[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: These ex-TM people who spent a decade or less in the TMO and then spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with their cult indoctrination make me scratch my head. You're not a TRUE cultist until you've spent at least three decades in the cult. What does it mean when you pronounce everyone else is a cultist while missing that you might have issues, yourself... What does it mean when current cultists feel the need to portray former cultists who are honest enough with themselves to realized they were a part of a cult and who still have some lingering curiosity about those who have never reached that point as having something *wrong* with them? I mean, there is a concerted attempt on this forum to portray anyone who still finds the machinations of current-day cultists fascinating from a curiosity standpoint as having something *wrong* with us. Our curiosity doesn't mean that we're still attached to the cult or its leader or its dogma the way the current-day cultists are, merely that we find those who still feel that way curious. As I suggested before, it's sorta like going to a high school reunion and running into people for whom high school was the high point of their lives. You've got yer popular kids (those who became TM teachers and worked for the TMO) who were members of all the right clubs and were voted Most likely to... and who still identify so strongly with that image of themselves that they attempt to pretend that they are still those same people, and not the owner of a car wash in Peoria. Then you've got yer folks who never fit it even back in high school (the ones who never became TM teachers, never did a lick of work for the TMO, but feel that they deserve being treated as if they did). They were members of the Debate Club, or the National Honor Society or some other group of dweebs, and none of the popular kids ever wanted to have anything to do with them. On some level they're *still* trying to get the popular kids to accept them as their equals, which is never going to happen. Even sadder, at every high school reunion there is someone like Ravi, who never even *went* to that high school, but is so desperate for attention that he attends its reunions anyway. It's all so Romy And Michele's High School Reunion. Huh? (yawn) (yawn) (rub eyes) (startled) Did you say High school reunion? High school reunion !!! yaay !!! I'm in - Thanks Uncle Turq, I was so sad that I was being ignored, not anymore.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
Right on, in fact most of the Gurus are trend setters. Vaj misses the point or intentionally misrepresents. The truth is always same, the techniques well known. When a Guru is new on scene he might have to point to scriptures, existing Gurus and lineages to create the trust in seekers hence all this drama with MMY, SBS, Gurudev and what not. However they are not bound to all this, they in a way use these to announce themselves and after the seekers finds the love and trust in the Guru, the Guru eventually throws all the scriptures, lineages and his Guru out of the door and introduces his own techniques. The same techniques repackaged like the old wine in a new bottle. The Guru understands the goal oriented greedy nature of the human mind and its need to feel special. So the Guru will repackage the truth and the techniques with new names and will refer to his/her techniques as the greatest or special or even refer himself or herself as the greatest avatar. But these are all tricks, techniques or devices used to wakeup, to point to the inner Guru. Most seekers are mature and eventually can see through the Guru's function but the infantile ones like Barry and Vaj are stuck with in a rut with these outer tools and techniques. They feel cheated by the Guru and are hell bent on revenge the rest of their lives. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Sorry Vaj, complete BS. The Universe does not require some authentic transmission and lineage for self realization, or teaching. That imo is a Buddhist Ego Trip. That is why US Buddhists are so ineffective, always fussing with their made up credentials instead of making spiritual progress. To even try and pass judgment on Maharishi from a deluded fool such as yourself is laughable. You oughta continue with all of your buddhist tom-foolery. It keeps your head full of useless information and prevents you making any progress. Enjoy! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On May 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: Perhaps a useful question is this: just how deep does the purity of the teaching have to be to ensure that a meditator has a correct experience of TM, or some other technique. From what teachers told me, there seem to be two elements. A mantra, and the correct way to use it, which is the right start of meditation, and then everything mostly takes care of itself. The simple answer is it needs to be an intact line with an appropriate delivery method. We now know two things: 1. Maharishi was NOT authorized by Swami Brahmananda to teach nor was he trained in how to do so. 2. Puja diksha is an authentic method for mantra initiation, but it requires a) an authentic teacher, which Mahesh was not, and b) an authentic means. The puja Maharishi created is a hodge podge of different goods, tacked onto one another. The important thing here is that we now know that the puja is largely derived from a student of Swami Brahmananda who was a poet and scholar. When Brahmananda was told of this poem, poem, he explicitly asked Mahesh to destroy it and throw it into the Ganges. Mahesh instead kept it and used it, against the direct wishes of his guru. So therefore we have an untrained and unauthorized student with no line of transmission using a made up, but very clever device to fool the unwary and to promote his own cause(s). The further fact that Mahesh's teaching is in direct opposition to SBS's closes this case. Verdict: phony guru with phony initiation ceremony, against the direct wishes of his guru...and millions of fooled customers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: On Behalf Of emptybill Richard, Calm down and consider the facts long demonstrated here on FFL. Vaj is a classic newsgroup troll ... someone whose only purpose is to cause everyone else to argue, to provoke readers to an emotional reaction and to disrupt normal on-topic discussion. Please check the description of this group on its home page. Nothing Vaj posts is anything other than on topic, according to that. What you're saying is that Vaj posts things you don't like. Vaj trolls here, along with Barry, strictly due to Rick choosing to allow it. He seems quite amused by their behaviors. As are we. Because the fish seemingly have no choice as to whether to bite or not. They are locked into attachment behaviors that run their lives. All that we do is dangle one of the attachments in front of them, and they don't just bite, they *leap* onto the hook. *And* in very predictable ways. I don't know about Vaj, but my schtick is to pre-announce how the TM TBs are going to react, throw out the bait, and then wait for them to demonstrate that my prediction was accurate. What I think you don't like is that most of the time it works. I don't know about that, but I do know that I decided long ago that I'm not going to police FFL. I don't have the time, and it is not my nature to do so. There are enough FFL participants representing enough points of view that the whole thing is self-regulating. Every perspective is counter-balanced by some other. My interference would only upset the balance. My status as a participant is equal to everyone else's. Some agree with my point of view; others don't. I don't consider it to be more right than others' perspectives, and certainly don't want FFL to be filtered through it. Well said. On the other hand, the folks playing pile on to the latest Get Vaj Fest very much DO want the posts at FFL filtered through their own perspective. Interestingly enough, that perspective is to glorify and amplify those who push their buttons, as opposed to just ignoring them, or simply countering what they say by sticking to the content of what they post. Instead, the pile on crowd here at FFL seemingly *cannot* simply deal with the issues raised by critics. They *have* to attack the critics personally. In doing this, they tend to elevate them, as if they feel the need to make them seem like bigger enemies. Vaj isn't Just Another Guy With An Opinion, he's part of an enormous Buddhist conspiracy. If you made a list of the things I've been accused of, it would probably be longer than the list of things that Hitler has been accused of. :-) I keep pushing buttons because I'm hoping someday that most in the TMO will finally figure out that they embarrass only themselves and the org they're trying so desperately to defend by acting out this Gotta get the critic behavior. It's their *own* self importance that makes them characterize the critics they perceive as enemies in a larger than life fashion. They cannot allow lurkers to think that they've gotten this bent out of shape over Just Another Guy With An Opinion. They have to make it seem as if the guy is part of some huge conspiracy, or mentally ill, or whatever. People whose beliefs are strong have no need to consistently demonize those who challenge them. Their beliefs *are* strong, and they demonstrate that strength of belief by just laughing, or by dealing with the meat of the critical points being raised. What they *don't* do is embarrass themselves and the beliefs themselves by trying to get the critic. That's just stupid. Me, I continue to allow those prone to stupidity to demonstrate it on this forum. As I've said many times, if you're trying to make a point, *demonstrate* it, don't claim it. The pile on crowd never fails to demonstrate the behavior I am pointing out -- the compulsive need to attack and demonize those who disagree with them. I'm betting that most here know the difference between that and real belief.
