[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Palin Pregnant? Stayed Tuned...'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Raunchy de Dog Raunchy de d...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: It's been rumored on 'Air America' That the 'real reason'..for Sarah's resignation as Gov... Is because she went and got herself, pregnant, again... In search of what's behind, Palin's decision, Randy Rhodes, of Air America, is guessing... She's pregnant... r.g. Yep, Air Head American set the record straight...again. (snip)(Snoop Dog, says, Be Kind to Yourself...YO!) Randi Rhodes is an intelligent woman, who was broadcasting live, competing with Radio Personalities, Like Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannibal, I mean Hannity... So, lately, 'Air America' has begun to fill a vacuum, in the American Media circus... Ms.Rhodes, is apparently happily married, to a guy, 'Who pays his own way'...he's a lawyer apparently, and keeps her satisfied, by the tone, of her demeanor on the show... She was just commenting on, how 'Unsane' 'Our culture' Has become, when you get wall to wall coverage of MJ, on the one hand, and on the other, Sarah Palin... It's scary, when you start to feel:.'What Planet, am I on?'... Beam me up, Scotty!'..~~+++-+++-+++ Robrty
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy's Hitler/Nazi rule
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Judy Stein has a rule which says something to the effect that he who invokes Hitler in an argument (or makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis) has automatically lost the argument (or something to that effect). Hopefully, she will correct me and give the full and correct rule. Anyway, Al Gore, the schmuck, has done that with climate change. Hopefully, Judy will feel the same way about him doing that as she would if some conservative did that on another topic: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece Many people, sort of 'Blank Out, when the name of Adolf Hitler, or Nazi is mentioned... The ones who died in the Holocaust, were most humiliated, crushed and disposed of, like some kind of garbage... So, there is a 'Veil' over the eyes, of some, who had to bear, that humiliating and soul-dwarfing experience, to sort of 'Blank Out', as mentioned above... For someone like Al Gore, to use the Nazi analogy, was kind of dumb... Hitler and the Nazis, for most, represent the embodiedment of evil, on earth... Hitler himself, prayed at the sword that peirced Christ, that he be 'Taken over by Evil'...and so it was, with him.. And then all the Germans, not all, but some, at the time, got into the fantasy, of what he was promising, and we all know what happened... They all lost they're souls, in some way, being quiet, being 'Good Nazis'... 'We All Still KNow, Those Type People in This Life-Time... People, that follow, like sheep...never question, anything, ... OH, MY! Until, he eventually destroyed, even himself, and his sickly wife'... So, to compare the 'Fight Against the Evil Oil Co, and the associated cronies of the 'Mafia Drug and Medical system, etc...'as Al Gore, suggests, is just not very, 'Politically Correct Rhetoric'... r.g.
[FairfieldLife] Sarah's Secret Diary
Maureeen Dowd is not one of my favorite commentators, but sometimes she just nails it. This is one of those times. But the other thing that'll be funny to FFLers is to compare this imagined Diary rant to real rants we've seen coming from two FFL members who like to blame others here for them being similarly misunderstood and persecuted for being women. Maureen even captures the You're not listening to me whine that the three women have in common. While reading this rant, might I suggest that you do a mental compare and contrast and ask yourself if either of *them* have ever admitted having fucked up, or whether, like Sarah, *they* always find someone else to blame things on. Sarah's Secret Diary Dear Diary, No one understands me. It's like I'm speaking some Eskimo dialect or something. Andrea Mitchell follows me all the way to Kanakanak Beach and I geta French manicure and set up this huge photo op for her, even though she spooked the salmon. Todd and me are in our cool fishing bibs. Piper's helping out on the boat. It's an amazing day that shows how our Creator favored my beloved Alaska, gatekeeper of the continent, and makes a great shot for all the network reporters up here to milk. This progresses me away from my image as some kind of flaky rogue diva and back to my image as a tough huntin' and fishin' gal. But Andrea makes such a darn big deal about how I'm quitting in the middle of my term. You're not listening to me! I snap. She says maybe I didn't want to go back to the nitty-gritty of Alaska politics after the bright lights of the national campaign. The nitty-gritty, like, you mean, the fish slime and the dirt under the fingernails and stuff that's me? I said. Awesome response, huh?!! It's the same old double standard. I am not one of those who would whine and cuss. It's just not how I'm wired!!! But the minute I start to whine and cuss, the mainstream media totally misunderstands my verbiage and the combination of things that brought me to this place of knowing. And I know that I know that I know those crappy bloggers will put out more confliction stories. I keep explaining what impacted me, but everyone seems more confused and ironic than ever. What is it about average, hard-working Americans like me that Americans can't understand? I love Alaska too much to waste any more time on her Bridge to Nowhere. I need to be able to go forth out there and fight for what is right. And what is right is for me and my First Dude to take that big fish run to the White House. So people should stop being so stinkin' mean to me because this is a goal-setting thing, a full-court press, a sub-four marathon. Karl Rove thinks I'm not prepared for the national stage??? Pundits think I should read a book before I write one??? Man, I feel a grizzly rising up in me!!! Every mom we know multitasks. And I am one to believe I can use an all-of-the-above approach, too. I can abandon Alaska and ambition myself for the presidency. I can get bored with my job and fight apathy. I can take the easy path out to work hard on a path for fruitfulness. I can move on selfishly and call it altruistically. I don't need a title now when I can shake up the good ol' boys and get a better title in the end. You didn't really think I was going anywhere, did you? I'm one of Google's hot trends. We're doing a fund-raising push this week on SarahPAC to destroy Obama's attempt to destroy capitalism. And forget about Obama's youth revolution. I posed for a cheesecake shot in Runner's World with short-shorts and a crumpled American flag that's destined to be on the bedroom wall of every conservative 12-year-old boy. It's the metaphor, stupid! Heck yeah, I'm running! As I learned when I was a beauty contestant flags and gams show you it's about country. And before you say anything though about the glam shots of me stretching and preening on the waterfront in my cute running outfits, don't bother. That would be a sexist double standard. Nobody said anything when Obama walked around in Hawaii without his shirt, showing off his washboard abs. Well, maybe they did, but I betcha they say more about me because, of course, we know by now, for some reason, a different standard applies to my decisions. It's just like when Obama, the One Who Must Be Obeyed, said his family was off-limits so everyone left them alone. But they never left mine alone. Thank goodness for that though because we hate being out of the limelight! It was a blast to see Bristol with my grandbaby Tripp on the cover of People as the ambassadress of abstinence! It's the same different standard with the dirt-digging behind these frivolous ethics complaints. As I told the reporters who chased me up here, if I were in the White House instead of Alaska, the Department of Law down there would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out. Later, the media brats began making a big, fat ugly scene about there being no Department of Law
[FairfieldLife] 'Hitler's Perverted Concept of Jeso+s Christos'
By Joel Miller © 2009 WorldNetDaily.com It's nearly as rare as a hailstorm in Hades that I write in response to an e-mail to the editor, but at least one recent missive deserves a quick stab. Reacting to Greg Nyquist's WorldNet Magazine article, The Lions are Back, about worldwide persecution of the Christian Church, some chap named Lance Leighnor wrote to say, While I can support some of what you write and even agree with it ... the latest bit of Christian nonsense to hit your site is really so far off to the right, it's off the radarscope. Not too sure which radarscope that happened to be, I was happy that Lance so quickly clarified what he meant: Do Christians feel they have to be persecuted in order to validate their faith? From what gets written on your pages, it would appear the answer is yes. Never mind that such persecution might actually be news. No, we lackeys for the Lord just like reminding the world we get our rumps walloped on a regular basis -- makes us feel special or something. After all, when Serbs kill Albanian Muslims, that's news, but when Christians wind up becoming backstops for bullets, that's just flexing our martyr muscles. Oh, pity us. Lance was also quick to point out that Christians have, in their benevolence I'm sure, introduced the joys of martyrdom to many others as well -- saying that sundry, sour saints of Christ have murdered as many as 500,000,000 people in the last 2,000 years. (Cheers, plaudits and great whoopee are, by the way, in order for the bean counters over the last couple millennia who diligently kept such accurate records of this long-term death and annihilation campaign. We're talking tough work here, folks. Have you ever seen an abacus that actually goes that high?) Lance went on to write that this campaign sadly includes the Jewish Holocaust, directed by that good German Lutheran Hitler. ... Hitler the Lutheran? I've heard Hitler called a lot of things -- but few with more than four letters and definitely never a Lutheran. Might as well say Anton LaVey the 13th apostle, or Josef Stalin the humanitarian. Just to check, I pulled my copy of Mein Kampf out from under the kitty-litter box to give it a quick once-over. As far as I can tell, Hitler mentions Luther only once, and only in a passing reference as a great reformer. He never cites him as an authority for his views. Further, Hitler spent many years as a member of the Church of Rome -- which of course had that little scrap with Luther a few hundred years before, called the Great Reformation. Catholics are still a bit touchy about the whole thing. In other words, if Hitler's a Lutheran, then so is the pope. Lucky for Lance, however, bone-headed ignorance enjoys company -- and with whom better to share a seat on the rock-head roster than President William Jefferson Clinton? Billy Jeff earned his butt rest on the boob bench when addressing an assembly at a Feb. 4, 1999, prayer breakfast, where he publicly confessed, I do believe that even though Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity, God did not want him to prevail. The latter part of this sentence is obvious to anyone with even a meager understanding of Christian theology. God governs and controls the universe -- something that (it sometimes seems) Clinton wishes he could do, but on which God holds the patent. In simple terms, if God doesn't want it to occur, the script gets canned. No problem here. The real trouble is in the phrase, Adolf Hitler preached a perverted form of Christianity. ... That's the sticking point -- a point that stuck William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, like a fireplace poker right in the eye. After the remark, Donohue asked the president to apologize for the observation, which he dubbed, a remarkably ignorant comment about Hitler and Christianity. Donohue further commented, Anyone who has studied Hitler knows that this is pure nonsense, adding, Hitler was a neo-pagan terrorist whose conscience was not informed by Christianity, but by pseudo-scientific racist philosophies. The foundation of those philosophies was a Mulligan stew of muddled ideology: bite-sized pieces of Thomas Henry Huxley, chunks of Charlie Darwin, hunks of Ernst Haeckle and less-than-tender morsels of Friedrich Nietzsche -- men not well known for their strident confession to traditional Christianity. Rather, they and Hitler dismissed Christianity either in part or in toto. In his book, The Atheist Syndrome, John P. Koster profiles Hitler in an attempt to explain his rejection of Christianity. Writes Koster, Hitler appears to have believed that Jesus never rose and that Christianity was a sort of Jewish conspiracy. That goes a fair pace beyond simple perversion it would seem. And far from being sincere about matters of faith, Koster points out that very often Hitler used religion as a tool. For instance, in unifying his political base, he would often speak to
[FairfieldLife] 'The Religious Aspects of Nazism'
