Doug, until you recently "edited" the "About" section of the Web site--
We have discussed spirituality in politics, economics, morality and higher states of consciousness, drug laws, evolution vs. creationism, enlightenment, advaita, reincarnation, karma, Jyotish (Vedic astrology), yagya, Ayurveda, dzogchen, tantra, channeling, vegetarianism, kundalini, celibacy, sexuality, homosexuality, abortion, racism, UFOs, Buddhism, Hinduism, Veda, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Scientology, etc. --as you know, there was no suggestion that discussions had to be connected to spirituality, and there were many discussions that were not, without any comment or moderation from Rick or Alex. Don't pretend FFL was always *supposed* to link discussions to spirituality. It wasn't. That's *your* idea, not Rick's when he started the group. He wanted it to be free-wheeling, a place for former and current TMers to talk about anything that interested them. We're all connected spiritually through our interest in TM (pro or con) anyway. Yahoo Groups couldn't care less what we talk about as long as it's not pornographic. It has never said a word to us about "non-contextualized" discussions. You are going to kill the group entirely if you try to clamp down on "mundane material." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : The Yahoo-group guidelines quite evidently expect of us an intention to self-moderation, a self-discipline around subject material. There has been quite some lot of unmoderated posting of non-contextualized mundane material posted up to FairfieldLife, a Yahoo-Group, where the intent, the connection or context of the material relative to FairfieldLife as a spiritual group is unclear in the posting. By contrast, Counsel from the Yahoo-groups guideline: Stay on topic — Keep your content relevant to the group and moderate it correctly. Stay on topic. Although all groups are different, most groups appreciate it when you stay on topic. If you constantly stray from the topic the group owner may remove your content — or you — from the group altogether. ..Moderate your content. A posting of some lot of mundane material copied over from other places without context has at times been diluting an otherwise spiritual content in the forum. Such lack of self-editing and lack of self-discipline seems lazy and disrespectful on one hand and demoralizing of the group as a spiritual forum on the other.. Our FFL moderator in the Yahoo-Groups process of application for membership to this FFL Yahoo spiritual group does an excellent job of screening robot or would-be trolls who would aspire to join the group. I thank him for his long service to the community group that way. Then, one should expect of a group membership who are posting here that a membership and lurking community who are reading here should not have to spend much of their time at all sieving through a trolling of mundane or non-spiritual content that one may readily get on other yahoo-groups and most anywhere else. Yes, this is a special community and evidently it takes a community to make it that way, -JaiGuruYou * Hi Vox-9 Not really a TB but, a long time irregular practitioner that is having good results even so. If I need to see someone, they show up or,traffic lights are usually green when I get there etc so I have to believe that becoming one with the universe is working. I don't find it boring- each day is more interesting adventure.. * Vox-9 offers: There's not much to talk about anymore around here except the U.S. election. We don't even have Barry anymore to bounce off of and poke fun at. Nobody replied to my post about yoga asanas or Guru Dev's mudras. I must have posted 10,000 on-topic messages to this group over a couple of decades without a response. Face it, nobody wants to talk about the TM technique anymore. We've got what, all of five regular informants on the list. From what I can tell, you and I are the only True Believers left on the forum and obviously the others think we're boring. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : I don't know what "providential immanence" or "fished on the group" means, so I can't respond in those terms. I have always felt that telling the truth is the most basic and most important spiritual value. That's where spirituality *starts*. If you tell malicious lies about another person, you have no spiritual credibility whatsoever. Hillary Clinton is constantly being lied about--including by several members of this supposedly spiritual group--in a bid for political advantage, and I think that's disgraceful. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Okay so you two are contending with each other on a spiritual Yahoo-Group over politics again. What do either of you feel is a spiritual import or relationship of providential immanence in this evidently mundane political material that was fished on the group and you are contending in this thread? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Yes, I would be very concerned if I fell and got a concussion at her age. Especially if I had been called on the carpet by the FBI to explain why I deleted 30,000 email from the public record, without authorization, and I told the FBI "I can't recall" forty times in less than one hour trying to explain why I had passed classified material to a third party using my Blackberry. Right. But none of this happened with Hillary. It's just made up. Yes, I'd be very concerned. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : The NFL is very concerned about players and concussions, but Hillary doesn't seem to be concerned, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : The NFL is very concerned about players who receive multiple concussions and aren't treated properly for them. Hillary has had one concussion and was treated for it extensively. No parallel here, and the writer knows it. although she said she didn't "recall", forty times, during her FBI interview and didn't even remember getting security briefings about handling classified communications. How many of these alleged forty times referred to things she was asked about that took place prior to her concussion? So, how can she be the most qualified, but can't recall important security briefings? Can she be both at the same time? It's just not all that difficult to operate a Blackberry and keep your email secure! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesedwuz@...> wrote : It is pretty obvious from the primaries and the eight years under Obama, that the Republicans collectively would have a tough time running a gas station. Just like the Trump campaign if you can call it that, they would rather have the Democrats do all the work and gain all the experience, while they sit back and complain, and toss out lies about their opposition. It is not a winning strategy, but it is all they have. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : If only Garrison Keillor's radio show was as funny as his opinion commentary in the Chicago Tribune! Speaking of Chicago, why is it that most large cities run by Democrats are such cesspools of crime and corruption? How long has it been since Chicago had a Republican mayor? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : For all of you who have a brain and a smidgeon of discrimination read it and enjoy... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-losing-garrison-keillor-20160831-story.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-losing-garrison-keillor-20160831-story.html
