[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL--Is it worth casting pearls before Barry Wright or other swine

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> It's just a ride wrote:
> > Is it really worth posting things which might be useful, like
> > replacing psycho drugs with a food derivative and getting a 
> > posting by some asshat implying I take drugs?  Perhaps it's 
> > best to just put this group on no-email.
>
> And here I thought I was on Bill's kill file list.   ;-)   

Isn't that fascinating? And look at who is in
his Subject line, even though he claims to have
kill-filed my posts, too.

This is the second time in only a few days that
he's felt the need to throw my name into the
Subject line of a thread that has nothing to do
with me, and to which I did not contribute.

It's as if he's going head-to-head with another
poster here in the "I Will Seek Revenge Until
The Day I Die, And Probably Afterwards" contest. :-)
 
> > I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés 
> > that they are.

Personally, I think that the cliche that's getting
oldest on this forum is the angry-old-person-bent-
on-revenge thang. 

That, and those same people whining when people 
don't take them as seriously as they think they
"deserve" to be taken seriously.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amitabha Buddha

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
> > >
> > > http://yogilin.net/graphics/amitabha.jpg
> > >
> > 
> > Sure looks a bit like un-measured (a-mitaa; in Finnish:
> > "ei-mitattu" > mittaamaton [measure-less]) splendour (bhaa)...
> >
> 
> Oops! That might not be right... : /
>

Just checked that out: the basic noun, or whatever, of that
compound seems to be 'aabhaa':

 AbhA   f. splendour, light; likeness, a. --- resembling, like.

Whether the perfect participle is 'amita' or 'amitaa', both
of them result to 'amitaabhaa' when compouded with 'aabhaa'.

So, there seems to be at least these possible 'vi-grahas' of that compound word:

amitaa + bha
amita + abha
amitaa + aabha

If the compound is a bahuvriihi, it prolly modifies the 
masculine word 'buddha', so that's why the long a-sound
at the end of 'aabhaa' is shortened...blaah, blaah, blaah...

A nice example of how careful one has to be when trying
to figger out the meaning of Sanskrit compounds! :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amitabha Buddha

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
> >
> > http://yogilin.net/graphics/amitabha.jpg
> >
> 
> Sure looks a bit like un-measured (a-mitaa; in Finnish:
> "ei-mitattu" > mittaamaton [measure-less]) splendour (bhaa)...
>

Oops! That might not be right... : /

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post-Racial America

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> > > And, you're probably aware that the core of 
> > > black liberation theology is racist, right? 
> > > 
> Robert> wrote:
> > I realize it is quite a shock to the 'Racists 
> > of the Old Confederacy'...especially in the 
> > ignorant State of Texas...
> > 
> And you probably realize, Robert, that the Dems
> that controlled politics in Texas were opposed
> to Abrahma Lincoln, right? 
> 
> And you probably realize that the Dems that 
> controlled Texas politics were opposed to post 
> civil war Reconstruction, right? 
> 
> And that the Dems that controlled Texas politics 
> were mostly racists, right?
> 
> And, you're probably aware that the core of black 
> liberation theology is racist, right? 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Ferguson
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_A._Ferguson
>
Yes, there is no difference to me, between a Republican in Texas, or a 
Republican, in Texas...
Texas is plain a simple a 'Hornets Nest of Racism'...if you aren't aware of 
that, then, I don't know what I can tell you...
To mention, Abraham Lincoln, in the same sentence as Texas, is an insult to 
Lincoln!

BTW, for your information, the State of Wisconsin, had more volunteers for the 
Civil War, to end slavery, and hold the union together, per capita, then any 
other State, in the Union, and is still a bastion of 'Liberal Thinking'...like 
the opposite of Texas...
There is a secret here...
They marched some captured Confederate Soldiers, up here to keep them in the 
prison here, called 'Camp Randall'...
Later, they built the Stadium, for the University of Wisconsin, apparently on 
top of some old Confederate graves...
Kind of spooky, I guess?

R.g.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amitabha Buddha

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
>
> http://yogilin.net/graphics/amitabha.jpg
>

Sure looks a bit like un-measured (a-mitaa; in Finnish:
"ei-mitattu" > mittaamaton [measure-less]) splendour (bhaa)...

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "meowthirteen"  wrote:
>
> --   
> Hmmm
> well 
> attempt to not slide into apathy yourself
> and
> if 'normal women'are mostly heavy(I mean black cloud weighted down,)
> then
> maybe go to light unusual places 
> and perhaps women of lightness are there
> like in the meadow, or sitting outside the cafe feeding birdies
> or the one in the bookstore , traveling in her mind, if she can't afford the 
> time or money to travel bodily
> Is it really that rare to find delightedness in females?
> (snip)
Yes, this is absolutely true, according to my experience...
Very few have the quality of lightness, or delightfulness, as you say...
I'm not sure, how you made it through, with your soul intact...but few of your 
sisters, are so lucky...at least her, in the war-mongering States...

R.g.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "meowthirteen"  wrote:
>
> -- SOoOooOooOOOoO...
> If you perchance meet a woman of interest,
> perhaps take her somewhere-on a trip, small or grandiose, adn perhaps she 
> would perk up?
> 
> Does that seem to follow?
> 
> 
> On any scale i was thinking- you know, just mix it up, see what kind of new 
> woman comes out if you change the recipie
> 
> Like put a cloth in that cute gazebo @ the reservoir;and swoosh your lovely 
> there on a walk and stop there for some tea you have sitting there waiting.
> would that make the sparkle come back in the eyes and the giggle bubble up in 
> the throat of that woman?
> 
> Or fly to paris for lunch!
> Just for lunch &back!How exilerating!
> 
> Just a thought(?)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > 
> > > In a previous rant this morning I talked about the
> > > disappointment of finding that older women I had
> > > found attractive and interesting...uh...weren't,
> > > and had instead chosen the path of bitterness and
> > > unhappiness and the same old same old. It is an
> > > open "chicken and the egg" question which comes
> > > first -- the same old same old, or the unhappiness.
> > >
> > > Chicken, egg...who cares. All I know is that exper-
> > > ience has shown me that the key to whether a person
> > > is going to be interesting or not seems to come down
> > > to how they answer the simple question, "How long
> > > has it been since you went somewhere you have never
> > > been before?"
> > >
> > > Almost invariably, if the answer is measured in days
> > > or months, I've stumbled upon a real winner. When the
> > > answer is measured in years -- or decades -- there is
> > > little likelihood that we're really going to have
> > > much in common. Maybe I should learn to ask this
> > > question *before* I ask them to dinner.  :-)
> > 
> > Yeah, maybe.  If that's the standard, Barry,
> > I am undoubtedly one of the most boring, unhappy
> > people you will ever meet--it's been over a decade
> > since I've even been out of Iowa. :)
> > 
> > I find this discussion fascinating for a couple of reasons,
> > since there has not been a time in my life that I can
> > recall when I've been happier.  I don't have any secrets,
> > it's just that for the most part as a kid and even
> > young adult I had nowhere to go but up...so up I went. :)
> > Other people with  different life trajectories
> > may very well see middle-age as a comedown,
> > esp. if serious health problems kick in, as they
> > often do.  Also men are perceived, rightly or wrongly,
> > oftentimes as becoming more attractive as they age,
> > at least up to a certain point, while women usually
> > aren't.  This can definitely be a bummer.  And I
> > also think men as they get older make more
> > opportunities for themselves, whereas women
> > often fall into more traditional (read, less fulfilling)
> > roles.
> > 
> > Anyway, great topic and I'm really groovin'
> > on the responses, all of them.
> > 
> > Sal
> >
>
I find women my age, to be completely jaded, way beyond the ability, to fall in 
love, or for me to fall in love with their ego trip...
Very few innocent women left, at my age...

I recently met a woman, who is developmentally disabled...she has some unique 
talents of dancing and singing, but is susceptible to depression, as her 
parents, are attempting to keep her from 'Spreading  her Wings'...
She is quite beautiful and innocent.
And has been,  so refreshing to me, in her innocence...a long way, from the 
typical woman, my age...
That's just the way it is...
American women are in general a very uptight, unhappy bunch!...

R.G.

[FairfieldLife] Re: [War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!]...

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> Robert wrote:
> > War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!...
> >
> "That mission was formally defined by President 
> Obama in March. It was not a surprise then; he 
> campaigned on the idea of the Afghan conflict as 
> a war of necessity and has talked with something 
> close to relish about killing Osama bin Laden. Nor 
> has the mission changed much since the spring..."
> 
> Read more:
> 
> 'Is Afghan surge Obama's Cuba moment?'
> By Giles Whittell 
> Times Online, September 22, 2009
> http://tinyurl.com/ntoddp
>
Somewhat true, that Obama campaigned on some kind of push back in Afghanistan 
and Pakistan...
But, right now, three of the 'Military/Corporate Complex' are being threatened, 
by the people, who are quite sick of the whole thing...

The first, is the Health Care System, and all the Billions, involved there...
The second is the continuation of the war-machine, without a let-up...and all 
the Billions of Dollars, involved with that...
The biggest export, of the United States, at the present time, is weapons of 
war...
The third biggest threat to the 'Complex'...
Is the initiative to surrender to the 'Drug War'...so, the CIA, is afraid of 
losing , Billions of Dollars in the illegal drug trade...

The banks got what they wanted...
The oil companies, got what they wanted, before The Emperor Bush, left, for his 
home in Dallas...
So, they want it all...the government of the people, by the people and for the 
people, is a total threat the the well established 'Military/Corporate/Drug 
Dealing/Wall St. Thugs...

R.g.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >

> > Time will tell. But one hopes there will be fewer
> > and fewer men who, for fear they will *lose*
> > something if women become happier, will attempt to
> > arrest the process by telling women, "That's just
> > the way it is, baby, learn to groove on it. Or at
> > least don't let your unhappiness fuck up your (but,
> > more importantly, my) day."
> 
> Excellent research, Judy

Well, I just cut and pasted from the study.

 and spot on conclusions,
> especially your take on Barry's "don't fuck up my
> day" attitude about women. He has once again
> revealed that he is shallow as a dishpan when it
> comes to a committed relationship.

Most women his age can smell his kind of fraudulence
a mile away. Younger ones may be taken in by it at
first, but not for long.

> I cannot imagine him capable of caring for a woman
> "in sickness and in health." The first wrinkle on
> her forehead or indication of infirmity, he would
> trade her in for a newer, sleeker model, as if she
> had no more value than a used car.
> 
> I work in Rehab and I see amazing human beings caring
> for loved ones everyday. These people a heroes. They
> care for family and mates who have had strokes, are
> in wheelchairs or need help feeding or dressing
> themselves. No one ever complains the loved one has
> fucked up their day. 
> 
> There's a man whose wife lives in our residential care
> facility. She is in a wheelchair and needs total care.
> He visits her everyday and brings her up to our
> pediatric room where we have large mats we let him use
> to passively exercises her arms and legs. If he didn't
> do this for her, her body would contract and freeze in
> a fetal position. 
> 
> I recently helped a man rehab his knee after surgery
> whose wife had early onset of Alzheimer's at the age
> of 62. She is now 75. Two years ago he had to diaper
> her. When he talks about her, I feel the tenderness
> and unwavering devotion he feels for her.
> 
> There are countless stories like these. Compassion for
> others isn't a quality I could ever associate with a
> heartless prick like Barry.

