[FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , WillyTex willytex@ wrote: Can you believe that, nabby? He had to have ice some cream! And he probably slept right through the next morning programme. Teachers that can't control cravings are useless. The fools that recommended him back home did a poor job and should have been kicked out also. Did you ever see Bevan consume ice cream and other food? Have you noticed the results of his apparent inability to control cravings? Would you agree that the fools who recommended him should be kicked out also? Some people just simply are above all rules, get used to the idea. One thing you've gotta admit about Nabby is that he's entertaining, in a drag queen kinda way. Gay for Maharishi, gay for Maitreya, and now so gay for Bevan that he believes he's above all rules. Sometimes I think Nabby believes in UFOs primarily because he secretly wants to suck the space brothers' dicks. :-) :-) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , WillyTex willytex@ wrote: Can you believe that, nabby? He had to have ice some cream! And he probably slept right through the next morning programme. Teachers that can't control cravings are useless. The fools that recommended him back home did a poor job and should have been kicked out also. Did you ever see Bevan consume ice cream and other food? Have you noticed the results of his apparent inability to control cravings? Would you agree that the fools who recommended him should be kicked out also? Some people just simply are above all rules, get used to the idea. One thing you've gotta admit about Nabby is that he's entertaining, in a drag queen kinda way. Gay for Maharishi, gay for Maitreya, and now so gay for Bevan that he believes he's above all rules. Sometimes I think Nabby believes in UFOs primarily because he secretly wants to suck the space brothers' dicks. :-) :-) :-) You're probably the most sex-fixated person I've ever heard of. Must be hard not getting anything anymore, uh ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: 30th Anniversary Celebrations!
16 years ago. Today we have hundreds and hundreds of meditators/Sidhas...long time meditators who are living here in the TSR community who have, in effect, been spurned by the leadership of your office. Today you have hundreds of practising Sidhas carrying on their lives here in Fairfield with little reason, other than your apparent spite, to have contact with you or the movement. Incredible! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15 10 years ago. We each have old time movement friends whose badges have recently been lifted or who were recently denied registration. We all know people and there is an anguish that goes on because of the tyranny of the situation here. We know our friends' stories and we know their lives. These are our friends and neighbors here. These are long time movement people. There is a lot of needless intolerance and rigidity on the part of what is left of the movement. Rick makes a good point. There is anger and disillusion that others are being treated this way. Just since Sept. 11th, we all know people who have been denied access for their hair being too long, beards being too long, having studied jyotish or some other franchised thing the movement markets, or for having visited other saints. I can think of ten friends right now. These are just people in my circle of friends. Everyone has their circle of friends they could think of too. I was told of a person today who had come from the West Coast specifically to be in the Dome and who was denied access because he had a beard. Neither the teaching nor the program is going to fall because of these guys but the feeling about the bad administration and bad policy is bringing about the downfall of our movement in the aggregate. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 5 years ago. the questioning was one guy practically pointing out that he came to FF for the group meditations that had 2,000 people then, and now just a small number. The status quo was all that was offered by Keith Wallace and Keith Wallace was not in sympathy there to acknowledging the attendance problem, the central effect it has on the community or working with it otherwise. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31817 10 years ago. History, Transcendental Meditation Fairfield: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/7 From 2001, FFL: There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope. Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM movement there is no place to rate ourselves on how we might be doing as a movement organized. No place even to ask or reflect how we might be doing supporting meditators or supporting teachers or sidhas. Versus our ideal administration, reflecting on our own administration in any way practical would of course be too negative. Would it be too practical? Announcing Two Upcoming Celebrations! Celebrating 30 Years Sunday, Dec. 20, 8:10 pm Dalby Hall, Argiro Student Center 30th Anniversary of Amherst WPA Sunday, Dec. 27, 8:10 pm Dalby Hall, Argiro Student Center 30th Anniversary of Creating Coherence Course and Moving to Fairfield Everyone is welcome and please bring your program badge! Jai Guru Dev Om Sweet Jesus! As an old conservative meditator who was also there, I would be very inclined to go up there and re-unite with this except for their you got to have a badge thing. An invite like this given the history reads again like a fuck you and fuck off. Unbelievably graceless. God help 'em. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF
[FairfieldLife] Ted Kennedy's wife Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill
What Ted Would Say: Victoria Reggie Kennedy Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill [Ted Kennedy] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR20091\ 21803506.html Ted Kennedy by Victoria Reggie Kennedy Sunday, December 20, 2009 My late husband, Ted Kennedy, was passionate about health-care reform. It was the cause of his life. He believed that health care for all our citizens was a fundamental right, not a privilege, and that this year the stars -- and competing interests -- were finally aligned to allow our nation to move forward with fundamental reform. He believed that health-care reform was essential to the financial stability of our nation's working families and of our economy as a whole. Still, Ted knew that accomplishing reform would be difficult. If it were easy, he told me, it would have been done a long time ago. He predicted that as the Senate got closer to a vote, compromises would be necessary, coalitions would falter and many ardent supporters of reform would want to walk away. He hoped that they wouldn't do so. He knew from experience, he told me, that this kind of opportunity to enact health-care reform wouldn't arise again for a generation. In the early 1970s, Ted worked with the Nixon administration to find consensus on health-care reform. Those efforts broke down in part because the compromise wasn't ideologically pure enough for some constituency groups. More than 20 years passed before there was another real opportunity for reform, years during which human suffering only increased. Even with the committed leadership of then-President Bill Clinton and his wife, reform was thwarted in the 1990s. As Ted wrote in his memoir, he was deeply disappointed that the Clinton health-care bill did not come to a vote in the full Senate. He believed that senators should have gone on the record, up or down. Ted often said that we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. He also said that it was better to get half a loaf than no loaf at all, especially with so many lives at stake. That's why, even as he never stopped fighting for comprehensive health-care reform, he also championed incremental but effective reforms such as a Patients' Bill of Rights, the Children's Health Insurance Program and COBRA continuation of health coverage. The bill before the Senate, while imperfect, would achieve many of the goals Ted fought for during the 40 years he championed access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans. If this bill passes: -- Insurance protections like the ones Ted fought for his entire life would become law. -- Thirty million Americans who do not have coverage would finally be able to afford it. Ninety-four percent of Americans would be insured. Americans would finally be able to live without fear that a single illness could send them into financial ruin. -- Insurance companies would no longer be able to deny people the coverage they need because of a preexisting illness or condition. They would not be able to drop coverage when people get sick. And there would be a limit on how much they can force Americans to pay out of their own pockets when they do get sick. -- Small-business owners would no longer have to fear being forced to lay off workers or shut their doors because of exorbitant insurance rates. Medicare would be strengthened for the millions of seniors who count on it. -- And by eliminating waste and inefficiency in our health-care system, this bill would bring down the deficit over time. Health care would finally be a right, and not a privilege, for the citizens of this country. While my husband believed in a robust public option as an effective way to lower costs and increase competition, he also believed in not losing sight of the forest for the trees. As long as he wasn't compromising his principles or values, he looked for a way forward. As President Obama noted to Congress this fall, for Ted, health-care reform was not a matter of ideology or politics. It was not about left or right, Democrat or Republican. It was a passion born from the experience of his own life, the experience of our family and the experiences of the millions of Americans across this country who considered him their senator, too. The bill before Congress will finally deliver on the urgent needs of all Americans. It would make their lives better and do so much good for this country. That, in the end, must be the test of reform. That was always the test for Ted Kennedy. He's not here to urge us not to let this chance slip through our fingers. So I humbly ask his colleagues to finish the work of his life, the work of generations, to allow the vote to go forward and to pass health-care reform now. As Ted always said, when it's finally done, the people will wonder what took so long. http://snipurl.com/trbe2 [www_washingtonpost_com]
[FairfieldLife] Going Vogue
[FairfieldLife] Is religion about war -- or peace?
