[FairfieldLife] Re: Hear Neil Young, Help Stop the War
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/29/06 9:26:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At a particular point in time, Abraham Lincoln was the most hated man in America. When he abolished Slavery the population hated him with such intensity that the white people refused to come out and meet him. Please read my response in the context of that remark. I still have to agree more or less with Jason. Lincoln, was sending son's off to be killed by the tens of thousands to supposedly preserve the Union. When he announced the emancipation proclamation, the tide of the war had not yet turned in favor of the North and there were politicians that still hoped for a negotiated settlement and that, the emancipation proclamation, ruined it in many peoples eyes. Lincoln had a very hard time in the press and public opinion until Gettysburg. Between the battle of Gettysburg and the next election Lincoln got some breathing room and was able to get more public support. But the emancipation proclamation only gave him support from a minority of white abolitionists while others thought it only gave the South more resolve to fight on. Of course by the end of the war Lincoln was the hero and even Southerners looked upon him as the person to protect them from Northern politicians seeking revenge. ...and don't forget New York City and the riots that targeted African-Americans for death. See, I saw that dreadful Gangs of New York... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Genographic kit: trace your DNA history
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/29/06 4:09:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey Man, Sombody else wrote it. I don't remember who wrote it.?? Read the posts more carefully Pal. Sorry Jason, I misread it. Double the pox on the person who did write it! Another reason the world would be better off without America...its people are so out of it they believe that they have the ability to give people the pox just by thinking ill of them... Stupid *and* superstitious...c'mon Yellowstone, do your thing! And soon! :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] GUT of CQM?
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[FairfieldLife] Living With War-- Neil Young
http://neilyoung.com/ Go to this link and Neil Young's powerful new anti-war album LIVING WITH WAR will play in its entirety. Don't try to navigate to the rest of Neil's site or the album will stop playing and you'll have to start again from the beginning. It's a masterful effort by Neil and is destined to become a classic social protest album. --==-=- om=--=-= Nick Young is the first rocker to create an entire album protesting the war, and his is the most explicit and incendiary. I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer eighteen to twenty-two years old, to write these songs and stand up, Young told the Los Angeles Times. I waited a long time. Then I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the Sixties generation. A HREF="" href="http://neilyoung.com/lww/neilyounginterviewrs.html">http://neilyoung.com/lww/neilyounginterviewrs.htmlRolling Stone Journalistic Process Revealed/A To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living With War-- Neil Young
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Young is the first rocker to create an entire album protesting the war, and his is the most explicit and incendiary. I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer eighteen to twenty-two years old, to write these songs and stand up, Young told the Los Angeles Times. I waited a long time. Then I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the Sixties generation. Interesting. That was *exactly* my impression on hearing it. I found myself thinking back to the 60s, back when I used to hire Neil for concerts (when he was with Buffalo Springfield and they charged only $1500 a night) -- the music that was being produced to protest *that* war, the way that young people actually seemed to *care* about what their country did in their name, the protests, the protest songs, the young people willing to go to jail to stand up to tyrants. And then I looked around at the America of today and realized that it took an old fart *from* that era to do it again, to show some balls and release an album of We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more ballads. It's really, really, sad what has happened to America and Americans in just under four decades. A recent poll taken in Europe asked people on the street what country they would miss the least if it and all its people disappeared from the planet tomorrow. Nope...number one was *not* Israel...it was the USA. Karma, dudes...you act like greedy, self-serving assholes long enough, and sooner or later the world figures out that you really *are* greedy, self-serving assholes... :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Genographic kit: trace your DNA history
Genetists say, a single mutation in a single gene can change colour and characteristics. Evolution does not take place slowly and gradually, but in fits and bursts. There is a lot of genetic evidence for this. Genetic testing shows that there is very little genetic variations in Humans. On the contrary, there are huge genetic variations in other animals and plants even in a small locality. Take elephants for instance, even in a small locality there are wide range of genetic variations. These variations are completely missing only in humans. Genetic Scientists like Dr. Spencer Wells traced it back to a point 70,000 years ago when population dwindled down to a few hundreds. This was somewhere in South-Africa. Pigment was one of the major mysteries untill a Lady scientist finally cracked it. In the tropics where there is abundance of UV radiation, one needed black pigments to protect the skin. But as humans started coming out of Africa and started moving north Sunlight became scarce in higher latitudes. Vitamin-D also became scarce. The skin became white so that whatever little Vitamin-D that could be squeezed out of the sunlight enabled them to survive. Those who had dark skins could not manufacture enough Vitamin-D in Sun-starved latitudes and died of rickets. Having a white skin bacame essential for survival in Cold-Latitudes. This change happened around 40,000 years ago when the first humans entered Europe when the world was in the thick of an ice-age. Hitler's Aryan myth has been shattered by a simple Scientific fact - Vitamin-D..!! By the way, who said we didn't originate on this planet.?? There is a 99% similarity between the Humans and their closest relative the Chimp..!!Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:46:45 -Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Genographic kit: trace your DNA history+++ That would seem to make it difficult to explain the four colorsthat exist today with some physiological differences. I enjoyed Cayce's supposed cognized explanation better which saidthe four colors were introduced at the same time at four differentareas of the earth. Other writers have said we didn't originate on this planet-interesting subject. N. Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: GUT of CQM?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory/theory.shtml This theory is beyond me, but the advancing reality of several systems of zero emission very cheap energy is fascinating. Read this: http://tinyurl.com/q48qa or try http://www.zeropointenergy.org.uk for a portal's worth of links. Uns. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] The Kid in the White House
I couldn't resist posting this piece by Hendrik Hertzberg from the New Yorker this week. The first sentence is brilliant, but if you don't want to read it all just scroll down to the end where he quotes a recent interchange between a student and Bush after a lecture Bush gave. Even given all we know about Bush, I still found this shocking. I can't think of any president, not even Reagan, who would have give such an inept, inappropriate response. Always with Bush there is this inappropriate humor. He is just a child. Yet he has the power to launch a nuclear attack on Iran. How could this have happened to us? I am told on reliable authority that Bush's aura is predominantly yellow, which is kid energy. The guy just wants to laugh and have fun. Which is fine for someone on a Texas ranch, but not for the president of the United States. Nearly three years still to go. How much more damage can The Kid do? Rummyache In the ongoing South Americanization of political culture north of the border a drawn-out historical journey whose markers include fiscal recklessness, an accelerating wealth gap between the rich and the rest, corruption masked by populist rhetoric, a frank official embrace of the techniques of dirty war, and, by way of initiating the present era, a judicial autogolpe installing a dynastic presidentewhat has been dubbed the Revolt of the Generals is one of the feebler effusions. But it is striking all the same. By last week, the junta had swelled to six members: General Anthony C. Zinni, of the Marine Corps (four stars); Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, also of the Marines (three stars); and Major Generals John Batiste, Paul D. Eaton, John Riggs, and Charles H. Swannack, Jr., of the Army (two stars). Some reckon that Wesley Clark (Army, four stars), William E. Odom (ditto, three stars), and Bernard E. Trainor (Marines, three stars) are entitled to spots as auxiliary members. All these generals have said devastating things about the job performance of the current Secretary of Defense, particularly with respect to the Iraq