Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion to Nablusoss
On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:19 PM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:48 PM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@ wrote: Ravi, I can always count on your heart. Here is a secret. You can always count on mine. Thanks for the laugh and the insight. Well thank you Curtis - your comments have been duly registered, notarized and filed. Come at me as hard as you want now. We always know this place is an option. Awesome - I love it !!! You are indeed a worthy opponent. On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:28 PM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@ wrote: I know I'm not the guy you want to hear this from, but that was really funny. It made me laugh for real. Something surreal about it, like a Picasso in words. Something genuinely clever. And although I may not agree with your perspective, you kind of earned the right to lay it down with your vulnerable 2008. Nice one. Thanks Curtis, that was nice and I loved it. FYI - the minute I hear, read someone praise me, the narcissistic cells in my brain instantaneously fire causing me lot of joy so I don't discriminate or to be accurate my narcissistic cells don't discriminate - my thinking brain cells are at peace with my narcissistic brain cells. Having said that - you have to understand when I read your next post and depending on the content, in the absence of any praise I will most likely come hard at you. But this praise will not be forgotten, it has been duly registered and there will be a touch of softness when I come after you..LOL.
[FairfieldLife] Radio interview
Does anybody know what is the song they play at the end of the program? emf WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show David Lynch and Transcendental Meditation Thursday, December 13, 2012 Play [14:02] http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/bl/bl121312fpod.mp3 David Lynch, founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. John Hagelin, president of the David Lynch Foundation and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, a public policy think tank at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, discuss with Lynch the foundation's work funding stress-relieving modalities like Transcendental Meditation for at-risk populations, and veterans with PTSD.
[FairfieldLife] Ancient India's Engineering skills (Documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqIfmvdK5u4
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion to Steve
Hi Steve, No Yahtzee yet but some shopping at Whole Foods and some TV. Which put both her and me to sleep. Then we had a power outage at 9 so it all worked out great (-: Funnily enough, she's at Home Depot right now getting batteries so I'm using the time to take care of my online life (-: I know what you mean about voices. They too can automatically create a visual of the person and then if that doesn't pan out, brains have to do some gyrations. Balance, that's good for me to keep in mind. I'm looking forward to lifting off with the Mayans this afternoon (-: Happy Holidays, Steve. Sorry for all the smiley faces (-: Share From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion to Steve Hey Share, Nice to hear from you. I envision you and your Mom engaged in a pleasant game of Yahtzee. I like that picture. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Hi Steve, funnily enough I was reading about this on the plane yesterday. A wonderful book by Oliver Burkeman the author of Antidote, his latest essay collection that someone on FFL recommended a few months ago. He's very funny as he comments on all kinds of human foibles, etc. At one point he says that research indicates that people tend to make their lives sound different online than they really are. Partially it's just a limitation of the medium. And I'm guessing that the ability to transcend this limitation differs from individual to individual depending on personality, upbringing, etc. Well Barry posted that piece written by a critic of a successful cartoonist. And it appeared well written, even if it was full of inaccuracies. But then you saw a picture of the guy, and learned about all the weird stuff he had written, and it completely changed the view. Although this is not really related, something similiar to this happens to me all the time. I had to do some shopping at Home Depot last night. Turns out I left my binder with a bunch of notes and some checks (already filled out) in the shopping cart. I didn't realize it until this morning. I called the store, and they transferred me to a woman administrator in the store who told me that they had found it, and to come in and ask for her. I envisioned a woman with a professional appearance and demeanor. That turned out not to be the case. And this happens to me all the time. On the other hand, she came through for me, and for that I was most grateful. And of course, there are the avatars people create online. And I do think that most of us tend to one kind of writing voice, probably habit. Plus some people simply might not think it's appropriate to share personal info on such a public forum. Naturally I think you have to be very careful about it. Because people can be cruel. But I don't think that is the case the great majority of the time here. People may feel I was out of line in giving some Ravi push back regarding things he has disclosed publically about some of his relationships. I would have to disagree with that assessment. And I don't even feel the need to elaborate more about that. AND, I have also noticed the differing amounts of personal disclosure done by different people. I have been surprised at my own posting in this regard. All grist for the mill (-: Share in Maryland, missing the Dome I think, like most things, it is finding the right balance. What you hope is that people will try to be helpful when you expose a vulnerability, and not stomp on you. From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earnest Confusion to Nablusoss  Evidently not. But it's funny, I can tell you many things about Ann, Emily, Curtis, Barry, Share, Jim, Ravi, Alex, Dixon, but I can't think of anything much you've revealed about your life. Sure, we know you political views, and, well, its true, you did talk about your issue with Crones disease, (if I have that straight), but those details are few and far between given the amount of posting you do. I stand by my observation that you reveal little about yourself, other than your stance on current events, and your other posting priorities.  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 steve.sundur@ wrote: Other people here, in the course of posting reveal interesting aspects about their lives. Not so with you. I wonder what that means? It means you haven't been paying attention. Sorry, but I've said plenty about my life.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 12-21-2012
12.21.2012 May the Blessings of the Unified Field be upon you this day,and always.Take these vibrations in with you:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmUOLcJZBE-Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: There is more work to do. Brave meditators, you have done all we asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected; but your global country is at stake, your partners, families, your homes and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships of creating world peace, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay in the Domes only one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty and to your global country which you probably never can do under any other circumstances. -Buck in the Dome The period from 12.16-23 Mars is under the close aspect of Ketu. This typically is connected with fires, accidents, explosions and military conflict. On Dec 21st malefics particularly are all very strong as so is Jupiter. ** 12.13.2012 Today, our thoughts and gratitude are with those meditators who came out, just as we must always honour our heroes. Our meditators represented the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and service. This commitment is characteristic of the extraordinary courage, skill and patriotism that our meditators show every day in the Domes of spiritual Fairfield. We are grateful. We are a special group with an uncommon bond that exists only in special karmas of Dharma. I am proud to have served with each meditator here. You deserve long and happy lives in peace. -Buck in the Dome Divine Mother said, My energy is coming completely into the planet now. I am healing the planet with my Light. There is a very powerful infusion of my Divine Love energy on this day. The day 12.12.12 is the opening of many streams of Light to embrace Mother Earth coming from the deepest levels of my Infinite Heart. Bringing more energy of Divine Love onto the planet will cause more transformation, more heart opening, more purification. This is the significance of this day. The best way to receive it is to be in communion with me. Do your spiritual practices -- meditation, prayers, chanting, etc., and receive me. The power is inside you to transform yourself and your planet. Embrace it. Everyone certainly agrees and feels that the 12.12.2012 meditation was certainly extremely powerful in effect and it is a very and most transformative day that we have come through. We are grateful. -Buck We are grateful in the new day. Good Morning! ** 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