Interesting article from...of all places...CNN.com: Is religion about war -- or peace?By Paul Moses, Special to CNNDecember 18, 2009 11:13 a.m. EST Editor's note: Paul Moses is the author of a new book http://www.saintandthesultan.com/ , The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace. (Doubleday, 2009). He is a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. New York (CNN) -- Evangelical Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson have assailed President Obama's effort to engage Iran, and the results so far have not vindicated the president's approach as a diplomatic policy. But if these leaders' goal is to bring Christian attitudes into the realm of public policy -- which, of course, is what they have called for time and again -- they might just as well be thanking the president for his new strategy. That is what the experience of one of history's greatest Christians, Francis of Assisi, teaches us. Francis engaged Christendom's enemy, Egypt's Sultan Malik al-Kamil, by approaching him unarmed in the midst of the Fifth Crusade in 1219. The Crusaders had laid siege to Damietta, a city at the mouth of the Nile where 80,000 people were dying of disease and starvation. The Christian forces were hoping to conquer Egypt, which would not only make it easier to take and hold Jerusalem but would deal a heavy blow against all Islam. Francis actually believed what Jesus said in the New Testament about loving his enemy and took a much different approach than his fellow Christians. His goal was to convert Sultan al-Kamil to Christianity http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Christianity through peaceful persuasion. He didn't succeed in that, but, amazingly, the two men found common ground and appear to have genuinely appreciated each other. The sultan, who no doubt viewed Francis in light of an ancient Muslim tradition of reverence for holy Christian monks, permitted him to stay in his camp for several days, preaching the enemy's faith http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Religion in the midst of the Crusade. Francis was so influenced by the unexpectedly tranquil encounter with the sultan that when he returned home, he attempted to revise his order's code of conduct to urge that his friars live peacefully among Muslims http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Islam and be subject to them as a way of giving Christian witness -- a revolutionary approach, considering that the Crusade was still being fought. Francis' journey to the sultan's camp on the east bank of the Nile should be viewed as a mission of peace, since the sultan's conversion might have led to the end of the Crusade. Francis, it should be said, was a tireless advocate of peace, a stance that stems from the trauma he suffered as a soldier and prisoner of war when he was a young man who saw his comrades massacred on the battlefield. Since discussion of war and peace is -- even today -- so tinged with religion, it may as well be based on authentic religion. Francis represents what it means to be an authentic Christian. As Pope Pius XI wrote in 1926 on the 700th anniversary of Francis's death: There has never been anyone in whom the image of Jesus Christ ... shone forth more lifelike and strikingly than in St. Francis. I don't mean to liken Obama to Francis; there are few human beings in any era who would benefit from comparison to the saint of Assisi. In any case, their situations are very different. Francis was unarmed and powerless when he approached the sultan; there was no hint of coercion. Obama, on the other hand, is arguably the most powerful person in the world. He can disarm his rhetoric, but it would not be possible for him to approach an enemy in the same powerless way Francis did. Still, Francis' example tells those who call themselves Christian that they should refrain from weaponizing their words and should seek peaceful solutions whenever possible. An organization called Charter for Compassion http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/10/armstrong.tutu.charter.compassion\ /index.html is taking this approach. Gathering together supporters such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, singer Paul Simon and Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt, it has sought to restore compassion as the center for morality and religion. It calls for a return to the ancient principle that any interpretation of scripture that breeds violence, hatred or disdain is illegitimate. Obama, too, touched on the role of authentic religion in his Nobel Peace Prize speech on December 10. Citing both the World Trade Center attack and the cruelties of the Crusades, he said, Such a warped view of religion is not just incompatible with the concept of peace but the purpose of faith -- for the one rule that lies at the heart of every major religion is that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Nearly 800 years ago, at a time when biblical passages were used to justify the Crusades, Francis of Assisi
[FairfieldLife] Re: Going Vogue
whereas u the gay for pay type, only watch this show cuz I fantasize about winning the prize
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[FairfieldLife] Come to Meditation!
Dear Turq of Sitges, Please come home and stop so holding things up. We'll find a place even for you. http://www.idealcommunityjobs.com/ JAS, -D in FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is religion about war -- or peace?
TurquoiseB wrote: Interesting article from... Interesting article from CNN. I've noticed that on this forum people tend to paste in the whole article instead of snipping the relevant paragraph, adding their own comment, and then pasting a link to the rest. Sometimes they copy and paste artwork and articles that are clearly copyrighted by someone. Did you ever consider snipping and linking?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Going Vogue
shukra69 wrote: whereas u the gay for pay type, only watch this show cuz I fantasize about winning the prize I'd appreciate it if you'd cut out the personal attacks, the gay bashing and the female bashing - and the prejudice based on birth circumstances - you're only making things worse around here.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ted Kennedy's wife Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill
John Manning wrote: What Ted Would Say: Victoria Reggie Kennedy Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill... For someone who doesn't vote, pay any U.S. income tax, and who doesn't even live in this country anymore, you sure like to post a lot of political propaganda, John.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!
On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:47 PM, It's just a ride wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote: Mahesh was snip the only yogi I know of that wore makeup! LOL! Do tell. Gory details, please. If you don't have any make up some juicy ones. This sounds really interesting. __._,_.__ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/34811 Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where's King Tony? on 10/8/04 5:15 PM, Bob Brigante at bbriga...@... wrote: Tony Nader is not some rational scientist swept up in TMO goofiness -- he got himself a nose job (compare the old photo of him in his physiology book [ http://www.maharishi.org/books/tonybook.html ] with the current version) and other work on his face. This is not the act of a rational human being (unless somebody is a burn victim or similar disfiguring), it's something that a vain and emotionally- challenged starlet does, not a supposedly rational scientist. Just because somebody gets a degree in something really has little to do with their mental health, anyway I know for a fact that Maharishi gets very involved in the appearance of those close to him. With the Mother Divine board ladies, he has directed how they dress, what jewelry they wear (often buys it for them), whether they die their hair, what color they die it, make-up details, etc. Maharishi himself has worn light makeup to improve his appearance on camera and to mask fatigue. For years, Tony Nader has been the only one living in Maharishi's house in Vlodrop. I'm quite certain that if he got a nose job or other cosmetic surgery, it was on Maharishi's orders. I'm also quite certain that Maharishi orchestrated every last little detail of his coronation. He loves that kind of stuff. I've seen him do it many times for smaller celebrations and events.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!
On Dec 19, 2009, at 3:18 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , WillyTex willytex@ wrote: Can you believe that, nabby? He had to have ice some cream! And he probably slept right through the next morning programme. Teachers that can't control cravings are useless. The fools that recommended him back home did a poor job and should have been kicked out also. Did you ever see Bevan consume ice cream and other food? Have you noticed the results of his apparent inability to control cravings? Would you agree that the fools who recommended him should be kicked out also? Some people just simply are above all rules, get used to the idea. One thing you've gotta admit about Nabby is that he's entertaining, in a drag queen kinda way. Gay for Maharishi, gay for Maitreya, and now so gay for Bevan that he believes he's above all rules. Sometimes I think Nabby believes in UFOs primarily because he secretly wants to suck the space brothers' dicks. :-) :-) :-) I'm pretty sure it's the anal probe he's looking for. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ted Kennedy's wife Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: What Ted Would Say: Victoria Reggie Kennedy Pens Op-Ed, Backs Senate Bill snip He knew from experience, he told me, that this kind of opportunity to enact health-care reform wouldn't arise again for a generation. Giving up on the current bill may or may not be the last chance for a generation. A huge amount of pressure for health reform has been built up. If the Senate bill is killed, that pressure isn't just going to go away. There may well still be the steam--including from business and the insurance companies--to start over again from scratch, having learned from the mistakes made so far, knowing where the obstructions are and what needs to be done to overcome them. Or maybe not. But it isn't a slam-dunk either way. We shouldn't swallow this categorical last-chance statement whole. The situation today is very different from what it has been with previous attempts to pass health reform. In the early 1970s, Ted worked with the Nixon administration to find consensus on health-care reform. Those efforts broke down in part because the compromise wasn't ideologically pure enough for some constituency groups. Is ideological purity what progressives are holding out for? Are they opposing the Senate bill for ideological or pragmatic reasons? Ideological purity is a scare word in this context. snip As Ted wrote in his memoir, he was deeply disappointed that the Clinton health-care bill did not come to a vote in the full Senate. He believed that senators should have gone on the record, up or down. Fine, but irrelevant. Ted often said that we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Aphorisms are nice, but we shouldn't let aphorisms govern our actions unless they reflect the reality of the situation. The question is whether the Senate bill qualifies as good. Some don't think it does. He also said that it was better to get half a loaf than no loaf at all, especially with so many lives at stake. Likewise, does the Senate bill constitute half a loaf, or will it snatch what bread people have out of their mouths? That's why, even as he never stopped fighting for comprehensive health-care reform, he also championed incremental but effective reforms such as a Patients' Bill of Rights, the Children's Health Insurance Program and COBRA continuation of health coverage. But this bill is being portrayed as comprehensive, not incremental. There's major disagreement about whether, once such a bill has passed after so much sturm und drang, improving it later will be psychologically or politically feasible--especially if Republicans make gains in future elections. The bill could even end up being cut back. The bill before the Senate, while imperfect, would achieve many of the goals Ted fought for during the 40 years he championed access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans. If this bill passes: -- Insurance protections like the ones Ted fought for his entire life would become law. -- Thirty million Americans who do not have coverage would finally be able to afford it. Or not, depending on the amount and availability of subsidies and how high the insurance companies will jack up their premiums. Ninety-four percent of Americans would be insured. Americans would finally be able to live without fear that a single illness could send them into financial ruin. And the other six percent? -- Insurance companies would no longer be able to deny people the coverage they need because of a preexisting illness or condition. But they will still be able to charge up to 300 percent more for people with such illnesses or conditions. For these people, guaranteed issue will be negated by premiums they can't afford. They would not be able to drop coverage when people get sick. The insurance companies have said flatly that they will not end their recission practices. And there would be a limit on how much they can force Americans to pay out of their own pockets when they do get sick. There will be a lifetime cap, but not an annual cap. People who become suddenly very ill and require extremely expensive treatment over the course of a year will still be responsible for charges over the annual cap, which could be tens of thousands of dollars they can't possibly afford. The issue is enforcement of the protections the bill contains. The insurance companies will be able to drag their feet, forcing people who are desperately ill to sue them to get insurance, or have their insurance reinstated if they've been dropped, or even just to have their bills paid, a process that could take years and cost many more thousands of dollars. If a public option were available, people would have a choice if their insurance company decided to be recalcitrant, or if the companies charged exorbitant premiums. Without a public option, they're still at the mercy of the insurance companies. snip Health care would