You gotta have a bit of compassion for him in his 
massive unhappiness, though. Nobody will ever love
him like the people you describe care for their
partners.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of jpgillam
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:16 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF
 
  
Doug, aren't we all in thrall to collective 
consciousness? I don't see how a few thousand 
meditations, more or less, will make much 
difference. I expect the disaffected non-
meditators will get enlightened along with 
everybody else when the collective tipping 
point becomes irresistible.
I know people who had significant spiritual awakenings after they stopped
meditating. Maybe that's what some people need to do.
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[yifuxero]

---Right, Vaj, "Pure Consciousness" in it's several variations, beginning with 
TC. You may have a different definition, probably by PC you mean some temporary 
experience of Unity.  I'm going by what MMY has given, corroborated by 
countless people.  But I don't have to redefine it here; there's the 
experience of many thousands of TM'ers.
 Going back to Ramakrishna, his usage of the term "Samadhi" implies/relates to 
"going into Samadhi" (what seems to be from R.'s description, a temporary 
experience of GC or Unity in which the body assumes a rigor mortis or seemingly 
dead state, while the "Soul" catapaults out of the body into as state of 
"Samadhi").
 This is in no way related to what MMY means by "TC" (a variation of Pure 
Consciousness); in which mind is temporarily transcended.  
 What's not to understand, Vaj? are you a simpleton? Stop obfuscating the issue 
by bringing in your own definition (or Norbu's) of "Pure Consciousness".
 Nothing is implied in a discussion of TC as to an opening of the 3-rd eye 
chakra. (although that may occur).
 To conclude, even an "easy" occurrence of TC is something Benson and the other 
techniques don't even talk about since you and they are hung up on quibbling 
about "proof" and the physiological correlates to a deep state of relaxation.
 Laboratory proof is a different question, you idiot.  Stop playing games.

 In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 22, 2009, at 6:02 PM, yifuxero wrote:
> > 
> > > ---Typical nonsensical rubbish by Vaj. TM is a Pure 
> > > consciousness facilitator by virtue of the Shakti
> > > power in the mantra. Benson's technique and related
> > > book-learned mantras have minimal Shakti.
> > 
> > Actually it's science, it's not opinion. There are (at
> > least) eight other techniques that produce the same
> > physiological markers. It's not "unique".
> > 
> > And very few, if any, TMers ever experience "pure
> > consciousness"--now largely seen as a misleading and
> > obsolete term.
> 
> "Now largely seen" by whom??
> 
> > Put it this way: there is NO (none, zero, zip) scientific
> > data that represents what we now know samadhi to "look"
> > like in any TMers, ever.
> > 
> > But you can fool a lot of people, a lot of the time.
> 
> Vaj, the Glenn Beck of FairfieldLife.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 6:02 PM, yifuxero wrote:
> 
> > ---Typical nonsensical rubbish by Vaj. TM is a Pure 
> > consciousness facilitator by virtue of the Shakti
> > power in the mantra. Benson's technique and related
> > book-learned mantras have minimal Shakti.
> 
> Actually it's science, it's not opinion. There are (at
> least) eight other techniques that produce the same
> physiological markers. It's not "unique".
> 
> And very few, if any, TMers ever experience "pure
> consciousness"--now largely seen as a misleading and
> obsolete term.

"Now largely seen" by whom??

> Put it this way: there is NO (none, zero, zip) scientific
> data that represents what we now know samadhi to "look"
> like in any TMers, ever.
> 
> But you can fool a lot of people, a lot of the time.

Vaj, the Glenn Beck of FairfieldLife.

[FairfieldLife] Time To Change Bernanke's Medication?

[Bhairitu]

Like I've said before Ben Bernanke isn't to be believed.  And here is an 
article by Greg Palast saying the same thing:

While acknowledging that this year's economy has gone to hell in a 
handbag, Obama's aide and ambassador to the G-20 seems to be parroting 
the irrational exuberance of Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke who 
declared last week that, "The recession is very likely over." All that 
was missing from Bernanke's statement was a banner, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."

More here:

TIME TO CHANGE BERNANKE'S MEDICATION?
Secret White House letter to G-20

by Greg Palast
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, New York

For The Huffington Post

http://www.gregpalast.com/time-to-change-bernankes-medication-secret-white-house-letter-to-g-20/

Pretty right on view about the economic situation, IMO.

[FairfieldLife] Ford v the chicken tax

[bob_brigante]

http://snipurl.com/s1yz9  [online_wsj_com] 

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[FairfieldLife] Amitabha Buddha

[yifuxero]

http://yogilin.net/graphics/amitabha.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Will Ferrell and Jon Hamm Protect Health Insurance PSA

[Bhairitu]

Great needling of the health insurance crooks:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041b5acaf5/protect-insurance-companies-psa

[FairfieldLife] Rachel Maddow: “Who’s the monkey in Washington in this story?”

[do.rflex]

Congressman Roy Blunt tells a *joke* at the GOP Values Voter Summit.
Rachel Maddow shows the clip and asks at the end of his joke, "So, who's the 
monkey in Washington in this story?"

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPKggiDq7_o&feature

[FairfieldLife] Xenomorphic alien balloon art

[yifuxero]

Xenomorphic alien balloon art: http://tinyurl.com/klxdlk 

from Pickover website.
http://www.tinyurl.com/klxdlk

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[Vaj]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 6:02 PM, yifuxero wrote:

---Typical nonsensical rubbish by Vaj. TM is a Pure Consciousness  
facilitator by virtue of the Shakti power in the mantra. Benson's  
technique and related book-learned mantras have minimal Shakti.



Actually it's science, it's not opinion. There are (at least) eight  
other techniques that produce the same physiological markers. It's not  
"unique".


And very few, if any, TMers ever experience "pure consciousness"--now  
largely seen as a misleading and obsolete term. Put it this way: there  
is NO (none, zero, zip) scientific data that represents what we now  
know samadhi to "look" like in any TMers, ever.


But you can fool a lot of people, a lot of the time.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[yifuxero]

---Typical nonsensical rubbish by Vaj.  TM is a Pure Consciousness facilitator 
by virtue of the Shakti power in the mantra. Benson's technique and related 
book-learned mantras have minimal Shakti.


 In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> Doug wrote:
> > Is pitiable when you see it.  
> > 
> "I recently heard Herbert Benson speak and basically 
> what you're describing is a 'relaxation response'. If 
> you want a relaxation response there are 8 major 
> meditation forms that produce this effect, most of them 
> for a minimal price, without a lot of claptrap--and 
> some of them are also have spiritual benefits as well. 
> TM actually was one of the least beneficial forms of 
> meditation but the most expensive--and touted as the 
> best! For example in lowering blood pressure, every 
> other major form of meditation did a better job! Even 
> Progressive Muscle Relaxation was better." - Vaj
> 
> 'What did TM actually do for you?'
> Posted by Sudarsha
> TMFree, September 10, 2009
> http://tmfree.blogspot.com/
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[WillyTex]

Doug wrote:
> Is pitiable when you see it.  
> 
"I recently heard Herbert Benson speak and basically 
what you're describing is a 'relaxation response'. If 
you want a relaxation response there are 8 major 
meditation forms that produce this effect, most of them 
for a minimal price, without a lot of claptrap--and 
some of them are also have spiritual benefits as well. 
TM actually was one of the least beneficial forms of 
meditation but the most expensive--and touted as the 
best! For example in lowering blood pressure, every 
other major form of meditation did a better job! Even 
Progressive Muscle Relaxation was better." - Vaj

'What did TM actually do for you?'
Posted by Sudarsha
TMFree, September 10, 2009
http://tmfree.blogspot.com/ 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: District 9

[Vaj]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Bhairitu wrote:


Vaj wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:09 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu   
wrote:

>> >
>> > Just got back from seeing this film. I really enjoyed it and
>> > thought it was one of the better films I've seen this year.
>>
>> Or any year.
>>
>> Excellent. Clearly one of the best science
>> fiction films ever made.
>
> I agree. I was just riveted by the underlying themes: apartheid,
> racism, hatred for those that are different, the military industrial
> complex / weapons manufacturers, the caste system, use of the  
media to

> spread lies, etc.
>
> My question is: will there be a sequel? They've certainly set it up
> perfectly for one.
>
> Teasers for Cameron's Avatar look cartoonish in comparison, like
> Mattel is waiting in the wings.

District 10? That's what the director referred to in an interview
regarding a sequel. District 10 is where the "prawns" were sent.


Dunno the name. But he did promise to come back to help him. Plus they  
left over a million "prawns" behind. ;-)


Hollywood is going goo-goo over 3D. They have financing to gear up  
over

2000 theaters with digital for 3D (my local theater already has it).
But I saw the Avatar trailer in 3D when I saw "Final Destination 3D"  
and

was unimpressed. And I found "Final Desitination" to be gimmicky 3D
though that was fine given the genre and franchise. Now Hollywood  
wants

you to buy a new TV for 3D. Sorry, I'll pass. It is mostly a gimmick.


Until holographic TV's come out I'm afraid 3D via multicolor glasses  
is just for Disney films, kid flicks and the Super Bowl.


Well, maybe NASCAR too.

Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL--Is it worth casting pearls before Barry Wright or other swine

[Bhairitu]

And here I thought I was on Bill's kill file list.   ;-)   

Sorry, but the "natural drug" still reads like a pharmaceutical.

One should try to get to bottom of their depression and/or bipolar 
disorder rather than just cure the symptoms.

Or is that being too cliche?

It's just a ride wrote:
> Is it really worth posting things which might be useful, like
> replacing psycho drugs with a food derivative and getting a posting by
> some asshat implying I take drugs?  Perhaps it's best to just put this
> group on no-email.
>
>
> I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.
>
>   

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: District 9

[Bhairitu]

Vaj wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:09 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>> >
>> > Just got back from seeing this film. I really enjoyed it and
>> > thought it was one of the better films I've seen this year.
>>
>> Or any year.
>>
>> Excellent. Clearly one of the best science
>> fiction films ever made.
>
> I agree. I was just riveted by the underlying themes: apartheid, 
> racism, hatred for those that are different, the military industrial 
> complex / weapons manufacturers, the caste system, use of the media to 
> spread lies, etc.
>
> My question is: will there be a sequel? They've certainly set it up 
> perfectly for one.
>
> Teasers for Cameron's Avatar look cartoonish in comparison, like 
> Mattel is waiting in the wings.

District 10?  That's what the director referred to in an interview 
regarding a sequel.  District 10 is where the "prawns" were sent.

Hollywood is going goo-goo over 3D.  They have financing to gear up over 
2000 theaters with digital for 3D (my local theater already has it).  
But I saw the Avatar trailer in 3D when I saw "Final Destination 3D" and 
was unimpressed.  And I found "Final Desitination" to be gimmicky 3D 
though that was fine given the genre and franchise.  Now Hollywood wants 
you to buy a new TV for 3D.  Sorry, I'll pass.  It is mostly a gimmick.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[jpgillam]

Doug, aren't we all in thrall to collective 
consciousness? I don't see how a few thousand 
meditations, more or less, will make much 
difference. I expect the disaffected non-
meditators will get enlightened along with 
everybody else when the collective tipping 
point becomes irresistible.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
>
> ---The solution for individuals is to merge their technical practices with 
> religious devotion (Deity worship and/or Guru Bhakti...such as Kali worship 
> or devotion to one of the "Divine Mother" Gurus). Nothing wrong with 
> Buddhism.  I'm a fan of the Green Tara and Chenrezig.
> I have no sympathy for the Neo-Advaitins.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"  wrote:
> >
> > >Jed Mckenna "Don't need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on the >other 
> > >hand.
> > >   
> > > These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  
> > > A seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
> > > occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently 
> > > for a lack of experience, discipline or culture.  
> > > 
> > > & now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously 
> > > not of the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group 
> > > resonated by the attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism 
> > > about spiritual pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  
> > > Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain non-meditator.
> > >
> > 
> > had had the wisdom of the
> > integration of life in their hands and they just threwd it away.
> > 
> > Is pitiable when you see it.  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > >
> > > > Amen.
> > > > 
> > > > Weak souls, most attracked to TM for small and personal issues; not 
> > > > altruism or wishing for spiritual growth. 
> > > > An easy prey for the so-called "saints" invading Fairfield thus 
> > > > becoming confused and leaving FF.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Nablusoss's  comment actually does point to aspects at work in the 
> > > meditating community.  The black and white of it though is not the 
> > > gradation of it.   
> > > 
> > > On the ground we got folks that are doing active spiritual practice alike 
> > > through out the meditating community both in the TM org and outside.  
> > > Some lot of lit people doing fine spiritually in fact as a result.  Folks 
> > > who long-term have consciously availed themselves and pursued it.  It is 
> > > a very special place that way here.
> > > 
> > > On-going, back to the early 1990's so many have been tossed out of the 
> > > Transcendental Meditation movement community yet continued their 
> > > spiritual pursuit in practice.  That is very much a story of the larger 
> > > TM community and Fairfield now.  Thousands stranded out and neglected, 
> > > who continued on cast-away with what they had anyway.
> > > 
> > > A third different subset category of meditators beyond those inside the 
> > > TM movement and those who have actively gone on around it are of the 
> > > fallen-away, out-right quitters.  Not just the wandered away spiritually 
> > > slothful or indolent meditator but quitters who even shun spiritual 
> > > practice now in method.  Distinctive from just wandered away meditators 
> > > on the one hand but then, a Jed Mckenna "Don't 
> > > need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on the other hand.
> > >   
> > > These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  
> > > A seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
> > > occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently 
> > > for a lack of experience, discipline or culture.  
> > > 
> > > & now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously 
> > > not of the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group 
> > > resonated by the attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism 
> > > about spiritual pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  
> > > Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain non-meditator.
> > > 
> > > Just is.
> > > 
> > > JGD,
> > > -Doug in FF
> > >
> >
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: District 9

[Vaj]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:09 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> Just got back from seeing this film. I really enjoyed it and
> thought it was one of the better films I've seen this year.