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Nazi_occultism This article describes speculative theories about Nazism. Historically verifiable religious or semi-religious aspects of Nazism up to 1945 are discussed in the article religious aspects of Nazism. Religious aspects of neo-Nazism after 1945 are discussed in the article esoteric Nazism. Semi-religious developments within post-1945 neo-Nazism are discussed under the term neo-völkisch movements. Speculation about National Socialism and Occultism has become part of popular culture since 1960. Aside from several popular documentaries, there are numerous books on the topic, most notably Le Matin des Magiciens (1960) and The Spear of Destiny (1972); The first examples of this literary genre appeared in the occult milieu in France and England in the early 1940s. These books have been discussed by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke as the modern Mythology of Nazi occultism or the Nazi Mysteries: The recurring element of this occult historiography is the thesis that the Nazis were directed by occult agencies of some sort: black forces, invisible hierarchies, unknown superiors, secret societies or even Satan, who is supposed to have possessed Hitler. Since such an agency has remained concealed to previous historians of National Socialism, [1] Goodrick-Clarke and the German historian Michael Rißmann have described the genre as cryptohistory. However, there also has been academic research on the potential influence of occultists and paganists on Nazism. This is part of an ongoing debate among historians and political scientist about the religious aspects of Nazism. Contents: 1. Documentaries on Nazism and the occult 2. Mythology of Nazi occultism 3. List of documentaries 4. Fictional accounts of Nazi occultism 5. See also 6. Notes 7. Bibliography 8. External links 1. Documentaries on Nazism and the occult More than 50 years after the end of the Third Reich, National Socialism and Adolf Hitler have become a recurring subject in history documentaries. Among these documentaries, there are several that focus especially on the potential relations between Nazism and Occultism, such as the History Channel's documentary Hitler and the Occult. [2] [3] As evidence of Hitler's occult power this documentary offers, for example, the infamous statement by Joachim von Ribbentrop of his continued subservience to Hitler at the Nuremberg Trials. [4] After the author Dusty Sklar has pointed out that Hitler's suicide happened at the night of April 30/May 1, which is Walpurgis Night, the narrator continues: With Hitler gone, it was as if a spell had been broken. A much more plausible reason for Hitler's suicide (that does not involve the paranormal) is that the Russians had already closed to within several hundred meters of Hitler's bunker and he did not want to be captured alive. Hitler speaking at a huge mass meeting, the Nuremberg Rally 1934 From the perspective of academic history, these documentaries on Nazism, if ever commented, are seen as problematic because they don't contribute to an actual understanding of the problems that arise in the study of Nazism and Neo-Nazism. Without referring to a specific documentary Mattias Gardell, a historian who studies contemporary separatist groups, writes: In documentaries portraying the Third Reich, Hitler is cast as a master magician; these documentaries typically include scenes in which Hitler is speaking at huge mass meetings. [...] Cuts mix Hitler screaming with regiments marching under the sign of the swastika. Instead of providing a translation of his verbal crescendos, the sequence is overlaid with a speaker talking about something different. All this combines to demonize Hitler as an evil wizard spellbinding an unwitting German people to become his zombified servants until they are liberated from the spell by the Allied victory after which, suddenly, there were no German Nazis left among the populace. How convenient it would be if this image were correct. National socialism could be defeated with garlic. Watchdog groups could be replaced with a few vampire killers, and resources being directed into antiracist community programs could be directed at something else. [...] The truth, however, is that millions of ordinary German workers, farmers and businessmen supported the national socialist program. [...] They were people who probably considered themselves good citizens, which is far more frightening than had they merely been demons. [5] Hitler and the Occult includes a scene in which Hitler is seen as speaking at a huge mass meeting. While Hitler's speech is not translated, the narrator talks about the German occultist and stage magician Erik Jan Hanussen: Occultists believe, Hanussen may also have imparted occult techniques of mind control and crowd domination on Hitler (see below). When historians have noted the existence of such myths as those about Erik Jan
[FairfieldLife] What you focus on you become -- the USA as Google Trends
Google is more than a tool with which to find information. It is also a tool with which to measure the state of consc- iousness of the people seeking information, by measuring the things they seek information *about*, the things they focus on. These are today's Top 100 Google Trend searches. Read them and weep. The only one in the Top 10 that gave me hope was that that many people were looking up the lyrics to Charlie Chaplin's Smile, but then I clicked on the link and found that the only reason it was there is that Jermaine Jackson sang it recently. So the only thing I was able to settle for in search of a positive trend is that Sarah Palin's name does not appear once. 1. trey lorenz 2. michael jackson memorial booklet 3. is jennifer hudson pregnant 4. brooke shields and michael jackson 5. michael jackson live memorial coverage 6. brandon jackson 7. smile lyrics 8. john mayer 9. michael jackson memorial service televised 10. i never dreamed you d leave in summer 11. smile lyrics charlie chaplin 12. shaheen jafargholi 13. shaheen jafargholi michael jackson 14. pastor lucius smith 15. sheila jackson lee 16. susan clemmer 17. michael jackson casket photo 18. they won t go when i go 19. cicely tyson 20. maya angelou 21. john mayer michael jackson 22. how old is smokey robinson 23. michael jackson daughter paris 24. stevie wonder 25. live coverage of michael jackson memorial 26. kenny ortega 27. steve mcnair wife photo 28. bernice king 29. live michael jackson coverage 30. sahel kazemi images 31. nicole bobek mugshot 32. smile song 33. paris jackson speaks 34. jesus is love 35. marlon jackson twin 36. mariah carey sings at michael jackson memorial 37. great american road trip 38. smile though your heart is breaking 39. jackson family names 40. jason crigler 41. coretta scott king 42. hexagon securities 43. nicole bobek 44. live coverage of michael jackson funeral 45. philadelphia experiment 46. mo s bacon bar 47. michael jackson memorial service live online 48. michael jackson open casket 49. steve mcnair update 50. where is michael jackson being buried 51. randy jackson michaels brother 52. msnbc live 53. martin luther king iii 54. sarah bernhardt 55. rebbie jackson pictures 56. tom dreesen 57. tour de france 2009 standings 58. magic johnson 59. msnbc.com live 60. al sharpton 61. blanket jackson pics 62. warehouse 13 63. john kuester 64. michael jackson funeral program 65. mj memorial live 66. google chrome os 67. robin bain 68. jennifer hudson michael jackson 69. patti austin 70. mariah carey i ll be there 71. how old is stevie wonder now 72. berry gordy 73. benjamin disraeli 74. michael jackson s daughter speaks 75. mega millions winning numbers 76. mammal jonas 77. usher 78. marlon jackson twin brother 79. michael waltrip racing 80. abc7.com/live 81. queen latifah 82. donny deutsch 83. are michael jackson s kids biologically his 84. msnbc tv 85. beverly wilshire 86. smokey robinson 87. ethyl acrylate 88. abcnews.com live 89. michael jackson program book 90. jackson memorial live stream 91. nantucket 92. jackson family tree 93. rodney king 94. al sharpton michael jackson speech 95. who s loving you lyrics 96. forest lawn cemetery 97. 10 things ihate about you 98. el salvador vs canada 99. texas chili bowl 100. syfy channel
[FairfieldLife] Re: What you focus on you become -- the USA as Google Trends
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Google is more than a tool with which to find information. It is also a tool with which to measure the state of consc- iousness of the people seeking information, by measuring the things they seek information *about*, the things they focus on. These are today's Top 100 Google Trend searches. Read them and weep. The only one in the Top 10 that gave me hope was that that many people were looking up the lyrics to Charlie Chaplin's Smile, but then I clicked on the link and found that the only reason it was there is that Jermaine Jackson sang it recently. So the only thing I was able to settle for in search of a positive trend is that Sarah Palin's name does not appear once. 1. trey lorenz 2. michael jackson memorial booklet 3. is jennifer hudson pregnant 4. brooke shields and michael jackson 5. michael jackson live memorial coverage 6. brandon jackson 7. smile lyrics 8. john mayer 9. michael jackson memorial service televised 10. i never dreamed you d leave in summer 11. smile lyrics charlie chaplin 12. shaheen jafargholi 13. shaheen jafargholi michael jackson 14. pastor lucius smith 15. sheila jackson lee 16. susan clemmer 17. michael jackson casket photo 18. they won t go when i go 19. cicely tyson 20. maya angelou 21. john mayer michael jackson 22. how old is smokey robinson 23. michael jackson daughter paris 24. stevie wonder 25. live coverage of michael jackson memorial 26. kenny ortega 27. steve mcnair wife photo 28. bernice king 29. live michael jackson coverage 30. sahel kazemi images 31. nicole bobek mugshot 32. smile song 33. paris jackson speaks 34. jesus is love 35. marlon jackson twin 36. mariah carey sings at michael jackson memorial 37. great american road trip 38. smile though your heart is breaking 39. jackson family names 40. jason crigler 41. coretta scott king 42. hexagon securities 43. nicole bobek 44. live coverage of michael jackson funeral 45. philadelphia experiment 46. mo s bacon bar 47. michael jackson memorial service live online 48. michael jackson open casket 49. steve mcnair update 50. where is michael jackson being buried 51. randy jackson michaels brother 52. msnbc live 53. martin luther king iii 54. sarah bernhardt 55. rebbie jackson pictures 56. tom dreesen 57. tour de france 2009 standings 58. magic johnson 59. msnbc.com live 60. al sharpton 61. blanket jackson pics 62. warehouse 13 63. john kuester 64. michael jackson funeral program 65. mj memorial live 66. google chrome os 67. robin bain 68. jennifer hudson michael jackson 69. patti austin 70. mariah carey i ll be there 71. how old is stevie wonder now 72. berry gordy 73. benjamin disraeli 74. michael jackson s daughter speaks 75. mega millions winning numbers 76. mammal jonas 77. usher 78. marlon jackson twin brother 79. michael waltrip racing 80. abc7.com/live 81. queen latifah 82. donny deutsch 83. are michael jackson s kids biologically his 84. msnbc tv 85. beverly wilshire 86. smokey robinson 87. ethyl acrylate 88. abcnews.com live 89. michael jackson program book 90. jackson memorial live stream 91. nantucket 92. jackson family tree 93. rodney king 94. al sharpton michael jackson speech 95. who s loving you lyrics 96. forest lawn cemetery 97. 10 things ihate about you 98. el salvador vs canada 99. texas chili bowl 100. syfy channel 87. Ethyl acrylate? I think you put this one in as a joke, or maybe people were trying to find out what Michael Jacksons face was made from.
[FairfieldLife] 'Holy Lance/Spear of Destiny'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance
[FairfieldLife] 'The Polaris Material/Deep Emotions'
July 2009: Delving into Deep Emotions Posted: 30 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT July is a month of intense emotion. Some of you have been thinking that June was intense enough, but June was more about action and connection — whereas July is all about feeling. It may feel chaotic to some of you, especially those who are not used to accessing the deeper layers of your emotions. This is what is bubbling up. Those of you who are more used to operating from your emotions will likely feel a very pleasant month as it finally seems as if the rest of the world is more in step with you. But understand that because you are not an emotional society, most of you have deeper layers of emotion that you do not typically access, and so there will be some elements of that chaotic feeling for nearly everyone this month. We previously talked about emotions bubbling up from the surface and about seismic activity going on around the world; this seems to be relaxing somewhat on a global level. This is because the energy is moving upward through the earth into the roots of Who You Are — into your physical selves — and then of circulating within your third and fourth chakra causing this well of emotions to bubble up and bubble forth between you. Some people will experience difficulties in relationships because of this. Things will be coming to light that you hadn't brought out in the past; this is why we use the word 'chaotic' when we describe the energy of this month. However, it's not quite as bleak as all that. There has also been quite a shift taking place in the month that you have just finished, June. We talked a month ago about the types of connections that you all would be beginning to make, especially over global events that are occurring on a level that you all can share. You noticed this at the end of the month with celebrity deaths (such as Michael Jackson) that you were all able to share your memories and experiences. Even though they were your own memories and personal experiences, this was still an experience that could be shared among you. The level of connection between you was therefore increased on a global basis, yet another step on your planned journey towards a conscious, global, mutally supporting community. So if you have that to move forward from during the month of July, giving you a really nice stable base from which to explore this new depth of emotion that you're all going to be accessing. Exercise: This is an exercise that will help balance the chaotic feeling of emotion with this new sense of connection that you now hold with one another. Stand up with your feet about shoulder width apart. Shift your weight forward and backward until you feel the majority of it centered on the balls of your feet. Bend your knees slightly. If you practice Qi Gong or Tai-Chi, this movement will be familiar to you: Bring your hands up to shoulder level and then let them float down again and where they rest at waist height, palms down. Take a deep breath. Slowly let them descend, while your knees bend a little bit further — an inch or two. You are essentially bouncing up and down, the weight on the balls of your feet, but still spread out over your entire feet (your heels are touching the floor) and your hands are at waist height or hip height, slowly bouncing up and down as your knees bend ever so slightly. Now draw up more and more energy from the Earth. This energy is the energy that connects all of you. And as you are doing so, bring your awareness to the center of your chest where your heart is. Bring the energy up into your heart and realize that this shared energy is now being shared among the hearts of everyone. The entire global community is one heart, one beating heart that shared amongst all of you. Your emotions are beautiful. They are a part of you. They are how you express the energy that course through your body. This is the energy that comes from the earth. This is the energy that is shared among all of you. This is one beating heart that all of you share together. When you feel that chaotic feeling that you are being carried away by your emotions, you can stop, rest, breathe and perform this exercise for a minute or two, to help you remind yourself of the connection that you have that you all share. Remind yourself how your emotions help connect you as humans with a heart-to-heart connection that all of you share. This connection can deeply empower you and connect you more fully to Who You Are. http://www.polarisrising.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: What you focus on you become -- the USA as Google Trends
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: 87. Ethyl acrylate? I think you put this one in as a joke, or maybe people were trying to find out what Michael Jacksons face was made from. Funny. Not a joke. Looking it up myself, I suspect that the reason it scored so high was that OSHA (the US Occupational Health Safety Administration) issued a warning advisory about it recently. Curious, I then entered Michael Jackson as a search string with which to search the OSHA advisory database, and got 29 results. Really.
[FairfieldLife] 'Let Freedom Ring!'