[FairfieldLife] Re: Tentative deal reached in Copenhagen on climate change curbs
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Tentative deal reached in Copenhagen on climate change curbs Key international leaders reach a 'meaningful agreement,' The Times is told, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the U.S. and China settle on ways to ensure that nations' pledges are carried out. December 19, 2009 Climate Deal Announced, but Falls Short of Expectations By HELENE COOPER and JOHN M. BRODER COPENHAGEN Leaders here concluded a climate change deal on Friday that the Obama administration called meaningful but that falls short of even the modest expectations for the summit meeting here. The agreement addresses many of the issues that leaders came here to settle, but the answers are bound to leave many of the participants unhappy. Even an Obama administration official conceded, It is not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change, but it's an important first step. No country is entirely satisfied with each element, the administration's statement said, but this is a meaningful and historic step forward and a foundation from which to make further progress. The statement added, We thank the emerging economies for their voluntary actions and especially appreciate the work and leadership of the Europeans in this effort. But many of those emerging economies are likely to express displeasure. Europeans said the deal does not require enough of the United States, China and other major emitters and could put European industries at a competitive disadvantage because the European Union is already subject to a carbon emissions constraint program. The accord drops the expected goal of concluding a binding international treaty by the end of 2010, which leaves the implementation of its provisions uncertain. It is likely to undergo many months, perhaps years, of additional negotiation before it emerges in any internationally enforceable form The draft dropped earlier language that said a binding accord should be reached as soon as possible, and no later than at the next meeting of the parties, in Mexico City in November 2010. Instead, the draft set no specific deadline, saying only that the agreement should be reviewed and put in place by 2015 Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/science/earth/19climate.html?hp http://tinyurl.com/yefvuwn
[FairfieldLife] Re: Michael Persinger discovers telepathic link
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Hugo wrote: Fascinating interview, I hope Persinger is onto something here. But if he uncovers too much quantum stuff in the brain he may have to revise his book TM and Cultmania, which would be a fine day for TM dome attendance. From physicists I know how've reviewed it, they think it's BS. What I wonder is if he's just hopping onto the quantum bandwagon because it's not only fashionable, but profitable. The entanglement has nothing to do with the brain, but the measuring device (the SQUID or superconducting quantum interference device). No quantum brain IOW. Hmmmaren't photons quanta of light? Ain't the activity of the nervous system somehow connected with photons? According to YS, da self is 'draSTaa' (Seer): tataH kSiiyate prakaashaavaraNam. tadaa draSTuH svaruupe 'vasthaanam. draSTaa dRshimaatraH shuddho 'pi pratyayaanupashyaH. The behavior of subatomic particles is different than the behavior of a system such as us. QM is bent way out of shape and made inconsistent with what we know about science if it is used as a theory to explain consciousness, certainly is not a theoretical framework for a claim that our consciousness has magical powers. I have not read Persinger's study but I bet that it is in error, either due to chance or to methodological issues. Let's see some criticism by the knowledgeable (and we aren't) and replication. He probably fooled himself. Hope y'all are well and happy holidays for those of you that have them!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:38 PM, Rick Archer wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote: Mahesh was snip the only yogi I know of that wore makeup! LOL! He just wore enough to hide dark circles under his eyes, etc. - i.e. to look good on camera. Hey I do the same thing! Anybody want to pay me a million bucks? Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp, sell your house!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Sometimes I think Nabby believes in UFOs primarily because he secretly wants to suck the space brothers' dicks. :-) :-) :-) I'm pretty sure it's the anal probe he's looking for. :-) How low can FFL really become ? It's interesting to notice that it is the two Buddhists on this forum who are most focussed on sex. One wonders what goes on in their monestaries Regarding anal probe: From studying my own life I think I know others. -Vaj
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar
I had to wear special glasses to watch the movie in *3D*. From: off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 8:18:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ ... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: I saw it last night at the 12:01 AM showing. It's a wonderful movie but very predictable. Kind of a *Star Wars/ Dances With Wolves* kind of movie. 3D is excellent and worth seeing. Mike: How does it compare to IMAX 3-D? Is it even better than that? I've seen 3 or 4 IMAX's in 3-D the past couple of years and I must say I was very impressed. Prior to that, I was only familiar with the 3-D technology from the '60s and I wasn't very impressed (I was more impressed with John Waters' Smellovision or Odorama, whatever it was he called it!). So if this is, as touted, a 3-D technology that is a quantum leap over even the IMAX 3-D, it must be incredible. By the way, I have already resigned myself to the expectation that the movie itself will not be so great. I wasn't a fan of Titanic at all, although impressed with what Cameron achieved with it (a great Cinderella story). So I'll go see Avatar just for the historical aspect of it. It is not 3d. That is a misnomer. They call it 3d because the graphic artist can spin an object around and add color, textures, shading like a sculptor, and then animate it (make it move around.) The effects are applied to a wireframe such as you see me spinning a simple version of the concept here, -- http://screencast. com/t/ZWE2ZmIzO -- but this is all that 3d means here. You do not get the impression that there are 3 dimensions such as in a IMAX movie where you wear special glasses that allow the eyes to see 2 very slightly different views of the same image just like in real life, which is what gives us our sense of 3d in real life. These movies are no less 3d than a painting by Carravagio 400 years ago, and if traditional animation artists were given as much time and money as these movies are given to create a 3d animation using only paint to create the shading and textures, the results would far exceed these highly expensive animations that are given the misnoer 3d. These movies take 3-4 years and 4 times as much as a traditional Disney animation such as Beauty and the Beast to make (which take about a year to make.) All I can say is the results are not worth it visually. If a director such as Cameron spent as much money and as much time on a traditional animation he would go down in history as one of the greatest visionary in animated cinema of the era, since tradtional artists given that amount of time and money would create something no-one has seen before, and would far surpass the visuals of these so-called 3d movies. There is no 3d in these movies. It is a flat screen and there is no 3d. no more 3d than any movie. It is all 2d. The only 3d is when you wear those special glasses, or there is a hologram. A hologram is somewhat 3d. An animated hologram would be the unltimate 3d animation. Everything else is pure 2d dimensional OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar
Yes. From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 9:39:55 PM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar From:FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:FairfieldLi f...@yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of off_world_beings Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:18 PM To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar It is not 3d. That is a misnomer. They call it 3d because the graphic artist can spin an object around and add color, textures, shading like a sculptor, and then animate it (make it move around.) The effects are applied to a wireframe such as you see me spinning a simple version of the concept here, -- http://screencast. com/t/ZWE2ZmIzO -- but this is all that 3d means here. You do not get the impression that there are 3 dimensions such as in a IMAX movie where you wear special glasses that allow the eyes to see 2 very slightly different views of the same image just like in real life, which is what gives us our sense of 3d in real life. These movies are no less 3d than a painting by Carravagio 400 years ago, and if traditional animation artists were given as much time and money as these movies are given to create a 3d animation using only paint to create the shading and textures, the results would far exceed these highly expensive animations that are given the misnoer 3d. These movies take 3-4 years and 4 times as much as a traditional Disney animation such as Beauty and the Beast to make (which take about a year to make.) All I can say is the results are not worth it visually. If a director such as Cameron spent as much money and as much time on a traditional animation he would go down in history as one of the greatest visionary in animated cinema of the era, since tradtional artists given that amount of time and money would create something no-one has seen before, and would far surpass the visuals of these so-called 3d movies. There is no 3d in these movies. It is a flat screen and there is no 3d. no more 3d than any movie. It is all 2d. The only 3d is when you wear those special glasses, or there is a hologram. A hologram is somewhat 3d. An animated hologram would be the unltimate 3d animation. Everything else is pure 2d dimensional OffWorld So when you go to see this particular movie, do you wear special glasses?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar
By the way, I think there are three different versions, One in 3D, another not in 3D and then the IMAX, which I'm not sure if it's a 3D version. From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 8:40:59 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar Yes. From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit. com To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 9:39:55 PM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar From:FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:FairfieldLi f...@yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of off_world_beings Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:18 PM To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar It is not 3d. That is a misnomer. They call it 3d because the graphic artist can spin an object around and add color, textures, shading like a sculptor, and then animate it (make it move around.) The effects are applied to a wireframe such as you see me spinning a simple version of the concept here, -- http://screencast. com/t/ZWE2ZmIzO -- but this is all that 3d means here. You do not get the impression that there are 3 dimensions such as in a IMAX movie where you wear special glasses that allow the eyes to see 2 very slightly different views of the same image just like in real life, which is what gives us our sense of 3d in real life. These movies are no less 3d than a painting by Carravagio 400 years ago, and if traditional animation artists were given as much time and money as these movies are given to create a 3d animation using only paint to create the shading and textures, the results would far exceed these highly expensive animations that are given the misnoer 3d. These movies take 3-4 years and 4 times as much as a traditional Disney animation such as Beauty and the Beast to make (which take about a year to make.) All I can say is the results are not worth it visually. If a director such as Cameron spent as much money and as much time on a traditional animation he would go down in history as one of the greatest visionary in animated cinema of the era, since tradtional artists given that amount of time and money would create something no-one has seen before, and would far surpass the visuals of these so-called 3d movies. There is no 3d in these movies. It is a flat screen and there is no 3d. no more 3d than any movie. It is all 2d. The only 3d is when you wear those special glasses, or there is a hologram. A hologram is somewhat 3d. An animated hologram would be the unltimate 3d animation. Everything else is pure 2d dimensional OffWorld So when you go to see this particular movie, do you wear special glasses?
