[FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune

2009-07-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: In the vedic literature, the hierarchy of living entities is as follows: 1. Vishnu 2. Demigods 3. Humans 4. Demons 5. Animals As such, it is nonsensical to worship demons, or to even consider demons as demigods. Whereas

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Zoran Krneta
BilyG, I agree with you but MMY was more supportive towards Vedanta than Yoga, especially knowing that Shankara lineage rejected Yoga as philospohy and practice... In India, if you ask some Swamis about Yoga usually they don't know nothing about that and they will say is good for health because

[FairfieldLife] Do you want fries with that Hindu goddess?

2009-07-10 Thread TurquoiseB
OK, so Hindus who worship Lakshmi can protest because they are offended by Burger King using her image to sell burgers. But where do we who worship burgers go to protest Burger King using the image of an imaginary goddess in such a way that it diminishes the holy image of beef-on-a-bun? Spanish

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Let Freedom Ring!'

2009-07-10 Thread dhamiltony2k5
General George Washington Orders to American Troops March 3rd, 1776 At Cambridge Overlooking Boston Before the move on Dorchester Heights As the season is now fast approaching when every man must expect to be drawn into the field of action, it is highly necessary that he should prepare his

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Let Freedom Ring!'

2009-07-10 Thread dhamiltony2k5
For the protection of the group and all, emphatic new guidelines issued, No dissonance tolerated. As the season is now fast approaching when every meditator must expect to be drawn into the field of the transcendent, it is highly necessary that he should prepare his mind, as well as everything

[FairfieldLife] YouTube video - Guru Dev sings 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram'

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Mason
Link to 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram' ('Bhaja Govindam') sung by Guru Dev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbEDqdJSxoofeature=channel_page

[FairfieldLife] Laughing At One's Beliefs -- The Highest Form Of Belief?

2009-07-10 Thread TurquoiseB
Recent posts and conversations have left me pondering the curious phenomenon of people becoming offended when someone pokes fun at something they believe. We've all seen how often TM TBs go crazy when someone commits the terrible, awful sin of pointing out that some of the things they believe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Zoran Krneta wrote: BilyG, I agree with you but MMY was more supportive towards Vedanta than Yoga, especially knowing that Shankara lineage rejected Yoga as philospohy and practice... Bullshit. Most people are not able to grok advaitic states, so they use

[FairfieldLife] Human Sacrifice in India

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
  Like many pagan societies, human sacrifice has been and still a practice among Hindu's. The belief of Kali and Shaki, the dark deities of violence, have been major influencers in human sacrifice including child sacrifice. I was horrified to learn that children were sacrificed to these

[FairfieldLife] Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095427.htm If only he'd been around 234,000 years ago he could have eductated the supposedly enlightened culture of India and thus saved the TMO the embarrassment of selling horoscopes and yagyas based on a model of the solar system with two

[FairfieldLife] Levitation at last!

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo
Shaky footage I know, but this looks like someone sitting in lotus position to me. And the north London TM centre has recently opened a new centre with good vastu, has the increased coherence caused one of the vedic experts to take off through the window? You decide. The truth is out there.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Zoran Krneta
Shankara rejected Yoga philosophy in his commentaries on Brahma Sutras.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Levitation at last!

2009-07-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: Shaky footage I know, but this looks like someone sitting in lotus position to me. And the north London TM centre ...looks like a scorpion to me... has recently opened a new centre with good vastu, has the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
  234,000 years ago, there were no homosapiens in india or asia.   Negroid-Austroasiatic-aborgines were the first humans to enter into India about 50,000 years ago.   The indus civilisation cities collapsed 4,500 years ago.  The indus script is completely unknown script, never been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Zoran Krneta wrote: Shankara rejected Yoga philosophy in his commentaries on Brahma Sutras. He recognized the View of Advaita as a higher view, that's all. His tradition has probably always used lower vehicles to attain the higher View of Advaita. Although,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
  I am sure Vaj-ji, you must have noticed deviations in MMY's version of vedanta compared to traditional vedanta.?     MMY in his BG commentary did say that all six systems are correct. --- On Fri, 7/10/09, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Jason wrote: I am sure Vaj-ji, you must have noticed deviations in MMY's version of vedanta compared to traditional vedanta.? MMY in his BG commentary did say that all six systems are correct. Of course.

