Figures you'd work Rama and Buddha into a topic on threading. :)
TurquoiseB wrote: >I've read with some fascination the discussions about Yahoo >and whether it handles threads properly or doesn't, but for >me the whole thing isn't really an issue. I understand that >many people are busy, and would like to be able to focus on >only the threads and subjects that interest them, > >For me, however, reading FFL is recreation, something I do >for my own enjoyment, and reading the posts sequentially, on >the Yahoo website, actually adds to my enjoyment. I can even >come up with a pseudo-intellectual reason why. :-) > >When I was studying with the Rama guy, there was a lot of >emphasis on career as part of one's spiritual sadhana. And >he pointed a number of us in the direction of a particular >field of computer science, relational database. His reason >for this (besides the fact that it paid well) was that in his >view working with relational databases was very much like the >Tibetan practices we used to perform in previous incarnations. >In those practices, a teacher would hold up a thangka painting >of an elaborate, incredibly intricate mandala. The student >would get to gaze at it for only a minute or so. And then the >student was sent away to visualize the mandala until he could >see it in his mind *exactly* as it appeared in the painting. > >To some extent, working with relational database is like that. >There are all these tables, sometimes thousands of them. In >a big, distributed database, sometimes tens of thousands of >them. Each table contains data elements, which are related to >each other and to other data elements in other tables in num- >erous ways. And to be able to work effectively with such a >database, you really have to be able to construct a mental >picture of the entire database in your mind, visualize it. > >That, to some extent, is why I like to read FFL unthreaded. >I just read each post in the order in which it arrived at the >Yahoo server. It's all a big jumble of data, written by >different people about different subjects and from completely >different points of view. And the task of "threading" it, or >making sense of it all and determining what the relationships >are between these different posts becomes your *own* task, >not the task of the software. > >It works for me, because I like this place and I like the >people here and I like putting things together in my own way. >Some people may not see a relationship between a post dealing >with computer technology and another post dealing with the >best way to prepare and eat the Buddha when you meet him on >the road and another post that seems to have originated from >one of the Ascended Masters. There probably *is* no real >relationship between these different subjects, and between >the people who wrote about them, but I always manage to >find one. > >The bottom line for me is that real life isn't "threaded." >You have to deal with things as they arise and organize them >in your mind as best you can. For me, Fairfield Life is >better appreciated the same way. Your mileage may vary... > >Unc > > > > > > >To subscribe, send a message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Or go to: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ >and click 'Join This Group!' >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
