Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
them so well there is nothing more to add. Thanks... From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
: Marco Polo Arrives ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Any sort of god must be immune to entropy. And that would need an impressive explanation. The Absolute is outside time and space. Entropy is a theory about phenomenal change. I think you meant to say

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Any sort of god must be immune to entropy. And that would need an impressive explanation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Everything is measurable, or how do you know it exists at all? To think that your life experience in its fullness is measurable is to turn yourself into an object. At root you're not an object but a subject (indeed The Subject). To make yourself an object is to turn yourself into a machine

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hey, it's not my fault that Buck inspired me to write spiritual commentary on the transcendent nature of silent computer hardware. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote : I see it as his British style wit. I get the same thing chatting with a Welsh friend at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
PS: Maybe the mind does have a pause button. What happens when we transcend during Transcendental Meditation®? That must be beyond description in words as there is no subject/object duality. And another thing (I'll shut up now!): what are poets doing if not giving expression to our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-17 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Any sort of god must be immune to entropy. And that would need an impressive explanation. The Absolute is outside time and space. Entropy is a theory about phenomenal change. We should take comfort from the fact that everything is explainable and that everything has turned out to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-17 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Any sort of god must be immune to entropy. And that would need an impressive explanation. The Absolute is outside time and space. Entropy is a theory about phenomenal change. I think you meant to say The absolute, if it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Ya talkin' about WillyTex?  Looks likehe now pestering The Peak. :-D  How deeply joyous for both of us, 'tis indeed the season of glad tidings! The question of how long he can last there

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread Duveyoung
Yeah, it's to nail down Nisargadatta's take on whether consciousness, after death of the body, is yet maintained within some sort of physicality I know not of. Astral nervous system? Nisargadatta's so out of the person business and, too, so clear that perfect nothingness is sentient and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just curious, do you remember the first time you saw Marshy and if so what was it like? From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   Yeah, it's to nail

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread Duveyoung
I first saw Maharishi in 1971 -- Humboldt -- One month course. I was a mess. Big mood maker. Totally thinking I was cool and set for greatness. First time: Not sure if it was on the stage or if it was when I handed him a flower as he walked into the building. He looked me in the eyes, and I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was on TTC Arosa in '75 Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like a second spring and I took opportunities to go gallivanting in the Alps. One time I returned from a walk to find Maharishi had flown in on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I wouldn't be too worried about death. You prepare for it every night when you go to sleep. For all we know this life may be nothing but an amusement park ride. On 12/16/2014 06:48 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Yeah, it's to nail down Nisargadatta's take on whether consciousness, after death of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re But I'm a math joke. Need a smart person for this. Anyone?: Not me. I came across Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form in the library one time. I read the first few pages and put it back on the shelf. Dry-as-dust symbolic logic interspersed with gnomic, zen-like comments. Spencer-Brown

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Duveyoung: Nisargadatta's so out of the person business and, too, so clear that perfect nothingness is sentient and eternal, that I truly do not think he cared if the soul has metaphysical staying power. It was all illusion to him. He was a heavy smoker till his dying day. When asked

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
On 12/16/2014 02:56 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re Duveyoung: Nisargadatta's so out of the person business and, too, so clear that perfect nothingness is sentient and eternal, that I truly do not think he cared if the soul has metaphysical staying power. It was all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re The extra weight probably lead to his heart condition which eventually killed him.: Something I've noticed (and was predictable and predicted) is that the anti-smoking backlash and indoor smoking bans have at least some responsibility for the scary increase in obesity levels in the West.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re salyavin808: The problem here is the metaphors taking themselves too seriously. You probably think that's ducking the question but it's just avoiding getting pulled into the endless cycle of ever more mysterious sophistry. We

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
[FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 13, 2014 6:10 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives STARZ of course is another cable/satellite cartel premium channel not accessible to cable cutters. You may find

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
15, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives  And episode 3? ;-) On 12/13/2014 11:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   The nekkid kung-fu battle in episode 2 was definitely worth watching.  :-) From: Bhairitu noozg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives  And episode 3? ;-) On 12/13/2014 11:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   The nekkid kung-fu battle in episode 2 was definitely worth watching

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Duveyoung
Not funny. Not funny. When it comes to axioms, I'm pretty much a stubborn hardass wanting his own way. Plus, the joke was from Terk, (which rhymes with unwiped asshole) so we know the intent was to, well, let's spell it out: Turqy was once again trying to portray my mind as inferior to such

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   Not funny.  Not funny.  When it comes to axioms, I'm pretty much a stubborn hardass wanting his own way. Plus, the joke was from Terk, (which rhymes with unwiped asshole) so we know

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2014 6:10 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives And episode 3? ;-) On 12/13/2014 11:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Ya talkin' about WillyTex? Looks like he now pestering The Peak. :-D On 12/15/2014 09:42 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Not funny. Not funny. When it comes to axioms, I'm pretty much a stubborn hardass wanting his own way. Plus, the joke was from Terk, (which rhymes with unwiped asshole) so we

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  Ya talkin' about WillyTex?  Looks like he now pestering The Peak. :-D Nah. Edg has always disliked me because I've never taken him and his posturing seriously. Never. Not even once. Never will. WillyTex