[FairfieldLife] The Goat that Laughed Cried

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
  The Goat that Laughed Cried   The Buddha was assembled along with his disciples at a time when many people were sacrificing animals in a Feast for the Dead. They believed the animals had to be killed in order to feed their dead ancestors. The monks asked Buddha if he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Zoran Krneta
Sankara philosophy has some logical inconsistencies in itself and that is the reason why Shankara lineage is full of controversial teachings. Take SBS example. MMY took those aspects of Patanjali Yoga which were supportive to Vedanta view but he did not claimed he was vedantin.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
   Shankara did give some allowance to the relative.  His guru's did not.    Bevan Morris says that MMY assembled the vedic literature that were fragmented and misunderstood for centuries and made it wholistic again..?? --- On Fri, 7/10/09, Zoran Krneta krneta.zo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Zoran Krneta wrote: Sankara philosophy has some logical inconsistencies in itself and that is the reason why Shankara lineage is full of controversial teachings. Take SBS example. What SBS example are you referring to? His Sri Vidya practice?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Zoran Krneta
I am referring to his philosophy not practice.

[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube video - Guru Dev sings 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram'

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason premanandp...@... wrote: Link to 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram' ('Bhaja Govindam') sung by Guru Dev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbEDqdJSxoofeature=channel_page Interesting that Guru Dev's teachings (in the song) sound more like classical

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:   234,000 years ago, there were no homosapiens in india or asia. It was a typo, I meant 2,340.

[FairfieldLife] TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
The rituals of the various Religions represent the body, and the practice of directly experiencing Being represents the Spirit. Both are necessary and should go hand in hand. One will not survive without the other. MMY SOB page 256

[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the scenes in a Lesbian bar with Barry

2009-07-10 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: Sounds like a description of something, out of the 'Book of the Dead'... Caught in some kind of 'Bardo'... Where people drink alcohol, to 'Clear their head?'... Ok, beam me up Scotty... They truly seem to be stuck, down here,

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
    This is a classic MMY dumbing down the teaching to appeal to westerners.     Rituals of all religions are Shit and can't take you anywhere. --- On Fri, 7/10/09, BillyG. wg...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY Date: Friday, July 10,

[FairfieldLife] Don't go, Sarah Palin!

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
Don't go, Sarah Palin!A nation turns its lonely eyes to your ditzy insufferable ramblingshttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/10/notes071009.DTLnl=fix  Back to ArticleDon't go, Sarah Palin!A nation turns its lonely eyes to your ditzy insufferable ramblingsBy Mark Morford, SF

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread sgrayatlarge
What you say --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: -You missed the irony here No. Actually I didn't. I just changed the direction you were attempting to go. -- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread guyfawkes91
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote:   234,000 years ago, there were no homosapiens in india or asia. It was a typo, I meant 2,340. But Rama was alive 1 million years ago, (according

[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube video - Guru Dev sings 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram'

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason premanandp...@... wrote: Link to 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram' ('Bhaja Govindam') sung by Guru Dev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbEDqdJSxoofeature=channel_page From the materials you've found and posted, Paul, Guru Dev appears to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
    The official Vedic website,  Vedicfoundation.org  claims that indian civilisation is 1.9 million years old.    http://www.thevedicfoundation.org/the_true_history_ and_the_religion_of_india/index.html --- On Fri, 7/10/09, guyfawkes91 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: What you say There was no irony at all in the post/video, other than in your own mind. Your insinuation that pointing out and illustrating hate and its consequences is itself hate, is wishful thinking on your part. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: When one of the sense stallions get out of control they must be reigned in, in this case the gustatory sense in out of control resulting in obesity, poor health, and loss of self esteem. In jyotish, there is a principle

[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube video - Guru Dev sings 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram'

2009-07-10 Thread Marek Reavis
The Bhaja Govindam's authorship is attributed to Adi Shankara, the standard bearer and presumed embodiment of Vedanta. Whatever teachings it contains would presumably be consistent with Shankara's vedantic philosophy and worldview. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Marek Reavis
Excellent and simple common sense, Alex, and the application of common sense to most problems yields practical solutions. Eat properly, eat less, and exercise more. Most people don't seem to understand how often they have to engage in regular physical exercise to maintain a trim and healthy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing At One's Beliefs -- The Highest Form Of Belief?