war. Their critiques varysome of them see the war as a series of tactical blunders, others as a strategic disaster doomed from the startbut on one point the Pentagon Six are unanimous: Please. Bring us the head of Donald Rumsfeld. This brass band of clarion calls for Rumsfeld's resignation or dismissal has occasioned a certain amount of hand-wringing about alleged threats to the constitutional principle of civilian control of the military. But, as military coups go, this one is pretty weak tea by hemispheric standards. Instead of seizing the radio stations and the Presidential Palace, our disgruntled generals are content to overrun the op-ed pages, the bookstore signing tables, and the greenrooms of the cable-TV news talk shows. Also (and this is not a small point), the generals in question, however youthful and vigorous some of them may appear, are retired. They are no longer links in the chain of command; not being subordinate, they can't be insubordinate. They are civilians. And they are every bit as entitled to express their views publicly, and to give their former civilian superiors a hard time in the process, as were Andrew Jackson in 1824, and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952not to mention the nine other ex- generals who became President, beginning with General George Washington (ret.), in 1789. There's nothing new, let alone unconstitutional, about the bitching of pensioned-off generals. What is unusualunprecedented, apparentlyis for so many to speak out so strongly against a prominent architect of an ongoing war and to demand his removal. But then it is also unusual (though not, alas, unprecedented) for the United States to fight a war of choice on the basis of ideological fervor and faulty or falsified intelligence. And it is not just unusual but unprecedented for the stated primary aims of such a war (in this case, to prevent Iraq from obtaining weapons of mass destruction and from aiding terrorist attacks on the American homeland) to have been achieved before a shot was fired, forcing the war's advocates to scramble for new ones. The generals' revolt of 2006 has resonated. One reason, no doubt, is that the experience of these particular generals suggests that they know what they are talking about. Three of the sixBatiste, Eaton, and Swannackheld positions of command in Iraq; a fourth, Zinni, is steeped in the region, having served as chief of the U.S. Central Command and as President Bush's own special envoy to the Middle East. A second reason is their relative immunity to assaults of the kind that right-wing publicists and talk-radio hosts routinely launch at the patriotism and integrity of Iraq-war critics. One or two bemedalled warriors can be taken down that way; a dense pack is not so easily Swift-boated. If the generals have struck a chord, a third reason, surely, is a widespread public
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of any president, not even Reagan, who would have give such an inept, inappropriate response. Always with Bush there is this inappropriate humor. He is just a child. Yet he has the power to launch a nuclear attack on Iran. How could this have happened to us? The annual White House Corespondents Dinner last night was pretty funny. Its being rebroadcast on C-Span. Bush spoke side by side with his comedic double -- who provided an inner world satirical view of Bush. Some was pretty ripping, even though this portion was a White House skit. Stephen Colbert -- former Jon Stewart alumnus and who now follows Stewart's Daily show (Colbert, a brilliant interviewer, satirizes O'Reily types, by feigning being one. 50% of his routine was quite funny and skewering of Bush -- though it got only mild laughs from the correspondents -- apparently too embarrassed to laugh too hard at swords that went deep into the President who was sitting right in front of them. Or, perhaps if they are not already Colbert fans, andseeing him for the first time, they needed a digestion period to fully absorb the nuances of Colbert's satire. (The other 50% of Colbert's routine was a bit weak, but still the premeise of the jokes showed promise -- but needed some refinement to rise above mediocre humor. ) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hear Neil Young, Help Stop the War
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: snip I still have to agree more or less with Jason. Lincoln, was sending son's off to be killed by the tens of thousands to supposedly preserve the Union. When he announced the emancipation proclamation, the tide of the war had not yet turned in favor of the North and there were politicians that still hoped for a negotiated settlement and that, the emancipation proclamation, ruined it in many peoples eyes. Lincoln had a very hard time in the press and public opinion until Gettysburg. Between the battle of Gettysburg and the next election Lincoln got some breathing room and was able to get more public support. But the emancipation proclamation only gave him support from a minority of white abolitionists while others thought it only gave the South more resolve to fight on. Of course by the end of the war Lincoln was the hero and even Southerners looked upon him as the person to protect them from Northern politicians seeking revenge. ...and don't forget New York City and the riots that targeted African-Americans for death. See, I saw that dreadful Gangs of New York... For a more, uh, balanced view of the New York draft riots and support for the Emancipation Proclamation in that city, see: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Getting To Yes
Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say Yes and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to Yes. There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, and that wanted to respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter of chance it had offered me with the standard safe answer, Yes, but... You know...stuff like: * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I? * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the *sight* of her should make me shout Yes! to the universe, but I'm probably too old for her. * Yes, this town and this festival and all these people dressed up in their medieval finery are all cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the outside world still sucks. Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral moment but the eternality of our Self. The proper answer to life when it presents us with one of those cusp moments is Yes, not Yes, but... IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about training people to respond to life with Yes, but... You all know what I mean. How many times have you, like most seekers, thought to yourself, Yes, I'd like to be enlightened but...? It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the but..., does it? Whether you think it's stress that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky samskara you've never managed to get past, or that incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you convinced that karmically you are lower than the lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your self to say No to the Self. Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer when the universe presents us with a cool moment and that moment asks us whether we remember our own enlightenment, is, Yes. By changing your answer into Yes, but..., you are pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, I'm not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm going to make up some excuse for why you can't be me. Then you put that excuse right behind the but in Yes, but... and you say it. And as a result, you create it as a seeming reality in your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun. There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed to get beyond Yes, but... I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying Yes. Out loud. Weirdest damned thing. Everything changed. Background flipflopped into foreground and the witnessing, a moment before unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted its Self again. And all it took was getting to Yes. I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't resist posting this piece by Hendrik Hertzberg from the New Yorker this week. snip Rummyache In the ongoing South Americanization of political culture north of the bordera drawn-out historical journey whose markers include fiscal recklessness, an accelerating wealth gap between the rich and the rest, corruption masked by populist rhetoric, a frank official embrace of the techniques of dirty war, and, by way of initiating the present era, a judicial autogolpe installing a dynastic presidente For those who, like me, had never seen the word autogolpe before: Our word for the day is autogolpe, or self-coup, a term popularized by the autogolpe of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. A self-coup is, in a sense, a type of purge, such as the Night of the Long Knives, in which Adolf Hitler terminated party rivals and by so doing, ensured the support of the armed forces for his rule. In our own history we have self-coups, such as Marcos's proclamation of martial law; and we have had purges aplenty, the Bonifacio-Aguinaldo leadership showdown being one, and more recent ones in revolutionary movements such as the Huks and the Communist Party of the Philippines. http://www.quezon.ph/blog/?p=684 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The annual White House Corespondents Dinner last night was pretty funny. Its being rebroadcast on C-Span. Bush spoke side by side with his comedic double -- who provided an inner world satirical view of Bush. Some was