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

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 6/11/06 9:55:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, WLeed3@ writes: I

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

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the first two months of the war, France lost more soldiers than America did in the *entire* war. Ooops. I should have said in the entire European theater of the war. Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] For Curtis

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
Remember I mentioned the fellow in Paris who books comedy and music acts (including some blues players)? I just received a mailing from him, so here's his address: karel @ anythingmatters . com with the spaces removed, of course. Karel is a Dutch guy who's lived in Paris for years, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Ann Coulter/Murders w/Words(her words)'

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: I've read Al Franken's book on Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (excellent by the way, if for nothing else, its

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Ann Coulter/Murders w/Words(her words)'

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/12/06 11:33:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend dropped in to the chat room on Anorexic Ann's website. By the time he left they were ready to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Ann Coulter/Murders w/Words(her words)'

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that Ann Coulter is unique in many ways. Did you catch her on The Daily Show? She is quie unsubtle in her sense of humor, or a brilliant (and I do mean the word literally) actress. Jon Steward ripped her up

[FairfieldLife] The Dr. Phil Koan (was Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field')

2006-06-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, qntmpkt qntmpkt@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: So the best solution to answer your question is for you to fully realize

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Ever hear of Ramanujan? PBS did a fascinating special on him years ago. He would cognize formulae many pages long, some of them baffling in their

[FairfieldLife] Intelligunt Desine, the T-shirt :-)

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Wars

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
and to paying for them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: It's real easy for Americans to sit on their fat asses and criticize those countries who have actually had wars fought on their own territory. ... As far as war goes, they're [Americans] pussies

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. The point I enjoy making over and over here on FFL is Enlightenment is available to all of us, not just the members of some spiritual orthodoxy that we invent for ourselves. We are neither higher nor lower

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like my comment to be separated from any connection with evaluating Jim personally. In my communications he has passed the much more important test in my world of being a nice, sincere guy. I thought

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: More seriously, yes I think you're correct that he seems to hold the siddhis up as some kind of 'standard' for enlightenment, but he is one of the only

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's New?

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys and Gals, I've have been outliving my welcome at my Buddhist boards and so have decided to dilute my free and jobless time by soaking up some of the essence here at FFlife again. I wonder, what's new with MMY

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's New?

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had me going...hehe... Hope it provoked a real 'hehe' when you figured out it was bullshit. :-) The long-promised pundits have all arrived and are chanting like gangbusters, radiating woowoo rays far and near. As a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now I have nothing left to believe in...

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you doubt the destructive power of religious sects read on. Even the sincere friendship of Madonna and Brittany are casualties! I would say instead that it demonstrates the destructive aspect of fanaticism. .

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Ann Coulter/Murders w/Words(her words)'

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: [...] Bingo! I wouldn't have bought and read her book if it had not been for the wailing, gnashing of teeth, and general outrage expressed by so many

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, OK- Got it. So my question back is, what practical difference in your life would it make if you witnessed someone, even yourself, externally manifesting a sidhi? Would deep contentment well up from within you?

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen people sit and watch someone levitate and admit it verbally as it happens and then get up and leave the room and then claim the next day that it never happened, and that they had never said such a thing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wars

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlist@ wrote: TorquiseB writes snipped: Life is *full* of contradictions. So, as far as I can tell, is enlightenment.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your mind is doing the doubt thing, it's going to do the doubt thing no matter who the supposed expert is. I don't think I am as skeptical as you are about the use of proper tests in science. I've just

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snipshe was so threatened by the fact that she was seeing these things and that they *weren't* being done by *her* teacher (Maharishi) that she

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:43 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snipshe was so threatened

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
Unc: The kung-fu of denial is FAR more powerful than the kung-fu of science. :-) Curtis: Nice one! Agreed. In my experience, it's more than a snappy one-liner. There is real truth in it. The power of denial is fuckin' AWESOME, man. :-) The ability of self to perpetuate its own illusions and

[FairfieldLife] Re: New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote: snip I don't think anyone in the Movement has the balls to question MMY. But if they did he probably would say straight up that he is not

[FairfieldLife] Re: New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Kirk wrote: a sign of guilt? or dualism of his mind? One would think that since he puts his photo on all his manifest actions he would place it in the Holy Tradition which is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'm not really part of or terribly interested in this conversation, but a funny thought just struck me. How long do you think it will take after

