[FairfieldLife] Re: Ravi Shankar has passed.
He lived a long and successful life as a musician. It is also fortunate that he was able to pass down his knowledge of the sitar ragas to one of his daughters. So too, he was able to pass his musical talent to another famous daughter, Norah Jones. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@... wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/ravi-shankar-dead-dies-sitar-legend_n_2281885.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ME: Let me stop you there. Can you name a single person who could be expected to react in horror from a satiric piece on Christianity here? Name one pearl-clutcher, to use you apt image. A single person whose identification with the ideas contained in the myths of Christianity, is so complete that anything I wrote could be expected to react in the way your are trying to project here. One. I think the only such easily-offended and uptight person is herself, Curtis. What a bowling ball- sized burr she had up her ass today, trying to get her perceived enemies. She was so gone that she couldn't even get that my appreciation for the Brahma Shave poems them- selves was genuine and that I liked them, and that my response to her don't rip off my artwork post was a joke, intended to push her buttons. Instead, all that happened was that she got her buttons pushed. In a very real sense, Raunchy is the very pearl clutcher she describes. I argue that mine is exactly the opposite motivation than the one you propose here. I wrote it for people who share my sense of humor, I am an entertainer. Why they react the way they do, Curtis, is that they are not. They're stuck in the rut of being mean girls, and don't have either the creativity or the intent to try to say anything funny and get people to laugh. Thanks for the support. The thing is that Raunchy has been very funny here quite often. That marks her out from the pack in my opinion. I admit that she's *tried* to sound funny, but it almost never worked for me. Too much trying, too little actual funny. And she is not afraid to say is she likes something I have written, which occasionally happens to and I do appreciate that. True that. Can you imagine Judy ever getting the hate-burr out of her butt long enough to do that? :-) But this post had too much of the Church Lady vibe for my taste. Church Lady is too high-vibe, cuz one gets the feeling that the SNL Church Lady character actually believed the shit she was saying. With Raunchy, no way...it's all faux outrage, over something she doesn't even feel any connection to, the little baby Jeeezus myth. Speaking of which, this was the billboard erected in Times Square yesterday. It contains a sentiment similar to the one you've been expressing: [american atheists christmas billboard] http://i.huffpost.com/gen/89/thumbs/o-AMERICAN-ATHEISTS-CHRISTMAS-BI\ LLBOARD-570.jpg?6 http://i.huffpost.com/gen/89/thumbs/o-AMERICAN-ATHEISTS-CHRISTMAS-B\ ILLBOARD-570.jpg?6 I wouldn't characterize myself as an atheist, more of a Who *needs* a God kinda person. Occam's Razor is your friend -- if no God and no Savior are needed to explain the workings of the world, then chances are they aren't needed to explain those workings. The simplest explan- ation (no God, no need for one) is most likely the best explanation. But some prefer fairy tales and myths. So be it. Just as long as they don't try to sell them to me...
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12-12-2012
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Upon the eve of 12.12.2012: But anyone who stays to meditate will have something to boast about for the rest of their life and in the future will remember with pride the spiritual battle on this day. That every common meditator who meditates today with the group will become one-another's brother or sister, and all the meditators who have stayed at home will regret that they were not in the group meditation to gain honor upon this famous day of battle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQzEJ5w2KmY
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12-12-2012
12.12.2012 in the Morning. Prepare yourselves. Sit up. All things are ready if our minds are ready. You know your places, go in and Be there. The Unified Field will Be with you this day and forever after. -Buck in the Dome But even for the gold of the Whole World none of you meditators here would desert us! We depend on your help, then; and on victory as sure on 12.12.2012. -Buck Upon the eve of 12.12.2012: But anyone who stays to meditate will have something to boast about for the rest of their life and in the future will remember with pride the spiritual battle on this day. That every common meditator who meditates today with the group will become one-another's brother or sister, and all the meditators who have stayed at home will regret that they were not in the group meditation to gain honor upon this famous day of battle. -Buck in the Dome Om, we lucky few. Om that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in Leiden That do no work to-day! Nay, for tomorrow we are enough to do the lot. We would not meditate in the company of them who spurn our fellowship to meditate with us. 12.11.2012 For the few meditators the greater share of honour. Avert the danger now before it comes even tomorrow, Come Be all that you can Be with us along in the group meditation. Come today and tomorrow and join us. Come to meditation, -Buck in the Dome On 12/12/12, a very intense grouping of planets takes place all in Scorpio, with the Sun and Moon conjunct forming a new Moon (dark, waning, 15th tithi). The Sun, Moon , Mercury, Venus and Rahu will all be conjunct in Scorpio. This planetary combination brings up powerful intensity and can indicate explosive situations. 12.10.2012 Less than only two Days now to prepare our Selves finally for what is coming. It is coming. Maintain your good discipline of coherent meditation up to the end and let no able meditator break from our ranks now. We meditate together at 7:30am and 5pm. There will be no skulking and no standing this one out; but for a better world we do this now: Come sit here and take this flower... For Heaven's sake even in this world Om Shanti! !Om Jerusalem! Om Zion! Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu... ! Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti. For whether pure or impure or whether purity or impurity is permeating everywhere who soever opens themselves to this expanded vision of inner awareness gains inner and outer purity. Sit up and Be with us in meditation. See you in meditation in the Dome and beyond in the New Jerusalem coming when the end of these times comes in that new morning and the old calendar rolls over, -Buck 12.9.2012 Make this our determination known to all meditators of the movement; prepare the meditators for what work is now to ensue. 12.6.2012 General Orders: Meditators our campaigning is not over, as meditators we will move forward from here. A laying-down rest is not to be taken now but sit up and take watch in restful alertness and consolidate what gains we have made, secure our lines of supply, concentrate support of all our allies and all the laws of Nature in to our ranks. Together we will be moving forward in consciousness. Plan now on when you are going to do your next meditation. Set a time in your day now in synchrony with the whole group. Picket against that sin that will draw and take you away from the group and skirmish aggressively against the counter-attack of all that is spiritually ignorant in the nay-sayer's sap. Attend to the group and meditate with discipline. Now is not the time to sleep. Stay alert and stay close. This we ask of you and all will be taken care of, -Buck in the Dome Tanks on streets of Egypt Capital. The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi left five dead and hundreds injured. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley I'm as dumb as Curtis when it comes to understanding Robin's posts, and that pic isn't helping any. Just sayin'... This will help you clear up this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAW75VnUj5E
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Vedic ObservatoryTM
The Maharishi Vedic Observatory allows one to gain the benefit of Nature's Intelligence: a life lived in accord with all the Laws of Nature. http://vedicobservatory.svr.com//index.html
[FairfieldLife] MAHARISHI IN CANADA 1963
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley I'm as dumb as Curtis when it comes to understanding Robin's posts, and that pic isn't helping any. Just sayin'... This will help you clear up this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAW75VnUj5E Am I a bad person for only being able to stand about three quarters of that before having to shut it off? In any event, Emily's post helped me figure it out. If the blue rabbit dies, it means Vishnu is pregnant.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Anna Netrebko in La Boheme
This is why I still love FFL. Because both this and the Divorce Dance gets posted here. I love how they swirl around each other in my neuroplasticity (-: Thank you all. Share From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Anna Netrebko in La Boheme Anna Netrebko in a scene from the movie version of La Boheme http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ud4d_anna-netrebko-puccini-la-boheme_music#.UMf-vKx35IQ
[FairfieldLife] Sunda posing?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/20627836
[FairfieldLife] 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
This was posted on Batgap forum yesterday: This came up in a comment on one of the Batgap interviews: Just relating this - take it however you care to...but I've been hearing from different sources that tonight is the beginning of the higher vibration of Light on the planet..and that all who open toward it will experience a profound opening of the heart...Movement in the other direction - of resistance to what is - will lead to anger and frustration..It's a choice..They said it was especially good to meditate or be in the Silence from now through the 24th..and let go into Love.
[FairfieldLife] Happy National Sound Check Day!
[FairfieldLife] for your good health and that of those you love
Just watched this for the first time. Vintage John Newton. Posting for anyone with any kind of ailments. For your good health and that of your loved ones. http://healthbeyondbelief.com/videos.html PS In the training last Saturday John explained that the prayers can be directed to Light, Divine Presence, Infinite Source, God, Being, etc. Not something or someone higher than us. But rather something or someone that we think is more inclusive of all that is.
[FairfieldLife] Re: for your good health and that of those you love
Interesting. Do you think that if, say, you sent your prayer to Infinite Source, but you should really have sent it to Divine Presence, would Infinite Source automatically redirect it to Divine Presence, or would it just be wasted? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Just watched this for the first time. Vintage John Newton. Posting for anyone with any kind of ailments. For your good health and that of your loved ones. http://healthbeyondbelief.com/videos.html PS In the training last Saturday John explained that the prayers can be directed to Light, Divine Presence, Infinite Source, God, Being, etc. Not something or someone higher than us. But rather something or someone that we think is more inclusive of all that is.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: I am isolating two paragraphs which illustrate why I am unlikely to feel understood by you. Me: I am left with a mysterious natural world and the wonder of my own conscious awareness with no word that pretends, falsely, to explain it all. It is the existential boldness of facing the absurdity of life,and then having faced it, creating my own meaning for my existence rather than putting on one of the mental suits off the rack. My lack of belief is beautiful to me, just as religious people hold their faith. But opposite, like in Superman's reverso world. OK. This seems to imply that once you held beliefs very close to your center, to your heart but you were disappointed, let down, it became apparent it was all lies and you had to fight hard to come to where you are now but not without great cost. It appears you have suffered for your beliefs and now you reject mightily the very things you nurtured at one time. Of course, I could be completely wrong, I'm just trying to work it out here. Me: My statement was a summation of Camus' Existentialism. It implies none of the the things you internally generated about how I was let down or disappointed. It implies no suffering by having come to this conclusion. But in your filter of seeing me, you believe they are implied or contained. My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. You are fitting me into your own narrative and I don't see myself in it. I suspect you would not make this assumption if we met personally. Writing is already a skewed perspective. But the spin is consistent and below we will see it again. Your millage obviously did vary. And I can respect that. As soon as you introduced the term hideously blasphemous in response to my first piece, I knew we were listening to different drummers. There are many ways to get to hope. Enjoy yours as I do mine. Anne Oh, yes, hope. Well, I haven't lost that yet so I don't have to get to it but I certainly respect those, like yourself, who are seeking it. Me: Do you see it? I never said I had either lost hope or was seeking it. My point was that we come to a perspective of hope in different ways, there was no reason to assume I was lacking in it or had lost it or now was seeking it. But it fit a story you are telling yourself about me, so you assumed it. But it leaves the real me out. I believe you are processing me through a story about me you are creating. So I don't feel it is likely that I will feel understood by you even if your intentions are good and you sincerely want to do so. Just like you don't get my humor, you don't get me. But I wouldn't try to make a case that you are missing much. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: Thanks for taking the time to express these thoughts. (I think) It is 55, let's please keep those slippery years from flying by any faster! Yes, I just turned 56 so I guess I've been breathing just a little longer than you have, but not by much. I wouldn't enjoy any of the feelings you described from reading my writing. I can't recommend your reading what I write after this post. Seriously. It is certainly not my intention to make anyone feel as you reacted. I believe you. But I will keep reading what you write because that is how I live life. I like to take it all in, within reason. You contain a lot of what life can dish out, you have walked a lot of miles and done a lot of things. You seem to be a man of this world, for sure. I love that part. Experiencing, experimenting, living, sweating, hurting, trying, stumbling - it's all important, it's all meaningful. The more cuts and scrapes and scars and detritus the better. Go for it, I do, and I know you have too. And you can't make me feel anything, that is all up to what I am made of so no sweat there. It is not your 'problem' if I felt the way I did. For me, I am as proud of the understanding I have forged through the years as Buck is about his dome thing. What I most objected to in both Raunchy and Dr. DA's posts was taking something that I value, my seeing myth as just that, and trying to turn the greatest intellectual accomplishment of my life into a superficial personality affliction. Fair enough, but what you say comes from inside of you so if they or I see your 'myth busting' as a personal fault line then that is another's perception but not necessarily your concern. However, I speak for myself only here, the busting of the myth carries with it some sense I have of negativity on your part and I don't know if it is anger, disappointment bitterness or
[FairfieldLife] Second objective accomplished...for now
Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