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community
Buck: The problem also here is that these people do not dialogue... Maybe so, but that's not much different than other schools I've attended. Most schools have restrictions on the number of students in attendance and on the use of the school gym. No football during basketball practice! LoL! It's all a matter of positioning and placement: place yourself in a position to get the knowledge and then position yourself for success. Do your program in your own 'zone of tranquility' and include your whole family. You are only going to get as much enlightenment as you are going to get. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Authfriend and Rick Archer are right here about Hagelin. Hagelin is in it for the long haul and a tantamount leader of meditators everywhere. He is larger than life and among us. He is extremely sharp witted, funny, he listens, is methodical, and does not suffer fools. He has been incredibly productive in re-mapping the teaching movement strategically from even before Maharishi died. You guys who are not here do not see him but he walks among us and is our wise and careful leader in this. He is not in a position to rule by decree as there is a junta to bring along including Bevan and some other Rajas of varying merit. Hagelin is a leader in a way Bevan will probably never be of the larger meditating movement because Bevan carries the weight of so much bad in his wake. It is just the way it is and Bevan has earned his own merit in this. Hagelin is interesting because he has emerged with his reputation in tact. Part figurehead but in action it is Hagelin more than anyone else who has resuscitated and kept the old TM teaching movement in tact and put it on the move again. He demonstrates a kind of endurance that he also demands of his people with him. Here at home or on the trail he is present, visible to us, and tireless. This is the guy who is in fact rallying things, skillfully directing battle, and looked to. This is not Bevan hold up in some mansion. Hagelin is a guy who commands respect by not demanding it. And look at the people around him likewise. He grants a same direct access from all grades and makes his decisions. Tireless yet by his willing sharing the general lot of his people Hagelin engenders admiration as well as loyalty. He obviously enjoys being alongside in the old meditating community with good barbs and dialect. However in the work of the movement he certainly imposes authority as if the Unified Field itself had descended to earth in the form of this common meditator and physicist. I swear my allegiance, -Buck in the Dome I have been enjoying your reports Buck. John's speaking style I have always found lackluster, kind of sing-song. He is a really bright guy. I am not so familiar with what he does with the Fairfield community now. I did know him a little bit, long ago, and remember mostly the fiery Margaret fuming over him while he mostly ignored her as he typed away on a computer. I think some acting lessons might help his speaking image.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12-21-2012
I'll be synchronized with you all, Buck. Hopefully bringing those good vibes to Annapolis (-: Very windy here but no snow. From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12-21-2012 12.21.2012 May the Blessings of the Unified Field be upon you this day, and always. Take these vibrations in with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmUOLcJZBE -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: There is more work to do. Brave meditators, you have done all we asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected; but your global country is at stake, your partners, families, your homes and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships of creating world peace, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay in the Domes only one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty and to your global country which you probably never can do under any other circumstances. -Buck in the Dome The period from 12.16-23 Mars is under the close aspect of Ketu. This typically is connected with fires, accidents, explosions and military conflict. On Dec 21st malefics particularly are all very strong as so is Jupiter. ** 12.13.2012 Today, our thoughts and gratitude are with those meditators who came out, just as we must always honour our heroes. Our meditators represented the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and service. This commitment is characteristic of the extraordinary courage, skill and patriotism that our meditators show every day in the Domes of spiritual Fairfield. We are grateful. We are a special group with an uncommon bond that exists only in special karmas of Dharma. I am proud to have served with each meditator here. You deserve long and happy lives in peace. -Buck in the Dome Divine Mother said, My energy is coming completely into the planet now. I am healing the planet with my Light. There is a very powerful infusion of my Divine Love energy on this day. The day 12.12.12 is the opening of many streams of Light to embrace Mother Earth coming from the deepest levels of my Infinite Heart. Bringing more energy of Divine Love onto the planet will cause more transformation, more heart opening, more purification. This is the significance of this day. The best way to receive it is to be in communion with me. Do your spiritual practices -- meditation, prayers, chanting, etc., and receive me. The power is inside you to transform yourself and your planet. Embrace it. Everyone certainly agrees and feels that the 12.12.2012 meditation was certainly extremely powerful in effect and it is a very and most transformative day that we have come through. We are grateful. -Buck We are grateful in the new day. Good Morning! ** 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,
[FairfieldLife] Re: The New Mayan Calendar Goes On Sale December 21st
For those susceptible to metaphysical unclarity: *Fearful 'end of world' calls, emails flood NASA as Dec. 21 nears* A spokesman says the space agency is doing 'everything in our power,' including interviews with scientists and a special Web page, to debunk doomsday predictions. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nasa-doomsday-20121220,0,2616828.story http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/20/16042653-mayan-end-of-world-rumors-prompt-michigan-officials-to-close-33-schools?lite --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: It's about time someone did a send-up of all this stupid Mayan adulation. The Mayans weren't so clever. Who cares when their calendar ends? I'm sick of all this worship of indigenous cultures, which is just another form of self-hatred, the notion that Western culture knows nothing and is worth nothing. I love Western culture. It has created everything I love and hold dear. Long may it flourish. Enough of this multicultural soup that we're all forced to swim in. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Unable to resist the temptation, I did a reverse number lookup on the phone number listed in this article. It's the number of the Westboro Baptist Church. Very funny. [The Mayan Calendar] http://superofficialnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mayan_calendar.\ jpg Image of the previous Mayan Calendar for the last 5,125. The new version for the next 5,125 years will be will be released on December 21st. Guatemala City � The Maya people are excited to finally release their new calendar for the next 5,125 years on December 21st, 2012. It's a follow up to the popular Mayan calendar that's been around for the last 5,125 years. This new edition will be released in both a stone and paperback version. It will also include a swimsuit edition featuring some of today's most beautiful Maya woman. The first Mayan calendar was published on August 13th, 3114 B.C. and was not received well by critics. Most of them pointing out that no one wants a calendar lasting more than a year or two. Also many critics were quick to say that it will probably freak some people out when December 21st, 2012 comes around. Paul Horner, one of the senior editors on the new Mayan calendar project spoke to reporters today at a press conference in Guatemala City. This new Mayan calendar is a must for any fans of the previous calendar. It would make a great gift or stocking stuffer for anyone young and old, Horner said. It's been a real pleasure working with the Mayan people on this new calendar. From our family to yours, here's wishing your next 5,125 years to be full of love and adventure. The paperback version of the new Mayan calendar will be approximately 61,500 pages long and include an elegant leather binding. The stone version weighs only 213 lbs and comes with a fine marble finish. Both the stone and paperback version will retail at $13,999.99 and can be bought online or at your local bookstore. For any questions please call the 24-hour Mayan Calendar Hotline at (785) 273-0325. This new Mayan calendar is a must for any fans of the previous calendar. ~ Paul Horner � Senior editor for the new Mayan calendar The new Mayan calendar will blow your f*cking mind. ~ Kyle Brock � Rolling Stone Magazine The stone version of the new Mayan calendar that weighs 213 lbs will add a beautiful decor to any home or garden. ~ Joyce Barth � Better Homes and Gardens
[FairfieldLife] Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
Hope photo comes through...PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years and no doubt will be felt within each of us.
