Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: ultrarishi This moronic bishop is just exhibiting the NIH (NOT INVENTED HERE) syndrome that I became quite acquainted with in the corporate world.  It's an attitude not unique to anyone religion, but ALL of them.  It's endemic to the corporate world, nationalism and individual egos. And

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 So far, color me impressed. It's one of the strangest worlds I've ever encountered, but I guess that's what creating alternate universes is all about. Cool. My Mum is a big fan, I have them on my PVR and will

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Anyone who has studied the principles of real AI knows that if you programmed an Artificial Intelligence to believe that it has an eternal soul that would persist after the power was turned off, it would believe it. And there would even be absolute subjective proof that this belief was true, bec

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: ultrarishi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 1:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis   Yoga no more leads to paganism than does Catholicism lead to pedophilia. I love this, because it's the perfect parallel to and lead-in to the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Om no, a soul is really larger than you think. The immortal soul also resident in the energy field of the mortal coil is way more than just some consciousness or some transcending consciousness in meditation. Some who are without experience wit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hacking Consciousness at Stanford

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
Why is - presumably - someone from Stanford University introducing a mystical speaker with the legend "We've seen how nature is structured in layers with a unified field at the base". No we haven't, if there is one thing we know for sure is that we haven't found any unified fields let alone un

[FairfieldLife] Hacking Consciousness at Stanford

2015-05-26 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's an interesting lecture Dr. Tony Nader delivered at Stanford University. He explained what happened before the Big Bang and why it occurred. Dr. Tony Nader - Hacking Consciousness at Stanford University, Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqLs2knMngE https://www.youtube.com/w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There's always, "reality could be this, reality could be that" what really counts, is what you believe. do you believe, as many do, that when you die, it's lights out? I don't care if you answer it or not. But, I suspect you do not believe it, even you care to dance around it, with,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The guy obviously has limits on his ability *know* much. We all do, to some degree or another.   From: ultrarishi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis   This moronic bishop is just exhibiting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There's no doubt Barry has some funny swings. From accusing someone of advocating murder to pounding his shoe on the podium letting humanity know how stupid they are. Would it be surprising if this is what he has as his wake up alarm every morning. (-: Crown of Creation by Jefferson A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Some spiritual traditions do not consider 'a soul' to be a real thing. Rather it is a fiction created by the sense of individuality (ego) that separates and destroys the experience of unity. Now I have never thought I had a soul, and I have never found one. That does not mean such a thing is non

[FairfieldLife] Re: Evidence Shows Transcendental Meditation Has Real Health Benefits

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
"...the American Heart Association, which last year released a statement saying that decades of research indicate TM lowers blood pressure and may be considered by clinicians as a treatment for high blood pressure." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The irony behind The Wall Stree

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
It's a Potemkin Village all the way down, Steve. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Doctor: When did become aware that you despised fellow human beings, Barry? BW: Doc, when they don't agree with me. That is why I've instituted my TPR, Two Post Rule on a chat room I participat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi School retrospective

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
'Cult' this, 'Cult' that, it has no meaning anymore it is become so ubiquitous in use. And these same professionals as writers employing 'cult' here complain about what they assert is a lack of creativity or originality in posts.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You are really

[FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is very informative of a point of view [ideological] of Christians v pagans. An irony is that this Bishop seems to speak for meditation haters but also for those who are without experience of the immortal soul like the Bishop evidently is. From: ultrarishi Yoga no more leads to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Om no, a soul is really larger than you think. The immortal soul also resident in the energy field of the mortal coil is way more than just some consciousness or some transcending consciousness in meditation. Some who are without experience with their souls need sit with it some more and it will

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread ultrarishi
This moronic bishop is just exhibiting the NIH (NOT INVENTED HERE) syndrome that I became quite acquainted with in the corporate world. It's an attitude not unique to anyone religion, but ALL of them. It's endemic to the corporate world, nationalism and individual egos.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
you are not looking at it from the conservative Catholic point of view. That viewpoint is just that, yoga being a Hindu connection IS paganism because conservative Christians look at Hinduism as paganism. Therefore, in the mind of the Catholic conservative, yoga leads to paganism. From: ul

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Wed 27-May-15 00:15:06 UTC

2015-05-26 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 05/23/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 05/30/15 00:00:00 279 messages as of (UTC) 05/26/15 23:23:52 78 richard 30 salyavin808 28 Michael Jackson mjackson74 25 Bhairitu noozguru 22 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 19 steve.sundur 1

[FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread ultrarishi
Yoga no more leads to paganism than does Catholicism lead to pedophilia.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doctor: When did become aware that you despised fellow human beings, Barry? BW: Doc, when they don't agree with me. That is why I've instituted my TPR, Two Post Rule on a chat room I participate in. Doc: TPR? What may I ask is that? BW: SImple, Doc. I put something out there. Oh,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Evidence Shows Transcendental Meditation Has Real Health Benefits

2015-05-26 Thread ultrarishi
The irony behind The Wall Street Journal article, is that the Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Marshy Vastu TV

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
BTW Michael. Marshy once said in the early days of the movement, might have been one of his first trips to Germany, he was advised to speak over the heads of his audience and they would be very impressed.   From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoog

[FairfieldLife] Re: How many people have ever lived on earth?

