[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: History shows that not to be true at all. Most are just greedy bastards who care little about their fellow humanity. People like Bill Gates are a rare exception Well 280 billion annually in american philanthropy sort

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just reading in the Times about Richard Grasso, who, making $12 million a year, went through all kinds of contortions to obtain his $140 million retirement package. At some point in the accumulation of wealth,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Original posts I was just reading in the Times about Richard Grasso, who, making $12 million a year, went through all kinds of contortions to obtain his $140 million retirement package. At some point in the accumulation of wealth, money ceases to be a medium of exchange and becomes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: When rich people talk about money, they're talking about something entirely different from what poor and middle-class people mean

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Free Saddam Hussein'

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy never met a mass-murdering dictator she didn't like. Bush? Nixon? Oh, you said dictators, not almost or hopeful dictators. My mistake. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes and Stepped up Basis

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few people are aware that any suggestion for the elimination of the estate tax comes with the elimination of the stepped-up basis for capital gains. Currently, all capital gains get stepped-up of their cost basis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate

[FairfieldLife] The Massive Shortcomings of New.Morning

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
From adjacent post: [to Judy] If you wish to start a new thread on The Massive Shortcomings of New.Morning I could start it with at least several 100 points. But I am biased. I am sure you cite 1000's of points, real or imagined. And just let Unc get started. Perhaps you and others can start the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
itelf. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Vit B12 Methyl Form

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Thanks card for posting the article on B12. For decades, as a vegetarian (mostly -- with a 2-3 year trial exception of fish and poultry ) and vegan at times, I have been aware of the need to supplement ones diet with B12. I did not know the low absorbsion rate of the almost universally used form

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Free Saddam Hussein'

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip For Bush to say Saddam wouldn't let them in is simply a lie.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: new.morning wrote: BTW, do you fancy yourself a Libertarian? You read that way. I don't fancy myself anything. I don't take some platform and adopt it. I think through each issue and decide on the merits. My views

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Judy, Again, I am heartedned that your manfiest critique of my observation -- that you maybe confusing correleation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Judy, Again, I am heartedned that your manfiest critique of my observation -- that you maybe confusing correleation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Judy, Again, I am heartedned that your manfiest critique of my observation -- that you maybe confusing correleation

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Massive Shortcomings of New.Morning

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Re: The Massive Shortcomings of New.Morning --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: From adjacent post: [to Judy] If you wish to start a new thread on The Massive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: new.morning wrote: BTW, do you fancy yourself a Libertarian? You read that way. I don't fancy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vit B12 Methyl Form

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like many TM'ers back in the late 1970's I gave up on being a vegetarian. I had too many bouts with hypoglycemia, anemia and vata derangements. Using supplements will not often deal with the pH imbalance that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Massive Shortcomings of New.Morning

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Of course all others are cordially welcomed to chime in. Unc, Tom, Jim, Peter all have good, perhaps at times entertaining, insights

[FairfieldLife] Another Damn, Greedy, Non-Empthatetic Rich Person! Let Lynch the Basards!

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
We were sitting in a Manhattan living room on a spring afternoon, and Warren Buffett had a Cherry Coke in his hand as usual. But this unremarkable scene was about to take a surprising turn. Brace yourself, Buffett warned with a grin. He then described a momentous change in his thinking. Within

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vit B12 Methyl Form

2006-06-25 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a good test would be to take an Indian who comes from a long line of vegetarians and pair him with a westerner who claims they function well as a vegetarian and see who actually performs better in a battery of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever heard of a guy called Peter Kelder..?

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All we is more techniques! We know you are beyond need, Peter. But you can still speak the word without taking you out of that state. :) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever heard of a guy called Peter Kelder..?

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're going to learn them, it's better to learn them the right way. In that way they can take a person to full Buddhahood rather quickly. Was that your experience? If you didn't do it, why not? What else could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever heard of a guy called Peter Kelder..?

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2006, at 11:29 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: If you're going to learn them, it's better to learn them the right way. In that way they can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever heard of a guy called Peter Kelder..?

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2006, at 2:24 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 24, 2006, at 11:29 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beware the Yoga Demon! The Christian Right’s fear of self-realization and sp

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: RELIGION Beware the Yoga Demon! The Christian Right's fear of self- realization and spirituality By Mel Seesholtz,

[FairfieldLife] Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why a progressive income tax is a good thing. It is an disincentive to accumulating excessive wealth. It is better to have more millionaires than any billionaires. You would allow people to accumulate an estate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: That's why a progressive income tax is a good thing. It is an disincentive to accumulating excessive wealth. It is better to have more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-24 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: A flat tax (some say 17% would do it) with no or few deductions, starting at incomes over $30-50,000, (even a negative income taxfor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Electronic mantra chanting machine

2006-06-21 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/21/06 10:43 AM, nablus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And listening to mantras starting with OM is OK with you ? I use a mantra with OM in it. Have been for several years. Material and spiritual well-being

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/21/06 7:03 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The WIE has details provided by him and his people. Where's the independent articles? One of Amma¹s senior swamis told me that SSRS made a big show of

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 6/20/06 7:09:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sparaig@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Part of the predetermined Grand Plan or the result of Free Will?