[FairfieldLife] The fair game policy
There are many ludicrous things about the COS (Cult Of Scientology). The whole story of Xenu, for example. But IMO the thing that has done them the most damage, and may in fact bring them down eventually, is the policy that they first proudly proclaimed as part of their essential dogma, and now practice in secret, even though they claim that they don't. That is their policy of Fair Game, in which anyone who doubts or criticizes the COS is declared an enemy of the Church and is therefore subject to whatever is necessary to demonize, silence, or marginalize them. With the COS, this has taken the form of lawsuits, planting evidence in attempts to get its critics arrested, putting live rattlesnakes in critics' mail boxes, and much, much worse. THAT is not just belief, or the faith of True Believers. THAT is embarrassing, and the stuff of paranoia and destructive cult behavior. And THAT is what is going to eventually bring the COS organization down. My contention is that there is a similar policy in the TMO. It's not official, of course, and it's not written down anywhere, but anyone who has been an actual part of the organization knows that it exists, and that it's religiously practiced. TM teachers who chooses to leave the TMO are *not* just allowed to do so, as expressions of their own free will. They are first characterized as having something wrong with them (unstressing, or actual mental illness), and if they commit the Ultimate Sin and go public with their views, that's only the beginning. The TMO pursues them with lawsuits, and in public by consistently challenging their motives (by ascribing nefarious or profit-driven motives to them), their sanity, their reputations, and their credibility. Their former friends shun and diss them. It's the very essence of cult behavior, and IMO will be as destructive to the TMO in the long run as the COS's Fair Game policy will be to them. And the thing is IT'S JUST NOT NECESSARY. On Fairfield Life or in the press, everybody is Just Another Person Expressing An Opinion. *Consistent* attempts to demonize these Persons With Opinions and to try to characterize them as part of some organized conspiracy are perceived by most people on the planet as exactly what they are -- expressions of paranoia, self-importance, and out-of-control anger and attachment on the part of the people acting these behaviors out. But on another level, it seems that for the people acting these petty, high school vendettas out, they are very NECESSARY indeed. I would go so far as to say that those who have demonstrated a *consistent* need to demonize and dump on critics of TM and the TMO on this forum HAVE NO CHOICE. They couldn't stop this behavior if they tried. It's been demonstrated to them for so long, and by so many peers in the TMO, that they have come to think of it as normal, and admirable. It's not. And it's not a sign of strength. It's a sign of weakness. And that weakness is going to eventually bring down the organization they're trying so hard to defend. So in a very real sense, IMO, the Gotta get the critics players on this forum are the worst enemies that the TMO has.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
Raunch, I don't mean to be a stickler, but did you notice the little symbol on the bottom left of Superman's shirt. That is the symbol of the anti Superman. This photo is not what it seems. I haven't examined each Superhero's garb, but I am already finding some pretty significant inconsistencies. I think you may have been duped. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Marvel and DC comic heroes in the Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid raises the question, why did they need Navy Seals to do the takedown? [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gPxf-pFqS6M/Tcp_Js9N7sI/AJA/s2Yr6oI2v\ \ HA/s1600/superheroes-marvel-DC-comics-osama-bin-laden-raid-white-house-s\ \ ituation-room.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: On Behalf Of emptybill Richard, Calm down and consider the facts long demonstrated here on FFL. Vaj is a classic newsgroup troll ... someone whose only purpose is to cause everyone else to argue, to provoke readers to an emotional reaction and to disrupt normal on-topic discussion. Please check the description of this group on its home page. Nothing Vaj posts is anything other than on topic, according to that. What you're saying is that Vaj posts things you don't like. Vaj trolls here, along with Barry, strictly due to Rick choosing to allow it. He seems quite amused by their behaviors. As are we. Because the fish seemingly have no choice as to whether to bite or not. They are locked into attachment behaviors that run their lives. All that we do is dangle one of the attachments in front of them, and they don't just bite, they *leap* onto the hook. *And* in very predictable ways. I don't know about Vaj, but my schtick is to pre-announce how the TM TBs are going to react, throw out the bait, and then wait for them to demonstrate that my prediction was accurate. What I think you don't like is that most of the time it works. I don't know about that, but I do know that I decided long ago that I'm not going to police FFL. I don't have the time, and it is not my nature to do so. There are enough FFL participants representing enough points of view that the whole thing is self-regulating. Every perspective is counter-balanced by some other. My interference would only upset the balance. My status as a participant is equal to everyone else's. Some agree with my point of view; others don't. I don't consider it to be more right than others' perspectives, and certainly don't want FFL to be filtered through it. Well said. On the other hand, the folks playing pile on to the latest Get Vaj Fest very much DO want the posts at FFL filtered through their own perspective. Interestingly enough, that perspective is to glorify and amplify those who push their buttons, as opposed to just ignoring them, or simply countering what they say by sticking to the content of what they post. Instead, the pile on crowd here at FFL seemingly *cannot* simply deal with the issues raised by critics. They *have* to attack the critics personally. In doing this, they tend to elevate them, as if they feel the need to make them seem like bigger enemies. Vaj isn't Just Another Guy With An Opinion, he's part of an enormous Buddhist conspiracy. If you made a list of the things I've been accused of, it would probably be longer than the list of things that Hitler has been accused of. :-) I keep pushing buttons because I'm hoping someday that most in the TMO will finally figure out that they embarrass only themselves and the org they're trying so desperately to defend by acting out this Gotta get the critic behavior. It's their *own* self importance that makes them characterize the critics they perceive as enemies in a larger than life fashion. They cannot allow lurkers to think that they've gotten this bent out of shape over Just Another Guy With An Opinion. They have to make it seem as if the guy is part of some huge conspiracy, or mentally ill, or whatever. People whose beliefs are strong have no need to consistently demonize those who challenge them. Their beliefs *are* strong, and they demonstrate that strength of belief by just laughing, or by dealing with the meat of the critical points being raised. What they *don't* do is embarrass themselves and the beliefs themselves by trying to get the critic. That's just stupid. Me, I continue to allow those prone to stupidity to demonstrate it on this forum. As I've said many times, if you're trying to make a point, *demonstrate* it, don't claim it. The pile on crowd never fails to demonstrate the behavior I am pointing out -- the compulsive need to attack and demonize those who disagree with them. I'm betting that most here know the difference between that and real belief. There are people on this forum and in the TMO who are doing devoted in a 'Bhakti Yoga' way... And that devotion to the movement that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi created, and the techniques they received from him, and the puja, etc... They are devoted... I think they would like to be respected for their devotional ways; but then again, they don't really care, they are 'detatched' from what you say or do against their belief and their devotion... So, messing with them will get you no where, because the more you try to persuade them, the more they will pray for more devotion... So, there ya' go... R.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The fair game policy
Dear Turq, interesting critique. Different now from a decade or two ago around here (the TM Movement) is that meditating folks do not really want very much from the TM org any more. So there is not that leverage over people using 'that need to belong' over them. There is very little need for access. Fewer kids needing financial aid. Just a couple hundred getting money as financial aid from Howard Settle to be employed as full time practicing meditators in the domes. The lifer-staff people are a small circle. The lifer-staff are potentially the victims remaining who could be left vulnerable to spritual bullying. Generally there is no longer a need to meat out access to Maharishi or access to a powerful center. Most people of the old TM-movement have melted away. Yes, there is a goodwill around about meditating but, there are lots of options otherwise for spiritual progress now. The TM-movement is nearly irrelevant even in Fairfield, except that they facilitate a large group meditation up there, and still offer to teach a meditation to some in the general public. Yes there are some people hold up, like Bevan in Vedic City and some people around him. But not many. Some of the potential nuts who still would be inclined to terrorize people are around, but not many. As was described to me by one of Bevan's direct peers in the movement the other day, Bevan's lack of social skills is an essential problem still. However, over the years most of the real nuts have either died, drifted away, and in some cases got shunned by some of the better angels in the middle. TM is at a different point from the cult of Scientology but the similarities are instructive. Thanks. To be forewarned is to be fore-armed, as the olde saying goes. You've obviously seen a lot. I love you, -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: There are many ludicrous things about the COS (Cult Of Scientology). The whole story of Xenu, for example. But IMO the thing that has done them the most damage, and may in fact bring them down eventually, is the policy that they first proudly proclaimed as part of their essential dogma, and now practice in secret, even though they claim that they don't. That is their policy of Fair Game, in which anyone who doubts or criticizes the COS is declared an enemy of the Church and is therefore subject to whatever is necessary to demonize, silence, or marginalize them. With the COS, this has taken the form of lawsuits, planting evidence in attempts to get its critics arrested, putting live rattlesnakes in critics' mail boxes, and much, much worse. THAT is not just belief, or the faith of True Believers. THAT is embarrassing, and the stuff of paranoia and destructive cult behavior. And THAT is what is going to eventually bring the COS organization down. My contention is that there is a similar policy in the TMO. It's not official, of course, and it's not written down anywhere, but anyone who has been an actual part of the organization knows that it exists, and that it's religiously practiced. TM teachers who chooses to leave the TMO are *not* just allowed to do so, as expressions of their own free will. They are first characterized as having something wrong with them (unstressing, or actual mental illness), and if they commit the Ultimate Sin and go public with their views, that's only the beginning. The TMO pursues them with lawsuits, and in public by consistently challenging their motives (by ascribing nefarious or profit-driven motives to them), their sanity, their reputations, and their credibility. Their former friends shun and diss them. It's the very essence of cult behavior, and IMO will be as destructive to the TMO in the long run as the COS's Fair Game policy will be to them. And the thing is IT'S JUST NOT NECESSARY. On Fairfield Life or in the press, everybody is Just Another Person Expressing An Opinion. *Consistent* attempts to demonize these Persons With Opinions and to try to characterize them as part of some organized conspiracy are perceived by most people on the planet as exactly what they are -- expressions of paranoia, self-importance, and out-of-control anger and attachment on the part of the people acting these behaviors out. But on another level, it seems that for the people acting these petty, high school vendettas out, they are very NECESSARY indeed. I would go so far as to say that those who have demonstrated a *consistent* need to demonize and dump on critics of TM and the TMO on this forum HAVE NO CHOICE. They couldn't stop this behavior if they tried. It's been demonstrated to them for so long, and by so many peers in the TMO, that they have come to think of it as normal, and admirable. It's not. And it's not a sign of strength. It's a sign of weakness. And that weakness is going to eventually bring down the organization
Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Microsoft Really about to Buy Nokia for Over $80 Billion??
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:46 PM, cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: http://blog.inner-active.com/2011/05/is-microsoft-really-about-to-buy-nokia-for-over-80-billion/ It means Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and its superior software/UI will now be partnered, possibly exclusively, with the world's best mobile hardware. Yes, say what you want about Symbian, but Nokia knows how to make their phones. It also means that Microsoft will now have its ticket into all those places that know nothing (or close to nothing) about any iPhone or Android phone, and we are talking billions of people. Yes, Nokia reportedly still sells one million handsets a day! But neither uSoft nor Nokia activate the same areas religious areas in the brain as Apple does http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
On May 20, 2011, at 4:00 AM, turquoiseb wrote: As are we. Because the fish seemingly have no choice as to whether to bite or not. They are locked into attachment behaviors that run their lives. All that we do is dangle one of the attachments in front of them, and they don't just bite, they *leap* onto the hook. And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. I mean, imagine the absurdity of being attached to mere meditation!