'Huffington Post: Gangaji...The Call to Freedom' July 7th, 2009 I recently visited the lively, beautiful city of Berlin. It was my first visit, and I brought with the visit what the word Berlin has meant to me. In my mind Berlin is a city that has lived at the center of extremes. In the 1930's it was a pleasure capital of hedonistic fulfillment. In the 1940's, it was the center of Hitler and his Nazi followers' diabolic implementation of the Third Reich's new world order. In the 1950's and 60's it was a main focal point of the cold war standoffs between Russia and the allies of the United States, filled with John le Carre' intrigues. And finally, in 1989, when the odious concrete wall separating East and West Berlin began to be demolished, it became the proof of freedom's ultimate uncontainability. A symbolic city in our collective history, and a strong myth in my own mind. As Eli and I walked through the city, with its many beautiful trees and remaining elegant pre-war buildings, we noticed there were still places where the Wall has remained in place-perhaps as a reminder of history. It is a reminder of Berlin's history of course, and also of the history of all countries and all individuals. There is within us a dynamic call to freedom. It demands expansiveness of mind and spirit so that we can discover what is not bound by concepts formed in the past. It allows creative exploration past our mental borders. And while political and social freedom is to be firmly supported everywhere, the freedom of our own spirit is not limited by external repression. The spirit of inquiry and discovery is silent and has no form that can be externally subjected to regulation or containment. Yet the forces we see at play in the world of history are also at play in the thought processes of our own minds. The uproar in Iran confirms both the strength of the universal call to freedom as well as the repressive forces unleashed when that call threatens the status quo. There is a status quo in our own minds as well as in the governments of the world. Freedom's call is usually initially met by our own mental tendencies of repressive containment. We may be called to freedom in the deepest sense, and yet resist that call by our own mental internal guards and censors. Our fear of the unknown can harness our creative, free impulse to soar. We build imaginary walls of separation to try to control what is allowed in or out, and then we cry out against those walls. We too often substitute doubt for true questioning, and then suffer from self-doubt. We decide what we should feel or think, rather than simply discovering what we are feeling and thinking. We search for people to love us rather than exercising our freedom to love boundlessly. We try to be who we think we should be rather than discovering who we really are. With willingness to see our repressive tendencies, we also can recognize that no wall-concrete or imaginary-can finally keep the thrust for freedom at bay. We can choose to ignore the loops of thought that try to keep us definable and small. When we refuse to continue to follow the dictates of constraining thoughts, we have the attention necessary to directly meet fear. In meeting fear directly, we discover it to have no real substance. We have the capacity to open our minds to the unknown. An open mind is free. And we can see that freedom of body, mind, and spirit requires vigilance. The force that builds walls of separation, within our own minds or towards others, requires particular types of thoughts - thoughts of control, protection, and punishment. When we allow the cry of freedom to arise within us, it penetrates all thought in its promise and revelation of limitless spaciousness of mind. Ultimately the Berlin Wall was brought down by its builders and maintainers by their recognition that it was destructive to the people. It was demolished peacefully; a time of celebration. No war was necessary, no lives were lost. Likewise in our own minds, no war with ourselves is necessary to stop our repressive thoughts. When we tell the truth to ourselves, we see that our walls of protection, containment, and punishment do not serve us. If we open to all of ourselves, rather than partition off the good parts and the bad parts, we discover the open mind which is integral, free and whole. It took some time for the concrete wall of Berlin to be breached; how much time does it take for an imaginary mental wall to fall? Gangaji is holding meetings and retreats this summer in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Baden-Baden, London, Dublin, and Dorset. Read more about Gangaji's events and catalog of books and videos online.
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF Dome Numbers
Nablusoss, You do write of a kind of status here. Seems the movement moved away from its meditators a long time ago. Horses got out of the barn and things became too late to close the doors to have kept hardly any them in. A challenge seems now is to find any again, the ones that would come back. Some few are evidently willing to come back and lot others are entirely shy of their experience before. JGD, -Doug in FF Yet also, is not just that the dome numbers here of practicing meditators can't be got, but also that underneath the meditating number is that at the university and at the masharishi schools they are having high attrition rates. They have troubles retaining students. Over the longer haul now it seems the schools evidently are not retaining students partly because of a lack of credentialed professionals within the faculties and staffs. The TMmovement dministration over the last years seems has cut a lot of the actual credentialed academic staff through process of `loyalty' testing. Evidently there has been a percieved drop in quality and people are leaving.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Carbs is good
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Oh yeah, and watch kapha people get fatter. Fragmented medicine at your service. And, of course, if the tumors are the kind that feed voraciously on glucose, eating lots of carbs is not likely to suppress their growth. bob_brigante wrote: http://snipurl.com/mc42y [timesofindia_indiatimes_com] and veggie amino acid good for blood pressure : http://snipurl.com/mc46g [timesofindia_indiatimes_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah's Secret Diary
Geez, Maureen Dowd must be Barry's alter ego. Her Palin hit piece sounds exactly like something he would have written. Like Barry, Dowd's writing is completely devoid of truth or reality, made up out of whole cloth, skewering with lies to win an imaginary argument. It amounts to nothing more than GOSSIP writing, the least respected form of writing reserved for hacks dredging muck from their bowels, a very dark place, indeed. It's the yucky kind of writing that makes you feel like taking a shower. Note to Barry: Dowd gets paid to lie and destroy someone's character, what's your excuse? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Maureeen Dowd is not one of my favorite commentators, but sometimes she just nails it. This is one of those times. But the other thing that'll be funny to FFLers is to compare this imagined Diary rant to real rants we've seen coming from two FFL members who like to blame others here for them being similarly misunderstood and persecuted for being women. Maureen even captures the You're not listening to me whine that the three women have in common. While reading this rant, might I suggest that you do a mental compare and contrast and ask yourself if either of *them* have ever admitted having fucked up, or whether, like Sarah, *they* always find someone else to blame things on. Sarah's Secret Diary Dear Diary, No one understands me. It's like I'm speaking some Eskimo dialect or something. Andrea Mitchell follows me all the way to Kanakanak Beach and I geta French manicure and set up this huge photo op for her, even though she spooked the salmon. Todd and me are in our cool fishing bibs. Piper's helping out on the boat. It's an amazing day that shows how our Creator favored my beloved Alaska, gatekeeper of the continent, and makes a great shot for all the network reporters up here to milk. This progresses me away from my image as some kind of flaky rogue diva and back to my image as a tough huntin' and fishin' gal. But Andrea makes such a darn big deal about how I'm quitting in the middle of my term. You're not listening to me! I snap. She says maybe I didn't want to go back to the nitty-gritty of Alaska politics after the bright lights of the national campaign. The nitty-gritty, like, you mean, the fish slime and the dirt under the fingernails and stuff that's me? I said. Awesome response, huh?!! It's the same old double standard. I am not one of those who would whine and cuss. It's just not how I'm wired!!! But the minute I start to whine and cuss, the mainstream media totally misunderstands my verbiage and the combination of things that brought me to this place of knowing. And I know that I know that I know those crappy bloggers will put out more confliction stories. I keep explaining what impacted me, but everyone seems more confused and ironic than ever. What is it about average, hard-working Americans like me that Americans can't understand? I love Alaska too much to waste any more time on her Bridge to Nowhere. I need to be able to go forth out there and fight for what is right. And what is right is for me and my First Dude to take that big fish run to the White House. So people should stop being so stinkin' mean to me because this is a goal-setting thing, a full-court press, a sub-four marathon. Karl Rove thinks I'm not prepared for the national stage??? Pundits think I should read a book before I write one??? Man, I feel a grizzly rising up in me!!! Every mom we know multitasks. And I am one to believe I can use an all-of-the-above approach, too. I can abandon Alaska and ambition myself for the presidency. I can get bored with my job and fight apathy. I can take the easy path out to work hard on a path for fruitfulness. I can move on selfishly and call it altruistically. I don't need a title now when I can shake up the good ol' boys and get a better title in the end. You didn't really think I was going anywhere, did you? I'm one of Google's hot trends. We're doing a fund-raising push this week on SarahPAC to destroy Obama's attempt to destroy capitalism. And forget about Obama's youth revolution. I posed for a cheesecake shot in Runner's World with short-shorts and a crumpled American flag that's destined to be on the bedroom wall of every conservative 12-year-old boy. It's the metaphor, stupid! Heck yeah, I'm running! As I learned when I was a beauty contestant flags and gams show you it's about country. And before you say anything though about the glam shots of me stretching and preening on the waterfront in my cute running outfits, don't bother. That would be a sexist double standard. Nobody said anything when Obama walked around in Hawaii without his shirt, showing off his washboard abs. Well, maybe they did, but I betcha they say more about me because, of course, we know by now, for some reason, a different standard applies to my
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Palin says ethics inquiries were paralyzing ...Palin said Monday she didn't view the cost as just the $300,000 for the personnel board -- but rather $2 million for the state. It is a figure her administration now uses -- not meant to be actual checks written by the state but to also reflect time of state employees. It is a per-hour calculation that the Palin administration put together, involving time spent by state lawyers deciding which public information to release as a result of all public records requests, time spent by governor's office staffers responding to media inquiries about ethics complaints, and time technicians spend on retrieving requested e-mail, among other things Read more: http://www.adn.com/palin/story/855907.html Just how paralyzing were Palin's ethics inquiries? Here's a list of Ethics complaints filed against Palin Her enemies keep throwing allegations at her and NOTHING STICKS. http://tinyurl.com/l9kk9f http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html Here's how rumor mongering about Palin works: Here's -Factual Reality- instead: Palin vindicated? - Governor offers Orwellian spin Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. She claims the report vindicates her. She said that the investigation found no unlawful or unethical activity on my part. Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. In plain English, she did something unlawful. She broke the state ethics law. ~The Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/555236.html TV Talking Head doing CYA's: I don't know for sure but this is what I heard [fill in the blank] I don't know if this is true, but I heard she is under some serious legal investigation by [fill in the blank] Get the rumor out there. Whether true or fair Facts don't matter On TV chatter. While they're screwing you Entitlement is their due Once a rumor has begun Then forever, bell un-rung Reputation scuttled Never mind rebuttal raunchydog
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [do.rkflex wrote:] snip Strangely, she quoted again the sum of money that ethics complaints against her had cost the state. Millions, she said. Two million. Yesterday's headline in the Anchorage Daily News tallied up the cost at $296,000, with the bulk of that stemming from the Troopergate investigation of last summer. http://snipurl.com/mazxv [www_huffingtonpost_com] [Raunchy wrote:] Palin says ethics inquiries were paralyzing [I wrote:] From the Anchorage Daily News: ...Palin said Monday she didn't view the cost as just the $300,000 for the personnel board -- but rather $2 million for the state. It is a figure her administration now uses -- not meant to be actual checks written by the state but to also reflect time of state employees. It is a per-hour calculation that the Palin administration put together, involving time spent by state lawyers deciding which public information to release as a result of all public records requests, time spent by governor's office staffers responding to media inquiries about ethics complaints, and time technicians spend on retrieving requested e-mail, among other things Read more: http://www.adn.com/palin/story/855907.html [Raunchy wrote:] Just how paralyzing were Palin's ethics inquiries?] Here's a list of Ethics complaints filed against Palin Her enemies keep throwing allegations at her and NOTHING STICKS. http://tinyurl.com/l9kk9f http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html Here's how rumor mongering about Palin works: [do.rkflex wrote:] Here's -Factual Reality- instead: If one accusation that Palin lied about something is shown to be a lie itself, DO NOT acknowledge that you lied; instead, immediately find something *else* you can claim she lied about, as if that justified your first lie. And *whatever* you do, avoid addressing the point: that Palin has been harassed by one frivelous ethics inquiry after another. Palin vindicated? - Governor offers Orwellian spin Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. She claims the report vindicates her. She said that the investigation found no unlawful or unethical activity on my part. Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. In plain English, she did something unlawful. She broke the state ethics law. ~The Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/555236.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah's Secret Diary
Boy, when you have to resort to quoting Maureen Dowd for your insults, you're in a bad way. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Maureeen Dowd is not one of my favorite commentators, but sometimes she just nails it. This is one of those times. But the other thing that'll be funny to FFLers is to compare this imagined Diary rant to real rants we've seen coming from two FFL members who like to blame others here for them being similarly misunderstood and persecuted for being women. Let's see, can we find posts in which Raunchy or I have blamed others for being misunderstood and persecuted for being women? Maureen (Barry's on first-name terms with Dowd, it seems.) even captures the You're not listening to me whine that the three women have in common. No question but that *Barry* is listening to his own fantasies about us rather than to what we're actually saying, just like Maureen. The other interesting thing is that nowhere in what Palin said did she complain about being misunderstood and persecuted because she was a woman. Barry fantasized that too, just like Maureen, you betcha.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
Note to Dorkx: The article you cited is old news: Palin vindicated? Published: October 13th, 2008 10:02 PM Last Modified: October 13th, 2008 10:17 PM The story dated 6/22/09 contradicts your story dated 10/13/08: July 28, 2008: Alaska lawmakers launched an investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan over his refusal to let go a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce with Palin's sister. Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin violated a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. The firing itself was deemed lawful since Monegan was an at-will employee. http://tinyurl.com/l9kk9f http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html TV Talking Head doing CYA's: I don't know for sure but this is what I heard [fill in the blank] I don't know if this is true, but I heard she is under some serious legal investigation by [fill in the blank] Get the rumor out there. Whether true or fair Facts don't matter On TV chatter. While they're screwing you Entitlement is their due Once a rumor has begun Then forever, bell un-rung Reputation scuttled Never mind rebuttal raunchydog
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy's Hitler/Nazi rule
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Judy Stein has a rule which says something to the effect that he who invokes Hitler in an argument (or makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis) has automatically lost the argument (or something to that effect). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law http://is.gd/1r2k1
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy's Hitler/Nazi rule
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Judy Stein has a rule which says something to the effect that he who invokes Hitler in an argument (or makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis) has automatically lost the argument (or something to that effect). Hopefully, she will correct me and give the full and correct rule. Anyway, Al Gore, the schmuck, has done that with climate change. Hopefully, Judy will feel the same way about him doing that as she would if some conservative did that on another topic: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece It's not my rule, nor does it even begin to apply to what Gore said. Check out Wikipedia on Godwin's Law and get back to us, OK?