[FairfieldLife] Light On Water
So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030\ 287168_411824051_n.jpg]
RE: [FairfieldLife] Light On Water
Cool photo. Almost looks like an impressionist work. From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of turquoiseb Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:49 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Light On Water So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_5307030302871 68_411824051_n.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
Excellent picture Barry! I have a similar one I took of the Arno river in Florence on my wall. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030\ 287168_411824051_n.jpg]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
The last few days I thought I might be able to post a picture of snow on palm trees. But it didn't happen though it got that cold but not that wet. Today it is that wet but not that cold. Need to go check out the end of the world sales today. No interest until June. On 12/21/2012 09:00 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Excellent picture Barry! I have a similar one I took of the Arno river in Florence on my wall. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030\ 287168_411824051_n.jpg]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
On 12/21/2012 07:58 AM, Share Long wrote: Hope photo comes through... PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years and no doubt will be felt within each of us. http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/399233_10151330788130100_261981196_n.jpg Well by no means are the planets lined up that much! :-D Not even close to being a stellium. Go to February 4 and 5th of 1962 if you want to see a real stellium.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: Nope, no photo. The photo came through in email but not on the website. As for Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, a quick Google search shows that being claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000 years? More like twice a year! Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just sit there sulking. Pull a planetary alignment out of thin air and everything becomes mystical and full of woo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hope photo comes through... � PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years and no doubt will be felt within each of us. � �
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030\ 287168_411824051_n.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
Sorry, I don't, though funny how the line on water analogy breaks down if it freezes. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity. Snidely suggesting his perplexity is dumb. No, it's not dumb. It's an excellent question that many of us have wondered about on those exceedingly rare occasions when Barry writes a post in which he isn't being a complete shit to *somebody*. To suggest otherwise is what's dumb.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Crutches
Hmmm, must be something in the planets. I bashed into my Mom's glass coffee table with my knee. Had to apologize to her afterwards for the cussing that ensued. Hope you feel better soon. I bet that Carol O of Bat would know who has crutches. From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water from the location pictured below. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030\ \ 287168_411824051_n.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] solar system on the move
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see [1 Attachment]
Trying again... From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see On 12/21/2012 07:58 AM, Share Long wrote: Hope photo comes through... PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years and no doubt will be felt within each of us. http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/399233_10151330788130100_261981196_n.jpg Well by no means are the planets lined up that much! :-D Not even close to being a stellium. Go to February 4 and 5th of 1962 if you want to see a real stellium.
[FairfieldLife] Fw: Landfill Harmonic: An Orchestra Like No Other
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Sorry, I don't, though funny how the line on water analogy breaks down if it freezes. Or becomes water vapor. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
I just checked in for a moment. Tell me you're kidding. This morning, getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife was close by checking the mail. I had to step to the side of her where there happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale. I knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade. I apologized to her, and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my tirade wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, why do I have to fight so hard for everything little thing type of tirade. Anyway. In better balance now. Got to be. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Hmmm, must be something in the planets. I bashed into my Mom's glass coffee table with my knee. Had to apologize to her afterwards for the cussing that ensued. Hope you feel better soon. I bet that Carol O of Bat would know who has crutches. From: Rick Archer rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches  Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee. Â
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
and then condenses on inside windowpanes, and I can then draw and write on them, which I do.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Sorry, I don't, though funny how the line on water analogy breaks down if it freezes. Or becomes water vapor. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
This is a fun video I watched yesterday - boiling water turning into icy mist at -41 degrees in Siberia http://youtu.be/MoqOLll2xr0 On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: ** and then condenses on inside windowpanes, and I can then draw and write on them, which I do.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Sorry, I don't, though funny how the line on water analogy breaks down if it freezes. Or becomes water vapor. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
I figure I was unstressing after the big liftoff at noon with the Mayans (-: From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 2:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches I just checked in for a moment. Tell me you're kidding. This morning, getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife was close by checking the mail. I had to step to the side of her where there happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale. I knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade. I apologized to her, and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my tirade wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, why do I have to fight so hard for everything little thing type of tirade. Anyway. In better balance now. Got to be. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Hmmm, must be something in the planets. I bashed into my Mom's glass coffee table with my knee. Had to apologize to her afterwards for the cussing that ensued. Hope you feel better soon. I bet that Carol O of Bat would know who has crutches. From: Rick Archer rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches  Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee. Â
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. We *understand* that you don't get it. Could that possibly have something to do with the fact that you feel the need to classify the things you see into little good and bad boxes, and that you will NEVER, in ANY lifetime, understand the concept of Tantra -- the coexistence of and non-contradictory nature of seeming opposites? :-) Be careful about announcing to the world the sad limitations of your ability to perceive that world. It's one thing if you keep them to yourself and attempt to hide them, as many here do, but quite another when you lay them on everyone else and expect them to identify with the sad and often pitiful boundaries you impose upon yourself. I have *never* -- not once -- felt pissed off and nasty during this last posting month on FFL. If you believe that I have, that is what YOU project onto what I write, based on what YOU feel in *reaction* to what I write. Your samskaric problem is not necessarily mine. 'Nuff said... :-) And I think that's 50 and out for me...Jai and away... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
Well, Judy got it right. I was making an insinuation, though not serious about it. I did not answer the rhetorical question you posed, or attempt to. There is a concept called 'coexistence of opposites', which if it were an experience, would take care of the dilemma. You have to ask how serious Barry is about what he says. He lobs bombs, with fish hooks attached, onto this forum, and if you are kind of like a fish swimming in these waters, do you bite? Barry's nastiness is more superficial than Judy's; he is not so serious as I believe you are imagining. But of course this is my interpretation of what I read. The mind does not give us reality, it gives us distorted representations of reality, and on occasion, gives us clues as to what reality might be about. Are you taking what people say here as true and false? Are you taking what is discussed, argued, and metaphorically shouted here as some kind of important reality? For a lesson in coexistence I would recommend the movie 'Life of Pi', how to get along in a completely unlivable situation. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