2009-07-10 Thread WillyTex
TurquoiseB wrote: The common denominators of all of these events seem to be: 1) someone poking fun at a belief they consider worthy of poking fun at, and 2) someone else who is attached to that belief going postal because their belief has been laughed at... Going 'postal'? Isn't that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
  I am sorry.  It says 1.9 Billion years old    http://www.thevedicfoundation.org/the_true_history_ and_the_religion_of_india/index.html --- On Fri, 7/10/09, Jason jedi_sp...@yahoo.com wrote:   The official Vedic website,  Vedicfoundation.org  claims that indian civilisation is 1.9

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: When one of the sense stallions get out of control they must be reigned in, in this case the gustatory sense in out of control resulting in

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
TM is Yoga-lite for modernity, eventually though, it will be full blown neo-hinduism, or Vedic Culture or whatever you want to call it. Originally it was taught in the context of Religion, the eternal Religion of the Vedas, Sanatana Dharma. MMY is taking us in baby steps in that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes

2009-07-10 Thread guyfawkes91
On a similar note I remember a TM teacher explaining to me that the then national leader of Britain should be prime minister for no other reason than that Marshy had chosen him. The argument being that the person best suited to rule is the one with the most coherent brain waves and GC

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
    Billy, Maharishi has fooled you.  The rituals of all religions are nonsense and can't take you to E     Ask guyfawks what would happen if we go back to this full blown archaic vedic culture. --- On Fri, 7/10/09, BillyG. wg...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:     The official Vedic website,  Vedicfoundation.org  claims that indian civilisation is 1.9 million years old. Official Vedic website?

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:     Billy, Maharishi has fooled you.  The rituals of all religions are nonsense and can't take you to E     Ask guyfawks what would happen if we go back to this full blown archaic vedic culture. MMY's implication

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Galileo discovere Neptune 234 years before Galle?

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:   I am sorry.  It says 1.9 Billion years old All life on Earth was just bacteria then, so I'm not sure how an enlightened civilisation might have looked.

[FairfieldLife] The power of technology to manipulate

2009-07-10 Thread shempmcgurk
At first glance, this photo suggests that Obama is checking out the butt of the girl in red (I hope the photo comes out!): ...but when you see the following video, it is clear that he is NOT doing that: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8049121

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Bhairitu
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: When one of the sense stallions get out of control they must be reigned in, in this case the gustatory sense in out of control resulting in obesity, poor health, and loss of self esteem. In jyotish,

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Tremors on 1857 Fault Line, Increasing'

2009-07-10 Thread Bhairitu
Maybe the fault will break off and LA will fall into the ocean as Edgar Cayce predicted. ;-) Gravitational stress are increasing as we approach the eclipse zone. Robert wrote: July, 9th, 2009 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sexy Sarah, What Ave You Done?'

2009-07-10 Thread Bhairitu
Actually the eclipse peaks over China so maybe Los Angeles has nothing to worry about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2009 And the lunar eclipse (August 6th) peaks over the ocean. We also had a weak lunar eclipse on the 7th. Robert wrote: Bhairitu wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread Jason
You talk about the benefits of religion.?? More blood has flown in the name of religion than all of Hitler's concentration camps. There is difference between moral guidelines and dogmatic beliefs --- On Fri, 7/10/09, BillyG. wg...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Long-Term TMers Watch List, revised

2009-07-10 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Thanks for the vote Doug but I'm not on the ballot. {snip} By the way your list sucks. 223859 Ranchy, actually this TM'ers list is Turq's doing. Mine 'yes'=meditator, was much more inclusive in just excluding the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread WillyTex
Vaj wrote: Most people are not able to grok advaitic states... Actually, Vaj, most people could understand the basic adwaita in just a few seconds. Compared to the other Indian darshanas, adwaita non-dualism is dirt simple. There is only One reality, not two. There's probably not a human

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread sgrayatlarge
Here we go, it really doesn't take much does it? -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: What you say There was no irony at all in the post/video, other than in your own mind. Your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread WillyTex
Jason wrote: you must have noticed deviations in MMY's version of vedanta compared to traditional vedanta? Most of what MMY said and wrote seems to agree with Shankara's description of Vedanta, Jason. You can easily understand this when you realize that his guru, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread sgrayatlarge
Let me aske you a question: Do All right wingers hate? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: What you say There was no irony at all in the post/video, other than in your own mind.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune, or Advanced Cultures of the Past

