Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: lengli...@cox.net lengli...@cox.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually   Whatever. Certainly, wanting  to be certain that I haven't wasted 20

[FairfieldLife] Science Policy: A Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Tb, Some of your observation here is okay but wrong thinking once again. If TM is as LE is saying here by virtue of the observable research, then TM should certainly be taught to school aged kids as public policy. If not in the schools then after school across the street. It would be

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Share Long
turq and Lawson, it's amazing to me how Maharishi was even a visionary about aerobics! Some fitness experts no longer advocate long bouts of aerobic exercise as was done in the day when Jim Fixx, a regular jogger, died of a heart attack. It's now thought that such exercise actually strains the

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
again, TM has absolutely NOTHING to do with chi gung AND chi gung is NOT the same thing as falun gong - not by a long shot. On Wed, 5/7/14, lengli...@cox.net lengli...@cox.net wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
I'm pretty certain that the only exercise Maharishi ever got in his life was walking from a limo into a lecture hall. He must have gotten some lung exercises when he would indulge in his juvenile rants when chewing someone out who displeased him. And he must have gotten some aerobic exercise

Re: [FairfieldLife] Science Policy: A Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
What a birdbrain you are Doug. IF anyone in these debates is a parasite it is the TM people who always have their hands stuck out beggin for money so they won't have to have any kind of real job. On Wed, 5/7/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Science Policy: A Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1:35 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Science Policy: A Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually   Tb, Some of your observation here is okay but wrong thinking

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually   turq and Lawson, it's amazing to me how

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Share Long
turq, I think everybody's a gullible cultist about something! Best to just own up to it, know we might be wrong, and live fully anyway. Traveling to Maryland today for annual Mother's Day visit to family. Will participate as travel permits.  Have fun everyone (-: On Wednesday, May 7, 2014

[FairfieldLife] Averting the Danger of Climate Change

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
WASHINGTON — Jim Gandy is the chief meteorologist on WLTX in Columbia, S.C., and makes a point of incorporating links between bad weather and climate change into his daily broadcasts. “In Columbia, the only thing that separates us from hell in the summertime is a screen door,'’ he said in an

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The part that's difficult for me to understand, Lawson, is how you could possibly CARE so much about whether the technique of meditation you once learned wins and is proven best in scientific studies. Could it possibly be that

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Certainly, wanting to be certain that I haven't wasted 20 minutes twice a day for 40 years, is part of the issue (not to mention another 15 minutes twice-a-day doing the TM-siddhis for the past 30 years). But... Think about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Averting the Danger of Climate Change BEFORE it comes

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
research from Duke University linking increased carbon content in the atmosphere to a stronger outbreak of poison ivy in the Columbia region. Outbreaks of poison ivy, !Jeezus! that one really hits home for me. I am all in favor of remediation using all available approaches. Something needs

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Averting the Danger of Climate Change BEFORE it comes

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
I was surprised about the poison ivy too - what about the dust situation when and if Heartland Coop has their way with you Fairfieldians? On Wed, 5/7/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Averting the

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread authfriend
Comments below... The flipside, of course, is why you care? I met you online what, 15-20 years ago? You weren't as anti-TM as you appear to be now, even though you made clear that you no longer practiced it. What changed? Nothing changed, because I wasn't anti-TM then, and am not

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 3:34 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: The part that's difficult for me to understand, It's not complicated. You were mistaken twice yesterday, about the hierarchy in coding and the cause of most wars and genocides. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 6:37 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: again, TM has absolutely NOTHING to do with chi gung AND chi gung is NOT the same thing as falun gong - not by a long shot. According to MMY, TM is meditation that provides the ideal opportunity for transcending to pure consciousness. Falon Gong

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 6:39 AM, Share Long wrote: turq and Lawson, it's amazing to me how Maharishi was even a visionary about aerobics! */Now this is FUNNY/* - it looks like /yogic flying/ is one of the best and most effective /aerobics/ exercises. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 6:44 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: He must have gotten some lung exercises when he would indulge in his juvenile rants when chewing someone out who displeased him. Did this happen to you, or were you dreaming? And he must have gotten some aerobic exercise when he was screwing all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Science Policy: A Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 6:47 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: And I think you're an increasingly insane religious fanatic who can't be reasoned with, so why bother even trying? Now this is funny - a former 20-year cult member who still believes in levitation; a coder guy that won't discuss the hierarchy of

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 6:53 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Don't be a gullible cultist, Share. Until he was forced to incorporate some kind of physical education into MIU and Maharishi Schools to keep them accredited, Maharishi taught that ALL exercise that increased your breath rate was bad for you. Now this

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 9:22 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: I still hang at FFL because I'm interested in the cult mentality and I get to see so much of it here. Bullshit. You still hang here because it gives you an excuse to attack people and show your contempt for them. That's what you live for.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Averting the Danger of Climate Change BEFORE it comes