2006-06-21 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Per subject, are those the only two alternatives that occur to you? Or is it a hidden yet profound lesson on the shallowness of strawmen thinking? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-20 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In discussing this with Tom Traynor, he wrapped it up perfectly: Things happen exactly as they should. Why? Because that's the way they happened. Though meaningful perhaps via some other understandings or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, descriptions of Brahman, and the Turing test. (no way to tell!!)

2006-06-20 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: This is why I don't understand why some folks are so thrown by the idea of determinism. If determinism were true, it would make absolutely no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-20 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:57 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: In discussing this with Tom Traynor, he wrapped it up perfectly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-20 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: In discussing this with Tom Traynor, he wrapped

[FairfieldLife] Wars

2006-06-13 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Quotes from FFL Observers [Commments and implied statements in brackets] Believe me nobody ever died fighting for our [their country's] freedom. Instead they fought to keep the rich rich and the poor poor. They fought the wars as pawns for the rich. The rich could give a damn about our freedom,

[FairfieldLife] War

2006-06-13 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Country WWII deaths/100 population --- -- That should be deaths per 1000 population, of course. But

[FairfieldLife] Wars

2006-06-12 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Quotes from FFL Observers [Commments and implied statements in brackets] Believe me nobody ever died fighting for our [their country's] freedom. Instead they fought to keep the rich rich and the poor poor. They fought the wars as pawns for the rich. The rich could give a damn about our freedom,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Fw: (no subject)

2006-06-12 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/12/06 10:15:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And it's ironic, too, how many of those who would send others to fight in wars have never actually volunteered for one

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Thanks for your thoughts and inputs. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2006, at 12:27 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: Magical thinking,, myth, art, poetry, drama, literature, dreams, are great things -- in the vast realms that science does not provide a more effective

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we may be saying something roughly similar, except that I don't know whether you put much stock in intuition. I definitely do, although I may or may not have more limits on how far that can go. In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments in [brackets]. That's not intuition, that's common sense, Curtis. Intuition is that annoying thing :) you often hear women say, I just have a feeling... about something or someone that seems completely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may have two good terms for the same thing! I think of intuition as an internal ability to detect patterns and create wholes out of perceived parts. Then why not recognize it as pattern recognition -- on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Sal, I'll have to think about what we mean by intuition. For me, years of noticing people's behaviors and patterns have sharpened my ability to have better intuition about people's future behavior. Pattern

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2006, at 11:34 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: One thing that Sanskrit literature and philosophy teaches us is that each drishti or way

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: You may have two good terms for the same thing! I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2006, at 3:57 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: The view in Jivan-mukta or other states does not change the chemistry and physics

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-10 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 10, 2006, at 3:26 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: You have quite missed the point about magical thinking. And about subjective science. I'm merely replying to your brief remarks and less all this other

[FairfieldLife] Ten [Observations] [aka Rules] for Being Human

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Ten Rules for Being Human by Cherie Carter-Scott 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, life. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.

[FairfieldLife] Real-Time Wolrd Statistics

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
http://www.worldometers.info/ (wait a bit and the counters will starts moving) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Find Rhymes, Similar Sounding Words, Related Words, homophones, Shakespeare, etc

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Another SBS disciple embraces radical Hindu Creationism?

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not convinced that's the case in many areas. Has he ever said evolutionary theory is wrong, for example? When asked who was correct Evolutionists or Fundamentalists (god created man with no intermediate steps), he

[FairfieldLife] Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
We all make them. To the extent that we are aware of their existence and structure, we can avoid them in our own internal reasoning, and in communications. Whoever has more than 20 in any post, gets a gallon of woowoo juice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Cognitive bias

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
. That such keep you grounded in what IS, right now -- well only attests to the glory of creation -- that opposite practices can result in the same fruit. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
error at Cornell. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0029117062/sr=8-1/qid=1149893839/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4458199-6191348?%5Fencoding=UTF8 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: We all make them. To the extent that we are aware of their existence

[FairfieldLife] Re: mounting concerns about TM org in Kansas

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
And may we stay clear of the weewee. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May the woowoo be with you? Hmmm... Sal On Jun 9, 2006, at 4:57 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Woo woo really encapulates the feeling that many of us have for the Force (in a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Curtis, I agree with the general point that using words in discussions with others that have a perjorative connonation -- to them -- is not usually helpful to the tone and fruitfulness of the discussion. Often this occurs when there is not a common understanding of meaning. Reading your recent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
Thanks for your thoughts and inputs. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: I don't think he's thought these points through very well, or at least he isn't explaining them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cognitve Biases and Logical Fallacies

2006-06-09 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I was interested in these points but I can't figure out what I think yet: And they can and should be applied to subjective

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cat Killings, was: Kumbaya

2006-06-06 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/6/06 9:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/5/06 9:48:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I thought his equating spiritual ganja with male

