[FairfieldLife] Excerpts from Hillary's Interview
Excerpts from Hillary's Interview on The O'Reilly FactorHuffington Post Article Posted April 29, 2008 The following is a partial transcript of Hillary Clinton's interview on an imaginary episode of The O'Reilly Factor. Bill: Did you agree with me when I characterized Mexicans as wetbacks on the air? Hillary: I, uh... Bill: By the way, I thought your joke -- you know, the one about Gandhi being a gas station attendant? Man, I thought that was effing' funny. Hillary: Well, you know I apologized for that joke, Bill. Bill: Well I wish you hadn't. Christ, that was funny. Bill: Women love you, huh? Why is that? Hillary: Well, Bill, I think it's because... Bill: I love broads, man. You ever read my laughably terrible sex novel Those Who Trespass? Hillary: I can't say that I... Bill: Here, let me read you a little. (Reading) She felt Shannon gently tweak her nipples with his thumbs and forefingers. He then began to move his fingers in a light circular motion. Her breasts strained against her shirt. It felt so good. (Stops Reading) Pretty effin' hot, huh? Hillary: Um... Hillary: And on that issue, I believe I'm better prepared than Senator Obama. Bill: Hey, speaking of black dudes, were you at the fundraiser for inner-city kids that I hosted? You know, where I said I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps? Hillary: No, I wasn't. Bill: What about the restaurant in Harlem where I was surprised that black people ate just like regular people? I mean, with forks and knives and everything. Hillary: No. Bill: Or the time I boycotted Pepsi because their black spokesman, Ludacris, degraded women -- even though I had to settle a sexual harassment suit with one of my producers, and wrote that horrible, horrible book with passages like Then he slipped her panties down her legs and, within seconds, his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly? Hillary: Sorry, no. Bill: Do you agree with my stated hope that Al Qaeda attacks San Francisco? Hillary: Absolutely not. Bill: Well I hope to hell they do, and I hope Olbermann's there when it happens. Man, that'd be sweet. KABOOM! Where's your smirk now, four-eyes? Bill: You ever use one of those loofah things in the shower? Hillary: I don't think that's an appropriate... Bill: Man, those things feel good. You know what I'm talkin' about. Hilary: Actually, I... Bill: Yeah, you know. Bill: Level with me. Friend to friend here...if Obama's elected, we can kiss the whole thing goodbye, can't we? I mean, this guy's gonna paint the White House gold -- he's gonna make Flava Flav Secretary of State, that wife of his is gonna go on tour with Mary J. Blige, and we're all gonna be kneeling to a statue of Osama Bin Laden. Am I right? Hillary: That may be the most racist thing anyone's ever said. Bill: No, no -- the most racist thing anyone's ever said is (omitted by Fox News). Bill: Be honest...have you ever met a bigger d-bag than me? Hillary: No, I haven't. Bill: Kind've weird that you agreed to be on my show, knowing what a misogynistic, racist, dim-witted, anti-American hypocrite I am, huh? Boy, you must be desperate. Hillary: You have no idea. (End transcript) Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Hillary has 'Testicular Foritude'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bet she shaves (snip) Real women don't shave, Louis, and another thing, for my two cents... Real women find time to nurse their babies... And another thing...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racism of a different color
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with the Edg's premise (quoted below) that it is VERY DIFFICULT for a white person to know what it is to be black, but I disagree that a white person cannot possibly know what it is to be hurt, brainwashed, intimidated, forced, challenged, tortured, and negated. Separate point ~~ I can often pick out from a distance the difference between an American black and a foreign black (esp from Africa). Blacks raised in the U.S. have an internal tension and defensiveness that foreign-born-and-raised blacks don't show. That tension shows in their posture and body language. This is such a sad statement about how their environment affects them. (snip) Much of that body language comes from being in prison, and you will see that kind of body language, from any person of any race, who has been in prison. The Black population has a much larger part of their culture in prison, and much of their culture relates to gangster kind of life style, because of the media, and black entertainment, rap music, etc. The drug culture, and the prohibition of drugs also feed the money of this whole equation. Anyone can relate with the 'Black Experience' if they have ever experienced being 'outside the culture' or being 'scapegoated' or prejudiced upon. Many Jewish people can relate to black people, myself included. So, it's to generalized to make that statement. The 'Black Experience' has to do with slavery; simple as that. But we are all slaves to a certain extent, Until we are living, 'Heaven on Earth' as Maharishi explained. Jesus also felt this way. So, there is still work to do; I think Barack is the best 'Dude' for the job.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racism of a different color
--- R.G. [babajii] wrote: Much of that body language comes from being in prison, Oppression stamps people, and other living beings as well, first with its outer impression -- the initial pain of impact (physical, emotional, psychic, etc.) and then with its inner impression -- its tattoo, its imprint on the inner life, its mark in the marrow.
[FairfieldLife] Kudos to anybody...
...who knows, why exactly /udaanajaya/ causes /utkraanti/ (levitation)!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little advice, Angela: Stop with the some of my best friends are... babble and just stick to not using offensive words, okay? I'm offended and that should be enough to get you to shut the fuck up. Seems to me that Shemp is pretty much *always* offended. I guess that means the whole world has to shut the fuck up.
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another good piece in the LAT (you probably need to register for free): http://tinyurl.com/3tqkld Thanks Bob, this article had the bit of the story I love: But testing in experimental animals showed no significant activity for the drug -- although the animals were observed to become restless after its administration -- and it was abandoned. During this period, Hofmann synthesized at least three amides that became drugs: Methergine, used to halt bleeding after birth; Hydergine, which improves circulation in the limbs and cerebral function in the elderly; and Dihydergot, used to stabilize circulation and blood pressure. Prompted by what Hofmann later described as a peculiar presentiment that LSD-25 might have properties other than those established in the first investigations, he decided to look at it again. On Friday afternoon, April 16, 1943, Hofmann had just completed synthesizing a new batch when, he subsequently wrote to his supervisor, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness. At home, I lay down and sank into a not-unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours, this condition faded away. Hofmann suspected that the state had been caused by something in the lab. In an interview on his 100th birthday, he said, I didn't know what caused it, but I knew that it was important. After breathing the solvents he had used produced no effect, Hofmann suspected that the synthetic drug was the source. LSD spoke to me, he said. He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Don't give me to the pharmacologist, he won't find anything.' A peculiar pre-sentiment - One of those intuitive moments where the unconcious mind seems to know more about what's going on than you do. Like Francis Crick dreaming of spiral staircases when he was stuck on working out how DNA reproduced itself. One of the greatest flashes of inspiration. But rumour has it that when he was on his death-bed he admitted the inspiration came to him during an acid trip.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racism of a different color
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Separate point ~~ I can often pick out from a distance the difference between an American black and a foreign black (esp from Africa). Blacks raised in the U.S. have an internal tension and defensiveness that foreign-born-and-raised blacks don't show. That tension shows in their posture and body language. This is such a sad statement about how their environment affects them. Trying my best to stay out of the puerile nigger thang, I don't think your generalization is general enough, ispiritkin. It's Americans, period, who move like they've got a permanent stick up their butts and a shitload of fear on their shoulders. Just ask any European, or someone like me who lives here. You can pick out the Americans from 100 feet away, just by the way they walk and move. My phrase for it is that they are not comfortable in their bodies. They don't have an easy relation- ship with their bodies; they're always in a fight with them, as if they don't trust them, or as if they don't trust the other bodies around them. It's difficult to explain to someone who lives in the U.S. and doesn't get out of it much, but it's something that becomes remarkably apparent when you travel. Because I have dogs and walk them, I liken it to the difference between healthy, happy dogs and how they relate to other dogs and...uh... less happy, less secure dogs who have to snarl at or distrust all other dogs. It's a really bizarre phenomenon to watch in dogs, and even more bizarre in humans, and I get to watch it all the time, because I live in a tourist town that gets its share of American tourists, even with the dollar in the toilet. So that's my only real point -- that *Americans* period don't look or move as if they are comfortable with themselves, or their selves. But for fun I'll add a personal story to your stories of what it might be like to grow up black in America. I had a friend in the Rama trip who was black. Young, hand- some, well-dressed and well-educated, and a certi- fiable genius with computers and AI software. He made more money in a month than most of the people around him made in a year, and was never the least bit ostentatious about it. His vibe was reserved but friendly and outgoing, once he got to know you. Being white, I never quite understood the reserve until we went postering for an upcoming Rama talk one day on and around a Connecticut college campus. We were both taking time off from our Day Jobs to do this, so we were both wearing business suits. So I got to watch the *reactions* of people when we walked into their offices or places of business (only the ones that had posters already displayed and thus were likely to put up one more) to ask them, as politely as possible, if they'd put up one of ours. I would walk in and the people in the office would be all smiles. Koan (his spiritual name) would walk in and the guys would frown and the women would hide their purses. I learned a lot that day about what it must be like to be black in America. We lost touch when I bailed from the Rama trip, but then I ran into him again years later, after he had been living and consulting in Paris. Because at the time I was considering moving to Paris, I asked him what it was like for him to live there. He tried not to, being a guy and all, but he got a little teary, and then recovered enough to say, It's the first place I've ever lived in my life where no one looks at me and immediately thinks 'Nigger.' I've since lived in Paris, and I understand. Being black means nothing in Paris. It isn't a positive and it isn't a negative; it just makes you one more guy or gal on the street.