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Corn dust? No, the corn dust is a different problem. That can be mitigated locally. Corn dust is a different thread. But the coal trains is an entirely different scale of lifestyle problem related to the danger of global climate change. This global climate change is a much deeper spiritual

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of steve.sun...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:19 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris Rick, I am glad the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com   From:     FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of steve.sun...@yahoo.com Rick, I am glad the interviews are gaining a wider audience.  I think they deserve that.    I chuckled to myself though as I read your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Raising Net Neutrality from the Dead

2014-05-07 Thread Bhairitu
I've got an old 2wire router from my ATT DSL days i figure I can play around with by hooking up to my laptop and running Linux on stick with Apache server. It could server a web site with information and maybe instruction on how people could set up their own open site. Further ideas would

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of TurquoiseBee Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 12:57 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris From: Rick Archer

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
So maybe he’s an agnostic, open to the possibility that God can be experienced. That would be a great question to begin the interview. On Wed, 5/7/14, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread curtisdeltablues
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote : Thanks. How would you (and Curtis others) describe Harris in a word or a phrase? I see him referred to as an “atheist”, but from what I’ve read so far, that characterization is very inadequate. My impression of him so far is that

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread curtisdeltablues
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : So maybe he’s an agnostic, open to the possibility that God can be experienced. That would be a great question to begin the interview. C: Exactly. I would like to hear him articulate how we go from ineffable experience to

[FairfieldLife] Dien Bien Phu

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
1954 “The Fall of Southeast Asia.” On 7 May 1954, after a 56-day siege, the French army surrendered Dien Bien Phu: Could Vietnam have been nuked in 1954? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Could Vietnam have been nuked in 1954?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dien Bien Phu

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
1954, Brahmananda Saraswati had then only recently dropped the body, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi would be coming out of the mountains towards the West to help all humanity. -Buck in the Dome, 2014 1954 “The Fall of Southeast Asia.” On 7 May 1954, after a 56-day siege, the French army

[FairfieldLife] Leaky gut!

2014-05-07 Thread cardemaister
Celiac disease: When gluten is broken up into fragments in the gut, those fragments induce the release of zonulin, which tells the tight junctions to become more permeable http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458511/. This happens to everyone whose guts come into contact with those

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Perfection -ism

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
As a school or category of practice in mysticism here In the West, Perfectionism spiritually has to do with refining the subtle bodies of the human body-mind system. Similar to yogas illuminating, activating or clarifying the so called chakra centers and the rise of kundalini as some Eastern

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Thu 08-May-14 00:15:08 UTC

2014-05-07 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 05/03/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 05/10/14 00:00:00 436 messages as of (UTC) 05/08/14 00:04:45 102 Richard J. Williams 44 Michael Jackson 37 dhamiltony2k5 32 LEnglish5 27 awoelflebater 25 steve.sundur 24 authfriend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually [1 Attachment]

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 3:09 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: Shit, you and your TMSP can't even keep people from committing murder right there on campus - and you are gonna influence me by doing TMSP and one day I'm gonna wake up and agree with you??? You are living in a fantasy world - better use a filter

Re: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 5/7/2014 2:35 PM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com wrote: “In fact, atheism is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a non-astrologer or a non-alchemist. We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed

[FairfieldLife] Yogic Flying equals economic growth

2014-05-07 Thread srijau
In the 5 years that Cuzo has had large groups of Yogic Flyers it has become the fastest growing economy in the world. Cusco tuvo el crecimiento económico más alto del mundo en últimos cinco años - eleconomistaamerica.pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Flying equals economic growth

2014-05-07 Thread jr_esq
Sri Jau, The article does not state that the increase was due to the yogic flyers. Also, it would be interesting to know how the entire country of Peru in terms of economic growth in comparison to the rest of the world.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yogic Flying equals economic growth

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Jackson
And you like most TM fanatics are not telling the whole story: Speaking to El Comercio, IPE managing director Miguel Palomino Bonilla said “If Cusco were an independent country, it would be the number one in economic growth in the last five years [worldwide].” Palomino Bonilla added that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
A change like this would have to come from a MahaRaja. Srijau@... posts: . ..rethink the policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance

2014-05-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Of course practically, it would be good if folks should not confuse changing policy guidelines being the equal with a changing in the purity of the teaching. Policy guidelines facilitate a teaching but are not the purity of the teaching themselves. Effortless transcending is the purity. Dealing

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

2014-05-07 Thread krysto
Rick - I doubt that Harris would think or talk about experiencing God. My take on him is that he is interested in anything that can enhance our well being, and he feels that certain forms of meditation certainly qualify. But he is highly allergic to claims that reach beyond the evidence,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance

2014-05-07 Thread LEnglish5
Effortless transcending isn't a teaching. Effortless transcending can't be taught. It is what hopefully results from maintaining the purity of the teaching -that the student will absorb the strategy for setting up conditions for effortless transcending to occur by the time he or she finishes