Me [Curtis]: ...My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. You are fitting me into your own narrative and I don't see myself in it. Very well written, but COMPLETE BULLSHIT, Curtis. Although you have turned your back on one set of beliefs, you have adopted another set; a Third Dreamer, still nowhere near the reality you crave. On the one hand, you are this gifted and joyous street musician, and near gourmet chef. But there is a falseness and ugliness that lies just beneath the surface, as WB said. It Just Don't Smell Right. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: I am isolating two paragraphs which illustrate why I am unlikely to feel understood by you. Me: I am left with a mysterious natural world and the wonder of my own conscious awareness with no word that pretends, falsely, to explain it all. It is the existential boldness of facing the absurdity of life,and then having faced it, creating my own meaning for my existence rather than putting on one of the mental suits off the rack. My lack of belief is beautiful to me, just as religious people hold their faith. But opposite, like in Superman's reverso world. OK. This seems to imply that once you held beliefs very close to your center, to your heart but you were disappointed, let down, it became apparent it was all lies and you had to fight hard to come to where you are now but not without great cost. It appears you have suffered for your beliefs and now you reject mightily the very things you nurtured at one time. Of course, I could be completely wrong, I'm just trying to work it out here. Me: My statement was a summation of Camus' Existentialism. It implies none of the the things you internally generated about how I was let down or disappointed. It implies no suffering by having come to this conclusion. But in your filter of seeing me, you believe they are implied or contained. My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. You are fitting me into your own narrative and I don't see myself in it. I suspect you would not make this assumption if we met personally. Writing is already a skewed perspective. But the spin is consistent and below we will see it again. Your millage obviously did vary. And I can respect that. As soon as you introduced the term hideously blasphemous in response to my first piece, I knew we were listening to different drummers. There are many ways to get to hope. Enjoy yours as I do mine. Anne Oh, yes, hope. Well, I haven't lost that yet so I don't have to get to it but I certainly respect those, like yourself, who are seeking it. Me: Do you see it? I never said I had either lost hope or was seeking it. My point was that we come to a perspective of hope in different ways, there was no reason to assume I was lacking in it or had lost it or now was seeking it. But it fit a story you are telling yourself about me, so you assumed it. But it leaves the real me out. I believe you are processing me through a story about me you are creating. So I don't feel it is likely that I will feel understood by you even if your intentions are good and you sincerely want to do so. Just like you don't get my humor, you don't get me. But I wouldn't try to make a case that you are missing much. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: Thanks for taking the time to express these thoughts. (I think) It is 55, let's please keep those slippery years from flying by any faster! Yes, I just turned 56 so I guess I've been breathing just a little longer than you have, but not by much. I wouldn't enjoy any of the feelings you described from reading my writing. I can't recommend your reading what I write after this post. Seriously. It is certainly not my intention to make anyone feel as you reacted. I believe you. But I will keep reading what you write because that is how I live life. I like to take it all in, within reason. You contain a lot of what life can dish out, you have walked a lot of miles and done a lot of things. You seem to be a man of this world, for sure. I love that part. Experiencing, experimenting, living, sweating, hurting, trying, stumbling - it's all important, it's all meaningful. The more cuts and scrapes and scars and detritus the better. Go for it, I do, and I know you have too. And you can't make me feel anything, that
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. I just finished a book I've been chewing on for a while called What Makes the Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite. Among our cognitive biases is our very strong unconscious one to assign a conscious agency behind random events. Some neuro scientists believe it is from the evolutionary advantage of always assuming a twig snap is a tiger cuz if you are wrong, so what, but if you are right... We do it automatically telling ourselves an instant story to explain that events not only had meaning, but that they were directed by an outside conscious agency. It is one of the reasons religious explanation feels so right to people. Deeply right. Irrefutably right. Just so damn right! But in studying the specific ways that we have cognitive gaps and biases we can begin to transcend our predisposition for taking the stories we create seriously without viewing them in a more artistic light. I am a fan of the mythology of Christmas with its images in the same nostalgic way I enjoy It's A Wonderful Life each year. When it gets weird is when a beautiful artistic myth is taken to be a factual truth about ultimate reality. It wasn't built for that, which is why it is so easy to satirize. Speaking of that I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ME: Let me stop you there. Can you name a single person who could be expected to react in horror from a satiric piece on Christianity here? Name one pearl-clutcher, to use you apt image. A single person whose identification with the ideas contained in the myths of Christianity, is so complete that anything I wrote could be expected to react in the way your are trying to project here. One. I think the only such easily-offended and uptight person is herself, Curtis. What a bowling ball- sized burr she had up her ass today, trying to get her perceived enemies. She was so gone that she couldn't even get that my appreciation for the Brahma Shave poems them- selves was genuine and that I liked them, and that my response to her don't rip off my artwork post was a joke, intended to push her buttons. Instead, all that happened was that she got her buttons pushed. In a very real sense, Raunchy is the very pearl clutcher she describes. I argue that mine is exactly the opposite motivation than the one you propose here. I wrote it for people who share my sense of humor, I am an entertainer. Why they react the way they do, Curtis, is that they are not. They're stuck in the rut of being mean girls, and don't have either the creativity or the intent to try to say anything funny and get people to laugh. Thanks for the support. The thing is that Raunchy has been very funny here quite often. That marks her out from the pack in my opinion. I admit that she's *tried* to sound funny, but it almost never worked for me. Too much trying, too little actual funny. And she is not afraid to say is she likes something I have written, which occasionally happens to and I do appreciate that. True that. Can you imagine Judy ever getting the hate-burr out of her butt long enough to do that? :-) But this
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D http://sn113w.snt113.mail.live.com/default.aspx#n=67171490fid=1fav=1mid=0e420a92-43fe-11e2-8eb2-00237de49116fv=1 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: This was posted on Batgap forum yesterday: This came up in a comment on one of the Batgap interviews: Just relating this - take it however you care to...but I've been hearing from different sources that tonight is the beginning of the higher vibration of Light on the planet..and that all who open toward it will experience a profound opening of the heart...Movement in the other direction - of resistance to what is - will lead to anger and frustration..It's a choice..They said it was especially good to meditate or be in the Silence from now through the 24th..and let go into Love.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: I am isolating two paragraphs which illustrate why I am unlikely to feel understood by you. Me: I am left with a mysterious natural world and the wonder of my own conscious awareness with no word that pretends, falsely, to explain it all. It is the existential boldness of facing the absurdity of life,and then having faced it, creating my own meaning for my existence rather than putting on one of the mental suits off the rack. My lack of belief is beautiful to me, just as religious people hold their faith. But opposite, like in Superman's reverso world. OK. This seems to imply that once you held beliefs very close to your center, to your heart but you were disappointed, let down, it became apparent it was all lies and you had to fight hard to come to where you are now but not without great cost. It appears you have suffered for your beliefs and now you reject mightily the very things you nurtured at one time. Of course, I could be completely wrong, I'm just trying to work it out here. Me: My statement was a summation of Camus' Existentialism. It implies none of the the things you internally generated about how I was let down or disappointed. It implies no suffering by having come to this conclusion. But in your filter of seeing me, you believe they are implied or contained. My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. You are fitting me into your own narrative and I don't see myself in it. I have no narrative that would imply what you are implying which seems to be that I have some agenda to present you as something you are not. I get the distinct impression you are trying to make it look like I am imposing something on you based on my need to do this which is based on - what? I suspect you would not make this assumption if we met personally. Writing is already a skewed perspective. You may be correct but I have not placed a value judgment on you or your beliefs. I don't know you but am trying to know you better because you put some interesting ideas out there. My purpose is not to get any handle on Curtis in some absolute way, just to figure out what was behind what you wrote and maybe why I felt the way I did. No big agenda. It's not like we're figuring out if we'll be suitable marriage partners or anything. But the spin is consistent and below we will see it again. No spin Curtis, just an honest attempt to think about what you put out there and have an intelligent discussion about it. Your millage obviously did vary. And I can respect that. As soon as you introduced the term hideously blasphemous in response to my first piece, I knew we were listening to different drummers. There are many ways to get to hope. Enjoy yours as I do mine. Anne Oh, yes, hope. Well, I haven't lost that yet so I don't have to get to it but I certainly respect those, like yourself, who are seeking it. Me: Do you see it? I never said I had either lost hope or was seeking it. Oh, then what you wrote that I highlighted in blue was something different than how I read it. I read that to mean that you were getting to hope meaning you were making your way and you were wishing me enjoyment in the getting there as well, whatever form that might take. But from what you say now it seems that you are are already at hope and that you wish that I could enjoy my being at hope as much as you do. Or something like that. My point was that we come to a perspective of hope in different ways, there was no reason to assume I was lacking in it or had lost it or now was seeking it. But it fit a story you are telling yourself about me, so you assumed it. I didn't assume, I read what you wrote but you say I misinterpreted what you wrote. No biggie. You are now clarifying that you were and are always hopeful, that you never lacked hope. But it leaves the real me out. Only you can be clear in what you write and then I have a better chance of leaving the real you in. You seem to be implying I am making things up on purpose about you but the blue sentence was not clear when I first read it. (Kind of like the blue rabbit.) I believe you are processing me through a story about me you are creating. Working it out, Curtis. But I get the vibe you aren't digging it so I will leave it. This will only turn into some sort of fight. You know who you are and what motivates you, how much hope you have or not so I'll just leave it at that. So I don't feel it is likely that I will feel understood by you even if your intentions are good and you sincerely want to do so. Just like you don't get my humor, you don't get me. But I wouldn't try to make a case that you are missing much. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. I just finished a book I've been chewing on for a while called What Makes the Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite. Among our cognitive biases is our very strong unconscious one to assign a conscious agency behind random events. Some neuro scientists believe it is from the evolutionary advantage of always assuming a twig snap is a tiger cuz if you are wrong, so what, but if you are right... We do it automatically telling ourselves an instant story to explain that events not only had meaning, but that they were directed by an outside conscious agency. It is one of the reasons religious explanation feels so right to people. Deeply right. Irrefutably right. Just so damn right! But in studying the specific ways that we have cognitive gaps and biases we can begin to transcend our predisposition for taking the stories we create seriously without viewing them in a more artistic light. I am a fan of the mythology of Christmas with its images in the same nostalgic way I enjoy It's A Wonderful Life each year. When it gets weird is when a beautiful artistic myth is taken to be a factual truth about ultimate reality. It wasn't built for that, which is why it is so easy to satirize. Speaking of that I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! Now if that isn't just the juiciest wiggling worm that was ever put on a fish hook and left to dangle out there I don't know what is. And you know he'll bite too, don't you? These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? Gosh Curtis, you are just loving this wayyy too much. Aren't you glad Christmas has given you such a ripe opportunity to go to town like this? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! Over the top now Curtis. You are becoming much clearer to me, after this little observational and colorful post, and we aren't even having a discussion. We don't need to, you're letting it all hang out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ME: Let me stop you there. Can you name a single person who could be expected to react in horror from a satiric piece on Christianity here? Name one pearl-clutcher, to use you apt image. A single person whose identification with the ideas contained in the myths of Christianity, is so complete that anything I wrote could be expected to react in the way your are trying to project here. One. I think the only such easily-offended and uptight person is herself, Curtis. What a bowling ball- sized burr she had up her ass today, trying to get her perceived enemies. She was so gone that she couldn't even get that my appreciation for the Brahma Shave poems them- selves was genuine and that I liked them, and that my response to her don't rip off my artwork post was a joke, intended to push her buttons. Instead, all that happened was that she got her buttons pushed. In a very real sense, Raunchy is the very pearl clutcher she describes. I argue that mine is exactly the opposite motivation than the one you propose here. I wrote it for people who share my sense of humor, I am an entertainer. Why they react the way they do, Curtis, is that
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
I should add that dipping into cosmology as I have been doing recently and the unplanned play of energies it depicts I don't buy into these astrological predictions at all. Life will blunder on and become only what we decide to make of it. We yearn to move towards goals and find it difficult to accept there isn't one but just life where we are at the present. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say?? Quite right, people should stop posting because Doctor Dumbarse wants to talk to his new friends without the inconvenience of having to ignore posts from people he doesn't like. I'm sure we'll all try not to have opinions that might conflict with yours, sir.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ravi Shankar has passed.
