Dharma Investment Group leaders indicted

Dharmic compliance!

OK, I found this article which demonstrates that these scammers were huge Enlightenment Posers:

Dow Jones Indexes and Dharma Investment Group have launched the Dow Jones Dharma Indexes, which measure the performance of companies selected according to the values and principles of Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

...To be included in the Dow Jones Dharma Indexes, stocks must pass a set of industry, environmental, corporate governance and qualitative screens for Dharmic compliance.

I tell ya. It's these holier-than-thou types you have to keep an eye on. Anyone who claims to measure "Dharmic compliance" is probably in violation on several counts.

"If only I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say that the Soka skunk has changed its stripe." -- auntie

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by: mroaks @ Wed Apr 21, 2010 at 19:24:35 PM UTC

can't see how

I have no idea whether this groups approval or disapproval of something is valid or not, but I can't see any problem in theory. There are things that accord with the dharma and there are things that go against it and it isn't impossible to tell. As an example I can quite easily say taht anyone engaged in arms manufaturing is in violation of buddhist dharma and no one can fault me for saying so according to the dharma.

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by: clown hidden @ Wed Apr 21, 2010 at 22:35:15 PM UTC

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Ponzi scheme

Who decides which $18-million ponzi schemes are dharmically compliant, and which ones aren't, clown?

This is just another example of con men using Buddhist-sounding hoodoo to rip people off.

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by: deardenver @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 00:12:43 AM UTC

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ALL OF 'EM

Ponzi schemes would all be wrong action against truth. Duh!

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by: clown hidden @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 23:45:14 PM UTC

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