Or any year.

Excellent. Clearly one of the best science
fiction films ever made.


I agree. I was just riveted by the underlying themes: apartheid,  
racism, hatred for those that are different, the military industrial  
complex / weapons manufacturers, the caste system, use of the media to  
spread lies, etc.


My question is: will there be a sequel? They've certainly set it up  
perfectly for one.


Teasers for Cameron's Avatar look cartoonish in comparison, like  
Mattel is waiting in the wings.

[FairfieldLife] FFL--Is it worth casting pearls before Barry Wright or other swine

[It's just a ride]

Is it really worth posting things which might be useful, like
replacing psycho drugs with a food derivative and getting a posting by
some asshat implying I take drugs?  Perhaps it's best to just put this
group on no-email.


I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[yifuxero]

---The solution for individuals is to merge their technical practices with 
religious devotion (Deity worship and/or Guru Bhakti...such as Kali worship or 
devotion to one of the "Divine Mother" Gurus). Nothing wrong with Buddhism.  
I'm a fan of the Green Tara and Chenrezig.
I have no sympathy for the Neo-Advaitins.




 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"  wrote:
>
> >Jed Mckenna "Don't need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on the >other hand.
> >   
> > These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  A 
> > seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
> > occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently 
> > for a lack of experience, discipline or culture.  
> > 
> > & now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously 
> > not of the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group 
> > resonated by the attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism 
> > about spiritual pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  
> > Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain non-meditator.
> >
> 
> had had the wisdom of the
> integration of life in their hands and they just threwd it away.
> 
> Is pitiable when you see it.  
> 
> 
> 
> > >
> > > Amen.
> > > 
> > > Weak souls, most attracked to TM for small and personal issues; not 
> > > altruism or wishing for spiritual growth. 
> > > An easy prey for the so-called "saints" invading Fairfield thus becoming 
> > > confused and leaving FF.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Nablusoss's  comment actually does point to aspects at work in the 
> > meditating community.  The black and white of it though is not the 
> > gradation of it.   
> > 
> > On the ground we got folks that are doing active spiritual practice alike 
> > through out the meditating community both in the TM org and outside.  Some 
> > lot of lit people doing fine spiritually in fact as a result.  Folks who 
> > long-term have consciously availed themselves and pursued it.  It is a very 
> > special place that way here.
> > 
> > On-going, back to the early 1990's so many have been tossed out of the 
> > Transcendental Meditation movement community yet continued their spiritual 
> > pursuit in practice.  That is very much a story of the larger TM community 
> > and Fairfield now.  Thousands stranded out and neglected, who continued on 
> > cast-away with what they had anyway.
> > 
> > A third different subset category of meditators beyond those inside the TM 
> > movement and those who have actively gone on around it are of the 
> > fallen-away, out-right quitters.  Not just the wandered away spiritually 
> > slothful or indolent meditator but quitters who even shun spiritual 
> > practice now in method.  Distinctive from just wandered away meditators on 
> > the one hand but then, a Jed Mckenna "Don't 
> > need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on the other hand.
> >   
> > These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  A 
> > seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
> > occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently 
> > for a lack of experience, discipline or culture.  
> > 
> > & now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously 
> > not of the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group 
> > resonated by the attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism 
> > about spiritual pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  
> > Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain non-meditator.
> > 
> > Just is.
> > 
> > JGD,
> > -Doug in FF
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Mckenna Advaita and Transcendental FF

[dhamiltony2k5]

>Jed Mckenna "Don't need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on the >other hand.
>   
> These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  A 
> seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
> occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently for 
> a lack of experience, discipline or culture.  
> 
> & now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously not 
> of the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group resonated by 
> the attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism about spiritual 
> pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain 
> non-meditator.
>

had had the wisdom of the
integration of life in their hands and they just threwd it away.

Is pitiable when you see it.  



> >
> > Amen.
> > 
> > Weak souls, most attracked to TM for small and personal issues; not 
> > altruism or wishing for spiritual growth. 
> > An easy prey for the so-called "saints" invading Fairfield thus becoming 
> > confused and leaving FF.
> >
> 
> 
> Nablusoss's  comment actually does point to aspects at work in the meditating 
> community.  The black and white of it though is not the gradation of it.   
> 
> On the ground we got folks that are doing active spiritual practice alike 
> through out the meditating community both in the TM org and outside.  Some 
> lot of lit people doing fine spiritually in fact as a result.  Folks who 
> long-term have consciously availed themselves and pursued it.  It is a very 
> special place that way here.
> 
> On-going, back to the early 1990's so many have been tossed out of the 
> Transcendental Meditation movement community yet continued their spiritual 
> pursuit in practice.  That is very much a story of the larger TM community 
> and Fairfield now.  Thousands stranded out and neglected, who continued on 
> cast-away with what they had anyway.
> 
> A third different subset category of meditators beyond those inside the TM 
> movement and those who have actively gone on around it are of the 
> fallen-away, out-right quitters.  Not just the wandered away spiritually 
> slothful or indolent meditator but quitters who even shun spiritual practice 
> now in method.  Distinctive from just wandered away meditators on the one 
> hand but then, a Jed Mckenna "Don't need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on 
> the other hand.
>   
> These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  A 
> seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
> occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently for 
> a lack of experience, discipline or culture.  
> 
> & now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously not 
> of the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group resonated by 
> the attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism about spiritual 
> pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain 
> non-meditator.
> 
> Just is.
> 
> JGD,
> -Doug in FF
>

[FairfieldLife] Brain Integration /: New research

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>Brain Integration Scale: New research details objective measures of students' 
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>Dr Guy-Paul Gagné* continued to describe the significance of groundbreaking 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: District 9

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> Just got back from seeing this film.  I really enjoyed it and 
> thought it was one of the better films I've seen this year.  

Or any year. 

Excellent. Clearly one of the best science
fiction films ever made.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[dhamiltony2k5]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> Lately I've been thinking about a lifestyle 
> suggestion made by a former spiritual teacher.
> While I have rejected many of his suggestions,
> this one still strikes me as one of the times
> when he was really "on to something."
> 
> It was very simple: "Once a year, go somewhere
> you have never been before."
> 
> Me, I'd tend to revise that and replace "once
> a year" with "once a season," but whatever. I
> still think it's good advice.
> 
> Chicken, egg...who cares. All I know is that exper-
> ience has shown me that the key to whether a person
> is going to be interesting or not seems to come down 
> to how they answer the simple question, "How long 
> has it been since you went somewhere you have never 
> been before?" 
> 

Nay Turq, 

Chicken-egg.

Nay Turq.  Looking with the eye as a conservative meditator, as a metric the 
only significant aspect that makes a person interesting or even relevant  is 
whether they are spiritual practitioners. Are regular spiritual practitioners.  
Meditators.  Spiritual.  That is most what makes someone sparkle special.

Are regular cultured spiritual practitioners.  Can see it.

It just is.

Jai Adi Shankara,
-Doug in FF  

[FairfieldLife] TV: Teabag and Mia from Californication Help the Cheerleader

[Bhairitu]

The season 4 premiere of Heroes was last night.  Added to the cast is 
Robert Knepper (Teabag from Prison Break) and Madeline Zima (Mia on 
Californicaton).   The question is can they not only help the 
cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) not just save the world but save the 
series.  Maybe not, it played to an audience 46% lower than last year's 
opener.  The series seems to have spun out of control creatively.   It's 
hard to keep this kind of concept up.  If you missed it you can probably 
catch up on Hulu as I don't see any encore scheduled on NBC (maybe 
Sunday).   Or they may run an encore on Syfy or USA.

I've watched the 17 minute FastForward teaser on ABC.com and that show 
premieres this Thursday.  Many think it is an attempt at a replacement 
for Lost which is in it's final season.  We'll see if they can keep up 
the interest.  But most people who want TV with substance these days 
don't find it with network television.

Now Madeline Zima reprising her first scene in Californication might 
boost the ratings somewhat but then again this is "network" television.

[FairfieldLife] Latin America pioneers an anti-poverty program that works

[do.rflex]

SANTA CRUZ, Brazil — Denise de Oliveira lost her job as a janitor in June when 
she had to stay home to care for her 13-year-old son, who had pneumonia. The 
45-year-old single mother of four has kept food on the table, however, thanks 
to a government program that pays her family $70 per month.

"It doesn't give you enough to buy everything you want, but it sure helps," 
said de Oliveira, who lives on a dirt street in this impoverished town on the 
outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Unlike traditional government handouts, however, this popular anti-poverty 
program, which has spread throughout Latin America and even to New York City, 
requires that de Oliveira's children stay in school. The children also must 
have twice-a-year health exams and be vaccinated against diseases.

The program goes by different names — Bolsa Familia (Family Fund) in Brazil and 
Oportunidades (Opportunities) in Mexico, the most populous countries it's in — 
and has slightly different rules depending on the country. Analysts say it's 
become the most successful anti-poverty program in years because it requires 
the poor to do something meaningful and measurable in exchange for government 
charity.

"I have worked in this field for 30 years in every region of the world," said 
Helena Uribe, a senior anti-poverty specialist at the World Bank in Washington. 
"This is the one (program) that works. It has showed that you can reach poor 
people today and position them to improve opportunities over a lifetime."

"The programs are popular because they have quick impacts that are measurable," 
said Amanda Glassman, a specialist in the program at the Inter-American 
Development Bank. "Well-child visits go up. Vaccination rates go up. School 
attendance goes up. Kids are taller for their age, even if they've been in the 
program for only a year."

Fears that the program would encourage families to have more children, stay at 
home rather than work to collect benefits or become playthings of 
patronage-happy politicians have proved to be unfounded, Glassman added.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and 
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will be among the speakers at a forum on 
the program Tuesday in New York.

The program began in Brazil and Mexico in the mid-1990s. About 100 million 
people now are enrolled in it in Latin America, including 45 million in Brazil 
and 12 million in Mexico, according to the World Bank. Every Latin American 
country except Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua has some version of the program, 
and millions more receive benefits in places such as Bangladesh, Kenya and 
Pakistan.

The cash payments typically go only to women, who're more likely than men are 
to make sure that the money is spent on food and clothing, analysts say.

Bolsa Familia has had its most dramatic effect in Brazil, where 25 percent of 
the country's residents receive benefits.