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After breathing the solvents he had used produced no effect, Hofmann suspected that the synthetic drug was the source. LSD spoke to me, he said. He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Don't give me to the pharmacologist, he won't find anything.' A peculiar pre-sentiment - One of those intuitive moments where the unconcious mind seems to know more about what's going on than you do. Like Francis Crick dreaming of spiral staircases when he was stuck on working out how DNA reproduced itself. One of the greatest flashes of inspiration. But rumour has it that when he was on his death-bed he admitted the inspiration came to him during an acid trip. Here's an interesting piece of American celebrity lore that I always found interesting. Picture Cary Grant, right? The quintessence of outgoing charm, poise, elegance, and savoir faire, even though he started life as Archie Leach in a poor neighborhood in England. Well, as it turns out, Cary Grant drop- ped acid 2-3 times a week for much of his adult life under the care of his psychiatrist, a rebel who came up during the early psychedelic revolution with Leary and Alpert, and who never abandoned his belief that it (LSD) could be a powerful and bene- ficial psychiatric tool. It would appear, given the generally positive response that most people have to the vibe of his long-term patient, that he was correct. I agree with Curtis and with others who said that the trouble with LSD was the recreationalization of the drug. It was a sacrament, and used as one, could lead to valuable insights -- about the world, about the self, and about Self. Like him, I never had anything but the most positive, uplifting experiences during the period that I experimented with LSD, and have the greatest respect for it. I liken its cheapening as something to party down with to some callous youth finding a 200-year- old bottle of the finest cognac and seeing it only as a way to get drunk.
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an interesting piece of American celebrity lore that I always found interesting. Picture Cary Grant, right? The quintessence of outgoing charm, poise, elegance, and savoir faire, even though he started life as Archie Leach in a poor neighborhood in England. Well, as it turns out, Cary Grant drop- ped acid 2-3 times a week for much of his adult life Sorry...mistype. Make that 2-3 times a month.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racism of a different color
--- TurquoiseB wrote: --- ispiritkin wrote: Separate point ~~ I can often pick out from a distance the difference between an American black and a foreign black (esp from Africa). Blacks raised in the U.S. have an internal tension and defensiveness that foreign-born-and-raised blacks don't show. That tension shows in their posture and body language. This is such a sad statement about how their environment affects them. Trying my best to stay out of the puerile nigger thang, I don't think your generalization is general enough, ispiritkin. It's Americans, period, who move like they've got a permanent stick up their butts and a shitload of fear on their shoulders. Just ask any European, or someone like me who lives here. You can pick out the Americans from 100 feet away, just by the way they walk and move. My phrase for it is that they are not comfortable in their bodies. They don't have an easy relation- ship with their bodies; snip Oh, I do agree -- even the difference between Americans and Canadians in general is striking, but is not quite as striking as in the black race (to my eye). So that's my only real point -- that *Americans* period don't look or move as if they are comfortable with themselves, or their selves. But for fun I'll add a personal story to your stories of what it might be like to grow up black in America. snip I would walk in and the people in the office would be all smiles. Koan (his spiritual name) would walk in and the guys would frown and the women would hide their purses. I learned a lot that day about what it must be like to be black in America. snip I asked him what it was like for him to live there. He tried not to, being a guy and all, but he got a little teary, and then recovered enough to say, It's the first place I've ever lived in my life where no one looks at me and immediately thinks 'Nigger.' I've since lived in Paris, and I understand. Being black means nothing in Paris. It isn't a positive and it isn't a negative; it just makes you one more guy or gal on the street. I don't get out much, so my observations are limited to the midwest mostly. But I talked about this with a black neighbor who has lived in and visited various places in the U.S. and Canada. Strangely enough, he had the same thing to say about South Dakota as your friend did about Paris -- that people in South Dakota (the Black Hills specifically) didn't look at him as black, they just treated him like the next tourist in line who wanted to buy a ticket. People didn't look up from their dinners at restaurants and stare. And they didn't get all nicey-nice, either, like some people do when they are uncomfortable. When he found out I was from North Dakota, he said my attitude fit right in with what he had experienced up in those northern hinterlands. Maybe the similarity has opposite geneses in the two environments. There are so FEW blacks in the Dakotas that most folks there haven't had much to assess, positive or negative. In Paris, there are so many different kinds of people and so many of each kind, that folks have a chance to make lots of assessments, both positive and negative, and all those assessments tend to equal out regarding race. After all that, a person has to use subtler distinctions to judge, because humans always have to find distinctions to judge with. ;)
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did this person *take* this anywhere, or just rap? Curious in Sitges Dear Sitgesji, That was just part of a discourse after a long lead group meditation. The comments went towards this: forward: There's something for us to listen to about that. ...talking from the level of the heart that we're talking about, not just emotional, but the spiritual heart. ...directly connected to this opening to the heart of the world, which is really opening into the core of the earth's intelligence, the revelation of the purpose of Gaia, of our planet, its self-revealing mechanism revealing itself. That's what we're headed towards, awakening to the self-revealing mechanism of the planet in relation to the heart of its own consciousness. That feeds back into our consciousness, into our heart, into our awakening. The planet is going through expressed possibilities, and these possibilities in a sense are all living simultaneously. They can be everything from a completely apocalyptic possibility to a complete heaven-on-earth possibility, and all possibilities in between are in the range. The planet is sending out signals of possibilities from its own heart intelligence, offering different options, different ways to bring certain things about. We're at one of those convergent choice points. That's why it's such a powerful time and an amazing time. FairfieldLife
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: After breathing the solvents he had used produced no effect, Hofmann suspected that the synthetic drug was the source. LSD spoke to me, he said. He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Don't give me to the pharmacologist, he won't find anything.' A peculiar pre-sentiment - One of those intuitive moments where the unconcious mind seems to know more about what's going on than you do. Like Francis Crick dreaming of spiral staircases when he was stuck on working out how DNA reproduced itself. One of the greatest flashes of inspiration. But rumour has it that when he was on his death-bed he admitted the inspiration came to him during an acid trip. Here's an interesting piece of American celebrity lore that I always found interesting. Picture Cary Grant, right? The quintessence of outgoing charm, poise, elegance, and savoir faire, even though he started life as Archie Leach in a poor neighborhood in England. Well, as it turns out, Cary Grant drop- ped acid 2-3 times a week for much of his adult life under the care of his psychiatrist, a rebel who came up during the early psychedelic revolution with Leary and Alpert, and who never abandoned his belief that it (LSD) could be a powerful and bene- ficial psychiatric tool. It would appear, given the generally positive response that most people have to the vibe of his long-term patient, that he was correct. I agree with Curtis and with others who said that the trouble with LSD was the recreationalization of the drug. It was a sacrament, and used as one, could lead to valuable insights -- about the world, about the self, and about Self. Like him, I never had anything but the most positive, uplifting experiences during the period that I experimented with LSD, and have the greatest respect for it. I liken its cheapening as something to party down with to some callous youth finding a 200-year- old bottle of the finest cognac and seeing it only as a way to get drunk. I always wondered what the therapeutic use might be, it always seemed so confusing and so much never-the-same thing-twice, perhaps it was the mind expanding sense of greater reality that helped put things into perspective for people. I sure never looked at the world the same way. But more likely the dose was smaller than you'd take at one of Leary or Keseys' (or my) acid parties. I would like to have tried it in that context but I can't see our recreational use as cheapening it, we had real God consciousness experiences, and the music helps, in fact it's designed to take you as far as you can go. We all ended up kidding ourselves it was the real reality that would somehow lead us to the promised land. Didn't work of course, not for anyone. But you have to follow every lead in my view. The problem comes, as it does with all drugs, when you start taking it too seriously and mistake the signpost for the destination. Or using it to escape rather than arrive, That must be what Albert saw and worried about. It did make a good party great, you could save the analysis for when you got home. Which we did, the best times tripping are when you're with people you like in cosy surroundings, good music etc. Best of all on a summer day out in the country on magic mushrooms, got a real connection with nature, it's like the same movie but with different cinemaphotography. It made me wonder that there was some greater power connecting everything together for a tiny little piece of fungus to have that sort of effect on you. I've seen clouds turn into the most beautiful living statues of Greek Gods and dragons coiled round the moon, battalions of tigers chasing across the sky at sunset. I could go on but I'm sure you get the general idea. Cheapening or not, it was the best of times. Perhaps the true sacrament is the mind and hallucinogenics just one of the keys to unlock it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Did this person *take* this anywhere, or just rap? Curious in Sitges Dear Sitgesji, That was just part of a discourse after a long lead group meditation. The comments went towards this: forward: There's something for us to listen to about that. ...talking from the level of the heart that we're talking about, not just emotional, but the spiritual heart. ...directly connected to this opening to the heart of the world, which is really opening into the core of the earth's intelligence, the revelation of the purpose of Gaia, of our planet, its self-revealing mechanism revealing itself. That's what we're headed towards, awakening to the self-revealing mechanism of the planet in relation to the heart of its own consciousness. That feeds back into our consciousness, into our heart, into our awakening. The planet is going through expressed possibilities, and these possibilities in a sense are all living simultaneously. They can be everything from a completely apocalyptic possibility to a complete heaven-on-earth possibility, and all possibilities in between are in the range. The planet is sending out signals of possibilities from its own heart intelligence, offering different options, different ways to bring certain things about. We're at one of those convergent choice points. That's why it's such a powerful time and an amazing time. Ok, thanks for replying. That answers my question...it was just a New Age rap. My perspective is somewhat different. There has never been a moment in time that was any more amazing than any other, or in which it was more possible than at any other time to actually experience different realities, not just talk about them. I'm no longer interested in only talking about them, or in people who only talk about them. Alternate realities are available at every moment, and can be experienced at every moment. I'd rather experience them than talk about them or hear someone else talk about them, especially when it sounds as if the person talking is speaking from theory, not experience. When you can shift realities as quickly and effortlessly as snapping your fingers, and take the people who are meditating in the same room with you -- every one of them -- to 10-20 start- lingly different alternative realities in the space of one meditation, get back to me. Until then, talk theory all you want to those who are still wowed by theory. I won't be one of them. Just being honest...