We *understand* that you don't get it. Could that possibly have something to do with the fact that you feel the need to classify the things you see into little good and bad boxes, and that you will NEVER, in ANY lifetime, understand the concept of Tantra -- the coexistence of and non-contradictory nature of seeming opposites? :-) Are you FUCKING SERIOUS?? you are telling me *YOU* of all people are a Master of Tantra, and I am to be showcased for my narrow concepts of good and bad??? So, what does that mean, Barry? I recall most recently you telling someone here to, fuck off and die. This may be an extreme example of your rhetoric, though it all has about the same vibe to it. Fuck Off And Die. Now, you can go slithering around about TANTRA all you want to, but 99.99% of the world's population, if told to fuck off and die, would see this as a negative, abusive and shitty thing to be told. As I said before, it isn't the single occurrence that I am calling out. This negative, abusive and shitty behavior is your hallmark, your raison d'etre here on FFL. So, you can feel superior with your head up your tantric ass, but pu-leeze, don't try to sneak that line of bullshit past me. K? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. We *understand* that you don't get it. Could that possibly have something to do with the fact that you feel the need to classify the things you see into little good and bad boxes, and that you will NEVER, in ANY lifetime, understand the concept of Tantra -- the coexistence of and non-contradictory nature of seeming opposites? :-) Be careful about announcing to the world the sad limitations of your ability to perceive that world. It's one thing if you keep them to yourself and attempt to hide them, as many here do, but quite another when you lay them on everyone else and expect them to identify with the sad and often pitiful boundaries you impose upon yourself. I have *never* -- not once -- felt pissed off and nasty during this last posting month on FFL. If you believe that I have, that is what YOU project onto what I write, based on what YOU feel in *reaction* to what I write. Your samskaric problem is not necessarily mine. 'Nuff said... :-) And I think that's 50 and out for me...Jai and away... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
There's another concept called ironic disbelief. I enjoy it as a dramatic vehicle to get my point across. Sorry you missed it... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: Well, Judy got it right. I was making an insinuation, though not serious about it. I did not answer the rhetorical question you posed, or attempt to. There is a concept called 'coexistence of opposites', which if it were an experience, would take care of the dilemma. You have to ask how serious Barry is about what he says. He lobs bombs, with fish hooks attached, onto this forum, and if you are kind of like a fish swimming in these waters, do you bite? Barry's nastiness is more superficial than Judy's; he is not so serious as I believe you are imagining. But of course this is my interpretation of what I read. The mind does not give us reality, it gives us distorted representations of reality, and on occasion, gives us clues as to what reality might be about. Are you taking what people say here as true and false? Are you taking what is discussed, argued, and metaphorically shouted here as some kind of important reality? For a lesson in coexistence I would recommend the movie 'Life of Pi', how to get along in a completely unlivable situation. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: There's another concept called ironic disbelief. I enjoy it as a dramatic vehicle to get my point across. Sorry you missed it... Well, in that case you did not get your point across. That you enjoy this concept of ironic disbelief is fine, but does it mean this indulgence might blind you to the character of your audience, and reduce the probability you will get your point across? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Well, Judy got it right. I was making an insinuation, though not serious about it. I did not answer the rhetorical question you posed, or attempt to. There is a concept called 'coexistence of opposites', which if it were an experience, would take care of the dilemma. You have to ask how serious Barry is about what he says. He lobs bombs, with fish hooks attached, onto this forum, and if you are kind of like a fish swimming in these waters, do you bite? Barry's nastiness is more superficial than Judy's; he is not so serious as I believe you are imagining. But of course this is my interpretation of what I read. The mind does not give us reality, it gives us distorted representations of reality, and on occasion, gives us clues as to what reality might be about. Are you taking what people say here as true and false? Are you taking what is discussed, argued, and metaphorically shouted here as some kind of important reality? For a lesson in coexistence I would recommend the movie 'Life of Pi', how to get along in a completely unlivable situation. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Freddie's rape is Barry's TANTRA [was Re: Light On Water]
LOL I laugh to myself when I recall reading very credible accounts about Frederick Lenz, aka RAMA, YOUR FORMER TANTRIC TEACHER, raping women at gunpoint, more than once. Um, that wasn't tantric. Rape is a criminal, and serious spiritual offense. So is suicide and fraud. The guy makes Maharishi look like SAINT by comparison. In addition, I think Lenz really fucked up your head, with regard to your understanding of Tantra. Tantra, in its simplicity is experiencing and recognizing the dynamic tension between the universal and opposing forces of Shiva (oneness) and Shakti (diversity). It has nothing to do with telling people to fuck off and die, or raping women, or killing oneself. It cannot be forced like that. Otherwise one is simply insane. So I would think long and hard about what you honestly know about Tantra, and more importantly, what you do not. You have very little spiritual experience, despite the many fruitless years spent seeking it, imho. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: We *understand* that you don't get it. Could that possibly have something to do with the fact that you feel the need to classify the things you see into little good and bad boxes, and that you will NEVER, in ANY lifetime, understand the concept of Tantra -- the coexistence of and non-contradictory nature of seeming opposites? :-) Are you FUCKING SERIOUS?? you are telling me *YOU* of all people are a Master of Tantra, and I am to be showcased for my narrow concepts of good and bad??? So, what does that mean, Barry? I recall most recently you telling someone here to, fuck off and die. This may be an extreme example of your rhetoric, though it all has about the same vibe to it. Fuck Off And Die. Now, you can go slithering around about TANTRA all you want to, but 99.99% of the world's population, if told to fuck off and die, would see this as a negative, abusive and shitty thing to be told. As I said before, it isn't the single occurrence that I am calling out. This negative, abusive and shitty behavior is your hallmark, your raison d'etre here on FFL. So, you can feel superior with your head up your tantric ass, but pu-leeze, don't try to sneak that line of bullshit past me. K? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. We *understand* that you don't get it. Could that possibly have something to do with the fact that you feel the need to classify the things you see into little good and bad boxes, and that you will NEVER, in ANY lifetime, understand the concept of Tantra -- the coexistence of and non-contradictory nature of seeming opposites? :-) Be careful about announcing to the world the sad limitations of your ability to perceive that world. It's one thing if you keep them to yourself and attempt to hide them, as many here do, but quite another when you lay them on everyone else and expect them to identify with the sad and often pitiful boundaries you impose upon yourself. I have *never* -- not once -- felt pissed off and nasty during this last posting month on FFL. If you believe that I have, that is what YOU project onto what I write, based on what YOU feel in *reaction* to what I write. Your samskaric problem is not necessarily mine. 'Nuff said... :-) And I think that's 50 and out for me...Jai and away... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