Sergei Soares, who studies Bolsa Familia for the Institute of Applied Economic 
Research, a Brazilian government research institute, said, "It has kept 
millions of kids from dying from starvation and related illnesses."

In Mexico, researchers have found that the dropout rates of 16- to 19-year-olds 
in rural areas dropped by 20 percent.

On the health side, researchers have found that children in Mexico gained an 
extra half-inch in height on average, while malnutrition dropped nearly 7 
percent in children younger than 2 in Colombia, according to the World Bank.

However, the programs — which social scientists call "conditional cash 
transfers" — also demonstrate the limits of anti-poverty programs.

"The programs are not a panacea to poverty," Glassman said. "They are part of 
the answer to poverty."

Soares, who calls the program a huge success, said it had done little to reduce 
poverty in Brazil because its greatest impact had been keeping the poorest of 
the poor alive and making their lives somewhat more bearable. In other words, 
they've moved up from the bottom rung, but remain poor.

The program also has yet to lift classroom test scores in Mexico, the one 
country where data are available. It's barely raised school enrollment in urban 
areas throughout the region because most children already were in school.

"It's so easy and seemingly indefensible to write a check for poor people," 
said Samuel Morley, a longtime anti-poverty specialist, referring to the World 
Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Both institutions have loaned 
billions of dollars and provided expert advice to developing countries to 
implement and manage the program.

"But I wish they spent more money on actually improving the quality of schools. 
The education system is starved for funds."

Jere Behrman, a University of Pennsylvania professor who's studied the program, 
said it didn't turn students into classroom stars.

The schools they attend, he said, "are not very good. They need better 
materials, computers and teachers."

However, Behrman sa

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[raunchydog]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure that all of us could come up with reasons
> > for it -- all equally creative, all equally specious --
> > but the bottom line seems to be "That's just the way
> > it is."
> 
> For those with more intellectual curiousity than
> Barry, here's what the study's authors propose as
> possible explanations for the data:
> 
> "First, there may be other important socio-economic
> forces that have made women worse off. A number of
> important macro trends have been documented--
> decreased social cohesion (Putnam, 2000), increased
> anxiety and neuroticism (Twenge, 2000), and
> increased household risk (Hacker, 2006). While each
> of these trends have impacted both men and women, it
> is possible for even apparently gender-neutral trends
> to have gender-biased impacts if men and women
> respond differently to these forces. For example, if
> women are more risk averse than men, then an increase
> in risk may lower women's utility relative to that
> of men.
> 
> "The second possibility is that broad social shifts 
> such as those brought on by the changing role
> of women in society fundamentally alter what 
> measures of subjective well-being are capturing. 
> Over time it is likely that women are aggregating 
> satisfaction over an increasingly larger domain set. 
> For example, life satisfaction may have previously 
> meant 'satisfaction at home' and has increasingly 
> come to mean some combination of 'satisfaction at 
> home' and 'satisfaction at work.'
> 
> "This averaging over many domains may lead to
> falling average satisfaction if it is difficult to
> achieve the same degree of satisfaction in multiple
> domains. One piece of evidence along these lines is
> that the correlation between happiness and marital
> happiness is lower for women who work compared with
> those who are stay at home wives, and the
> correlation has fallen over time for all women in
> our sample
> 
> "Subjective well-being data have come to be used in 
> the psychology and economics literatures because 
> they have been shown to be correlated with more 
> objective measures of happiness. Yet these measures 
> do not necessarily indicate that subjective well-
> being measures are able to capture the positive or 
> negative consequences of large-scale social changes 
> over time. It has been recognized that an 
> individual's assessment of their well-being may 
> reflect the social desirability of responses and
> Kahneman (1999) argues that people in good 
> circumstances may be hedonically better off than 
> people in worse circumstances, yet they may require 
> more to declare themselves happy.
> 
> "In the context of the findings presented in this
> paper, women may now feel more comfortable being
> honest about their true happiness and have thus
> deflated their previously inflated responses. Or,
> as in Kahneman's example, the increased
> opportunities available to women may have increased
> what women require to declare themselves happy
> 
> "Finally, the changes brought about through the 
> women's movement may have decreased women's 
> happiness. The increased opportunity to succeed in 
> many dimensions may have led to an increased 
> likelihood of believing that one's life is not 
> measuring up. Similarly, women may now compare their 
> lives to a broader group, including men, and find 
> their lives more likely to come up short in this 
> assessment. Or women may simply find the complexity 
> and increased pressure in their modern lives to have 
> come at the cost of happiness."
> 
> http://snipurl.com/s0xcz (pdf)
> 
> > Which leaves us in the same position as any
> > other time we encounter that phrase, and that real-
> > ization -- what to do about "the way it is" that
> > allows us to groove with it. Or, if not actually
> > groove with it, at least not let it fuck up our
> > day.
> 
> Unlike Barry, I don't see any of this as being "just
> the way it is," something simply to be accepted and
> lived with. I see it as a function of being in the
> middle of a massive transition: many things have
> changed, but there are many things left to be changed
> before the happiness imbalance between men and women
> evens out.
> 
> Will men have to give up some of their happiness
> quotient to redress the balance? Or will both men
> *and* women become happier as the situation of
> women continues to improve, with women's happiness
> rising faster than that of men so that they
> eventually catch up? Will men ever realize that
> their own happiness depends on the equal happiness
> of women?
> 
> (Interestingly, the authors observe that the
> *suicide* rate has fallen for women but has risen
> for men, another apparently paradoxical finding
> in light of those on subjective happiness.)
> 
> Time will tell. But one hopes there will be fewer
> and fewer men who, for fear they will *lose*
> something

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: We Can Reverse Climate Change

[WillyTex]

Shemp McGurk wrote:
> Memo to Barky: no one is listening and no one 
> cares because you've cut yourself too thin...
> 
'Scientists pull an about face on global warming'
By Lorne Gunter
Vancouver Sun, September 19, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/kwtqrp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rachel Maddow: Curing American health insurance affliction

[WillyTex]

John wrote:
> Rachel Maddow reports on the latest scare tactics 
> from health care reform opponents...
>
"Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, 
which is experiencing grievous budget problems, said 
the bill must not foist new costs on states..."

Full story:

'Public insurer support fading'
By Lisa Wangsness
Boston Globe, September 14, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/leywkv

Re: [FairfieldLife] New, exciting, natural approach to depression, bipolar disorder and the like

[Bhairitu]

Well down the road to the Brave New World, are we?  Or are you just a 
drug fiend?

It's just a ride wrote:
> Deplin is a prescription drug that is sweeping over the psychiatric
> community.  It's the eventual form of foliate which crosses the blood
> brain barrier.  It has been shown by many psychiatrists (I'm not sure
> about the results of clinical trials) to be very effective in treating
> depression and bipolar disorder and very quickly.  An OTC version of
> Deplin is Metagenics FolaPro.  The prescription version contains 7.5
> mg while Metagenics FolaPro contains .88 mg, meaning you'd need to
> take about 9 tablets a day.  The cost of Deplin and Metagenics FolaPro
> are about $2.20 a day.  Many of us lack the enzymes to process
> foliate, so taking one tablet a day of Metagenics FolaPro might be
> very useful to you.
>
> There are many reasons for the excitement.  First, many people with
> other problems are being helped with Deplin.  Second, Deplin balances
> all three neurotransmitters.  Third, it's natural.  It doesn't give
> the nasty side effects of the anti-depressants or mood stabilizing
> drugs.  If you've seen Abilify on TV lately, it's gone from a nice,
> innocuous drug that helps when anti-depressants fail to something
> which could cause FATAL glucose metabolism problems.
>
>
>
> I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.
>
>   

[FairfieldLife] Bevo!

[WillyTex]

"With a 10-point lead and time winding down, there was just one last
stop needed to cement the victory. This time, there was no drive and
no catch. Instead, with just a minute left and the Red Raiders
desperately
throwing the ball downfield, Curtis Brown, the man whom Michael
Crabtree beat last year for the winning score, swatted the fourth down
pass to the turf, incomplete..."

'Defense arrives in Longhorn victory'
By Michael Sherfield
The Daily Texan, September 21, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/nvontt 

The University of Texas began playing football in 1893 and has
traditionally
been considered a college football powerhouse, having earned four
National
Championships...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Longhorns_football

[FairfieldLife] Rachel Maddow: Curing American health insurance affliction

[do.rflex]

Rachel Maddow reports on the latest scare tactics from health care reform 
opponents and the scarier actual underwriting guidelines for insurance 
companies to deny coverage for absurd "pre-existing conditions." 

Former health care executive turned whistle blower Wendell Potter joins for 
further analysis. Public Option is the only answer.

Watch report: 
http://vodpod.com/watch/2221675-maddow-curing-american-health-insurance-affliction

Re: [FairfieldLife] FW: Jeru - Please pass this on to anyone you think knows him!!!

[Vaj]

On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Rick Archer wrote:

(like Amazon or Barnes and Noble) and sent directly from the  
company to him (don't do the "New and Used from only." because  
then the mailing label will not say Amazon).  Any books sent from  
an individual or from any source other than a main distributor will  
be rejected.



Wonderful gift idea.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why We Can't Legalize Marijuana!..'

[Mike Dixon]

Robert ... what have you been smoking this morning?





From: Robert 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:12:45 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why We Can't Legalize Marijuana!..'

  
--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "John"  wrote:
>
> It's costing more money now to enforce the law prohibiting the use of 
> marijuana. It is also adding more costs to keep convicted marijuana 
> traffickers in jail. Specifically, California's jail system is now 
> overcrowded.
> 
> Something has to give, since the economy is now very slow and many states, 
> like California, are operating on a deficit. The electorate may be more 
> receptive to legalizing marijuana and releasing prisoners with nonviolent 
> crimes.
> (snip)
Don't think so...as long as the drug co.'s, have their way...
And the booze dealers, also...
And a lot of the CIA money, that is 'off the books'...
So, there's a lot of evil agendas, that will continue to shun the...
'Herb of Lord Shiva'...
Lord Shiva, opens ones eyes...they won't have that!
Check out Fox News, or Rush Limbaugh, and realize, these are the highest rated 
shows, for the 'Mass Ignorance'.. .
They are 'Proud of being stupid and ignorant...
Sad, isn't it?
Oh, if the Feds ever try to legalize it, can you just imagine what the 
ass-holes in Texas would do, politically, with that notion...

Oh, here comes the black guy, wanting to legalize pot...
See what I mean?

Robert G.

Robert G..





  

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: Jeru - Please pass this on to anyone you think knows him!!!

[ShempMcGurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk"  wrote:
> > Now, how about the addresses of Jeru's victims?  Aren't they more deserving 
> > of your and my largess than the perp?
> >
> 
> *
> 
> People can change -- one of the most famous saints in India is Valmiki, who 
> used to be a bandit:
> 
> http://www.iloveindia.com/spirituality/gurus/valmiki.html
>


Of course people can change and we wish Jeru well in his rehabilitation.

But, again, what are the addresses of the victims so that people can have a 
choice who they want to send "stuff" to?  Perhaps the money spent on Amazon 
will be better placed in the pocket of some little old lady that Jeru fleeced 
of her life savings...hey, I don't know if that's true or not but before anyone 
considers sending the guilty party anything of value isn't it reasonable to ask 
who is victims are, how many there are, and what they lost because of him?

Debra?  Are you listening?

I do hope Rick relates this message back to her so that she can forward a list 
of the victims to Rick and he can post it here.

Oh, and Debra, please don't forget to tell us what each victim lost because of 
Jeru.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Relationship advice from Scott Baio (music video)

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
>  * This is this guy's first post to YouTube. He has only been a 
> member for six days.

I didn't notice at first that this is on Break.com,
not YouTube. He's obviously been a member of YouTube 
for some time, and has a bunch of videos there. Who 
is this guy? Was he on a TV show or something?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: We Can Reverse Climate Change

[ShempMcGurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Speaking at the United Nations climate summit in New York, President Barack 
> Obama says the United States was slow to recognize the magnitude of climate 
> change, but that Washington is moving swiftly to catch up.