[FairfieldLife] May Day
Dancing Around The Meaning of The May Day Maypole by Marisa So...May Day. Something about Maypoles and flower baskets, right? LikeGroundhogs' Day (aka Imbolc) before it, May Day has yet to make much ofan impact among contemporary American holidays. And yet this day, alsoknown as Beltane, has tremendous significance among Pagans, second onlyto Samhain/Halloween. So maybe those poles are worth a closer look... As with all Pagan sabbats, Beltane parallels the wheel of the year,celebrating the bloom of spring flowers and blessing their growth intoa bountiful harvest. Celebrated at the mid-point between the VernalEquinox (Ostara) and the Summer Solstice (Litha), Beltane also marked the last of the spring fertility festivals (after Imbolc and Ostara), as the cattle were driven to pasture. But let's get to the good stuff: fertility festivals? Just as cropsburst from the earth and flowers expand into bloom, Pagans believe thatat Beltane the, um, pleasures of the self are similarly awakened.That's right, from springtime courtships to that enormous ribbonedphallus, Beltane is basically about sex. And frankly, it isn't evendiscreet. Young couples were encouraged to test their fertility with Beltanetrysts, and any babies born from Beltane were believed to be blessed bythe Goddess herself. Trial unions, called hand-fastings (as the lovers'clasped hands were bound by ribbon), were also popular at Beltane,committing the couple to each other for one year and a day inpreparation for a marital commitment. (Actual marriage, however, wasdiscouraged in May, in deference to the union between Goddess and God.) And that sexual union? Brings us right back to the Maypole, essentiallyan enormous phallus, thrust deep into the earth, around which young menand women dance, weaving colored ribbons in encouragement of theearth's (and their own) fertility. For many Pagans, dancing the Maypoleis an enchanted experience, uniting the energy of the earth, and theenergy of the sun to yield a bountiful harvest. So, whether yousubscribe to the more... suggestive interpretations or not, clearly aday of celebration is upon us. We at Daily Mantra hope you enjoy. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that sexual union? Brings us right back to the Maypole, essentially an enormous phallus, thrust deep into the earth, around which young men and women dance, weaving colored ribbons in encouragement of theearth's (and their own) fertility. For many Pagans, dancing the Maypoleis an enchanted experience, uniting the energy of the earth, and the energy of the sun to yield a bountiful harvest. So, whether you subscribe to the more... suggestive interpret- ations or not, clearly a day of celebration is upon us. We at Daily Mantra hope you enjoy. Now she tells me. Out on the beach just now, when that cute young woman walked up to me carrying a handful of colored ribbons and asked me if I wanted to go somewhere with her and help her wrap them around something, I foolishly thought she was talk- ing about wrapping presents, and begged off. slaps forehead :-) Happy May Day to one and all. It's a national holiday here in Spain, as it was in France, and so everyone is out at the beach soaking up...uh...the energy of the sun. I presume that any Beltane dances and jump- ing over bonfires will be later in the evening, and that they will yield a bountiful harvest of fun, and perhaps more.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nickname for FFL
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A fitting nickname for FFL is FalsiFiabilty Lookout. It sums up the sweet-tart attribute of FFL because people are engaged enough to point out where mistakes might lurk in anything thrown onto the forum. I like that Funny you should say this. I was just thinking this morning how whatever you post, it is likely to be challenged, mocked, ridiculed, and ocassionally praised. You appear to be a new poster, and so it may be exciting for you. What you might find however, is that over time, this format proves fatiguing to many, hence a pretty high drop out rate. Many praise this rigorous exchange. Others fault it as being to harsh.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nickname for FFL
--- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A fitting nickname for FFL is FalsiFiabilty Lookout. It sums up the sweet-tart attribute of FFL because people are engaged enough to point out where mistakes might lurk in anything thrown onto the forum. I like that Funny you should say this. I was just thinking this morning how whatever you post, it is likely to be challenged, mocked, ridiculed, and ocassionally praised. You appear to be a new poster, and so it may be exciting for you. What you might find however, is that over time, this format proves fatiguing to many, hence a pretty high drop out rate. Many praise this rigorous exchange. Others fault it as being to harsh. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What is wrong with you? ;-) 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 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: And that sexual union? Brings us right back to the Maypole, essentially an enormous phallus, thrust deep into the earth, around which young men and women dance, weaving colored ribbons in encouragement of theearth's (and their own) fertility. For many Pagans, dancing the Maypoleis an enchanted experience, uniting the energy of the earth, and the energy of the sun to yield a bountiful harvest. So, whether you subscribe to the more... suggestive interpret- ations or not, clearly a day of celebration is upon us. We at Daily Mantra hope you enjoy. Now she tells me. Out on the beach just now, when that cute young woman walked up to me carrying a handful of colored ribbons and asked me if I wanted to go somewhere with her and help her wrap them around something, I foolishly thought she was talk- ing about wrapping presents, and begged off. slaps forehead :-) Happy May Day to one and all. It's a national holiday here in Spain, as it was in France, and so everyone is out at the beach soaking up...uh...the energy of the sun. I presume that any Beltane dances and jump- ing over bonfires will be later in the evening, and that they will yield a bountiful harvest of fun, and perhaps more. And a happy May Day to you. Sounds like a good party. I'm making it a holiday, I'm off on my bike to an ancient burial mound to watch the clouds go by. But first, this here clip is Morris dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZjLATAUwaofeature=related It's the traditional May Day folk dance of Olde England. Maybe it's just me but there isn't too much sexy going on here.
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a happy May Day to you. Sounds like a good party. I'm making it a holiday, I'm off on my bike to an ancient burial mound to watch the clouds go by. But first, this here clip is Morris dancing: Sounds like you're going to have a 600 calorie burn day. Maybe only 450 if you forgo the dancing :)
[FairfieldLife] Re: mind is mad/insane
Perfect Madness: From Awakening to Enlightenment by Donna Lee Gorrell (daughter of THE famous jazz musician of the same middle name) I was naive when my spiritual journey began, I wanted growth without change, wisdom without experience, security without sacrifice, and life without death. I wanted to swim in the waters of eternity without getting wet. Instead, I found myself immersed in unfathomable darkness with no trace of where I'd been and no glimmer of where to go, lost in the void of my own mind and convinced I was going crazy. I had no way of knowing I was on the path to enlightenment. We find ourselves slipping deeper into uncharted layers of consciousness. Our comfort zone of sameness feels violated. One moment our mind is flooded with understanding; the next on the brink of insanity. Self-doubt permeates our being, and we experience symptoms paralleling mental illness, even borderline psychosis. We wonder if the only difference between insanity and sanity lies in the ability to BE crazy without ACTING crazy. From Jean Klein Transmission of the Flame page 65 ...We have very often repeated that the seeker is the sought. An object is a fraction; it appears in your wholeness, in your globality. When you really come to the understanding that the seeker is the sought, there is a natural giving-up of all energy to find something. It is an instantaneous apperception. I don't say perception, because in perception there is a perceiver and something perceived. An apperception is an instantaneous perceiving of what is perceiving. So it can never be in relation of subject-object, just as an eye can never see its own seeing. ...you will find a glimpse of non-subject-object relationship. This glimpse is seen with your whole intelligence, which is there in the absence of the person, the thinker, the doer. Understanding, being the understanding, is enlightenment
[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Did this person *take* this anywhere, or just rap? Curious in Sitges Dear Sitges, That was just part of a discourse after a long led group meditation. The comments went towards this: forward: There's something for us to listen to about that. ...talking from the level of the heart that we're talking about, not just emotional, but the spiritual heart. ...directly connected to this opening to the heart of the world, which is really opening into the core of the earth's intelligence, the revelation of the purpose of Gaia, of our planet, its self-revealing mechanism revealing itself. That's what we're headed towards, awakening to the self-revealing mechanism of the planet in relation to the heart of its own consciousness. That feeds back into our consciousness, into our heart, into our awakening. The planet is going through expressed possibilities, and these possibilities in a sense are all living simultaneously. They can be everything from a completely apocalyptic possibility to a complete heaven-on-earth possibility, and all possibilities in between are in the range. The planet is sending out signals of possibilities from its own heart intelligence, offering different options, different ways to bring certain things about. We're at one of those convergent choice points. That's why it's such a powerful time and an amazing time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks for replying. That answers my question...it was just a New Age rap. My perspective is somewhat different. There has never been a moment in time that was any more amazing than any other, or in which it was more possible than at any other time to actually experience different realities, not just talk about them. I'm no longer interested in only talking about them, or in people who only talk about them. Alternate realities are available at every moment, and can be experienced at every moment. I'd rather experience them than talk about them or hear someone else talk about them, especially when it sounds as if the person talking is speaking from theory, not experience. When you can shift realities as quickly and effortlessly as snapping your fingers, and take the people who are meditating in the same room with you -- every one of them -- to 10-20 start- lingly different alternative realities in the space of one meditation, get back to me. Until then, talk theory all you want to those who are still wowed by theory. I won't be one of them. Just being honest... Turq, yes i agree and i suspect you would enjoy Fairfield a lot. With Best Regards, -Doug in FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I agree with Curtis and with others who said that the trouble with LSD was the recreationalization of the drug. It was a sacrament, and used as one, could lead to valuable insights -- about the world, about the self, and about Self. Like him, I never had anything but the most positive, uplifting experiences during the period that I experimented with LSD, and have the greatest respect for it. I liken its cheapening as something to party down with to some callous youth finding a 200-year- old bottle of the finest cognac and seeing it only as a way to get drunk. I always wondered what the therapeutic use might be, it always seemed so confusing and so much never-the-same thing-twice, perhaps it was the mind expanding sense of greater reality that helped put things into perspective for people. I sure never looked at the world the same way. I'm sure Cary didn't, either. I don't know any of the particulars of who his shrink might have been and whether he was successful using LSD in his practice with a large number of patients. But I can certainly see it as being possible. The phenomenon of putting things into perspec- tive alone would be invaluable to many people whose perspective had gotten skewed enough that they sought psychiatric counseling. On the other hand, I would suspect that the shrink in question had to be very, very careful about whom it was appropriate to use this kind of therapy *with*. I'm thinking it would be possibly appropriate with patients who were dealing with neuroses and problems in their daily lives, and hideously inappropriate with someone dealing with psychosis. But more likely the dose was smaller than you'd take at one of Leary or Keseys' (or my) acid parties. Actually, it wasn't so much the dosage but the purity. 