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: There are people on this forum and in the TMO who are doing devoted in a 'Bhakti Yoga' way... And that devotion to the movement that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi created, and the techniques they received from him, and the puja, etc... They are devoted... I think they would like to be respected for their devotional ways; Why? Why would *their* beliefs need to be respected any more than the beliefs of anyone else? And how is presenting a different view a *lack* of respect? ...but then again, they don't really care, they are 'detatched' from what you say or do against their belief and their devotion... Simply not true. IF that were true, they wouldn't so consistently try to demonize those who present dif- ferent views to their own. I think you misread my post; what I'm *advocating* is a lack of attachment to one's beliefs, and a lack of lashing out at those who present different beliefs. That is NOT what is happening on Fairfield Life among the TM cultists. And yes, I call them cultists. Because of their *behavior*, not their beliefs. This fair game policy is pretty much *textbook* cult behavior, and as long as they indulge in it, cultists they are, and cultists they will remain. So, messing with them will get you no where, because the more you try to persuade them, the more they will pray for more devotion... So, there ya' go... You're starting to sound a little like a cultist yourself, Robert. I'm not trying to persuade them about ANYTHING. I am merely stating my honest opinions. At no point do I ask them to accept my opinion or change their own. They just react *as if* I had. That, too, is textbook cultist behavior.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. A Guru is born!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The fair game policy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Turq, interesting critique. Different now from a decade or two ago around here (the TM Movement) is that meditating folks do not really want very much from the TM org any more. So there is not that leverage over people using 'that need to belong' over them. So you've written all of these posts about being banned from the domes just for the fun of it, right? You never really *wanted* to belong when you reapplied, and when you write all these posts about the dome policies? :-) There is very little need for access. See my previous paragraph. Fewer kids needing financial aid. Just a couple hundred getting money as financial aid from Howard Settle to be employed as full time practicing meditators in the domes. The lifer-staff people are a small circle. The lifer-staff are potentially the victims remaining who could be left vulnerable to spritual bullying. Generally there is no longer a need to meat out access to Maharishi or access to a powerful center. Ahem. Weren't you the one who recently raved about the recent Paul Horn concert as a rarity, in that everyone was welcome? Aren't you...uh...contradicting yourself a bit here? Most people of the old TM-movement have melted away. Like gigantic ice elephants melting in the sun after a yagya in Vlodrop. I kinda like that image, but doesn't all that water and other fluids from the meltoff tend to muddy up the streets of Fairfield? :-) Yes, there is a goodwill around about meditating... Except from you, when you fire off one of your frequent posts putting down non-meditators. Just sayin'... ...but, there are lots of options otherwise for spiritual progress now. There always were. Then, as now, you just can't take advantage of them and still be considered On The Program. The TM-movement is nearly irrelevant even in Fairfield... And in the world at large. ...except that they facilitate a large group meditation up there, and still offer to teach a meditation to some in the general public. How long has it been since there has been an open intro lecture in Fairfield, at which members of the town have signed up to learn? Probably about the same length of time as in other cities around the world -- years. Yes there are some people hold up, like Bevan in Vedic City and some people around him. But not many. Some of the potential nuts who still would be inclined to terrorize people are around, but not many. As was described to me by one of Bevan's direct peers in the movement the other day, Bevan's lack of social skills is an essential problem still. However, over the years most of the real nuts have either died, drifted away, and in some cases got shunned by some of the better angels in the middle. All interesting to TM cultists, I guess, but I don't see how it's relevant to the Fair Game topic I bring up. It's the *rank and file* of the TM movement I'm talking about doing the demonization, not the people at the top. TM is at a different point from the cult of Scientology but the similarities are instructive. Thanks. To be forewarned is to be fore-armed, as the olde saying goes. You've obviously seen a lot. And, unlike some, I've tried to learn from all of it, whether I consider what I've seen positive or negative. That doesn't matter in terms of what you can learn from the experience. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: There are many ludicrous things about the COS (Cult Of Scientology). The whole story of Xenu, for example. But IMO the thing that has done them the most damage, and may in fact bring them down eventually, is the policy that they first proudly proclaimed as part of their essential dogma, and now practice in secret, even though they claim that they don't. That is their policy of Fair Game, in which anyone who doubts or criticizes the COS is declared an enemy of the Church and is therefore subject to whatever is necessary to demonize, silence, or marginalize them. With the COS, this has taken the form of lawsuits, planting evidence in attempts to get its critics arrested, putting live rattlesnakes in critics' mail boxes, and much, much worse. THAT is not just belief, or the faith of True Believers. THAT is embarrassing, and the stuff of paranoia and destructive cult behavior. And THAT is what is going to eventually bring the COS organization down. My contention is that there is a similar policy in the TMO. It's not official, of course, and it's not written down anywhere, but anyone who has been an actual part of the organization knows that it exists, and that it's religiously practiced. TM teachers who chooses to leave the TMO are *not* just allowed to do so, as expressions of their own free will. They are first characterized as having something wrong with them
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
You aren't above any of us Barry - and your two-faced routine, being a bastard in reality and a saint upon reflection, is getting really, really old. I agree with emptybill that you and Vaj are concern trolls, who have little interest in those here, except to stir things up. Someone like you who writes 2300 pages a year on different points of view definitely has an agenda to rile things up, and stay the center of attention. I guess if that's how you get off, go for it, though people will see (have seen) right through you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: There are people on this forum and in the TMO who are doing devoted in a 'Bhakti Yoga' way... And that devotion to the movement that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi created, and the techniques they received from him, and the puja, etc... They are devoted... I think they would like to be respected for their devotional ways; Why? Why would *their* beliefs need to be respected any more than the beliefs of anyone else? And how is presenting a different view a *lack* of respect? ...but then again, they don't really care, they are 'detatched' from what you say or do against their belief and their devotion... Simply not true. IF that were true, they wouldn't so consistently try to demonize those who present dif- ferent views to their own. I think you misread my post; what I'm *advocating* is a lack of attachment to one's beliefs, and a lack of lashing out at those who present different beliefs. That is NOT what is happening on Fairfield Life among the TM cultists. And yes, I call them cultists. Because of their *behavior*, not their beliefs. This fair game policy is pretty much *textbook* cult behavior, and as long as they indulge in it, cultists they are, and cultists they will remain. So, messing with them will get you no where, because the more you try to persuade them, the more they will pray for more devotion... So, there ya' go... You're starting to sound a little like a cultist yourself, Robert. I'm not trying to persuade them about ANYTHING. I am merely stating my honest opinions. At no point do I ask them to accept my opinion or change their own. They just react *as if* I had. That, too, is textbook cultist behavior.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
Barry said, I agree. If we weren't here, none of these people would be able to think of anything to say. :-) Try us. Get lost both of you for awhile and watch us wither on the vine. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On May 20, 2011, at 4:00 AM, turquoiseb wrote: As are we. Because the fish seemingly have no choice as to whether to bite or not. They are locked into attachment behaviors that run their lives. All that we do is dangle one of the attachments in front of them, and they don't just bite, they *leap* onto the hook. And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. I agree. If we weren't here, none of these people would be able to think of anything to say. :-) I mean, imagine the absurdity of being attached to mere meditation! Imagine the absurdity of being attached to a dead guy you never met. Yet we see it here every day.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
Vaj and Barry, in their infantile fascination with themselves, haven't figured our the difference between challenging ideas, and being a royal pain in the ass. Good luck boys, hopefully reading all of your fan mail, you can get a clue. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. A Guru is born!
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 20, 2011, at 4:00 AM, turquoiseb wrote: As are we. Because the fish seemingly have no choice as to whether to bite or not. They are locked into attachment behaviors that run their lives. All that we do is dangle one of the attachments in front of them, and they don't just bite, they *leap* onto the hook. And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. I agree. If we weren't here, none of these people would be able to think of anything to say. :-) I mean, imagine the absurdity of being attached to mere meditation! Imagine the absurdity of being attached to a dead guy you never met. Yet we see it here every day.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. Vaj, I can only surmise that you're joshing because if you're not, this would be very sad indeed.
[FairfieldLife] Speaking of trolling...
