[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a perfect balance between determinism and randomness. It's not entirely

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
--- Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a perfect balance between determinism and randomness. It's not entirely deterministic and it's not

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCxTahB409s --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: Robin, I just threw that review up there, and here you are with an essay. The only thing I have read of Nagel's was that essay What is it Like to be a Bat?,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: How to Get Good at Uncertainty for WEDNESDAY

2012-10-22 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Thank you dear Share, thank you for the welcome hug. I don't have my beloved Devi's grace - I have her beautiful feet as my iPhone background picture yet I lack her kripa, so I'm sad. Love, Ravi On Oct 21, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: dear Ravi of the amazing

[FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
--- Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a perfect balance between determinism and randomness. It's not entirely deterministic

[FairfieldLife] Hey Buck...if you think you've got it bad in Fairfield...

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
...try to imagine what life would have been like if the Holy Inquisition that runs the TMO could have called the local police to evict you from the Dome parking lot and toss your ass in jail back when you were doing your (probably imaginary) sit in in your car there. That's the reality in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
--- Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a perfect balance between determinism and randomness. It's not entirely deterministic and it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
We ourselves are large-scale, complex substances of something both objectively physical from outside and subjectively mental from inside. Dear Thomas Nagel, You must be aware that you have written the most important book of philosophy of the 21st century. And the measure of the significance of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
--- Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: We ourselves are large-scale, complex substances of something both objectively physical from outside and subjectively mental from inside. Dear Thomas Nagel, You must be aware that you have written the most important book of philosophy of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
--- Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a perfect balance between determinism and randomness. It's not entirely deterministic and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: When it comes to theories -- either about the correctness of one's cherished ideas or concepts or the degree to which one holds the high ground or owns one's opponents in a discussion about such things, I can think of no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread Ravi Chivukula
You are sick Barry - you need some professional, psychiatric help. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:19 AM, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: When it comes to theories -- either about the correctness of one's

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi School Australia

2012-10-22 Thread merlin
The Age - Business, World Breaking News  Melbourne, Australia Maharishi School Australia Maharishi school founder and principal Frances Clarke says meditating in silence has profound results. Since the 1970s hundreds of research studies on transcendental meditation have been undertaken at

[FairfieldLife] The study that explains conservative political posturing

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
Why is it that politicians -- the majority of them men, and in America the majority of them Christian, followers of basically the first big Share the wealth Socialist in history -- gravitate to Screw the poor...all that matters is that I've got mine political philosophies? Strangely enough, it may

[FairfieldLife] Lord Buddha and khecarii mudraa?

2012-10-22 Thread card
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecari_mudra A hathayoga text, the Khecar#299;vidy#257;, states that kechari mudra enables one to raise Kundalini and access various stores of amrita in the head, which subsequently flood the body.[9] Siva, in the same text, gives instructions on how to cut the

[FairfieldLife] Lord Buddha and khecarii mudraa?

2012-10-22 Thread card
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecari_mudra The Pali canon contains three passages in which the Buddha describes pressing the tongue against the palate for the purposes of controlling hunger or the mind, depending on the passage.[8] However there is no mention of the tongue being inserted

[FairfieldLife] Re: The study that explains conservative political posturing

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Why is it that politicians -- the majority of them men, and in America the majority of them Christian, followers of basically the first big Share the wealth Socialist in history -- gravitate to Screw the poor...all

[FairfieldLife] Mont Blanc view

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
  Mont Blanc view

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Land Trust, India

2012-10-22 Thread Buck
Anybody clear on the status of the deed for MUM and the Domes currently? Just wondering. Long time ago the point was sternly made by Bevan that the Domes were in fact not owned by the community and were mortgaged away. The campus here mortgaged too and the money used elsewhere. What parts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Amazing frozen lemons

2012-10-22 Thread Share Long
Really good point, thank you for including. From: sri...@ymail.com sri...@ymail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Amazing frozen lemons   unless its an organic lemon you could be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Joe Biden Unplugged

2012-10-22 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: I often wondered what he was saying, now we know. Nyuk! Why are you people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Lord Buddha and khecarii mudraa?