125 micrograms of real Sandoz acid was far more powerful than 1000 mics of street acid. Kesey's parties (I only attended one of them) served Sandoz acid at the start, and later Owsley stuff, so they were pretty fun parties. :-) I would like to have tried it in that context but I can't see our recreational use as cheapening it, we had real God consciousness experiences, and the music helps, in fact it's designed to take you as far as you can go. Please forgive my overly harsh condemnation of party acid earlier. I was definitely includ- ing myself as one of the targets of that rant. Some friends of mine and I ran a light show and concert promotion business back in 1966-7, and heck, we *worked* stoned on acid. :-) I was also known to party down on acid more than once during that period...uh...often in fact. Mea culpa. :-) It's just that in retrospect (the last time I took LSD was in 1967) I lament pissing away on a party what I could have used in the silence of the desert or a forest. But hey!, as you say, the parties were fun, too. And the music just rocked. We all ended up kidding ourselves it was the real reality that would somehow lead us to the promised land. Didn't work of course, not for anyone. But you have to follow every lead in my view. The problem comes, as it does with all drugs, when you start taking it too seriously and mistake the signpost for the destination. Or using it to escape rather than arrive, That must be what Albert saw and worried about. I did the same thing. Unlike many who started TM at the same time I did, I didn't have to wait 15 days. :-) I had stopped using psychedelics of any kind some months before, and had already been experimenting with other forms of meditation. Stopping was a cultural thing more than a spiritual or health thing for me. I had literally been through the Summer Of Love in L.A. and San Francisco, and had seen the whole Hippie thing go down the toilet as soon as the media got ahold of it. And I had seen what the street drugs were doing to people, and didn't want to be around it any more. It did make a good party great, you could save the analysis for when you got home. I analyzed even at the parties. I think that acid was one of my first self-taught experiences of mindfulness. Which we did, the best times tripping are when you're with people you like in cosy surroundings, good music etc. Best of all on a summer day out in the country on magic mushrooms, got a real connection with nature, it's like the same movie but with different cinemaphotography. Good metaphor. Did you see the film What Dreams May Come? That's the first acid-like cinematography that popped into my mind when you mentioned it, but now that I think about it, Antonioni's Blow-up might have been more acid. It made me wonder that there was some greater power connecting everything together for a tiny little piece of fungus to have that sort of effect on you. I've seen clouds turn into the most beautiful living statues of Greek Gods and
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
My babies love their May Mugs, my adaptation of May baskets, filled with treats and prizes. Last year was the only year we did the chase because they were finally big enough to give and get a good chase. The treater sets the basket by the door and knocks/rings the doorbell, then runs. The treatee finds the basket then chases to catch and kiss. I thought this was a common custom until I found folks who had never heard of it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield
Chakras? hummm, I wonder where he got that idea? Do you think MMY has some 'secret teachings' stashed somewhere? Good grief, the next thing you're gonna hear is 'kundalini'...yikes! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're going to talk about parallel reality. When I've talked to you in the past about dimensions, we've said here's one dimension and here's another dimension, and they're living side by side with one another. But there's also a fabric of consciousness that bleeds back and forth from one dimension to the other. They're not just standing there like soldiers unrelated to each other. There's a gate or fabric of consciousness that's flowing into one, flowing back to the other, flowing here and there. On a practical level, the point at which something splits off, a choice point at which one dimension goes this way and one dimension goes that way, where we are in the world right now we're coming to a major choice point. with possibility going this way and one possibility going that way and one possibility going another way, you really get the feeling of how you can have a fountainhead and things can sprout out of that and each possible parallel reality has an interrelationship with the other ones and they're in a flow together. When you have choice points that are very close like this, there's such a small gap between these three people, essentially what's happening is that the dimensions are closing in on one another. They're collapsing. Whereas before perhaps our experience was that the dimensions were very discrete, so you had a big gap. Now the gap is closing and it's a very small gap. That's why there's a feeling that the depth of difference between these three possibilities actually isn't that big. A dimension is kind of like a membrane. That's why when we work with the chakras, they're such a good example of what a dimension feels like because you can feel these subtle membranes in the chakras moving back and forth. A dimension is like that. It has a certain edge to it, a circumference, and that circumference is very fine. You can move from one edge of that circumference to the next edge and a whole other possible reality opens up. Normally, we are protected from experiencing a parallel reality in any clear way because we're locked into a framework of our dimension. We can only experience what is right here. We don't have the capacity to see outside that bubble. We're kind of locked away in that bubble. There are a lot of good reasons for that. For one thing, it keeps you focused. It keeps you connected to what's going on so you don't bleed out into some other possibility. But as time and consciousness are moving in the way that they are right now, the possibility of perceiving parallel connectivity is much more pronounced, so you can have the capacity to move out into this other level of awareness and still maintain your own.
[FairfieldLife] Should the rich pay MORE income tax?
If elected, both Hillary and Barack say they'll put up the income tax rates for the rich. Yet, according to the statistics at the following site http://tinyurl.com/3cquum http://tinyurl.com/3cquum the rich are, by ANY objective standard of measurement, already paying far more than their share. Take a look at Table 1 (which, hopefully, I am successful in reproducing here, below) and look under the column Group's share of income tax. The top 1% of taxpayers pay almost 40% of ALL income taxes collected! The top 10% pay over 70% and the bottom 50% about 3%. Table 1. Summary of Federal Individual Income Tax Data, 2005 (Updated October 2007) Number of Returns with Positive AGI AGI ($ millions) Income Taxes Paid ($ millions) Group's Share of Total AGI Group's Share of Income Taxes Income Split Point Average Tax Rate All Taxpayers 132,611,637 $7,507,958 $934,703 100.00% 100.00% - 12.45% Top 1% 1,326,116 $1,591,711 $368,132 21.20% 39.38% $364,657 23.13% Top 2-5% 5,304,466 $1,092,223 $189,627 14.55% 20.29% 17.36% Top 5% 6,630,582 $2,683,934 $557,759 35.75% 59.67% $145,283 20.78% Top 6-10% 6,630,582 $803,076 $99,326 10.70% 10.63% 12.37% Top 10% 13,261,164 $3,487,010 $657,085 46.44% 70.30% $103,912 18.84% Top 11-25% 19,891,745 $1,582,445 $146,687 21.08% 15.69% 9.27% Top 25% 33,152,909 $5,069,455 $803,772 67.52% 85.99% $62,068 15.86% Top 26-50% 33,152,909 $1,475,369 $102,256 19.65% 10.94% 6.93% Top 50% 66,305,819 $6,544,824 $906,028 87.17% 96.93% $30,881 13.84% Bottom 50% 66,305,818 963,134 $28,675 12.83% 3.07% $30,881 2.98%
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. Oil Imports by Country
Yes of course you are right. I was just venting my frustrations. Although the shale field I was talking about is in the U.S., near the eastern border of colorado, I think. I get alot of ads for penny stocks in the mailbox and one announced it as a fairly new find. Also, I believe China made a recent large purchase of oil and mineral areas in Canada. So the U.S. is not the only one in Canada. China has something like 800 trillion of our dollars in one form of paper or another and they are doing the smart thing, buying natural resources. They are in Africa too, and making deals with Venezuala. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, aztjbailey aztjbailey@ wrote: My frustration about this runs along several lines: U.S. shale oil holdings are by several accounts I have read, enormous.Shale oil is oil mixed into sand and requires processing to separate the sand out. This is expensive and why are we not working on it? Why are we not increasing the efficiency of processing? But you are. Most of the companies sucking oil out of Canadian oil sands, and leaving behind the devastated landscape and devastated community it produces are US companies. Why are we not leaders in fuel efficient cars? US Oil companies killed the electric car: One person sums it up like this: Oil companies killed the EV car. Chevron had inherited control of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH EV-95 battery when it merged with Texaco, which had purchased them from General Motors. Chevron's unit won a $30,000,000 settlement from Toyota and Panasonic, and the production line for the large NiMH batteries was closed down and dismantled. Only smaller NiMH batteries, incapable of powering an electric vehicle or plugging in, are currently allowed by Chevron-Texaco. http://youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_commentsv=peW8kl- jpHcfromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DpeW8kl-jpHc%26feature%3DPlayList%26p% 3D333C19B1D3664253%26index%3D4 Why isn't there wide spread communication about projects like this? Because Cheney, Bush, et al, won't make as much money. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