[FairfieldLife] A question for Camille
As I recall, Camille Paglia's attacks on Hillary during the campaign were enthusiastically applauded on FFL. And as we all know, Paglia detests what she sees as feminist hostility to men and complaints about victimization. So her views on Palin, one would imagine, will have significant credibility here. Dear Camille, Just wondering. Do you still think Sarah Palin is ready for the big stage?--James L. Somers Good question! And very timely after Palin's shock resignation as governor of Alaska this past Fourth of July weekend. I assume that family priorities -- personal as well as financial -- had become all- consuming. Given her success with finalizing the massive Alaska pipeline project, I think Palin should have stuck it out, but of course she is master of her own fate. What certainly was blameworthy was the chaotic and rushed statement itself. Something so politically consequential needed more careful composition and rehearsal. Why provide more fodder for the vultures and harpies of the Northeastern media? Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that Palin still lacks that cadre of trusted pros who are the invisible elves behind every successful national politician -- the assistants who gather and vet material and who filter proposals and plan logistics. In a way, this is part of her virtues -- her complete freedom from routine micromanagement and business as usual. She does her own thing with seat-of-the-pants gusto. It's why she remains hugely popular with the Republican grass- roots base -- as I know from listening to talk radio. Callers coming fresh from her rallies are always heady with infectious enthusiasm. Of course you'd never know that from reading hit jobs like Todd Purdum's sepulchral piece on Palin in the current Vanity Fair. Scurrying around Alaska with his notepad, Purdum still managed to find comically little to indict her with. Anyone with a gripe is given the floor; fans are shut out. This exercise in faux objectivity is exposed at key points such as Purdum's failure to identify the actual instigator of Palin's extravagant clothing bills (a crazed, credit-card- abusing stylist appointed by the McCain campaign) and his prissy characterization of Palin's performance at the vice-presidential debate as merely adequate. Hey, wake up -- Palin cleaned Biden's clock! By the end, Biden was sighing and itching to split. Whether Palin has a national future or not will depend on her willingness to hit the books at some point and absorb more information about international history and politics than she has needed to know in her role as governor. She also needs a shrewder, cooler take on the mainstream media, with its preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags. The Northeastern media establishment is in decline, and everyone knows it. Palin should not have gotten into a slanging match with David Letterman or anyone else who has been obsessively defaming her or her family. Let surrogates do that stuff. The vicious double standard is pretty obvious. Only the tabloids, for example, ran the photos of a piss-drunk Chelsea Clinton, panties exposed, falling into her car outside London clubs a few years ago. If Chelsea had been the scion of Republican bigwigs, those tacky scenes would have been trumpeted from pillar to post in the U.S. as signals of parental failures or turmoil in clan Clinton. As a Democrat, I detest the partisan machinations that have become standard in Northeastern news management and that are detectable in editorial decisions at major metropolitan newspapers nationwide. It's why I, like a host of others, have shifted my news gathering to the Web. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/07/08/reader_letters/ http://tinyurl.com/nxvv57
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Note to Dorkx: The article you cited is old news: Palin vindicated? Published: October 13th, 2008 10:02 PM Last Modified: October 13th, 2008 10:17 PM The story dated 6/22/09 contradicts your story dated 10/13/08: July 28, 2008: Alaska lawmakers launched an investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan over his refusal to let go a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce with Palin's sister. Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin violated a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. The firing itself was deemed lawful since Monegan was an at-will employee. http://tinyurl.com/l9kk9f http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html Read this statement from your above piece again, Ms Dog: Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. [emphasis added] TV Talking Head doing CYA's: I don't know for sure but this is what I heard [fill in the blank] I don't know if this is true, but I heard she is under some serious legal investigation by [fill in the blank] Get the rumor out there. Whether true or fair Facts don't matter On TV chatter. While they're screwing you Entitlement is their due Once a rumor has begun Then forever, bell un-rung Reputation scuttled Never mind rebuttal raunchydog
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: These last two points are quite funny. That's why I saved them for last. :-) * Used to have average of 20 people at lectures. The rate of people starting seem to be irrelevant to anything that was going on at the lecture. Never been our exp that it's a conventional sales closing situation. The people most likely to start are those who were referred by a meditator. The other factors are intangible factors. The affluent people at lectures thank us heartily and then we don't see them. The one who starts is one who is more modest in their means, who scrapes it together. * Found old notes from Maharishi from when the course fee was first increased the wealthy people don't go to the poor store. They like designer everything. They like to hear a high price. We are not trying to target the masses so we don't have to feel guilty about losing people by initially mentioning the course fee. They're funny because we've got a group of people who are desperately trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises when Maharishi would tell people X is true and yet reality keeps telling them X is false. The fascinating thing is that it's not just Maharishi that the TM TBs on this forum demonstrate cognitive dissonance over. Just a few minutes ago we saw someone who has heavily invested in believing and defending (of all people) Sarah Palin who, trying to disprove a quote posted by do.rflex that she had been found guilty of violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act did so by calling it old news and posting *another* article that said...duh...that Sarah Palin had been found guilty of violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Now *that* is cognitive dissonance. :-) I think that this phenomenon of denying the obvious in an attempt to remain true to someone they have invested in tends to be most apparent when dealing with Maharishi himself, but after all these decades of ignoring the cognitive dissonance that his words and actions has inspired, they have extended this same tendency to all other areas of their lives. Thus they can completely *ignore* the lies and media bashing that, say, Sarah Palin has engaged in while pointing over and over and over to media bashing against her. I think it comes down to a form of brainwashing in which Westerners who had no earthly idea what proper spir- itual behavior is considered to be in the East were taught *false* proper behavior by Maharishi. No real spiritual tradition would ever teach that the teacher is correct, *no matter what*, but he did. No real spir- itual tradition would ask its followers to knowingly lie and commit illegal acts like money laundering, but he did. No real spiritual tradition would claim over and over to the media that it was not religious while engaging in preparations for the next day's Gurupurnima Celebration or yagya in which offerings were made to any number of Hindu gods and goddesses. But he did. Maharishi *specialized* in creating an atmosphere of coginitive dissonance. And then he turned that into an environment in which you were not welcome if the cog- nitive dissonance bothered you. If catching Maharishi in a lie bothered you, you were history...tossed out of the movement, anathema, never to be spoken to or of again. The lesson (and the precedent) was clear. So should we be surprised when people who have been trained like this for decades begin to extend this sense of unreality to real events outside the TM movement? *Of course* they're going to be incapable of perceiving that they are accusing people who criticize their chosen heroes and heroines of the *exact* same things that their heroes and heroines do. They have been trained for decades to do just that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Note to Dorkx: The article you cited is old news: Palin vindicated? Published: October 13th, 2008 10:02 PM Last Modified: October 13th, 2008 10:17 PM The story dated 6/22/09 contradicts your story dated 10/13/08: July 28, 2008: Alaska lawmakers launched an investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan over his refusal to let go a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce with Palin's sister. Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin violated a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. The firing itself was deemed lawful since Monegan was an at-will employee. http://tinyurl.com/l9kk9f http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html Read this statement from your above piece again, Ms Dog: Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. [emphasis added] Quibbles and bits, my dear Dorkx. The firing itself was deemed lawful since Monegan was an at-will employee contradicts Branchflower's conclusion. In other words Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing. NOTHING STICKS. TV Talking Head doing CYA's: I don't know for sure but this is what I heard [fill in the blank] I don't know if this is true, but I heard she is under some serious legal investigation by [fill in the blank] Get the rumor out there. Whether true or fair Facts don't matter On TV chatter. While they're screwing you Entitlement is their due Once a rumor has begun Then forever, bell un-rung Reputation scuttled Never mind rebuttal raunchydog
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Dome Numbers
Also they do not pay their faculty anywhere near a living wage, let alone close to what a college professor should be paid. I'd love to teach psychology at MUM, but I can't live on $125.00 a month. --- On Wed, 7/8/09, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: From: dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Dome Numbers To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:42 AM Nablusoss, You do write of a kind of status here. Seems the movement moved away from its meditators a long time ago. Horses got out of the barn and things became too late to close the doors to have kept hardly any them in. A challenge seems now is to find any again, the ones that would come back. Some few are evidently willing to come back and lot others are entirely shy of their experience before. JGD, -Doug in FF Yet also, is not just that the dome numbers here of practicing meditators can't be got, but also that underneath the meditating number is that at the university and at the masharishi schools they are having high attrition rates. They have troubles retaining students. Over the longer haul now it seems the schools evidently are not retaining students partly because of a lack of credentialed professionals within the faculties and staffs. The TMmovement dministration over the last years seems has cut a lot of the actual credentialed academic staff through process of `loyalty' testing. Evidently there has been a percieved drop in quality and people are leaving. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip So should we be surprised when people who have been trained like this for decades begin to extend this sense of unreality to real events outside the TM movement? *Of course* they're going to be incapable of perceiving that they are accusing people who criticize their chosen heroes and heroines of the *exact* same things that their heroes and heroines do. They have been trained for decades to do just that. This is, of course, total, unmitigated bullshit. What Barry describes is what *people* do--everybody-- especially including Barry, the undisputed Master of Projection on this forum. Nobody here is claiming Sarah Palin is correct, no matter what, or that she hasn't told lies or bashed the media or done stupid things. Barry *hallucinated* all that. What Raunchy and I are doing is pointing out that it's *not all on Palin's side*. To deny this, as Barry appears to do, is a function of cognitive dissonance on *his* part. We've both said *repeatedly* that there's more than enough to criticize about Palin; there's no need to make anything up, as the media, blogs, and many FFL participants have been doing. Barry's own personal brand of cognitive dissonance simply can't encompass the possibility that anybody could defend someone about whom they are themselves highly critical from falsehoods and *unfair* criticism. As far as Barry's concerned, it's all or nothing. You're either for 'em or agin 'em (shades of GWB), and if you're agin 'em, anything goes: you can make up all the false stories you want, and *it's all good*--you're blameless.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: snip Read this statement from your above piece again, Ms Dog: Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. [emphasis added] From the Anchorage Daily News: New Troopergate report clears Palin By LISA DEMER (11/03/08 17:56:42) A new report just released -- hours before the polls open on Election Day -- exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy. The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel [Branchflower] hired by the state Legislature. Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. But the new report says the Legislature's investigator was wrong to conclude that Palin abused her power by allowing aides and her husband, Todd, to pressure Monegan and others to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten. Palin was accused of firing Monegan after Wooten stayed on the job The report, released at a Monday afternoon press conference at the Hotel Captain Cook, presents the findings and recommendations of Anchorage lawyer Timothy Petumenos, hired as independent counsel for the Personnel Board to examine several complaints against Palin. Petumenos wrote the Legislature's special counsel, former state prosecutor Steve Branchflower, used the wrong state law as the basis for his conclusions and also misconstrued the evidence. His findings and recommendations include: - There is no cause to believe Palin violated the state ethics law in deciding to dismiss Monegan as public safety commissioner. - There is no cause to believe Palin violated the state ethics law in connection with Wooten. - There is no cause to believe any other state official violated the ethics act. - There's no basis to conduct a hearing to address reputational harm, as requested by Monegan http://www.adn.com/palin/story/577323.html
[FairfieldLife] A Simple Test, readministered