pretty ripping, even though this portion was a White House skit. Video clip of the second half of Colbert's performance: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html The page includes a link to the C-Span rebroadcast, but it yields a Page Not Found error message. Hmmm... Complete (but imperfect) transcript on DemocraticUnderground.com: http://tinyurl.com/q8t47 Stephen Colbert -- former Jon Stewart alumnus and who now follows Stewart's Daily show (Colbert, a brilliant interviewer, satirizes O'Reily types, by feigning being one. 50% of his routine was quite funny and skewering of Bush -- though it got only mild laughs from the correspondents -- apparently too embarrassed to laugh too hard at swords that went deep into the President who was sitting right in front of them. Or, perhaps if they are not already Colbert fans, and seeing him for the first time, they needed a digestion period to fully absorb the nuances of Colbert's satire. (The other 50% of Colbert's routine was a bit weak, but still the premeise of the jokes showed promise -- but needed some refinement to rise above mediocre humor. ) This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but he did get off some good ones. The video presentation of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately) was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really flat note. My favorite line: And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Second favorite: By the way, before I get started, if anybody needs anything at their tables, speak slowly and clearly on into your table numbers and somebody from the N.S.A. will be right over with a cocktail. Earlier in the evening, before the dinner program began, C-Span reran several speeches from previous dinners, including Clinton's absolutely brilliant performance from 2000, the one with the video of him wandering around the White House with nothing to do. The pants-wetting line from that speech: He introduces it by saying (rough paraphrase) that the special prosecutor is falling down on the job, because he, Clinton, is not currently the subject of any investigations. Then: For instance, you may have noticed that in the last few months I've lost ten pounds. [ominously] WHERE DID THEY GO? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but he did get off some good ones. The video presentation of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately) was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really flat note. Yeah, that was weak. But I saw it on MSNBC which had a split screen showing Bush's reactions. When Colbert showed Helen Thomas grilling him at that press conference, Bush visibly sulked like a kid with hurt feelings. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Choice of language: the HEART of freedom of speech!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Bush Says Anthem Should Be in English Audio of Nuestro Himno, Our Anthem: http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_entertainment/anthem/anthem. mp3 It's been awhile since I got all teary hearing the National Anthem. I don't know about the words, not being a Spanish speaker, but musically, this is gorgeous. And it's obviously heartfelt. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say Yes and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to Yes. There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, and that wanted to respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter of chance it had offered me with the standard safe answer, Yes, but... You know...stuff like: * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I? * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the *sight* of her should make me shout Yes! to the universe, but I'm probably too old for her. * Yes, this town and this festival and all these people dressed up in their medieval finery are all cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the outside world still sucks. Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral moment but the eternality of our Self. The proper answer to life when it presents us with one of those cusp moments is Yes, not Yes, but... IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about training people to respond to life with Yes, but... You all know what I mean. How many times have you, like most seekers, thought to yourself, Yes, I'd like to be enlightened but...? It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the but..., does it? Whether you think it's stress that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky samskara you've never managed to get past, or that incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you convinced that karmically you are lower than the lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your self to say No to the Self. Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer when the universe presents us with a cool moment and that moment asks us whether we remember our own enlightenment, is, Yes. By changing your answer into Yes, but..., you are pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, I'm not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm going to make up some excuse for why you can't be me. Then you put that excuse right behind the but in Yes, but... and you say it. And as a result, you create it as a seeming reality in your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun. There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed to get beyond Yes, but... I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying Yes. Out loud. Weirdest damned thing. Everything changed. Background flipflopped into foreground and the witnessing, a moment before unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted its Self again. And all it took was getting to Yes. I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? Sounds good. Even better is the Self asserting its dominion permanently. I always find the phrase that we are already Enlightened to be slightly off. True that each of us, and indeed each physical manifestation possesses within it the seed, the living genesis for its existence. True, absolutely true. And for humans we call that the Self. And yet, it takes time for the marriage between our individual identities and this Enlightenment, this Self, to become perfect and permanent. For those of us with such long practice of transcendental meditation (no capitalization; descriptive vs. specific...), this alternation of deep silence with activity helps alternate our identification with our daily illusion with our true Selves, our transcendent nature, much more quickly than if left to random events. So that, over time, we will eventually find ourselves in the midst of Enlightenment, permanently. At first, the experience may come and go, the transitional dynamics remarkable to us, so that we are aware of 'witnessing', that we notice the break with our daily illusion, and instead live a natural reality, where the world appears turned inside out. The inner state during this 'teaser' period is one of emancipation, of
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Sounds good. Even better is the Self asserting its dominion permanently. I always find the phrase that we are already Enlightened to be slightly off. I find it to be off when it's used as a weapon to demean those who haven't yet had the realization while exalting one's own purported realization. Just doesn't quite add up, somehow. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Law Day, 2006: Hypocrite-in-chief
Law Day, U.S.A., 2006 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America America's legal system is central to protecting the constitutional principles on which our Nation was founded. As we observe Law Day, we celebrate our heritage of freedom, justice, and equality under the law. This year's Law Day theme, Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers, honors the wisdom of the separation of powers that the Framers of our Constitution established for the Federal Government. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention recognized the risks that accompany the concentration of power and devised a system in which the Federal Government's authorities are divided among three independent branches. James Madison highlighted the importance of our Constitution's separation of powers when he wrote, the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Throughout our Nation's history, we have been reminded repeatedly of the wisdom of the Framers' design. Our system of separation of powers has safeguarded our liberties and helped ensure that we remain a government of laws. Law Day is an occasion for us to celebrate our Constitution and to honor those in the judiciary and legal profession who work to uphold and serve its principles. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, in accordance with Public Law 87-20, as amended, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2006, as Law Day, U.S.A. I call upon all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also call upon Government officials to display the flag of the United States in support of this national observance. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth. GEORGE W. BUSH http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060428-7.html >From today's Boston Globe: Bush challenges hundreds of laws President cites powers of his office By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle- blower protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research. Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute a law he believes is unconstitutional. Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/p4ezd To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And all it took was getting to Yes. snip I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? Good stuff. Streaming C, and all that. I enjoy those festivals to. For a while, would take the kids regurlarly. Here of course, they are set around the fur trading period, 1700's I guess. And where I live, heavy French influence. lurk To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: snip The annual White House Corespondents Dinner last night was pretty funny. Its being rebroadcast on C-Span. Bush spoke side by side with his comedic double -- who provided an inner world satirical view of Bush. Some was pretty ripping, even though this portion was a White House skit. Video clip of the second half of Colbert's performance: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html The page includes a link to the C-Span rebroadcast, but it yields a Page Not Found error message. Hmmm... Complete (but imperfect) transcript on DemocraticUnderground.com: http://tinyurl.com/q8t47 Stephen Colbert -- former Jon Stewart alumnus and who now follows Stewart's Daily show (Colbert, a brilliant interviewer, satirizes O'Reily types, by feigning being one. 50% of his routine was quite funny and skewering of Bush -- though it got only mild laughs from the correspondents -- apparently too embarrassed to laugh too hard at swords that went deep into the President who was sitting right in front of them. Or, perhaps if they are not already Colbert fans, and seeing him for the first time, they needed a digestion period to fully absorb the nuances of Colbert's satire. (The other 50% of Colbert's routine was a bit weak, but still the premeise of the jokes showed promise -- but needed some refinement to rise above mediocre humor. ) This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but he did get off some good ones. The video presentation of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately) was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really flat note. Agreed. But it made me wonder if Colbert was trying for an Andy Kaufmanesque moment -- making the audience squirm and feel uncomfortable for a prolonged period to make a point The point in this case being the opening question of the skit: Mr. President, why did we go into Iraq. My favorite line: And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Second favorite: That was a good one. I felt also the section paraphrasing, I am like you Mr. President, like a man I decide from the gut, I don't rely on wimp ass facts. ... The president is steady as a rock, he believes on Wednesday what he beleived on Monday .. no matter what happened on Tuesday. It was right-on satire for the president, and also relevant to some discussions and posters here -- the fantasy world, non-rationalists, logic-be-damned, gut feelers. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff no_reply@ wrote: snip The annual White House Corespondents Dinner last night was pretty funny. Its being rebroadcast on C-Span. Bush spoke side by side with his comedic double -- who provided an inner world satirical view of Bush. Some was pretty ripping, even though this portion was a White House skit. Video clip of the second half of Colbert's performance: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html The page includes a link to the C-Span rebroadcast, but it yields a Page Not Found error message. Hmmm... Complete (but imperfect) transcript on DemocraticUnderground.com: http://tinyurl.com/q8t47 Stephen Colbert -- former Jon Stewart alumnus and who now follows Stewart's Daily show (Colbert, a brilliant interviewer, satirizes O'Reily types, by feigning being one. 50% of his routine was quite funny and skewering of Bush -- though it got only mild laughs from the correspondents -- apparently too embarrassed to laugh too hard at swords that went deep into the President who was sitting right in front of them. Or, perhaps if they are not already Colbert fans, and seeing him for the first time, they needed a digestion period to fully absorb the nuances of Colbert's satire. (The other 50% of Colbert's routine was a bit weak, but still the premeise of the jokes showed promise -- but needed some refinement to rise above mediocre humor. ) This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but he did get off some good ones. The video presentation of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately) was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really flat note. Agreed. But it made me wonder if Colbert was trying for an Andy Kaufmanesque moment -- making the audience squirm and feel uncomfortable for a prolonged period to make a point The point in this case being the opening question of the skit: Mr. President, why did we go into Iraq. My favorite line: And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Second favorite: That was a good one. I felt also the following section was great, paraphrasing, I am like you Mr. President, like a man I decide from the gut, I don't rely on wimp ass facts. ... The president is steady as a rock, he believes on Wednesday what he beleived on Monday .. no matter what happened on Tuesday. It was right-on satire for the president, and also relevant to some discussions and posters here -- the fantasy world, non-rationalists, logic-be-damned, gut feelers. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but he did get off some good ones. The video presentation of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately) was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really flat note. Yeah, that was weak. But I saw it on MSNBC which had a split screen showing Bush's reactions. When Colbert showed Helen Thomas grilling him at that press conference, Bush visibly sulked like a kid with hurt feelings. Great roundup of the amazingly varied reaction to Colbert (and the rest of the program) here: http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1146380087.shtml To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Genographic kit: trace your DNA history
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock jedi_spock@ wrote: snip +++ That would seem to make it difficult to explain the four colors that exist today with some physiological differences. Why? All the physiological changes can be explained by adaptions to new climates, and there was enough time for it to happen I enjoyed Cayce's supposed cognized explanation better which said the four colors were introduced at the same time at four different areas of the earth. An idiot in a trance may be more enjoyable, but it now goes against pretty hard science. Who exactly did the introducing? Other writers have said we didn't originate on this planet- interesting subject. N. It certainly seems like some people didn't, doesn't it? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Genographic kit: trace your DNA history
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Genetists say, a single mutation in a single gene can change colour and characteristics. Evolution does not take place slowly and gradually, but in fits and bursts. There is a lot of genetic evidence for this. Genetic testing shows that there is very little genetic variations in Humans. On the contrary, there are huge genetic variations in other animals and plants even in a small locality. Take elephants for instance, even in a small locality there are wide range of genetic variations. These variations are completely missing only in humans. Genetic Scientists like Dr. Spencer Wells traced it back to a point 70,000 years ago when population dwindled down to a few hundreds. This was somewhere in South-Africa. Pigment was one of the major mysteries untill a Lady scientist finally cracked it. In the tropics where there is abundance of UV radiation, one needed black pigments to protect the skin. But as humans started coming out of Africa and started moving north Sunlight became scarce in higher latitudes. Vitamin-D also became scarce. The skin became white so that whatever little Vitamin-D that could be squeezed out of the sunlight enabled them to survive. Those who had dark skins could not manufacture enough Vitamin-D in Sun-starved latitudes and died of rickets. Having a white skin bacame essential for survival in Cold-Latitudes. This change happened around 40,000 years ago when the first humans entered Europe when the world was in the thick of an ice-age. Hitler's Aryan myth has been shattered by a simple Scientific fact - Vitamin-D..!! By the way, who said we didn't originate on this planet.?? There is a 99% similarity between the Humans and their closest relative the Chimp..!! +++ That does sound logical for the black and white people but what sort of situation would explain the yellow and red ones? It is not an altogether black and white issue you could say. I will see if I can find some titles by authors of off world origins in my collection here. thanks, N. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Living With War-- Neil Young