The most significant period of my life occurred at age 19, in late September, '73, during a two-week stretch of a several week road trip with a high school buddy, the itinerary of which included nightly camping under the stars near flowing streams, and a daily drive of several hours between camp sites along a path from Colorado through the Great Northwest. Friends in Manitou Springs introduced us to a woman who joined our trip. A year older than my buddy and I, she was quite earthy and spiritual. She introduced us to 'Be Here Now', and was able to score windowpane on the morning we left Manitou Springs for the ascent into the Rockies. That afternoon was the Autumnal Equinox. Aspen trees were changing colors for everyone's perception, whether altered or not. The immense beauty of the mountains, streams, and trees was heightened by the full dose of windowpane kicking in to stimulate a recognition of the unity and harmony, and immense love that permeates creation. For the next two weeks, as we traversed some of our countries most beautiful landscapes, I'd trip in the afternoons, and by the campfire we'd telepahtically communicate our understanding of 'Be Here Now'. I'll always appreciate Mr. Hoffman for the waves of intense bliss that flowed through my heart and the lessons of spirituality I was introduced to during that time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid. He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug's value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity's oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life. Dr. Hofmann was born in Baden, a spa town in northern Switzerland, on Jan. 11, 1906, the eldest of four children. His father, who had no higher education, was a toolmaker in a local factory, and the family lived in a rented apartment. But Dr. Hofmann spent much of his childhood outdoors. He would wander the hills above the town and play around the ruins of a Hapsburg castle, the Stein. It was a real paradise up there, he said in an interview in 2006. We had no money, but I had a wonderful childhood. It was during one of his ambles that he had his epiphany. It happened on a May morning I have forgotten the year but I can still point to the exact spot where it occurred, on a forest path on Martinsberg above Baden, he wrote in LSD: My Problem Child. As I strolled through the freshly greened woods filled with bird song and lit up by the morning sun, all at once everything appeared in an uncommonly clear light. It shone with the most beautiful radiance, speaking to the heart, as though it wanted to encompass me in its majesty. I was filled with an indescribable sensation of joy, oneness and blissful security. (more) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/europe/30hofmann.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Hillary has 'Testicular Foritude'
Have you ever seen a woman with a mustache and a beard ?? I'll bet she has to shave or wax or whatever but she is doing R.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie wrote: Bet she shaves (snip) Real women don't shave, Louis, and another thing, for my two cents... Real women find time to nurse their babies... And another thing... 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 - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kudos to anybody...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...who knows, why exactly /udaanajaya/ causes /utkraanti/ (levitation)! Bhoja's explanation seems quite interesting: tatrodaanasya saMyama-dvaareNa jayaad ***itareSaaM vaayuunaaM nirodhaad***[!] uurdhva-gatitvena...
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
Bob wrote: Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid... Well, Bob, now we know that there at least eight, including yourself, drug addled clowns posting here! LOL! Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Bob Brigante Date: Wed, Jul 2 2003 1:45 pm Subject: Re: Meditation and Insomnia http://tinyurl.com/4h6ykx
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. Oil Imports by Country
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] US Oil companies killed the electric car: One person sums it up like this: Oil companies killed the EV car. Chevron had inherited control of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH EV-95 battery when it merged with Texaco, which had purchased them from General Motors. Chevron's unit won a $30,000,000 settlement from Toyota and Panasonic, and the production line for the large NiMH batteries was closed down and dismantled. Only smaller NiMH batteries, incapable of powering an electric vehicle or plugging in, are currently allowed by Chevron-Texaco. What killed the EV was its inability to drive more than the range of its battery. I could be wrong on the exact figure but I think on one charge it could go about 100 miles and that's all. Approximately 80% of the U.S. population drive 50 miles a day or less. Great. The EV would have taken care of 80% of all of our driving. But what do you do on days when you want to go MORE than 100 miles, say a trip to the country for a day? That would be, say, 200 miles total for the day. Well, you simply couldn't do such a day-trip in an EV. Why? Because after you drove its battery's range, you'd have to recharge it, which would take about 6 hours. Do you expect the EV owner to sit around for 6 hours and wait for the battery to charge? Unless you're really rich, no one is going to buy an EV when they would need a second car to do the longer trips. Those longer trips may only constitute 20% or less of the days when we need more than 100 miles to drive but, hell, a second car is expensive. No one's going to do that unless, like I say, you are a rich elite, like the people who got the EVs in the movie Who killed the electric car? who were, for the most part, multimillionnaires, celebrities, or rich lesbians. That's why if you see the documentary Who killed the electric car that in the last 5 minutes of the movie the director specifically comes to the conclusion that it is the PLUG-IN HYBRID that is the solution, NOT the 100% electric (and he really goes into it at length in the extras). With a plub-in hybrid, you are able to do it all: 1) you plug it in at night to get a full charge on the, say, 100-mile- a-charge batter; 2) on those days when you drive MORE than the battery's range, YOU SIMPLY SWITCH OVER TO THE HYBRID mode, which lets you drive MORE than the 100 miles. 3) you go home that night and plug the thing in again. The director of Who killed the electric car? is making a follow-up documentary which, as I understand it, is going to be ALl about the plug-in hybrid and NOT about the electric car because he, too, realizes its limitations. Indeed, the impression I got is that he set out making the first movie in support of the EV and in the course of doing the movie realized that it DESERVED to die! So, who killed the electric car? Not Dick Cheney, not the oil companies, and certainly not GM or the car companies. YOU DID, OffWorld. You, the American consumer, who wants his cake and eat it, too, killed the electric car. Why? Because you want your car to do everything: putz around town, go into the country at a whim, go across the country and put 5,000 miles on the odometer in two weeks...all things you CANNOT do with an EV. But you can with a plug-in hybrid. Now, the 100% electric car certainly may have a future. It depends upon the technologies currently being developed. Rick Archer provided us with a link several days ago about an incredible ceramic battery technology in the works in Texas which one may be able to charge in about 5 minutes and will have a range of 500 miles! Well, if THAT thing becomes a reality, the EV will come off the shelf and, believe me, GM will be cranking them out like jelly beans. Until then, the plug-in hybrid is the way to go. Now, if you want to shit upon Bush and Company, this is where you can do that. Bush has put his eggs in two utterly useless concepts that are NOT the direction to go in: 1) Hydrogen cars. Unlike the plug-in hybrid which ALREADY has an existing distribution network (the nation's electricity grid), hydrogen would require an entirely new distribution structure tha wouldn't cost billions but 100s of billions. 2) corn ethanol. I am LOATHE to say I agree with Fidel Castro but on this he was right: it's taking money and food out of the pockets and mouths of the world's poor. Terrible policy. But, of course, although Bush should take some of the blame the REAL blame should lie at the feet of the horrible eco-terrorists like Al Gore and company who for years have been discouraging development of oil in the U.S. and scaring us with unfounded global warming bullshit. The plug-in hybrid technology is here TODAY, its distribution system is here TODAY. Everything is in place and until some other technology comes along that is
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
I'm addled enough without it. ~ S --- Richard J. Williams wrote: Well, Bob, now we know that there at least eight, including yourself, drug addled clowns posting here! LOL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Should the rich pay MORE income tax?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If elected, both Hillary and Barack say they'll put up the income tax rates for the rich. Yet, according to the statistics at the following site http://tinyurl.com/3cquum http://tinyurl.com/3cquum the rich are, by ANY objective standard of measurement, already paying far more than their share. Take a look at Table 1 (which, hopefully, I am successful in reproducing here, below) and look under the column Group's share of income tax. The top 1% of taxpayers pay almost 40% of ALL income taxes collected! The top 10% pay over 70% and the bottom 50% about 3%. People not familiar with working with numbers and percentages will be impressed by the above, but obviously a percentage of an extremely high number will be much higher than a percentage of a low number. The key is the percentage. The chart shows the top 1% paying a tax rate of 23% compared to an average tax rate of 12.5%. Actually that's not fair either, as the chart does not take into the highly regressive payroll tax and 4 out of 5 taxpayers now pay more in payroll taxes than in income taxes. So the difference is tax rates paid by the richest 1% (whom obama and clinton intend to raise) is somewhere around 5% higher than average. That isn't much difference. Plus keep in mind that wealth disparity has been increasing rapidly in the US since the middle 1970s, and now the top 1% own about 40% of all wealth in the country, so their share of taxes seems about right. Wealth disparity is a social issue as well. CEOs used to make about 40 times more than the average worker in the 70s but it's close to 400 times more. Wealth disparity is highest in the US compared to all other industrialized countries. Finally there's the issue of the gov't actually paying for what it spends. The federal debt is over $9 trillion and clearly going higher. The 3 republican presidents of Reagan, Bush1 and Bush2 have increased the federal debt by about $6.5 trillion dollars. I'm fine with giving republicans their tax cuts as long as they don't just shift the burden of ultimately paying for them to our children. Of course I remember my discussion with a fairly high reagan appointee in the 80s - I told him my concerns about lowering taxes while increasing spending and the problem of ultimately bankrupting the country. He smiled and replied - bankrupting the govt is not a problem, it's our goal!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nickname for FFL
ispiritkin wrote: --- on Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:02 am, Vaj wrote: Only if it was not falsifiable. --- and one day in April, Curtis wrote: ... you haven't said anything falsifiable ... A fitting nickname for FFL is FalsiFiabilty Lookout. =) It sums up the sweet-tart attribute of FFL because people are engaged enough to point out where mistakes might lurk in anything thrown onto the forum. I like that. I nicknamed it the Funny Farm Lounge eons ago. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Should the rich pay MORE income tax?