[FairfieldLife] Rachel Maddow on the push to Kill the Bill
Washington Post's Eugene Robinson joins Rachel to explore the reasoning, implications and possibilities around the issue of 'killing' the Senate Health Care Bill Watch: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#34473012 http://snipurl.com/tre1g [www_msnbc_msn_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: 30th Anniversary Celebrations!
30 years ago In the summer of 1979 almost 3000 people gathered for the very first World Peace Assembly in the United States at Amherst, Massachusetts. It was during this historic WPA that Maharishi asked all the Governors and Sidhas to move their families and businesses to Fairfield, Iowa to set up the first Creating Coherence community -- a permanent group to create coherence for the whole nation. 16 years ago. Today we have hundreds and hundreds of meditators/Sidhas...long time meditators who are living here in the TSR community who have, in effect, been spurned by the leadership of your office. Today you have hundreds of practising Sidhas carrying on their lives here in Fairfield with little reason, other than your apparent spite, to have contact with you or the movement. Incredible! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15 10 years ago. We each have old time movement friends whose badges have recently been lifted or who were recently denied registration. We all know people and there is an anguish that goes on because of the tyranny of the situation here. We know our friends' stories and we know their lives. These are our friends and neighbors here. These are long time movement people. There is a lot of needless intolerance and rigidity on the part of what is left of the movement. Rick makes a good point. There is anger and disillusion that others are being treated this way. Just since Sept. 11th, we all know people who have been denied access for their hair being too long, beards being too long, having studied jyotish or some other franchised thing the movement markets, or for having visited other saints. I can think of ten friends right now. These are just people in my circle of friends. Everyone has their circle of friends they could think of too. I was told of a person today who had come from the West Coast specifically to be in the Dome and who was denied access because he had a beard. Neither the teaching nor the program is going to fall because of these guys but the feeling about the bad administration and bad policy is bringing about the downfall of our movement in the aggregate. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 5 years ago. the questioning was one guy practically pointing out that he came to FF for the group meditations that had 2,000 people then, and now just a small number. The status quo was all that was offered by Keith Wallace and Keith Wallace was not in sympathy there to acknowledging the attendance problem, the central effect it has on the community or working with it otherwise. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31817 10 years ago. History, Transcendental Meditation Fairfield: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/7 From 2001, FFL: There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope. Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM movement there is no place to rate ourselves on how we might be doing as a movement organized. No place even to ask or reflect how we might be doing supporting meditators or supporting teachers or sidhas. Versus our ideal administration, reflecting on our own administration in any way practical would of course be too negative. Would it be too practical? Announcing Two Upcoming Celebrations! Celebrating 30 Years Sunday, Dec. 20, 8:10 pm Dalby Hall, Argiro Student Center 30th Anniversary of Amherst WPA Sunday, Dec. 27, 8:10 pm Dalby Hall, Argiro Student Center 30th Anniversary of Creating Coherence Course and Moving to Fairfield Everyone is welcome and please bring your program badge! Jai Guru Dev Om Sweet Jesus! As an old conservative meditator who was also there, I would be very inclined to go up there and re-unite with this except for their you got to have a badge thing. An invite like this given the history reads again like a fuck you and fuck off. Unbelievably graceless. God help 'em. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF
[FairfieldLife] Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill
Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill [468] Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times - A plow cleared snow on Capitol Hill on Saturday. The Senate was in session to vote on a defense bill during a big Washington-area storm. By ROBERT PEAR http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/robert_pea\ r/index.html?inline=nyt-per , DAVID M. HERSZENHORN http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/david_m_he\ rszenhorn/index.html?inline=nyt-per and CARL HULSE http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/carl_hulse\ /index.html?inline=nyt-per Published: December 19, 2009 WASHINGTON Senate Democrats said on Saturday that they had clinched an agreement on a far-reaching overhaul of the nation's health care system, and that they were on track to approve the legislation by Christmas over fierce Republican opposition. As the Senate convened in a driving snowstorm, Democratic leaders said a breakthrough came when Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, agreed after 13 hours of negotiations on Friday to back the bill, making him the pivotal 60th vote. Change is never easy, but change is what's necessary in America, Mr. Nelson said during a morning news conference. And that's why I intend to vote, he said, for health care reform http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html?inl\ ine=nyt-classifier . If Senate Democrats could win passage of their bill, it will need to be reconciled with a version adopted last month by the House, and Mr. Nelson issued a pointed warning that he would vote against the measure if any changes were not to his liking. Because the Democrats nominally control 60 seats in the Senate the precise number needed to overcome Republican filibusters http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/filibust\ ers_and_debate_curbs/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier every senator in the Democratic caucus effectively has veto power over the bill. No Republican is willing to support it. The legislation, the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system in more than a generation, seeks to extend health benefits to more than 30 million uninsured Americans by expanding Medicaid http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/medicaid/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier and providing subsidies to help moderate-income people purchase private insurance. The bill also imposes tight new regulations of the health insurance http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier industry, barring insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions and limiting how much extra they can charge for people based on their age. The majority leader, Harry Reid http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/harry_reid\ /index.html?inline=nyt-per of Nevada, racing against the clock to complete the bill by his self-imposed holiday deadline, introduced a 338-page package of last-minute amendments, including the key provisions needed to win Mr. Nelson's support. Republicans, who vowed to use every procedural weapon to stop the bill, immediately forced a reading of the Mr. Reid's, which was expected to take 10 hours and had to be done by midnight to keep Democrats on track for a final vote on Christmas Eve. Mr. Reid's amendment includes tighter restrictions on insurance coverage for abortions sought by Mr. Nelson. Health insurance plans would not be required or forbidden to cover abortions, but states could prohibit the coverage of abortions by plans that are offered for sale through new government-regulated marketplaces. The amendment also includes a special extension solely for Nebraska: increased federal contributions to the cost of an expansion of Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for the poor. Mr. Reid introduced his amendment after the Senate easily approved and sent to President Obama http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_oba\ ma/index.html?inline=nyt-per a $626 billion defense spending bill in an extraordinary session that began before sunrise, and reflected the increasingly toxic atmosphere in a chamber that normally prides itself on decorum. Despite the 88-to-10 vote, the Pentagon bill was the focus of some angry partisanship. Republicans, who typically vote in unison for defense spending measures especially at a time when the country is fighting two wars, tried to derail the bill this week in an effort to throw yet another roadblock in the path of Democrats on health care. The year-end spending measure also included a two-month extension of jobless pay and health coverage for the unemployed. The snow flying outside the Capitol added to what has already been a chaotic few weeks for the Senate, which has met every day since
[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957
1964 Maharishi's Year of God Consciousness Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of the most refined state of Cosmic Consciousness -God Consciousness. 1963 Maharishi's Year of the Science of Being and Art of Living Maharishi presents a profound and practical philosophy of living for the modern scientific age. 1962 Maharishi's Year of Theory of the Absolute Maharishi brings to light the Theory of the Absolute and trains hundreds of Meditation Guides to help bring the direct experience of the absolute to people everywhere. 1961 Maharishi's Year of Teacher Training. Maharishi's inspiration to multiply himself by training teachers of Transcendental Meditation: the first international course is held in Rishikesh, India. 1960 Maharishi's Year of Cosmic Consciousness. Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of Cosmic Consciousness. In London, Maharishi inaugurates his First Three Year Plan to spiritually regenerate the world. 1959 Maharishi's Year of Global Awakening Maharishi starts to teach Transcendental Meditation around the world. 1958 Maharishi's Year of Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Inspired to raise the quality of life in the world through the practice of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi inaugurates the Spiritual Regeneration Movement to spiritually regenerate mankind. 1957 Maharishi's Year of Transcendental Meditation Maharishi evolves a simple, natural practice for the mind to come to a balanced state, and thereby gain the ability to spontaneously function in accord with all the laws of nature. This was the year of revival of Yog, philosophy and practice; this was the year of revival of Vedic wisdom for perfection in life.