Didn't he do *Who Let the Dawgs Out?* From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ravi Shankar has passed. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/ravi-shankar-dead-dies-sitar-legend_n_2281885.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? You forget, Curtis, that Jim has the same super-dooper superpower that Robin and Judy have -- they just know things. Either that, or they're all crazy persons. :-) As for what we say to each other privately, as far as I can tell I last had any offline correspondence with you back on August 17th of this year. Perhaps they believe we get together in the secret recesses of cyberspace to fiendishly plot the demise of those we don't like because *that's what THEY do*, and they assume everyone else does, too. All in all, I think you should stick with crazy person. What else *but* a crazy person would come on a forum like this one, claim loudly and obnoxiously to be fully enlightened, embarrass themselves so thoroughly that they had to leave the forum, and then try to sneak back onto it under another alias, pretending not to be the same person? Jim's done that four or five times now. doctordumbass is just his latest attempt to pretend to be someone else. At least the latest name is the most accurate, so we can hope there has been progress in other areas as well. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anna Netrebko in La Boheme
Yeah, this is Anna Netrebko like we've never seen her. It's more than stage opera. There's more to the swirl than the whirl (vritti). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: This is why I still love FFL. Because both this and the Divorce Dance gets posted here. I love how they swirl around each other in my neuroplasticity (-: Thank you all. Share From: emptybill emptybill@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Anna Netrebko in La Boheme  Anna Netrebko in a scene from the movie version of La Boheme http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ud4d_anna-netrebko-puccini-la-boheme_\ music#.UMf-vKx35IQ
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ME: Let me stop you there. Can you name a single person who could be expected to react in horror from a satiric piece on Christianity here? Name one pearl-clutcher, to use you apt image. A single person whose identification with the ideas contained in the myths of Christianity, is so complete that anything I wrote could be expected to react in the way your are trying to project here. One. I think the only such easily-offended and uptight person is herself, Curtis. What a bowling ball- sized burr she had up her ass today, trying to get her perceived enemies. She was so gone that she couldn't even get that my appreciation for the Brahma Shave poems them- selves was genuine and that I liked them, and that my response to her don't rip off my artwork post was a joke, intended to push her buttons. Instead, all that happened was that she got her buttons pushed. In a very real sense, Raunchy is the very pearl clutcher she describes. I argue that mine is exactly the opposite motivation than the one you propose here. I wrote it for people who share my sense of humor, I am an entertainer. Why they react the way they do, Curtis, is that they are not. They're stuck in the rut of being mean girls, and don't have either the creativity or the intent to try to say anything funny and get people to laugh. Thanks for the support. The thing is that Raunchy has been very funny here quite often. That marks her out from the pack in my opinion. I admit that she's *tried* to sound funny, but it almost never worked for me. Too much trying, too little actual funny. And she is not afraid to say is she likes something I have written, which occasionally happens to and I do appreciate that. True that. Can you imagine Judy ever getting the hate-burr out of her butt long enough to do that? :-) But this post had too much of the Church Lady vibe for my taste. Church Lady is too high-vibe, cuz one gets the feeling that the SNL Church Lady character actually believed the shit she was saying. With Raunchy, no way...it's all faux outrage, over something she doesn't even feel any connection to, the little baby Jeeezus myth. Speaking of which, this was the billboard erected in Times Square yesterday. It contains a sentiment similar to the one you've been expressing: [american atheists christmas billboard] http://i.huffpost.com/gen/89/thumbs/o-AMERICAN-ATHEISTS-CHRISTMAS-BI\ LLBOARD-570.jpg?6 http://i.huffpost.com/gen/89/thumbs/o-AMERICAN-ATHEISTS-CHRISTMAS-B\ ILLBOARD-570.jpg?6 I wouldn't characterize myself as an atheist, more of a Who *needs* a God kinda person. Occam's Razor is your friend -- if no God and no Savior are needed to explain the workings of the world, then chances are they aren't needed to explain those workings. The simplest explan- ation (no God, no need for one) is most likely the best explanation. But some prefer fairy tales and myths. So be it. Just as long as they don't try to sell them to me... Amen to that. Back in the days when UK's Channel 4 was a decent TV station they used to do an alternative Christmas with things like send ups of the Queens speech done by Marge Simpson or Mahmoud Amindenijad. They would also show documentaries about the story of Christ done by this radical Bishop who seemed not to believe any of it. His last one that I saw deconstructed the whole myth about Bethlehem. The Romans, when they did a census, didn't have the whole country walking to one place to register, they were a bit more organised and had stations all over the place. The reason Jesus' parents (well, one of them) had to walk cross country was because of an old Testament prophecy that the messiah would be born in Bethlehem. So the storytellers moved him there because he was a likely candidate. Jesus was supposed to be the saviour of the Jews of course but he wasn't very good at it and after they had him crucified it left a kind of embarrassing gap about what he supposed to be here for if it wasn't what everyone thought. That's when the whole resurrection and him dying to forgive the world's sins was dreamt up, to try and make sense out of it later and make the original prediction worthwhile in some way. Virgin birth? Jesus' Mum was probably raped by a Roman soldier. Don't get upset girls, I'm just passing this on from a CofE Bishop. He didn't leave much of the story intact, God only knows why he's a Bishop but he still claimed that Jesus was sent to save us by God. I think the damage was done by then because that was the last
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
I'm with you on that. Despite all the new-age woo ideas and prophecies, like Harmonic Convergence, photon belts, pole shifts, Planet X, etc., ordinary mundane existence somehow keeps plodding along, day after day, like it always has. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: I should add that dipping into cosmology as I have been doing recently and the unplanned play of energies it depicts I don't buy into these astrological predictions at all. Life will blunder on and become only what we decide to make of it. We yearn to move towards goals and find it difficult to accept there isn't one but just life where we are at the present. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@ wrote: I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: for your good health and that of those you love
Ok, Snoodly Boo, you asked for it! In the workshop John said you could direct the prayer to Popcycle Stick and it would still work. Then he demonstrated. I told him that I would never see popcycle sticks in quite the same way again. But I'm guessing that it's good if you capitalize the first letters of whatever words you use (-: From: feste37 fest...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: for your good health and that of those you love Interesting. Do you think that if, say, you sent your prayer to Infinite Source, but you should really have sent it to Divine Presence, would Infinite Source automatically redirect it to Divine Presence, or would it just be wasted? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Just watched this for the first time. Vintage John Newton. Posting for anyone with any kind of ailments. For your good health and that of your loved ones. http://healthbeyondbelief.com/videos.html PS In the training last Saturday John explained that the prayers can be directed to Light, Divine Presence, Infinite Source, God, Being, etc. Not something or someone higher than us. But rather something or someone that we think is more inclusive of all that is.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
snip All in all, I think you should stick with crazy person.What else *but* a crazy person would come on a forum like this one... How long have you been here Barry? From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:24 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? You forget, Curtis, that Jim has the same super-dooper superpower that Robin and Judy have -- they just know things. Either that, or they're all crazy persons. :-) As for what we say to each other privately, as far as I can tell I last had any offline correspondence with you back on August 17th of this year. Perhaps they believe we get together in the secret recesses of cyberspace to fiendishly plot the demise of those we don't like because *that's what THEY do*, and they assume everyone else does, too. All in all, I think you should stick with crazy person. What else *but* a crazy person would come on a forum like this one, claim loudly and obnoxiously to be fully enlightened, embarrass themselves so thoroughly that they had to leave the forum, and then try to sneak back onto it under another alias, pretending not to be the same person? Jim's done that four or five times now. doctordumbass is just his latest attempt to pretend to be someone else. At least the latest name is the most accurate, so we can hope there has been progress in other areas as well. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: Over the top now Curtis. You are becoming much clearer to me, after this little observational and colorful post, and we aren't even having a discussion. We don't need to, you're letting it all hang out. First I appreciated your comments on the other post Anne. I can understand your wondering if I am projecting an agenda on you for noticing that your conclusions were a long way from what I wrote. It has me puzzled too when I read something like that from you. It skews as an oddly uncharitable view of me, but that is your business really. I don't know what is up with that and don't even have a speculation. And it didn't seem as if I convinced you that your conclusions were something you created in the first quote. In the second quote I understand your misunderstanding what I wrote that way so thanks for clarifying. Now for the quote above. Part of my job in schools is to create educational comedy dialogues. The writing process is free form at first, where I let it all hang out and don't sensor much for my intended audience. That comes later. Only about 1% of comedy material ever makes it into performance, so the generating process is prolific. I can't sensor and edit at the same time, they are completely different process in my mind. In fact many jokes come up because they are so wildly inappropriate. Only my GF gets to hear those when I generate routines for her. What I post on FFL are shitty first drafts of riffs spontaneously generated by whatever writing prompts I am using. I consider that in this writing space there are enough people who give me the freedom to let it hang out that it encourages me to post occasionally. It has been a valuable part of my creative life to post here. When I write satire I am first trying to make myself laugh. That is the only rule. People who share that sense of humor may enjoy it and those who don't predictably don't. After I post something there is often a flurry of posts designed to use what I wrote as a character analysis of me and it usually comes from people who are negatively predisposed toward me and view what I write as evidence that I am too much of something and not enough of something else. Reading those is my least favorite part of posting here, but I usually do. In my perfect world those posters would reduce it to not my cup of tea and leave off the psyco-spiritual analysis. But until I am elected Lord of the Universe I just have to suck it up. And so the cycle repeats. Do you watch the Simpsons or the Family Guy? Jon Stewart? Do you spend time listening to the latest stand up guys who get visibility on the comedy channel? With Canada's rich history of producing some of the best comedians in the world you must have many resources for comedy if you were interested. I study it and it affects the risks I am willing to take in my own comedy. I am willing to generate things many wont find funny to find what works on other people. I have my own limits too, I am not a fan of fart jokes. I don't dig racist humor. Much putdown humor leaves me cold. Humiliation humor doesn't do it for me. You said you loved Jim's booger story and even if it was not being used as a putdown toward me, that is not my preferred style of humor. The story made me feel bad for the guy. I am much more interested in targeting ideas than people. I believe that blasphemy is a victimless crime. I was schooled in my early reconstruction of my belief system by a wickedly funny person, Madeline O'hare. She made me laugh my way out of presupposed beliefs. It was the most remarkable experience of my life, the philosophical effect of humor. It is my ideal and although I may fall short, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn occasionally. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. I just finished a book I've been chewing on for a while called What Makes the Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite. Among our cognitive biases is our very strong unconscious one to assign a conscious agency behind random events. Some neuro scientists believe it is from the evolutionary advantage of always assuming a twig snap is a tiger cuz if you are wrong, so what, but if you are right... We do it automatically telling ourselves an instant story to explain that events not only had meaning, but that they were directed by an outside conscious agency. It is one of the reasons religious explanation feels so right to people. Deeply right. Irrefutably right. Just so damn right! But in studying the specific ways that we have cognitive gaps and biases we can begin to transcend our predisposition for taking the stories we create seriously without viewing them in a
[FairfieldLife] More Christmas Stories
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. Thought you'd like it. :-) snippus interruptus, cutting to the...uh...climax) Speaking of that [the mythology of Christmas] I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! While your version of the Christmas Story is far more entertaining than most, I have to log in as saying that it still sets off my inner Occam's Razor Detector a tad too much. The reason is that it riffs off of, but still relies on, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. That is, that there actually *was* a human-ghost get-it-on. While there may be some anecdotal evidence of women who said that they were raped by non-physical beings, there is not a lot of evidence of anyone getting knocked up as the result of such an astral assignation. So Occam's Razor tells me that there must be a simpler -- and thus more likely -- explanation for her pregnancy. My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. At this point Lem, the dim-witted but handsome and hunky stableboy next door starts looking better and better. So one day, while carpenter Joseph is off cutting wood instead of springing it, Mary sneaks next door and gets it on with Lem. You may assume that this indiscretion repeated itself or that it was a one-afternoon stand, depending on how religious you are, but eventually it resulted in Mary getting good and knocked up. So she's gotta tell Joe. What to do, what to do? Should Mary tell him the truth, and make him feel even shittier about his wilted willy than he already does? So she thinks, Maybe I'll spare him all that pain and just make up some outlandish story about getting knocked up by God. Voila, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. I like this theory because it kinda leaves Joseph a nice, if cuckolded, guy and Mary is easy to develop compassion for because she was trying to spare his feelings. Plus, it suits the Occam's Razor the simplest explanation is the most likely explanation criterion. The only problem with this theory is that now we've got to develop a whole mythology around Lem. It was *his* genes that went on to become Jesus and change the world, after all. Isn't it time Lem had his own church?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Very weird this latest exchange. All because I pointed out the implications of claiming that a young woman in the Mideast got knocked up by a ghost. The first blasphemy was imposed on the science of biology. Funny thing, the Bible meticulously lays out Jesus' lineage from Joseph as proof of his special prophesy fulfilling status. What crazy talk is that? Did the Holy Spirit first acquire some genetic material from... Busier than Marley's Ghost on Christmas eve. But I have a prediction from my woo woo space. There will be a name change for a poster coming soon here at FFL. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? You forget, Curtis, that Jim has the same super-dooper superpower that Robin and Judy have -- they just know things. Either that, or they're all crazy persons. :-) As for what we say to each other privately, as far as I can tell I last had any offline correspondence with you back on August 17th of this year. Perhaps they believe we get together in the secret recesses of cyberspace to fiendishly plot the demise of those we don't like because *that's what THEY do*, and they assume everyone else does, too. All in all, I think you should stick with crazy person. What else *but* a crazy person would come on a forum like this one, claim loudly and obnoxiously to be fully enlightened, embarrass themselves so thoroughly that they had to leave the forum, and then try to sneak back onto it under another alias, pretending not to be the same person? Jim's done that four or five times now. doctordumbass is just his latest attempt to pretend to be someone else. At least the latest name is the most accurate, so we can hope there has been progress in other areas as well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Voter Frustration Over Politicians