A friend of mine suggested at lunch today a boondoggle that I think would be hilarious if we had just had enough time to pull it off correctly. There are a bunch of Fundies who are convinced that The Rapture is gonna be tomorrow, right? Well, what we should do is start posting reports tomorrow on Twitter and Facebook and everywhere else we can think of, reporting that we've seen thousands of people float- ing up into the sky. Think how shitty it would make the Fundies feel to hear that the Rapture came and went, and they'd been Left Behind. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXuNpF6NVg
[FairfieldLife] Re: The fair game policy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Turq, interesting critique. Different now from a decade or two ago around here (the TM Movement) is that meditating folks do not really want very much from the TM org any more. So there is not that leverage over people using 'that need to belong' over them. So you've written all of these posts about being banned from the domes just for the fun of it, right? You never really *wanted* to belong when you reapplied, and when you write all these posts about the dome policies? :-) Dear Turq, Son, of course I am interested and hopeful. You don't live here so may be you see it differently. However, how they behave and what they do effects a lot of my friends and certainly is relevant to the larger Fairfield community if only in an economic sense. Hence, it is quite fair game to be interested in how it is going for them and to be interested in their welfare. And spiritually, I wish them well in the same way that I love you from where I live. I hope that they and you can succeed in your spirituality, the science seems to show that it would be good for the world. -Buck in FF There is very little need for access. See my previous paragraph. Fewer kids needing financial aid. Just a couple hundred getting money as financial aid from Howard Settle to be employed as full time practicing meditators in the domes. The lifer-staff people are a small circle. The lifer-staff are potentially the victims remaining who could be left vulnerable to spritual bullying. Generally there is no longer a need to meat out access to Maharishi or access to a powerful center. Ahem. Weren't you the one who recently raved about the recent Paul Horn concert as a rarity, in that everyone was welcome? Aren't you...uh...contradicting yourself a bit here? Most people of the old TM-movement have melted away. Like gigantic ice elephants melting in the sun after a yagya in Vlodrop. I kinda like that image, but doesn't all that water and other fluids from the meltoff tend to muddy up the streets of Fairfield? :-) Yes, there is a goodwill around about meditating... Except from you, when you fire off one of your frequent posts putting down non-meditators. Just sayin'... ...but, there are lots of options otherwise for spiritual progress now. There always were. Then, as now, you just can't take advantage of them and still be considered On The Program. The TM-movement is nearly irrelevant even in Fairfield... And in the world at large. ...except that they facilitate a large group meditation up there, and still offer to teach a meditation to some in the general public. How long has it been since there has been an open intro lecture in Fairfield, at which members of the town have signed up to learn? Probably about the same length of time as in other cities around the world -- years. Yes there are some people hold up, like Bevan in Vedic City and some people around him. But not many. Some of the potential nuts who still would be inclined to terrorize people are around, but not many. As was described to me by one of Bevan's direct peers in the movement the other day, Bevan's lack of social skills is an essential problem still. However, over the years most of the real nuts have either died, drifted away, and in some cases got shunned by some of the better angels in the middle. All interesting to TM cultists, I guess, but I don't see how it's relevant to the Fair Game topic I bring up. It's the *rank and file* of the TM movement I'm talking about doing the demonization, not the people at the top. TM is at a different point from the cult of Scientology but the similarities are instructive. Thanks. To be forewarned is to be fore-armed, as the olde saying goes. You've obviously seen a lot. And, unlike some, I've tried to learn from all of it, whether I consider what I've seen positive or negative. That doesn't matter in terms of what you can learn from the experience. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: There are many ludicrous things about the COS (Cult Of Scientology). The whole story of Xenu, for example. But IMO the thing that has done them the most damage, and may in fact bring them down eventually, is the policy that they first proudly proclaimed as part of their essential dogma, and now practice in secret, even though they claim that they don't. That is their policy of Fair Game, in which anyone who doubts or criticizes the COS is declared an enemy of the Church and is therefore subject to whatever is necessary to demonize, silence, or marginalize them. With the COS, this has taken the form of lawsuits, planting evidence in attempts to
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
On May 20, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Peter wrote: Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. Vaj, I can only surmise that you're joshing because if you're not, this would be very sad indeed. Wait till you get my bill.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: You aren't above any of us Barry - and your two-faced routine, being a bastard in reality and a saint upon reflection, is getting really, really old. LOL! Spit out my coffee on that one! [:))]
[FairfieldLife] Great insight from a British TV series on magic
I ran across the title The 50 Greatest Magic Tricks on my list of torrents and just couldn't resist, and so far it's just great, including performances by some of the greats. In one of the sequences on bending spoons, we get to see Uri Geller do it, but then another magician who stole Geller's trick and performed it many times says, One of the stranger consequences of doing this kind of illusion, this kind of work, is that I myself end being accused -- or you might say attributed -- of having psychic powers. And the funny thing is that it really doesn't matter if you then say, 'No, actually when I do it it's just a trick,' because people don't believe you anyway. Bingo.
[FairfieldLife] Loebsack sees bin Laden photos
Loebsack sees bin Laden photos U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack saw the gruesome photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse Thursday, and he immediately concluded that President Barack Obama was right to withhold them from public view. It's clear to me that if the photos were released, our troops would be in more jeopardy, and the chances of retaliation would be increased, he said. And it could put American citizens traveling abroad or living abroad in more danger as well. The Iowa Democrat was invited to view the photos at CIA headquarters because he is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. He was the only Iowa member of Congress to have the opportunity. He declined to describe the photos in detail. I think it's fair to say our troops did their job and did it well, he said of the shooting's results, which reportedly included a massive head wound. http://tinyurl.com/44huj8k
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
Nice technique Peter, though does Vaj recognize that you gave him an easy out? In any case, even a joke gets old after 5+ years. He'd never make it as a comedian. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@... wrote: Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. Vaj, I can only surmise that you're joshing because if you're not, this would be very sad indeed.
[FairfieldLife] Strauss-Kahn The Stats of Rape Accusations
I have done an, admittedly crude, statistical analysis of rape and sexual harassment accusations of rich and powerful men in politics. I was not interested in whether the accusations were true (they almost always are), but whether upon hearing the charges, the intelligentsia cast scorn upon the accused or the accusations. Conclusion: the more the accused tends towards conservative politics, the more we hear that it's 'The seriousness of the charges' that matters. Guilt is assumed. Conversely, the more the accused tends towards socialist politics, the more the women who make the accusations are scorned, vilified, attacked. Innocence is assumed. William Briggs, Statistician http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3908
[FairfieldLife] On a Positive Note- Jerry jarvis
Now that I can stop policing Vaj for the moment (don't worry folks we know his silence on topics that he claims to be an expert on but really isn't will not last long... oh yes, he will be back!), I just wanted to say to those who are interested that I saw Jerry last weekend at one of his knowledge meetings. His presentation of the reality of life from both knowledge and experience is better than ever. He is such a joy to be around. Very grounded, practical, positive, so unlike the heads of the movement we now have. Anyway, if you can ever get the chance to see him, I would recommend it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: On a Positive Note- Jerry jarvis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardnelson108 richardnelson108@... wrote: Now that I can stop policing Vaj for the moment... Although he doesn't. ...(don't worry folks we know his silence on topics that he claims to be an expert on but really isn't will not last long... oh yes, he will be back!), I just wanted to say to those who are interested that I saw Jerry last weekend at one of his knowledge meetings. His presentation of the reality of life from both knowledge and experience is better than ever. He is such a joy to be around. Very grounded, practical, positive, so unlike the heads of the movement we now have. Anyway, if you can ever get the chance to see him, I would recommend it. Did you notice that you could have said this without bashing Vaj? Did you notice how easily and effortlessly the Bashing Vaj came to you, and how easily and effortlessly and... dare I say it...mindlessly you performed it came to you? There is a name for that: cult thinking. If you had been able to tell the Jerry story without the Bashing Vaj story, that would have been one thing. You weren't able to. So it becomes another.
[FairfieldLife] If you're going to San Francisco...
...Don't try to get circumcised. More from good 'ole William Briggs: City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3913
[FairfieldLife] Re: On a Positive Note- Jerry jarvis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardnelson108 richardnelson108@ wrote: Now that I can stop policing Vaj for the moment... Although he doesn't. ...(don't worry folks we know his silence on topics that he claims to be an expert on but really isn't will not last long... oh yes, he will be back!), I just wanted to say to those who are interested that I saw Jerry last weekend at one of his knowledge meetings. His presentation of the reality of life from both knowledge and experience is better than ever. He is such a joy to be around. Very grounded, practical, positive, so unlike the heads of the movement we now have. Anyway, if you can ever get the chance to see him, I would recommend it. Did you notice that you could have said this without bashing Vaj? Did you notice how easily and effortlessly the Bashing Vaj came to you, and how easily and effortlessly and... dare I say it...mindlessly you performed it came to you? There is a name for that: cult thinking. If you had been able to tell the Jerry story without the Bashing Vaj story, that would have been one thing. You weren't able to. So it becomes another. You have a good point. However, on the other hand, he has taken up so much space on Fairfield Life for so long with disrespectful deliberate misinformation that it seemed appropriate. Perhaps I am wrong about that. You all can be the judge.
[FairfieldLife] Major community update on Maharishi Vedic Pandit Program
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:28:35 -0500 Subject: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS-- Invitation to a Special Event From: Dome Announcements owner-dom...@mum.edu Major community update on MAHARISHI VEDIC PANDIT PROGRAM in India, America, and Nepal Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome Thursday, May 26, 2011, 8 p.m. Raja John Hagelin and Dr. Bevan Morris With Special Guests: Brahmachari Dr. Girish Chandra Varma, B.Sc., L.L.B., B.Mus., Ph.D. Leader of educational institutions in India founded by Maharishi including Maharishi Ved Vigyan Vishwa Vidya Peetham Trust, which has trained over 50,000 Maharishi Vedic Pandits, Maharishi Vidya Mandir School System, with over 100,000 students and 152 branches in 16 states, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya, a state university of Madhya Pradesh with an enrollment of 70,000 students Raja Harris Kaplan, Raja of India, and a delegation of Indian educators Mr. Deepak Baskota, Chairman of the Nepal Maharishi Vedic Foundation, and former State Minister for Home Affairs, Government of Nepal Raja Kingsley Brooks, Raja of Nepal, and a delegation from Nepal Raja Wynne, Mayor of Maharishi Vedic City and Director of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit program in America Jai Guru Dev *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@mum.edu. Encourage your friends to sign up for DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS. Send an e-mail message to dome-l-requ...@mum.edu, and put the word subscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message.