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://neilyoung.com/ Go to this link and Neil Young's powerful new anti-war album LIVING WITH WAR will play in its entirety. Don't try to navigate to the rest of Neil's site or the album will stop playing and you'll have to start again from the beginning. It's a masterful effort by Neil Does he still sing in that high whiney voice? and is destined to become a classic social protest album. --==-=- om=--=-= Nick Young is the first rocker to create an entire album protesting the war, and his is the most explicit and incendiary. I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer eighteen to twenty-two years old, to write these songs and stand up, Young told the Los Angeles Times. I waited a long time. Then I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the Sixties generation. A HREF="" href="http://neilyoung.com/lww/neilyounginterviewrs.html">http://neilyoung.com/lww/neilyounginterviewrs.htmlRolling Stone Journalistic Process Revealed/A To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good. Even better is the Self asserting its dominion permanently. I always find the phrase that we are already Enlightened to be slightly off. I've always found it to be completely, totally true, and so tend to believe that any description of enlight- enment that doesn't acknowledge its presence before it is recognized falls into the category of Yes, but... But you can phrase it however you want. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say Yes and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to Yes. There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, Here's a mountain. Here's the top of the mountain. There's Barry on the top of that mountain. And here we are The Hoi Polloi of the world The pissants of FFL The Little People The Nothings Yet Barry has the mercy The kindness Nay, the love To grace us With his patient presence To be Here At the bottom of the mountain And waste his precious time With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec) Has there ever been a bigger heart In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world? On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and Keith I thank you. and that wanted to respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter of chance it had offered me with the standard safe answer, Yes, but... You know...stuff like: * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I? * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the *sight* of her should make me shout Yes! to the universe, but I'm probably too old for her. * Yes, this town and this festival and all these people dressed up in their medieval finery are all cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the outside world still sucks. Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral moment but the eternality of our Self. The proper answer to life when it presents us with one of those cusp moments is Yes, not Yes, but... IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about training people to respond to life with Yes, but... You all know what I mean. How many times have you, like most seekers, thought to yourself, Yes, I'd like to be enlightened but...? It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the but..., does it? Whether you think it's stress that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky samskara you've never managed to get past, or that incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you convinced that karmically you are lower than the lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your self to say No to the Self. Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer when the universe presents us with a cool moment and that moment asks us whether we remember our own enlightenment, is, Yes. By changing your answer into Yes, but..., you are pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, I'm not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm going to make up some excuse for why you can't be me. Then you put that excuse right behind the but in Yes, but... and you say it. And as a result, you create it as a seeming reality in your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun. There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed to get beyond Yes, but... I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying Yes. Out loud. Weirdest damned thing. Everything changed. Background flipflopped into foreground and the witnessing, a moment before unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted its Self again. And all it took was getting to Yes. I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. [snip] This line is brilliant! Not only because it's a wonderful piece of satire and commentary on the Christian Taliban -- I mean Right -- but, on another level, it is actually a univeral truth! That is, there are an infinite number of paths to enlightenment yet they all lead to the same goal (which Christians would call Jesus). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Sounds good. Even better is the Self asserting its dominion permanently. I always find the phrase that we are already Enlightened to be slightly off. I've always found it to be completely, totally true, and so tend to believe that any description of enlight- enment that doesn't acknowledge its presence before it is recognized falls into the category of Yes, but... It's one thing to acknowledge it in a description, but quite another to realize it experientially--and it's entirely possible to do the first without having experienced the second. (That difference is why it's called realization, you see. Actually, that's why it's called enlightenment.) In fact, any description that doesn't acknowledge the difference between descriptive acknowledgment and experiential realization falls into the category of bullshit. But you can phrase it however you want. Why, how deeply gracious of you. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say Yes and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to Yes. There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, Here's a mountain. Here's the top of the mountain. There's Barry on the top of that mountain. And here we are The Hoi Polloi of the world The pissants of FFL The Little People The Nothings Yet Barry has the mercy The kindness Nay, the love To grace us With his patient presence To be Here At the bottom of the mountain And waste his precious time With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec) Has there ever been a bigger heart In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world? On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and Keith I thank you. Amen. and that wanted to respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter of chance it had offered me with the standard safe answer, Yes, but... You know...stuff like: * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I? * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the *sight* of her should make me shout Yes! to the universe, but I'm probably too old for her. * Yes, this town and this festival and all these people dressed up in their medieval finery are all cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the outside world still sucks. Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral moment but the eternality of our Self. The proper answer to life when it presents us with one of those cusp moments is Yes, not Yes, but... IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about training people to respond to life with Yes, but... You all know what I mean. How many times have you, like most seekers, thought to yourself, Yes, I'd like to be enlightened but...? It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the but..., does it? Whether you think it's stress that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky samskara you've never managed to get past, or that incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you convinced that karmically you are lower than the lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your self to say No to the Self. Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer when the universe presents us with a cool moment and that moment asks us whether we remember our own enlightenment, is, Yes. By changing your answer into Yes, but..., you are pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, I'm not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm going to make up some excuse for why you can't be me. Then you put that excuse right behind the but in Yes, but... and you say it. And as a result, you create it as a seeming reality in your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun. There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed to get beyond Yes, but... I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying Yes. Out loud. Weirdest damned thing. Everything changed. Background flipflopped into foreground and the witnessing, a moment before unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted its Self again. And all it took was getting to Yes. I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi
Re: [FairfieldLife] Getting To Yes