[FairfieldLife] Possibly the most bizarre music video I've ever seen
Passed along without comment, because honestly I just don't know what to say. Or think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k It's a Christmas song called Must Be Santa. By Bob Dylan
[FairfieldLife] YouTube - Pastor Eddie D. Smith Sr. - The Meaning of Namaste'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyYsns=em sns=em
[FairfieldLife] Re: Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill snip Change is never easy, but change is what's necessary in America, Mr. Nelson said during a morning news conference. And that's why I intend to vote, he said, for health care reform. Crucial point: If Senate Democrats could win passage of their bill, it will need to be reconciled with a version adopted last month by the House, and Mr. Nelson issued a pointed warning that he would vote against the measure if any changes were not to his liking. Greg Sargent comments: But Nelson also issued a stern threat, designed to put House liberals on notice: If you change the bill in conference, I reserve the right to sink it later. Translation: Don't even think about trying to add a public option or Medicare buy-in, and don't even think about putting your grubby hands on my abortion compromise But Nelson said that the bill had to effectively remain as is, or he would vote against it in the final cloture vote after conference negotiations, which also requires 60. In effect, Nelson is still pointing a gun at the head of reform, and telling House liberals that if they move a muscle, he'll pull the trigger. 'I reserve the right to vote against the next cloture vote if there are material changes in the conference report,' Nelson said. 'And I will vote against it if that is the case.' This will cause serious consternation among House liberals, and underscores yet again how much power the super-majority system places in the hands of single Senators. It's hard to overstate how intense the pressure on House liberals will be from the White House and from the House leadership to swallow the Senate bill whole, as it were http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/nelsons-a-yes-reform-edges-closer-to-reality/ http://tinyurl.com/y8cenbd
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Pastor Eddie D. Smith Sr. - The Meaning of Namaste'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyYsns=em sns=em Fabulous. I'll bet a dollar to a donut that this guy is a student of Rev. Ike. Despite Rev. Ike's flamboyancy, scandals, and love of money, I found his sermons to be the most closest to Maharishi's teaching that I've ever come across...certainly, the best interpretation of Christianity that I've ever been comfortable with. I was introduced to Ike by a TMer in Fairfield back in the '80s. This fellow (who was Jewish) used to say: the three people I admire most in the world are Maharishi, Rev. Ike, and Jesus...and not necessarily in that order!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Birthday Credo Song
Another birthday song for Barry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk63DjGx2_0 33,661,440 minutes and counting...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Birthday Credo Song
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Another birthday song for Barry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk63DjGx2_0 33,661,440 minutes and counting... At least I made it to 64. Sadly, one of my favorite screenwriters and directors didn't: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-obannon19-2009dec19,0,4358785.story Dan O'Bannon, writer of Dark Star and Alien and director of the horror parody Return Of The Living Dead has succumbed to Crohn's disease. I will miss him because he brought something to the often deadly-serious world of science fiction that it sorely needed -- humor. Here's one of his best bits, trying to talk the AI bomb out of exploding and destroying the ship, by teaching it epistemology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk
[FairfieldLife] Re: 30th Anniversary Celebrations!
16 years ago Bevan returned to Fairfield around July 1st and stayed through the start of the Guru Purnima course. During his visit, he methodically worked his way through MIU faculty, students, and staff, and the TSR community declaring to each group: 1) That our friends and neighbors who were on the various working groups created by Keith's initiative to address improvements in the community were 'enemies of the movement', 2) asserted the party line that all the issues had been taken care of, 3a) asserted that the movement is for those who have faith and belief in Maharishi (rebuffing the old premise for participation, that anyone who could think could meditate and supplanting his new doctrine of faith!) and 3b) Encouraged the non-believers to leave, 4) Raised the dome fees to $100 @ month, 5) Locked out of that Guru Purnima celebration, with no prior notice, scores of loyal long-time governors and sidhas, 6) Reaffirmed the old guard of the President's Office, and 7) abruptly leaves town. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15 30 years ago In the summer of 1979 almost 3000 people gathered for the very first World Peace Assembly in the United States at Amherst, Massachusetts. It was during this historic WPA that Maharishi asked all the Governors and Sidhas to move their families and businesses to Fairfield, Iowa to set up the first Creating Coherence community -- a permanent group to create coherence for the whole nation. 16 years ago. Today we have hundreds and hundreds of meditators/Sidhas...long time meditators who are living here in the TSR community who have, in effect, been spurned by the leadership of your office. Today you have hundreds of practising Sidhas carrying on their lives here in Fairfield with little reason, other than your apparent spite, to have contact with you or the movement. Incredible! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15 10 years ago. We each have old time movement friends whose badges have recently been lifted or who were recently denied registration. We all know people and there is an anguish that goes on because of the tyranny of the situation here. We know our friends' stories and we know their lives. These are our friends and neighbors here. These are long time movement people. There is a lot of needless intolerance and rigidity on the part of what is left of the movement. Rick makes a good point. There is anger and disillusion that others are being treated this way. Just since Sept. 11th, we all know people who have been denied access for their hair being too long, beards being too long, having studied jyotish or some other franchised thing the movement markets, or for having visited other saints. I can think of ten friends right now. These are just people in my circle of friends. Everyone has their circle of friends they could think of too. I was told of a person today who had come from the West Coast specifically to be in the Dome and who was denied access because he had a beard. Neither the teaching nor the program is going to fall because of these guys but the feeling about the bad administration and bad policy is bringing about the downfall of our movement in the aggregate. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 5 years ago. the questioning was one guy practically pointing out that he came to FF for the group meditations that had 2,000 people then, and now just a small number. The status quo was all that was offered by Keith Wallace and Keith Wallace was not in sympathy there to acknowledging the attendance problem, the central effect it has on the community or working with it otherwise. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31817 10 years ago. History, Transcendental Meditation Fairfield: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/7 From 2001, FFL: There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope. Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM movement there is no place to rate ourselves on how we might be doing as a movement organized. No place even to ask or reflect how we might be doing supporting meditators or supporting teachers or sidhas. Versus our ideal administration, reflecting on our own
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Pastor Eddie D. Smith Sr. - The Meaning of Namaste'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyYsns=em sns=em Fabulous. I'll bet a dollar to a donut that this guy is a student of Rev. Ike. Despite Rev. Ike's flamboyancy, scandals, and love of money, I found his sermons to be the most closest to Maharishi's teaching that I've ever come across...certainly, the best interpretation of Christianity that I've ever been comfortable with. I was introduced to Ike by a TMer in Fairfield back in the '80s. This fellow (who was Jewish) used to say: the three people I admire most in the world are Maharishi, Rev. Ike, and Jesus...and not necessarily in that order! That's the kind of black teaching/ministers I can relate to, God bless him!! Exactly what the black community needs to hear, and he knows it. Now *karma* would be another one.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birthday Credo Song
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Another birthday song for Barry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk63DjGx2_0 33,661,440 minutes and counting... At least I made it to 64. Sadly, one of my favorite screenwriters and directors didn't: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-obannon19-2009dec19,0,4358785.story Dan O'Bannon, writer of Dark Star and Alien and director of the horror parody Return Of The Living Dead has succumbed to Crohn's disease. I will miss him because he brought something to the often deadly-serious world of science fiction that it sorely needed -- humor. Here's one of his best bits, trying to talk the AI bomb out of exploding and destroying the ship, by teaching it epistemology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk He's probably glad to be dead as that disease is rather nasty. So are they still needing you and are they still feeding you .