...that's why I said, Sorry you missed it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: There's another concept called ironic disbelief. I enjoy it as a dramatic vehicle to get my point across. Sorry you missed it... Well, in that case you did not get your point across. That you enjoy this concept of ironic disbelief is fine, but does it mean this indulgence might blind you to the character of your audience, and reduce the probability you will get your point across? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Well, Judy got it right. I was making an insinuation, though not serious about it. I did not answer the rhetorical question you posed, or attempt to. There is a concept called 'coexistence of opposites', which if it were an experience, would take care of the dilemma. You have to ask how serious Barry is about what he says. He lobs bombs, with fish hooks attached, onto this forum, and if you are kind of like a fish swimming in these waters, do you bite? Barry's nastiness is more superficial than Judy's; he is not so serious as I believe you are imagining. But of course this is my interpretation of what I read. The mind does not give us reality, it gives us distorted representations of reality, and on occasion, gives us clues as to what reality might be about. Are you taking what people say here as true and false? Are you taking what is discussed, argued, and metaphorically shouted here as some kind of important reality? For a lesson in coexistence I would recommend the movie 'Life of Pi', how to get along in a completely unlivable situation. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't think you even tried to answer my question. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 12/21/2012 07:58 AM, Share Long wrote: Hope photo comes through... PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years and no doubt will be felt within each of us. http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/399233_10151330788130100_261981196_n.jpg Well by no means are the planets lined up that much! :-D Not even close to being a stellium. Go to February 4 and 5th of 1962 if you want to see a real stellium. OMG! WTF! http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/8295546114/in/photostream/lightbox/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: There's another concept called ironic disbelief. I enjoy it as a dramatic vehicle to get my point across. Sorry you missed it... Well, in that case you did not get your point across. Translation: Xeno missed it. That you enjoy this concept of ironic disbelief is fine, but does it mean this indulgence might blind you to the character of your audience, and reduce the probability you will get your point across? No. Dr. D. knows that most here understand the concept of ironic disbelief. I suspect he doesn't feel like tailoring his posts to the lowest common denominator.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity. Snidely suggesting his perplexity is dumb. No, it's not dumb. It's an excellent question that many of us have wondered about on those exceedingly rare occasions when Barry writes a post in which he isn't being a complete shit to *somebody*. To suggest otherwise is what's dumb. Our intrepid Doctor not only asked a very cogent question but he asked it very articulately. The thing is, Barry is one of those guys who comes into a room, excretes all sorts of bodily fluids all over everything, turns over the furniture and spray paints the walls then leaves. When the next person comes in and is horrified that their room has been trashed Barry can't, for the life of himself, understand what all the fuss is about then accuses the offended party of being some sort of uptight, clueless over-reactor. It's really quite astounding how he does it time after time and still doesn't take any responsibility. In fact, it's a miracle.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community
Stop. Folks, A Stern warning given by e-mail posted on the side about this thread: That our movement's 'corporate climate' does not 'entertain negativity', which is personally interpreted by 'Some Higher Ups' as any criticism or even any debate. And any observation, (rumors included) other than whole compliance is viewed as obstruction. I do believe a solution here is in leadership and with the following points below: Going forward, The conservatives inside who have stuck things up so bad for so long need to change Four things: Friendliness, Compassion, Happiness, to 'mind your own business' and then additionally, to have the courage to be Magnanimous or else at least get out of the way. With Hopeful Regard of the Difficulties of the Situation, http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ -Buck This was suggested almost 12 years ago and could certainly work today: Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors, First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having excluded from the domes anyone who wanted to practice Maharishi's program there. We would like to welcome everyone back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you promise to practice what you have learned from Maharishi no more, no less. In turn, we promise to never again judge or exclude anyone for what they may choose to do with their private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right to do this. Let us all come together again in a spirit of love and acceptance, and begin once more to radiate the harmony and coherence for which the domes were built. This could also allow the TM-Taliban in the middle holding everyone hostage a face-saving way out appearing to be magnanimous on their part for all the trouble they have caused. -Buck The problem also here is that these people do not dialogue. These two statements tied together though, the mission and their welcoming apology as a statement, are something to work off of for dialogue. The mission: The immediate urgent priority for national invincibility and world peace is to join the Invincible America Assembly at MUM. Only 2000 Flyers in Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City will bring security to America and defuse the precarious escalation of conflict in the world. http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ Dateline Spiritual Fairfield, A Hurt Community. In a few weeks once the Pandits all arrive we still are going to be short of a consistent 2000+ people meditating in the Dome tallies and will probably need another couple hundred local meditators at the margins to come back to the Domes. The very real thing I am running in to now as I interview people is that the old movement meditators here feel they don't (should not) have to prove anything to the course to get back in to Dome to meditate. It's a strongly held sentiment. I'm talking with old cultured movement meditators applying for a badge who then with some vehemence are feeling they they should not have to explain themselves when it becomes apparent that the Capital has kept files on them. They are appalled. So it is. This last weekend Jonas Magram produced a folk evening of local musicians at the Paradiso stage. Someone told me that one performer did a R B rag with a spirited refrain that went on something like I ain't going to go to the Dome no more. Apparently it was really well done as a send up of the situation here. About 2/3's of the crowd applauded enthusiastically and 1/3 of the crowd sat stoically on their hands and were not amused at all. Of the larger meditating community, that is about the right ratio of how people feel about the organizational TM movement as they would consider coming back to help out with the numbers. I spoke with someone this weekend at a holiday get together, an old TM movement person, someone who had early spent a lot of face time around Maharishi, taught a lot of people to meditate, ran Centers who then observed that she felt completely offended that she would have to prove herself to the Course Office staff by chasing down recommends and attending advanced lectures at the Peace Palace. She lost interest right there to be involved in the cult again with her application to meditate in the Dome. She is a meditator here. She is someone who is here who was willing to be in the Dome meditating to help out. The feeling about how it has gone though is bad and defended. I ran in to three other people last week interviewing who spoke the same way about going back who had dropped pursuing their applications any further beyond initial interviews when they were met with questions about what was in their
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
Give it up Barry baby - you wish you were Ravi. I am your wildest fantasy that never finds the grace of reality and L will remain my wild fantasy - we just have to accept, that Tantra thingie you are talking about perhaps? On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity. Snidely suggesting his perplexity is dumb. No, it's not dumb. It's an excellent question that many of us have wondered about on those exceedingly rare occasions when Barry writes a post in which he isn't being a complete shit to *somebody*. To suggest otherwise is what's dumb. Our intrepid Doctor not only asked a very cogent question but he asked it very articulately. The thing is, Barry is one of those guys who comes into a room, excretes all sorts of bodily fluids all over everything, turns over the furniture and spray paints the walls then leaves. When the next person comes in and is horrified that their room has been trashed Barry can't, for the life of himself, understand what all the fuss is about then accuses the offended party of being some sort of uptight, clueless over-reactor. It's really quite astounding how he does it time after time and still doesn't take any responsibility. In fact, it's a miracle.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community
