A philosophy professor from New Zealand recalls the
Y2K apocalypticism at the dawn of the last decade:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/opinion/01dutton.html
'The Y2K Nightmare' caught the sensationalist tone,
claiming that 'folly, greed and denial' had 'muffled
two decades of warnings from
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
nablusoss1008 wrote:
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nablusoss1008 wrote:
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Yup, Jolie is pretty
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote:
Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real
problems poverty, terrorism, broken financial
systems needing intelligent attention. Even
something as down-to-earth as the swine-flu scare has
seemed at moments to be
Power promotes hypocrisy, study finds
Dec. 29, 2009
and World Science staff
2009 may well be remembered for its scandal-ridden headlines, from
admissions of extramarital affairs by governors and senators, to
corporate executives flying private jets while cutting
Today's cafe rants are probably going to have a theme.
This theme was inspired by an old friend saying with a
straight face on another Internet forum that exclusive
aim of human existence is to break free the from the
repetitive phenomenon of birth and death.
On one level, I feel for this
Try telling this to people caught in Nazi holocaust, Partition riots,
Khemer rouge genocide in Cambodia, Stalinist purge in Soviet Union, Cancer
patients, children suffering from mal-nutrition in third world countries etc
etc.
Life is not exactly cool for them. eh.??
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Try telling this to people caught in Nazi holocaust, Partition
riots, Khemer rouge genocide in Cambodia, Stalinist purge in
Soviet Union, Cancer patients, children suffering from
mal-nutrition in third world countries etc
Thanks Nablusoss, this one with Hagelin is large at so many points. Glad you
called it to attention. I think you're right too that everyone on FFL ought to
listen to all of it to get the whole context.
I wish him well and all luck in the New Year. I think they'ed get it too if
they'd go
On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:13 AM, cardemaister wrote:
I think it's better to avoid the curious Harvard-Kyoto -transliteration of
palatal (Spanish ñ) and velar (ng, as
in 'king', although e.g. some British people seem to
pronounce that *almost* like 'kink') nasals, namely J (e.g.
'jJa' for
Has it occured to you that both of us are an elite minority on this
planet. I mean how many of us really pondered over the meaning of existence.?
You seem to believe in an infinite series of re-incarnations. That
dosen't sound logical to me. all things ultimately end.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:
Has it occured to you that both of us are an elite minority
on this planet. I mean how many of us really pondered over
the meaning of existence.?
Absofuckinglutely. A critic once said, when discussing
the films of Woody
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A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25
cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office
building at lunch time and as he passed
BTW, just as an aside and a tip of the hat to
those like Nabby who feel that a subject has no
relevance on FFL if there is no TM connection,
my love of the film Desperado has such a
connection.
One of the TMers I knew peripherally (but not
well) in L.A. during the last days of my TMness
was a TM
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote:
A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25
cents each. Every day a young man
John wrote:
I decided to have lunch at a Mexican restaurant
at the Mission District today...
You were surprised to see a Mariachi band at a
Mexican restaurant at the Mission District?
I am not a fan of Mariachi music...
So, you're not fond of polka music?
http://www.brave.com/
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snip
So why do so many *rag* on self, and talk about eliminating
the self, or becoming Self, as if the latter somehow
left self *behind* like a snake shedding its skin? That's
not how I see things, or experienced them during my
Rock on w/ yer bad self
I mean Self
-Make it a charged rock...
'like a rock'(cue Chevy commercial;Segar tune)
roll on over those bumps in life
laugh at the mountains
ha ha ha!
Mountain, you are no end, no obstacle!You are fun to climb!Ha ha ha!
-The power of intention is so doubt deficient
Bhairitu wrote:
By motivating the public...
Now look what you've done! You made Judy
angry and use her last post of the week -
she called your revolution ideas dumb.
And you caused Shemp to over-post by one,
right when he asked you for details about
your 'revolution'.
You're just
TurquoiseB wrote:
But if you analyze what most of the spiritual
teachers you revere actually said, most of them
were teaching that self and Self were exactly
the same thing.
Well, I don't know what teachers you've been
seeing, but no Buddhist would teach the idea of
'self' or 'Self' -
So why do so many *rag* on self, and talk about
eliminating the self, or becoming Self,
as if the latter somehow left self *behind* like
a snake shedding its skin? That's not how I see
things, or experienced them during my personal
enlightenment experiences...
Judy wrote
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote:
A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25
cents each. Every day a young
meh- ixneh on the negative closing things out
To me
more loving and real is to sit with eyes closed and accept with no judgement,
in fact, with open mind/arms -Welcome each sound, each car driving by, each
bird talking while flying by,the sound of the air swirling...
any and every sound
all
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snip
Which makes you, once again, a schmegegy.
AZ, if you know, please clear up for me some
of the mystery of the term schmegegy.
It describes someone who is
ferblonget?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
snip
So the life is suffering metaphors don't *work* as
well for me as they might for those who are suffering.
I do not deny their suffering or the desire for a
cessation of that suffering. It's just that -- for
whatever
I m going to choose to revel in my illusion
savor each grain of laughter and chunky salt, and creamy smoothness with a bite
goats milk, and the heat of smirks.Spice, and texture in all
I love my illusion, full of interesting things to play with and be amused by.
wow
three blue jays just now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m 13 meowthirt...@... wrote:
ferblonget?
Lots of ways to spell Yiddish words in English, since
they're based on the sounds of the Hebrew alphabet.
Same with any English transliterations from languages
that use a different alphabet--Arabic, Chinese,
Time is relative, not static. Different species on
this planet have different perceptions of time, and
how quickly it seems to be flowing past.
Nothing reminds one of this more than having dogs.
Conventional wisdom says that there is such at thing
as dog years, and that for every human year a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
Today's cafe rants are probably going to have a theme.