2009-07-10 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: In the vedic literature, the hierarchy of living entities is as follows: 1. Vishnu 2. Demigods 3. Humans 4. Demons 5. Animals As such, it is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune, or Advanced Cultures of the Past

2009-07-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: In the vedic literature, the hierarchy of living entities is as follows: 1. Vishnu 2.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread yifuxero
---Shankara was a nihilist who stated that after Realization of the Self, there's no more relative existence. Buddhism is superior since one can have transformation bodies after E. and continue uplifting the unE. people. One of my missions is to convert Jerry J. to Buddhism and away from the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: Here we go, it really doesn't take much does it? Right. Uh-huh. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: What you

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: Let me aske you a question: Do All right wingers hate? Not the ones who condemn the hatred spewing from the right wingers described in the video. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune, or Advanced Cultures of the Past

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 1:10 PM, John wrote: There is a big difference between primitive and spiritual civilizations. The vedic culture is and was based on the spiritual or consciousness as MMY would phrase it. As such, it is far advanced than the modern high technology culture, which is

[FairfieldLife] Turquoise circular argument ---- was///Re: The vampire worshippers

2009-07-10 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: In the vedic literature,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune

2009-07-10 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , John jr_...@... wrote: Cool, but to call them a demon-god seems archaic. Demi-god seems more appropriate here. And what does it have to do with blood sucking vampires feeding on human life, but more related to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: It seems, unless one is eating a proper vege diet, the appetite is out of control trying to get the protein etc. it needs from quantity instead of quality! Take out the vege and I'd agree with you. I get fat and lethargic on a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: It seems, unless one is eating a proper vege diet, the appetite is out of control trying to get the protein etc. it needs from quantity instead

[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't go, Sarah Palin!

2009-07-10 Thread WillyTex
Vaj wrote: A nation turns its lonely eyes to your ditzy... Sexism, a term coined in the mid-20th century, refers to the belief or attitude that one gender or sex is inferior to, less competent, or less valuable than the other... Sexism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

[FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune, or Advanced Cultures of the Past

2009-07-10 Thread WillyTex
Vedic culture was basically destroyed by it's emphasis on human, and esp., the horse sacrifice. The yagyas became so grandiose they bankrupted entire city-states. Maybe so, Vaj, but according to what I've read, the Vedic culture was mostly agrarian in nature. There were no 'city-states';

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth revealed, sequentially day by day, dispelling the darkness of SCI.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Religion should go hand in hand. MMY

2009-07-10 Thread WillyTex
BillyG wrote: TM is Yoga-lite for modernity... For those well versed in the Vedaanta the world is like a city of Gaandharvas, an illusion. - Guadapada

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth revealed, sequentially day by day, dispelling the darkness of SCI. He seems consumed with jealousy of the tmorg's money, even though it (the money) is dedicated

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread sgrayatlarge
-I think Mike Papantonio is envious and this guy needs much better production values, sheesh. Obsessed with hate, ouch -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: Let me aske you a question: Do All

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth revealed, sequentially day by day, dispelling the darkness of SCI. Apart from mentioning the high costs of learning TM, that guy does NOT give a correct

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The vampire worshippers of Pune, or Advanced Cultures of the Past

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:07 PM, WillyTex wrote: Vedic culture was basically destroyed by it's emphasis on human, and esp., the horse sacrifice. The yagyas became so grandiose they bankrupted entire city-states. Maybe so, Vaj, but according to what I've read, the Vedic culture was mostly

[FairfieldLife] Feminist fictions

2009-07-10 Thread bob_brigante
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40sommers.htm http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40sommers.htm excerpt Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship By CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS Harder to kill than a vampire. That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:09 PM, BillyG. wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth revealed, sequentially day by day, dispelling the darkness of SCI. He seems consumed with jealousy of the tmorg's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:11 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth revealed, sequentially day by day, dispelling the darkness of SCI. Apart from mentioning the high costs of learning

[FairfieldLife] Why Are Southerners So Fat?

2009-07-10 Thread bob_brigante
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1909406,00.html http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1909406,00.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:11 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth revealed, sequentially day by day, dispelling the

[FairfieldLife] Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture?