JR, bingo! Yes, we are broke and raising taxes on the *rich*, back to Clinton era levels, will only run the Government an extra 8-9 days a year. Big deal, whoop-ti-do! CBO also agrees, raising those taxes, could also have the effect of more job loss, compounding the problem of less government revenue. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. What I don't get is that everybody on the left said that the *Bush tax cuts* were only for the rich and did nothing for the middle class or the poor, yet now they scream at the thought of their taxes going back to what Clinton raised them to, except on the so called *rich*, which they demand. Entitlement spending is what's driving our debt and that is what needs to be dealt with. It seems that everybody has their hand out wanting their free Obama phone, free Hovaround, free abortions and birth control , you name it, somebody expects the tax payer to buy it for them. Whatever happened to the concept of personal responsibility?If something is worth having, it's worth working for. I remember a very smart president that said in his inauguration speech,*ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.* It's time we start living that again. No way the government should be bailing ANYBODY out. That means banks, industries, companies, social groups,ethnic groups and individuals. As long as the government can play Santa Claus, the concept of *land of the free and home of the brave* is doomed. Merry effin Christmas!;) From: John jr_...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Voter Frustration Over Politicians Mike, Let's be honest. We're broke. That's what Boehner said today. http://news.yahoo.com/gops-boehner-says-obama-slow-walking-cliff-talks-180429101.html If that's the case, why don't the Republicans raise the taxes on the rich? JR --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: But isn't that what Clinton wanted? Remember the good 'ol days of government prosperity? Raising taxes on the *rich*, back to Clinton levels, will only run the Gubment another 8 days a year. Let's screw everybody, especially the poor. It's time to stop subsidizing poverty. The more the government subsidizes poverty , the more of it we get. I'd like to see those earning below the poverty line paying MORE in taxes than those earning just  above that line. If we can discourage people from bad behavior like smoking, drinking ,driving and being comfortable in home and workplace, through higher taxes, then we should do the same for being lazy. Tax the *F* out of those able, but unwilling, to work. From: John jr_esq@... To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:13 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Voter Frustration Over Politicians  It should be clear to everyone by now that the Republicans are not going to approve any higher tax rate for the wealthy. As such, they will let the Bush Tax Cut legislation expire. And, we'll be stuck with paying higher income taxes beginning on January 1, 2013. http://news.yahoo.com/voter-disdain-spreads-fiscal-cliff-looms-085417763--finance.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@ wrote: I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D Do you have a link that works ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Ah... the Egypto-fluvial response. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: When did you stop beating your wife, Alex? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Have you spent any time figuring out why you're triggered by B and C? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Christmas Stories
I think you were writing this as I was riffing on a similar thing. In Catholic theology the immaculate conception is not about Mary being a virgin, but being uniquely born without original sin and therefor able to bear Jesus. So the jury is still out on Joseph's mojo. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. Thought you'd like it. :-) snippus interruptus, cutting to the...uh...climax) Speaking of that [the mythology of Christmas] I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! While your version of the Christmas Story is far more entertaining than most, I have to log in as saying that it still sets off my inner Occam's Razor Detector a tad too much. The reason is that it riffs off of, but still relies on, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. That is, that there actually *was* a human-ghost get-it-on. While there may be some anecdotal evidence of women who said that they were raped by non-physical beings, there is not a lot of evidence of anyone getting knocked up as the result of such an astral assignation. So Occam's Razor tells me that there must be a simpler -- and thus more likely -- explanation for her pregnancy. My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. At this point Lem, the dim-witted but handsome and hunky stableboy next door starts looking better and better. So one day, while carpenter Joseph is off cutting wood instead of springing it, Mary sneaks next door and gets it on with Lem. You may assume that this indiscretion repeated itself or that it was a one-afternoon stand, depending on how religious you are, but eventually it resulted in Mary getting good and knocked up. So she's gotta tell Joe. What to do, what to do? Should Mary tell him the truth, and make him feel even shittier about his wilted willy than he already does? So she thinks, Maybe I'll spare him all that pain and just make up some outlandish story about getting knocked up by God. Voila, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. I like this theory because it kinda leaves Joseph a nice, if cuckolded, guy and Mary is easy to develop compassion for because she was trying to spare his feelings. Plus, it suits the Occam's Razor the simplest explanation is the most likely explanation criterion. The only problem with this theory is that now we've got to develop a whole mythology around Lem. It was *his* genes that went on to become Jesus and change the world, after all. Isn't it time Lem had his own church?
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: I'm with you on that. Despite all the new-age woo ideas and prophecies, like Harmonic Convergence, photon belts, pole shifts, Planet X, etc., ordinary mundane existence somehow keeps plodding along, day after day, like it always has. According to Benjamin Creme 21.12.12 will be another cold day in Britain. If you live in Australia it will probably be sunny.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Have you spent any time figuring out why you're triggered by B and C? Perhaps he isn't in favor of nitwits in general, and the members of gotta-blame-Maharishi-for-my-miserable-life in which C is the President and B the Vice President in particular ?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Voter Frustration Over Politicians
John ,the voters that put Republicans in their seats, put them their to hold the line on taxes, not to do El Presidente's bidding. Remember the consequences of *read my lips, no new taxes*? Bush made the same mistake Reagan made, he believed the Democrats when they begged *if you'll only agree to a little more taxes, we'll agree to much less spending*. Well ,they agreed to more taxes and the dems NEVER came through with their promises of less spending. What's the old saying, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ,shame on me! If Republicans agree to higher taxes, there will be hell to pay from their voters. From: John jr_...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Voter Frustration Over Politicians --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: It should be clear to everyone by now that the Republicans are not going to approve any higher tax rate for the wealthy. As such, they will let the Bush Tax Cut legislation expire. And, we'll be stuck with paying higher income taxes beginning on January 1, 2013. http://news.yahoo.com/voter-disdain-spreads-fiscal-cliff-looms-085417763--finance.html Yeah. And then, let the Republicans look like fools if they argue *against lowering taxes* for the working class January 3rd. It's the best possible political outcome for Democrats. They get what they want by doing nothing while Republicans shoot themselves in the foot. http://youtu.be/gMuA8I2M5l0 The voters should realize by now that they should vote their Republican representatives OUT in the next election.
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Christmas Stories
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: I think you were writing this as I was riffing on a similar thing. That's just SO Woo Woo. Maybe what Jimbo meant when he talked about things we send each other privately was that we're in constant psychic communication. Either that or that our senses of humor are similarly warped. :-) In Catholic theology the immaculate conception is not about Mary being a virgin, but being uniquely born without original sin and therefor able to bear Jesus. So the jury is still out on Joseph's mojo. Catholic theology strikes me as a little light in the loafers there, dude. They're overlooking how easy it is for a person to be born without original sin. All they have to do is not be born Catholic, and thus become prey to all that guilt indoctrination. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. Thought you'd like it. :-) snippus interruptus, cutting to the...uh...climax) Speaking of that [the mythology of Christmas] I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! While your version of the Christmas Story is far more entertaining than most, I have to log in as saying that it still sets off my inner Occam's Razor Detector a tad too much. The reason is that it riffs off of, but still relies on, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. That is, that there actually *was* a human-ghost get-it-on. While there may be some anecdotal evidence of women who said that they were raped by non-physical beings, there is not a lot of evidence of anyone getting knocked up as the result of such an astral assignation. So Occam's Razor tells me that there must be a simpler -- and thus more likely -- explanation for her pregnancy. My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. At this point Lem, the dim-witted but handsome and hunky stableboy next door starts looking better and better. So one day, while carpenter Joseph is off cutting wood instead of springing it, Mary sneaks next door and gets it on with Lem. You may assume that this indiscretion repeated itself or that it was a one-afternoon stand, depending on how religious you are, but eventually it resulted in Mary getting good and knocked up. So she's gotta tell Joe. What to do, what to do? Should Mary tell him the truth, and make him feel even shittier about his wilted willy than he already does? So she thinks, Maybe I'll spare him all that pain
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Have you spent any time figuring out why you're triggered by B and C? Perhaps he is not particularily in favor of nitwits in general and the members of the gotta-blame-Maharishi-for-my-miserable-failure-in-life club in particular in which C is the President and B the Vice Presedent ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: I'm with you on that. Despite all the new-age woo ideas and prophecies, like Harmonic Convergence, photon belts, pole shifts, Planet X, etc., ordinary mundane existence somehow keeps plodding along, day after day, like it always has. According to Benjamin Creme 21.12.12 will be another cold day in Britain. If you live in Australia it will probably be sunny. Funny how clear he is on other people's wacky superstitions.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
I am not some ill wisher of yours, Mr. Martyr - you and Barry, always sprinting for Mount Golgotha every time someone looks sideways at you...LOL. I take you at your word, and you just don't strike me as Mr. Jokesey-Folksey, Nice Guy, Bluesey-Cruisey. Three of your recent, er, gems: My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. and, Yes I have a new set of beliefs about the world now and I like them better. But I do not have a conceptual framework for ultimate reality now. In that space that used to house the spiritual deal I now have a sign that says I don't know but I'm too busy creatively to care. and, I loves me some Christmas. It is an atheist version, but I don't let the bastard child of a rapist ghost interfere with my nostalgia wallowing.
[FairfieldLife] $2.4 million grant to study the T M program and PTSD in veterans
$2.4 million grant to study the Transcendental Meditation program and PTSD in veterans Maharishi University of Management 7 December 2012 Maharishi University of Management Research Institute in partnership with the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the effect of the Transcendental Meditation technique on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans. The randomized controlled clinical trial will compare the Transcendental Meditation program to prolonged-exposure treatment—a trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy considered to be the VA's gold standard. A third group will receive health education. The study will follow 210 subjects and will take four years to complete. ''There's a national crisis taking place with PTSD among the military returning from Afghanistan and Iraq,'' said MUM professor Sanford Nidich, the study's principal investigator. ''PTSD is a common, disabling, and costly condition among veterans, affecting 10 to 20 percent of this high-risk population.'' Two previous pilot studies conducted on PTSD and the experiences of veterans across the country suggest that the Transcendental Meditation program can have a significant impact on reducing PTSD. . . . Other investigators of the study include Dr. Tom Rutledge from the San Diego VA Medical Center, as well as Dr. Robert Schneider, Dr. John Salerno, Dr. Maxwell Rainforth, and Dr. Carolyn King from MUM. Consulting on the research will be psychiatrists Dr. Norman Rosenthal and Dr. James Brooks. The research team will also include Dr. Paul Mills, who received his PhD in physiology from MUM. © Copyright 2012 Maharishi University of Management
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I am not some ill wisher of yours, Mr. Martyr - you and Barry, always sprinting for Mount Golgotha every time someone looks sideways at you...LOL. I take you at your word, and you just don't strike me as Mr. Jokesey-Folksey, Nice Guy, Bluesey-Cruisey. Three of your recent, er, gems: My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. and, Yes I have a new set of beliefs about the world now and I like them better. But I do not have a conceptual framework for ultimate reality now. In that space that used to house the spiritual deal I now have a sign that says I don't know but I'm too busy creatively to care. Noticing this sentence also I was wondering what Curtis meant. Perhaps he was reffering to the copying of old Hillbilly-songs as he tries to sing in the streets ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
For me, wrt Curtis, its more the expression, I don't swim in your toilet, so please don't piss in my pool. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I am not some ill wisher of yours, Mr. Martyr - you and Barry, always sprinting for Mount Golgotha every time someone looks sideways at you...LOL. I take you at your word, and you just don't strike me as Mr. Jokesey-Folksey, Nice Guy, Bluesey-Cruisey. Three of your recent, er, gems: My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. and, Yes I have a new set of beliefs about the world now and I like them better. But I do not have a conceptual framework for ultimate reality now. In that space that used to house the spiritual deal I now have a sign that says I don't know but I'm too busy creatively to care. Noticing this sentence also I was wondering what Curtis meant. Perhaps he was reffering to the copying of old Hillbilly-songs as he tries to sing in the streets ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I am not some ill wisher of yours, Mr. Martyr - you and Barry, always sprinting for Mount Golgotha every time someone looks sideways at you...LOL. ME: So you are unaware that your posts to me are full of insults? Interesting lack of self reflection. DA: I take you at your word, ME: No you don't, nor would I expect you to. DA: and you just don't strike me as Mr. Jokesey-Folksey, Nice Guy, Bluesey-Cruisey. ME: I don't know what that could possibly mean but it definitely is not friendly. DA Three of your recent, er, gems: My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. ME: Not sure what the problem here is. I am describing my experience leaving spiritual beliefs behind. I believe that most spiritual beliefs are human constructs that have outlived their purpose. and, Yes I have a new set of beliefs about the world now and I like them better. But I do not have a conceptual framework for ultimate reality now. In that space that used to house the spiritual deal I now have a sign that says I don't know but I'm too busy creatively to care. ME: Again, not sure what your point is. I wrote that, yes, and that is how I feel. I don't know what the ultimate reality of life is and am skeptical of people who claim to. and, I loves me some Christmas. It is an atheist version, but I don't let the bastard child of a rapist ghost interfere with my nostalgia wallowing. ME: Those are the stripped down facts of the myth presented without the spin. I explained in a previous post why the term consensual should not be applied to this claimed encounter. And the story doesn't include her marriage to the Ghost afterwards. But although I reject the story as more than a fairly tale, it was part of my childhood and I still enjoy the images. The whole piece was a riff on how it is that an atheist like myself has a manger scene and I used it for a writing prompt. Sorry if it didn't entertain you. If you think it means I am not that weird string of made up adjectives that I never claimed to be, OK.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Very weird this latest exchange. All because I pointed out the implications of claiming that a young woman in the Mideast got knocked up by a ghost. Honestly, I think that the pile on Curtis fest is because a certain someone has spent so much time portraying you as the Ultimate Boogeyman. Her minions don't really have minds of their own, so they check you off on their internal lists as Bad Guy #1, too. They gleefully join her in dissing you when you're away, all to get strokes from Big Mama. And then you show up again. And they expect Big Mama to rip into you again, so that they can look on in rapt admiration and then applaud, as she expects them to. And it doesn't happen. She used up most of her posts of the week trying to rip an inoffensive twif a new asshole, and writing post after post after post after post saying that she was NOT reacting to anything said about her...NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT :-) So the minions feel that they have to fill the vacuum, and each of them begins to try to take you on in her absence, to curry favor with her and hopefully get more strokes from Big Mama. It's not really about you at all. Sure, they don't like you much, but it's *her* they're trying to show off for. Her and Robin. That's my assessment of the situation, anyway.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: For me, wrt Curtis, its more the expression, I don't swim in your toilet, so please don't piss in my pool. Me: You are going off the rails here. What is your pool, Christian myths, FFL? How does me expressing an opinion you don't share on a public forum piss in your pool? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I am not some ill wisher of yours, Mr. Martyr - you and Barry, always sprinting for Mount Golgotha every time someone looks sideways at you...LOL. I take you at your word, and you just don't strike me as Mr. Jokesey-Folksey, Nice Guy, Bluesey-Cruisey. Three of your recent, er, gems: My transition from belief to non belief was the direction of more truth and more joy, insight into life beyond fabricated constructs imposed on it from outside life itself. and, Yes I have a new set of beliefs about the world now and I like them better. But I do not have a conceptual framework for ultimate reality now. In that space that used to house the spiritual deal I now have a sign that says I don't know but I'm too busy creatively to care. Noticing this sentence also I was wondering what Curtis meant. Perhaps he was reffering to the copying of old Hillbilly-songs as he tries to sing in the streets ?