Oh, shut up, Buck. You and your emailer both. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Stop. Folks, A Stern warning given by e-mail posted on the side about this thread: That our movement's 'corporate climate' does not 'entertain negativity', which is personally interpreted by 'Some Higher Ups' as any criticism or even any debate. And any observation, (rumors included) other than whole compliance is viewed as obstruction. I do believe a solution here is in leadership and with the following points below: Going forward, The conservatives inside who have stuck things up so bad for so long need to change Four things: Friendliness, Compassion, Happiness, to 'mind your own business' and then additionally, to have the courage to be Magnanimous or else at least get out of the way. With Hopeful Regard of the Difficulties of the Situation, http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ -Buck This was suggested almost 12 years ago and could certainly work today: Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors, First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having excluded from the domes anyone who wanted to practice Maharishi's program there. We would like to welcome everyone back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you promise to practice what you have learned from Maharishi no more, no less. In turn, we promise to never again judge or exclude anyone for what they may choose to do with their private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right to do this. Let us all come together again in a spirit of love and acceptance, and begin once more to radiate the harmony and coherence for which the domes were built. This could also allow the TM-Taliban in the middle holding everyone hostage a face-saving way out appearing to be magnanimous on their part for all the trouble they have caused. -Buck The problem also here is that these people do not dialogue. These two statements tied together though, the mission and their welcoming apology as a statement, are something to work off of for dialogue. The mission: The immediate urgent priority for national invincibility and world peace is to join the Invincible America Assembly at MUM. Only 2000 Flyers in Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City will bring security to America and defuse the precarious escalation of conflict in the world. http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ Dateline Spiritual Fairfield, A Hurt Community. In a few weeks once the Pandits all arrive we still are going to be short of a consistent 2000+ people meditating in the Dome tallies and will probably need another couple hundred local meditators at the margins to come back to the Domes. The very real thing I am running in to now as I interview people is that the old movement meditators here feel they don't (should not) have to prove anything to the course to get back in to Dome to meditate. It's a strongly held sentiment. I'm talking with old cultured movement meditators applying for a badge who then with some vehemence are feeling they they should not have to explain themselves when it becomes apparent that the Capital has kept files on them. They are appalled. So it is. This last weekend Jonas Magram produced a folk evening of local musicians at the Paradiso stage. Someone told me that one performer did a R B rag with a spirited refrain that went on something like I ain't going to go to the Dome no more. Apparently it was really well done as a send up of the situation here. About 2/3's of the crowd applauded enthusiastically and 1/3 of the crowd sat stoically on their hands and were not amused at all. Of the larger meditating community, that is about the right ratio of how people feel about the organizational TM movement as they would consider coming back to help out with the numbers. I spoke with someone this weekend at a holiday get together, an old TM movement person, someone who had early spent a lot of face time around Maharishi, taught a lot of people to meditate, ran Centers who then observed that she felt completely offended that she would have to prove herself to the Course Office staff by chasing down recommends and attending advanced lectures at the Peace Palace. She lost interest right there to be involved in the cult again with her application to meditate in the Dome. She is a meditator here. She is someone who is here who was willing to be in the Dome meditating to help out. The feeling about how it has
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
Yea, the Mayan thing has been in the back of mind for about ten years, or ever since I read one book by Jose Arguilles, and a couple books by Barbara Hand Clow and Barbara Marciniak. I really enjoyed those books. Barbara Hand Clow's book talked about the earth going through a photon band at this time. Who knows. Anyway, I feel these years have been transformative for me. But for all I know it could just be the wisdom one gets as they get older. But with everything that's been going, I've been trying to stay more centered. For me that means staying a little more disciplined in my thoughts and not getting too stressed. And I had been doing a pretty good job, I think. So, I was disappointed that I let myself indulge in a little frustration, and a touch of self pity this morning. I've got far too many blessings for that. And yes, Ravi, I must admit, I too feel a connection with Devi, and I know those indulgences don't go over too well with her. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: I figure I was unstressing after the big liftoff at noon with the Mayans (-: From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 2:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches  I just checked in for a moment.  Tell me you're kidding.  This morning, getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife was close by checking the mail.  I had to step to the side of her where there happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale.  I knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade.  I apologized to her, and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my tirade wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, why do I have to fight so hard for everything little thing type of tirade. Anyway.  In better balance now.  Got to be. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Hmmm, must be something in the planets.àI bashed into my Mom's glass coffee table with my knee.àHad to apologize to her afterwards for the cussing that ensued.àHope you feel better soon.àI bet that Carol O of Bat would know who has crutches. From: Rick Archer rick@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches àDoes anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee. ÃÂ
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: Well, Judy got it right. I was making an insinuation, though not serious about it. I did not answer the rhetorical question you posed, or attempt to. There is a concept called 'coexistence of opposites', which if it were an experience, would take care of the dilemma. You have to ask how serious Barry is about what he says. He lobs bombs, with fish hooks attached, onto this forum, and if you are kind of like a fish swimming in these waters, do you bite? If he's not that serious, what's he doing lobbing bombs? But we aren't fish, Xeno, and Barry is not entitled to be the Master Baiter (depending on how you spell it). We're human beings, and so is he. Coexistence of opposites is a non sequitur, an empty phrase that is meant to sound impressive and wise but has no meaning or significance in this context. Barry's nastiness is more superficial than Judy's The salient characteristic of Barry's nastiness is that it's nearly always *gratuitous*, just for the sake of being nasty; and his criticisms are almost always *dishonest*, knowingly false. Neither is true of me. Those are the important distinctions between me and Barry. Whether he's unserious or superficial is debatable. Many of us think he's painfully shallow; but what he does here is clearly *extremely* important to him, so it doesn't make much sense to say he isn't serious. he is not so serious as I believe you are imagining. But of course this is my interpretation of what I read. The mind does not give us reality, it gives us distorted representations of reality, Some more distorted than others. Oh, it's all nothing but distorted representations of reality is an excuse just as Barry's Tantra notion is. and on occasion, gives us clues as to what reality might be about. Are you taking what people say here as true and false? Are you taking what is discussed, argued, and metaphorically shouted here as some kind of important reality? All this is horseshit. No, that's unkind to horseshit. It's apeshit, Xeno throwing his own shit around. Whether the FFL reality is important is not important. What's important is that people should treat other people like human beings no matter what the context. Too many people use FFL like their own private playground, with themselves the only real people in it. For a lesson in coexistence I would recommend the movie 'Life of Pi', how to get along in a completely unlivable situation. You aren't qualified to give lessons in human relations, Xeno.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
