organization that claims to be so closely in touch with nature, so much so that nature gave them a free energy device, it didn’t seem right that they would buy food that is most probably genetically modified, almost certainly non-organic and without a doubt corporately distributed and cultivated. This really did concern us, when you consider the fact that this organization refuses to share a potentially world saving device with mankind because ‘They’ aren’t ready for it,’ and yet on so many levels, the food they eat being one of them, they are hypocritical to there own ideas and beliefs. It was beginning to look like the same old story, Money and Religion breed corruption. Money definitely plays a big part in this community’s religion.
After lunch, Viktor had arranged to have us watch a video about the Testatika - the same one that was made for a Swiss science convention, when Methernitha was asked to publicly demonstrate the Testatika. We were led to the community’s day school, which housed no children. Outside there were some fairly major construction works going on.
We were sat down in front of the 40 inch plasma T.V in the lounge and we watched the video. I got that same pain in my neck as I’d gotten in the kitchen. How was it right that on the one hand these folks possess a media lounge with a 40 inch plasma screen on the wall yet on the other, the world isn’t ready to accept free energy yet, because of their desire for money and material wealth? I remember Viktor telling us that they couldn’t allow the Testatika device to go to mankind because if they did, man would use it for materialistic, money-driven reasons, and that Methernitha would be just as guilty and morally accountable for any wrong doings by giving this to ‘them’.
It seems very strange that a community based around selling filing cabinets to corporate businesses (and God only knows what is on the paper stored in their cabinets) could take such a moral high ground. Taking Methernitha’s views on keeping the Testatika private into account, is this community not just as responsible as their customers for the ill deeds caused by what is stored in the filing cabinets they sell? Also I couldn’t help but wonder just how much blood was sat up there in that 40 inch T.V.
How many Ugandan orphans sweated in the crystal mines for that to be there? Is Methernitha not morally accountable for that as well? It just seemed really strange to us that the main reasons given for not allowing the Testatika’s release was that they did not trust the world’s practices and orientation toward money, and that they did not want to be responsible for betraying their ‘friend Nature,’ by giving it to this described world. It was blatantly obvious that the Methernitha community’s own lifestyle is not much different. There is a lot of good things going on within Methernitha, but at the same time there is an awful lot of moral compromising (or to put it bolder, ignorance) and out right hypocrisy.