Must've been a really good Chardonnay. TurquoiseB wrote: Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say Yes and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to Yes. There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, and that wanted to respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter of chance it had offered me with the standard safe answer, Yes, but... You know...stuff like: * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I? * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the *sight* of her should make me shout Yes! to the universe, but I'm probably too old for her. * Yes, this town and this festival and all these people dressed up in their medieval finery are all cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the outside world still sucks. Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral moment but the eternality of our Self. The proper answer to life when it presents us with one of those cusp moments is Yes, not Yes, but... IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about training people to respond to life with Yes, but... You all know what I mean. How many times have you, like most seekers, thought to yourself, Yes, I'd like to be enlightened but...? It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the but..., does it? Whether you think it's stress that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky samskara you've never managed to get past, or that incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you convinced that karmically you are lower than the lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your self to say No to the Self. Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer when the universe presents us with a cool moment and that moment asks us whether we remember our own enlightenment, is, Yes. By changing your answer into Yes, but..., you are pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, I'm not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm going to make up some excuse for why you can't be me. Then you put that excuse right behind the but in Yes, but... and you say it. And as a result, you create it as a seeming reality in your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun. There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed to get beyond Yes, but... I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying Yes. Out loud. Weirdest damned thing. Everything changed. Background flipflopped into foreground and the witnessing, a moment before unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted its Self again. And all it took was getting to Yes. I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Angry with the oil companies?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love the way people are so angy with the oil companies. I myself think that the oil companies should embark on a campaign of purposely gouging consumers. Let the price go up to $7.00 a gallon! Ha-ha! It will only be then that people will start to use less and dump their gas-guzzling SUVs. And, most importantly, we can get around to developing alternative fuels. Can't do it without the $7.00 a gallon price... D.C. prayer rally to seek lower gas prices WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps. Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can't attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established. In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis. Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group's founder. It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world -- God, Royster said. The Web site is at praylive.com. The toll-free phone number is 888- PRAYLIVE. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060426-114223-5447r http://tinyurl.com/o9d3y To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Getting To Yes
Perhaps like this song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=786oilGgfc4search=david%20wilcoxIt's not just by coincidence that lives are made of accidents cause my heart and mind will not agree there's something in this mystery that calls me from beyond the blue And my heart says, c'mon let's go and my mind's saying, I don't know and the train is at the station but I'm lost in conversation and this ticket's only good for just so long so I can talk about it til that train is gone or just get on sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump.On Apr 30, 2006, at 10:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say "Yes" and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to "Yes." There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, and that wanted to respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter of chance it had offered me with the standard safe answer, "Yes, but..." You know...stuff like: * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I? * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the *sight* of her should make me shout "Yes!" to the universe, but I'm probably too old for her. * Yes, this town and this festival and all these people dressed up in their medieval finery are all cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the outside world still sucks. Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral moment but the eternality of our Self. The proper answer to life when it presents us with one of those cusp moments is "Yes," not "Yes, but..." IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about training people to respond to life with "Yes, but..." You all know what I mean. How many times have you, like most seekers, thought to yourself, "Yes, I'd like to be enlightened but...?" It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the "but...," does it? Whether you think it's "stress" that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky samskara you've never managed to get past, or that incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you convinced that karmically you are lower than the lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your self to say "No" to the Self. Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer when the universe presents us with a cool moment and that moment asks us whether we remember our own enlightenment, is, "Yes." By changing your answer into "Yes, but...," you are pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, "I'm not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm going to make up some excuse for why you can't be me." Then you put that excuse right behind the "but" in "Yes, but..." and you say it. And as a result, you create it as a seeming "reality" in your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun. There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed to get beyond "Yes, but..." I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter, I found my body saying "Yes." Out loud. Weirdest damned thing. Everything changed. Background flipflopped into foreground and the witnessing, a moment before unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted its Self again. And all it took was getting to "Yes." I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS
[FairfieldLife] Re: Angry with the oil companies?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I love the way people are so angy with the oil companies. I myself think that the oil companies should embark on a campaign of purposely gouging consumers. Let the price go up to $7.00 a gallon! Ha-ha! It will only be then that people will start to use less and dump their gas-guzzling SUVs. And, most importantly, we can get around to developing alternative fuels. Can't do it without the $7.00 a gallon price... D.C. prayer rally to seek lower gas prices WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps. Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can't attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established. In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis. Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group's founder. It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world -- God, Royster said. The Web site is at praylive.com. The toll-free phone number is 888- PRAYLIVE. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060426-114223-5447r http://tinyurl.com/o9d3y Sounds like they need some emergency pundits JohnY To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Getting To Yes
On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Vaj wrote:sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump.Oh yeah, btw, mind the gap. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a village about 30 kilometers away, because they were having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker for those kind of things. They always make me higher than a kite. This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge came upon me to say Yes and just Wake Up. But it was tough getting to Yes. There was a part of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the- pissant-parts-of-life mindstate, Here's a mountain. Here's the top of the mountain. There's Barry on the top of that mountain. And here we are The Hoi Polloi of the world The pissants of FFL The Little People The Nothings Yet Barry has the mercy The kindness Nay, the love To grace us With his patient presence To be Here At the bottom of the mountain And waste his precious time With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec) Has there ever been a bigger heart In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world? On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and Keith I thank you. Either that or he's misplaced the URL to his blog. :) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Sounds good. Even better is the Self asserting its dominion permanently. I always find the phrase that we are already Enlightened to be slightly off. I've always found it to be completely, totally true, and so tend to believe that any description of enlight- enment that doesn't acknowledge its presence before it is recognized falls into the category of Yes, but... I understand where you are coming from now- that part about 'before it is [fully] recognized' was the part I didn't realize was implied in your statement. Got it- makes perfect sense. Thanks! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Either that or he's misplaced the URL to his blog. :) If he deigns to read the less-than-positive responses rather than consigning them unread to the pissant bin, he will almost certainly classify them as a function of jealousy of his experiences on the part of people who have never had any-and *then* consign them to the pissant bin. Because that's *so* much easier and more satisfying than asking himself whether there may have been something off about the way he related the experience. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Genographic kit: trace your DNA history