She doesn't really think it's a *photo*, does she? Or that, if such an alignment were ever to take place (not), we could actually see what the image depicts? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Nope, no photo. The photo came through in email but not on the website. As for Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, a quick Google search shows that being claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000 years? More like twice a year! Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just sit there sulking. Pull a planetary alignment out of thin air and everything becomes mystical and full of woo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hope photo comes through... PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Got your verb tenses a little mixed up there. And as noted, not only are we not about to see, feel, and participate it, it's not happening in the first place. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Alcyone is the brightest star in the Pleiades. It is by no means the largest star, nor is it in the center of our galaxy. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years Wrong. There is no such alignment, no such event. Where did you get all this misinformation? and no doubt will be felt within each of us.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
And yes, Ravi, I must admit, I too feel a connection with Devi, and I know those indulgences don't go over too well with her. Hey - Devi loves me and me alone, and for the rest of the eternity. But yes - Devi doesn't approve self-pity, stress, frustration and all that crap. Anyway the connection you feel with Devi is good - I'm happy for you !!! On Dec 21, 2012, at 4:10 PM, seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Yea, the Mayan thing has been in the back of mind for about ten years, or ever since I read one book by Jose Arguilles, and a couple books by Barbara Hand Clow and Barbara Marciniak. I really enjoyed those books. Barbara Hand Clow's book talked about the earth going through a photon band at this time. Who knows. Anyway, I feel these years have been transformative for me. But for all I know it could just be the wisdom one gets as they get older. But with everything that's been going, I've been trying to stay more centered. For me that means staying a little more disciplined in my thoughts and not getting too stressed. And I had been doing a pretty good job, I think. So, I was disappointed that I let myself indulge in a little frustration, and a touch of self pity this morning. I've got far too many blessings for that. And yes, Ravi, I must admit, I too feel a connection with Devi, and I know those indulgences don't go over too well with her. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: I figure I was unstressing after the big liftoff at noon with the Mayans (-: From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 2:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches  I just checked in for a moment.  Tell me you're kidding.  This morning, getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife was close by checking the mail.  I had to step to the side of her where there happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale.  I knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade.  I apologized to her, and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my tirade wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, why do I have to fight so hard for everything little thing type of tirade. Anyway.  In better balance now.  Got to be. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Hmmm, must be something in the planets. I bashed into my Mom's glass coffee table with my knee. Had to apologize to her afterwards for the cussing that ensued. Hope you feel better soon. I bet that Carol O of Bat would know who has crutches. From: Rick Archer rick@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches  Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee. ÂÂ
[FairfieldLife] Christmas
Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
Same wishes to you too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks MJ and of course same to you. Here is one of the best costumes (for a dog) that I have ever seen. [spotlight]
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Stop. Folks, A Stern warning given by e-mail posted on the side about this thread: That our movement's 'corporate climate' does not 'entertain negativity', which is personally interpreted by 'Some Higher Ups' as any criticism or even any debate. And any observation, (rumors included) other than whole compliance is viewed as obstruction. Welcome to George Orwell's '1984'. I do believe a solution here is in leadership and with the following points below: Going forward, The conservatives inside who have stuck things up so bad for so long need to change Four things: Friendliness, Compassion, Happiness, to 'mind your own business' and then additionally, to have the courage to be Magnanimous or else at least get out of the way. With Hopeful Regard of the Difficulties of the Situation, http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ -Buck This was suggested almost 12 years ago and could certainly work today: Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors, First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having excluded from the domes anyone who wanted to practice Maharishi's program there. We would like to welcome everyone back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you promise to practice what you have learned from Maharishi no more, no less. In turn, we promise to never again judge or exclude anyone for what they may choose to do with their private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right to do this. Let us all come together again in a spirit of love and acceptance, and begin once more to radiate the harmony and coherence for which the domes were built. This could also allow the TM-Taliban in the middle holding everyone hostage a face-saving way out appearing to be magnanimous on their part for all the trouble they have caused. -Buck The problem also here is that these people do not dialogue. These two statements tied together though, the mission and their welcoming apology as a statement, are something to work off of for dialogue. The mission: The immediate urgent priority for national invincibility and world peace is to join the Invincible America Assembly at MUM. Only 2000 Flyers in Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City will bring security to America and defuse the precarious escalation of conflict in the world. http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ Dateline Spiritual Fairfield, A Hurt Community. In a few weeks once the Pandits all arrive we still are going to be short of a consistent 2000+ people meditating in the Dome tallies and will probably need another couple hundred local meditators at the margins to come back to the Domes. The very real thing I am running in to now as I interview people is that the old movement meditators here feel they don't (should not) have to prove anything to the course to get back in to Dome to meditate. It's a strongly held sentiment. I'm talking with old cultured movement meditators applying for a badge who then with some vehemence are feeling they they should not have to explain themselves when it becomes apparent that the Capital has kept files on them. They are appalled. So it is. This last weekend Jonas Magram produced a folk evening of local musicians at the Paradiso stage. Someone told me that one performer did a R B rag with a spirited refrain that went on something like I ain't going to go to the Dome no more. Apparently it was really well done as a send up of the situation here. About 2/3's of the crowd applauded enthusiastically and 1/3 of the crowd sat stoically on their hands and were not amused at all. Of the larger meditating community, that is about the right ratio of how people feel about the organizational TM movement as they would consider coming back to help out with the numbers. I spoke with someone this weekend at a holiday get together, an old TM movement person, someone who had early spent a lot of face time around Maharishi, taught a lot of people to meditate, ran Centers who then observed that she felt completely offended that she would have to prove herself to the Course Office staff by chasing down recommends and attending advanced lectures at the Peace Palace. She lost interest right there to be involved in the cult again with her application to meditate in the Dome. She is a meditator here. She is someone who is here who was willing to be in the Dome meditating to help out. The feeling about how it has gone though
