It's that time of year again, the time we have all been waiting for, the thirty-six annual, FFL
"Unintended Irony Award" ---for exceptionally unintended and unconscious irony in a post reaching for intellectual splendor. We must state upfront that this year, 2011, we *witnessed* a ferocity of competiveness rarely seen on FFL. This was particularly true of a couple of late entries by our very own Barry who in previous years has made this competition virtually a one-man affair, but this year we *witnessed* the entry of a "dark horse" who's looks to make this much more than a one horse race for many, many years to come, but before we announce this years winner we must announce the runners up; Second runner up: turquoiseb <snip> "Wishing you well, both as Doug and as Buck. May your stockings be full of what you wish them to be full of. I have a hot date later, and know that hers will be. :-)" ***BP: Given his need to share this type of information with his fellow FFL posters one assumes Barry was hoping for some speculation on who he might be referring to; given his obvious respect and hope for the future of their relationship with the fortunate lady---I think this receptionist is one possibility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxIFQLOiV0 First runner up: turquoiseb <snip> <irony mode ON> <irony mode OFF> This late entry made this year's award almost impossible to adjudicate; in one short post Barry has showed us how to addresses this nagging FFL issue of how to explain irony to an emotional eight year old well into his sixties. So I hope everyone will joint me in giving Barry a heart felt round of applause with his entry of: "The Barry Wright Irony Meta Tags" which its my sincere hope everyone will learn to use liberally. And now without further delay; and the winner is of this years "Unintended Irony Award". zarzari_786 <snip> "Judy, your post was brilliant, and I never had a doubt that your intellect is among the sharpest here, and that's why I can say to you, I have the clear feeling, there is some love-bombing going on here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing I can understand that this is luring, especially when one has been through very dry online discussions, with mostly men. Besides that, the whole culture in the TM movement isn't really geared toward the heart, so I can understand, if somebody comes, and touches you on a wholly differnt level, it is a kind of transcending itself. Yet, it is the same effect, if you simply fall in love -it can be as simple as that. This mingling of ideas about love, and spiritual ideas is quite common in the spiritual field, it does happen a lot, with gurus and their disciples, ladies - of all ages -fall in love with their male gurus, and men fall in love with their lady Matajis. But it does not substitue discrimination and real discernment about the ultimate state of enlightenment. And I know about it - yes I do know about it - only in real life, not on internet forums. You rightly say, that it is not possible to judge an enlightened according to his behaviour, especially not on the net, because how would you know? Because the internet puts a layer between us, that doesn't exist in real life. And that's exactly the point: As you are not in the physical proximity of the other person, it is more difficult to make a judgement, and therefore, what's the whole point of such a connection then? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/298524 Dear zarzar_739, On behalf of the group I wanted to tell you how much you have impressed in such a short time (this award is no where near the half of it); at first I thought you seemed like Xeno on valium, but then you seemed to get a second wind which I can only describe: "as if Cliff Clavin came back as a Pashtun"; please don't get me wrong I think you are coming into your own and I've been more than a little dazzled with your polemics dressed up as dialogues (no doubt MZ is a little dazzled as well), and having worked with more than one German in my career, I'm impressed. I just have one question, and I would appreciate if you don't give your answer a lot of thought, although it could impact our interactions going forward. Did you can me a Moonie? ________________________________ From: zarzari_786 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 2:31:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 12/26/2011 04:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786<no_reply@> wrote: > >> According to Maharishi and according to tradition this > >> [losing Unity Consciousness] is not possible. In this > >> case it wasn't fully established. > > Either that or it never happened in the first place. > > > > That is, from everything that has been reported here > > that I've read, the entire episode sounds like a > > classic case of NPD/hypmania augmented by moodmaking > > and a desire to become the focus of other people's > > attention. > > > > I've seen it happen before to other "gurus" who set > > up shop based on self-announced (and never verfied, > > even by their own teachers) "enlightenment." > > > > The thing that causes me to believe in this theory > > is the fact that RWC refuses to even consider it, > > even as a possibility. *His* subjective view is the > > only possible explanation. That's pretty much classic > > NPD/hypomania. > > Some people who believe they are enlightened may just be spacey. Maharishi had a word for this, for people slipping into Brahman (or so) and not being really grounded: Moody Brahman > And > another lesson here is that Indian gurus even if they are experiencing > enlightenment just refer to it as a third person experience and not that > they are enlightened. That's a safe position to take as otherwise one > comes under scrutiny and causes confusion. OTOH, it is probably NOT > very easy to lose enlightenment because it is a process of adapting the > nervous system to support it. Of course if the nervous system shuts > down due to an accident or temporarily from a cold it might be not so > pervasive but it will still be there. And then it is also about how the > enlightened being relates to the phenomenal world which is of course > totally different from being in "serial consciousness." >