If the two current Sarah Palin defenders are so convinced that they are impartial, and not just afraid to admit that they've chosen the losing side in an argument -- again -- I reiterate the challenge that they both bailed on completely some weeks ago. List for us five things that Hillary Clinton did wrong in her attempt to become the Presidential nom- inee -- mistakes or missteps that were *completely* her fault, and had nothing whatsoever to do with what anyone else did. If you're both so impartial, and have the clarity that you claim to have, this should be no problem. If, on the other hand, you cannot or will not do this, I stand on my point that a lifetime spent stuffing cognitive dissonance so that you didn't have to deal with it has rendered you both *incapable* of dealing with it when it's pointed out to you in your own words and actions. The ball's in your court. Take it and walk away, yelling back It's my ball and I'm taking it home. I don't want to play this game any more because you won't play by my rules the way you did last time this challenge was issued, or PROVE your supposed impartiality. Surely Saint Hillary did *something* wrong, and made *some* mistakes that you can't blame on someone else, right? Right?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Note to Dorkx: The article you cited is old news: Palin vindicated? Published: October 13th, 2008 10:02 PM Last Modified: October 13th, 2008 10:17 PM The story dated 6/22/09 contradicts your story dated 10/13/08: July 28, 2008: Alaska lawmakers launched an investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan over his refusal to let go a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce with Palin's sister. Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin violated a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. The firing itself was deemed lawful since Monegan was an at-will employee. http://tinyurl.com/l9kk9f http://www.adn.com/palin/story/838912.html Read this statement from your above piece again, Ms Dog: Stephen Branchflower, a special counsel leading the investigation, concluded Oct. 10 that Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. [emphasis added] Quibbles and bits, my dear Dorkx. The firing itself was deemed lawful since Monegan was an at-will employee contradicts Branchflower's conclusion. In other words Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing. NOTHING STICKS. Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing... That's false, Ms dog. That Palin violated Alaskan ethics law is undeniable. I don't think any other readers besides you miss the meaning of the words, Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. Barry's post, 'Behind the Scenes' - specifically referring to 'cognitive dissonance' - effectively illustrates your malady, Ms dog. You don't even seem to be aware of it. It goes right along with what I said about your inability to see Obama or anything he does separately from your obsessive fixation on 'sexism' in relation to your hostile bitterness that he defeated Hillary, your champion. TV Talking Head doing CYA's: I don't know for sure but this is what I heard [fill in the blank] I don't know if this is true, but I heard she is under some serious legal investigation by [fill in the blank] Get the rumor out there. Whether true or fair Facts don't matter On TV chatter. While they're screwing you Entitlement is their due Once a rumor has begun Then forever, bell un-rung Reputation scuttled Never mind rebuttal raunchydog
[FairfieldLife] Flashback: Leading energy expert Sarah Palin shares her wisdom
Energy Expertise September 18, 2008 - Today, the person who according to John McCain knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America let slip some pearls of wisdom: Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first. Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvUsdmqGYV8 via Washington Monthly: http://tinyurl.com/47hzgj
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing... That's false, Ms dog. That Palin violated Alaskan ethics law is undeniable. I don't think any other readers besides you miss the meaning of the words, Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. Barry's post, 'Behind the Scenes' - specifically referring to 'cognitive dissonance' - effectively illustrates your malady, Ms dog. You don't even seem to be aware of it. It goes right along with what I said about your inability to see Obama or anything he does separately from your obsessive fixation on 'sexism' in relation to your hostile bitterness that he defeated Hillary, your champion. Let's see how deeply do.rkflex is sunk in cognitive dissonance. I just posted an article from the Anchorage Daily News reporting that Palin was *completely exonerated* by the Alaska Personnnel Board from *all charges*--including of violating any state ethics laws-- in Branchflower's Troopergate investigation. Will the do.rk acknowledge he was wrong? Will he apologize to Raunchy? Stay tuned. But don't hold your breath. After all, he didn't acknowledge his error about the $2 million spent on the ethics investigations. Some people just can't handle the truth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: These last two points are quite funny. That's why I saved them for last. :-) Of course the other funny thing is that this list of notes has got into the public domain. I imagine that some low ranking person has been pissed off by someone's arrogant behavior (again, it's so predictable isn't it) and decided to get their own back, either that or seeing what goes on behind the scenes has made them feel betrayed. It's much the same at Vlodrop, they treat people like shit and then wonder why the kitchen staff are so disloyal that they tell others about Tony Nader's extravagant dining arrangements. They just cannot get it into their heads that you can't expect loyalty from people if you're trampling on them all the time. They're still thinking that putting a crown on means everyone will bow down to them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Simple Test, readministered
Stuff your own cognitive dissonance, Barry. This is an attempt at distraction via non sequitur. I gave you a chance shortly after you first posted your challenge to present it respectfully instead of insultingly. You declined to do so. Now you get to choke on it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: If the two current Sarah Palin defenders are so convinced that they are impartial, and not just afraid to admit that they've chosen the losing side in an argument -- again -- I reiterate the challenge that they both bailed on completely some weeks ago. List for us five things that Hillary Clinton did wrong in her attempt to become the Presidential nom- inee -- mistakes or missteps that were *completely* her fault, and had nothing whatsoever to do with what anyone else did. If you're both so impartial, and have the clarity that you claim to have, this should be no problem. If, on the other hand, you cannot or will not do this, I stand on my point that a lifetime spent stuffing cognitive dissonance so that you didn't have to deal with it has rendered you both *incapable* of dealing with it when it's pointed out to you in your own words and actions. The ball's in your court. Take it and walk away, yelling back It's my ball and I'm taking it home. I don't want to play this game any more because you won't play by my rules the way you did last time this challenge was issued, or PROVE your supposed impartiality. Surely Saint Hillary did *something* wrong, and made *some* mistakes that you can't blame on someone else, right? Right?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: These last two points are quite funny. That's why I saved them for last. :-) Of course the other funny thing is that this list of notes has got into the public domain. I imagine that some low ranking person has been pissed off by someone's arrogant behavior Was wondering about this myself. The Wikileaks file contains notes of meetings from October 2005 through May 2007 and is well over 6 MB. That's a lot of Raja Rogers's material this low-ranking person had access to.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: These last two points are quite funny. That's why I saved them for last. :-) Of course the other funny thing is that this list of notes has got into the public domain. The *safe* public domain, on Wikileaks, which has a legal staff that won't bow to pressure from the TMO scumbag lawyers to remove it. This is particularly important right now, because they have been ramping up their harassment of any groups or websites or...interestingly...even *individuals* who dare to post material critical of the TMO. Several people (besides Alex) have recently been threatened by TMO lawyers unless they removed offending material from their web servers, even if those servers were private and only shared with friends. It's the same scumbag mentality that (surprise!) a number of TM TBs are defending on this forum in Sarah Palin. I imagine that some low ranking person has been pissed off by someone's arrogant behavior (again, it's so predictable isn't it) and decided to get their own back, either that or seeing what goes on behind the scenes has made them feel betrayed. Either that or someone at a higher level has had a belated attack of conscience. There is nothing like hitting the wall and no longer giving a shit whether you're in good standing with an organization you've lost all respect for to fuel the whistleblower syndrome. I expect to see more and more of them appear as these legal threats are made more public. It's much the same at Vlodrop, they treat people like shit and then wonder why the kitchen staff are so disloyal that they tell others about Tony Nader's extravagant dining arrangements. Did you notice how the TM TBs on this forum found a way to make excuses even for *that*? They are so pussywhipped by the movement that even with Maharishi dead they're terrified to criticize his nominal replacement. They just cannot get it into their heads that you can't expect loyalty from people if you're trampling on them all the time. But Maharishi did. Go figure. Maybe that's what worked on HIM. Maybe he had a masochistic streak a mile long and *got off* on being treated like a worthless low-caste upstart in Guru Dev's ashram, and figured that since he got off on being treated that way, every- one else would, too. Who knows? They're still thinking that putting a crown on means everyone will bow down to them. Actually, that is *exactly* what they are thinking. And it's because *they* bowed to Maharishi for so long. Take everything someone says as the literal, cosmic truth and eat shit for decades, and when it becomes your turn you expect others to do the same for you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing... That's false, Ms dog. That Palin violated Alaskan ethics law is undeniable. I don't think any other readers besides you miss the meaning of the words, Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. Barry's post, 'Behind the Scenes' - specifically referring to 'cognitive dissonance' - effectively illustrates your malady, Ms dog. You don't even seem to be aware of it. It goes right along with what I said about your inability to see Obama or anything he does separately from your obsessive fixation on 'sexism' in relation to your hostile bitterness that he defeated Hillary, your champion. Let's see how deeply do.rkflex is sunk in cognitive dissonance. I just posted an article from the Anchorage Daily News reporting that Palin was *completely exonerated* by the Alaska Personnnel Board from *all charges*--including of violating any state ethics laws-- in Branchflower's Troopergate investigation. Will the do.rk acknowledge he was wrong? Will he apologize to Raunchy? Stay tuned. But don't hold your breath. Dog turning blue Awaiting apology due Dorky Palin bashers Turqy Hillary trashers Brains really pop When Dog wins on top Digging a hole looking for bones Coming up empty standing alone Liars should avoid toothy dog fights Comeuppance sucks when reality bites After all, he didn't acknowledge his error about the $2 million spent on the ethics investigations. Some people just can't handle the truth.
[FairfieldLife] Pitta question
Over the past several weeks, FFL participants have been very helpful in providing all sorts of advice regarding the troubles I've been going through. Several people suggested that one of my problems -- with sleep -- (no problem FALLING asleep but a problem always waking up at about 2:30 and not being able to get back to sleep) were due to a pitta imbalance. Well, what is your response to this: two nights ago I inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. I slept to about 4:30am instead of 2:30 (I go to sleep about 10pm every night). Last night I did the same thing and, yes, I slept, again, till 4:30am. My question: is chocolate pitta-dominating? And, if so, is that why I slept several hours longer?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pitta question
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Over the past several weeks, FFL participants have been very helpful in providing all sorts of advice regarding the troubles I've been going through. Several people suggested that one of my problems -- with sleep -- (no problem FALLING asleep but a problem always waking up at about 2:30 and not being able to get back to sleep) were due to a pitta imbalance. Well, what is your response to this: two nights ago I inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. ::: ...inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. that is one of the cutest things i've read. thanks for keeping it real. very funny ;) this will have me giggling all day! dang how those chocolate rakshasas just go and sneak up on ya like that!
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Simple Test, readministered
*When* the two Hillary defenders bail (not if) and refuse *again* to deal with this, will anyone here actually be surprised? I think not. But where I would not find the inability to criticize Maharishi surprising in a long-term TMer (even one who has never even been in the same room with him like Judy), what I do find fascinating is the phenom- enon of being so intimidated by some women they've never met that they're afraid to say anything critical about her. Anyone who does *that* is one pussywhipped feminist. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: If the two current Sarah Palin defenders are so convinced that they are impartial, and not just afraid to admit that they've chosen the losing side in an argument -- again -- I reiterate the challenge that they both bailed on completely some weeks ago. List for us five things that Hillary Clinton did wrong in her attempt to become the Presidential nom- inee -- mistakes or missteps that were *completely* her fault, and had nothing whatsoever to do with what anyone else did. If you're both so impartial, and have the clarity that you claim to have, this should be no problem. If, on the other hand, you cannot or will not do this, I stand on my point that a lifetime spent stuffing cognitive dissonance so that you didn't have to deal with it has rendered you both *incapable* of dealing with it when it's pointed out to you in your own words and actions. The ball's in your court. Take it and walk away, yelling back It's my ball and I'm taking it home. I don't want to play this game any more because you won't play by my rules the way you did last time this challenge was issued, or PROVE your supposed impartiality. Surely Saint Hillary did *something* wrong, and made *some* mistakes that you can't blame on someone else, right? Right?