Do you think anyone is listening anymore?

The guy's everywhere: Congress, David Letterman show, Sunday Morning news 
shows, Food Network.

Yawn.

Memo to Barky: no one is listening and no one cares because you've cut yourself 
too thin.

Oh, and only a few fanatics on the Left believe your bullshit about climate 
change.  But John Manning in Brazil is hanging on your every word.

RE: [FairfieldLife] An Inconvient Truth About Global Warming?

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of WillyTex
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:23 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] An Inconvient Truth About Global Warming?
 
  
"The global warming theory has been based 
all along on the idea that the Atlantic 
and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of 
the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in 
man-made carbon dioxide, then they would 
let off that heat and warm the atmosphere 
and the land.

But as Latif pointed out, the Atlantic, 
and particularly the North Atlantic, has 
been cooling instead. And it looks set 
to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 
more years..."
 
http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4522
Lorne
  Gunter: Enlisting "science" to help me believe what I want
Tags: Canada  , EU
 , lorne
  gunter, Mojib Latif
 , national post
 , realclimate
 , Richard Littlemore
 , watts up
  with that 
http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/blogimages/lorne%2
0gunter_0.jpg
The denier web has been alive with excitement over the past week about a
presentation by the German meteorologist Dr. Mojib
  Latif, who told a recent
scientific meeting in Geneva that he expects a
  temporary lull in global
warming.
One of the
 National Post's most vigorous climate change deniers, Lorne
Gunter, grabbed onto this story in a celebratory column titled: Global
  Warming Takes a Break. But
Gunter has not suddenly decided to take science seriously. He dismissed as
somehow unknowable Latif's ultimate conclusion: that climate change is a
real and pressing problem and that even if global temperature increases
stall, they will inevitably resume.
Nope. Gunter doesn't want to listen to a whole scientific sentence: but he's
willing to bet our lives on a  fragment that bolsters his own agenda.
 
 
<>

[FairfieldLife] Relationship advice from Scott Baio (music video)

[TurquoiseB]

I'm passing this along because:

* It's funny.
* The very *idea* of getting relationship advice from Scott Baio is
funny.
* The idea of getting advice from him on this particular problem is
even funnier.
* I cannot for the life of me figure out the "consumer niche"
perceived as a market for this  video. And how did they get Scott Baio
to be in it?
* It's actually got good production values and a redeeming social
message.
* That keeps it from being porn, and that's good because if it were
porn Alex might inflict harshness upon me.
* This is this guy's first post to YouTube. He has only been a member
for six days.
* It's funny.
* BillyG, jr_esq, shukra, & Nabby will hate it.
* Who else would post it here?
http://www.break.com/index/he-puts-it-in-the-wrong-hole.html


And yes, that *is* what it's about.

[FairfieldLife] New, exciting, natural approach to depression, bipolar disorder and the like

[It's just a ride]

Deplin is a prescription drug that is sweeping over the psychiatric
community.  It's the eventual form of foliate which crosses the blood
brain barrier.  It has been shown by many psychiatrists (I'm not sure
about the results of clinical trials) to be very effective in treating
depression and bipolar disorder and very quickly.  An OTC version of
Deplin is Metagenics FolaPro.  The prescription version contains 7.5
mg while Metagenics FolaPro contains .88 mg, meaning you'd need to
take about 9 tablets a day.  The cost of Deplin and Metagenics FolaPro
are about $2.20 a day.  Many of us lack the enzymes to process
foliate, so taking one tablet a day of Metagenics FolaPro might be
very useful to you.

There are many reasons for the excitement.  First, many people with
other problems are being helped with Deplin.  Second, Deplin balances
all three neurotransmitters.  Third, it's natural.  It doesn't give
the nasty side effects of the anti-depressants or mood stabilizing
drugs.  If you've seen Abilify on TV lately, it's gone from a nice,
innocuous drug that helps when anti-depressants fail to something
which could cause FATAL glucose metabolism problems.



I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.

[FairfieldLife] Obama: We Can Reverse Climate Change

[do.rflex]

Speaking at the United Nations climate summit in New York, President Barack 
Obama says the United States was slow to recognize the magnitude of climate 
change, but that Washington is moving swiftly to catch up.

Watch: http://snipurl.com/s1obl   [voices_washingtonpost_com] 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post-Racial America

[WillyTex]

> > And, you're probably aware that the core of 
> > black liberation theology is racist, right? 
> > 
Robert> wrote:
> I realize it is quite a shock to the 'Racists 
> of the Old Confederacy'...especially in the 
> ignorant State of Texas...
> 
And you probably realize, Robert, that the Dems
that controlled politics in Texas were opposed
to Abrahma Lincoln, right? 

And you probably realize that the Dems that 
controlled Texas politics were opposed to post 
civil war Reconstruction, right? 

And that the Dems that controlled Texas politics 
were mostly racists, right?

And, you're probably aware that the core of black 
liberation theology is racist, right? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Ferguson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_A._Ferguson

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why We Can't Legalize Marijuana!..'

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>
> It's costing more money now to enforce the law prohibiting the use of 
> marijuana.  It is also adding more costs to keep convicted marijuana 
> traffickers in jail.  Specifically, California's jail system is now 
> overcrowded.
> 
> Something has to give, since the economy is now very slow and many states, 
> like California, are operating on a deficit.  The electorate may be more 
> receptive to legalizing marijuana and releasing prisoners with nonviolent 
> crimes.
> (snip)
Don't think so...as long as the drug co.'s, have their way...
And the booze dealers, also...
And a lot of the CIA money, that is 'off the books'...
So, there's a lot of evil agendas, that will continue to shun the...
'Herb of Lord Shiva'...
Lord Shiva, opens ones eyes...they won't have that!
Check out Fox News, or Rush Limbaugh, and realize, these are the highest rated 
shows, for the 'Mass Ignorance'...
They are 'Proud of being stupid and ignorant...
Sad, isn't it?
Oh, if the Feds ever try to legalize it, can you just imagine what the 
ass-holes in Texas would do, politically, with that notion...

Oh, here comes the black guy, wanting to legalize pot...
See what I mean?

Robert G.

Robert G.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[WillyTex]

TurquoiseB wrote:
> One of the joys *of* a Road Trip is being
> able to just kick back and listen to music 
> or the silence and watch the scenery go by...
>
Well, let me tell you, being on the road is 
not all it's cracked up to be. I spent eighteen 
years on the road as part of a military family, 
and it's not all a good thing. 

I've lived in Europe, Asia, and visited over 
twenty countries. I've lived in at least six 
states, and visited a dozen more. I've probably 
passed through at least twenty-five states in 
my travels, and that's after age eighteen when 
I was on my own. 

So, I can tell you from experience that where 
you are now is the 'exact center of the universe.' 
It's not always greener on the other side. 

In fact, going on a road trip is probably a form 
of escapism in some cases. In the case of Turq, 
it's probably just a case of outright boredom. 

But at some point you've got to stop trying to 
hide all your troubles by trying to get away. At 
some point, maybe it's time to settle down, make 
a stand, raise a family, and get out and vote.

A philospher in China once fell into a pit, while 
always looking up at the sky.

Read more:

What I Did Last Summer:
http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/brat.htm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post-Racial America

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex"  wrote:
>
> John wrote:
> > Post-Racial America
> >
> Yeah, so much for 'post-racial America', John!
> Now the whole notion of being post-racial is 
> just a cartoon. 
> 
> But do you really think that Dems playing the 
> race card is going to get any Dems re-elected 
> in the next election?
> 
> You've probably read Obama's "The Audacity of 
> Hope" and "Dreams from My Father", right? 
> 
> And you're probably aware that Obama attended 
> Pastor Wright's 'Trinity Untied Church' for 
> over twenty years, right? 
> 
> And, you're probably aware that Pastor Wright 
> has a lot of animosity toward white people, 
> right? 
> 
> And you're probably aware that Pastor Wright 
> gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis 
> Farrakhan, right? 
> 
> And, you're probably aware that the core of 
> black liberation theology is racist, right? 
> 
> So, I'm thinking that you're probaboly an 
> idiot, if you're aren't aware of these facts.
> 
> >    >   [This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow]
>(snip)
Yes, we made the leap, last election, to prove we are post racial...
That is how Barack Obama, got elected...

It was quite a miracle, as you state above, that even with the non-stop, 
air-time, they gave to the 'Right Honerable Reverand Wright...
That he was elected, despite this, stuff...
BTW, much of what Rev.Wright, is perfectly true...
During the Reagan years, many drug dealings were made by Ollie North,and other 
CIA types, gone wild...
And flooded the black neighborhoods, with 'Crack Cocaine'...
Then, on top of that, after they got these people addicted, they past laws to 
put them away, and throw away the key...

I realize it is quite a shock to the 'Racists of the Old 
Confederacy'...especially in the ignorant State of Texas...
That think that black people are inferior to their lily-white-asses...
And still want to put the black people, back in chains...
These same people are usually anti-semetic, also...

They call themselves, 'Christians'...
But wouldn't recognize 'Him', if he was sitting next to them at the NASCAR 
rally...or at their gun shows, or sitting and farting in front of the TV, 
watching the ass-hole, Glenn Beck on Fox news...
They make Jesus ashamed to have these soul-less bastards, say, anything in his 
name, because all they know how to do, is hate, create fear and doubt, and just 
are here to negate anything good, and support anything bad, like:
"Lock 'em Up"...or...Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb...Iran...

Or, have the arrogant stupidity, to serve up a lying whore, like Sarah Palin, 
as 'Second in Command'...
Are you serious

I guess you can't blame these ass-holes...
Like Maharishi, liked to say about George W. Bush, way before any of the rest 
of us, knew how many 'Holes in his Brain' he has, for real!

The Fascist Republican Party, is nearly dead...in their last throes...
'A group of 'Dead-Enders!'...

Oh, BTW, the only people, who race matters to:
Only the Racist...
No one else, really cares, especially the younger generation, that hasn't yet 
been brain-washed by the 'Evil Ones'..with their 'Evil Agendas...

Robert G.

 

[FairfieldLife] Bill Clinton's Advice on Health Care

[do.rflex]

Clinton's Advice on Health Care

At our policy discussion
  last night, former President Bill Clinton said that he
believed Democrats would pass a health care reform bill "because they
have to."

  [clinton-cgi.jpg]  Despite the "foolish hang ups" over the public
option -- something Clinton supports -- he thought it was better to pass
any bill that provided lower costs and increased coverage.

He noted that even his former adviser Paul Begala, who while in the
White House argued Clinton should veto any health care bill that didn't
provide 100% universal coverage, has also softened his view
 . Both men now believe getting any bill passed now meant
increased pressure on Congress in the future to improve it.

However, while Clinton agreed the best approach would be to get 60 votes
in the Senate to bypass a filibuster, he "would absolutely" do it
through the budget reconciliation process if that's the only way.

Clinton predicted "the minute health care reform passed, President
Obama's approval ratings would go up 10 points." And he said they would
go up 20 points next year once Americans saw that none of the bad things
Republicans said would happen came true.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/22/clintons_advice_on_health_c\
are.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "meowthirteen"  wrote:
>
> --   
> Hmmm
> well 
> attempt to not slide into apathy yourself
> and
> if 'normal women'are mostly heavy(I mean black cloud weighted down,)
> then
> maybe go to light unusual places 
> and perhaps women of lightness are there
> like in the meadow, or sitting outside the cafe feeding birdies
> or the one in the bookstore , traveling in her mind, if she can't
> afford the time or money to travel bodily

I think you misunderstand. I'm not actively *looking*
for an interesting woman to have a romance with. That
urge or compulsion left me in my Fifties. 

I'm just open to chance encounters if they come my way.
 
> Is it really that rare to find delightedness in females?

