---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : It's always good to run into someone who appreciates "Children Of Men." Great movie, as was his previous "Y tu mamá también." The bit when they brought the newborn child outside was amazing and sadly summed up mankind beautifully - 5 seconds of awe, then back to the fighting. But I'm not likely to ever head over to Vlodrop. Cults are easier to appreciate at a distance. I'd go and have a look for sure, but you could use your previous experience to get you through the door - governor privilege and all that - and get a good feel of how it is nowadays compared to the old. How would I "prove" myself a "Governor?" It's not as if the TM movement back in my day kept any records -- the data people at National couldn't find any records of either people initiated before 1975 or people made teachers before 1975 when they tried to do so for a court case. You mean there's no secret handshake? And back in my day there were no such things as "badges," so I never had one. Me being allowed in the door or not would probably all depend on whether there was anyone on the premises who remembered me from back then. Probably best not to mention you're a roving reporter for Fairfield Life! I wonder if there's still a lot of security there, the CIA must have lost interest by now. Probably just a few heavies to keep the groupies away from Bevan... I've been out of it ten years and when I'm visiting my TM mates and they lapse back into the 'language' it gives me the creeps, like someone walking over my grave. I'd like to hear an on the scene report from you anyway, probably be really funny. Maybe they'll draw you back into the fold! Yeah, "the creeps" is the bigger issue. I have a hard enough time *imagining* people still stuck in the TM mindset, much less interfacing with them in person. The potential for humor might be a draw, but I'm really not sure I could get over the creepiness factor long enough to be funny about it. I always thought that our academy would make a great fly-on-the-wall documentary series. Especially during a flying course. I pitched it to the guy who organised the filming work we used to permit for the extra money, and he said NEVER, obviously. I was teasing because I could see how crazy it was even then, everyone else thought it was normal! But there was always the tendency to hide the eccentricity from the public, even from beginners. Makes me wonder what other cults get up to, behind the scenes at Scientology HQ would also be unmissable. From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 3:16 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies I forgot! Vlodrop, Holland, is the former residence of Maharishi and is a capital of the Global Country of World Peace. Of course, nothing but peace and love can emanate from the Netherlands . . . Please, please, please, drop in on Vlodrop and let the residents there know, in no uncertain terms, what you think of the current state of the TMO. Then report back to us on how the true believers received you. PS: Children of Men is a great movie. The two scenes where Clive Owen and co are in danger and try to escape by car are masterpieces of heart-thumping film. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : No, because I do not consider it at all likely that a race war will actually erupt here. I am very attuned to the "immigration issue" wherever it takes place in Europe, and my assessment is that the Netherlands does the best job of any country I've been in so far in terms of helping immigrants to "fit in" and, more important, *feel like* they're "fitting in." I would imagine race wars to be more an issue all over the UK and in France rather than here. I remember being in Dublin with my brother and we went to see Alfonso Cuarón http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/'s "Children Of Men" in a theater there, and realizing about halfway through the movie (which is a dystopian view of immigrants being rounded up all over the UK and "sent back where they came from") that we were sitting in an abnormally quiet theater. I looked around, and found that most of the people in the theater were immigrants. They were quiet because they realized that in Ireland they were possibly looking at their "near future," not some faraway "scifi future." I could be all wrong about this, of course. But I live and interact with immigrants every day. In my current Dutch class, I'm the only person from the US. The others are from all over the globe. Many are originally from Islamic countries. All feel Dutch. Go figure. From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies Re "But if you know Amsterdam at all, can you imagine what *it* will be like in the future? I can. ": As Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn were both murdered for expressing robust views about Islam will your projected novel feature a race war? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Having finished one big project recently and looking for another, I am toying with taking advantage of where I live and writing a scifi story set in a Blade Runner-ish future...but in Amsterdam. We got to see what L.A. had evolved (or devolved) into in "Blade Runner." But if you know Amsterdam at all, can you imagine what *it* will be like in the future? I can. :-) From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies If you were writing science fiction what would you be writing these days? On 11/08/2014 11:51 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Cheers, there's a lot of my faves there and a few new ones that I haven't tried. And a couple of those are now on the way to me! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : Try this site: http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/top-25-best-science-fiction-books.php http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/top-25-best-science-fiction-books.php