RE: [FairfieldLife] Pitta question
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of shempmcgurk Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:35 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Pitta question Over the past several weeks, FFL participants have been very helpful in providing all sorts of advice regarding the troubles I've been going through. Several people suggested that one of my problems -- with sleep -- (no problem FALLING asleep but a problem always waking up at about 2:30 and not being able to get back to sleep) were due to a pitta imbalance. Well, what is your response to this: two nights ago I inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. I slept to about 4:30am instead of 2:30 (I go to sleep about 10pm every night). Last night I did the same thing and, yes, I slept, again, till 4:30am. My question: is chocolate pitta-dominating? And, if so, is that why I slept several hours longer? Hey Shemp, My wife has chronic sleeping problems too and has received help recently with Chinese herbs provided by http://www.radiantwonder.com, which is run by some old friends of mine - Russell and Amanda Howell - whom some may know from old TM days in Rochester and Philadelphia. Amanda has a graduate degree in Chinese herbology. She offers a free one-hour consultation when you start out.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Carbs is good
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Oh yeah, and watch kapha people get fatter. Fragmented medicine at your service. And, of course, if the tumors are the kind that feed voraciously on glucose, eating lots of carbs is not likely to suppress their growth. From the ayurvedic point of view many cancers are caused by a vata imbalance and carbs are good for calming vata. Know if the researchers just understood that to begin with .. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM, authfriendjst...@panix.com wrote: The Wikileaks file contains notes of meetings from October 2005 through May 2007 and is well over 6 MB. That's a lot of Raja Rogers's material this low-ranking person had access to. I think there's nothing left for me to vomit. I downloaded some of the TMO files at Wikileaks, read them and so many emotions, none of them positive, flowed through me. I heard the governors who've never had two nickels to rub together talk about monetizing, I read that not having resting rooms in the spas moved people through faster, how to take LMTs off the street, pay them less than USD 15/hr because they /want/ to be part of something new like Maharishi Ayurveda, and train them in all of about 2 hours. I read about buying the cheapest everything at WalMart for the spa treatment rooms. I saw the assumptions made about the peace palaces, how much money would flow through in each area /conservatively/. It all made me very ill. So, this is the TMO in its own writing. It's done for, as is last night's dinner and this morning's breakfast. Will Rogers never met you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing... That's false, Ms dog. That Palin violated Alaskan ethics law is undeniable. I don't think any other readers besides you miss the meaning of the words, Palin VIOLATED A STATE ETHICS LAW that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. Barry's post, 'Behind the Scenes' - specifically referring to 'cognitive dissonance' - effectively illustrates your malady, Ms dog. You don't even seem to be aware of it. It goes right along with what I said about your inability to see Obama or anything he does separately from your obsessive fixation on 'sexism' in relation to your hostile bitterness that he defeated Hillary, your champion. Let's see how deeply do.rkflex is sunk in cognitive dissonance. I just posted an article from the Anchorage Daily News reporting that Palin was *completely exonerated* by the Alaska Personnnel Board from *all charges*--including of violating any state ethics laws-- in Branchflower's Troopergate investigation. Will the do.rk acknowledge he was wrong? Will he apologize to Raunchy? Stay tuned. But don't hold your breath. Dog turning blue Awaiting apology due Dorky Palin bashers Turqy Hillary trashers Brains really pop When Dog wins on top Digging a hole looking for bones Coming up empty standing alone Liars should avoid toothy dog fights Comeuppance sucks when reality bites After all, he didn't acknowledge his error about the $2 million spent on the ethics investigations. Some people just can't handle the truth. First, Ms dog didn't HAVE the information authors.nag posted when I correctly described Ms dog's position. It therefore doesn't at all invalidate my words to her. Second, the issue is NOT resolved with the information authors.nag posted. Petumenos' report is so obviously tilted in favor of Gov. Palin that it fails to put the Troopergate matter to rest. The Legislature would do Alaskans a service by holding a forum where both investigators argue against each other, so Alaskans can make up their own minds. The investigating lawyer appointed by the Personnel Board, Tim Petumenos, has helped Palin in the past, as the Anchorage Daily News points out: In 2002, his firm handled the $15 million bond issue for Wasilla's hockey complex, a pet project of then-mayor Palin. Some remain skeptical of the independence of the Personnel Board investigation. Meanwhile, state Democrats charge that the Personnel Board can't be trusted with an investigation because it is weighted with political supporters of Palin's. One donated to her campaign, one was appointed by her, argued State Sen. Bill Wielechowski of Anchorage. It's stocked with people she appointed or supported her. . . I don't have a high degree of confidence in what they will issue. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/535638.html Branchflower had found that Palin didn't act to stop others, including Todd, from pressing for Wooten's dismissal, and that amounted to an abuse of power. But Petumenos wrote that Branchflower wrongly relied on a portion of statute that outlined the overall legislative intent. He said violations of the ethics act instead must be based on one of eight specific prohibitions. The legal analysis of the Branchflower report is completely wrong, Petumenos said. Some key legislators dispute that. State Sen. Kim Elton, chairman of the bipartisan Legislative Council, said Branchflower's report was solid and the work that went into it was meticulous. I think that the reading of the law in the Branchflower report is absolutely spot on, said Elton, a Democrat from Juneau. The council approved the hiring of Branchflower and authorized last month's release of the legislative report, but never voted on the report's conclusions. If the governor brought inappropriate pressure upon Walt Monegan, she violated the ethics law. If she allowed others to do it and didn't stop it, she also violated the ethics law, Elton said. http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/577718.html Two highly anticipated investigations came up with dramatically different results, and lawmakers seem poised to move on... The first report, done for the Legislature by retired state prosecutor Steve Branchflower, concluded that Palin abused her power in allowing her husband and top aides to push for the firing of a state trooper who is her ex-brother-in-law. Failure to stop these activities violated the state ethics law, Branchflower said. The second -- done for the state Personnel Board by Tim Petumenos, a prosecutor turned
[FairfieldLife] Echoes: Sarah Palin and Andy Griffith
http://thenewagenda.net/ Video: http://tinyurl.com/mqkppb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNekriXfAV4eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenewagenda.net%2Ffeature=player_embedded
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Simple Test, readministered
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: *When* the two Hillary defenders bail (not if) and refuse *again* to deal with this, will anyone here actually be surprised? I think not. Examples of Barry's extreme cognitive dissonance problem: But where I would not find the inability to criticize Maharishi surprising in a long-term TMer (even one who has never even been in the same room with him like Judy), As Barry knows, I *have* criticized MMY, many times. Did so just a couple of days ago here, in fact, with reference to Vedaland. I've criticized his homophobia; I've criticized his alleged womanizing. I've criticized his political acumen and his ideas about appropriate behavior. And lots of other things. But Barry has just *wiped all that from his mind* because it's *dissonant* with what he wants to believe. Dissonance scares him to death. what I do find fascinating is the phenom- enon of being so intimidated by some women they've never met that they're afraid to say anything critical about her. Anyone who does *that* is one pussywhipped feminist. What has Barry wetting his panties with fear is that I've refused to play the game he demands I play. That means he isn't in control, and that, to Barry, is absolutely terrifying. Especially when it's a *woman* he can't control. And of course he knows I *have* criticized Hillary in the past. But again, that knowledge creates *dissonance*, so Barry has to expunge it from his panicky mind.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: These last two points are quite funny. That's why I saved them for last. :-) Of course the other funny thing is that this list of notes has got into the public domain. I imagine that some low ranking person has been pissed off by someone's arrogant behavior (again, it's so predictable isn't it) and decided to get their own back, either that or seeing what goes on behind the scenes has made them feel betrayed. It's much the same at Vlodrop, they treat people like shit and then wonder why the kitchen staff are so disloyal that they tell others about Tony Nader's extravagant dining arrangements. So is it really true that big king Tone has 20 dishes cooked for him every meal time? I had so hoped it wasn't not because I want to start acknowledging his rightful place as my main spiritual inspiration but that if there's one thing I really can't stand it's waste. If it is true it's a good reason never to give money to this bunch. Apart from all the other good reasons I mean. They just cannot get it into their heads that you can't expect loyalty from people if you're trampling on them all the time. They're still thinking that putting a crown on means everyone will bow down to them.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Pitta question
shempmcgurk wrote: Over the past several weeks, FFL participants have been very helpful in providing all sorts of advice regarding the troubles I've been going through. Several people suggested that one of my problems -- with sleep -- (no problem FALLING asleep but a problem always waking up at about 2:30 and not being able to get back to sleep) were due to a pitta imbalance. Well, what is your response to this: two nights ago I inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. I slept to about 4:30am instead of 2:30 (I go to sleep about 10pm every night). Last night I did the same thing and, yes, I slept, again, till 4:30am. My question: is chocolate pitta-dominating? And, if so, is that why I slept several hours longer? No, dark chocolate like coffee would be considered stimulating and is not considered good for balancing pitta. It is more helpful when it comes to balancing kapha. You need to delve a little more deeply into ayurveda. When you first brought up these problems a few months back I suggested a kapha imbalance (particularly for the clinical depression). It seemed contradictory to some here but I had experience relief from waking up at night by practicing some kapha reducing things. I would suggest at least doing questionnaires here and maybe reading up a bit more to begin getting an idea of where you really stand. Just because a few meditators find themselves vata imbalanced or that MAPI says they sell vata products 5 to 1 doesn't mean that everyone has that imbalance. The Ayurvedic Institute has a some good online resources: www.ayurveda.com (Dr. Lad was supposedly MMY's first choice) and there is a short online questionnaire under How to work one's constitution which also handle vakriti which is the current imbalance here: http://www.ayurvedainstitute.org/ Keep in mind that vata and kapha are opposites and pitta is in the middle. That being said there IS the possibility that the dark chocolate being bitter and bitter is also one of the pitta balancing tastes may still be aiding that way to reduce pitta a little. You may not need to do much to bring yourself into balance.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Judy's Hitler/Nazi rule
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Judy Stein has a rule which says something to the effect that he who invokes Hitler in an argument (or makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis) has automatically lost the argument (or something to that effect). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law http://is.gd/1r2k1 The problem is that we may have people though not Neo-Nazis are embracing similar authoritarian ideas. Thom Hartmann called the NeoCons and the Bush administration the Fourth Reich or the Reich Wing. So it is not so fallacious if one sees a group or a person embracing such ideologies to compare them to Hitler and that regime.
[FairfieldLife] The Butch/Fem Theory Of Politics
Walking my dogs, shortly after my last post here, I ran into a good friend here in Sitges. She's a lovely woman from the Netherlands whom I met at the airport waiting for the bus to Sitges, when she was first on her way here to move in with her girlfriend. We hit it off immediately, and have remained friends. So this evening, when I ran into her and her girl- friend out walking their dog, they invited me and my dogs to join them for a quick drink at the lesbian bar around the corner from my apartment. I did and, today's discussions on FFL still fresh in my mind, brought up for their perusal and comment the curious behavior of so-called feminists on FFL in the form of them being seemingly incapable of ever criticizing either Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin. Their response, and the response of several lesbian friends of theirs sitting at the next table? Uncontrollable laughter at my naivete as a straight guy, followed by a two-word explanation: Butch/Fem. Biting down my straight-guy naivete because I knew I was among friends who were chiding me lightly, not out for blood, I inquired further. Fems are always terrified to criticize Butches, they explained. And it's the same in the straight world as it is in the gay world. Something in them that the lesbian Fems interpret as love and the straight or closeted Fems interpret as admiration causes them to suck up to Butches and defend them to the death. The bottom line is that Fems want desperately to be *admired* by the Butches. But they never will be. That is how Butches retain control over them. I thought it was a fascinating exchange, and pass it along in case anyone else here does, too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: snip First, Ms dog didn't HAVE the information authors.nag posted when I correctly described Ms dog's position. It therefore doesn't at all invalidate my words to her. Yes, it does. You said it was false that Palin hadn't been exonerated. You were wrong, and Raunchy was right, even if she didn't have the right article. Second, the issue is NOT resolved with the information authors.nag posted. No, Palin's enemies don't *like* the resolution because it was favorable to Palin. That's OK, they're allowed not to like it, and her. What you failed to quote from one of the articles you cite: 'As far as I can see, we've reached the end of the line as far as the Senate is concerned,' said Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, tapped to be Senate president when the Legislature convenes in January. The incoming House speaker, Rep. Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, said he hadn't had time to give it a lot of thought and considered the matter 'blown out of proportion.' As Raunchy said to start with--and you denied--NONE OF THE FRIVELOUS ETHICS COMPLAINTS THEY'VE BEEN HARASSING HER WITH HAVE STUCK. And that's the bottom line. Also my bottom line for this week. See you all Friday or Saturday (although I may go away for a long weekend, in which case see you Monday or Tuesday).