[FairfieldLife] Best/Worst media errors, corrections, and retractions of 2012
For those who are convinced that the noblest calling a human being can aspire to is to catch errors in other people's writing and correct them, this is your kinda article. It is just *full* of the best bloopers, BS, back-tracking, and bloativation of the year: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/197279/the-best-and-worst-media-errors-and-corrections-of-2012/ Perhaps we should call this the Ooopsie Report. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Tomorrow !
* Contact Us http://www.changebeginswithin.org/contact.html CHANGE BEGINS WITHIN [you are invited to AN HISTORIC NIGHT OF JAZZ] [Purchase Tickets] http://www.changebeginswithin.org/tickets.html#details Honoring Barbara and Ray Dalio Lisa and Dr. Mehmet Oz IN CONCERT herbie hancock wynton marsalis wayne shorter corinne bailey rae Esperanza Spalding Terri Lyne Carrington Hosted By david lynch george stephanopoulos PROCEEDS FROM THE BENEFIT WILL PROVIDE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAMS FOR: At-risk youth in underserved schools Veterans with PTS and their families Women and girls who are victims of violence, abuse and rape 6:00 PM Cocktail Reception 7:00 PM Concert and Conversation Dinner Celebration to Follow in the Allen Room Cocktail Attire PHOTO CREDITS Allen Room: Brad Feinknopf Herbie Hancock: Douglas Kirkland Wynton Marsalis: Clay McBride Wayne Shorter: Andrew Hurlburt Esperanza Spalding: Takuo Sato Terri Lyne Carrington: Phil Farnsworth
[FairfieldLife] Beyond the Noise: My Transcendental Meditation Journey by Dana Farley trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=flhsVnpBHZs
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
do I get to be secretary? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:24 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Have you spent any time figuring out why you're triggered by B and C? Perhaps he isn't in favor of nitwits in general, and the members of gotta-blame-Maharishi-for-my-miserable-life in which C is the President and B the Vice President in particular ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Christmas Stories
My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. This is what I mean, Barry, you are full of your fantasies. You, a perennially single guy, mention marriage *four times* in the imaginings above. You, who cannot sustain lasting relationships with women, are commenting on...MARRIAGE?! This is just like your fantasies on TM, which you abstained from quite a while ago. My (unasked for) advice? Stick to what'cha know. Otherwise, you just come across as a phony. Oh, wait. You already do. Anyway, clean up your act, and we'll all get along fine. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. Thought you'd like it. :-) snippus interruptus, cutting to the...uh...climax) Speaking of that [the mythology of Christmas] I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! While your version of the Christmas Story is far more entertaining than most, I have to log in as saying that it still sets off my inner Occam's Razor Detector a tad too much. The reason is that it riffs off of, but still relies on, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. That is, that there actually *was* a human-ghost get-it-on. While there may be some anecdotal evidence of women who said that they were raped by non-physical beings, there is not a lot of evidence of anyone getting knocked up as the result of such an astral assignation. So Occam's Razor tells me that there must be a simpler -- and thus more likely -- explanation for her pregnancy. My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. At this point Lem, the dim-witted but handsome and hunky stableboy next door starts looking better and better. So one day, while carpenter Joseph is off cutting wood instead of springing it, Mary sneaks next door and gets it on with Lem. You
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
LOL! waste of time for you, MJ, though probably treasurer, if you are indeed craving a position in that odious administration. As an honest person. you can at least bring a modicum of accountability to the ongoing proceedings. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: do I get to be secretary? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:24 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Have you spent any time figuring out why you're triggered by B and C? Perhaps he isn't in favor of nitwits in general, and the members of gotta-blame-Maharishi-for-my-miserable-life in which C is the President and B the Vice President in particular ?
[FairfieldLife] The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: do I get to be secretary? No, but perhaps Curtis will confer you the title Honourable Member for life ? Please remember that membership is evoked the day you have a checking.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: do I get to be secretary? No, but perhaps Curtis will confer you the title Honourable Member for life ? Please remember that membership is evoked the day you have a checking. Should have been *revoked* :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
Dear David well said-written my great companion - fellow sufferer who understands from the end of Process and Reality(Alfred North Whitehead) Peace and bliss and especially health in the coming holidays [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_vH-yYldppk/T6xyFsHNmlI/AD8/oUg8s_fyr\ fo/s1600/DSC_0503_small.jpg] in memory of Walking Together On Love's Dangerous Path- One day when our path took us to the top of a hill,we looked back, but the way whence we came was no more.Then we knew that our path was only good if we traveled forward paths started way back in the Warring States Period.of China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWgT3LbSt [http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/images/arbigimages/875e8a3d0d\ c88913c5f24f1c0507f614.jpg] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWgT3LbSt --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: I should add that dipping into cosmology as I have been doing recently and the unplanned play of energies it depicts I don't buy into these astrological predictions at all. Life will blunder on and become only what we decide to make of it. We yearn to move towards goals and find it difficult to accept there isn't one but just life where we are at the present. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@ wrote: I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
Dear David well said-written my great companion - fellow sufferer who understands from the end of Process and Reality(Alfred North Whitehead) Peace and bliss and especially health in the coming holidays [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_vH-yYldppk/T6xyFsHNmlI/AD8/oUg8s_fyr\ fo/s1600/DSC_0503_small.jpg] in memory of Walking Together On Love's Dangerous Path- One day when our path took us to the top of a hill,we looked back, but the way whence we came was no more.Then we knew that our path was only good if we traveled forward paths started way back in the Warring States Period.of China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWgT3LbSt [http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/images/arbigimages/875e8a3d0d\ c88913c5f24f1c0507f614.jpg] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWgT3LbSt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWgT3LbStE --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: I should add that dipping into cosmology as I have been doing recently and the unplanned play of energies it depicts I don't buy into these astrological predictions at all. Life will blunder on and become only what we decide to make of it. We yearn to move towards goals and find it difficult to accept there isn't one but just life where we are at the present. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@ wrote: I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club
OK I will agree to get my TM meditation checked as long as Barry does the checking procedure (he usta be one-a them TM guv'ners you know) will that count? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: do I get to be secretary? No, but perhaps Curtis will confer you the title Honourable Member for life ? Please remember that membership is evoked the day you have a checking. Should have been *revoked* :-)
[FairfieldLife] Golden Oldie Christmas
I didn't do a Christmas tune for this year and in case you missed it here is the latest offering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmllQDYRMI Here's my 2007 Christmas tune done with iClone 2.5 called California Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_ZNbdnROc In 2006 I created Have a Yozzle Yozzle Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yNYsJfJOA And last year I did a little trinket called Santa Music Box which will probably annoy the hell out of you as it plays the Yozzle tune in all 12 keys. :-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3864MqiW8SI One of the key parts of my relatives yearly Christmas other than Christmas Eve dinner (lentil soup which I have to fish the beef sausage out of), opening gifts that nobody really needs (at least we pared that way back), is our Christmas singalong where I play keyboards, my nephew guitar and others a few various instruments. My great niece who is hell bent at age 12 to be the next Taylor Swift and is talented enough to do just that has also joined in when visiting for Christmas. May your holidaze be melodious.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow !
Do all these people and musicians do TM? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow ! Contact Us CHANGE BEGINS WITHIN Honoring Barbara and Ray Dalio Lisa and Dr. Mehmet Oz IN CONCERT herbie hancock wynton marsalis wayne shorter corinne bailey rae Esperanza Spalding Terri Lyne Carrington Hosted By david lynch george stephanopoulos PROCEEDS FROM THE BENEFIT WILL PROVIDE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAMS FOR: At-risk youth in underserved schools Veterans with PTS and their families Women and girls who are victims of violence, abuse and rape 6:00 PM Cocktail Reception • 7:00 PM Concert and Conversation Dinner Celebration to Follow in the Allen Room Cocktail Attire PHOTO CREDITS Allen Room: Brad Feinknopf • Herbie Hancock: Douglas Kirkland • Wynton Marsalis: Clay McBride Wayne Shorter: Andrew Hurlburt • Esperanza Spalding: Takuo Sato • Terri Lyne Carrington: Phil Farnsworth
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sunda posing?!
How could a person not love FFL when there are cool posts like this? Thanks card, wonderful article. It's always a good day when I learn something new. PLUS...upon consulting my online Urban Dictionary I learned what twif means. However, UD definition cameafter this google listing: The World Is Fun. Which I think is way better than UD definition. How can a person not love google? I think I need to get out more (-: From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sunda posing?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/20627836
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: OK I will agree to get my TM meditation checked as long as Barry does the checking procedure (he usta be one-a them TM guv'ners you know) will that count? Let's close our eyes, making sure not to visualize the title credits of Baywatch, with all of those buxom babes bouncing down the beach in slow motion. [ After 30 seconds ] Let's open the eyes. It was easy? [ Whatever he says, answer, Yes, good, fine, etc.] Yes, good, fine, etc. Did you notice how easily and effortlessly the thoughts of Pamela Anderson's bouncing boobies came to you? That is how easily you should think the mantra. [ ? ] What's a mantra? Oh, it's that thing you used to think about when you were meditating. Not nearly as charming as boobies, eh? Good job. You're 'checked.' Go forth and meditate this effortlessly from now on. Jai Guru Hasselhoff. From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: do I get to be secretary? No, but perhaps Curtis will confer you the title Honourable Member for life ? Please remember that membership is evoked the day you have a checking. Should have been *revoked* :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: OK I will agree to get my TM meditation checked as long as Barry does the checking procedure (he usta be one-a them TM guv'ners you know) will that count? No sorry, he will make you think of BeerBoobs.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Best/Worst media errors, corrections, and retractions of 2012
There are some excellent ones in here. The one at the top from Fox news, reminds me of something Barry would say. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:36 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Best/Worst media errors, corrections, and retractions of 2012 For those who are convinced that the noblest calling a human being can aspire to is to catch errors in other people's writing and correct them, this is your kinda article. It is just *full* of the best bloopers, BS, back-tracking, and bloativation of the year: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/197279/the-best-and-worst-media-errors-and-corrections-of-2012/ Perhaps we should call this the Ooopsie Report. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club
Oh man that was hilarious! I haven't laughed that loud in a while - thanks Barry - I feel so much better now that I know I am meditating correctly - nex time maybe Curtis will check and I can time travel and get a glimpse of a 25 year old Sophia Loren. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:07 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: OK I will agree to get my TM meditation checked as long as Barry does the checking procedure (he usta be one-a them TM guv'ners you know) will that count? Let's close our eyes, making sure not to visualize the title credits of Baywatch, with all of those buxom babes bouncing down the beach in slow motion. [ After 30 seconds ] Let's open the eyes. It was easy? [ Whatever he says, answer, Yes, good, fine, etc.] Yes, good, fine, etc. Did you notice how easily and effortlessly the thoughts of Pamela Anderson's bouncing boobies came to you? That is how easily you should think the mantra. [ ? ] What's a mantra? Oh, it's that thing you used to think about when you were meditating. Not nearly as charming as boobies, eh? Good job. You're 'checked.' Go forth and meditate this effortlessly from now on. Jai Guru Hasselhoff. From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gotta-Blame-Maharishi-for-My-miserable-Life club --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: do I get to be secretary? No, but perhaps Curtis will confer you the title Honourable Member for life ? Please remember that membership is evoked the day you have a checking. Should have been *revoked* :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow !
I recall when Lynch did his first big hoo-hah that one celebrity mentioned that many of these people learned TM but don't practice it and only came out for the publicity. Gotta remind people you're still around or your PR folks will remind you to do so. It's all about marketing. I know many musicians who learned TM and other techniques too. Some practice regularly but the vast majority do not. Once the chakras are open there is no need to practice regularly as shakti will just flow through the chakras like water through a sieve. On 12/12/2012 11:05 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Do all these people and musicians do TM? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow ! Contact Us CHANGE BEGINS WITHIN Honoring Barbara and Ray Dalio Lisa and Dr. Mehmet Oz IN CONCERT herbie hancock wynton marsalis wayne shorter corinne bailey rae Esperanza Spalding Terri Lyne Carrington Hosted By david lynch george stephanopoulos PROCEEDS FROM THE BENEFIT WILL PROVIDE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAMS FOR: At-risk youth in underserved schools Veterans with PTS and their families Women and girls who are victims of violence, abuse and rape 6:00 PM Cocktail Reception • 7:00 PM Concert and Conversation Dinner Celebration to Follow in the Allen Room Cocktail Attire PHOTO CREDITS Allen Room: Brad Feinknopf • Herbie Hancock: Douglas Kirkland • Wynton Marsalis: Clay McBride Wayne Shorter: Andrew Hurlburt • Esperanza Spalding: Takuo Sato • Terri Lyne Carrington: Phil Farnsworth
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow !
Clint Eastwood is regular - you could tell in his speech at the RNC - or maybe he has just had his meditation checked by Barry and was thinking of Pam's boobs From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow ! I recall when Lynch did his first big hoo-hah that one celebrity mentioned that many of these people learned TM but don't practice it and only came out for the publicity. Gotta remind people you're still around or your PR folks will remind you to do so. It's all about marketing. I know many musicians who learned TM and other techniques too. Some practice regularly but the vast majority do not. Once the chakras are open there is no need to practice regularly as shakti will just flow through the chakras like water through a sieve. On 12/12/2012 11:05 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Do all these people and musicians do TM? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Tomorrow ! Contact Us CHANGE BEGINS WITHIN Honoring Barbara and Ray Dalio Lisa and Dr. Mehmet Oz IN CONCERT herbie hancock wynton marsalis wayne shorter corinne bailey rae Esperanza Spalding Terri Lyne Carrington Hosted By david lynch george stephanopoulos PROCEEDS FROM THE BENEFIT WILL PROVIDE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAMS FOR: At-risk youth in underserved schools Veterans with PTS and their families Women and girls who are victims of violence, abuse and rape 6:00 PM Cocktail Reception • 7:00 PM Concert and Conversation Dinner Celebration to Follow in the Allen Room Cocktail Attire PHOTO CREDITS Allen Room: Brad Feinknopf • Herbie Hancock: Douglas Kirkland • Wynton Marsalis: Clay McBride Wayne Shorter: Andrew Hurlburt • Esperanza Spalding: Takuo Sato • Terri Lyne Carrington: Phil Farnsworth
Re: [FairfieldLife] More Christmas Stories
Typical males - obsessed with their own organs, the functionality and size of these organs, whether women are faking it or not, and how they can get a virgin. Wait, am I reading too little into this? From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:09 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] More Christmas Stories --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. Thought you'd like it. :-) snippus interruptus, cutting to the...uh...climax) Speaking of that [the mythology of Christmas] I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! While your version of the Christmas Story is far more entertaining than most, I have to log in as saying that it still sets off my inner Occam's Razor Detector a tad too much. The reason is that it riffs off of, but still relies on, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. That is, that there actually *was* a human-ghost get-it-on. While there may be some anecdotal evidence of women who said that they were raped by non-physical beings, there is not a lot of evidence of anyone getting knocked up as the result of such an astral assignation. So Occam's Razor tells me that there must be a simpler -- and thus more likely -- explanation for her pregnancy. My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. At this point Lem, the dim-witted but handsome and hunky stableboy next door starts looking better and better. So one day, while carpenter Joseph is off cutting wood instead of springing it, Mary sneaks next door and gets it on with Lem. You may assume that this indiscretion repeated itself or that it was a one-afternoon stand, depending on how religious you are, but eventually it resulted in Mary getting good and knocked up. So she's gotta tell Joe. What to do, what to do? Should Mary tell him the truth, and make him feel even shittier about his wilted willy than he already does? So she thinks, Maybe I'll spare him all that pain and just make up some outlandish story about getting knocked up by God. Voila, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. I like this theory because it kinda leaves Joseph a nice, if cuckolded, guy and Mary is easy to develop compassion for because she was trying to spare his feelings. Plus, it suits the Occam's Razor the simplest explanation is the most likely explanation criterion. The only problem with this theory is that now we've got to develop a whole mythology around Lem. It was *his* genes that went on to become Jesus and change the world, after all. Isn't it time Lem had his own church?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
A Passion Play (abbreviated version) Curtis On The Cross, to Ravi: Thou puttest vinegar in my mouth. Barry, next to him, and upside down: Lick my butt-crack! Lick my butt-crack! Ravi: I'm gettin' the fuck outta here! Amen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
My goodness! Not only is it Be Nice Wednesday its also Oobee Doobee 12-12-12 when all the Forces of Light will zoom through all the people on Santa's Nice List and make us enlightened and fulfill all our desires. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now A Passion Play (abbreviated version) Curtis On The Cross, to Ravi: Thou puttest vinegar in my mouth. Barry, next to him, and upside down: Lick my butt-crack! Lick my butt-crack! Ravi: I'm gettin' the fuck outta here! Amen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
Re: [FairfieldLife] More Christmas Stories
No madam, it's quite healthy for males to have periodical sexual thoughts and fantasies but Barry shows abnormally unhealthy levels of these - his whole philosophy, shtick seems to be based on that - very stunted, twisted and sick almost - it doesn't look like he had any meaningful, healthy relationships with women, quite disrespectful - he makes me wanna throw up. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.comwrote: ** Typical males - obsessed with their own organs, the functionality and size of these organs, whether women are faking it or not, and how they can get a virgin. Wait, am I reading too little into this? -- *From:* turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:09 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] More Christmas Stories --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Wow that poster in NYC proved it really IS the Age of Enlightenment. Thanks for posting that. Thought you'd like it. :-) snippus interruptus, cutting to the...uh...climax) Speaking of that [the mythology of Christmas] I was considering how consensual the whole Holy Ghost hook-up was back in the day...I mean if a boss comes on to an employee we cry foul and bust him for coercion. I think the whole Mary story is ripe for a feminist retelling as a tragedy. What choice did she really have when the creepy uncle of the Triune God made a play for her? Did he during what must have been a fairly clumsy seduction remind her of what he did to the dinosaurs, or was it like the greatest Justin Bieber concert display but in the end he takes her back to the dressing room? Did he at least let her finish or was it just a typical wham bam thank you mam? Did she feel obliged to fake it to sooth his monstrous ego. Oh baby, that was divine! These are the questions that swirl around my head as I gaze on my nativity. Did Mary know what he son was headed for when she signed up her uterus for this project, or was it presented like a Hollywood script with a lot of pages at the end with TBD at the top? Did her youth and inexperience, her cultural deference to men limit her ability to ask how it all ends before she signed on? What if she had told him she had a headache that night, would he have been a gentleman? And having been around a few babies in my time, when Mary changed his diaper did even the Oxen rear up their heads and lumber out of the manger grunting damn that holy guacamole is nasty! While your version of the Christmas Story is far more entertaining than most, I have to log in as saying that it still sets off my inner Occam's Razor Detector a tad too much. The reason is that it riffs off of, but still relies on, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. That is, that there actually *was* a human-ghost get-it-on. While there may be some anecdotal evidence of women who said that they were raped by non-physical beings, there is not a lot of evidence of anyone getting knocked up as the result of such an astral assignation. So Occam's Razor tells me that there must be a simpler -- and thus more likely -- explanation for her pregnancy. My theory revolves around the somewhat curious fact that Mary is continually referred to as a virgin. This despite the fact that she's married to this older guy, Joseph. What's up with that? Are we to assume that Joseph didn't diddle Mary because he was psychically seeing Jesus coming and didn't want to mess with a good myth? Or is it more likely that Joseph, as nice a guy as he may have been, was a little weak in the willy. A bit of erectile dysfunction, if you get what I mean. Voila. The problem of Mary's lingering virginity is solved -- Joe just couldn't get it up. So what's a young married babe (and you've seen the paint- ings of Mary...she *was* a babe) to do? She's stuck in what was probably an arranged marriage with this old fuck, and because he can't get it up she's deprived of even the sensual benefits of marriage. At this point Lem, the dim-witted but handsome and hunky stableboy next door starts looking better and better. So one day, while carpenter Joseph is off cutting wood instead of springing it, Mary sneaks next door and gets it on with Lem. You may assume that this indiscretion repeated itself or that it was a one-afternoon stand, depending on how religious you are, but eventually it resulted in Mary getting good and knocked up. So she's gotta tell Joe. What to do, what to do? Should Mary tell him the truth, and make him feel even shittier about his wilted willy than he already does? So she thinks, Maybe I'll spare him all that pain and just make up some outlandish story about getting knocked up by God. Voila, Mary's version of the Immaculate Conception. I like this theory because it kinda leaves Joseph a nice, if
[FairfieldLife] There is no God.
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[FairfieldLife] Midweek Movie Reviews
Poster rated not for Buck (but won't upset Alex) for Netflix WI watchers is Nobody Else But You which is a fine French thriller about a novelist who investigates a celebrity death in his home town. As you might guess (from the poster) there is a homage to Marilyn Monroe in it. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Nobody_Else_But_You/70239491 I also watched the much ballyhooed V/H/S horror film on DVD which is definitely rated Not for Buck and too much millennial targeted for me. The cable and broadcast networks have or are winding up their series and will be taking a hiatus until mid-January so they can use the fees you pay them to give their execs big year end bonuses. How 'bout the making December free for subscribers instead? It's a good time to catch up on movies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Ravi, I must break away from my busy day to congratulate you. Now listen, this is going to be delicate. We've got to get you to the washdown zone. You are so slathered with butter, you don't even realize it. Many a person has slipped on the butter that this point and broken a collar bone, or a wrist. I don't want that to happen to you. Go slow. Just sort of slide your feet. You can hold on to me. You're going to make it Rav, you're going to make it. Good, good, almost there. Then we're going to get you hosed down with a hot spray that will take that butter right off. Good, good. There! Now tell me, doesn't that feel good. No more losing your footing. No more frantically running in place. Well done. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Checktesting 12, 12, 12. No, I don't hear the forces of lightlet's try againcheck, testing, 12, 12, 12...check, check, check... I'll tell you where the forces of light are today.shining down on the waves out here on the coastlighting up the underbellies of the birds as they swoop back and forth in formations over the waves in formations of waveshow cool is that. Shining down on huge entangled piles of bull kelp - so beautiful. Reflecting off the sheen of wet sandI gotta go...oh yeah From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now My goodness! Not only is it Be Nice Wednesday its also Oobee Doobee 12-12-12 when all the Forces of Light will zoom through all the people on Santa's Nice List and make us enlightened and fulfill all our desires. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now A Passion Play (abbreviated version) Curtis On The Cross, to Ravi: Thou puttest vinegar in my mouth. Barry, next to him, and upside down: Lick my butt-crack! Lick my butt-crack! Ravi: I'm gettin' the fuck outta here! Amen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: snip I'll tell you where the forces of light are today.shining down on the waves out here on the coastlighting up the underbellies of the birds as they swoop back and forth in formations over the waves in formations of waveshow cool is that.  Shining down on huge entangled piles of bull kelp - so beautiful.  Reflecting off the sheen of wet sandI gotta go...oh yeah  I'm half expecting to see Bo Derek emerging from the waves!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Steve Sir, This is Nathan sir, writing to you from the very beautiful city of Bangalore sir. Ravi Sir is quite busy at work sir - he has outsourced this message to my kind self sir and he has asked me to refer to this message sir which is from the archives of FFL. He wants to read it thoroughly sir - perhaps print a copy sir and paste it on your wall for ready reference sir. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/326660 I kindly beg for your forgiveness sir at any mistakes I have made sir. Yours kindly, Nathan Secretary for Ravi Chivukula. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM, seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.comwrote: ** Ravi, I must break away from my busy day to congratulate you. Now listen, this is going to be delicate. We've got to get you to the washdown zone. You are so slathered with butter, you don't even realize it. Many a person has slipped on the butter that this point and broken a collar bone, or a wrist. I don't want that to happen to you. Go slow. Just sort of slide your feet. You can hold on to me. You're going to make it Rav, you're going to make it. Good, good, almost there. Then we're going to get you hosed down with a hot spray that will take that butter right off. Good, good. There! Now tell me, doesn't that feel good. No more losing your footing. No more frantically running in place. Well done. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
I would prefer Eva Mendes or Constance Marie, but that is just me. From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: snip I'll tell you where the forces of light are today.shining down on the waves out here on the coastlighting up the underbellies of the birds as they swoop back and forth in formations over the waves in formations of waveshow cool is that.  Shining down on huge entangled piles of bull kelp - so beautiful.  Reflecting off the sheen of wet sandI gotta go...oh yeah  I'm half expecting to see Bo Derek emerging from the waves!