2012-10-22 Thread Share Long
In Spring Forest Qigong, the tongue gently on the palate closes the energy circuit that runs down the front of the body and up the back.  So it's a way to allow the energy to circulate without being lost. From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: How to Get Good at Uncertainty for WEDNESDAY

2012-10-22 Thread Share Long
But Ravi, is that even possible?  I thought grace is always available to us.  It is we who turn away from it.  From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 2:39

[FairfieldLife] The David Lynch Foundation Wishes HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATY

2012-10-22 Thread merlin
The David Lynch Foundation Wishes ~~HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATY A message from Katy on Meditation http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/katyperry/ ~~ E N J O Y

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin to Salyavin

2012-10-22 Thread Share Long
So, it's all about bacteria LOL From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 1:46 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin to Jason

2012-10-22 Thread Share Long
Apologies for thinking of you as a lamb.  My big mistake.  From: Jason jedi_sp...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 1:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin   --- Jason

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise there is a perfect balance between determinism and randomness. It's not entirely

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Emily Reyn
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all the animals that returned the questionnaire.  Robert Brault   From: Robin Carlsen maskedze...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 1:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Land Trust, India

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Jackson
My understanding is the entire property is owned by the Maharishi Group, which of course is run by the nephews. But a check of the Jefferson County Recorder's Office should clear it up. http://www.jeffersoncountyiowa.com/recorder.htm From: Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
You do realise Barry, that the pee theory is more difficult for us humans to implement as it is much easier to apply it when standing on three legs rather than on one, and especially at our age. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread khazana108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: You do realise Barry, that the pee theory is more difficult for us humans to implement as it is much easier to apply it when standing on three legs rather than on one, and especially at our age. :-) Well,

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Two pictures

2012-10-22 Thread WLeed3
From: eb7...@dejazzd.com To: bgbg4...@gmail.com, wle...@aol.com, bt.shi...@bex.net CC: cpk...@ptd.net, mastanav...@yahoo.com Sent: 10/22/2012 8:20:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Fwd: Two pictures Begin forwarded message: From:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about Darwin. If you study evolution carefully, you will realise

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: You do realise Barry, that the pee theory is more difficult for us humans to implement as it is much easier to apply it when standing on three legs rather than on one, and especially at our age. :-) --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread emilymae.reyn
When a cow laughs, does milk come out of her nose? - Source unknown --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: When it comes to theories -- either about the correctness of one's cherished ideas or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Xeno, a lot of Religionists and Spiritualists have misconceptions about

[FairfieldLife] Katy Perry has requested donations be made to the David Lynch Foundation

2012-10-22 Thread nablusoss1008
Related: Katy Perry http://tunes.broadwayworld.com/topic/Katy-Perry , Twitter http://tunes.broadwayworld.com/topic/Twitter , David Lynch Foundation http://tunes.broadwayworld.com/topic/David-Lynch-Foundation [left] World renowned superstar Katy Perry

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-22 Thread Emily Reyn
Yep.  Ann, this was a marvelous statement on your part.   From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits   Awesome

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Land Trust, India

2012-10-22 Thread card
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Having read with interest Bob Roth's assertion that the Movement has only modest income (in the event he chaired to respond in Fairfield to answer questions about the film David Wants to Fly) I offer this article from

[FairfieldLife] Coup de foudre

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
I had an interesting experience this morning, interesting primarily because I've only had such an experience a few times in my life, and it's been a long time since the last one. I was out walking in my neighborhood and saw a woman approaching on a bakfiets (a bicycle with a passenger compartment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coup de foudre

2012-10-22 Thread John
The woman on a bicycle was more likely married. So, scratch that one off. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I had an interesting experience this morning, interesting primarily because I've only had such an experience a few times in my life, and it's been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bhakti As A Learned Experience to Xeno

2012-10-22 Thread Share Long
Share: From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:47 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bhakti As A Learned Experience to Xeno   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coup de foudre

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: The woman on a bicycle was more likely married. So, scratch that one off. Your assumptions about the nature of parenthood betray you, as do your assumptions about the nature of my interest. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney Lyin' Ryan Fooled by Benghazi Pseudoscandal