Re: [FairfieldLife] Pitta question
On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:34 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: Over the past several weeks, FFL participants have been very helpful in providing all sorts of advice regarding the troubles I've been going through. Several people suggested that one of my problems -- with sleep -- (no problem FALLING asleep but a problem always waking up at about 2:30 and not being able to get back to sleep) were due to a pitta imbalance. Well, what is your response to this: two nights ago I inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. I slept to about 4:30am instead of 2:30 (I go to sleep about 10pm every night). Last night I did the same thing and, yes, I slept, again, till 4:30am. My question: is chocolate pitta-dominating? And, if so, is that why I slept several hours longer? Chocolate usually has caffeine in it, doesn't it? Maybe you slept longer because you just need to eat *something before sleep. Going to bed hungry usually doesn't make for a good rest. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:11 AM, It's just a ride wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM, authfriendjst...@panix.com wrote: The Wikileaks file contains notes of meetings from October 2005 through May 2007 and is well over 6 MB. That's a lot of Raja Rogers's material this low-ranking person had access to. I think there's nothing left for me to vomit. I downloaded some of the TMO files at Wikileaks, read them and so many emotions, none of them positive, flowed through me. I heard the governors who've never had two nickels to rub together talk about monetizing, I read that not having resting rooms in the spas moved people through faster, how to take LMTs off the street, pay them less than USD 15/hr because they /want/ to be part of something new like Maharishi Ayurveda, and train them in all of about 2 hours. I read about buying the cheapest everything at WalMart for the spa treatment rooms. I saw the assumptions made about the peace palaces, how much money would flow through in each area /conservatively/. It all made me very ill. So, this is the TMO in its own writing. It's done for, as is last night's dinner and this morning's breakfast. I haven't had the chance to thoroughly peruse this stuff, so there may be hidden gems I like even more, but this one is classic: WAGES*We want to hire our technicians full time for 30 hours a week @ $15/hr or less. Do not feel that you need to offer the “going rate”Most LMTs are so enthusiastic about being involved with such profound knowledge that they are willing to take less than what other “beauty-salon” spas are offering them. Remember that beauty-salon spas make up the majority of job opportunities available to LMTs. The LMTs are thrilled to be involved with us and appreciate our need to reduce our expenses in our start up phase. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Brave New World
To All: Sperm has been created in the lab. See http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=107598videoChannel=6 Humans could be next in the assembly line.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pitta question
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: Chocolate usually has caffeine in it, doesn't it? The primary methylxanthine in cocoa seem to be theobromine: http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa090301a.htm
[FairfieldLife] Behind the scenes in a Lesbian bar with Barry
Barry: I'm in a panic Fem: Have a drink, clear your head. Barry: Thanks. There are two women on FFLife driving me crazy. Butch: They must be Fems. Barry: I think they are demon possessed she devils. Fem: They must be Butches (Nearby, Lesbians chuckle at the Butch/Fem joke at Barry's expense. Obviously, they are not taking him seriously.) Barry: Nobody believes anything I say about Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Butch: I dig Sarah. Fem: I did Hillary. Barry: What's wrong with you? No one is supposed to dig them. Chorus of Lesbians: Says who? Barry: See what I mean? No one believes me. I need another drink. (Ten drinks later Barry passes out.) Butch: Do you think we ought to tell him? Fem: What? Butch: About the tattoo of Sarah's boobs on his ass. Fem: Nah. He'll find out about that next time he drops his pants cruising. Butch: He's waking up. Barry: Where am I? What's that flickering on my computer screen? Chorus of Lesbians: Thank you, Barry Wright for donating your pension fund to reduce Hillary Clinton's campaign debt. LOL --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Walking my dogs, shortly after my last post here, I ran into a good friend here in Sitges. She's a lovely woman from the Netherlands whom I met at the airport waiting for the bus to Sitges, when she was first on her way here to move in with her girlfriend. We hit it off immediately, and have remained friends. So this evening, when I ran into her and her girl- friend out walking their dog, they invited me and my dogs to join them for a quick drink at the lesbian bar around the corner from my apartment. I did and, today's discussions on FFL still fresh in my mind, brought up for their perusal and comment the curious behavior of so-called feminists on FFL in the form of them being seemingly incapable of ever criticizing either Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin. Their response, and the response of several lesbian friends of theirs sitting at the next table? Uncontrollable laughter at my naivete as a straight guy, followed by a two-word explanation: Butch/Fem. Biting down my straight-guy naivete because I knew I was among friends who were chiding me lightly, not out for blood, I inquired further. Fems are always terrified to criticize Butches, they explained. And it's the same in the straight world as it is in the gay world. Something in them that the lesbian Fems interpret as love and the straight or closeted Fems interpret as admiration causes them to suck up to Butches and defend them to the death. The bottom line is that Fems want desperately to be *admired* by the Butches. But they never will be. That is how Butches retain control over them. I thought it was a fascinating exchange, and pass it along in case anyone else here does, too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Brave New World
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: Sperm has been created in the lab. See http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=107598videoChannel=6 Humans could be next in the assembly line. And? Does that make you feel useless, as a celibate guy who doesn't even *use* his sperm for anything? :-) I saw this story earlier and stayed quiet about it here on FFL because I wanted to see who would react to it first, and how. Wouldn'tcha know that it would be one of the guys who idealizes love and marriage as they were defined by old celibate woman-haters living in caves and calling their fear of women and overt misogyny spiritual? So men and their silly swimmers are superfluous, and may no longer needed even to perpetuate the species. BFD, in my opinion. But for those whose image of themselves *as* men is all wrapped up in misogynist images of oh-so- protective men taking care of their oh-so- vulnerable and needy women, t'would seem that this idea is very challenging indeed. Or is the thing that strikes fear into John's heart the fact that these lab sperm were created by man, not God? Does that make them bad, or evil, or not in accord with the laws of nature, or whatever? I think not. I am replying mainly because I was taken by John's choice of Aldous Huxley's book title as the Subject line for his post. Yes, he termed his book a negative utopia. Yes, he felt that his perversion of Shakespeare's line, spoken by Miranda speech The Tempest, was ironic. O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't! But the point is that Huxley missed the point. The thing is, things like this (test tube sperm, rendering men even more irrelevant than many of them feel already, being so threatened by women) ARE wonders. And they were created by goodly creatures, formed, I might remind the Puritans among us in the image of God, if you believe in such fables as God, and the books that humans claim are written by Him. This is merely a scientific discovery. It has not yet been proven that these lab swimmers can Mark Spitz their way to an egg and fertilize it. But if they can? BFD, in my opinion. What's the difference? Lab swimmers or swimmers from your oh-so-holy gonads. If it can create life, then life is what is created. Your petty religious fears have nothing to do with it. If you must focus on Shakespeare's words, and project meaning into them, why not go with the ones that echo the Buddha's words in the Dhammapada? There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so The fact that you react with fear and trembling to something that is inherently neither good nor bad reveals what you have chosen to focus on, and thus what you have become.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pitta question
cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: Chocolate usually has caffeine in it, doesn't it? The primary methylxanthine in cocoa seem to be theobromine: http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa090301a.htm In general it would not be a recommended way of fulfilling a bitter taste for pitta. And it wouldn't be a good food to eat before going to bed. But the experiment has shown promise and provided a clue. Shemp has to do his own digging or preferably find an ayurvedic practitioner or two. If he wants a MAPI practitioner then he can call them for one. When I called 15 years ago they gave me a list of practitioners and one was an MD. Turned out he had taken both the MAPI and Ayurvedic Institute courses for doctors. If I do vata balancing things then often I get a very thick deep sleep that lasts for about 4 hours. Then I wake up. Backing off the sleep is not so thick and lasts much longer. The key is to understanding how the three doshas relate to the metabolic rate particularly how we burn carbs: slowly, normally or too fast.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pitta question
Shemp, it's my understanding that ayurveda recognizes three types of sleep disorders: (1) trouble falling asleep, (2) waking in the dead of night and (3) waking a few hours before one would normally arise. It would appear you have traded one sleep disorder for another. The fact that ayurveda recognizes these different disorders suggests that it may yet hold a cure. Regardless of the route you take to getting a good night's rest, good luck in your investigations, and please report back. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: Chocolate usually has caffeine in it, doesn't it? The primary methylxanthine in cocoa seem to be theobromine: http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa090301a.htm In general it would not be a recommended way of fulfilling a bitter taste for pitta. And it wouldn't be a good food to eat before going to bed. But the experiment has shown promise and provided a clue. Shemp has to do his own digging or preferably find an ayurvedic practitioner or two. If he wants a MAPI practitioner then he can call them for one. When I called 15 years ago they gave me a list of practitioners and one was an MD. Turned out he had taken both the MAPI and Ayurvedic Institute courses for doctors. If I do vata balancing things then often I get a very thick deep sleep that lasts for about 4 hours. Then I wake up. Backing off the sleep is not so thick and lasts much longer. The key is to understanding how the three doshas relate to the metabolic rate particularly how we burn carbs: slowly, normally or too fast.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
authfriend wrote: You were wrong, and Raunchy was right, even if she didn't have the right article. According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll, 19 percent of voters would very likely vote for her if she ran, with another 24 percent saying they were somewhat likely to give her their vote, despite that fact she quit her job as Alaska governor last week... Read more: 'Sarah Palin still popular, says poll, despite quitting as Alaska Governor' By Michael Sheridan New York Daily News, July 8th 2009, 10:08 AM http://tinyurl.com/ldy7e9
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin in another lie says ethics complaints cost Alaska millions
Palin was exonerated from any wrong doing... do.rflex wrote: That's false, Ms dog. That Palin violated Alaskan ethics law is undeniable... VAN SUSTEREN: Governor Palin's lawyer Thomas Van Flein joins us in Anchorage. Thomas, how many complaints, ethics complaints have been filed against the governor since last August? How many have been ended in her favor? And what has been the cost? THOMAS VAN FLEIN, GOV. SARAH PALIN'S ATTORNEY: A total of 15 were filed as of yesterday. A new one was filed yesterday. But all 15 have been dismissed. There was never a finding of any ethics violation or violation of our ethics law. Read more: 'Palin Ethics Complaints May Have Connection to Lower 48 Democrats' On the Record with Greta van Susteren Fox News, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/ljpauo http://tinyurl.com/ljpauo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The *safe* public domain, on Wikileaks, which has a legal staff that won't bow to pressure from the TMO scumbag lawyers to remove it. This is particularly important right now, because they have been ramping up their harassment of any groups or websites or...interestingly...even *individuals* who dare to post material critical of the TMO. Several people (besides Alex) have recently been threatened by TMO lawyers unless they removed offending material from their web servers, even if those servers were private and only shared with friends. Well at least we have reasonable evidence that it's (a) part of a plan and (b) has Bevan's finger prints all over it. Do we have more details of this ramping up? I know nosedef had his important documentary removed from YouTube, and what's his name abandoned the web seminar he was going to have at the time of the McCartney concert, anything else? There was a funny vid on YouTube made by some students at a Canadian college which had TM and TM-Sidhis introduced, but I can't find it now. That can't have been removed from YouTube for copyright reasons because they'd made it themselves. Anyway here's a quote from Joseph Goebbels;- If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. A familiar point of view for anyone who's had any contact with the TMO. Incidentally, talking of Joseph Goebbels, what was Bevan doing in India recently? He's not the sort of person to take a break, he's a hatchet man so there must have been some serious hatcheting to be done for him to have spent so long there. My guess is that he had to go there for the court case trying to get some money back from Maharishi's family.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah's Secret Diary
raunchydog wrote: It's the yucky kind of writing that makes you feel like taking a shower. .. The column was full of venomous comments about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. I may not have thought Sarah Palin was the best choice for vice president, but writing a column with personal attacks in most every paragraph is despicable... Read more: 'Dowd went too far with personal attacks' By Eric Snow Las Vegas Sun, July 7, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/nx9esn She is popular with core Republicans and conservatives for her emotional approach to abortion, for her Alaskan devotion to guns and hunting, and for her libertarianish theory of government whose last true devotee was Barry Goldwater. Palin comes from the core of the core [Republican Party] demographic: rural, Protestant, married and churchgoing. She is in THAT mainstream. - Howard Fineman
[FairfieldLife] United Breaks Guitars: A cautionary tale for the TMO
This is one of those heartwarming stories that brings a smile to the lips of us proles and strikes fear and trembling into the hearts of petty tyrants everywhere. Watch the video first, if you haven't seen it already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo I have been following this story ever since I first saw it this morning, on Digg. Digg is a marvelous invention that allows users to mark Internet items they think are click-worthy for others, so that they rise in the ratings, and as a result *are* clicked on by others. When I first saw this story, it had only a few Diggs. I checked back an hour later and it was #1 on their listings and over 60,000 people had viewed it. A few hours later, that total was over 140,000 and it had been picked up by portals such as the Huffington Post. It's definitely gone viral. The story of this hilarious video and rather effective form of offended consumer vengeance is that United Airlines played toss with this guy's Taylor guitar and broke it, and then treated him with disdain for a year and finally refused to compensate him for it. Bad idea. The latest news is that United Airlines is searching desperately for him, trying to offer him whatever they can to keep him from writing United Breaks Guitars 2 and 3, which he has promised to do. So why is this at all relevant to Fairfield Life, and our continuing discussions? Well, IMO it has a *lot* to do with the recent legal harassment being conducted by TMO lawyers against Web sites and individuals who dare to post TRUE criticism of the TM organization and its 40-year history of duplicity, money-grubbing, and disregard for human dignity. ALL THAT IT WOULD TAKE for this Scientology- like attempt to silence its critics to backfire on them would be for someone to come up with something this creative, and this potentially viral. Sooner or later these petty tyrants who are so divorced from reality that they believe that they are kings and deserve to wear crowns and be treated like royalty are going to do something so stupid that someone is going to react with a similarly-scathing and similarly- viral satire of them. And the one thing that petty tyrants can never survive is being laughed at. In this Internet Age, a good satire of these bozos could go viral the way this video has, in days. And if it did, the TM organization's kings would be on their knees begging for it to stop, and for things to go back to the way they were before, when they could just issue proc- lamations and expect them to be obeyed by people too fearful *not* to obey. Those days are over. The Rajas, lost in their dream world, don't realize it yet, but mark my words, they will soon...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