2015-05-26 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Did you ever come across the Doomsday Argument? The basic idea is this: consider the entire history of the human race from our first emergence to our eventual extinction. Now, given that we have no reason to regard ourselves as exceptional, our birth order in this long saga is probably somewhe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Marshy Vastu TV

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
W.C. Fields said "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with bullshit." From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 1:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Marshy Vastu TV   Good God! Marshy Vastu TV???

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here is a theory of consciousness that would not go down well with minds infected with vedic memes either: From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0 http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588 From the Pheno

Re: [FairfieldLife] Surya mantra for good luck

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Very important while reciting this mantra is proper mudra. Both hands, cross middle finger over index finger while pointing up.   From: "yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Surya mantra for go

[FairfieldLife] Dr. Nipun Aggarwal on the Soul

2015-05-26 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Surya Mantra Meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ANWxfIURZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ANWxfIURZE Surya Mantra Meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ANWxfIURZE In Vedic astrology, the Sun is the principal of light, life and love, or true-will and perception. It is th

[FairfieldLife] Surya mantra for good luck

2015-05-26 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Powerful Surya Beej Mantra For Great Luck सूर्य बीज़ मंत्र http://www.tinyurl.com/oqp588u http://www.tinyurl.com/oqp588u Powerful Surya Beej Mantra For Great Luck सूर्य बीज़ मंत... http://www.tinyurl.com/oqp588u Powerful Beej Mantra of Lord Surya has the magnificent power to create a li

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Asleep at the wheel? I already told you that the materialistic philosophy holds that the only thing that exists in the entire universe is matter. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I must have completely spaced it out cuz I don't remember you saying that such states are merely a ma

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I must have completely spaced it out cuz I don't remember you saying that such states are merely a matter of the physiology being in a certain way. That would indicate the mantras are superfluous and enlightenment or anything approaching it is

[FairfieldLife] Gustave Dore - the beautiful and grotesque

2015-05-26 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
art of the beautiful-grotesque: Gustave Dore : Visions of Rabelais http://beautiful-grotesque.blogspot.com/2012/04/gustave-dore-visions-of-rabelais.html http://beautiful-grotesque.blogspot.com/2012/04/gustave-dore-visions-of-rabelais.html art of the beautiful-grotesque: Gustave Dore :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy Vastu TV

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Good God! Marshy Vastu TV??? In Scorpionland, no less. The guy in the video is so nicely spoken I want to like him, but he is using so much Marshy speak it makes me want to puke. He's a nice guy is John but yes, the movement speak

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy Vastu TV

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Apparently you don't have satellite TV in SC. Get on the program! LoL! PanAmSat 4, Transponder 8C: Frequency 3905 MHz, Polarity Vertical 20.30 - 00.30 GMT (15.30 - 19.30 New York Time) (Also broadcasting 24 hours every day in India and 26 nearby countries via analog satellite signal via Te

[FairfieldLife] Tibetan Book of the Dead & NDE's

2015-05-26 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Near-Death Experiences http://www.near-death.com/experiences/buddhism01.html http://www.near-death.com/experiences/buddhism01.html The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Near-Death Experiences http://www.near-death.com/experiences/buddhism01.html Descriptions

[FairfieldLife] Marshy Vastu TV

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good God! Marshy Vastu TV??? In Scorpionland, no less. The guy in the video is so nicely spoken I want to like him, but he is using so much Marshy speak it makes me want to puke. Interviews on Maharishi Vastu in Great Britain | VastuTV |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Interviews on Maharis

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I must have completely spaced it out cuz I don't remember you saying that such states are merely a matter of the physiology being in a certain way. That would indicate the mantras are superfluous and enlightenment or anything approaching it is dependent on tweaking the body in some fashion. Do y