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
I hope this works. D http://sn113w.snt113.mail.live.com/default.aspx#n=67171490fid=1fav=1mid=0e420a92-43fe-11e2-8eb2-00237de49116fv=1 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@ wrote: I've just begun listening to this. Similarly to Creme. An ordinary day but full with opportunity. D Do you have a link that works ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
This is the name of the film. I got a link in an e mail 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films®] Hotmail Active View 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films®] Play video 'A World of Love is Coming!' This is the OFFICIAL RELEASE of the Full Length Documentary film '2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning' a film written, directed, filmed, edited and entirely independently 01:44:04 Added on 02/12/2012 185,437 views
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
If I had your e address I could forward the e mail which has the film in it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Nathan, Kind of you to intervene of Ravi's behalf. Lord knows he could use one. Tell him I appreciate his message. I don't really need to pin it up though, as it is his usual message, posted several times a day here, to various recipients. But I am glad he appears to be a pretty good worker for you. Just make sure he gets all his smoke breaks. You know how cranky he can get if he misses one. Anyway, I gotta go Nathan. One day I hope to visit your city. Maybe we can get together for some tea. Yours Truly, Steve --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Steve Sir, This is Nathan sir, writing to you from the very beautiful city of Bangalore sir. Ravi Sir is quite busy at work sir - he has outsourced this message to my kind self sir and he has asked me to refer to this message sir which is from the archives of FFL. He wants to read it thoroughly sir - perhaps print a copy sir and paste it on your wall for ready reference sir. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/326660 I kindly beg for your forgiveness sir at any mistakes I have made sir. Yours kindly, Nathan Secretary for Ravi Chivukula. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM, seventhray27 steve.sundur@...wrote: ** Ravi, I must break away from my busy day to congratulate you. Now listen, this is going to be delicate. We've got to get you to the washdown zone. You are so slathered with butter, you don't even realize it. Many a person has slipped on the butter that this point and broken a collar bone, or a wrist. I don't want that to happen to you. Go slow. Just sort of slide your feet. You can hold on to me. You're going to make it Rav, you're going to make it. Good, good, almost there. Then we're going to get you hosed down with a hot spray that will take that butter right off. Good, good. There! Now tell me, doesn't that feel good. No more losing your footing. No more frantically running in place. Well done. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@ wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Wait a second Dr. Dumbass - am I reading this correctly? I'm sure your supporters are laughing their ass off but I see this as another example of your ill-will on a internet forum. Perhaps Alex is right and these fine gentlemen's valor and generosity is triggering you off? As Steve so delicately stated it - that perhaps you need some self-reflection as well. Steve will vouch for me as I say this - Curtis and Barry are role models for all of us here. Their sweetness, gentleness, kindness, respect, chivalry towards women; the strength of character, honesty, integrity, self-reflection they display in all their interactions with the men. You message is nothing but pure malice Dr. Dumbass - as Curtis said - you are out of control and a crazy person. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:55 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: ** A Passion Play (abbreviated version) Curtis On The Cross, to Ravi: Thou puttest vinegar in my mouth. Barry, next to him, and upside down: Lick my butt-crack! Lick my butt-crack! Ravi: I'm gettin' the fuck outta here! Amen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
I think there is some truth in the view that by giving ourselves a goal we deny ourselves the present, ergo if you give that up you are left with the present. By goals I mean especially things such as enlightenment. Liberation is not caring a fig for that. We can spend ages trying to get better, and it remains always in the future. Meditation is a lovely experience but I am not convinced it transforms because seeking transformation implies not liking the present. It is rather like Tai Chi you have to make great effort but the final stage is effortlessness which really means surrendering to your own naturalness. The completely natural has surrendered, all that is left is that which moves. When you see the immense energy and vastness of the Universe and know that in the beginning Nothing split into gravity and matter and we you add gravity back to matter it becomes Nothing again. It has all gone on unplanned and yet so beautifully. I have an essay on my website about this. http://esotericarts.org/essays_page_5.html#ReflectionsOnCosmology Having opinions is a great way to separation. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote:
[FairfieldLife] Bolivia Set To Banish Coca-Cola To Mark Mayan End Of Capitalism
* Pharma Healthcare http://www.forbes.com/healthcare/ * Reinventing America http://www.forbes.com/reinventing-america/ * Retail http://www.forbes.com/retail/ * SAPVoice http://blogs.forbes.com/sap/ * SportsMoney http://www.forbes.com/sportsmoney/ * Strategies http://www.forbes.com/strategies/ * Wall Street http://www.forbes.com/wall-street/ * Washington http://www.forbes.com/washington/ Lists http://www.forbes.com/lists | 8/01/2012 @ 3:59PM |33,396 views Bolivia Set To Banish Coca-Cola To Mark Mayan End Of Capitalism Anderson Antunes, ContributorVery well noticed! http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#undefined Anderson Antunes, ContributorIt's actually the same brand. David Crystal, the owner of Izod, bought 50% of the rights to use the name Lacoste in America in the 1950s, until 1993. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#undefined Anderson Antunes, ContributorNice shot! Thanks for sharing! http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#undefined Anderson Antunes, ContributorMayan influence can be detected in several countries throughout Latim America, including Bolivia. I never said they were from Bolivia, you certainly misrea [...] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#undefined Anderson Antunes, ContributorHello, Oscar! A link to the original story (by The Guardian) on the cocaine bar in La Paz is included in the article, with all the details on its operation [...] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#undefined 22 comments, 5 called-out http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#comments_header Comment now http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#comment_reply Follow CommentsFollowing CommentsUnfollow Comments [http://i.forbesimg.com/assets/img/loading_spinners/16px_grey.gif] Comment now http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-b\ anish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/#comment_reply Follow CommentsFollowing CommentsUnfollow Comments [http://i.forbesimg.com/assets/img/loading_spinners/16px_grey.gif] 10.2k 652 22 [http://i.forbesimg.com/media/assets/png/share_controls_60x18.png] 30 [http://i.forbesimg.com/media/assets/png/share_controls_60x18.png] 31 [http://i.forbesimg.com/media/assets/png/share_controls_60x18.png] [Bolivia's Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca ...] http://www.daylife.com/image/04MFcFNenZ6tc?utm_source=zemantautm_mediu\ m=putm_content=04MFcFNenZ6tcutm_campaign=z1 Bolivia's Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca (AFP/Getty Images) For most Americans, Bolivia is a third world South American country last robbed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. However this impoverished nation is making headlines due to its Minister of External Affairs recent announcement that the Coca-Cola Company http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?\ tkr=KO , one of the world's largest corporations, is to be booted out of there by year's end. David Choquehuanca, the minister in question, explained that Coca-Cola http://www.forbes.com/companies/coca-cola/ will be expelled from Bolivia on the same day that the Mayan calendar enters a new cycleDecember 21. According to Choquehuanca, the date marks the end of capitalism and the start of a culture of life in community-based societies. In order to celebrate that, Bolivia's government is already planning a series of events that will take place at the Southern Hemisphere's Summer Solstice on La Isla del Sol, one of the largest islands in Lake Titicaca. The twenty-first of December 2012 is the end of selfishness, of division. The twenty-first of December has to be the end of Coca-Cola and the beginning of mocochinche (a local peach-flavored soft drink), Choquehuanca told reporters at a political rally for Bolivia's president, Evo Morales. The planets will line up after 26,000 years. It is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism, he added. It's already been rumored that Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, will follow suit, encouraging his country to ditch the American beverage for soft drinks produced locally. It's curious that Bolivia decided to forbid Coca-Cola in its territory, considering that one of the soft drink's main ingredients is said to be coca extract (Coca-Cola refuses to confirm that, saying that this is part of their secret formula.) Whether that is true or not, sales of coca leaf are
[FairfieldLife] Re: There is no God.
Why would you believe watermelon? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCL4dXUtblg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Voter Frustration Over Politicians
Mike, If the Republicans let the Bush Tax Cut expire, many voters will be angry. I would expect many of the Republicans will be voted out in the next congressional elections. Stay tuned. As Bernanke has warned, there is the possibility that the increase in taxes to the middle class will negatively affect the economy. There could very well be another recession. However, the stock market appears to be holding its own during the past few days' activities. Maybe the market has already calculated the effects of the fiscal cliff controversy. We'll know the answer for sure on New Year's day. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: John ,the voters that put Republicans in their seats, put them their to hold the line on taxes, not to do El Presidente's bidding. Remember the consequences of *read my lips, no new taxes*? Bush made the same mistake Reagan made, he believed the Democrats when they begged *if you'll only agree to a little more taxes, we'll agree to much less spending*. Well ,they agreed to more taxes and the dems NEVER came through with their promises of less spending. What's the old saying, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ,shame on me! If Republicans agree to higher taxes, there will be hell to pay from their voters. From: John jr_esq@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Voter Frustration Over Politicians  --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: It should be clear to everyone by now that the Republicans are not going to approve any higher tax rate for the wealthy. As such, they will let the Bush Tax Cut legislation expire. And, we'll be stuck with paying higher income taxes beginning on January 1, 2013. http://news.yahoo.com/voter-disdain-spreads-fiscal-cliff-looms-085417763--finance.html Yeah. And then, let the Republicans look like fools if they argue *against lowering taxes* for the working class January 3rd. It's the best possible political outcome for Democrats. They get what they want by doing nothing while Republicans shoot themselves in the foot. http://youtu.be/gMuA8I2M5l0 The voters should realize by now that they should vote their Republican representatives OUT in the next election.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second objective accomplished...for now
Okay. okay. Let's try this again. You backslid a little Ravi, but it looks like you're back on track. Baby steps, baby steps as they say. You went and got yourself all slathered up with butter again a few posts back, but let's see if we can get you cleaned up. Grab ahold of this rope. We're going to have a fun ride through the butter, to the washdown. Say bye butter, bye butter, see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya Good, we're back at the washdown. Scrub, scrub here, scrub, scrub there, and a couple of ladi das. (that's from Snow White by the way, in case you didn't dial in to the culture that early.) Okay, all clean. I'm giving you a clean bill of health. See ya on the flip side, little buddy. (oh, that's from Gilligan's Island, in case you didn't dial into the culture that early) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Wait a second Dr. Dumbass - am I reading this correctly? I'm sure your supporters are laughing their ass off but I see this as another example of your ill-will on a internet forum. Perhaps Alex is right and these fine gentlemen's valor and generosity is triggering you off? As Steve so delicately stated it - that perhaps you need some self-reflection as well. Steve will vouch for me as I say this - Curtis and Barry are role models for all of us here. Their sweetness, gentleness, kindness, respect, chivalry towards women; the strength of character, honesty, integrity, self-reflection they display in all their interactions with the men. You message is nothing but pure malice Dr. Dumbass - as Curtis said - you are out of control and a crazy person. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:55 AM, doctordumbass@... no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: ** A Passion Play (abbreviated version) Curtis On The Cross, to Ravi: Thou puttest vinegar in my mouth. Barry, next to him, and upside down: Lick my butt-crack! Lick my butt-crack! Ravi: I'm gettin' the fuck outta here! Amen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@ wrote: Yes Curtis baby - I completely agree with you and Barry baby. Dr. Dumbass and others are full of ill-will, malice, meanness and hatred. They are threatened by your innocence, wonder, mystery, joy and your incredible sense of awe at this Universe. Your truth and complete integrity that you bring, any lack of bitterness, misery in every single one of your posts. I'm totally puzzled at all this weird energy people bring on an internet forum, trying to read motivations out of your posts? After all it's all opinion right - just words and more words. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:35 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yes, there IS a method to my madness. I always have two objectives when I go after a phony. The first is to let them know they aren't fooling anyone. The second is to build enough reflection into topics they know little about, so that they avoid them. Since being phony is all about ego - projecting the story of oneself - my first objective is more of a pipe dream - aka, leading a horse to water The second objective seems to work quite well, though. But,the one thing that creeps me out, is that B and C, while licking their wounds, sometimes engage in open dialogue on FFL, which is NOTHING like what they send each other privately. Anyway, the charade, nauseating as it is, is preferable, imo, to them running roughshod. Are you a crazy person? Do you realize that you could not possible know this? B and C, please share your cooking and cinema experiences, but, please, please stay away from the phony shit you concoct around other topics. At least for a couple more days. Clears the air for the rest of us, and good discipline for you two, also! A win-win. Whaddya say??