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Pastor Eddie D. Smith Sr. - The Meaning of Namaste'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzNFCtFyyYsns=em sns=em Fabulous. I'll bet a dollar to a donut that this guy is a student of Rev. Ike. Despite Rev. Ike's flamboyancy, scandals, and love of money, I found his sermons to be the most closest to Maharishi's teaching that I've ever come across...certainly, the best interpretation of Christianity that I've ever been comfortable with. I was introduced to Ike by a TMer in Fairfield back in the '80s. This fellow (who was Jewish) used to say: the three people I admire most in the world are Maharishi, Rev. Ike, and Jesus...and not necessarily in that order! That's the kind of black teaching/ministers I can relate to, God bless him!! Exactly what the black community needs to hear, and he knows it. Now *karma* would be another one. Here's an interesting one by Ike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3WASt3kxgfeature=related .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: I had to wear special glasses to watch the movie in *3D*. From: off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 8:18:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar  --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ ... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: I saw it last night at the 12:01 AM showing. It's a wonderful movie but very predictable. Kind of a *Star Wars/ Dances With Wolves* kind of movie. 3D is excellent and worth seeing. Mike: How does it compare to IMAX 3-D? Is it even better than that? I've seen 3 or 4 IMAX's in 3-D the past couple of years and I must say I was very impressed. Prior to that, I was only familiar with the 3-D technology from the '60s and I wasn't very impressed (I was more impressed with John Waters' Smellovision or Odorama, whatever it was he called it!). So if this is, as touted, a 3-D technology that is a quantum leap over even the IMAX 3-D, it must be incredible. By the way, I have already resigned myself to the expectation that the movie itself will not be so great. I wasn't a fan of Titanic at all, although impressed with what Cameron achieved with it (a great Cinderella story). So I'll go see Avatar just for the historical aspect of it. It is not 3d. That is a misnomer. They call it 3d because the graphic artist can spin an object around and add color, textures, shading like a sculptor, and then animate it (make it move around.) The effects are applied to a wireframe such as you see me spinning a simple version of the concept here, -- http://screencast http://screencast . com/t/ZWE2ZmIzO  -- but this is all that 3d means here. You do not get the impression that there are 3 dimensions such as in a IMAX movie where you wear special glasses that allow the eyes to see 2 very slightly different views of the same image just like in real life, which is what gives us our sense of 3d in real life. These movies are no less 3d than a painting by Carravagio 400 years ago, and if traditional animation artists were given as much time and money as these movies are given to create a 3d animation using only paint to create the shading and textures, the results would far exceed these highly expensive animations that are given the misnoer 3d. These movies take 3-4 years and 4 times as much as a traditional Disney animation such as Beauty and the Beast to make (which take about a year to make.) All I can say is the results are not worth it visually. If a director such as Cameron spent as much money and as much time on a traditional animation he would go down in history as one of the greatest visionary in animated cinema of the era, since tradtional artists given that amount of time and money would create something no-one has seen before, and would far surpass the visuals of these so-called 3d movies. There is no 3d in these movies. It is a flat screen and there is no 3d. no more 3d than any movie. It is all 2d. The only 3d is when you wear those special glasses, or there is a hologram. A hologram is somewhat 3d. An animated hologram would be the unltimate 3d animation. Everything else is pure 2d dimensional OffWorld Oh ok, my bad. (sounds awful though -- like watching JaJa Binks in 3d :-) OffWorldAgain
[FairfieldLife] The Messenger - Trailer No. 1 - Moviefone
Ben Foster, son of Steven and Gillian Foster, grew up in FF and is a regular meditator: http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-messenger/36286/video/the-messenger-trail er-no-1/44708418001
[FairfieldLife] YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response feature=video_response
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response feature=video_response Gee, that's well done (a little heavy on the music here and there, but otherwise...). Who made this, do you know? I've never seen a tape of MMY talking that he wasn't seated, but he seems perfectly attuned to how to speak to the camera while walking. Very graceful. (But did he always stick his feet out like that when he walked, as you see in the last part of the video??)
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Pastor Eddie D. Smith Sr. - The Meaning of Namaste'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Here's an interesting one by Ike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3WASt3kxgfeature=related this man knows the truth!!!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Birthday Credo Song
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: snip Dan O'Bannon, writer of Dark Star and Alien and director of the horror parody Return Of The Living Dead has succumbed to Crohn's disease. snip He's probably glad to be dead as that disease is rather nasty. *Can* be. There's a pretty wide range of severity with Crohn's. Most people don't die from it if they're properly treated, and those with milder cases can live perfectly normal lives with the right medication.
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Pastor Eddie D. Smith Sr. - The Meaning of Namaste'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: snip Here's an interesting one by Ike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3WASt3kxgfeature=related Wow. VERY interesting!
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise,
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:41 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer r...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response feature=video_response feature=video_response Gee, that's well done (a little heavy on the music here and there, but otherwise...). Who made this, do you know? I think the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation I've never seen a tape of MMY talking that he wasn't seated, but he seems perfectly attuned to how to speak to the camera while walking. Very graceful. (But did he always stick his feet out like that when he walked, as you see in the last part of the video??) Yes. As if he was feeling where to take the next step.
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise,
made by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , gov channel --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response feature=video_response Gee, that's well done (a little heavy on the music here and there, but otherwise...). Who made this, do you know? I've never seen a tape of MMY talking that he wasn't seated, but he seems perfectly attuned to how to speak to the camera while walking. Very graceful. (But did he always stick his feet out like that when he walked, as you see in the last part of the video??)
[FairfieldLife] Re: 30th Anniversary Celebrations!
16 years ago Bevan returned to Fairfield around July 1st and stayed through the start of the Guru Purnima course. During his visit, he methodically worked his way through MIU faculty, students, and staff, and the TSR community declaring to each group: 1) That our friends and neighbors who were on the various working groups created by Keith's initiative to address improvements in the community were 'enemies of the movement', 2) asserted the party line that all the issues had been taken care of, 3a) asserted that the movement is for those who have faith and belief in Maharishi (rebuffing the old premise for participation, that anyone who could think could meditate and supplanting his new doctrine of faith!) and 3b) Encouraged the non-believers to leave, 4) Raised the dome fees to $100 @ month, 5) Locked out of that Guru Purnima celebration, with no prior notice, scores of loyal long-time governors and sidhas, 6) Reaffirmed the old guard of the President's Office, and 7) abruptly leaves town. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15 Yeah, they did take a turn down a bad road from then. Don't seem to have got turned round right yet today. Was tragic turn of events and seems still is. 30 years ago In the summer of 1979 almost 3000 people gathered for the very first World Peace Assembly in the United States at Amherst, Massachusetts. It was during this historic WPA that Maharishi asked all the Governors and Sidhas to move their families and businesses to Fairfield, Iowa to set up the first Creating Coherence community -- a permanent group to create coherence for the whole nation. 16 years ago. Today we have hundreds and hundreds of meditators/Sidhas...long time meditators who are living here in the TSR community who have, in effect, been spurned by the leadership of your office. Today you have hundreds of practising Sidhas carrying on their lives here in Fairfield with little reason, other than your apparent spite, to have contact with you or the movement. Incredible! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15 10 years ago. We each have old time movement friends whose badges have recently been lifted or who were recently denied registration. We all know people and there is an anguish that goes on because of the tyranny of the situation here. We know our friends' stories and we know their lives. These are our friends and neighbors here. These are long time movement people. There is a lot of needless intolerance and rigidity on the part of what is left of the movement. Rick makes a good point. There is anger and disillusion that others are being treated this way. Just since Sept. 11th, we all know people who have been denied access for their hair being too long, beards being too long, having studied jyotish or some other franchised thing the movement markets, or for having visited other saints. I can think of ten friends right now. These are just people in my circle of friends. Everyone has their circle of friends they could think of too. I was told of a person today who had come from the West Coast specifically to be in the Dome and who was denied access because he had a beard. Neither the teaching nor the program is going to fall because of these guys but the feeling about the bad administration and bad policy is bringing about the downfall of our movement in the aggregate. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 5 years ago. the questioning was one guy practically pointing out that he came to FF for the group meditations that had 2,000 people then, and now just a small number. The status quo was all that was offered by Keith Wallace and Keith Wallace was not in sympathy there to acknowledging the attendance problem, the central effect it has on the community or working with it otherwise. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31817 10 years ago. History, Transcendental Meditation Fairfield: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/7 From 2001, FFL: There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope. Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM
[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957
1965 Maharishi's Year of Bhagavad-Gita Maharishi explains expereiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of the principle of action: Nishkama karma yog, yogastah kuru karmani; Established in Unity, perform action -Bhagavad-Gita II 45, and completes his commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. 1964 Maharishi's Year of God Consciousness Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of the most refined state of Cosmic Consciousness -God Consciousness. 1963 Maharishi's Year of the Science of Being and Art of Living Maharishi presents a profound and practical philosophy of living for the modern scientific age. 1962 Maharishi's Year of Theory of the Absolute Maharishi brings to light the Theory of the Absolute and trains hundreds of Meditation Guides to help bring the direct experience of the absolute to people everywhere. 1961 Maharishi's Year of Teacher Training. Maharishi's inspiration to multiply himself by training teachers of Transcendental Meditation: the first international course is held in Rishikesh, India. 1960 Maharishi's Year of Cosmic Consciousness. Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of Cosmic Consciousness. In London, Maharishi inaugurates his First Three Year Plan to spiritually regenerate the world. 1959 Maharishi's Year of Global Awakening Maharishi starts to teach Transcendental Meditation around the world. 1958 Maharishi's Year of Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Inspired to raise the quality of life in the world through the practice of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi inaugurates the Spiritual Regeneration Movement to spiritually regenerate mankind. 1957 Maharishi's Year of Transcendental Meditation Maharishi evolves a simple, natural practice for the mind to come to a balanced state, and thereby gain the ability to spontaneously function in accord with all the laws of nature. This was the year of revival of Yog, philosophy and practice; this was the year of revival of Vedic wisdom for perfection in life.
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968
I loved this video. It's the first time I ever saw Maharishi give an intro lecture while walking and talking. He speaks from the heart so naturally and effortlessly. Such a beautiful soul. Jai Guru Dev. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response
[FairfieldLife] Re: Birthday Credo Song
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Another birthday song for Barry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk63DjGx2_0 33,661,440 minutes and counting... Loved the dancing pectoral majors. Happy B'Day, Barry.