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
62 episodes on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/red-dwarf On 05/26/2015 11:33 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Had to look it up - so its a comedy then from the 1980's originally. Have you not seen it either? You'd love it. It's like Star Trek would have been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So then all the experiences of consciousness you have mentioned having had through the years from your meditation practice is must some mechanism in the body kicking in or what? Yes, and it baffled me a lot at first how I was going to fit it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Had to look it up - so its a comedy then from the 1980's originally. Have you not seen it either? You'd love it. It's like Star Trek would have been if Gene Roddenberry spent every night drinking in a grotty pub in Walthamstow. There ar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Stay dry! On 05/26/2015 09:41 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: LOL! I live north of the heaviest flooding. We only got about 5-6 inches here. Further south, in SW Houston where I grew up, they were getting about 11 inches. My biggest inconvenience was missing most of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Expect a lot of these articles this week because Google I/O is on in San Francisco. Hard ticket to get as it's like a rock show and sells out in minutes. But they stream it live too. I hate going into San Fran anyway. But Sergey and Larry will be doing their Steve Jobs impressions during th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
The show ran on PBS stations in the states during the late 1980s and early 1990s. On 05/26/2015 10:32 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Had to look it up - so its a comedy then from the 1980's originally. --

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Had to look it up - so its a comedy then from the 1980's originally. From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's great. Be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So then all the experiences of consciousness you have mentioned having had through the years from your meditation practice is must some mechanism in the body kicking in or what? From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [Fair

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 So far, color me impressed. It's one of the strangest worlds I've ever encountered, but I guess that's what creating alternate universes is all about. Cool. My Mum is a big fan, I have them on my PVR and will giv

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : When the human body dies, the consciousness gets absorbed back into the cosmic consciousness. There is no individual "soul" that remains, reincarnates in another human body after nine days in the Bardo. That's probably the most unintentiona

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's great. Being not a product of the British gene pool, I somehow missed "Red Dwarf."  :-) I wondered just after posting that maybe I should have added a bit of context as Dwarfism is a bit of an English thing and may not hav

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL, It does seem to be the pot calling the kettle black. From: "j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:26 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis   Gotta laugh at idolatrous, false messiah wo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
When the human body dies, the consciousness gets absorbed back into the cosmic consciousness. There is no individual "soul" that remains, reincarnates in another human body after nine days in the Bardo. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So Sal what do you think happens to the in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL! I live north of the heaviest flooding. We only got about 5-6 inches here. Further south, in SW Houston where I grew up, they were getting about 11 inches. My biggest inconvenience was missing most of my programs last night. NBA play-off game, Rocketts/Warriors, Turn and the new series Texas

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So Sal what do you think happens to the individual human awareness when the body wears out? It wears out too as it's part of the body. No more body, no more awareness. I'm happy to receive evidence to the contrary though and won't be dis

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Google is like a big kitchen where they bake all kinds of ideas. Some of them come out "half baked" too. When I see articles like these I look at from a different perspective than about 98% of the populace. If you've worked in management i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Using the words "human beings" and "intelligence" all in the same sentence is a contradiction in terms. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Most human beings have "artificial intelligence." :-D On 05/25/2015 11:14 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [Fair

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's great. Being not a product of the British gene pool, I somehow missed "Red Dwarf." :-) I wondered just after posting that maybe I should have added a bit of context as Dwarfism is a bit of an English thing and may not have travelled w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So Sal what do you think happens to the individual human awareness when the body wears out? From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Gotta laugh at idolatrous, false messiah worshipers calling other folks 'pagan'. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Retired bishop warns against ‘pagan’ exercise: ‘The practice of yoga could be an occasion of serious sin’: Read on my fellow sinners! :-D http://www.rawstory.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Addressing the important issues! You probably don't have to worry about this since you admitted you don't practice left-handed tantra. Just try to keep your attention on the right-handed basket weaving. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Retired bishop warns against ‘pagan’ exe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
How's your boat holding up? Or did you build an Ark? On 05/26/2015 05:28 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: As usualyou guys are a little too late on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajzpd-ONOdo --

Re: [FairfieldLife] The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]" Retired bishop warns against ‘pagan’ exercise: ‘The practice of yoga could be an occasion of serious sin’: Read on my fellow sinners! :-D http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/retired-bishop-warns-against-pagan-exercise-the-practice-of-yoga-cou

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Are you smarter than an eighth grader? LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's great. Being not a product of the British gene pool, I somehow missed "Red Dwarf." :-) Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright Wright - Wikipedia, t

[FairfieldLife] The coming war on yogis

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Retired bishop warns against ‘pagan’ exercise: ‘The practice of yoga could be an occasion of serious sin’: Read on my fellow sinners! :-D http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/retired-bishop-warns-against-pagan-exercise-the-practice-of-yoga-could-be-an-occasion-of-serious-sin/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Self-referral is an identification with your inner Self and an unchanging Cosmic Consciousness. Normally people identify with the body and the senses, thinking "I do this" or "I am this body". Self-referral means we identify with pure consciousness itself. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Most human beings have "artificial intelligence." :-D On 05/25/2015 11:14 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */It's about time someone raised a non-hysterical voice about all of this AI stuff. Hinton is absolutely correct in his last sentences in this article -- peopl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I once donated to the local PBS station during one of their pledge drives. I selected a Red Dwarf t-shirt as a perk for donating. I figured it would make all the geeks at work gaga. Never got it but I did get a years worth of their magazine. On 05/26/2015 08:48 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@ya