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
Don't be ridiculous, Xeno. You would look *very* silly trying to parse that paragraph--especially in the context of the rest of the statement--to fit the spontaneous event scenario. No, it's easy. If it turned out the act was a spontaneous response to the anti-Muslim video, he

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Religious-Scientific Theory metaphor

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip I would suggest that folks who can never seem to come up with any spiritual theories other than the ones they read in books (written by other people) or heard from spiritual teachers (by definition, other people) fall

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney Lyin' Ryan Fooled by Benghazi Pseudoscandal

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
raunchydog: It doesn't matter Obama killed Osama Ben Laden, the right wing trope that he is weak on terrorism must stand at all costs... What I'd like to hear is Barack Obama resigning over Benghazi, the most extreme public mishandling of an attack on American personnel ever, certainly in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
Unintentionally hilarious post of the month: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: snip Nagel misunderstood evolution and got it completely wrong. There is a certain set of laws in nature and that gives nature a certain intangible intelligence however impersonal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney Lyin' Ryan Fooled by Benghazi Pseudoscandal

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
anartaxius: SEPTEMBER 24, 2012: President Obama Appeared On The View And Again Refused To Call The Attack Terrorism... This is going to be a case study, studied for years, of a breakdown of national security at every level, failed presidential leadership — senior members of the Obama

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhakti As A Learned Experience

2012-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: In this post Ann brings up a really important point about the enlightenment game. It does not matter if the person you are trying to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
marek: There are obvious and apparent influences, but I don't think you've made your case. Appareently what you have failed to understand is that stupas are an ancient form of mandala. The stupa represents the awakened mind, so Buddhism, representing the enlightenment tradition In India, is

[FairfieldLife] Here's one of our spoiled cats as a kitten

2012-10-22 Thread ultrarishi
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/album/622248573/pic/916142826/view?picmode=mode=tnorder=ordinalstart=1count=20dir=asc

[FairfieldLife] The Eighth Deadly Sin

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
Has anyone noticed that in our sedentary, seated-alone-in-some-room-in-front-of-a-computer age, that being ignored has become one of the Deadly Sins? I mean, the way some people talk, it's right up there with wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Indulge in any of the former, and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: Amazing frozen lemons

2012-10-22 Thread Bhairitu
Lemons are expensive (what isn't these days). But not for me. I have a Myers lemon tree. Organic even. Here's a picture I just took. http://flic.kr/p/dmVHtH Yes that's right, sunny California has rain this morning... finally! My damn doors will be able to open. This is the Christmas crop

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Buck...if you think you've got it bad in Fairfield...

2012-10-22 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: ...try to imagine what life would have been like if the Holy Inquisition that runs the TMO could have called the local police to evict you from the Dome parking lot and toss your ass in jail back when you were doing your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Buck...if you think you've got it bad in Fairfield...

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Jackson
When I was at MIU in the mid-'80s, the head cook was an Israeli named Avraham - he told me when he was a teenager he and a bunch of his buddies from the kibbutz they lived in would visit Jerusalem. They would all go to the Wailing Wall and buy ham sandwiches from Arab vendors nearby and eat

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip In the above Person Of Interest scenario, would X be God? It's an outside agency acting upon the world. It has the ability to direct the team to an event before it happens and keep it from happening. That sounds

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin to Jason

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
And this is the second most unintentionally hilarious post of the month. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Apologies for thinking of you as a lamb.  My big mistake.  From: Jason jedi_spock@... To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Eighth Deadly Sin

2012-10-22 Thread Emily Reyn
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 9:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Eighth Deadly Sin   Has anyone noticed that in our sedentary, seated-alone-in-some-room-in-front-of-a-computer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Amazing frozen lemons

2012-10-22 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Lemons are expensive (what isn't these days). But not for me. I have a Myers lemon tree. I'd heard of that variety over the years, but I'd never actually encountered the fruit until last winter. The local HyVee store had

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Eighth Deadly Sin

2012-10-22 Thread Emily Reyn
From a simple mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlHz0wF0Ig From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 9:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Eighth Deadly Sin   Has anyone noticed that in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Amazing frozen lemons