shempmcgurk wrote: If elected, both Hillary and Barack say they'll put up the income tax rates for the rich. Yet, according to the statistics at the following site http://tinyurl.com/3cquum http://tinyurl.com/3cquum the rich are, by ANY objective standard of measurement, already paying far more than their share. Yes, we should tax the very rich out of existence. The foul their nests anyway and have royally screwed up the planet. Who needs an estate worth any more than twelve million dollars anyway? Insane greedy bastards, that's who? That leaves plenty of room in the economy for anyone who worships wealth to achieve some of it but not uber wealth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Should the rich pay MORE income tax?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: If elected, both Hillary and Barack say they'll put up the income tax rates for the rich. Yet, according to the statistics at the following site http://tinyurl.com/3cquum http://tinyurl.com/3cquum the rich are, by ANY objective standard of measurement, already paying far more than their share. Take a look at Table 1 (which, hopefully, I am successful in reproducing here, below) and look under the column Group's share of income tax. The top 1% of taxpayers pay almost 40% of ALL income taxes collected! The top 10% pay over 70% and the bottom 50% about 3%. People not familiar with working with numbers and percentages will be impressed by the above, but obviously a percentage of an extremely high number will be much higher than a percentage of a low number. The key is the percentage. The chart shows the top 1% paying a tax rate of 23% compared to an average tax rate of 12.5%. Actually that's not fair either, as the chart does not take into the highly regressive payroll tax and 4 out of 5 taxpayers now pay more in payroll taxes than in income taxes. Yes, you are correct that the reproduced chart is limited to income taxes and not payroll taxes (i.e. FICA, of which the employee pays 50% and the employer pays the other 50%...or if you're like me and self-employed you pay 100% of FICA). The payroll tax is a flat rate of 7.65% for the first approximately $85,000 of adjusted gross income (the figure is probably off somewhat because I'm too lazy to look up the exact figure). So, as boo_lives correctly points out, the payroll tax is REGRESSIVE because after you reach the ceiling of $85,000 in AGI, there is no more payroll tax to pay, no matter how much income you have in a year. So, as a percentage of income, the person earning $10 million a year will pay LESS than his secretary earning $50,000 a year in payroll taxes. Indeed, this is the very example that Warren Buffet used to support his contention that the AGI ceiling for payroll taxes should be raised. But here's the thing: the payroll tax works differently from the way income taxes work in a very, very important way: how one benefits from it. Unlike all other expenditures by the government, the payroll tax (of which about 80% is a contribution to Social Security and about 20% to Medicare), what you get back in benefits is tied in to what you pay in to the system. For Social Security, the more you pay in, the more you get back in your retirement years. For Medicare, once you reach a certain number of quarters that you have at least contributed 1 cent, you get the full Medicare benefits once you reach the age of, I think, 62 or 65. It's an on/off type of benefit system. Payroll tax, therefore, SHOULD be kept separate from considerations of statistics, as reproduced as discussed here, because the way it is taxed and the way the benefits are given out are completely different than regular income taxes. With regular income taxes, all beneficiaries (i.e., everyone living in the United States) are equal and benefit equally. Not the case with payroll taxes and, hense, why we examine and treat their respective statistics separately. Their discussion should NOT be combined without this caveat. So the difference is tax rates paid by the richest 1% (whom obama and clinton intend to raise) is somewhere around 5% higher than average. First point: when you are talking about tax rates, you are talking about the average rate an invidual or demographic group pays that is an average of ALL the 6 federal marginal tax rates that that individual or group is paying. Secondly, as I point out above, it simply is not right or fair to combine payroll taxes and income taxes into a comparison. That isn't much difference. Plus keep in mind that wealth disparity has been increasing rapidly in the US since the middle 1970s, and now the top 1% own about 40% of all wealth in the country, so their share of taxes seems about right. Who cares whether the top 1% owns MORE of a percentage of the wealth of the country? As long as the people in the LOWER income groups are increasing in the percentages of ownership of the country, I care not a whim what the rich get. The free market economy is not a zero-sum gain. When the rich get richer this can be a GOOD THING if they drag the poorer people and those on the lower income rungs up with them. If the disparity between rich and poor increases, who cares as long as the lot of the poor increases. Wealth disparity is a social issue as well. CEOs used to make about 40 times more than the average worker in the 70s but it's close to 400 times more. Wealth disparity is highest in the US compared to all other industrialized countries. Good! And that disparity
[FairfieldLife] Are we being demographically targeted?
In the banner ad Yahoo! puts on this page (above here) I noticed was for Kashi pizza (the ads gonna change for each refreshed page so you may not see it). I wonder if we are, in particular, getting that ad because of the kind of keywords or discussions we have here. Are we, as so-called new- agers, being targeted with that particular ad? I think it's cool. I've done just a little internet advertising for my business but when I have I've been able to choose the keywords for, say, Google ads so that they only appear when certain words are put into the search engine. It appears the same sort of thing is happening here.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are we being demographically targeted?
Yeah, so when I looked, the ad was for cruises to Miami, relating to the RICH and INCOME TAX, so wealthy globetrotters can take a sidetrip to their tax-free zone in the tropics. ;) --- shempmcgurk wrote: In the banner ad Yahoo! puts on this page (above here) I noticed was for Kashi pizza (the ads gonna change for each refreshed page so you may not see it). I wonder if we are, in particular, getting that ad because of the kind of keywords or discussions we have here.
[FairfieldLife] Re: File - FFL Acronyms
---Where to the Scientology acronyms fit in? (Sample): SRA, Severe Reality Adjustment. The use of screaming and demeaning right in someone's face, usually by a superior, to get the person to fit into the mold of the Scientology cult better. Similar tech to that used by drill sergeants in boot camp In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: BC - Brahman Consciousness BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi CC - Cosmic Consciousness GC - God Consciousness MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of Maharishi's program. POV - Point of View SBS - Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's master SCI Science of Creative Intelligence SOC - State of Consciousness SSRS - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Pundit-ji) SV - Stpathya Ved (Vedic Architecture) TB - True Believer (in TM doctrines) TNB - True Non-Believer TMO - The Transcendental Meditation organization TTC TM Teacher Training Course UC - Unity Consciousness YMMV = Your Mileage may vary
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
The world is as you are, Willy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob wrote: Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid... Well, Bob, now we know that there at least eight, including yourself, drug addled clowns posting here! LOL! Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Bob Brigante Date: Wed, Jul 2 2003 1:45 pm Subject: Re: Meditation and Insomnia http://tinyurl.com/4h6ykx
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
mainstream wrote: The world is as you are, Willy. It's here now, wasn't it? Bob wrote: Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid... Well, Bob, now we know that there at least eight, including yourself, drug addled clowns posting here! LOL! Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Bob Brigante Date: Wed, Jul 2 2003 1:45 pm Subject: Re: Meditation and Insomnia http://tinyurl.com/4h6ykx
[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
What, the image of the clown in your mirror ? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mainstream wrote: The world is as you are, Willy. It's here now, wasn't it? Bob wrote: Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid... Well, Bob, now we know that there at least eight, including yourself, drug addled clowns posting here! LOL! Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Bob Brigante Date: Wed, Jul 2 2003 1:45 pm Subject: Re: Meditation and Insomnia http://tinyurl.com/4h6ykx
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. Oil Imports by Country
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: [snip] US Oil companies killed the electric car: One person sums it up like this: Oil companies killed the EV car. Chevron had inherited control of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH EV-95 battery when it merged with Texaco, which had purchased them from General Motors. Chevron's unit won a $30,000,000 settlement from Toyota and Panasonic, and the production line for the large NiMH batteries was closed down and dismantled. Only smaller NiMH batteries, incapable of powering an electric vehicle or plugging in, are currently allowed by Chevron-Texaco. What killed the EV was its inability to drive more than the range of its battery. I could be wrong on the exact figure but I think on one charge it could go about 100 miles and that's all. Your starting sentence is a death-knell to the rest of your post, and like the good redneck extreme right-wing warmonger you are, you stuck your head in the sand again. The large NiMH batteries could be boosted to 150 miles on one charge, and with a small hybrid engine added could go from NY to SF on one tank of gas. But Chevron has put the nail in the coffin with its patent buy-out, and refusal to let anyone use it. Now you are stuck with the smaller batteries allowed in the new hybrids. These hybrids are basically being held back from full potential by the law of patent ownership, in order to keep Chevron- Texaco in large profits and able to manipulate weak people such as your political corporate lapdogs. Plus, like the good redneck extreme right-wing warmonger you are, you ignored the potential for buses, taxis, and cars for city driving...no gasoline needed, until you hit the interstatesthen hybrid can kick in to take you across country on one tank. OffWorld
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[FairfieldLife] Re: LSD chemist dies at 102