In a message dated 4/30/06 1:34:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another reason the world would be better off withoutAmerica...its people are so out of it they believe thatthey have the ability to give people the pox just bythinking ill of them... Stupid *and* superstitious...c'mon Yellowstone, do your thing! And soon! :-) triple the pox! LOL To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Long)
The fields are related. Many who were in AI have gone off to research on AC. I Hagelin a computer programmer? All he has is theory. The philosophical question is do machines have consciousness? After all we are just machines that run on shakti instead of electricity (which may well be a crude form of shakti). Personally I'm not quite sure that I want machines to have consciousness. I didn't go much further with my research because if successful would have well sent us down the path to The Terminator real. :) Jason Spock wrote: There is an difference between 'Artificial-intelligence' and 'Artificial-Consciousness'. Dr.John Hagelin states that it is not possible to reach a temperature of Absolute Zero. You reach one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero, then, one-billionth and then, one-trillionth and then, one-quadrillionth, etc etc . forever and ever. The example given is that of a Rabbit jumping towards a Carrot. Each jump is half of the previous jump. The first jump is 4 feet, the sevond jump is 2 feet and the next jump is half of that etc etc The Rabbit will keep jumping for ever but it will never reach the Carrot. Dr. Hagelin states that No computer or machine or equipment can access the Unified field of Consciousness. Only the Human nervous system can access the Unified field of consciousness. Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:11:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Long) I read this article when it originally came out and am much in agreement with Bill Joy. This last Christmas a relative gave me a copy of Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near that's premise I feel is very flawed. My relative mistakenly thought that I would see Kurzweil as a great technologist but I see him as a mad scientist and very unenlightened. I had also read some of Kaczynski's rants too and it is too bad he chose the wrong actions to make his point. Computers are a great tool but that's it: a tool. I work with them all the time and enjoy getting away from them. Nothing is more painful that getting stuck on a project trying to fix a difficult to find bug and getting naive comments from suits who in their ignorance think I'm either a wunderkind for creating such as program or a jerk if I can't fix it. Computers allowed small businesses to track their losses which is somewhat good and somewhat bad. Before every small store had computers to track inventory then tended to have a more varied selection. That has long gone away. It looks like big business and the Illuminati or whatever you want to call those rakshasas don't like computers either and the freedom they give us either. They really don't like the freedom of speech on the Internet. They want to reign in the Internet severely. I would suggest we reign them in instead. As for AI or artificial consciousness which I have actually worked on a bit I mentioned to some of my colleagues that Indian philosophy has much of the mechanics of consciousness broken out into paradigms that could be implemented on a computer. One colleague actually located a Phd thesis by someone primitively demonstrated such theory. I never took the theories much farther to implement them myself but there is at least one well known program that borrowed on some of this theory. - Get amazing travel prices for air and hotel in one click on Yahoo! FareChase To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kid in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: This echoes my take. I'm not a huge Colbert fan, but he did get off some good ones. The video presentation of the faux press conference and its aftermath (which takes up most of the Crooks and Liars video, unfortunately) was quite weak, however, and ended the dinner on a really flat note. Yeah, that was weak. But I saw it on MSNBC which had a split screen showing Bush's reactions. When Colbert showed Helen Thomas grilling him at that press conference, Bush visibly sulked like a kid with hurt feelings. Great roundup of the amazingly varied reaction to Colbert (and the rest of the program) here: http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1146380087.shtml The whole performance is now up on YouTube, in three parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61IIsearch=colbert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN0INDOkFuosearch=colbert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvar7BKwvQsearch=colbert To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Actually, Sudan DOES have oil...
For those wailing that if only Sudan had oil that the USA would be in there in a second: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Sudan/Background.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Although I really don't have the time to read it the way I want to, there is an annotated version of Ulysses I'm getting ready to buy on Amazon. Every time I pick it up, it seems as though there are 100 gems on each page...that is, the Irish and otherwise wonderful expressions he uses all have a rhyme and reason to them and having the annotations to explain them will be, I presume, a wonderful experience. Boy, more power to you. I've never had what it takes to read Ulysses and probably never will. Unquestionably my loss. Let us know how it goes when you get into it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump. When I was in the midst of my dark night of the soul, Tom Traynor told me something along the lines that awakening requires crossing a river between duality and nonduality and that you have to change boats in the middle of the river. But, the boat from the middle to the other side is invisible. I have no recollection of having made a conscious choice to make that jump. For me, it was simply a matter of being squished like a bug, and when I finally reached my limit of resisting it, the surrender just happened, and with it, the inside-out outside-in shift in identity. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Sudan: to send troops in?
Genocide is happening in Sudan. What should the U.S. do? Nothing? Something? And if something, what exactly? Send in troops? Or only support a U.N. Peace keeping troop deployment? Time's a wastin' and, as we dither, bodies die. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a mountain. Here's the top of the mountain. There's Barry on the top of that mountain. And here we are The Hoi Polloi of the world The pissants of FFL The Little People The Nothings Yet Barry has the mercy The kindness Nay, the love To grace us With his patient presence To be Here At the bottom of the mountain And waste his precious time With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec) Has there ever been a bigger heart In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world? On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and Keith I thank you. Some people are more attached to Yes, but... than others. You can tell by how they react when someone calls them on their act. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump. When I was in the midst of my dark night of the soul, Tom Traynor told me something along the lines that awakening requires crossing a river between duality and nonduality and that you have to change boats in the middle of the river. But, the boat from the middle to the other side is invisible. I have no recollection of having made a conscious choice to make that jump. For me, it was simply a matter of being squished like a bug, and when I finally reached my limit of resisting it, the surrender just happened, and with it, the inside-out outside-in shift in identity. I was very fortunate, for me it was simply HH the Dalai Lama grabbing me by the hands and staring into my eyes. Really it was just a beginning though. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump. When I was in the midst of my dark night of the soul, Tom Traynor told me something along the lines that awakening requires crossing a river between duality and nonduality and that you have to change boats in the middle of the river. But, the boat from the middle to the other side is invisible. I have no recollection of having made a conscious choice to make that jump. For me, it was simply a matter of being squished like a bug, and when I finally reached my limit of resisting it, the surrender just happened, and with it, the inside-out outside-in shift in identity. Great! well said. Thanks! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here's a mountain. Here's the top of the mountain. There's Barry on the top of that mountain. And here we are The Hoi Polloi of the world The pissants of FFL The Little People The Nothings Yet Barry has the mercy The kindness Nay, the love To grace us With his patient presence To be Here At the bottom of the mountain And waste his precious time With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec) Has there ever been a bigger heart In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world? On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and Keith I thank you. Some people are more attached to Yes, but... than others. You can tell by how they react when someone calls them on their act. :-) Quintessential Barry, faux smiley face and all. It's never *him*, you see. Any criticism of Barry is always a function of some fault in the critic. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Iowa City's loss is Jefferson County's gain...