2012-10-22 Thread Bhairitu
On 10/22/2012 09:50 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Lemons are expensive (what isn't these days). But not for me. I have a Myers lemon tree. I'd heard of that variety over the years, but I'd never actually encountered the fruit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Amazing frozen lemons

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Lemons are expensive (what isn't these days). But not for me. I have a Myers lemon tree. I'd heard of that variety over the years, but I'd

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Eighth Deadly Sin

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Has anyone noticed that in our sedentary, seated-alone-in-some-room-in-front-of-a-computer age, that being ignored has become one of the Deadly Sins? Opsie, Barry means *ignoring* has become one of the Deadly Sins, not

[FairfieldLife] Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: All life on this planet is descended from one cell, a hybrid between two types of bacteria - which is all there was for billions of years - there would be no complexity or consciousness without that one chance

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Eighth Deadly Sin

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
Has anyone noticed that in our sedentary, seated-alone-in-some-room-in-front-of-a-computer age, that being ignored has become one of the Deadly Sins? authfriend: Wonder what's got him so upset today? Sitting in his upstairs bedroom in front of a laptop computer and being

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney Lyin' Ryan Fooled by Benghazi Pseudoscandal

2012-10-22 Thread marekreavis
You have erroneously included me in the conversation on this topic, Richard, an interesting mistake to make. However, I agree that Obama was issuing a statement that, based on limited, or perhaps conflicting intelligence available at the time, used words that would allow him room to claim that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coup de foudre

2012-10-22 Thread Richard J. Williams
turquoiseb: I had an interesting experience this morning, interesting primarily because I've only had such an experience a few times in my life, and it's been a long time since the last one. So, Turq saw a girl on a bicycle today. LoL! I was out walking in my neighborhood and saw a woman

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread marekreavis
Yes, Richard, I understand that you have come to the conclusion you state below and have stated many times in the past. I don't believe, however, that you have made a case that is convincing enough for someone else to reach the same conclusion. Or, more accurately, you haven't convinced me. A

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Eighth Deadly Sin

2012-10-22 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Has anyone noticed that in our sedentary, seated-alone-in-some-room-in-front-of-a-computer age, that being ignored has become one of the Deadly Sins? I mean, the way some people talk, it's right up there with wrath,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: All life on this planet is descended from one cell, a hybrid between two types of bacteria - which is all there was for billions of years

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney Lyin' Ryan Fooled by Benghazi Pseudoscandal

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote: I agree that Obama was issuing a statement that, based on limited, or perhaps conflicting intelligence available at the time, used words that would allow him room to claim that he had truthfully and accurately

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: snip So you think that because something seems unlikely it must have some sort of outside help? Seems to me that just pushes the start point back to some (presumably ineffable) other thing. Doesn't help really.

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Elect Coherence: prizes and cookies

2012-10-22 Thread Dick Mays
From: Dome Announcements owner-dom...@mum.edu Date: October 22, 2012 10:27:59 AM CDT Elect Coherence in Group Program Oct. 24-Nov. 6 Remember SuperMonday, Super December, and Super 12th last year, when hundreds of consciousness experts came together to enjoy the fun of a big wave of coherence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread Jason
--- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: All life on this planet is descended from one cell, a hybrid between two types of bacteria - which is all there was for billions of years - there would be no complexity or consciousness without that one chance event. That is as hard a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Buck...if you think you've got it bad in Fairfield...

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: ...try to imagine what life would have been like if the Holy Inquisition that runs the TMO could have called the local police to evict you from the Dome

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: snip So you think that because something seems unlikely it must have some sort of outside help? Seems to me that just pushes the start point

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: How to Get Good at Uncertainty for WEDNESDAY

2012-10-22 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Not in my case dear Share - I messed up with the pooja and instead of Devi's kripa I have Devi's krodha. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: ** But Ravi, is that even possible? I thought grace is always available to us. It is we who turn away from it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: All life on this planet is descended from one cell, a hybrid