[FairfieldLife] Big Day Tomorrow
The rapture flow chart: http://peasandcougars.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/will-you-be-raptured-flowchart/ http://goo.gl/gznkc
[FairfieldLife] Re: On a Positive Note- Jerry jarvis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardnelson108 richardnelson108@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardnelson108 richardnelson108@ wrote: Now that I can stop policing Vaj for the moment... Although he doesn't. ...(don't worry folks we know his silence on topics that he claims to be an expert on but really isn't will not last long... oh yes, he will be back!), I just wanted to say to those who are interested that I saw Jerry last weekend at one of his knowledge meetings. His presentation of the reality of life from both knowledge and experience is better than ever. He is such a joy to be around. Very grounded, practical, positive, so unlike the heads of the movement we now have. Anyway, if you can ever get the chance to see him, I would recommend it. Did you notice that you could have said this without bashing Vaj? Did you notice how easily and effortlessly the Bashing Vaj came to you, and how easily and effortlessly and... dare I say it...mindlessly you performed it came to you? There is a name for that: cult thinking. If you had been able to tell the Jerry story without the Bashing Vaj story, that would have been one thing. You weren't able to. So it becomes another. You have a good point. Thanks for getting that. However, on the other hand, he has taken up so much space on Fairfield Life for so long with disrespectful deliberate misinformation that it seemed appropriate. Let's pause for a moment on the word disrespectful, shall we? What is it about your beliefs, or the beliefs of *anyone*, that forces others to react to them with what *they* consider respect? Vaj is over the top. I disagree with him and his views often. The thing is, he's *OK* with that. It has never jeapordized our relationship as fellow human beings or as fellow seekers. I don't argue with him about the supposed supremacy of his view over mine, or try to assert the supposed supremacy of my views. I just don't give a shit about supremacy or any of that high school nonsense. I just have opinions. I give Vaj the right to have his. That does NOT mean that I can't poke fun at them from time to time. Similarly, I can poke fun at the beliefs of TB TMers from time to time. This does not mean that I have not at some point in time believed the same things. In fact I have, although I may be embarrassed at times to admit it. My having been there, done that makes my laughter and fun-poking more 'real' IMO. YMMV. Perhaps I am wrong about that. You all can be the judge. Some can't leave it at that. They have to try to pitch the jury, or sell their opinions to some imaginary judge. Isn't it a bit higher vibe to just tell your own fuckin' stories and believe the things that you believe and just Not Give A Shit what others believe? It's the need to sell your beliefs as correct or right that I question, along with the seemingly corollary need to sell those who believe otherwise as wrong. Low vibe. Barely evolved past amoebas. YMMV.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Olbermann's back, and as feisty as ever
you mean he didn't die? From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 9:51:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Olbermann's back, and as feisty as ever Olbermann is so full of himself. Talk about self-importance! From the HuffPo piece: At some point...it's occurred to me that the best place for me to start doing the news...would be at a place that's just in the news business and nothing else, he said. Just a company that's just news and we could kind of make every decision relying on that...and that had been at the back of my mind for a while. Uh-huh. I guess he hasn't looked at the CurrentTV schedule lately: http://current.com/schedule/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/19/keith-olbermann-on-letterman_n_864032.html l Like, obviously, Keith Olbermann, I just can't *wait* for MSNBC to try to sue him for still using the name Countdown. If MSNBC is going to sue him, it'll sue him, not try to sue him. But since Comcast, its new parent, owns 10 percent of CurrentTV, chances are it'll leave him be. And chances are Olbermann knows that. If he doesn't, he'll likely wait in vain, as will Barry. But I suspect Olbermann is a *lot* better informed and less prone to fantasy confrontation than Barry is.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Superhero Situation Room
G, I wanna know what that *A* stands for. From: raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 9:34:14 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Superhero Situation Room Marvel and DC comic heroes in the Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid raises the question, why did they need Navy Seals to do the takedown?
[FairfieldLife] YouTube - The Rapture
Practical advice for those expecting to be Raptured tomorrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmX-lZOYcVA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmX-lZOYcVAfeature=youtu.bet=53s feature=youtu.bet=53s
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'End of the World?'
Naaa, we've got another two years of that, at least! From: Robert babajii...@yahoo.com To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 9:38:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'End of the World?' Seems like the end of the world is upon us...? But, what world is coming to an end? Maybe it's the end of the 'Big Lie?'... Perhaps its the time, when the light has gotten the upper hand... And, the darknesses recedes on all sides, above and below... A time of personal enlightenment, and personal power... When the meek are inheriting the earth... From the fear-mongers, money grubbers and ego-spinners... The end of the forbodden power of darkness.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Big Day Tomorrow
On 05/20/2011 11:00 AM, PaliGap wrote: The rapture flow chart: http://peasandcougars.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/will-you-be-raptured-flowchart/ http://goo.gl/gznkc Take some old clothes and shoes and put them out in front of your house tomorrow. Works especially well if you are a well known atheist in your community. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of trolling...
Barry, your premis is not correct, there aren't a bunch of fundies expecting the rapture to happen tomorrow. Just a little handful, kind of like taters expecting to *pop* into CC like popcorn. The average *fundie* knows, no man knows the hour or day, only the Father in heaven. But knock yourself out. Call 911 and report a bunch of missing persons! Be sure to let us know what happens! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 6:22:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of trolling... A friend of mine suggested at lunch today a boondoggle that I think would be hilarious if we had just had enough time to pull it off correctly. There are a bunch of Fundies who are convinced that The Rapture is gonna be tomorrow, right? Well, what we should do is start posting reports tomorrow on Twitter and Facebook and everywhere else we can think of, reporting that we've seen thousands of people float- ing up into the sky. Think how shitty it would make the Fundies feel to hear that the Rapture came and went, and they'd been Left Behind. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXuNpF6NVg
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community, the nation, and the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the mission statement is different from the strategies employed to pursue that mission, and the strategies are different from the tactics followed to implement the strategies. This statement makes the usual mistake that most committees make, which is to fail to differentiate among those elements, and instead pile them all into one clusterfuck of a sentence. Craig knows better. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om, which (?) version is more read-able: Version I: Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals, by developing the potential of consciousnesswithin every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. Or, Version II: Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every
[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube - The Rapture
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Practical advice for those expecting to be Raptured tomorrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmX-lZOYcVA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmX-lZOYcVAfeature=youtu.bet=53s feature=youtu.bet=53s If you're gonna go, you could do worse than going out while listening to Leonard Cohen's song for the end of the world. Really. He's said as much in interviews. I really love his image of the end of the world as closing time in a sleazy bar. My kinda apocalypse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao0BdtZr2_M
Re: [FairfieldLife] Big Day Tomorrow
On 05/20/2011 11:00 AM, PaliGap wrote: The rapture flow chart: http://peasandcougars.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/will-you-be-raptured-flowchart/ http://goo.gl/gznkc And remember if you can't come up with a good joke about tomorrow it won't be the end of the world. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Big Day Tomorrow
A big earthquake is supposed to start the destruction in New Zealand on Saturday, at 6:00 PM. That means, we should start to hear about it tonight on Friday, 11:00 PM, according to a news story. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 05/20/2011 11:00 AM, PaliGap wrote: The rapture flow chart: http://peasandcougars.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/will-you-be-raptured-flowchart/ http://goo.gl/gznkc And remember if you can't come up with a good joke about tomorrow it won't be the end of the world. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life?
RE: [FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of turquoiseb Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 2:57 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world... Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life? I would stop working right now and go take a hike in the woods with the wife and dogs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: If you're going to San Francisco...
According to some sources, it actually doesn't hurt as much if the circumcision is done early after birth. Also, this ban is probably against the religious rights of certain groups, particularly those of the Jews. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: ...Don't try to get circumcised. More from good 'ole William Briggs: City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3913
[FairfieldLife] Re: If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
The minister who started this prediction is basically in it to get pulicity for himself and his church. However, if it doesn't happen tomorrow, a personal rapture or samadhi will happen sometime in the near future for everyone at the end of his or her life here on earth. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life?
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: If you're going to San Francisco...