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Dec 19 00:00:00 2009 End Date (UTC): Sat Dec 26 00:00:00 2009 58 messages as of (UTC) Sun Dec 20 00:14:37 2009 7 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 7 authfriend jst...@panix.com 6 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 6 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 4 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 4 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 3 shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca 3 raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com 3 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 3 do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com 2 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 2 ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@netscape.net 2 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com 2 BillyG wg...@yahoo.com 1 ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Posters: 17 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:41 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response feature=video_response feature=video_response Gee, that's well done (a little heavy on the music here and there, but otherwise...). Who made this, do you know? I think the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation I've never seen a tape of MMY talking that he wasn't seated, but he seems perfectly attuned to how to speak to the camera while walking. Very graceful. (But did he always stick his feet out like that when he walked, as you see in the last part of the video??) Yes. As if he was feeling where to take the next step. Nah. He's just preemptively scooting pebbles out of his sandals.
[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO pulling out of FF?
Going back in to the Guyfawkes Critique. Is not the MUM Bd. of Trustees independent enough now to retire Bevan? Make him ameritus? He got sacked as pres of the trustee. Time come now to sack him as Pres of the university. He has done enough in 30 years. Get him out of the way entirely by just keeping him as a lecturer? He could be fabulous if he'd let himself just be that instead of trying to wag the dog. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: The obvious candidate for the next round of land auctions is the university in Kansas. Because that'll be a much bigger loss of face than selling off surplus bits in Fairfield then when it finally happens (and it must do) we'll know that the magnitude of the tragedy is finally dawning on people and there might even be a chance to get them to listen to reason and common sense. Though not if Bevan has any say in the matter. Oh well they can't say they weren't warned.
[FairfieldLife] NORAD will track Santa with OnStar
Beginning 2 a.m. Eastern time on Dec. 24, visitors to the NORAD website can watch Santa as he prepares his sleigh, checks his list, and goes through all his preparations for a successful journey. OnStar subscribers can get live Santa updates as they travel in their vehicles simply by pushing the blue OnStar button. I just bought a 2010 Chevy with OnStar. It's spooky. The damn thing talks to you, makes phone calls for emergency service, diagnoses problems, unlocks your doors if you lock your keys in, knows if you've been sleeping and with whom, knows if you're awake, knows if you've been bad or good, so I have to be good for goodness sake. OnStar IS Santa. I'm worried the eye in the sky will know if I've been speeding, report me the insurance company and automatically jack up my premiums. I already got nailed this year with higher premiums for too many moving violations. Geez. http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html NORAD also tracks Santa through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, TroopTube.mil and Google Earth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:41 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1kbJiisLkfeature=video_response feature=video_response feature=video_response Gee, that's well done (a little heavy on the music here and there, but otherwise...). Who made this, do you know? I think the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation I've never seen a tape of MMY talking that he wasn't seated, but he seems perfectly attuned to how to speak to the camera while walking. Very graceful. (But did he always stick his feet out like that when he walked, as you see in the last part of the video??) Yes. As if he was feeling where to take the next step. Nah. He's just preemptively scooting pebbles out of his sandals. Notice how much more natural MMY looks and walks in his Dhoti than SriSri? Sri Sri looks like a little pansy if you ask me.I'll bet his a great snugger though ladies!
[FairfieldLife] Health Insurance may now be mandatory!
Insurance companies would be barred immediately from denying coverage to children because of a pre-existing health condition. The prohibition on denial of coverage for adults would not take effect in the Senate bill until 2014, a disappointment for consumer advocates. Why not just wait till you get sick? Except for the penalties you'd get away with it, now you MUST have insurance!! I wonder how this is going to play out..?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Health Insurance may now be mandatory!
It's already mandatory here in Massachusetts. Insurance companies on this state have not been able to deny coverage to anyone for well over a decade...premiums went way up when that was legislated. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Sat, 12/19/09, BillyG wg...@yahoo.com wrote: From: BillyG wg...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Health Insurance may now be mandatory! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 9:11 PM Insurance companies would be barred immediately from denying coverage to children because of a pre-existing health condition. The prohibition on denial of coverage for adults would not take effect in the Senate bill until 2014, a disappointment for consumer advocates. Why not just wait till you get sick? Except for the penalties you'd get away with it, now you MUST have insurance!! I wonder how this is going to play out..? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: NORAD will track Santa with OnStar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Beginning 2 a.m. Eastern time on Dec. 24, visitors to the NORAD website can watch Santa as he prepares his sleigh, checks his list, and goes through all his preparations for a successful journey. OnStar subscribers can get live Santa updates as they travel in their vehicles simply by pushing the blue OnStar button. I just bought a 2010 Chevy with OnStar. It's spooky. The damn thing talks to you, makes phone calls for emergency service, diagnoses problems, unlocks your doors if you lock your keys in, knows if you've been sleeping and with whom, knows if you're awake, knows if you've been bad or good, so I have to be good for goodness sake. OnStar IS Santa. I'm worried the eye in the sky will know if I've been speeding, report me the insurance company and automatically jack up my premiums. I already got nailed this year with higher premiums for too many moving violations. Geez. You're pouting! Better not pout. http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html NORAD also tracks Santa through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, TroopTube.mil and Google Earth. I'm a real sucker for this sort of thing. I love it. The Web site is actually counting down the days, hours, and minutes. Oh, man, that's a great site. Whole bunch of neat games for the kiddies (I just spent 15 minutes trying to hook up lights on a Christmas tree), snappy music, detailed info on how NORAD tracks Santa (radar, satellites, Santa Cams, and fighter jets), and a charming FAQ. The tone is perfect--it doesn't talk down to the kids, and it's very imaginative and also funny. Here's the chart of Sleigh Technical Data: Designer BuilderK. Kringle Elves, Inc. Probable First Flight.Dec. 24, 343 A.D. Home Base.North Pole Length75 cc (candy canes) / 150 lp (lollipops) Width.40 cc / 80 lp Height55 cc / 110 lp (Note: Length, width and height are without reindeer) Weight at takeoff.75,000 gd (gumdrops) Passenger weight at takeoff...Santa Claus 260 pounds Weight of gifts at takeoff60,000 tons Weight at landing.80,000 gd (ice snow accumulation) Passenger weight at landing...1,260 pounds PropulsionNine (9) rp (reindeer power) Armament..Antlers (purely defensive) Fuel..Hay, oats and carrots (for reindeer) Emissions.Classified Climbing speedOne T (Twinkle of an eye) Max speed.Faster than starlight Excerpt from Why NORAD Tracks Santa: The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in- Chief's operations 'hotline.' The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup [died in March of this year], had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born. Ultimately there's something a little chilling about the folks whose job it is to watch for incoming missles also being the folks who track Santa Claus, but maybe all the effort and goodwill they put into making this fun for kids infuses a little good karma into the operation.
[FairfieldLife] How's MSAE doing?
Hey all--this is my first time posting after lots of lurking. I grew up in FF and attended MSAE from preschool through 12th grade. I haven't practiced TM or the Sidhis since I graduated and I have mixed feelings about the TMO. As most of you know, the school was far from ideal. I'm just wondering if it's improved at all since Dr. Deans left. I always thought he was a bumbling idiot, but I chalked my opinion up to the fact that I was a disillusioned teenager. I was just discussing it with my mother (both of my parents are still in the TMO) and she said the parents felt the same way about Dr. Deans. I digress. There have been some positive changes at MUM from what I've heard, and I hope those changed have carried over to MSAE.