I'm having to think about this in the moment, "on the
fly" as it were, because I really don't ever think 
about it as a process, or as something I "do." But I
will, because sometimes it's fun to do that.

It all comes down to aura.

Whether I can see the person's aura physically that
day or not (and that varies day to day for me), I can
almost always "get a feel" for the person instantan-
eously. And this can happen at a distance, long before
my aging eyes can tell whether she is physically attrac-
tive or not.

That's the primary consideration, and one that must be
present before I would ever take things any further.
As I said before, life's too short to waste "romancing"
on someone who doth not spark that "romance vibe" in me.

If they do, that only opens the door to conversation,
nothing more. She might have a great vibe but completely
different values or a rigid philosophy that renders us
incompatible. (I recently ran into a woman with a truly
*lovely* aura who turned out to be a rigid devotee of
a spiritual teacher who does absolutely nothing for me.
She made it clear that no one was gettin' into her life
who didn't get into that teacher's. End of story.)

She might be married or in a monogamous relationship
with someone else, and not of the polyamorous persuasion.
If so, that's the end of any possibility of romance from
my side, although we can become great friends. 

She might not find my aura as pleasant as I find hers.
That...sadly...does happen from time to time.  :-)

She might not like me. That too happens. :-) 

Bottom line is that it takes a certain "mutual ease" in
our interaction before I'm even interested in pursuing
things further. 

I am old enough to have learned never to present myself
as anything I am not, and never to posture in order to
pique some woman's interest. That's an exercise that is
doomed to failure, so why even bother. If she *doesn't*
like me, better that should be learned sooner than later. 
So I'm just myself. That's who she would end up with if
things go that way; better she should meet that self 
early on.

And the result of all of this? I don't "get lucky" nearly
as much as the people here who seem to get off on being
jealous of me imagine. But maybe that in itself is lucky.
I certainly think it's luckier than getting stuck in a
romantic relationship with someone who *isn't* a "good
match," aura-wise and otherwise.

One of the teachers I worked with had what I still think
is an excellent metaphor for the interaction between two
people and how it works. He likened that interaction to
"color wheels."

Remember back in grade school when your teacher taught
you about colors and where they came from by holding up
two circles of colored cellophane? One was blue, the 
other yellow. She then moved the circles closer and 
allowed them to overlap, and the resulting color in the 
overlapping section was green. Magic.

That's how I think it works. Any woman I "get a hit on"
has a perfect "color" of her own. As do I. But the only
question that really matters is, "What color will be 
produced when they overlap?"

Sometimes it's a cool color, one pleasing to both; 
sometimes it's not. No harm, no foul either way.

[FairfieldLife] Anyone in FF want a pet Ferret?

[Rick Archer]

A friend of mine has one he wants to give away, along with a cage that cost
him $250. Ferret cost $150. If interested, let me know and I'll put you in
touch with him.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post-Racial America

[WillyTex]

John wrote:
> Post-Racial America
>
Yeah, so much for 'post-racial America', John!
Now the whole notion of being post-racial is 
just a cartoon. 

But do you really think that Dems playing the 
race card is going to get any Dems re-elected 
in the next election?

You've probably read Obama's "The Audacity of 
Hope" and "Dreams from My Father", right? 

And you're probably aware that Obama attended 
Pastor Wright's 'Trinity Untied Church' for 
over twenty years, right? 

And, you're probably aware that Pastor Wright 
has a lot of animosity toward white people, 
right? 

And you're probably aware that Pastor Wright 
gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis 
Farrakhan, right? 

And, you're probably aware that the core of 
black liberation theology is racist, right? 

So, I'm thinking that you're probaboly an 
idiot, if you're aren't aware of these facts.

>      [This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow]
>

[FairfieldLife] 'Joan Rivers is so old that...'

[Robert]

She's been on both 'Craig's List and Schindler's List!

Really!


  

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:

> I'm sure that all of us could come up with reasons
> for it -- all equally creative, all equally specious --
> but the bottom line seems to be "That's just the way
> it is."

For those with more intellectual curiousity than
Barry, here's what the study's authors propose as
possible explanations for the data:

"First, there may be other important socio-economic
forces that have made women worse off. A number of
important macro trends have been documented--
decreased social cohesion (Putnam, 2000), increased
anxiety and neuroticism (Twenge, 2000), and
increased household risk (Hacker, 2006). While each
of these trends have impacted both men and women, it
is possible for even apparently gender-neutral trends
to have gender-biased impacts if men and women
respond differently to these forces. For example, if
women are more risk averse than men, then an increase
in risk may lower women's utility relative to that
of men.

"The second possibility is that broad social shifts 
such as those brought on by the changing role
of women in society fundamentally alter what 
measures of subjective well-being are capturing. 
Over time it is likely that women are aggregating 
satisfaction over an increasingly larger domain set. 
For example, life satisfaction may have previously 
meant 'satisfaction at home' and has increasingly 
come to mean some combination of 'satisfaction at 
home' and 'satisfaction at work.'

"This averaging over many domains may lead to
falling average satisfaction if it is difficult to
achieve the same degree of satisfaction in multiple
domains. One piece of evidence along these lines is
that the correlation between happiness and marital
happiness is lower for women who work compared with
those who are stay at home wives, and the
correlation has fallen over time for all women in
our sample

"Subjective well-being data have come to be used in 
the psychology and economics literatures because 
they have been shown to be correlated with more 
objective measures of happiness. Yet these measures 
do not necessarily indicate that subjective well-
being measures are able to capture the positive or 
negative consequences of large-scale social changes 
over time. It has been recognized that an 
individual's assessment of their well-being may 
reflect the social desirability of responses and
Kahneman (1999) argues that people in good 
circumstances may be hedonically better off than 
people in worse circumstances, yet they may require 
more to declare themselves happy.

"In the context of the findings presented in this
paper, women may now feel more comfortable being
honest about their true happiness and have thus
deflated their previously inflated responses. Or,
as in Kahneman's example, the increased
opportunities available to women may have increased
what women require to declare themselves happy

"Finally, the changes brought about through the 
women's movement may have decreased women's 
happiness. The increased opportunity to succeed in 
many dimensions may have led to an increased 
likelihood of believing that one's life is not 
measuring up. Similarly, women may now compare their 
lives to a broader group, including men, and find 
their lives more likely to come up short in this 
assessment. Or women may simply find the complexity 
and increased pressure in their modern lives to have 
come at the cost of happiness."

http://snipurl.com/s0xcz (pdf)

> Which leaves us in the same position as any
> other time we encounter that phrase, and that real-
> ization -- what to do about "the way it is" that
> allows us to groove with it. Or, if not actually
> groove with it, at least not let it fuck up our
> day.

Unlike Barry, I don't see any of this as being "just
the way it is," something simply to be accepted and
lived with. I see it as a function of being in the
middle of a massive transition: many things have
changed, but there are many things left to be changed
before the happiness imbalance between men and women
evens out.

Will men have to give up some of their happiness
quotient to redress the balance? Or will both men
*and* women become happier as the situation of
women continues to improve, with women's happiness
rising faster than that of men so that they
eventually catch up? Will men ever realize that
their own happiness depends on the equal happiness
of women?

(Interestingly, the authors observe that the
*suicide* rate has fallen for women but has risen
for men, another apparently paradoxical finding
in light of those on subjective happiness.)

Time will tell. But one hopes there will be fewer
and fewer men who, for fear they will *lose*
something if women become happier, will attempt to
arrest the process by telling women, "That's just
the way it is, baby, learn to groove on it. Or at
least don't let your unhappiness fuck up your (but,
more importantly, my) day."

[FairfieldLife] An Inconvient Truth About Global Warming?

[WillyTex]

"The global warming theory has been based 
all along on the idea that the Atlantic 
and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of 
the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in 
man-made carbon dioxide, then they would 
let off that heat and warm the atmosphere 
and the land.

But as Latif pointed out, the Atlantic, 
and particularly the North Atlantic, has 
been cooling instead. And it looks set 
to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 
more years..."

Full story:

'Scientists pull an about face on global warming'
By Lorne Gunter, For The Calgary Herald
Vancouver Sun, September 19, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/kwtqrp

"Far from suggesting the planet will get 
warmer, one of the world's leading climate 
modellers says the latest data indicates 
we could be in for a significant period of 
steady temperatures and possibly even a 
little global cooling..." 

Full story:

'An Inconvient Truth About Global Warming'
By Tom Feilden 
BBC News, September 21, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/md79yr

[FairfieldLife] Post-Racial America

[do.rflex]

  
  [This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow]

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[meowthirteen]

--   
Hmmm
well 
attempt to not slide into apathy yourself
and
if 'normal women'are mostly heavy(I mean black cloud weighted down,)
then
maybe go to light unusual places 
and perhaps women of lightness are there
like in the meadow, or sitting outside the cafe feeding birdies
or the one in the bookstore , traveling in her mind, if she can't afford the 
time or money to travel bodily
Is it really that rare to find delightedness in females?














 - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "meowthirteen"  wrote:
> >
> > -- SOoOooOooOOOoO...
> > If you perchance meet a woman of interest,
> > perhaps take her somewhere-on a trip, small or grandiose, 
> > and perhaps she would perk up?
> > 
> > Does that seem to follow?
> 
> Interestingly, that is actually part of my "Romance M.O." :-)
> 
> Not to take anyone who's already bummed out and unhappy
> and uninteresting anywhere to "cure" them or help them 
> lighten up. Life's too short to indulge in trying to 
> "change someone" who is already so "far off the mark" 
> with regard to being someone I could groove with.
> 
> But if there is a woman I'm potentially interested in
> romantically (which means that we've *already* gotten
> past the hurdle of her being a depresso or boring), the
> "next step" is almost always suggesting that we go on
> a Road Trip together.
> 
> *Not* necessarily to "force the issue" of sex; I have
> more than enough money to pay for separate hotel rooms
> and offer to if appropriate. It's more of a test of how
> the two of us do together in a confined space (in a car,
> or on a plane) for hours at a time, and how we do 
> together when encountering new situations. Some folks
> "travel well," some don't. And some do *with other 
> people*, just not me. No harm, no foul if we don't
> travel all that well together, but it definitely puts
> a crimp in any "long term plans."
> 
> One of the most important things to me in a potential
> relationship is whether the other person feels the need
> to fill every silence with words. That just ain't gonna
> work with me. One of the joys *of* a Road Trip is being
> able to just kick back and listen to music or the silence
> and watch the scenery go by. If that's "not enough" for
> the other person to the point that they have to "make
> the silence go away" by jabbering, we ain't a match.
> 
> > On any scale i was thinking- you know, just mix it up, see 
> > what kind of new woman comes out if you change the recipie
> 
> Life's too short.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "meowthirteen"  wrote:
>
> -- SOoOooOooOOOoO...
> If you perchance meet a woman of interest,
> perhaps take her somewhere-on a trip, small or grandiose, 
> and perhaps she would perk up?
> 
> Does that seem to follow?

Interestingly, that is actually part of my "Romance M.O." :-)

Not to take anyone who's already bummed out and unhappy
and uninteresting anywhere to "cure" them or help them 
lighten up. Life's too short to indulge in trying to 
"change someone" who is already so "far off the mark" 
with regard to being someone I could groove with.

But if there is a woman I'm potentially interested in
romantically (which means that we've *already* gotten
past the hurdle of her being a depresso or boring), the
"next step" is almost always suggesting that we go on
a Road Trip together.

*Not* necessarily to "force the issue" of sex; I have
more than enough money to pay for separate hotel rooms
and offer to if appropriate. It's more of a test of how
the two of us do together in a confined space (in a car,
or on a plane) for hours at a time, and how we do 
together when encountering new situations. Some folks
"travel well," some don't. And some do *with other 
people*, just not me. No harm, no foul if we don't
travel all that well together, but it definitely puts
a crimp in any "long term plans."