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 3:03 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: If you're going to San Francisco... According to some sources, it actually doesn't hurt as much if the circumcision is done early after birth. As reported in an impartial survey of one-week-old babies. Also, this ban is probably against the religious rights of certain groups, particularly those of the Jews. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: ...Don't try to get circumcised. More from good 'ole William Briggs: City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3913
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
Vaj, I can only surmise that you're joshing because if you're not, this would be very sad indeed. Vaj: Wait till you get my bill. What happens to all the money?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
Mike Dixon: G, I wanna know what that *A* stands for. President Bush's democracy agenda, which Obama once scornfully rejected, has now been adopted as Obama's own: 'Barack Obama, Neocon?' By John Hinderaker Powerline, May 19, 2011 http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/029062.php
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT Richard, I hate to say it, but I think you just re-charged Vaj's batteries. raunchydog: Richard called Vaj on two of his favorite lies... Maybe it's time for Vaj to explain why he enabled the Muckpo of Shamballa.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
Raunch duped? Say it ain't so. Sal On May 20, 2011, at 6:32 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Raunch, I don't mean to be a stickler, but did you notice the little symbol on the bottom left of Superman's shirt. That is the symbol of the anti Superman. This photo is not what it seems. I haven't examined each Superhero's garb, but I am already finding some pretty significant inconsistencies. I think you may have been duped. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Marvel and DC comic heroes in the Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid raises the question, why did they need Navy Seals to do the takedown? [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gPxf-pFqS6M/Tcp_Js9N7sI/AJA/s2Yr6oI2v\ HA/s1600/superheroes-marvel-DC-comics-osama-bin-laden-raid-white-house-s\ ituation-room.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great insight from a British TV series on magic
turquoiseb: Great insight from a British TV series on magic... I studied with a guy who could turn huge rooms in convention centers gold, to the point where even the security guards saw it, but that never made me think he was enlightened, only that he could do cool things with light... From: Uncle Tantra Subject: Re: Two simple questions Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2003-03-16 13:29:48 PST
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
Sorry to not edit the below, but just wanted to emphasize the response ratio: one line vs spew. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: These ex-TM people who spent a decade or less in the TMO and then spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with their cult indoctrination make me scratch my head. You're not a TRUE cultist until you've spent at least three decades in the cult. What does it mean when you pronounce everyone else is a cultist while missing that you might have issues, yourself... What does it mean when current cultists feel the need to portray former cultists who are honest enough with themselves to realized they were a part of a cult and who still have some lingering curiosity about those who have never reached that point as having something *wrong* with them? I mean, there is a concerted attempt on this forum to portray anyone who still finds the machinations of current-day cultists fascinating from a curiosity standpoint as having something *wrong* with us. Our curiosity doesn't mean that we're still attached to the cult or its leader or its dogma the way the current-day cultists are, merely that we find those who still feel that way curious. As I suggested before, it's sorta like going to a high school reunion and running into people for whom high school was the high point of their lives. You've got yer popular kids (those who became TM teachers and worked for the TMO) who were members of all the right clubs and were voted Most likely to... and who still identify so strongly with that image of themselves that they attempt to pretend that they are still those same people, and not the owner of a car wash in Peoria. Then you've got yer folks who never fit it even back in high school (the ones who never became TM teachers, never did a lick of work for the TMO, but feel that they deserve being treated as if they did). They were members of the Debate Club, or the National Honor Society or some other group of dweebs, and none of the popular kids ever wanted to have anything to do with them. On some level they're *still* trying to get the popular kids to accept them as their equals, which is never going to happen. Even sadder, at every high school reunion there is someone like Ravi, who never even *went* to that high school, but is so desperate for attention that he attends its reunions anyway. It's all so Romy And Michele's High School Reunion. I'm just curious, that's all. High school (the TM movement) was not that big a part of my life, and certainly not on any level that fueled attachment. But I'm still fascinated by those for whom the attachment factor (and the seemingly corollary need to praise the similarly-attached and demonize those who got over it) is as present for them now as it was back in the heyday of TM's fleeting popularity. All I do is point out some of the silliness of the TM movement, past and present. There is more than enough of this silliness so that I never lack for material. It's not the silliness *itself* that fascinates me, but the *reactions* to it by those who've seemingly never realized how much allegiance and attachment they have for the silliness, and how much anger they have towards people who do nothing but point out that it's ...uh...silly.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Loebsack sees bin Laden photos
Alex Stanley: Loebsack sees bin Laden photos The files show that prisoner Abu Farajal al-Libi, al Qaeda's No. 3 and a close aide to bin Laden, first disclosed the terrorist master's special courier to the CIA. It was the agency's ability to find and track the messenger that ultimately led a team of Navy SEALs to bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed early on May 2... Washington Times: http://tinyurl.com/3r9cvos
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
sparaig: Sorry to not edit the below, but just wanted to emphasize the response ratio: one line vs spew. The guilty always scream the loudest. But, if Turq spent thirteen years in the TMO cult, as he has claimed, it was pretty dumb of him to quit the TMO to join the Lenz cult and serve another ten years. Atmananda often assured me that I was possessed by Negative Forces, that I was barely able to function in the real world, and that I was fortunate he did not drop me off at a mental institution. I met him in 1978, when I was seventeen... Newsgroups: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy Subject: Re: Rama book Date: Monday, July 25, 1994
[FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
Sal: Raunch duped? Say it ain't so. Obviously, it's a conspiracy to dupe Raunchy! Raunch, I don't mean to be a stickler, but did you notice the little symbol on the bottom left of Superman's shirt. That is the symbol of the anti Superman. This photo is not what it seems. I haven't examined each Superhero's garb, but I am already finding some pretty significant inconsistencies. I think you may have been duped.
[FairfieldLife] Parallel Universes
Here's an update to this concept. Parallel universes may be infinite. Hence, there may be infinite versions of you as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyrE9I8HNg
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
Says the guy who practically invented the concept. :) Lawson, I don't really think we need to revisit why the posting limit was implemented in the first place... do we? :) Sal On May 20, 2011, at 3:42 PM, sparaig wrote: Sorry to not edit the below, but just wanted to emphasize the response ratio: one line vs spew. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: These ex-TM people who spent a decade or less in the TMO and then spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with their cult indoctrination make me scratch my head. You're not a TRUE cultist until you've spent at least three decades in the cult. What does it mean when you pronounce everyone else is a cultist while missing that you might have issues, yourself... What does it mean when current cultists feel the need to portray former cultists who are honest enough with themselves to realized they were a part of a cult and who still have some lingering curiosity about those who have never reached that point as having something *wrong* with them? I mean, there is a concerted attempt on this forum to portray anyone who still finds the machinations of current-day cultists fascinating from a curiosity standpoint as having something *wrong* with us. Our curiosity doesn't mean that we're still attached to the cult or its leader or its dogma the way the current-day cultists are, merely that we find those who still feel that way curious. As I suggested before, it's sorta like going to a high school reunion and running into people for whom high school was the high point of their lives. You've got yer popular kids (those who became TM teachers and worked for the TMO) who were members of all the right clubs and were voted Most likely to... and who still identify so strongly with that image of themselves that they attempt to pretend that they are still those same people, and not the owner of a car wash in Peoria. Then you've got yer folks who never fit it even back in high school (the ones who never became TM teachers, never did a lick of work for the TMO, but feel that they deserve being treated as if they did). They were members of the Debate Club, or the National Honor Society or some other group of dweebs, and none of the popular kids ever wanted to have anything to do with them. On some level they're *still* trying to get the popular kids to accept them as their equals, which is never going to happen. Even sadder, at every high school reunion there is someone like Ravi, who never even *went* to that high school, but is so desperate for attention that he attends its reunions anyway. It's all so Romy And Michele's High School Reunion. I'm just curious, that's all. High school (the TM movement) was not that big a part of my life, and certainly not on any level that fueled attachment. But I'm still fascinated by those for whom the attachment factor (and the seemingly corollary need to praise the similarly-attached and demonize those who got over it) is as present for them now as it was back in the heyday of TM's fleeting popularity. All I do is point out some of the silliness of the TM movement, past and present. There is more than enough of this silliness so that I never lack for material. It's not the silliness *itself* that fascinates me, but the *reactions* to it by those who've seemingly never realized how much allegiance and attachment they have for the silliness, and how much anger they have towards people who do nothing but point out that it's ...uh...silly.
[FairfieldLife] Woman reading a letter
by Gabriel Metsu, 1665, Amsterdam http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12062.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
http://lighthousebaptistchapel.com/wp-content/uploads/rapture1.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: The minister who started this prediction is basically in it to get pulicity for himself and his church. However, if it doesn't happen tomorrow, a personal rapture or samadhi will happen sometime in the near future for everyone at the end of his or her life here on earth. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life?
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
You talkin to me bitch? Or just strokin your shtick? I never realized how important Vaj and you were as two great and important bodhisattva-like people. I say like because neither of you are Buddhists, just a couple of TM haters. But it was really Vaj who let us know how extraordinary you both were only here on FFL to remove our attachments like some rotten teeth and re-establish new, gleaming white veneers truth, freedom and the European way. So should we pray to you in your own Pure Land or just wait for you to enlighten us some more? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: On Behalf Of emptybill Richard, Calm down and consider the facts long demonstrated here on FFL. Vaj is a classic newsgroup troll ... someone whose only purpose is to cause everyone else to argue, to provoke readers to an emotional reaction and to disrupt normal on-topic discussion. Please check the description of this group on its home page. Nothing Vaj posts is anything other than on topic, according to that. What you're saying is that Vaj posts things you don't like. Vaj trolls here, along with Barry, strictly due to Rick choosing to allow it. He seems quite amused by their behaviors. As are we. Because the fish seemingly have no choice as to whether to bite or not. They are locked into attachment behaviors that run their lives. All that we do is dangle one of the attachments in front of them, and they don't just bite, they *leap* onto the hook. *And* in very predictable ways. I don't know about Vaj, but my schtick is to pre-announce how the TM TBs are going to react, throw out the bait, and then wait for them to demonstrate that my prediction was accurate. What I think you don't like is that most of the time it works. I don't know about that, but I do know that I decided long ago that I'm not going to police FFL. I don't have the time, and it is not my nature to do so. There are enough FFL participants representing enough points of view that the whole thing is self-regulating. Every perspective is counter-balanced by some other. My interference would only upset the balance. My status as a participant is equal to everyone else's. Some agree with my point of view; others don't. I don't consider it to be more right than others' perspectives, and certainly don't want FFL to be filtered through it. Well said. On the other hand, the folks playing pile on to the latest Get Vaj Fest very much DO want the posts at FFL filtered through their own perspective. Interestingly enough, that perspective is to glorify and amplify those who push their buttons, as opposed to just ignoring them, or simply countering what they say by sticking to the content of what they post. Instead, the pile on crowd here at FFL seemingly *cannot* simply deal with the issues raised by critics. They *have* to attack the critics personally. In doing this, they tend to elevate them, as if they feel the need to make them seem like bigger enemies. Vaj isn't Just Another Guy With An Opinion, he's part of an enormous Buddhist conspiracy. If you made a list of the things I've been accused of, it would probably be longer than the list of things that Hitler has been accused of. :-) I keep pushing buttons because I'm hoping someday that most in the TMO will finally figure out that they embarrass only themselves and the org they're trying so desperately to defend by acting out this Gotta get the critic behavior. It's their *own* self importance that makes them characterize the critics they perceive as enemies in a larger than life fashion. They cannot allow lurkers to think that they've gotten this bent out of shape over Just Another Guy With An Opinion. They have to make it seem as if the guy is part of some huge conspiracy, or mentally ill, or whatever. People whose beliefs are strong have no need to consistently demonize those who challenge them. Their beliefs *are* strong, and they demonstrate that strength of belief by just laughing, or by dealing with the meat of the critical points being raised. What they *don't* do is embarrass themselves and the beliefs themselves by trying to get the critic. That's just stupid. Me, I continue to allow those prone to stupidity to demonstrate it on this forum. As I've said many times, if you're trying to make a point, *demonstrate* it, don't claim it. The pile on crowd never fails to demonstrate the behavior I am pointing out -- the compulsive need to attack and demonize those who disagree with them. I'm betting that most here know the difference between that and real belief.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: You talkin to me bitch? Or just strokin your shtick? I never realized how important Vaj and you were as two great and important bodhisattva-like people. I say like because neither of you are Buddhists, just a couple of TM haters. But it was really Vaj who let us know how extraordinary you both were only here on FFL to remove our attachments like some rotten teeth and re-establish new, gleaming white veneers truth, freedom and the European way. So should we pray to you in your own Pure Land or just wait for you to enlighten us some more? This is what Jim had to say about Vaj/Turq earlier: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Sorry Vaj, complete BS. The Universe does not require some authentic transmission and lineage for self realization, or teaching. That imo is a Buddhist Ego Trip. That is why US Buddhists are so ineffective, always fussing with their made up credentials instead of making spiritual progress. To even try and pass judgment on Maharishi from a deluded fool such as yourself is laughable. You oughta continue with all of your buddhist tom-foolery. It keeps your head full of useless information and prevents you making any progress. Enjoy! It has nothing to do with your curiosity, about TM or cultism or anything else. It's your psychological sadism, fueled by a desperate need to feel superior to others, and marked by an extraordinary lack of self-knowledge. That TM is just a convenient context for your sick behavior is made crystal clear by the fact that your sadism isn't limited to TM-related issues. Right on. Barry draws criticism to himself precisely because he is a jerk and does enjoy hurting others to feel superior to them. This could be a bird watching forum and he'd do the same thing. He once boasted that he was in touch with his inner asshole. Despite the disturbing imagery that evokes, I agree completely, although instead of being just in touch, he appears to be deeply in love with that part of himself. And once again, our FFL Psychic has determined that there are those on this forum who criticize him, without ever reading their posts. He must be paranoid, psychic, or a hypocrite. I'll go with hypocrite. Or psychotic ? I think Barry and Vaj both have the mindset that if they are going to be miserable, which they are, one, it can't be due to anything they are doing or not doing, and two, if they are going to lead miserable lives, they will ensure everyone else around them will too. This idea that they are somehow opening the eyes of those who continue to practice TM is so laughable it is truly crazy.