[FairfieldLife] TV May Perpetuate Race Bias
Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias By ALICE PARK Alice Park Sat Dec 19, 12:40 am ET Most people regard watching television as a passive activity. You sit, you watch. Occasionally, you change the channel. But a new study reveals that even this passive diversion may lead to actively damaging effects, particularly when it comes to issues of race. In a series of intricately designed experiments, psychologists at Tufts University demonstrate that subtle racial biases are often expressed by characters on popular television shows, and that viewers not only pick up these attitudes but allow them to shape their own outlooks on race. The most insidious part of this cultural traffic, the researchers found, is that the transmission of race bias appears to occur subconsciously, unbeknownst to the viewer. Led by Max Weisbuch, a postdoctoral student in the lab of Tufts psychology professor Nalini Ambady, researchers designed the multipart study to examine the communication of race bias on television to white college-age volunteers. Weisbuch and his team were intrigued by the fact that despite a significant reduction in overt expressions of racism in modern American society - the country has, after all, just elected its first black president - studies consistently find that many people still show biased or negative attitudes toward African-Americans, primarily through nonverbal means such as facial expressions, crossed arms and averted gazes. The psychologists wondered how such biases could persist in a society in which racism is socially unacceptable and indeed publicly denounced. So the group decided to examine the medium of television, which connects the vast majority of Americans, and through which many people predominantly receive their social and cultural cues. The study looked at 11 popular prime-time TV shows, such as Heroes, Scrubs, House, CSI: Miami and Grey's Anatomy, whose casts include both white and black recurring characters of equal status. In the first of a series of four studies, researchers showed participants TV clips in which a white character and black character interact - but the segments were stripped of sound and the black character was digitally deleted. The idea was to ensure that neither race nor dialogue would color viewers' analysis. The exercise was repeated with the white character deleted. Researchers then asked the viewers, white college students, to evaluate in each circumstance, whether the unseen character appeared to be treated positively or negatively by the seen character, and how well liked he or she appeared to be. In the end, across the majority of TV shows, viewers consistently said that the white characters had received more positive treatment and were better liked than their black counterparts. What fascinated Weisbuch was that the viewers' judgment of the characters was based purely on nonverbal cues, from facial expressions to body language. In fact, when participants were given transcripts of the verbal content of the clips, they saw no difference in the way black or white target characters were treated by speaking characters. These expressions may have been scripted into the show by writers, or by productions editors or the director, but nevertheless, researchers say they demonstrate unfavorably biased attitudes toward black characters. Next, researchers tried to figure out whether this nonverbal bias was being communicated to people watching the show. Researchers created two sets of short, silent clips, one pro-white and the other pro- black. In the pro-white set, white characters were treated positively and black characters were treated negatively; in the pro-black clips, the reverse was true. A separate group of students was asked to view either the pro-white or pro-black TV clips. Afterward, the students completed a questionnaire that was presented as a different study, but actually served as a measure of their racial bias. The results suggested that students who viewed the pro-white clips were much more likely to demonstrate racial bias than those watching the pro-black clips. That suggests that exposure to the nonverbal behaviors affects bias, says Prof. Ambady. The scientists went on to demonstrate that the viewers were unaware of the clips' effect. In another part of the study, students were asked to watch the same pro- white and pro-black clips, but this time they were also instructed to be on the look- out for evidence of subtle biased behavior. Afterward, viewers were asked to determine whether white characters or black characters were treated better. Because each set of clips was created to favor one group or the other, there was only one right answer to the question. The students had a 50-50 chance of responding correctly - and that's exactly how well they did, no better than chance. In other words, the patterns of bias expressed in the characters' nonverbal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar
On Dec 19, 2009, at 4:00 PM, off_world_beings wrote: Oh ok, my bad. (sounds awful though -- like watching JaJa Binks in 3d :-) It was actually quite good. However if you are a conservative or a Republican, the jabs in it--several directly aimed at Bush Admin policies and some taken from Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and Neocon way of thinking--will make you say things like Mike said. It was a very tantric movie in that it dealt well with inter-dimensional congress and the idea of interdependent origination as a web naturally connecting all sentience.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Warning- Avatar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Dec 19, 2009, at 4:00 PM, off_world_beings wrote: Oh ok, my bad. (sounds awful though -- like watching JaJa Binks in 3d :-) It was actually quite good. However if you are a conservative or a Republican, the jabs in it--several directly aimed at Bush Admin policies and some taken from Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and Neocon way of thinking--will make you say things like Mike said. Well that shouldn't be a problem for me, seeing as how I was the first on FFL to support Obama. It was a very tantric movie in that it dealt well with inter-dimensional congress Several times angelic-like females have descended and made love to me in my sleep. Not joking. Its as real as it gets. The movie will not capture that. The feeling stays with you for days, weeks, and even for a lifetime you can recall it and it comes back. Very humbling feeling mixed with sweet love. and the idea of interdependent origination as a web naturally connecting all sentience. Which my mommy taught me when I was 5 years old. Seems obvious to me. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: How's MSAE doing?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, therewillbeli...@... no_re...@... wrote: Hey all--this is my first time posting after lots of lurking. I grew up in FF and attended MSAE from preschool through 12th grade. I haven't practiced TM or the Sidhis since I graduated and I have mixed feelings about the TMO. As most of you know, the school was far from ideal. I'm just wondering if it's improved at all since Dr. Deans left. I always thought he was a bumbling idiot, but I chalked my opinion up to the fact that I was a disillusioned teenager. I was just discussing it with my mother (both of my parents are still in the TMO) and she said the parents felt the same way about Dr. Deans. I digress. There have been some positive changes at MUM from what I've heard, and I hope those changed have carried over to MSAE. I haven't had contact with Deans in over 27 years but I knew him when he was a regular working stiff and I can tell you this: he was the most successful person in his field, was a go-getter, and there wasn't anything spaced out about the guy. This is not someone who had to escape to the confines of the Movement because he couldn't make it in the real world. He outshined everyone in the real world.
[FairfieldLife] Re: NORAD will track Santa with OnStar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Beginning 2 a.m. Eastern time on Dec. 24, visitors to the NORAD website can watch Santa as he prepares his sleigh, checks his list, and goes through all his preparations for a successful journey. OnStar subscribers can get live Santa updates as they travel in their vehicles simply by pushing the blue OnStar button. I just bought a 2010 Chevy with OnStar. It's spooky. The damn thing talks to you, makes phone calls for emergency service, diagnoses problems, unlocks your doors if you lock your keys in, knows if you've been sleeping and with whom, knows if you're awake, knows if you've been bad or good, so I have to be good for goodness sake. OnStar IS Santa. I'm worried the eye in the sky will know if I've been speeding, report me the insurance company and automatically jack up my premiums. I already got nailed this year with higher premiums for too many moving violations. Geez. You're pouting! Better not pout. Yes, pouting. Thank you, Santa's helper. Put in a good word for me with the big guy. http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html NORAD also tracks Santa through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, TroopTube.mil and Google Earth. I'm a real sucker for this sort of thing. I love it. The Web site is actually counting down the days, hours, and minutes. Oh, man, that's a great site. Whole bunch of neat games for the kiddies (I just spent 15 minutes trying to hook up lights on a Christmas tree), snappy music, detailed info on how NORAD tracks Santa (radar, satellites, Santa Cams, and fighter jets), and a charming FAQ. The tone is perfect--it doesn't talk down to the kids, and it's very imaginative and also funny. I got suckered in for half an hour connecting all the lights except one. Whenever I tried to fix it, I'd lose several connections. One light, good enough. It really is a fun site. There are a few games my 5 year old granddaughter will enjoy. She's good at puzzles. We usually take her to church so I'll see her tomorrow. This year she's going to be an angel in St. Gabes' Christmas pageant. She's moving up. Last year she was a lamb. Cute as a button. http://stgabe.org/node Here's the chart of Sleigh Technical Data: Designer BuilderK. Kringle Elves, Inc. Probable First Flight.Dec. 24, 343 A.D. Home Base.North Pole Length75 cc (candy canes) / 150 lp (lollipops) Width.40 cc / 80 lp Height55 cc / 110 lp (Note: Length, width and height are without reindeer) Weight at takeoff.75,000 gd (gumdrops) Passenger weight at takeoff...Santa Claus 260 pounds Weight of gifts at takeoff60,000 tons Weight at landing.80,000 gd (ice snow accumulation) Passenger weight at landing...1,260 pounds PropulsionNine (9) rp (reindeer power) Armament..Antlers (purely defensive) Fuel..Hay, oats and carrots (for reindeer) Emissions.Classified Climbing speedOne T (Twinkle of an eye) Max speed.Faster than starlight Excerpt from Why NORAD Tracks Santa: The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in- Chief's operations 'hotline.' The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup [died in March of this year], had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born. Ultimately there's something a little chilling about the folks whose job it is to watch for incoming missles also being the folks who track Santa Claus, but maybe all the effort and goodwill they put into making this fun for kids infuses a little good karma into the operation. It's good PR. What better way to justify their budget? Congress people would have to explain to their children why they canceled Santa's flight.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How's MSAE doing?
All I know is that he was not the right person to be head of MSAE and almost everyone felt that way. There was a major disconnect between him and the student/parents. I have no doubt that he had good intentions, he simply wasn't tuned in and therefore came across as a bumbling idiot despite his intelligence in other areas. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, therewillbelight@ no_reply@ wrote: Hey all--this is my first time posting after lots of lurking. I grew up in FF and attended MSAE from preschool through 12th grade. I haven't practiced TM or the Sidhis since I graduated and I have mixed feelings about the TMO. As most of you know, the school was far from ideal. I'm just wondering if it's improved at all since Dr. Deans left. I always thought he was a bumbling idiot, but I chalked my opinion up to the fact that I was a disillusioned teenager. I was just discussing it with my mother (both of my parents are still in the TMO) and she said the parents felt the same way about Dr. Deans. I digress. There have been some positive changes at MUM from what I've heard, and I hope those changed have carried over to MSAE. I haven't had contact with Deans in over 27 years but I knew him when he was a regular working stiff and I can tell you this: he was the most successful person in his field, was a go-getter, and there wasn't anything spaced out about the guy. This is not someone who had to escape to the confines of the Movement because he couldn't make it in the real world. He outshined everyone in the real world.