authfriend wrote: As far as Barry's concerned, it's all or nothing. You're either for 'em or agin 'em (shades of GWB), and if you're agin 'em, anything goes: you can make up all the false stories you want, and *it's all good*--you're blameless... In calling Alaska's governor Caribou Barbie, Miss Dowd used beauty as a weapon to diminish Mrs. Palin's achievements. A man would be reprimanded for this, but Miss Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning pad thrower and is licensed for such vindictive pettiness. 'Caribou,' of course, is a stab at Mrs. Palin's backwater, Red State ways, attacks on which an Upper Westside liberal snob can never get enough. Miss Dowd goes on to ridicule Sarah's country-music melodramas. This is her barely veiled attempt to call Mrs. Palin 'white trash.' And this has been the loathsome subtext of all media criticism of the Palins. They even went after their children... Read more: 'New York Times Barbie strikes again' By Andrew Breitbart Washington Times, July 6, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/kmtto5 http://tinyurl.com/kmtto5
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Sal Sunshinesalsunsh...@lisco.com wrote: I haven't had the chance to thoroughly peruse this stuff, so there may be hidden gems I like even more, but this one is classic: WAGES * We want to hire our technicians full time for 30 hours a week @ $15/hr or less. Do not feel that you need to offer the “going rate” Most LMTs are so enthusiastic about being involved with such profound knowledge that they are willing to take less than what other “beauty-salon” spas are offering them. Remember that beauty-salon spas make up the majority of job opportunities available to LMTs. The LMTs are thrilled to be involved with us and appreciate our need to reduce our expenses in our start up phase. Sal Read Business_plan.pdf in the Peace Palace 2005.zip download. Read the lines, around the lines, between the lines. $480,000 a year will come in from teaching TM. But there's no expenses to teachers or the TMO. So does that mean that for $4,000 a month the two directors will teach TM? Who teaches the one advanced technique per month? How many people here have signed up for a Brain Integration Course at $50? Almost everybody? I don't see a checking charge. In the Eurozone checking costs Euro 20+ per session. Free in the US? One person will spring for yagnas a month, bringing in $240,000 a year. How will they manage this? BBQ pit in the back yard? Where are the pundits listed? Will Rogers never met you. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
Goebbels; the real Guru of the Buddhists Vaj and the Turkey: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie
[FairfieldLife] Smart Crow video
We've written about these guys before, but here's a video that illustrates just how brainy crows are. This is a first-time experience for the crow; food in a basket in the tube that he can't reach; a straight piece of wire that doesn't help . . . until the crow takes it out, bends one end into a hook, then fishes out the basket and retrieves the tasty morsel. Lovely. http://snipurl.com/me54x
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:13 PM, It's just a ride wrote: Read Business_plan.pdf in the Peace Palace 2005.zip download. Read the lines, around the lines, between the lines. Wasn't able to find that, but here's another little bag of gems--in addition to being almost functionally illiterate, the genius who wrote these doesn't even try to make sense: 1. Personal Practice of TM and TM-Sidhi Program Guiding Principles: o We are successful only on ground of purity and simplicity—never do anything behind curtain in terms of wealth or behavior—never do it or else you will scrap your life—this is main feature of course! o Don’t waste time on gossip as life is precious o Get graha shanti done—even small get done o Never go to untruths otherwise life not neat and clean o Don’t stop for anything—where there is a will there is a way (for spreading this precious knowledge) o Recertified Governors are only hope of the world and you are very few and must know what you are—you possess Total Knowledge and you go to bank to fulfill your desire o We never, never ask obligation from anyone—we only go to bless them o Do not schedule any appointments for the first 1/2 hour after your morning program. o Have as many assistants as needed and don’t worry about $$--the more you invest you will gain o We have a parental role for the public. We are not in a position to have a negative feeling for anyone. That we always remember. o Individually you don’t strain the mind – have a very uplifting mode. We want to build Peace Palaces, but never strain the mind. Main thing is morning and evening meditation. We are 24 hour employment. Whenever there is more work, engage more help. I think we should post as many of these as possible... and then wait until they get around to suing Rick! :) Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: United Breaks Guitars: A cautionary tale for the TMO
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: The story of this hilarious video and rather effective form of offended consumer vengeance is that United Airlines played toss with this guy's Taylor guitar and broke it, and then treated him with disdain for a year and finally refused to compensate him for it. Doesn't anyone make a traveling guitar case than can handle that kind of abuse? In my mind's eye, a guitar should survive just fine in a case with a durable plastic shell and a soft foam interior that cushions the guitar from all sides.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: United Breaks Guitars: A cautionary tale for the TMO
On Jul 8, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: The story of this hilarious video and rather effective form of offended consumer vengeance is that United Airlines played toss with this guy's Taylor guitar and broke it, and then treated him with disdain for a year and finally refused to compensate him for it. Doesn't anyone make a traveling guitar case than can handle that kind of abuse? In my mind's eye, a guitar should survive just fine in a case with a durable plastic shell and a soft foam interior that cushions the guitar from all sides. I have two Taylors and they're a very fragile handmade guitar. Part of their appeal is that the same build that makes them rather fragile, makes them incredibly resonant and harmonically superior. There are special travel cases, many even contain humidification, but even those won't protect them from people throwing them so they hit the tarmac.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Smart Crow video
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: We've written about these guys before, but here's a video that illustrates just how brainy crows are. This is a first-time experience for the crow; food in a basket in the tube that he can't reach; a straight piece of wire that doesn't help . . . until the crow takes it out, bends one end into a hook, then fishes out the basket and retrieves the tasty morsel. Lovely. http://snipurl.com/me54x What a kick.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Pitta question
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Over the past several weeks, FFL participants have been very helpful in providing all sorts of advice regarding the troubles I've been going through. Several people suggested that one of my problems -- with sleep -- (no problem FALLING asleep but a problem always waking up at about 2:30 and not being able to get back to sleep) were due to a pitta imbalance. Well, what is your response to this: two nights ago I inadvertedly had about half a bar of dark chocolate about an hour before going to bed. I slept to about 4:30am instead of 2:30 (I go to sleep about 10pm every night). Last night I did the same thing and, yes, I slept, again, till 4:30am. My question: is chocolate pitta-dominating? And, if so, is that why I slept several hours longer? * Balancing Pitta: Pay attention to leisure and rest: do not overwork. For more info on Pitta: http://www.mapi.com/ayurveda_health_care/doshas/pitta.html
[FairfieldLife] Jews in Hyperspace
http://www.pickover.com/jih.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
Nice original read Turq. Encompassing critique. Those last couple of paragraphs do seem to catch things do ring with some lot of truth in them. Seems is a good way of thinking about it all, that `cognitive dissonance'. I suspect outsiders looking in could get a grip on the situation said the way you have it here. Of course TM insiders have yet to say, `we are not that' nor acknowledge that they might be something else now Maharishi is gone. But, more of the same? 29K people in America learned the TM-siddhis? wait to see which way the TMmovement sails on. Dome numbers? http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html JGD, -D in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: These last two points are quite funny. That's why I saved them for last. :-) * Used to have average of 20 people at lectures. The rate of people starting seem to be irrelevant to anything that was going on at the lecture. Never been our exp that it's a conventional sales closing situation. The people most likely to start are those who were referred by a meditator. The other factors are intangible factors. The affluent people at lectures thank us heartily and then we don't see them. The one who starts is one who is more modest in their means, who scrapes it together. * Found old notes from Maharishi from when the course fee was first increased the wealthy people don't go to the poor store. They like designer everything. They like to hear a high price. We are not trying to target the masses so we don't have to feel guilty about losing people by initially mentioning the course fee. They're funny because we've got a group of people who are desperately trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises when Maharishi would tell people X is true and yet reality keeps telling them X is false. The fascinating thing is that it's not just Maharishi that the TM TBs on this forum demonstrate cognitive dissonance over. Just a few minutes ago we saw someone who has heavily invested in believing and defending (of all people) Sarah Palin who, trying to disprove a quote posted by do.rflex that she had been found guilty of violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act did so by calling it old news and posting *another* article that said...duh...that Sarah Palin had been found guilty of violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Now *that* is cognitive dissonance. :-) I think that this phenomenon of denying the obvious in an attempt to remain true to someone they have invested in tends to be most apparent when dealing with Maharishi himself, but after all these decades of ignoring the cognitive dissonance that his words and actions has inspired, they have extended this same tendency to all other areas of their lives. Thus they can completely *ignore* the lies and media bashing that, say, Sarah Palin has engaged in while pointing over and over and over to media bashing against her. I think it comes down to a form of brainwashing in which Westerners who had no earthly idea what proper spir- itual behavior is considered to be in the East were taught *false* proper behavior by Maharishi. No real spiritual tradition would ever teach that the teacher is correct, *no matter what*, but he did. No real spir- itual tradition would ask its followers to knowingly lie and commit illegal acts like money laundering, but he did. No real spiritual tradition would claim over and over to the media that it was not religious while engaging in preparations for the next day's Gurupurnima Celebration or yagya in which offerings were made to any number of Hindu gods and goddesses. But he did. Maharishi *specialized* in creating an atmosphere of coginitive dissonance. And then he turned that into an environment in which you were not welcome if the cog- nitive dissonance bothered you. If catching Maharishi in a lie bothered you, you were history...tossed out of the movement, anathema, never to be spoken to or of again. The lesson (and the precedent) was clear. So should we be surprised when people who have been trained like this for decades begin to extend this sense of unreality to real events outside the TM movement? *Of course* they're going to be incapable of perceiving that they are accusing people who criticize their chosen heroes and heroines of the *exact* same things that their heroes and heroines do. They have been trained for decades to do just that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday Chat, live, Patanjali Dome
snip The Global Family Chat this Thursday will be broadcast live from the Dome at 1:30 PM and will feature all the luminaries listed below. SPEAKERS: Message from His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Should be one hell of a live chat
[FairfieldLife] Re: Carbs is good
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Oh yeah, and watch kapha people get fatter. Fragmented medicine at your service. And, of course, if the tumors are the kind that feed voraciously on glucose, eating lots of carbs is not likely to suppress their growth. Well, at least you'll die smart (unless it's a brain tumor): Another study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2007, showed that people on a higher-carbohydrate diet processed information more quickly than those on a low-carbohydrate diet. Why? The brain's primary fuel is glucose, says Taylor. Eating carbohydrate-rich foodsgrains, fruits, vegetablesis by far the most efficient way of keeping the brain's glucose supply on full. Try these recipes for a healthy mindand memory. But the body can only store one to two days' worth of glucose, and when these stores are gone, glucose levels in the blood (also known as blood sugar) drop. Fats and proteins can be backup fuel sources, but they don't provide the glucose needed to sustain peak brain power. http://snipurl.com/mes6o [www_eatingwell_com] bob_brigante wrote: http://snipurl.com/mc42y [timesofindia_indiatimes_com] and veggie amino acid good for blood pressure : http://snipurl.com/mc46g [timesofindia_indiatimes_com]
[FairfieldLife] BING: But It's Not Google
http://bing-vs-google.com/ http://bing-vs-google.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Behind the Scenes
So is it really true that big king Tone has 20 dishes cooked for him every meal time? I had so hoped it wasn't not because I want to start acknowledging his rightful place as my main spiritual inspiration but that if there's one thing I really can't stand it's waste. AFIK they do it to be Vedic. The idea being that kings in India used to live like that, so to be Vedic, Tony has to be like that as well. The idea is dressed up in some garbage about maintaining Tony's sublime level of consciousness. The real purpose from Vedic times is simple gluttony and a display of power. They lived like that not because it was important to maintain the sublime level of consciousness of the king but because they could, anyone who complained would be executed and a display of wasteful extravagance lets the masses know who's in charge. I'll hazard a guess that a true Vedic king would have distributed the leftovers to the poor, it's an essential part of showing off one's status and making sure the lower levels know that they're low life. Much like European medieval aristocrats would hand out the leftovers from their meals to the poor at the gates of their castles. So they're not being properly Vedic if they just throw the leftovers away. To be properly Vedic they'd need to distribute the leftovers to the poor starving masses at the gates of Vlodrop. But, umm, they're in 21st century Holland and there are no poor starving masses waiting at the gates for scraps from the king's table. If they did start distributing leftovers from Tony's meals then people would quickly cotton on to why the course fees are so high and why every other letter or email from the TMO says give us your money, so they keep it secret. Which is odd because the real purpose is a public display of wasteful extravagance to show off how powerful you are. In the real world the kind of warped thinking that goes on at Vlodrop would earn you a straight jacket and a dose of thorazine.
