On 9/5/2014 2:14 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
As I related, I sort FFL posts in Yahoo mail. I don't delete them. I
just prioritise the sort into different categories. I am now in the
Neo interface, not e-mail, and not a single Richard Williams post is
visible, so he must be in the bathroom or something. So generally I
read some posts and not others, but they are all still available if I
choose.
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The older one get the more time we spend in the bathroom! The last time
I checked human excrement still flows downstream. Most of the time I get
around to reading all the posts on FFL - it's one of the few groups on
the internet that discuss TM and the mechanics of consciousness, other
than Facebook. I've been an informant on FFL since January 1, 2002 -
post #724.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/724
Most of my stuff can be found using by searching the FFL archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>
The purpose of a discussion group is to discuss common interests; the
purpose of a bulletin board is to post information. I first got
interested in discussion groups on Usenet - designed by some computer
geeks for use on Unix mainframes to exchange and share educational
research materials between universities and schools. One discussion
group which was started by some friends of ours in Austin, was
alt.meditation.transcendental. We have been participating on various
newsgroups since 1999 and we have used a variety of browsers including
the Netscape and IE and Microsoft Outlook Express - lately, Mozilla
Firefox and Google Chrome. Most professionals use Microsoft Outlook and
Thunderbird makes an excellent choice if you want to receive messages by
electronic mail.
If you are just a casual reader, any web browser will get you into the
Yahoo Groups. And, from there you can respond or post a message in a
discussion, after subscribing. For more serious participants you can
also port your group messages to arrive via Yahoo Mail. Some serious
informants will probably be wanting to do this for one reason or
another. However, they key word here is "serious" informant. Most
professionals use a dedicated news reader when participating in
discussion groups or posting to a bulletin board.
In Yahoo Groups, to port your messages to electronic mail follow these
instructions:
Click on /Membership/, /then Edit Membership/; then click on
/Subscription/ and select the /Message Delivery/, individual mail radio
button, and then /Save/. It's not complicated.
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I generally read Barry's posts because they often generate a lot of
fallout, and they are often related to issues that FFL was designed to
investigate. Barry and Michael seem to bring out the 'Cult Response'
(I wonder if Herbert Benson ever wondered about that). Even though
they are sorted into a more or less oblivion folder, I will
occasionally read one of Richard's posts, or Nabby's, though I tend to
skip posts that consist of one sentence, and even two or three because
it is likely not to contain an argument or any useful information.
I can mark a folder 'all read' at a touch. I do not have to delete
because the folder is on Yahoo's server, not my hard drive, so it
doesn't take up space on my equipment.
The sort enables me to read the posts of a single person all in a
bunch, and that gives me a better idea if reading that person is
interesting. Then I can rewrite the sort rule to put them in another
category, even in their own folder.
If I am not interested in certain posts or posters, that does not mean
someone else is also not interested. I know many people that thrive on
meaningless conversation.
If I do not read your posts, whomever you may be, it is not because I
think you are a horrible person, etc, (though you may be nonetheless),
for I may be just as much a non-entity to you as your are to me. The
goal of spiritual practice, if there is one, is after all, to become a
nobody.
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.
( —— T.S. Eliot)