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread emptybill
Marek, You are granting Wiki-Willy an undeserved title. Willy is called Wiki because it is his main source of information. That makes him the anti-scholar whose pseudo-scholarship is proven every other post by his unwarranted and amateurish conclusions. What he is not telling you, because he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: --- PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: Darwinian evolution, whatever its other merits, is not going to explain the origin of life. We need a chemical, physical theory for that. Darwinian evolution *presupposes* an accurate

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: snip In the above Person Of Interest scenario, would X be God? It's an outside agency acting upon the world. It has the ability to direct the team to an

[FairfieldLife] The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE by Thomas Nagel Modern evolutionary theory offers a general picture of how the existence and development of life could be just another consequence of the equations of particle physics. Even if no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Coup de foudre

2012-10-22 Thread Bhairitu
On 10/22/2012 07:59 AM, turquoiseb wrote: I had an interesting experience this morning, interesting primarily because I've only had such an experience a few times in my life, and it's been a long time since the last one. I was out walking in my neighborhood and saw a woman approaching on a

[FairfieldLife] Designer Car Condoms

2012-10-22 Thread turquoiseb
No, this isn't one of those tasteless Turq posts about automobiles getting it on in parking lots and begetting unsettling numbers of progeny automobiles. Last I checked, cars did not reproduce on their own, and thus are not in need of birth control. Neither are they prey to STDs, if you ignore the

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Deer Hunting in Fairfield City Limits

2012-10-22 Thread Dick Mays
Forwarded From: Diane Rosenberg drosenb...@lisco.com Dear Friends, As many of you probably know, the Fairfield City Council is considering instituting deer hunting within city limits in order to handle the overpopulation problem. There have been a few accidents, and deer have been eating

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:snipIn the above Person Of Interest scenario, would X be God? It's an outside agency acting upon the world. It has the ability to direct the

[FairfieldLife] Deer hunting in Fairfield?

2012-10-22 Thread Rick Archer
Dear Friends, As many of you probably know, the Fairfield City Council is considering instituting deer hunting within city limits in order to handle the overpopulation problem. There have been a few accidents, and deer have been eating residents' gardens. My vegetable garden last year served up

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shri Chakra, Arid Mars, Adi-Shankara and Wiki-Willy-Tex

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Jackson
Damn, Emptybill! You had to go and ruin it! Just as I was about to reveal that the Southern Belles who used to sit outside keeping the sun off themselves with parasols (that's a kind of an umbrella) and we know and umbrella is a dome thus the Belles were remaining underneath and inside of a

[FairfieldLife] Ex-minister Tanja (Tanya)

2012-10-22 Thread card
Tanja Tellervo Karpela[1] (née Vienonen; previously Karpela and Saarela. born 22 August 1970) is a Finnish politician. She is a Member of Parliament[1] and served in the government of Finland as Minister of Culture from 2003 to 2007.[2]

[FairfieldLife] The Unified Field

2012-10-22 Thread Buck
When age, old creeping age comes on, And we are young no more, Let's all repent the sins we've done, Nor grieve that youth is o'er. We'll more faithful be Than formerly, And constantly to meditate; Then, since we have the Unified Field so dear, Let's drive all care away.

[FairfieldLife] The Jealous Wife

2012-10-22 Thread Yifu
David Teniers the Younger, Belgium: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/8/73393.jpg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: How to Get Good at Uncertainty for WEDNESDAY

2012-10-22 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Devi is not amused at your rebellious attitude empty baby, cute if you were a teenager, not a 60+ old homeless destitute, begging for books as a show of rebellion - is this how you worship her on Navaratri, by slandering her Ashutosh? Are you at least going to Skype us today is what she's asking

[FairfieldLife] Obama wins debate

2012-10-22 Thread raunchydog
Obama made Romney look like an old geezer tonight: We also have fewer horses and bayonets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfkOXQXdUjsfeature=youtube_gdata_player

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: How to Get Good at Uncertainty for WEDNESDAY

2012-10-22 Thread oxcart49
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Yer just so right ... Ravioli. You are Shiva himself - not a mere brahma.rakshasa. Don't fergit me, jus' I'm just too styoopid to see your glory. Your real name is Aushutosha - Mr. Easily Pleased. Just call me back