Nabby, it actually is a link says 'show message history' in the reply window which you now seem to have found. I missed it for a while. But occasionally I will enter a thread not replying to a particular post, and then either delete the previous message(s) or do not show message history. But if you are responding to a specific post, it really helps clarify the thread because Neo does not sort out the sub-discussions that take place within a thread as the old interface used to. All the Yahoo servers I have access to now have the Neo interface, so I no longer can access the old interface, which had remained on servers Yahoo uses for e-mail for AT&T in the U.S.
I do not have time to stay on FFL continuously, and even after a day a discussion veers off so far it becomes hard to follow. I am unable to read all posts, but I do not segregate posters into 'good' and 'bad' piles and not read them because they disagree with me. Most people here ignore me anyway. I read your posts. I disagree with many of them. I think there are many faults with the way the TMO functions, and that much of what it provides is off track for enlightenment. Still I found the TM techniques I have received functional for the most part and they were a great aid in clarifying my experience, and were the primary ones I used for most of the time I have meditated. My thoughts on these techniques is actually much more positive now than it was ten years ago; others' seem to have the opposite experience. I think there is a distinction between people who succeed with TM and those who do not and it might be this: If a person's reason for starting TM is for enlightenment and no other purpose, and that is the overriding drive for his/her practice, than I think the person has a good chance. If a person is involved simply for the experience of community, for intellectual understandings, or because you think in spite of denials it really is a 'true' religion, or you just want a 'better' life, I think failure is a definite and probable possibility. And I would say this applies to any so-called path of enlightenment, Buddhist, Christian, Sufi, Taoist, etc., that focus on the main purpose of these experiential tracks is essential for success, otherwise there is a lack of focus in why one is doing it. For example, waiting for a Messiah to save you and bring about heaven on Earth is probably not a good way to approach enlightenment because you are off-loading focus to someone else. There are people on FFL that are going to annoy you; they are not likely all the same ones that annoy me. We each have a set of preferences. No doubt I have annoyed you many times. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : OK, did I get it right now ? Anyways, what makes you think I even read the post from MJ and Sal ? I do sometimes read your though but haven't even seen the "see all messages" thing, I'm not here often enough to have even noticed it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : I don't believe anybody said it was "so difficult." It's just a nuisance. And the point is that you could eliminate that nuisance with a single mouse click, as Salyavin, Michael, and I have asked you to. There's no reason for you not to do it except to be deliberately discourteous. This may come as a shock to you, but it's not necessarily the case that everyone is so utterly fascinated by your conversations that the "flow" will stick in their minds. (Don't pay any attention to Richard, for pete's sake. He's just trolling, as usual.) I also wondered why it was so difficult for some to follow the flow. Go figure :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 3/9/2014 7:49 AM, salyavin808 wrote: > I'd say please press the "show message history" before posting so we > can see what you are on about > There are only about six or seven us having an online conversation these days - I can remember what each one you has posted the day before. I don't need no "message history" because I keep up with the conversations. I don't need to go back and re-read what anyone wrote last week or last year. By this time, we already know how everyone feels in general about things. So, click the three buttons if you want to - I'm using Thunderbird and I don't miss a thing. Or, just keep up with the conversation and the flow. If you don't want to dance, why did you even come to the dance party? That's what I think.