[FairfieldLife] Re: New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'm not really part

[FairfieldLife] Re: New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've no doubt that there will be a move to deify or whatever MMY (some already deify him), but I was responding mostly to your 5 years lmit. I don't think that there will be any move towards this from within the TMO for

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:43 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: It was just a fascinating evening for me, watching her avoiding her own perceptions. I did not tell her before the talk that Rama could do siddhis, or to watch for them

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:03 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Unless of course she was pissed because she realized he was using some form of suggestion... Some Buddhist

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a frequent mistake people make, *assuming* that Maharishi [or another guru] is enlightened (I think psychologists refer to this phenomenon as transference), and then based on that assumption,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Just because he said he was enlightened, why did they believe it? This is a deep point. I'm sure you know all about Lifton's

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:28 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: I can see how a magical display would make more sense, esp. if inner qualities were lacking. It makes sense if you weren't there. If you were there, it seems a lot like

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's more offensive?

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 6/15/06 11:56:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, shempmcgurk@ writes: Ann Coulter's comments about the 9/11 widows ...or...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: FW: Super Discounts on Invincibility Courses

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, super, I hoeever will be only able to attend this retreat below: August 4-5th Madison WI 1st Annual Younge Dorje Drollo Drub-chod Friday 6-9pm Initiation to the Dorje Drollo Mandala/ Tsog feast Saturday and

[FairfieldLife] An Interesting Music Video

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
Ever wondered what it costs to produce a modern music video? Ever wondered where else that money could have gone? Here's one where it did: http://worldonfire.ca/ Sarah McLachlan -- World On Fire Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the

[FairfieldLife] CD Baby Loves You

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
From my brother. His name was actually in the email where it says 'Dear Customer.' I love these people, and I haven't even bought anything from them yet... Dear Customer - Thanks for your order with CD Baby! Shipping Address Customer address list of CDs ordered . . . Your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: FW: Super Discounts on Invincibility Courses

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
. He's sweating, but there's this big, shit-eating grin on his face and he's whistling. One of the devils is saying to the other, We've got to watch this guy...he's got a bad attitude. May the 'tude be with you... - Original Message - From: TurquoiseB To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Interesting Music Video

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
in my life, Robin Williamson, originally of the Incredible String Band. TurquoiseB wrote: Ever wondered what it costs to produce a modern music video? Ever wondered where else that money could have gone? Here's one where it did: http://worldonfire.ca/ Sarah McLachlan -- World On Fire

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Interesting Music Video

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Garrison Keillor. Marvellous storyteller/ bard. I've only seen one better in my life, Robin Williamson, originally of the Incredible String Band. I don't know whether Robin's work is on iTunes or any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Example of an external Sidhi

2006-06-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- From The Week, June 23, 2006, p. 16: Salma Hayek attributes the development of her career-enhancing breasts to divine intervention, says In Touch. As a teenager, Hayek was flatchested, and in her despair, she

[FairfieldLife] Re: Example of an external Sidhi

2006-06-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong but I always thought Salma's breasts were surgically enhanced. I've seen photos of her at 17, prior to her fame on Mexican TV, and there was a pretty 'magical display' at that time, too, so I don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Google search engine

2006-06-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For searching anything to do with the U.S. federal government: http://www.google.com/ig/usgov Type in 'failure' :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at

[FairfieldLife] Re: New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2006-06-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Satgurus will decrease mental disturbances and conceptuality, not increase them. Satgurus will enhance personal peacefulness, not thrust one into life/death situations. Might I ask how many Satgurus you have worked with

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose it could all be seen as an enlightening example of the down side of democracy - the leat intelligent and morally most corrupt common denominator sets the standard :-) Either that or a bunch of dueling egos

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rather descirbe myself as the sole catalyst, though I'd prefer to think of it in terms of shining some light in a very dark place - with the result that a variety of nocturnal ? bugs in panic realized daybreak is

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: I'd rather descirbe myself as the sole catalyst, though I'd prefer to think of it in terms of shining some light in a very dark place

[FairfieldLife] Zen and the Art of Creating Rube Goldberg Devices

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
Run the video at: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/06/make_podcast_rube_goldberg_con_2.html or http://tinyurl.com/h3p5f Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design.