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I agree with Curtis and with others who said that the trouble with LSD was the recreationalization of the drug. It was a sacrament, and used as one, could lead to valuable insights -- about the world, about the self, and about Self. Like him, I never had anything but the most positive, uplifting experiences during the period that I experimented with LSD, and have the greatest respect for it. I liken its cheapening as something to party down with to some callous youth finding a 200-year- old bottle of the finest cognac and seeing it only as a way to get drunk. I always wondered what the therapeutic use might be, it always seemed so confusing and so much never-the-same thing-twice, perhaps it was the mind expanding sense of greater reality that helped put things into perspective for people. I sure never looked at the world the same way. I'm sure Cary didn't, either. I don't know any of the particulars of who his shrink might have been and whether he was successful using LSD in his practice with a large number of patients. But I can certainly see it as being possible. The phenomenon of putting things into perspec- tive alone would be invaluable to many people whose perspective had gotten skewed enough that they sought psychiatric counseling. On the other hand, I would suspect that the shrink in question had to be very, very careful about whom it was appropriate to use this kind of therapy *with*. I'm thinking it would be possibly appropriate with patients who were dealing with neuroses and problems in their daily lives, and hideously inappropriate with someone dealing with psychosis. But more likely the dose was smaller than you'd take at one of Leary or Keseys' (or my) acid parties. Actually, it wasn't so much the dosage but the purity. 125 micrograms of real Sandoz acid was far more powerful than 1000 mics of street acid. Kesey's parties (I only attended one of them) served Sandoz acid at the start, and later Owsley stuff, so they were pretty fun parties. :-) I would like to have tried it in that context but I can't see our recreational use as cheapening it, we had real God consciousness experiences, and the music helps, in fact it's designed to take you as far as you can go. Please forgive my overly harsh condemnation of party acid earlier. I was definitely includ- ing myself as one of the targets of that rant. Some friends of mine and I ran a light show and concert promotion business back in 1966-7, and heck, we *worked* stoned on acid. :-) You worked! Jesus, the only technical thing I could do was roll joints, no matter where we were or how wasted we got I could always get a number together. What a great skill! Saved the day many a time I can tell you. I should put that on my C.V. I remember you posted a list of bands you had at your parties, It was good stuff. I would have loved to have been there. Must've been great, I read Wolfes Kool aid- acid test and felt I'd been born too late. But we made the best of it with bands like the Ozric Tentacles who had the most amazing light show. It was a blast. I remember you had The Doors at a party they are probably my fave band from then. Or Spirit perhaps , did you hear their LP The Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus, what a classic. Or the earlier jazzy stuff they did. Highly recommended. I was also known to party down on acid more than once during that period...uh...often in fact. Mea culpa. :-) It's just that in retrospect (the last time I took LSD was in 1967) I lament pissing away on a party what I could have used in the silence of the desert or a forest. But hey!, as you say, the parties were fun, too. And the music just rocked. We all ended up kidding ourselves it was the real reality that would somehow lead us to the promised land. Didn't work of course, not for anyone. But you have to follow every lead in my view. The problem comes, as it does with all drugs, when you start taking it too seriously and mistake the signpost for the destination. Or using it to escape rather than arrive, That must be what Albert saw and worried about. I did the same thing. Unlike many who started TM at the same time I did, I didn't have to wait 15 days. :-) I had stopped using psychedelics of any kind some months before, and had already been experimenting with other forms of meditation. Stopping was a cultural thing more than a spiritual or health thing for me. I had literally been through the Summer Of Love in L.A. and San Francisco, and had seen the whole Hippie thing go down the toilet as soon as the media got ahold of it. And I had seen what the street drugs were doing to people, and
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[FairfieldLife] Panic can destroy the most beautiful intention.
Panic can destroy the most beautiful intention. One of the most beautiful gifts given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the ability to settle into the silence within. He provided several ways to do this, through the practice of yoga, the practice of pranayam, ghandarva ved music or the most simple way, the twenty minute practice of Transcendental Meditation. When involved in any great transition process the ability to get deep rest, relax the mind and body especially the nervous system is invaluable. Barack Obama is not simply seeking to become President of the United States he is seeking to make monumental global change. Thus he has chosen a road full of resistance on so many levels. Hillary Clinton is running for President, but she does not have the agenda for change that Obama has chosen. His choice is more about redirecting the course of things away from the darkness and to the light. This said his burden is very large and is demonstrated not only by his current fight with Hillary Clinton but also John McCain and the former Pastor of his Church. Imagine that, here is a man who has declared he is a Christian, and he appears to be being destroyed by the same Christians he says he is one of. If he was a Hindu would he even have a chance? What would they say if he were an Atheist? If he were a Jew would that matter? Has there ever been a Jewish President of the United States? I would not claim to be a political or history scholar by any sense of the word, but I can say that as far as I know there has not been one Jewish President of the United States. Instead we have had Jewish Chairmen of the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and most of the monetary organizations in the world. One of the things that the Jewish American and the African American have in common is the experience of discrimination. To call a person a Kike has the same effect as calling one a nigger. To not allow a person to attend a school because they are Jewish is the same as not admitting a colored or a Negro which ever word the so called intelligent administrators chose to use. When Jeramiah Wright said; Hillary aint never been called a NIGGER he could be correct, yet he could not say that Mayor Bloomberg has never been called a Kike. In America it may be hypocritical to condemn a person for being anti Semitic when many in this country have held these sentiments. Many would argue that Hillary has been discriminated against and she has been called a WOMAN. They can argue that she has been a woman in America which for many years that meant she was a non entity. She was owned by her parents then owned by the person who would become her husband. She could not vote, she had very little authority in the home and basically had a few roles. 1) Human toilet ( Sex was simply a matter of a man getting on top of her inseminating and going to sleep, there was no idea of her pleasure.) 2) Cook, 3) Cleaning person,4) Birthing vessel. One could make this argument in regard to Senator Clinton. However the problem with this argument is that you would then have to also say that her husband is one of those men who has held these beliefs. This is demonstrated through his record of womanizing while Governor of Arkansas and as President of the United States. Thus saying Hillary Clinton has been a victim of being a woman She has been called Bitch, Cunt Whore Lesbo you name it. In this way Rev. Wrights comment was one to be challenged. Yet many of the other remarks were simply normal statements that basically reflect the attitudes of many in the world. Barack Obama has allowed himself to be pulled apart due to remarks that are not any more or less than what is historic record in the United States. Nothing new. I wish that he were a meditator, I believe the stress of the last months would be much easier on him. One thing that is absolutely certain is that one can not panic because the press is looking the weak link in your chain. Maybe it would have been better if he simply said ok AMERICA you have found my one fault my Pastor is an American, he exercises his right to freedom of speech. Then let people in support of Obama use the sound byte to expose the divisiveness of the Clintons or whoever decided this was news-the other side. Instead he panicked. Now the biggest discussion about Obama is his Pastor. Had he taken time to meditate it may have been different. Meditation twice a day 20 minutes would be the one element that makes these final days of the primary campaign like ice skating. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. Oil Imports by Country
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: [snip] US Oil companies killed the electric car: One person sums it up like this: Oil companies killed the EV car. Chevron had inherited control of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH EV-95 battery when it merged with Texaco, which had purchased them from General Motors. Chevron's unit won a $30,000,000 settlement from Toyota and Panasonic, and the production line for the large NiMH batteries was closed down and dismantled. Only smaller NiMH batteries, incapable of powering an electric vehicle or plugging in, are currently allowed by Chevron-Texaco. What killed the EV was its inability to drive more than the range of its battery. I could be wrong on the exact figure but I think on one charge it could go about 100 miles and that's all. Your starting sentence is a death-knell to the rest of your post, and like the good redneck extreme right-wing warmonger you are, you stuck your head in the sand again. The large NiMH batteries could be boosted to 150 miles on one charge, ...that doesn't change the point I was making at all. Putting aside the fact that in the film a 150 miles per charge battery wasn't yet in existance, even such a range is NOT enough for people to buy it for even that one or two times a year that they would want to make a big daily trip. and with a small hybrid engine added could go from NY to SF on one tank of gas. ...and that would be called...A PLUG-IN HYBRID, which was the point of my whole post. But Chevron has put the nail in the coffin with its patent buy-out, and refusal to let anyone use it. 1) where did you hear and read that; and 2) here is the address for the U.S. patent office's patent search page (a site I use in my business on an almost daily basis). Find me that patent, please: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html ...and if you can't find it, PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. Now you are stuck with the smaller batteries allowed in the new hybrids. These hybrids are basically being held back from full potential by the law of patent ownership, in order to keep Chevron- Texaco in large profits and able to manipulate weak people such as your political corporate lapdogs. Plus, like the good redneck extreme right-wing warmonger you are, you ignored the potential for buses, taxis, and cars for city driving...no gasoline needed, until you hit the interstatesthen hybrid can kick in to take you across country on one tank. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Shemp
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.box.net/shared/static/4vbagels8c.jpg Let me guess: The blank page is supposed to represent The Absolute? It's your way of saying that you think I'm enlightened? Why, thank you, Vaj!
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Shemp
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: http://www.box.net/shared/static/4vbagels8c.jpg Let me guess: The blank page is supposed to represent The Absolute? It's your way of saying that you think I'm enlightened? Why, thank you, Vaj!