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
The only bill you'll get is an empty one, proselytizer. Heh, Heh. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 20, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Peter wrote: Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: And so therefore we provide a great and important service: helping people wake up to their own attachments. Vaj, I can only surmise that you're joshing because if you're not, this would be very sad indeed. Wait till you get my bill.
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@... wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community, the nation, and the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the mission statement is different from the strategies employed to pursue that mission, and the strategies are different from the tactics followed to implement the strategies. This statement makes the usual mistake that most committees make, which is to fail to differentiate among those elements, and instead pile them all into one clusterfuck of a sentence. Craig knows better. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om, which (?) version is more read-able: Version I: Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals, by developing the potential of consciousnesswithin every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. Or,
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat May 14 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat May 21 00:00:00 2011 488 messages as of (UTC) Fri May 20 22:57:51 2011 50 authfriend jst...@panix.com 45 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 35 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 34 Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com 29 whynotnow7 whynotn...@yahoo.com 24 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 22 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 21 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com 21 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 20 raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com 16 seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 16 Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com 16 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 16 John jr_...@yahoo.com 12 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 12 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 11 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 11 merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com 11 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 9 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com 8 Ravi Yogi raviy...@att.net 5 sparaig lengli...@cox.net 5 Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com 5 Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com 4 richardnelson108 richardnelson...@yahoo.com 4 feste37 fest...@yahoo.com 4 Robert babajii...@yahoo.com 4 Peter drpetersutp...@yahoo.com 4 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com 3 PaliGap compost...@yahoo.co.uk 3 do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com 2 jpgillam jpgil...@yahoo.com 1 wayback71 waybac...@yahoo.com 1 pranamoocher no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 merlin vedamer...@yahoo.de 1 martyboi marty...@yahoo.com 1 guyfawkes91 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 wle...@aol.com Posters: 38 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: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community, the nation, and the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the mission statement is different from the strategies employed to pursue that mission, and the strategies are different from the tactics followed to implement the strategies. This statement makes the usual mistake that most committees make, which is to fail to differentiate among those elements, and instead pile them all into one clusterfuck of a sentence. Craig knows better. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om, which (?) version is more read-able: Version I: Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals, by developing the potential of consciousnesswithin every student through a higher educational system of
[FairfieldLife] Penglai Island
A mystical dwelling place of some Immortals. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/YuanJiang-Penglai_Island.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community, the nation, and the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the mission statement is different from the strategies employed to pursue that mission, and the strategies are different from the tactics followed to implement the strategies. This statement makes the usual mistake that most committees make, which is to fail to differentiate among those elements, and instead pile them all into one clusterfuck of a sentence. Craig knows better. Absolutely. The MUM Trustees if they had balls should have Craig Re-write that cluster fucker of a mission statement in to something that is readable. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om, which (?) version is more read-able:
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
Sorry to not edit the below, but just wanted to emphasize the response ratio: one line vs spew. Sal: Lawson, I don't really think we need to revisit why the posting limit was implemented in the first place... So, we could at least get in a word or two edgewise, and limit all the spew?
[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
Please check the description of this group on its home page. Nothing Vaj posts is anything other than on topic, according to that. What you're saying is that Vaj posts things you don't like... emptybill: So should we pray to you in your own Pure Land... Pure Land of Mukpo in Shamballa.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo
On May 20, 2011, at 9:10 PM, WillyTex wrote: Sorry to not edit the below, but just wanted to emphasize the response ratio: one line vs spew. Sal: Lawson, I don't really think we need to revisit why the posting limit was implemented in the first place... So, we could at least get in a word or two edgewise, and limit all the spew? As they say in Maine: Well, ayuh.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo
On May 20, 2011, at 9:13 PM, WillyTex wrote: Please check the description of this group on its home page. Nothing Vaj posts is anything other than on topic, according to that. What you're saying is that Vaj posts things you don't like... emptybill: So should we pray to you in your own Pure Land... Pure Land of Mukpo in Shamballa. The hidden valley in NNE coast of Cape Breton? ...
[FairfieldLife] Elvis and Queen Ratna of Nepal
1960 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49729.jpg
[FairfieldLife] KKK for Goldwater
1964 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49744.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Spike Jones, Marilyn Monroe, and Ken Murray
1952 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49782.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Tomorrow's big event
by Tom Tomorrow http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/story.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community, the nation, and the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the mission statement is different from the strategies employed to pursue that mission, and the strategies are different from the tactics followed to implement the strategies. This statement makes the usual mistake that most committees make, which is to fail to differentiate among those elements, and
Re: [FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
Hot Damn Buddy! You need a Savior! Just say *Yes* to Jesus! (was that predictable enough?) From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 12:57:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world... Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life?
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
Zippy's Mission Statement: http://www.dougsworld.com/zippy/yow.gif --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community, the nation, and the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the mission statement is different from the
[FairfieldLife] Re: If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
http://catholic-resources.org/Students/JohnHagee/rapture.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Hot Damn Buddy! You need a Savior! Just say *Yes* to Jesus! (was that predictable enough?) From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 12:57:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world... Â Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life?
Re: [FairfieldLife] KKK for Goldwater
Was that before they knew he was a Jew? From: Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 6:21:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] KKK for Goldwater 1964 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49744.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. One sentence! Version: Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If tomorrow really was the end of the world...
Obviously those aren't Texans, cause we're going up with our horses! From: Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 6:35:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: If tomorrow really was the end of the world... http://catholic-resources.org/Students/JohnHagee/rapture.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Hot Damn Buddy! You need a Savior! Just say *Yes* to Jesus! (was that predictable enough?) From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 12:57:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] If tomorrow really was the end of the world... Â Would you do anything different today than any other day? If so, haven't you kinda wasted your life?