2009-07-10 Thread off_world_beings
Vaj... how do you define Vedic culture? 1. What are its 10 main gods/deities? 2. What is its main 5-10 poems/stories/oral knowledge/literatures called, and where did they come from? 3. What are the priest/shaman structures and what are they called? Describe them, and what are their main traits

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:11 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:11 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir7-FS7Cyk More and more truth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:11 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:11 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread Vaj
On Jul 10, 2009, at 7:36 PM, do.rflex wrote: I agree with you, Vaj on much of your criticism of the TMO and many of the things Maharishi has ended up doing. The TMO, as it has become over the years, is a creepy fraud in my eyes. But sgain, you're totally full of shit on TM. I've never

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2009-07-10 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 2009 End Date (UTC): Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 2009 711 messages as of (UTC) Fri Jul 10 23:52:18 2009 50 authfriend jst...@panix.com 50 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 47

[FairfieldLife] The world and its fictions

2009-07-10 Thread emptybill
The world is a movement which already bears within itself the principle of its own Exhaustion, a deployment which displays at every point the stigmata of its limitations and in which Life and the Spirit have gone astray, not by some absurd chance but because this encounter between inert Existence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip I know it's hard to let go of old programming and ideas we've accepted or've been charmed to believe as real, so I'll file that under: 'to all the placebos I've known before'. (Please don't make me sing the song

[FairfieldLife] ‘Focus on National Health Care’

2009-07-10 Thread Robert
‘Focus on National Health Care’ On a fundemental level of your meditation... Spend a few minutes, or a minute or two... In your deep meditation, to shine the light of: ‘Pure Consciousness’ or ‘Holy Spirit’... On the health care system... This will accellerate the purification. Which will ‘leach

[FairfieldLife] Re: The world and its fictions

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: The world is a movement which already bears within itself the principle of its own Exhaustion, a deployment which displays at every point the stigmata of its limitations and in which Life and the Spirit have gone astray,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip If you look into the history of mantra-yoga, you'll soon find charm is not what it's really about, but the natural tendency of us all to be mentally bored and wear out think! As I've noted before, Vaj's syntax deteriorates

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: snip Generally speaking, carbs don't sate the appetite for very long. In my own experience, not only is the satiety short-lived, the hunger that returns is voracious. It's very difficult to not overeat on a diet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: Since most TM'ers, especially in the tmorg, have accepted TM in lieu of Religion they have no ethical or moral guidelines. Bullcrap. Religion isn't the only source of ethical and moral guidelines. You're sounding like a fundie

[FairfieldLife] Re: United Breaks Guitars: A cautionary tale for the TMO

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip In this Internet Age, a good satire of these bozos could go viral the way this video has, in days. And if it did, the TM organization's kings would be on their knees begging for it to stop, and for things to go back to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: snip Hatred is self-destructive to the hater, no matter who is doing the hating. Spoken by one of the most viciously outspoken haters on FFL. Since 9/11, the right wing hate talkers have stepped up their vitriolic attacks

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: What you say There was no irony at all in the post/video No *intentional* irony, at any rate. other than in your own mind. No, actually sgray wasn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: snip Generally speaking, carbs don't sate the appetite for very long. In my own experience, not only is the satiety short-lived, the hunger

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: Since most TM'ers, especially in the tmorg, have accepted TM in lieu of Religion they have no ethical or moral guidelines. Bullcrap. Religion isn't the only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Laughing At One's Beliefs -- The Highest Form Of Belief?

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Recent posts and conversations have left me pondering the curious phenomenon of people becoming offended when someone pokes fun at something they believe. And some of us have been pondering for quite a while now the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: Since most TM'ers, especially in the tmorg, have accepted TM in lieu of Religion they have no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: snip Generally speaking, carbs don't sate the appetite for very long. In my own experience, not only is the satiety short-lived, the hunger

[FairfieldLife] Cognitive Dissonance (was Re: Behind the Scenes)

2009-07-10 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Cognitive dissonance is, in fact, one of the primary ways that sociologists and psychologists look at religious groups and cults *as* outsiders looking in. They do this because it's an almost universal phenomenon in such

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Rise of Right Wing Hate

2009-07-10 Thread sgrayatlarge
-Nicely put -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: What you say There was no irony at all in the post/video No

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