One of the most important things to me in a potential
relationship is whether the other person feels the need
to fill every silence with words. That just ain't gonna
work with me. One of the joys *of* a Road Trip is being
able to just kick back and listen to music or the silence
and watch the scenery go by. If that's "not enough" for
the other person to the point that they have to "make
the silence go away" by jabbering, we ain't a match.

> On any scale i was thinking- you know, just mix it up, see 
> what kind of new woman comes out if you change the recipie

Life's too short.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Happening To Women's Happiness?

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:

> There is little on Earth less pleasant than meeting
> what appears to be an interesting older woman and
> inviting her to dinner, only to find that she is
> monotopical about the Bad Things that have happened
> to her and the Bad People Who Done Her Wrong. GET
> OVER IT, already!

I suspect the reason for Barry's experience
is that no savvy woman his age would dream of
accepting an invitation from him, wouldn't
let him get close enough for him to think
they're "interesting" and invite them to
dinner in the first place.

We learned long ago to avoid like the plague
men with his kind of poisonous loser vibe.
The women who never learned this naturally
have a history of allowing themselves to be
Done Wrong, by shallow, ego-ridden, faux-macho
men like him.

So they find in him yet another man to add to
their list of disappointments; and he finds
his own expectations fulfilled that women his
age are bitter, full of blame, and without
wonder and hope, because they're the only ones
who will have anything to do with him.

Most men, thank goodness, aren't like Barry.
Whether most older women are unhappy, I couldn't
say; it certainly isn't true of me, nor of the
women my age with whom I'm acquainted.

But maybe we're the exceptions. On the other hand,
maybe the women who are willing to go out with
Barry are a subset of those who are unhappy, the
rest being women who may not be all that happy
but who aren't bitter, don't engage in blame, 
haven't lost hope, still have goals, and still
find life exciting and inspiring--who use their
current dissatisfaction as a spur to greater
achievement, instead of giving up and settling.

As the HuffPo article on the study notes toward
the end:

"Nor does it mean that this darkening outlook on
life is necessarily going to afflict you. You are
a unique human being, blessed with the freedom to
make your own choices, and so it's completely
within your power to choose a life, and a
perspective on life, that becomes more fulfilling
as you get older, not less."

But the women who choose to continue to seek
greater fulfillment, no matter their current degree
of happiness, sure as heck aren't going to choose
Barry to be part of that search.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[meowthirteen]

-- SOoOooOooOOOoO...
If you perchance meet a woman of interest,
perhaps take her somewhere-on a trip, small or grandiose, adn perhaps she would 
perk up?

Does that seem to follow?


On any scale i was thinking- you know, just mix it up, see what kind of new 
woman comes out if you change the recipie

Like put a cloth in that cute gazebo @ the reservoir;and swoosh your lovely 
there on a walk and stop there for some tea you have sitting there waiting.
would that make the sparkle come back in the eyes and the giggle bubble up in 
the throat of that woman?

Or fly to paris for lunch!
Just for lunch &back!How exilerating!

Just a thought(?)














   - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  
wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> 
> > In a previous rant this morning I talked about the
> > disappointment of finding that older women I had
> > found attractive and interesting...uh...weren't,
> > and had instead chosen the path of bitterness and
> > unhappiness and the same old same old. It is an
> > open "chicken and the egg" question which comes
> > first -- the same old same old, or the unhappiness.
> >
> > Chicken, egg...who cares. All I know is that exper-
> > ience has shown me that the key to whether a person
> > is going to be interesting or not seems to come down
> > to how they answer the simple question, "How long
> > has it been since you went somewhere you have never
> > been before?"
> >
> > Almost invariably, if the answer is measured in days
> > or months, I've stumbled upon a real winner. When the
> > answer is measured in years -- or decades -- there is
> > little likelihood that we're really going to have
> > much in common. Maybe I should learn to ask this
> > question *before* I ask them to dinner.  :-)
> 
> Yeah, maybe.  If that's the standard, Barry,
> I am undoubtedly one of the most boring, unhappy
> people you will ever meet--it's been over a decade
> since I've even been out of Iowa. :)
> 
> I find this discussion fascinating for a couple of reasons,
> since there has not been a time in my life that I can
> recall when I've been happier.  I don't have any secrets,
> it's just that for the most part as a kid and even
> young adult I had nowhere to go but up...so up I went. :)
> Other people with  different life trajectories
> may very well see middle-age as a comedown,
> esp. if serious health problems kick in, as they
> often do.  Also men are perceived, rightly or wrongly,
> oftentimes as becoming more attractive as they age,
> at least up to a certain point, while women usually
> aren't.  This can definitely be a bummer.  And I
> also think men as they get older make more
> opportunities for themselves, whereas women
> often fall into more traditional (read, less fulfilling)
> roles.
> 
> Anyway, great topic and I'm really groovin'
> on the responses, all of them.
> 
> Sal
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: [War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!]...

[Vaj]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:31 AM, WillyTex wrote:


Robert wrote:
> War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!...
>
"That mission was formally defined by President
Obama in March. It was not a surprise then; he
campaigned on the idea of the Afghan conflict as
a war of necessity and has talked with something
close to relish about killing Osama bin Laden. Nor
has the mission changed much since the spring..."

Read more:

'Is Afghan surge Obama's Cuba moment?'


Or his Russian-Afghanistan War /  Charlie Wilson's War moment?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> 
> > In a previous rant this morning I talked about the
> > disappointment of finding that older women I had
> > found attractive and interesting...uh...weren't,
> > and had instead chosen the path of bitterness and
> > unhappiness and the same old same old. It is an
> > open "chicken and the egg" question which comes
> > first -- the same old same old, or the unhappiness.
> >
> > Chicken, egg...who cares. All I know is that exper-
> > ience has shown me that the key to whether a person
> > is going to be interesting or not seems to come down
> > to how they answer the simple question, "How long
> > has it been since you went somewhere you have never
> > been before?"
> >
> > Almost invariably, if the answer is measured in days
> > or months, I've stumbled upon a real winner. When the
> > answer is measured in years -- or decades -- there is
> > little likelihood that we're really going to have
> > much in common. Maybe I should learn to ask this
> > question *before* I ask them to dinner.  :-)
> 
> Yeah, maybe.  If that's the standard, Barry,
> I am undoubtedly one of the most boring, unhappy
> people you will ever meet--it's been over a decade
> since I've even been out of Iowa. :)

"The exception proves the rule," and all that. :-)

I consider you one of the *least* boring people --
and certainly one of the least unhappy -- on this
forum. Nabby might disagree, but consider the source. :-) 

> I find this discussion fascinating for a couple of reasons,
> since there has not been a time in my life that I can
> recall when I've been happier. I don't have any secrets...,

Maybe that's the secret. :-)

> ...it's just that for the most part as a kid and even
> young adult I had nowhere to go but up...so up I went. :)
> Other people with  different life trajectories
> may very well see middle-age as a comedown,
> esp. if serious health problems kick in, as they
> often do.  

Health can be a big issue. I've been lucky, and so 
health has never been an obstacle to me, at any age. 

Even there, though, we're back to the "chicken and
the egg." Are some people happier because they're
healthier, or are they healthier because they're
happier?

> Also men are perceived, rightly or wrongly,
> oftentimes as becoming more attractive as they age,
> at least up to a certain point, while women usually
> aren't.  This can definitely be a bummer.  

Sadly, it's the same mindset here in Spain. It's
not as present in France, possibly because French
women have inherited the Gene Pool Of The Gods 
and really do get more attractive as they age.

> And I
> also think men as they get older make more
> opportunities for themselves, whereas women
> often fall into more traditional (read, less fulfilling)
> roles.

The problem may be that some of the roles that 
women (or men, for that matter) fall into are not
*perceived* as fulfilling, when in fact they are.
I cannot remember being happier than while in 
France on vacation, "filling a role" that consisted
primarily of cooking, helping to take care of a baby,
shopping, and tending the garden. Perhaps it was all
more "fulfilling" for me because it was out of the
ordinary for me -- again, "going to somewhere I'd
never been before."

> Anyway, great topic and I'm really groovin'
> on the responses, all of them.

It *is* an interesting topic. It really *doesn't*
make a lot of sense that, with all the advances made
by women in the U.S. over these last few decades, a
*casualty* of that seems to be their level of happi-
ness. Go figure. 

I'm sure that all of us could come up with reasons
for it -- all equally creative, all equally specious --
but the bottom line seems to be "That's just the way
it is." Which leaves us in the same position as any
other time we encounter that phrase, and that real-
ization -- what to do about "the way it is" that 
allows us to groove with it. Or, if not actually
groove with it, at least not let it fuck up our
day.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[Sal Sunshine]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


In a previous rant this morning I talked about the
disappointment of finding that older women I had
found attractive and interesting...uh...weren't,
and had instead chosen the path of bitterness and
unhappiness and the same old same old. It is an
open "chicken and the egg" question which comes
first -- the same old same old, or the unhappiness.

Chicken, egg...who cares. All I know is that exper-
ience has shown me that the key to whether a person
is going to be interesting or not seems to come down
to how they answer the simple question, "How long
has it been since you went somewhere you have never
been before?"

Almost invariably, if the answer is measured in days
or months, I've stumbled upon a real winner. When the
answer is measured in years -- or decades -- there is
little likelihood that we're really going to have
much in common. Maybe I should learn to ask this
question *before* I ask them to dinner.  :-)


Yeah, maybe.  If that's the standard, Barry,
I am undoubtedly one of the most boring, unhappy
people you will ever meet--it's been over a decade
since I've even been out of Iowa. :)

I find this discussion fascinating for a couple of reasons,
since there has not been a time in my life that I can
recall when I've been happier.  I don't have any secrets,
it's just that for the most part as a kid and even
young adult I had nowhere to go but up...so up I went. :)
Other people with  different life trajectories
may very well see middle-age as a comedown,
esp. if serious health problems kick in, as they
often do.  Also men are perceived, rightly or wrongly,
oftentimes as becoming more attractive as they age,
at least up to a certain point, while women usually
aren't.  This can definitely be a bummer.  And I
also think men as they get older make more
opportunities for themselves, whereas women
often fall into more traditional (read, less fulfilling)
roles.

Anyway, great topic and I'm really groovin'
on the responses, all of them.

Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Howard Dean confident bill with Public Option will pass

[WillyTex]

> Judy wrote:
> > Obama did a whole lot of wiggling, based on that 
> > portion of the transcript (I didn't watch the 
> > video), and Steph tried to make himself look tough 
> > by quoting the dictionary definition of "tax," for 
> > pete's sake. Utterly useless.
> >
> Don't you just hate that lying lawyer-talk?
>
Don't you just hate liars!

"If you're a family that's making $250,000 a year or 
less, you will see no increase in your taxes."

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Max Baucus said he would revamp 
his health-overhaul proposal to ease the financial 
burden for middle-income Americans and pare back a key 
tax increase, responding to critics on Capitol Hill 
who called the measure too harsh...

Read more:

'Baucus Aims to Ease Middle-Class Burden in Plan'
By Greg Hitt and Janet Adamy 
http://tinyurl.com/n6lhgc
 
> "The consequence for not maintaining insurance would 
> be an excise tax." 
> 
> Read more: 
> 
> Health bill says 'tax' when President Obama said 'not':
> By Chris Frates and Mike Allen
> Politico, September 21, 2009
> http://tinyurl.com/ltcqmh
> 
> A proposed requirement that all Americans buy health 
> insurance does in fact include a "tax" increase, 
> according to the Senate -- even though President 
> Obama insisted Sunday that it "absolutely" does not...
> 
> 'Health Insurance Mandate Includes 'Tax' Despite Obama Denial'
> Fox News, September 21, 2009
> http://tinyurl.com/me5rha
> 
> America's Healthy Future Act of 2009:
> http://tinyurl.com/kn7zj8
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: [War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!]...