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Edg seems to have caught something from Buck. Old age? :-D On 12/15/2014 10:00 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Ya talkin' about WillyTex? Looks like he now pestering The Peak.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Edg seems to have caught something from Buck.  Old age? :-D Drama queen-itis. On 12/15/2014 10:00 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  The best is yet to come. Claudia Kim (wrestling babe) is in the new Avengers movie. Joss Whedon always finds just the best women ever to be in his movies.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   Not funny.  Not funny.  When it comes to axioms, I'm pretty much a stubborn hardass wanting his own way. Plus, the joke was from Terk, (which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Duveyoung
What the fuck's with youse guys -- I post a few comic blurbs about awareness not being consciousness, and all I get is you're a putz and age? How very fucking indecent of you -- those are two INHUMAN responses. Utterly void of good intent. These are your fucking personalities? -- this is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Close your eyes and tells us where your awareness ends. On 12/15/2014 01:59 PM, Duveyoung wrote: What the fuck's with youse guys -- I post a few comic blurbs about awareness not being consciousness, and all I get is you're a putz and age? How very fucking indecent of you -- those are two

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
be used to that by now. From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   What the fuck's with youse guys -- I post a few comic blurbs about awareness not being

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Duveyoung
noozguru wrote : Close your eyes and tells us where your awareness ends. Every time I write about this stuff I get just a bit more able to keep to the central issues. So on that level, I thank you for the reply. Awareness is not consciousness. You, above, used the word your as if my ego

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Duveyoung
Non-responsive. This is you being a fuckwad. A dick. A turd. Delicious is it? Ya love yourself doing this kind of disrespect TO ALMOST EVERYONE here? This is your pose to the world? This is how you look when someone takes a snapshot of ya? This is pathetic. You're a one-man filler

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
, 2014 1:46 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   noozguru wrote :  Close your eyes and tells us where your awareness ends. Every time I write about this stuff I get just a bit more able to keep to the central issues.  So on that level, I thank you for the reply. Awareness

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Hey Edg, do you like spicy foods? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11293112/Men-who-like-spicier-food-are-alpha-males-with-higher-levels-of-testosterone-French-report-claims.html On 12/15/2014 01:59 PM, Duveyoung wrote: What the fuck's with youse guys -- I post a few

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Duveyoung
Again, another callus gross inhuman response. If I were as you assert, how fucked up are you to chastise me -- such a sad sack -- as you've done to almost everyone here? You're abusive. You're harmful. You're hateful. You despise as if it were your hobby. YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED TO HEAL OR

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hey Edg, I can't really speak knowledgeable about Advaita, but would you have any thoughts about how this might relate to set theory? Specifically, first you have nothing Then you have { } which is the null set. Then you have {0}, which is the set of 1, but here is really nothing in it,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
embarrassing yourself. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives  Hey Edg, do you like spicy foods? http

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Duveyoung
I'm not smart enough to do this math. I read The Laws of Form, but it was mostly beyond me except for some of the broad concepts. I would bet, though, that there could be found neat parallels between that book's stuff and what we can assert about laws of consciousness. Ex.: when

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
You're tying yourself into knots and over intellectualizing. You got hung up on the word your. How am I supposed to put it? In some complicated way that no one would understand. Sorry, but you know what I mean by that statement and tell us what happens when you do that exercise. Before I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread salyavin808
Consciousness can only become more subtle and refined and that is what happens after death. You reckon no one here can logically beat this? This is crap for a start, seems like it's the killer punch to its own credibility. But the rest of it is interesting if you like that sort of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Ya talkin' about WillyTex? Looks like he now pestering The Peak. :-D How deeply joyous for both of us, 'tis indeed the season of glad tidings! On 12/15/2014 09:42 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Not funny. Not funny. When it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 6:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives   We gave the first episode of Marco Polo a shot tonight and enjoyed the hell out of it.   I think this will tide me over  until Da Vinci's Demons returns, since it is in a similar vain.  Beautiful

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-13 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I watched the first episode last night too and enjoyed it. I might be watching an episode a night for the rest of this week. On 12/12/2014 09:47 PM, ultrarishi wrote: We gave the first episode of Marco Polo a shot tonight and enjoyed the hell out of it. I think this will tide me over

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-13 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
*From:* ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 13, 2014 6:47 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives We gave the first episode of Marco Polo a shot tonight and enjoyed the hell out of it. I think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The nekkid kung-fu battle in episode 2 was definitely worth watching.  :-) From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-13 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives STARZ of course is another cable/satellite cartel premium channel not accessible to cable cutters. You may find it interesting and outrageous what other channel is no longer accessible unless you have a cable/satellite subscription: C-SPAN. Yup

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-13 Thread ultrarishi
Yeah... the Spousal Unit conned me into watching Outlander, and, I am afraid, i got hooked on that too. Men in kilts is normally not my cup of tea, but nekkid Celtic Cuties I have no problem with :-). Aye!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-12 Thread ultrarishi
We gave the first episode of Marco Polo a shot tonight and enjoyed the hell out of it. I think this will tide me over until Da Vinci's Demons returns, since it is in a similar vain. Beautiful production. Is this the Weinstein Company's first venture into television?