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
Brave RICK(?) [;)] Archer Films®? [:D] Seems this film and other many many similar (-investigating the galactic alignment, consciousness awakening, cycles of evolution, binary star system with Sirius, the fear agenda in the media, who's behind it, love vs fear and much more-)are all over the internet 43.000 -and -counting -links YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w Are you ref. to:What Should We Expect Dec. 12 Dec. 21-22, 2012? [;)] December 12, 2012, 12:12:12, and December 21-22, 2012 are dates we have been hearing about for decades. Since Harmonic Convergence, which took place August 15-17, 1987 people have intuitively sensed the importance of this moment in time, and predicted everything under the Sun. too? http://www.examiner.com/article/what-should-we-expect-dec-12-dec-21-22-2\ 012-by-patricia-cota-robles http://www.examiner.com/article/what-should-we-expect-dec-12-dec-21-22-\ 2012-by-patricia-cota-robles ... In Truth, for the past 25 years, since the quantum leap in energy, vibration, and consciousness the Earth and Humanity experienced during Harmonic Convergence, we have been through myriad influxes of Light. These influxes have included rare Celestial alignments, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, powerful Solar Flares, and literally hundreds of Global Activities of Light that were orchestrated through the unified efforts of embodied Lightworkers and the Company of Heaven. Each and every one of these events bathed the Earth in Divine Light and accelerated the frequency of vibration in Humanity's physical, etheric, mental, and emotional bodies at an atomic cellular level. Many people were consciously aware of these influxes of Light, but the vast majority of people evolving on this planet went through these experiences without any conscious awareness. OTOH like the parts on language and speech, and how it effects our consciousness... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: This is the name of the film. I got a link in an e mail 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films®] Hotmail Active View 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films®] Play video 'A World of Love is Coming!' This is the OFFICIAL RELEASE of the Full Length Documentary film '2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning' a film written, directed, filmed, edited and entirely independently 01:44:04 Added on 02/12/2012 185,437 views
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared
One Mayan shaman said that the alignment takes place in a portion of the galaxy which is the home of a Being who is known as The Great Forgiver. Please don't kill the messenger. Thank you. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:26 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12 12 12 from Batgap squared Brave RICK(?) Archer Films®? Seems this film and other many many similar (-investigating the galactic alignment, consciousness awakening, cycles of evolution, binary star system with Sirius, the fear agenda in the media, who's behind it, love vs fear and much more-)are all over the internet 43.000 -and -counting -links YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w Are you ref. to:What Should We Expect Dec. 12 Dec. 21-22, 2012? December 12, 2012, 12:12:12, and December 21-22, 2012 are dates we have been hearing about for decades. Since Harmonic Convergence, which took place August 15-17, 1987 people have intuitively sensed the importance of this moment in time, and predicted everything under the Sun. too? http://www.examiner.com/article/what-should-we-expect-dec-12-dec-21-22-2012-by-patricia-cota-robles ... In Truth, for the past 25 years, since the quantum leap in energy, vibration, and consciousness the Earth and Humanity experienced during Harmonic Convergence, we have been through myriad influxes of Light. These influxes have included rare Celestial alignments, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, powerful Solar Flares, and literally hundreds of Global Activities of Light that were orchestrated through the unified efforts of embodied Lightworkers and the Company of Heaven. Each and every one of these events bathed the Earth in Divine Light and accelerated the frequency of vibration in Humanity's physical, etheric, mental, and emotional bodies at an atomic cellular level. Many people were consciously aware of these influxes of Light, but the vast majority of people evolving on this planet went through these experiences without any conscious awareness. OTOH like the parts on language and speech, and how it effects our consciousness... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: This is the name of the film. I got a link in an e mail 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films®] Hotmail Active View 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films®] Play video 'A World of Love is Coming!' This is the OFFICIAL RELEASE of the Full Length Documentary film '2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning' a film written, directed, filmed, edited and entirely independently… 01:44:04 Added on 02/12/2012 185,437 views
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From: Jerry Katz umb...@ns.sympatico.ca Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:53 AM Subject: [NDhighlights] #4784 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - #4784 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - Editor: Jerry Katz The Nonduality Highlights http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights/ _ Ravi Shankar died Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at age 92. You'll come across many obituaries and articles, but I don't know how many of them will strike the chord of nonduality. I tried to approach that in this August 23, 2005 issue of the Highlights: http://www.nonduality.com/hl2239.htm It is reprinted here, but you might want to click on the link above and read the more colorful original version with photos. ~ ~ ~ This issue features a selection from Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. The material was typed from the book and appears nowhere else. The following Amazon review says what I would have said about the beauty of the book's design. The book overflows with photographs and is highlighted with gold: gold endpages, gold lettering for chapter headings, and several gold pages within the book. Raga Mala is the autobiography of pandit Ravi Shankar, told in story, profusely illustrated [some in color], beautifully bound [with luxurious endpapers], on high quality, beautiful papers. It tells his story [introduced by George Harrison] from his early childhood, stage [as a dancer in his brothers famous troupe] to his study of sitar and Hindustani music with a master[Khan], to his gradual emergence in the west. I had no idea, that he had performed at Carnegie hall in the 1930's, that John Coltrane's son Ravi was named after him, or that he was well known BEFORE the Monterey pop or woodstock concerts [he called woodstock terrifying']. This is a wonderful book, it tells the ENTIRE ARC of the life of pandit Ravi Shankar [including his apparent heir and pupil, his daughter Anoushka], and does so with such a well put together volume. The papers, the binding, the photographic reproductions are exquisite. The publisher has done a remarkable job. A classic book, both in form and content. You may order the book at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566492173/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566492173/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8camp=17 89creative=390957creativeASIN=1566492173linkCode=as2tag=nondualitysal-20 camp=1789creative=390957creativeASIN=1566492173linkCode=as2tag=nonduali tysal-20 _ http://www.nonduality.com/22391.jpg Our tradition teaches us that sound is God - Nada Brahma. That is, musical sound and the musical experience are steps to the realization of the self. We view music as a kind of spiritual discipline that raises one's inner being to divine peacefulness and bliss. We are taught that one of the fundamental goals a Hindu works toward in his lifetime is a knowledge of the true meaning of the universe - its unchanging, eternal essence - and this is realized first by a complete knowledge of one's self and one's own nature. The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects, and the ragas are among the means by which this essence can be apprehended. Thus, through music, one can reach God. -Ravi Shankar Being a Brahmin, I learnt some mantras from gurus as a child, and still repeat them in my mind as often as I can today. I do firmly believe that they have tremendous power. For a few years in the late Fifties and early Sixties, I regularly practiced hatha yoga, but gradually the pace of my life made it impossible to continue with it (although I still maintain my regular morning meditations, plus one before giving a recital). Many times in my life I have been attracted with great surges of love and bhakti (reverence or devotion) to some godly persons I have known, such as Tat Baba, Ma Anandamayi, Satya Sai Baba and the late Shankaracharya of Kanchi. Some I never saw have also exerted a strong pull on me, such as Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Lahiri Mahasai, Trailange Swami, Babaji and Swami Vivekananda. But in one's daily life and existence it is hard to attain cosmic consciousness. Most of the time the only self-realisation states one is aware of are physical and mundane ones. I am sure many of you have felt this too. But MUSIC - that is the thing for me! Mostly it has been when deeply immersed in my music that I have felt that surge of joy, merging into the indefinable 'drunken with beauty' moment. Especially when I become attuned to my sitar, that is the route for me to touch the heart and the God within myself, and within my millions of listeners over the years. The spiritual element in Indian music is absolutely essential. From the very beginning our music was handed down by the yogis, and musicians were invariably great saintly people, leading a very religious life. Many of the old songs were philosophical and devotional in nature, written in
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ravi Shankar
thanks Rick love you ...and cherish your posting --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: Jerry Katz umbada@... Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:53 AM Subject: [NDhighlights] #4784 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - #4784 - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - Editor: Jerry Katz The Nonduality Highlights http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights/ _ Ravi Shankar died Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at age 92. You'll come across many obituaries and articles, but I don't know how many of them will strike the chord of nonduality. I tried to approach that in this August 23, 2005 issue of the Highlights: http://www.nonduality.com/hl2239.htm It is reprinted here, but you might want to click on the link above and read the more colorful original version with photos. ~ ~ ~ This issue features a selection from Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. The material was typed from the book and appears nowhere else. The following Amazon review says what I would have said about the beauty of the book's design. The book overflows with photographs and is highlighted with gold: gold endpages, gold lettering for chapter headings, and several gold pages within the book. Raga Mala is the autobiography of pandit Ravi Shankar, told in story, profusely illustrated [some in color], beautifully bound [with luxurious endpapers], on high quality, beautiful papers. It tells his story [introduced by George Harrison] from his early childhood, stage [as a dancer in his brothers famous troupe] to his study of sitar and Hindustani music with a master[Khan], to his gradual emergence in the west. I had no idea, that he had performed at Carnegie hall in the 1930's, that John Coltrane's son Ravi was named after him, or that he was well known BEFORE the Monterey pop or woodstock concerts [he called woodstock terrifying']. This is a wonderful book, it tells the ENTIRE ARC of the life of pandit Ravi Shankar [including his apparent heir and pupil, his daughter Anoushka], and does so with such a well put together volume. The papers, the binding, the photographic reproductions are exquisite. The publisher has done a remarkable job. A classic book, both in form and content. You may order the book at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566492173/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566492173/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8cam\ p=17 89creative=390957creativeASIN=1566492173linkCode=as2tag=nondualitysa\ l-20 camp=1789creative=390957creativeASIN=1566492173linkCode=as2tag=nond\ uali tysal-20 _ http://www.nonduality.com/22391.jpg Our tradition teaches us that sound is God - Nada Brahma. That is, musical sound and the musical experience are steps to the realization of the self. We view music as a kind of spiritual discipline that raises one's inner being to divine peacefulness and bliss. We are taught that one of the fundamental goals a Hindu works toward in his lifetime is a knowledge of the true meaning of the universe - its unchanging, eternal essence - and this is realized first by a complete knowledge of one's self and one's own nature. The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects, and the ragas are among the means by which this essence can be apprehended. Thus, through music, one can reach God. -Ravi Shankar Being a Brahmin, I learnt some mantras from gurus as a child, and still repeat them in my mind as often as I can today. I do firmly believe that they have tremendous power. For a few years in the late Fifties and early Sixties, I regularly practiced hatha yoga, but gradually the pace of my life made it impossible to continue with it (although I still maintain my regular morning meditations, plus one before giving a recital). Many times in my life I have been attracted with great surges of love and bhakti (reverence or devotion) to some godly persons I have known, such as Tat Baba, Ma Anandamayi, Satya Sai Baba and the late Shankaracharya of Kanchi. Some I never saw have also exerted a strong pull on me, such as Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Lahiri Mahasai, Trailange Swami, Babaji and Swami Vivekananda. But in one's daily life and existence it is hard to attain cosmic consciousness. Most of the time the only self-realisation states one is aware of are physical and mundane ones. I am sure many of you have felt this too. But MUSIC - that is the thing for me! Mostly it has been when deeply immersed in my music that I have felt that surge of joy, merging into the indefinable 'drunken with beauty' moment. Especially when I become attuned to my sitar, that is the route for me to touch the heart and the God within myself, and within my millions of listeners over the years. The spiritual element in Indian music is absolutely essential. From the very beginning our music was handed down by the yogis, and musicians
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Oh so sweet - Baby Jesus looks as sweet and innocent and playful and loving as Baby Krishna - I love him - lots of kisses to you baby Jesus, you must be excited, your birthday's right around the corner - yaay !!! On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:46 PM, awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: ** [image: 254][image: 246][image: BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576836967567483634]