This theme was inspired by an old friend saying with a
straight face on another Internet forum that exclusive
aim of human existence is to break free the from the
Splitting Time from Space
Zeeya Merali
Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of
spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a
theory of quantum gravity.
Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:
Splitting Time from Space
Zeeya Merali
Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping
the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century
notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity.
Very
TV weatherman wears green tie; hilarity ensues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0CghAKgY4E
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
Cool video by Stargate Films demonstrating that
what you see on TV is not only not necessarily
what you get, most of the time it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote:
A philosophy professor from New Zealand recalls the
Y2K apocalypticism at the dawn of the last decade:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/opinion/01dutton.html
'The Y2K Nightmare' caught the sensationalist tone,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote:
snip
[quoting a philosophy professor from New Zealand:]
Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real
problems poverty, terrorism, broken financial
systems needing intelligent attention.
As if poverty, terrorism, and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote:
Thanks Nablusoss, this one with Hagelin is large at so many points. Glad you
called it to attention. I think you're right too that everyone on FFL ought
to listen to all of it to get the whole context.
I wish
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote:
So the seas won't rise when the ice melts?
If maybe.
The world's weather patterns aren't already changing?
Always have. Always will.
Biblical day
of judgement? Where do you get this nonsense from dude?
BTW the
In the pundit project and in a disciplined meditating are the bold and
far-seeing spiritual works of the fight for global climate. Come join
the fight. Come back to meditation for your selves, your friends, your
family and a future humanity. Come to action, in meditation.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote:
snip
[quoting a philosophy professor from New Zealand:]
Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real
problems poverty, terrorism, broken financial
Nice, but Goat's Milk is just plain disgusting!
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I m going to choose to revel in my illusion
�
savor each grain of laughter and chunky salt, and creamy smoothness with a
bite goats milk, and the heat of smirks.Spice, and
PaliGap wrote:
Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real
problems poverty, terrorism, broken financial
systems needing intelligent attention...
Is the movie 'Avatar' an 'apocalyptic' scenario?
LOL!!!
A philosophy professor from New Zealand recalls the
Y2K apocalypticism at
Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real
problems poverty, terrorism, broken financial
systems needing intelligent attention.
Judy wrote:
As if poverty, terrorism, and broken financial
systems didn't have their own apocalyptic scenarios.
PaliGap wrote:
Well no.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote:
snip
[quoting a philosophy professor from New Zealand:]
Apocalyptic scenarios are a
Hugo wrote:
do you get this nonsense from dude?
BTW the BBC have finished the second series of my fave
TV show Survivors. Broadcast starts on 12 Jan.
Catch up here:
http://survivorsbbctv.wordpress.com/
The best post apocalypse show ever made. As bleak as the
day is long. I like my
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pranamoocher bh...@... wrote:
Nice, but Goat's Milk is just plain disgusting!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m 13 meowthirteen@ wrote:
I m going to choose to revel in my illusion
And of course the Lord gives you that freedom, the choice is
TurquoiseB wrote:
Much is said in traditional Eastern spirituality about
realization of the Self. Capital S. As opposed to
that awful lower-case s word, self. But if you
analyze what most of the spiritual teachers you revere
actually said, most of them were teaching that self and
Self were
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote:
And apparently completely missed the fact that the
alarmism resulted in actions taken to successfully
defang Y2K. It was a real threat, averted because
attention was paid to it.
A friend noticed that every morning Mulla
nablusoss1008 wrote:
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nablusoss1008 wrote:
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nablusoss1008 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@
I don't get it. Why don't we just destabilize Iran, as we've done before?
When an invasion in the Middle East was announced, the average Iranian was
disappointed when they discovered the invasion planned was against Iraq
instead of Iran.
Can't we send some pundits to Iran?
Hey, RD
The Muppet version appears to get the message through, especially Miss Piggy's
part in the song. But then again, there could be a deeper significance to this
song than meets the eye. Perhaps, the wise members of this group can help us
unravel the message of the song.
Regards,
JR
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote:
I decided to have lunch at a Mexican restaurant at the Mission
District today. As I got in the restaurant, I was surprised to
see a five piece Mariachi band
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
BTW, just as an aside and a tip of the hat to
those like Nabby who feel that a subject has no
relevance on FFL if there is no TM connection,
my love of the film Desperado has such a
connection.
One of the TMers I knew
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
And apparently completely missed the fact that the
alarmism resulted in actions taken to successfully
defang Y2K. It was a real threat, averted because
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
snip
Nabby, have you ever even been to the US? If you had you
would see what people here who want a more fair and equal
government are up against. Basically millions of zombie
like creatures who have been programmed to
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
And apparently completely missed the fact that the
alarmism resulted in actions taken
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote:
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And apparently
TOKYO — For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle
barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in
one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels.
“It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep,” he said, rolling his neck and
stroking
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A little old lady
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:
Try telling this to people caught in Nazi holocaust, Partition riots,
Khemer rouge genocide in Cambodia, Stalinist purge in Soviet Union, Cancer
patients, children suffering from mal-nutrition in third world
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote:
snip
Schmegegy is a noun meaning idiot with connotations
or being full of hot air. If you referred to someone as
full of baloney, the person you were referring to would
be a schmegegy.
Lets say, for example that someone said
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Which makes you, once again, a schmegegy.
AZ, if you know, please clear up for me some
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote:
snip
Schmegegy is a noun meaning idiot with connotations
or being full of hot air. If you referred to someone as
full of baloney, the person you were
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Which makes you,
Police report gives first details of Arizona sweat lodge deaths
Spiritual adviser James Arthur Ray faces murder investigation after three
people die and 20 were injured
A leaked police report has revealed the horrifying final moments of
participants in a new age retreat where a sweat lodge
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