[WillyTex]

Robert wrote:
> War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!...
>
"That mission was formally defined by President 
Obama in March. It was not a surprise then; he 
campaigned on the idea of the Afghan conflict as 
a war of necessity and has talked with something 
close to relish about killing Osama bin Laden. Nor 
has the mission changed much since the spring..."

Read more:

'Is Afghan surge Obama's Cuba moment?'
By Giles Whittell 
Times Online, September 22, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/ntoddp 

[FairfieldLife] [War~Mongers Put President Obama~On the Spot!]...

[Robert]

Looks like the 'Jerk-Off War Mongers'...
Are at it again...good timing too...
Right in the middle of the 'HealthxCarexDebate...
How clever they are...
Now, they want to conquer Afghanistan...pretty funny, huh?
I suggest that they 'Jerk-Off' a little more...
And, then report back, when they are more mellow

Roberto 'The Divine Sperm'...G.



  

[FairfieldLife] The Road Trip cure for the "blahs"

[TurquoiseB]

Lately I've been thinking about a lifestyle 
suggestion made by a former spiritual teacher.
While I have rejected many of his suggestions,
this one still strikes me as one of the times
when he was really "on to something."

It was very simple: "Once a year, go somewhere
you have never been before."

Me, I'd tend to revise that and replace "once
a year" with "once a season," but whatever. I
still think it's good advice.

There is something magical about taking yourself
out of your normal environment and placing your-
self "on the road," in flux, in an environment 
you know nothing about, have never been to before, 
and thus have few expectations of. It's almost a 
way of *forcing* "Be Here Now."

It doesn't have to be, of course. In Europe I
meet tourists all the time who clump together in
groups of fellow Chinese or Japanese or Americans
and never interface with the locals. One of the
funniest sights in Paris was watching busloads
of these Chinese tourists pull up to a mediocre
Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood and all file 
in to eat. Or seeing Americans eating at MacDonalds. 
In Paris. There is something downright obscene about 
this. :-)

But the tourists who just "wing it," not trusting 
to the guidebooks, they're more interesting. It's
as if they've "cut free" from the world they have
all "sussed out" and "handled" back home, and are
enjoying having to deal with a world they know
nothing about. They're fun to talk to.

In a previous rant this morning I talked about the
disappointment of finding that older women I had 
found attractive and interesting...uh...weren't,
and had instead chosen the path of bitterness and
unhappiness and the same old same old. It is an
open "chicken and the egg" question which comes
first -- the same old same old, or the unhappiness.

Chicken, egg...who cares. All I know is that exper-
ience has shown me that the key to whether a person
is going to be interesting or not seems to come down 
to how they answer the simple question, "How long 
has it been since you went somewhere you have never 
been before?" 

Almost invariably, if the answer is measured in days
or months, I've stumbled upon a real winner. When the
answer is measured in years -- or decades -- there is
little likelihood that we're really going to have 
much in common. Maybe I should learn to ask this
question *before* I ask them to dinner.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Denied, to Invincible America

[dhamiltony2k5]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
>
> Amen.
> 
> Weak souls, most attracked to TM for small and personal issues; not altruism 
> or wishing for spiritual growth. 
> An easy prey for the so-called "saints" invading Fairfield thus becoming 
> confused and leaving FF.
>


Nablusoss's  comment actually does point to aspects at work in the meditating 
community.  The black and white of it though is not the gradation of it.   

On the ground we got folks that are doing active spiritual practice alike 
through out the meditating community both in the TM org and outside.  Some lot 
of lit people doing fine spiritually in fact as a result.  Folks who long-term 
have consciously availed themselves and pursued it.  It is a very special place 
that way here.

On-going, back to the early 1990's so many have been tossed out of the 
Transcendental Meditation movement community yet continued their spiritual 
pursuit in practice.  That is very much a story of the larger TM community and 
Fairfield now.  Thousands stranded out and neglected, who continued on 
cast-away with what they had anyway.

A third different subset category of meditators beyond those inside the TM 
movement and those who have actively gone on around it are of the fallen-away, 
out-right quitters.  Not just the wandered away spiritually slothful or 
indolent meditator but quitters who even shun spiritual practice now in method. 
 Distinctive from just wandered away meditators on the one hand but then, a Jed 
Mckenna "Don't need.to.do.no.spiritual.practice" type on the other hand.
  
These later types are around as a type of wreckage in the TM-cast offs.  A 
seeming class or a kind of non-meditator that you do run into around 
occasionally.  A small category of the old meditator- give-ups evidently for a 
lack of experience, discipline or culture.  

& now a discernable subset group of quitters out on the street obviously not of 
the TM-org  or of the active spiritual community but a group resonated by the 
attack of the criticism of the Mckenna style advaita-ism about spiritual 
pursuit and practice.  The dis-affected  Jed-Mckenna-neo-advaitain 
non-meditator.

Just is.

JGD,
-Doug in FF  

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why We Can't Legalize Marijuana!..'

[seekliberation]

In response to below message, I do have an alternative view that's not 
necessarily mine, but somewhat valid.  I, too, wish marijuana was legal.  But 
whether or not a substance should or shouldn't be legal is not a universal 
issue.  It is a society dependant issue.  

Example:  US military has very strict regulations on alcohol consumption while 
deployed overseas.  Europeans don't.  British and German soldiers have their 
own beer tents and can go have a drink while they are down range.  Why is that? 
 Because Americans can't drink without causing problemsperiod(especially 
soldiers and Marines).  But if you observe the Germans and Brits drinking from 
a distance you will see what appears more like a new age coffee shop.  Just 
some people sitting down and enjoying a drink.  No fights, no obnoxious or 
politically embarrassing behavior, no negligent weapons discharges, no sexual 
assault...etc.   So basically, American culture is simply too immature to 
handle alcohol and therefore it is more strictly regulated.  Also, it's not 
just the military, it's also for teenagers and young adults as well.  Most 
other countries allows drinking at a much younger age than America, and again 
it's because their teenagers aren't quite as reckless or irresponsible under 
the influence of alcohol as our teenagers and young adults.  That's why our age 
had to be pushed to 21.  

I think the same would happen if pot were legalized.  We wouldn't just have a 
few people smoking a joint then eat a twinkie and go to bed.  No, people would 
be inventing bongs the size of a Mac truck and get stoned all the time.  
Americans simply can't handle entertainment with any maturity.  I know some of 
us are exceptions, but we have to pay the price for the ignorance of the 
masses.

I don't think it remains illegal due to any intricate fear mongering plans, but 
more so because people are resistant to change.  I believe it was originally 
made illegal by a bunch of uptight conservative assholes who saw some people 
having a good time and decided it wasn't right for people to feel that good. 

seekliberation   


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert  wrote:
>
> ‘Why We Can’t Legalize Marijuana!’
> 
> Because marijuana, has known healing powers...
> There are many, whose agenda, is to keep it illegal...
> 
> Marijuana, is a more natural remedy, 
> And so the drug company’s want the satus quo laws, in place...
> The booze companies, would also lose sales, to the much safer, marijana...
> The synthetic fiber producers, would lose money to hemp cloth and paper...
> 
> Also, because of the spiritual sacrament, in some circles,
> Which marijuana, ‘opens the door to higher perceptions’...
> Remember, there was no violence at ‘Woodstock’...
> 
> People who want to use propaganda and fear tactics, 
> Don’t want marijuana legalized!
> They enjoy, how easily, the drunk masses are hypnotized by their 
> fear-mongering...
> 
> Marijuana is a spiritual sacrament, in some quarters...
> Marijuana is associated with the aspect of ‘Shiva’ in India...
> Meaning that it enlivens the aspect of awareness,  
> Which the ‘Corporated Controllers’...feel threatened by...
> People who smoke pot, don’t stay dumb, and stupid, 
> Which is of course a threat to our ‘Corporate Masters’...
> 
> Also, besides being associated with spiritual awareness...
> Marijuana, is known to produce beautiful blissful experiences, 
> As well as sensual and sexual enhancement...
> To much competition for the Corporates, here, for sure!
> 
> So, in conclusion, these are the good and just reasons, 
> Why marijuana in the good old USA... 
> Just isn't a good fit...
> 
> 
> Forget, all of South America, is trying to do something,
> Oh, I forgot, the CIA, makes more money the way things be now!
> By, keeping the status quo, in place...
> 
> El, Stupido!
> 
> Roberto G
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Happening To Women's Happiness?

[TurquoiseB]

The studies cited in this article "resonate" with
my personal experience, and make me wish that Curtis
was still with us so we could discuss the more personal
implications of science substantiating what we always
knew intuitively from our daily experience -- that 
(sadly), a *lot* of women become unhappier as they 
get older.

That, interestingly, is the very reason why I tend to
prefer to hang out with (whether as friends or on a
dating basis) women who are younger than I am. Exper-
ience has taught me that the *likelihood* of finding 
a woman my own age who has *not* grown bitter and 
unhappy is much, much less than finding a younger
woman who has not gone down that path.

It's *not* just the fact that the younger women are...
uh...younger, and thus often more attractive. It's
that the younger women still have *hope*, and are
open to the wonder of life. I have more in common
with them than I have with women who seem to have
taken the path of bitterness and blame. And, sadly,
*especially* among Americans, a *lot* of older women
have chosen to take the path of bitterness and blame.

There is little on Earth less pleasant than meeting
what appears to be an interesting older woman and
inviting her to dinner, only to find that she is
monotopical about the Bad Things that have happened
to her and the Bad People Who Done Her Wrong. GET
OVER IT, already! 

I sometimes feel like saying, "So what do you *look 
forward to*? What are your *goals*? What excites and 
inspires you?" Actually, often I actually say just
that, to either my younger companions or my older 
ones. And the fascinating thing is that the younger 
women always have answers to these questions -- 
answers that often mirror my own -- whereas the 
older women often sit there dumbstruck, as if I had 
asked them these questions in Martian, and they 
didn't understand a word of what I was saying.

Who knows the "why" of these study results; all I can 
do is to try to live with the "that's the way it is" 
of them. And, given a choice of spending what little 
time I have left on this rock with someone who is 
still open to the wonder of it and who looks forward 
instead of back or someone who is stuck looking into
a rearview mirror to the past, I'm gonna go with the 
forward-gazers every time. The fact that they are 
younger and firmer and don't need makeup to go out 
in public is just gravy.

[FairfieldLife] Review: Whiteout

[TurquoiseB]

Terribly disappointing. Great idea, setting a 
murder mystery/whodunnit in the most intensely
non-human-friendly environment on Earth (-65
degrees Celsius on a warm day, winds up to 
100 mph whipping up snow so as to create the 
"whiteout" of the title, requiring you to 
hold on to a rope just to get to a building
100 feet away without becoming lost, etc.)

Plus, ya gotcher Kate Beckinsale, who is cute
and occasionally a good actress. What can go
wrong with a movie set-up like this, eh?

The writer and director, that's what.

Someone should send the former back to school
to learn about the perils of "telegraphing your
punches" in the lines of the script, and should
send the latter to the same school to learn how
not to do the same thing via casting. I knew
"whodunnit" literally four minutes into the
movie. It was so obvious that I almost fast-
forwarded to the end to see if I was correct.

I should have. 'Nuff said. This movie *could*
have been great. But it's not.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Old TM'er in India

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
> 
> Fool; you have no idea of what energies you are evoking ! 
> Kali could take your soul out of incarnation for millions 
> of years if She wanted, or laying Fairfield in ashes in 
> a second.

Hear hear!

I join Nabby in advising people not to focus
on Kali, but admonish him for stopping there,
and not warning them about the perils of 
focusing on, say, Darth Vader or Sauron or
the Big Bad Wolf. These beings' auras are 
just as dangerous (and just as imaginary)
as Kali's. Just look what happened to Red
Riding Hood's granny. You don't want that
happening to you or your town, do you?

Best to live in fear of imaginary beings like
Nabby and never allow these powerful imaginary
images to enter your mind. Instead, focus on
the terrible things you want to happen to 
non-TMers. That'll keep your karma warm and
fuzzy.  :-)