[FairfieldLife] McCrazy: wife a c*nt
It's not an internet rumor. It's from a book called The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't by Cliff Schecter. Here's the passage from the book: Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, You're getting a little thin up there. McCain's face reddened, and he responded, At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c---. McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. http://tinyurl.com/48r4ar
[FairfieldLife] For Exxon
For Exxon Mobil, $10.9 Billion Profit Disappoints Exxon's shares fell after the company reported that first-quarter net income rose 17 percent, slightly below expectations.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield
Other notes, forward: You are a Divine Being. Everything you are learning in this class is the opposite of the way you lived as a limited being. I want you to be who you truly are: Infinite, Whole, Divine. You are learning how to proceed as an Infinite, Divine Being. You must proceed with new skills for living. Learning the use of intention and attention, letting go, allowing, trusting are some of the skills that move the universe. You are now capable of moving the universe skillfully for healing, for building beauty, for releasing pain. Today we have been practicing with these skills and releasing the pain of the past, so that when you leave this class today you can live skillfully on this planet and help others live without fear. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chakras? hummm, I wonder where he got that idea? Do you think MMY has some 'secret teachings' stashed somewhere? Good grief, the next thing you're gonna hear is 'kundalini'...yikes! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: We're going to talk about parallel reality. When I've talked to you in the past about dimensions, we've said here's one dimension and here's another dimension, and they're living side by side with one another. But there's also a fabric of consciousness that bleeds back and forth from one dimension to the other. They're not just standing there like soldiers unrelated to each other. There's a gate or fabric of consciousness that's flowing into one, flowing back to the other, flowing here and there. On a practical level, the point at which something splits off, a choice point at which one dimension goes this way and one dimension goes that way, where we are in the world right now we're coming to a major choice point. with possibility going this way and one possibility going that way and one possibility going another way, you really get the feeling of how you can have a fountainhead and things can sprout out of that and each possible parallel reality has an interrelationship with the other ones and they're in a flow together. When you have choice points that are very close like this, there's such a small gap between these three people, essentially what's happening is that the dimensions are closing in on one another. They're collapsing. Whereas before perhaps our experience was that the dimensions were very discrete, so you had a big gap. Now the gap is closing and it's a very small gap. That's why there's a feeling that the depth of difference between these three possibilities actually isn't that big. A dimension is kind of like a membrane. That's why when we work with the chakras, they're such a good example of what a dimension feels like because you can feel these subtle membranes in the chakras moving back and forth. A dimension is like that. It has a certain edge to it, a circumference, and that circumference is very fine. You can move from one edge of that circumference to the next edge and a whole other possible reality opens up. Normally, we are protected from experiencing a parallel reality in any clear way because we're locked into a framework of our dimension. We can only experience what is right here. We don't have the capacity to see outside that bubble. We're kind of locked away in that bubble. There are a lot of good reasons for that. For one thing, it keeps you focused. It keeps you connected to what's going on so you don't bleed out into some other possibility. But as time and consciousness are moving in the way that they are right now, the possibility of perceiving parallel connectivity is much more pronounced, so you can have the capacity to move out into this other level of awareness and still maintain your own.
[FairfieldLife] Re: McCrazy: wife a c*nt
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not an internet rumor. It's from a book called The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't by Cliff Schecter. Here's the passage from the book: Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, You're getting a little thin up there. McCain's face reddened, and he responded, At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c---. McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. http://tinyurl.com/48r4ar I'm not a big fan of McCain's but I gotta tell ya that if that's the worst they can come up with to show the guy's downside, boy, he's a shoe-in. Bob, in the grand scheme of things, do you not think that this is really of no consequence?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Shemp
It was Montreal in February. I thought you'd recognize it! On May 1, 2008, at 5:24 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.box.net/shared/static/4vbagels8c.jpg Let me guess: The blank page is supposed to represent The Absolute? It's your way of saying that you think I'm enlightened? Why, thank you, Vaj!
[FairfieldLife] Re: For BillyG
Makes perfect sense to me!
[FairfieldLife] Re: McCrazy: wife a c*nt
Bob wrote: http://tinyurl.com/48r4ar Bob, in the grand scheme of things, do you not think that this is really of no consequence? What would you expect from a drug addled clown like Bob?
[FairfieldLife] If I were a terrorist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EXKLVgEx0
[FairfieldLife] Rockefeller family publicly challenges Exxon Mobil
Rockefeller family publicly challenges Exxon Mobil Chicago Tribune, May 1, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/4u455w Members of the Rockefeller family took a fight with Exxon Mobil Corp. public Wednesday, challenging the oil giant spawned by John D. Rockefeller to split the roles of chairman and chief executive and focus more on renewable energy. The family members, who call themselves the company's longest continuous shareholders, said they are concerned that Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil is too focused on short-term gains from soaring oil prices and should do more to invest in cleaner technology. Separating the leadership roles, they argue, would better position the company for challenges to come. They are fighting the last war and they're not seeing they're facing a new war, said Peter O'Neill, the great-great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller who heads the family committee dealing with Exxon Mobil. We feel tied very closely to this company, and that's why we feel so passionately about them becoming the best company they can be, said Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, an economist and family member who briefed reporters. Exxon Mobil was formed by the combination of two offspring of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. It is now the world's largest publicly traded oil company. Members of the family are sponsoring four proxy resolutions that raise concerns about the company's leadership under Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. The resolutions call on Exxon Mobil to invest more in alternative fuels, cut greenhouse-gas emissions at its plants and from the fuels it makes, prepare a study of the consequences of global warming on developing nations, and split the board chairman and CEO positions. Family members said they have spent years behind the scenes prodding the company to change its approach to the energy business. Exxon Mobil spokesman Gantt Walton said the company has met with members of the Rockefeller family on several occasions and respects the rights of all shareholders to make their views known, but it does not comment on details of meetings with shareholders. Exxon gave its chairman Lee Raymond one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million, including pension, stock options and other perks. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989 SEE PHOTOS of Lee Raymond Photo 1) http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t175/jcwinni/lee-raymond.jpg Photo 2) http://www.ptgustan.com/jowl1.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Conservative Fairfield Meditators Soar Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFyQLC_6Qg
[FairfieldLife] For Shemp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_76Cx-bJ_s Contrite soul with guilt oppressed...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?
It's pretty weird that he takes offense where none is given and then blames everybody but himself. --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little advice, Angela: Stop with the some of my best friends are... babble and just stick to not using offensive words, okay? I'm offended and that should be enough to get you to shut the fuck up. Seems to me that Shemp is pretty much *always* offended. I guess that means the whole world has to shut the fuck up. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] For Shemp
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[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. Oil Imports by Country
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: [snip] US Oil companies killed the electric car ...that doesn't change the point I was making at all. Putting aside the fact that in the film a 150 miles per charge battery wasn't yet in existance, even such a range is NOT enough for people to buy it for even that one or two times a year that they would want to make a big daily trip. The large NiMH batteries could be boosted to 150 miles on one charge, and with a small hybrid engine added could go from NY to SF on one tank of gas. But Chevron has put the nail in the coffin with its patent buy-out, and refusal to let anyone use it. Plus, like the good redneck extreme right-wing warmonger you are, you ignored the potential for buses, taxis, and cars for city driving...no gasoline needed, until you hit the interstatesthen hybrid can kick in to take you across country on one tank. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Texas Rednecks at it again
http://tinyurl.com/5amqxh
[FairfieldLife] Shemp, MDixon WillyTex' Dumbass War
Shemp, MDIXON WillyTex' Dumbass War (any other retards want their names added to the above list?) http://tinyurl.com/5s7bfe OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Why do Duveyoung and Angela like using the n-word so much?
Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is used? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's pretty weird that he takes offense where none is given and then blames everybody but himself. --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here's a little advice, Angela: Stop with the some of my best friends are... babble and just stick to not using offensive words, okay? I'm offended and that should be enough to get you to shut the fuck up. Seems to me that Shemp is pretty much *always* offended. I guess that means the whole world has to shut the fuck up. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Shemp
Why is her nose covering his willie? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [IraqBodyCount.jpg picture by FFL_2008]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, MDixon WillyTex' Dumbass War
For someone who is so against war and killing you sure have alot of bile and hatred in your system, Off.Kilter... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shemp, MDIXON WillyTex' Dumbass War (any other retards want their names added to the above list?) http://tinyurl.com/5s7bfe OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: McCrazy: wife a c*nt
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: It's not an internet rumor. It's from a book called The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't by Cliff Schecter. Here's the passage from the book: Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, You're getting a little thin up there. McCain's face reddened, and he responded, At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c---. McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. http://tinyurl.com/48r4ar I'm not a big fan of McCain's but I gotta tell ya that if that's the worst they can come up with to show the guy's downside, boy, he's a shoe-in. Bob, in the grand scheme of things, do you not think that this is really of no consequence? * In front of witnesses, McNuts goes red and insults his gorgeous wife over a trivial remark that any sane person would have dealt with in a humorous or at least reasonable way, and this off the wall type of response has been seen up close and personal many times by his fellow Republican Senators, who say that the prospect of this goofball in the White House sends a chill down the spine. He simply lacks the level of control suitable for responsible adults, not to mention national leaders. I was really bummed out for a while by the imminent accession of your state's senior senator to the Presidency (the crazy-enough warmongering policies of Bush make him look like McCain Lite), but I realized that Congress and the people are simply not going to put up with any more military adventurism, and quite possibly the military chiefs will covertly disable McCain's control over the football, as they were rumored to do when Nixon was drinking heavily, telling key figures in the chain of command to verify nuke launch commands with senior military leaders. Obama is an asshole, but he is not a dangerous asshole like Bush and McCain -- too bad he can't win the Nov election. Hats off once again to the incoherent American public!