[FairfieldLife] Dark Rishi II: Mahesh's downfall
Marshy's first enlightened one spoke thus: Maharishi never, to my eyes anyway, seemed, as an individual celestial or angelic in any way whatsoever—although it could (and did) seem as if one were in the presence of an archangel—but that was just the vibe I think [ROFLOL]. Maharishi was very much a biological man [no, so it isn't so!]. But his entire being, his entire existence, was IMO orchestrated by immortal intelligences which first made him glorious, brilliant, and near infallible, and then, when these same gods cruelly and gratuitously abandoned him (to the extent that they no longer continued to uphold his superior status in the universe—they at some point either were unable to do this, or they determined they were not going to do this), Maharishi was left to his vanity, immaturity, weakness, and corruption. [Towards the end, Maharishi lost his objectivity with regard to both himself, and reality—this at least is my reading of the spiritual downward spiral he and his Movement took, say, during the last 20 years of his life.] H.H. Robin Woodsworth Carlsen, (once enlightened Honey Badger) :-)
[FairfieldLife] End of the World theories
http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyle/End-of-the-world-theories.aspx?cp-documentid=28779397
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dark Rishi II: Mahesh's downfall
http://www.fantasygallery.net/iken/art_0_swimming-dragons.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Marshy's first enlightened one spoke thus: Maharishi never, to my eyes anyway, seemed, as an individual celestial or angelic in any way whatsoeveralthough it could (and did) seem as if one were in the presence of an archangelbut that was just the vibe I think [ROFLOL]. Maharishi was very much a biological man [no, so it isn't so!]. But his entire being, his entire existence, was IMO orchestrated by immortal intelligences which first made him glorious, brilliant, and near infallible, and then, when these same gods cruelly and gratuitously abandoned him (to the extent that they no longer continued to uphold his superior status in the universethey at some point either were unable to do this, or they determined they were not going to do this), Maharishi was left to his vanity, immaturity, weakness, and corruption. [Towards the end, Maharishi lost his objectivity with regard to both himself, and realitythis at least is my reading of the spiritual downward spiral he and his Movement took, say, during the last 20 years of his life.] H.H. Robin Woodsworth Carlsen, (once enlightened Honey Badger) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. One sentence! Version: Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to think critically and act effectively and ethically Scholarship that expands the domains of knowledge, expressed in all four areas of scholarship discovery, teaching and learning, integration, and application. Improved quality of life for the individual, the community,
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
Who needs Craig Pearson when better candidates are available? http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2008/07/rednecks.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. One sentence! Version: Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in each discipline and in the ability to
[FairfieldLife] Re: Penglai Island
The name sounds familiar. There's another real beach resort in the Philippines called Panglao, which is in an island called Bohol. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: A mystical dwelling place of some Immortals. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/YuanJiang-Penglai_Island.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. Having a clearly articulated mission statement gives one a template of purpose that can be used to initiate, evaluate, and refine all of one's activities. One sentence! Version: Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in health, happiness, and wisdom, and to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. Our unique educational programs fulfill a commitment to four broad areas of responsibility: Holistic development of students cultivation of consciousness, mind, body, and behavior Academic excellence training at the forefront of knowledge in
[FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
I don't know what they were looking at in the Situation Room, but whatever it was must have been a hair raising experience. [http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-05-07/AngtvFpoADv\ ByHwFhtwecfescoHhAiyjHcccwICtdaAvrvmseGdIlzvhqHsq/What_were_they_looking\ _at_in_the_situation_room_the_night_Osama_was_killed.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=\ AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQExpires=1305944406Signature=CIAK1rDGaIE46uAy%2B6Ja\ jaalBDc%3D] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Raunch, I don't mean to be a stickler, but did you notice the little symbol on the bottom left of Superman's shirt. That is the symbol of the anti Superman. This photo is not what it seems. I haven't examined each Superhero's garb, but I am already finding some pretty significant inconsistencies. I think you may have been duped. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Marvel and DC comic heroes in the Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid raises the question, why did they need Navy Seals to do the takedown? [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gPxf-pFqS6M/Tcp_Js9N7sI/AJA/s2Yr6oI2v\ \ \ HA/s1600/superheroes-marvel-DC-comics-osama-bin-laden-raid-white-house-s\ \ \ ituation-room.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] work in progress
http://bestcoolfun.blogspot.com/2011/05/awesome-art-work-in-progress.html?utm_source=wahoha.comutm_medium=referralutm_campaign=wahoha
[FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
Forbes solves White House Situation Room photo mystery. With 2.2 million views on Flickr and counting, the White House Situation Room photo is living up to all the adjectives. It's been called iconic, riveting, the defining photo of Barack Obama's presidency. It is the antithesis to the not-to-be released Osama bin Laden death photo. The White House Situation Room Internet Meme: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/hf45hfd/obama-playing-playstation#content --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Raunch, I don't mean to be a stickler, but did you notice the little symbol on the bottom left of Superman's shirt. That is the symbol of the anti Superman. This photo is not what it seems. I haven't examined each Superhero's garb, but I am already finding some pretty significant inconsistencies. I think you may have been duped. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Marvel and DC comic heroes in the Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid raises the question, why did they need Navy Seals to do the takedown? [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gPxf-pFqS6M/Tcp_Js9N7sI/AJA/s2Yr6oI2v\ \ HA/s1600/superheroes-marvel-DC-comics-osama-bin-laden-raid-white-house-s\ \ ituation-room.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] drug free zone
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p7OVNY98sBQ/TdHvEZXu0XI/BQ0/hRZ28mIEVec/s1600/Beautiful+Illustration+Artwork+%25283%2529.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. Having a clearly articulated mission statement gives one a template of purpose that can be used to initiate, evaluate, and refine all of one's activities. Unsuccessful or Inadequate Mission Statements will have these characteristics: 1 Uninspiring. 2 They are for the benefit of one person or party only. 3 They are unintelligible by outsiders. 4 They are full of trite or ordinary phrases. One sentence! Version: Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete knowledge of consciousness coupled with simple, natural, scientifically validated technologies for developing consciousness. These technologies are the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. This integrated approach develops students' ability to manage their lives successfully, to grow steadily in
[FairfieldLife] We're Not Broke, Just Twisted: Extreme Wealth Inequality in America (Video) | Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/were-not-broke-just-twisted-extreme-wealth-inequalit y-america/1305916387
[FairfieldLife] Re: Superhero Situation Room
Raunch, it didn't come through. But that's what you got me for. http://trompyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hair-raising-boy-under-sta\ tic-electricity-watching-himself-in-the-mirror.jpg http://trompyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hair-raising-boy-under-st\ atic-electricity-watching-himself-in-the-mirror.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: I don't know what they were looking at in the Situation Room, but whatever it was must have been a hair raising experience. [http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-05-07/AngtvFpoADv\ \ ByHwFhtwecfescoHhAiyjHcccwICtdaAvrvmseGdIlzvhqHsq/What_were_they_looking\ \ _at_in_the_situation_room_the_night_Osama_was_killed.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=\ \ AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQExpires=1305944406Signature=CIAK1rDGaIE46uAy%2B6Ja\ \ jaalBDc%3D] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: Raunch, I don't mean to be a stickler, but did you notice the little symbol on the bottom left of Superman's shirt. That is the symbol of the anti Superman. This photo is not what it seems. I haven't examined each Superhero's garb, but I am already finding some pretty significant inconsistencies. I think you may have been duped. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Marvel and DC comic heroes in the Situation Room watching the Osama bin Laden raid raises the question, why did they need Navy Seals to do the takedown? [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gPxf-pFqS6M/Tcp_Js9N7sI/AJA/s2Yr6oI2v\ \ \ \ HA/s1600/superheroes-marvel-DC-comics-osama-bin-laden-raid-white-house-s\ \ \ \ ituation-room.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dark Rishi II: Mahesh's downfall
So now it can be told. This is how petty little western dzogchen boys play in the yard. I'm sure Namkhai finds you amazing. Bet you can show him what is what. Bet you even have an Italian nickname now. It would certainly be appropriate for a fawning Mukpo lover. . --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Marshy's first enlightened one spoke thus: Maharishi never, to my eyes anyway, seemed, as an individual celestial or angelic in any way whatsoeveralthough it could (and did) seem as if one were in the presence of an archangelbut that was just the vibe I think [ROFLOL]. Maharishi was very much a biological man [no, so it isn't so!]. But his entire being, his entire existence, was IMO orchestrated by immortal intelligences which first made him glorious, brilliant, and near infallible, and then, when these same gods cruelly and gratuitously abandoned him (to the extent that they no longer continued to uphold his superior status in the universethey at some point either were unable to do this, or they determined they were not going to do this), Maharishi was left to his vanity, immaturity, weakness, and corruption. [Towards the end, Maharishi lost his objectivity with regard to both himself, and realitythis at least is my reading of the spiritual downward spiral he and his Movement took, say, during the last 20 years of his life.] H.H. Robin Woodsworth Carlsen, (once enlightened Honey Badger) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote: Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. Good for what? Internal consumption? Clear guidance? Mission? Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a single sentence. -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence long. 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint. Having a clearly articulated mission statement gives one a template of purpose that can be used to initiate, evaluate, and refine all of one's activities. Unsuccessful or Inadequate Mission Statements will have these characteristics: 1 Uninspiring. 2 They are for the benefit of one person or party only. 3 They are unintelligible by outsiders. 4 They are full of trite or ordinary phrases. There, that is the movement's MUM mission statement. Pretty clearly the Movement's web page version of mission is to re-enforce people who are already tru-believers. It's for internal consumption mostly. One sentence! Version: Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system of Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a foundation coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for developing consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Feste37, you and I are some of the only tru-believers here who would like to see things work out for the movement. I hope they can succeed. Now, both of us can read the movement stuff and be right with it and understand what they are saying. But, I was taking a swing at reading it all as if I were an outsider looking in. You know, walking in the shoes of another. Trying to empathsize with an outsider looking in. I found the empathetic reading almost impossible. It is a bunch of cult-speak to anyone looking in. So, I then took a swing at distilling some core things down using their essential language that is there but slimming down the hyperbolic TM-movement-ese. Version I, was the straightest most secular I could get in one sentence using their words. Version II is the mission statement off the web page. Version II is un-readable cult. Version III was in between I and II editing in progress. I'm just trying to help. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education. Foremost among these ideals is developing the full potential of consciousness in every student to help students develop the ability to think and act in accord with the laws of nature and to live fulfilled and successful lives. This fulfills the long-sought goal of education: to produce fully developed individuals, citizens who can fulfill their own aspirations while promoting all good in society. We have pioneered a unique system of higher education, Consciousness-Based education, that systematically cultures students' full creative intelligence, the basis of learning. Consciousness-Based education gives traditional academic study the foundation of complete
[FairfieldLife] Re: On a Positive Note- Jerry jarvis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardnelson108 richardnelson108@... wrote: Now that I can stop policing Vaj for the moment (don't worry folks we know his silence on topics that he claims to be an expert on but really isn't will not last long... oh yes, he will be back!), Well he just fed, so it could be up to a week before he'll need another full meal.