Today's Des Moines Register: http://tinyurl.com/fmarw Informal agreement Years ago, local leaders in Dickinson, Story and Johnson counties forged an informal agreement with hog-industry lobbyists to keep confinements away from those counties. Part of the reason: the presence of the Iowa Great Lakes, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. So the Okobojians have been surprised at the recent interest in raising hogs in Dickinson. Johnson County residents have fought proposals, too. Jefferson County, home to Fairfield and Maharishi International University, wasn't part of the deal. Confinements are starting to move to that county and bordering Wapello. That sent opponents to the Statehouse to lobby for local control. They also raised thousands of dollars with a benefit concert, planning to take legal action when necessary. Unless Vonk's new plan helps control the developments, Berryhill said, the courthouse and nuisance lawsuits are some of the few options left to fight the confinements. The only thing you can do is fight in court, but that takes a lot of money and it's about a 50-50 chance of winning. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here's a mountain. Here's the top of the mountain. There's Barry on the top of that mountain. And here we are The Hoi Polloi of the world The pissants of FFL The Little People The Nothings Yet Barry has the mercy The kindness Nay, the love To grace us With his patient presence To be Here At the bottom of the mountain And waste his precious time With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec) Has there ever been a bigger heart In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world? On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and Keith I thank you. Some people are more attached to Yes, but... than others. You can tell by how they react when someone calls them on their act. :-) Couldn't you have made it rhyme? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump. When I was in the midst of my dark night of the soul, Tom Traynor told me something along the lines that awakening requires crossing a river between duality and nonduality and that you have to change boats in the middle of the river. But, the boat from the middle to the other side is invisible. I have no recollection of having made a conscious choice to make that jump. For me, it was simply a matter of being squished like a bug, and when I finally reached my limit of resisting it, the surrender just happened, and with it, the inside-out outside-in shift in identity. I was very fortunate, for me it was simply HH the Dalai Lama grabbing me by the hands and staring into my eyes. Really it was just a beginning though. In Waking Down vernacular, I had my second birth awakening, which is clearly a description of a beginning, not a final destination. However, the *only* thing I have ever been a seeker of is an end to the war with myself, and in that sense, I have reached my destination. Where things go from here, I have no idea. In terms of interests and desires, I remain unchanged, and that includes my complete lack of interest in cultivating siddhis or any other esoteric, subtle relative phenomena. I'm not the least bit bothered by the notion that my body will continue to cast a shadow and won't dematerialize upon death. And, while it'd be kind of cool to tinka-tinka-tee and instantly pop up in a different location, realistically, that's not gonna happen with this mind/body. I think I'll just settle for better pecs and nice lats. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting To Yes
On Apr 30, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: sometimes you just have to get on the train. even if that means a jump. When I was in the midst of my dark night of the soul, Tom Traynor told me something along the lines that awakening requires crossing a river between duality and nonduality and that you have to change boats in the middle of the river. But, the boat from the middle to the other side is invisible. I have no recollection of having made a conscious choice to make that jump. For me, it was simply a matter of being squished like a bug, and when I finally reached my limit of resisting it, the surrender just happened, and with it, the inside-out outside-in shift in identity. I was very fortunate, for me it was simply HH the Dalai Lama grabbing me by the hands and staring into my eyes. Really it was just a beginning though. In Waking Down vernacular, I had my second birth awakening, which is clearly a description of a beginning, not a final destination. However, the *only* thing I have ever been a seeker of is an end to the war with myself, and in that sense, I have reached my destination. Where things go from here, I have no idea. In terms of interests and desires, I remain unchanged, and that includes my complete lack of interest in cultivating siddhis or any other esoteric, subtle relative phenomena. I'm not the least bit bothered by the notion that my body will continue to cast a shadow and won't dematerialize upon death. Well these are just *signs*--unless you're the type of person who worries about what sights and signs are going to appear on a stretch of strange highway, I honestly don't know why you'd be interested! And not everyone one is interested in liberation for *others*, they are interested in their own liberation. If that's the case, why worry about the details of after here? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sudan: to send troops in?
In a message dated 4/30/06 4:33:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Genocide is happening in Sudan.What should the U.S. do?Nothing?Something? And if something, what exactly? Send in troops?Or only support a U.N. "Peace keeping" troop deployment?Time's a wastin' and, as we dither, bodies die. Send in the French! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Geek news alert -- Tunatic
http://wildbits.com/tunatic/ Ever thought `what is this song?' Let Tunatic hear it and you will get the artist's name and the song's title within seconds. Tunatic is the very first song search engine based on sound for your computer. All you need is a microphone and Internet access. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] A clip from RealPlayer - WH-Dinner-Colbert
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[FairfieldLife] Colbert @ W.H. Correspondent's Dinner
STEPHEN COLBERT: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I've been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bulletproof S.U.V.'s out front, could you please move them? They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.'s and they need to get out. Wow. Wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents' dinner. To actually sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what? I'm a pretty sound sleeper -- that may not be enough. Somebody shoot me in the face. Is he really not here tonight? Dammit. The one guy who could have helped. By the way, before I get started, if anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Somebody from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail. Mark Smith, ladies and gentlemen of the press corps, Madame First Lady, Mr. President, my name is Stephen Colbert and tonight it's my privilege to celebrate this president. We're not so different, he and I. We get it. We're not brainiacs on the nerd patrol. We're not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut, right sir? That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say I did look it up, and that's not true. That's cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works. Every night on my show, the Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, OK? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it the No Fact Zone. Fox News, I hold a copyright on that term. I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states. And I cannot wait to see how the Washington Post spins that one tomorrow. I believe in democracy. I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit. In fact, Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome. Your great country makes our Happy Meals possible. I said it's a celebration. I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible -- I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical. And though I am a committed Christian, I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be you Hindu, Jewish or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it's yogurt. But I refuse to believe it's not butter. Most of all, I believe in this president. Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias. So, Mr. President, please, pay no attention to the people that say the glass is half full. 32% means the glass -- it's important to set up your jokes properly, sir. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. Okay, look, folks, my point is that I don't believe this is a low point in this presidency. I believe it is just a lull before a comeback. I mean, it's like the movie Rocky. All right. The president in this case is Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed is -- everything else in the world. It's the tenth round. He's bloodied. His corner man, Mick, who in this case I guess would be the vice president, he's yelling, Cut me, Dick, cut me!, and every time he falls everyone says, Stay down! Stay down! Does he stay down? No. Like Rocky, he gets back up, and in the end he -- actually, he loses in the first movie. OK. Doesn't matter. The point is it is the heart-warming story of a man who was repeatedly punched in the face. So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't. I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound -- with the most powerfully staged photo ops