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murphy's Laws is now available

2006-06-06 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
I earlier read some the excerpts for which you provided links. I liked it. You seem to have well distilled some life experiences. Publishing question: Will you be making it available on Amazon? If so, how does that work? Do you supply them with x copies? Or do they get books from Lulu -- as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Rick

2006-06-06 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
oh sal, you aren't egotistical. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably because he fits in so well with the rest of us... Sal On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:16 PM, feste37 wrote: You seem like a rude, egotistical old bore. Why don't you just go

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cat Killings, was: Kumbaya

2006-06-06 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Actually, when you make comments like you did about that U of C professor from that column that I posted, I am led to believe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murphy's Laws is now available

2006-06-06 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ashelkent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Lulu has three distribution plans: 1. the one I'm using now. Free. Anyone can order from Lulu. I can order books at production cost

[FairfieldLife] Re: Condy's solitary life?

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/5/06 3:31:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...pretending all the while that it wasn't about sex. No, it was payback for Richard Nixon and Clarence Thomas. There is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:15 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: So what is yours (and Bhairitu's) take on MMY and other teachers reported sexual encounters, with regards to tantra? Do you feel there was some reasonable

[FairfieldLife] Armstrong. Einstein and Capt. Beefheart

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Ry Cooder started out in the Delta style. He moved on to fantastic fusion projects. Actually, Ry started out with one of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Patti Boyd: My life as a muse

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: Patti Boyd: My life as a muse The muse sayeth: But you have to cut yourself a bit of slack in the end, I think. I certainly wouldn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Patti Boyd: My life as a muse

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm old enough (56) to remember air raid drills in grammar school in which we'd assemble in the hallway and cover our heads with our hands Well, that dosn't say much for the Conn educational system. :) In california

[FairfieldLife] Re: Patti Boyd: My life as a muse

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who here is old enough to remember the 1950s and what it was like growing up in them. .. It was not a happy time

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 11:14 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:15 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: So what is yours

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 11:14 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: Can a student get it (things tantric) via transmission? Well, it depends what you

[FairfieldLife] Hypersensitivity about Response Posts

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Speed Reading and Implied References

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 11:14 AM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: Can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:00 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: What specifically have you heard? I never heard him mention tantra -- that I can recall. A friend I know asked him directly about tantra, so I'm replying

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vibration Program

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may lose an arm and a leg, but the make the remaining arm and leg feel really, really good! Which seemed to be you strategy in saying you would give an arm and two legs to have sex with that blonde school

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 2:45 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Thirdly, drugs. That was the era when drugs became fashionable. What's so good about that? We found out we were being lied to? : NO ASSOCIATION AT ALL...EVEN A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 2:46 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:00 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: What specifically have you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 2:45 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Thirdly, drugs. That was the era when drugs became fashionable. What's so good

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vaj and new_morning_blank_slate (and MDixon for that matter): Fall all over yourselves in your apparent rush to defend drug use, even something as seemingly innoculous as marijuana. You'll make yourselves look

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 2:46 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: All of which swerves widely from the main point: Could MMy have some knowledge of sexually related tantric practices by one of many means? Of course you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vibration Program

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: You may lose an arm and a leg, but the make

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Vaj and new_morning_blank_slate (and MDixon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I am for the full legalisation of drugs, as I've posted here many times. But there's nothing -- absolutely no reason -- for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Drugs, was: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
OK, just to irritate Shemp, and possible Vaj, Bhariru, Unc and who knows who else (hey a 4-shot is pretty good) here is another article. Warning!!! Warning The above was intented humor and does NOT endorse irritating people. Warning!!! Warning On Sexual Tantra and Pot. Now we just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Drugs: Be Here Now, Stoned,

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/ramdass.cfm A Harvard-educated teacher, philosopher and spiritual seeker, Ram Dass is a living bridge between the wisdom of the East and Western ideals of justice and social action. He has been a life-long champion of social policies based on reason and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I am for the full legalisation of drugs, as I've posted here many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: I'm all for myth-busting. But I'm also for common sense. Great! Do you have the date set for the big plunge? (when you plan to start

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, vajradhatu108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Which is fine. My primary hypothesis, which you have provided no evidence of substance to counter is that i) it is possible M. had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/5/06 5:16 PM, vajradhatu108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, ANYTHING is possible, some things are more probable. It's highly improbable M. is a tantric adept, for the numerous valid reasons I've

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He also has brought people in to teach him things. Oh the shame, the shame Were (among) their names, Larry Domash and John Haiglin? No... So it was ok to bring in Domash and Haiglin to teach him things, but not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dissent over Global Warming and be an outcast

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chill out over global warming By David Harsanyi Denver Post Staff Columnist Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 7:36 PM, new_morning_blank_slate wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, vajradhatu108 vajranatha@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Without reading it, I am guessing that the Buddhists who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kumbaya

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Without reading it, I am guessing that the Buddhists who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantric Sexual Practices (was Urdhva-retas?)

2006-06-05 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: snip Who are referencing besides {Tom??} from Estes Park

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