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Google is like a big kitchen where they bake all kinds of ideas. Some of them come out "half baked" too. When I see articles like these I look at from a different perspective than about 98% of the populace. If you've worked in management in a successful corporation you know these articles ar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That's great. Being not a product of the British gene pool, I somehow missed "Red Dwarf."  :-) From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Fine, but could Google's computer's algorithmic intelligence host a soul like happens spiritually in the carbon form of a human being? It depends what you mean by "soul". If you think we have a detachable thing that goes on to some other w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 Or we could bypass human mimicry and build something innately superior in every way. Exciting times. It certainly wouldn't be difficult to design a better intelligence than the pathetic version that humans have disp

[FairfieldLife] Charlotte Cain

2015-05-26 Thread 'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]
from Michael ... Dear Friends: Charlotte is free! Triumphant, she seemed completely relaxed and at peace, taking her leave gracefully without a sound at 2:05 PM on Wesdnesday, May 20th. The room was infused with sweetness, prana, and the joy of libration. Vayya, Chandra-Lila, and I se

[FairfieldLife] Wayne Wirs: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 05/26/2015

2015-05-26 Thread 'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]
If you are not doing so already, please consider donating a few dollars a month to help offset basic expenses associated with hosting, MailChimp, etc. Of course, larger donatio

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi School retrospective

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
You are really asking a lot of the informants, Buck. Using the "cult" word is one of their favorite straw man arguments. Everyone knows that at least three of the current FFL informants were leaders of a cult years ago. Transference? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Could we get

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why is Andy Borowitz the only reporter in America telling it like it is?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
/The question is, why should ANY married couple, same sex or not, get special treatment or special tax breaks from the federal government? Which brings up several other questions: why should the federal goverment be telling anyone who they can marry? Isn't that the right of the individual states?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo Groups-Guidelines, Civility, Cohesion, and FFL

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
/Sometimes it seems like we are trying to communicate with retards, Buck. I'm convinced that at least three FFL informants are deaf-mutes. One is a self-confessed pirate. Four athiests are trolling here. Go figure. In order for this discussion forum to be a success is for the informants to start p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
/That's of the most important question, Buck. Obviously a machine doesn't have any "soul", because it is a material object. Humans on the other hand, are said to have a "soul" or "spirit" that enables individual human "self-consciousness"./ Quoting "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" : Fi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As usualyou guys are a little too late on this one.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajzpd-ONOdo   From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:57 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?   Brain upgrades on the way at the very lea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Fine, but could Google's computer's algorithmic intelligence host a soul like happens spiritually in the carbon form of a human being? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : When intelligence becomes intelligent consciousness becomes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo Groups-Guidelines, Civility, Cohesion, and FFL

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yep, and evidently like larger civil society often needs to pull together to protect itself and everyone from lawlessness and asocial criminal gangs it is a lot like Rick needs to be present at times here protecting and enforcing the civility of the larger open forum of FFL as a communal yahoo-g

[FairfieldLife] The Incarnation-al coming and going of souls in life..

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Coming to 'Know[-ing] thy Self' and what be sublunary bliss, the 'merry-go-round' of the coming and going of souls through incarnational-life.. My days, my weeks, my months, my years, Fly rapid as the whirling spheres, Fly rapid as the whirling spheres, Around the steady pole. Time, like th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 Would you think Google could pull off self-referral consciousness or just algorithmic intelligence?  It depends what you mean by "self referral". If a computer could see and hear and respond independently of it's programming to the world then it what way is it not conscious l

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : When intelligence becomes intelligent consciousness becomes conscious.. Would you think Google could pull off self-referral consciousness or just algorithmic intelligence? It depends what you mean by "self referral". If a computer could s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
When intelligence becomes intelligent consciousness becomes conscious.. Would you think Google could pull off self-referral consciousness or just algorithmic intelligence? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brain upgrades on the way at the very least... it's like we actually

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
But then Having children can permanently affect the female brain, studies claim http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/having-children-can-permanently-affect-the-female-brain-studies-claim-10274861.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/having-children-can-permanently-affec

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I don't know whether you got a chance to see the movie I raved about recently, "Ex Machina." IMO it's the most intelligent film about AI I've ever seen. I have it in my awa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I don't know whether you got a chance to see the movie I raved about recently, "Ex Machina." IMO it's the most intelligent film about AI I've ever seen. I have it in my awareness to watch, sounds interesting. I know humans that f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rise of the machines?

2015-05-26 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It's about time someone raised a non-hysterical voice about all of this AI stuff. Hinton is absolutely correct in his last sentences in this article -- people have much more