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

2006-06-20 Thread TurquoiseB
The fact that we can't tell if our will is free or not; leaves the door open for an ironic paradox: we can act AS IF our will is free, even if it isn't, and not be the worse for wear. We can't even tell if our actions are really free will or not. This begs the question: Say 't Hooft's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday Jim Flanegin

2006-06-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today's the day! Many happy returns. Or not, if we're talking reincarnation and you'd rather not... :-) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: The new issue of What Is Enlightenment? has an article on SSRS which says he has instructed over 20 million people in meditation. Is that more than TM?

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Jody at http://guruphiliac.blogspot.com/ has an entirely different perspective on SSRS. One of the comments on this sounds just like the

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So SSRS only uses meditation teachers who have pledged to only teach TM under the auspices of the TMO... And whose teacher and organization refuse to allow them to teach, unless they spend several thousand dollars to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday Jim Flanegin

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: Today's the day! Many happy returns. Or not, if we're talking reincarnation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jesus: 1 billion

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop the pissing contest. So what if SSRS has 20 million? It's not about the numbers. It's that one of these two teachers of meditation is still teaching meditation. Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: The new issue of What Is Enlightenment? has an article on SSRS which says he has instructed over 20 million people in meditation. Is that more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Electronic mantra chanting machine

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
Neat. Reminds me of Tibetan prayer wheels. High tech sadhana. And who is to say that it doesn't work? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Electronic mantra chanting machine This compact electronic mantra chanting machine has 36 mantras to choose from.

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

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
Warrant issued for Chihuahua attacker (From the St. Charles MO Journal) The 33 year old woman who allegedly attacked another woman with a dead Chihuahua puppy has been charged with first degree trespassing and third degree assault, both misdemeanors. A warrant was issued Thursday for Lisa

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: So SSRS only uses meditation teachers who have pledged to only teach TM under

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

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warrant issued for Chihuahua attacker (From the St. Charles MO Journal) The 33 year old woman who allegedly attacked another woman with a dead Chihuahua puppy has been charged with first degree trespassing

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/21/06 12:45 PM, new_morning_blank_slate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think selfless, simple, non-PR-focussed, group service projects by any spriritually oriented group, are a great way to create

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Maybe he's dealing with people who are content with trusting their own experiences, and who don't need to be shown no steenkin' badges (in the form

[FairfieldLife] Re: Electronic mantra chanting machine

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Neat. Reminds me of Tibetan prayer wheels. High tech sadhana. And who is to say that it doesn't work? (Can you *imagine* the hilarity if it were MMY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Half a Woman

2006-06-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone figure out how he does this? Is it two contortionists?: http://tinyurl.com/jdq3k Very Andy Kaufman-like. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS: 20 million?

2006-06-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: If he really devised his current strategy as a 'test,' fuck him. His neurotic need to know who is loyal to him is not more important than

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jesus is coming, and man is he unstressing!

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kansas Pastor... Pastor Hubbard seriously questions the group's claims, however. In April, he and other pastors sent a signed letter to the local newspaper stating that the TM group's members are welcome but must

[FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and FFL

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/22/06 3:43 PM, nablus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is interesting to watch. Whenever there is a postive note appearing regarding Maharishi or his teaching - the following posts here on FFL will be flooded

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fever, transformation and the earth

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/22/06 8:06 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ((Hey, and if that retard who keeps pretending to post with my handle, but under a different yahoo account, does so again, ignore the sad

[FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and FFL

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor uns_tressor@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 nablus108@ wrote: When Maharishi postulated his ideas about the CIA infiltrating the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movies to Watch this Summer

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
I've seen only Travelers and Magicians. Good film, but not of the same quality as his first film, The Cup. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my list of Movies to Watch this Summer: Wheel of Time by Werner Herzog NY Time review:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Krishnamurti (w/ Chogyam Trungpa)

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 23, 2006, at 7:47 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:58 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Krishnamurti (w/ Chogyam Trungpa)

2006-06-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:58 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:

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

2006-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: But did you know that Kermit the Frog is a tool of Satan? I was pretty sure Barney the Dinosaur was Satan's Spawn, but this news about Kermit comes as a shock. Though now that you

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

2006-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think if beings from another planet were to visit here they would note that human beings have a disease called religion which will eventually destroy them. That's good enough to be in thousands of .sig files, man.

[FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and FFL

2006-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is interesting to watch. Whenever there is a postive note appearing regarding Maharishi or his teaching - the following posts here on FFL will be flooded with old posts and comments, copied at length. As if to put

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dzogchen Valley

2006-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Lovely. Thanks for posting this, Rick. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To

[FairfieldLife] Re: Progressive and Flat Taxes

2006-06-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 incomes below say $15,000) would eliminate all the inefficiencies,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Meditate

2006-06-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meditate instead of robbing banks. I meditate *and* rob banks. --- suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be curious to know why people practice TM. Whether it be experiential reasons or philosophical or

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

2006-06-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course all others are cordially welcomed to chime in. Unc, Tom, Jim, Peter all have good, perhaps at times entertaining, insights on this topic. The topic is all about self importance, and thus boring.

[FairfieldLife] Re: HH Dalai Lama, live

2006-06-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now. http://www.dalailama.com/page.128.htm A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. Neat. Thanks, Vaj. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movies to Watch this Summer

2006-06-26 Thread TurquoiseB
I'm a little out of touch as to new films to recommend for your summer viewing, but if you haven't seen an older one called 'The Advocate,' you've missed out. I'm watching for the seventh or eighth time tonight, so it's on my mind. The Advocate is one of those great films that sadly never

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ken stops his brainwaves

2006-06-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Because we should realize and make the connection that *dualistic methods

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ken stops his brainwaves

2006-06-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, kabbalist1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, what you wrote make sense that resonate with my understanding of TM as well, but with all due respect, lets not forget that Vaj has hands on and knowledge on both (or more) ways , and other meditation methods

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ken stops his brainwaves

2006-06-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: snip

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2006, at 6:43 PM, peterklutz wrote: I.e. Mahesh was given the full name Maharishi Mahesh Yogi when his peers/tradition over fifty years ago cognized him to be (1) a yogi as well as (2) a great seer.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ken stops his brainwaves

2006-06-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:38 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: There's just not much I can say to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 4:48 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: In the early days (1967), he told the story often that it was a name that his students (note: *not* peers) had given him, and that he allowed them to do so. Do you believe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Politicians and Bureaucrats: Sad, True and Sometimes Pretty Funny

2006-06-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marijuana was outlawed for two reasons. In the southwestern states, it was outlawed because All Mexicans are crazy and marijuana is what makes them crazy. In the northeastern states, it was outlawed because of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Politicians and Bureaucrats: Sad, True and Sometimes Pretty Funny

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
practice some form of yoga and self discovery and who consider cannabis as a sacrament, similar to the Native American use of peyote and other hallucinogens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eternally Supportless Pure Consciousness and the Liberation of Individuality

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:37 PM, authfriend wrote: snip Gosh, Lawson, it looks like Vaj forgot to answer your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last I heard, he was working with a company that make guitars, and spends his time roaming around in the woods looking for suitable pieces of wood. I¹d like that job. No shit. Great gig.

[FairfieldLife] Now and Then

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today is simply not better than the 70's. I'm stayin' out of the more inflammatory side of all of this, but I think this is an interesting statement. It's stated as if it could be assumed. So I found myself wondering

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Was this before or after he started eating babies? ;-) How do you think he *got* the babies? The instant-enlightenment-seeking mothers would

[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Maharishi's name] Weasel shite

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find your stuff engaging. OK, so let's assume you have convinced everyone on this board that Mahesh is a bag of weasel shite. We all agree. He is the scum of the earth. Now what? What are you going to do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: ...Maharishi *definitely* eats babies, though... http://poetry.rotten.com/infantiphagia/ Wow. Maybe Bruce Campbell in the role of Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: invincible government collapses

2006-07-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- nablus108 nablus108@ wrote: I guess its a combination. My feeling is beeing confirmed by an american phsycic who happens to be a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Advocate and God and Buddha

2006-07-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Barry for recommennding The Advocate and whomever recommended God and Buddha. I enjoyed The Advocate: well acted, great script and story and, of course, it had that soft-core porn element that

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