On 11/9/2014 8:16 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I forgot! Vlodrop, Holland, is the former residence of Maharishi and
is a capital of the Global Country of World Peace.
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/Everyone already knows that. One of our current informants is already
living over there checking everything out and sending in reports to FFL
almost every day./
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Of course, nothing but peace and love can emanate from the Netherlands
. . .
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/Of course - that's probably because there are so many peaceful hippies
over there./
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Please, please, please, drop in on Vlodrop and let the residents there
know, in no uncertain terms, what you think of the current state of
the TMO. Then report back to us on how the true believers received you.
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/According to my sources, there are no residents in the log cabin that
was occupied by MMY at Vlodrop - it's more of a reception and seminar
facility at present. However, a full report has already been posted to FFL:/
*/Maharishi's World:/*/
//
//http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg335359.html/
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PS:Children of Men is a great movie. The two scenes where Clive Owen
and co are in danger and try to escape by car are masterpieces of
heart-thumping film.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
No, because I do not consider it at all likely that a race war will
actually erupt here. I am very attuned to the "immigration issue"
wherever it takes place in Europe, and my assessment is that the
Netherlands does the best job of any country I've been in so far in
terms of helping immigrants to "fit in" and, more important, *feel
like* they're "fitting in." I would imagine race wars to be more an
issue all over the UK and in France rather than here.
I remember being in Dublin with my brother and we went to see Alfonso
Cuarón <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/>'s "Children Of Men" in a
theater there, and realizing about halfway through the movie (which is
a dystopian view of immigrants being rounded up all over the UK and
"sent back where they came from") that we were sitting in an
abnormally quiet theater. I looked around, and found that most of the
people in the theater were immigrants. They were quiet because they
realized that in Ireland they were possibly looking at their "near
future," not some faraway "scifi future."
I could be all wrong about this, of course. But I live and interact
with immigrants every day. In my current Dutch class, I'm the only
person from the US. The others are from all over the globe. Many are
originally from Islamic countries. All feel Dutch. Go figure.
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*From:* "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:12 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies
Re "But if you know Amsterdam at all, can you imagine what *it* will
be like in the future? I can. ":
As Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn were both murdered for expressing
robust views about Islam will your projected novel feature a race war?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Having finished one big project recently and looking for another, I am
toying with taking advantage of where I live and writing a scifi story
set in a Blade Runner-ish future...but in Amsterdam.
We got to see what L.A. had evolved (or devolved) into in "Blade
Runner." But if you know Amsterdam at all, can you imagine what *it*
will be like in the future? I can. :-)
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*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Sunday, November 9, 2014 6:09 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies
If you were writing science fiction what would you be writing these days?
On 11/08/2014 11:51 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
Cheers, there's a lot of my faves there and a few new ones that I
haven't tried. And a couple of those are now on the way to me!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <turquoiseb@...>
<mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Try this site:
http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/top-25-best-science-fiction-books.php