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: She doesn't really think it's a *photo*, does she? Or that, if such an alignment were ever to take place (not), we could actually see what the image depicts? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Nope, no photo. The photo came through in email but not on the website. As for Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, a quick Google search shows that being claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000 years? More like twice a year! Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just sit there sulking. Pull a planetary alignment out of thin air and everything becomes mystical and full of woo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hope photo comes through... PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Got your verb tenses a little mixed up there. And as noted, not only are we not about to see, feel, and participate it, it's not happening in the first place. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Alcyone is the brightest star in the Pleiades. It is by no means the largest star, nor is it in the center of our galaxy. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years Wrong. There is no such alignment, no such event. Where did you get all this misinformation? and no doubt will be felt within each of us. sputter, sputter, tt.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Well, Judy got it right. I was making an insinuation, though not serious about it. I did not answer the rhetorical question you posed, or attempt to. There is a concept called 'coexistence of opposites', which if it were an experience, would take care of the dilemma. You have to ask how serious Barry is about what he says. He lobs bombs, with fish hooks attached, onto this forum, and if you are kind of like a fish swimming in these waters, do you bite? If he's not that serious, what's he doing lobbing bombs? But we aren't fish, Xeno, and Barry is not entitled to be the Master Baiter (depending on how you spell it). We're human beings, and so is he. Coexistence of opposites is a non sequitur, an empty phrase that is meant to sound impressive and wise but has no meaning or significance in this context. Barry's nastiness is more superficial than Judy's The salient characteristic of Barry's nastiness is that it's nearly always *gratuitous*, just for the sake of being nasty; and his criticisms are almost always *dishonest*, knowingly false. Neither is true of me. Those are the important distinctions between me and Barry. Whether he's unserious or superficial is debatable. Many of us think he's painfully shallow; but what he does here is clearly *extremely* important to him, so it doesn't make much sense to say he isn't serious. he is not so serious as I believe you are imagining. But of course this is my interpretation of what I read. The mind does not give us reality, it gives us distorted representations of reality, Some more distorted than others. Oh, it's all nothing but distorted representations of reality is an excuse just as Barry's Tantra notion is. and on occasion, gives us clues as to what reality might be about. Are you taking what people say here as true and false? Are you taking what is discussed, argued, and metaphorically shouted here as some kind of important reality? All this is horseshit. No, that's unkind to horseshit. It's apeshit, Xeno throwing his own shit around. Whether the FFL reality is important is not important. What's important is that people should treat other people like human beings no matter what the context. Too many people use FFL like their own private playground, with themselves the only real people in it. For a lesson in coexistence I would recommend the movie 'Life of Pi', how to get along in a completely unlivable situation. You aren't qualified to give lessons in human relations, Xeno. I was not talking about human relations. But I would agree with you that if you wanted to inform yourself about the nature of human relations, I would not be your best bet by a long shot.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community
Leadership and the Dome Numbers Cliff.. So, who is responsible for the really poor community numbers in the Domes? Saha Nav Hah! http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: Oh, shut up, Buck. You and your emailer both. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Stop. Folks, A Stern warning given by e-mail posted on the side about this thread: That our movement's 'corporate climate' does not 'entertain negativity', which is personally interpreted by 'Some Higher Ups' as any criticism or even any debate. And any observation, (rumors included) other than whole compliance is viewed as obstruction. I do believe a solution here is in leadership and with the following points below: Going forward, The conservatives inside who have stuck things up so bad for so long need to change Four things: Friendliness, Compassion, Happiness, to 'mind your own business' and then additionally, to have the courage to be Magnanimous or else at least get out of the way. With Hopeful Regard of the Difficulties of the Situation, http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ -Buck This was suggested almost 12 years ago and could certainly work today: Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors, First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having excluded from the domes anyone who wanted to practice Maharishi's program there. We would like to welcome everyone back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you promise to practice what you have learned from Maharishi no more, no less. In turn, we promise to never again judge or exclude anyone for what they may choose to do with their private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right to do this. Let us all come together again in a spirit of love and acceptance, and begin once more to radiate the harmony and coherence for which the domes were built. This could also allow the TM-Taliban in the middle holding everyone hostage a face-saving way out appearing to be magnanimous on their part for all the trouble they have caused. -Buck The problem also here is that these people do not dialogue. These two statements tied together though, the mission and their welcoming apology as a statement, are something to work off of for dialogue. The mission: The immediate urgent priority for national invincibility and world peace is to join the Invincible America Assembly at MUM. Only 2000 Flyers in Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City will bring security to America and defuse the precarious escalation of conflict in the world. http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ Dateline Spiritual Fairfield, A Hurt Community. In a few weeks once the Pandits all arrive we still are going to be short of a consistent 2000+ people meditating in the Dome tallies and will probably need another couple hundred local meditators at the margins to come back to the Domes. The very real thing I am running in to now as I interview people is that the old movement meditators here feel they don't (should not) have to prove anything to the course to get back in to Dome to meditate. It's a strongly held sentiment. I'm talking with old cultured movement meditators applying for a badge who then with some vehemence are feeling they they should not have to explain themselves when it becomes apparent that the Capital has kept files on them. They are appalled. So it is. This last weekend Jonas Magram produced a folk evening of local musicians at the Paradiso stage. Someone told me that one performer did a R B rag with a spirited refrain that went on something like I ain't going to go to the Dome no more. Apparently it was really well done as a send up of the situation here. About 2/3's of the crowd applauded enthusiastically and 1/3 of the crowd sat stoically on their hands and were not amused at all. Of the larger meditating community, that is about the right ratio of how people feel about the organizational TM movement as they would consider coming back to help out with the numbers. I spoke with someone this weekend at a holiday get together, an old TM movement person, someone who had early spent a lot of face time around Maharishi, taught a lot of people to meditate, ran Centers who then observed that she felt completely offended that she would have to prove herself to the Course Office staff by chasing down recommends and attending advanced lectures at the Peace Palace. She lost interest right there to be involved in the cult again with her application to meditate
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: She doesn't really think it's a *photo*, does she? Or that, if such an alignment were ever to take place (not), we could actually see what the image depicts? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Nope, no photo. The photo came through in email but not on the website. As for Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, a quick Google search shows that being claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000 years? More like twice a year! Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just sit there sulking. Pull a planetary alignment out of thin air and everything becomes mystical and full of woo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hope photo comes through... PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12. Got your verb tenses a little mixed up there. And as noted, not only are we not about to see, feel, and participate it, it's not happening in the first place. Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone, the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Alcyone is the brightest star in the Pleiades. It is by no means the largest star, nor is it in the center of our galaxy. Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event that occurs every 25,000 years Wrong. There is no such alignment, no such event. Where did you get all this misinformation? http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-alignment.html and no doubt will be felt within each of us.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
[FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder. [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then Oh, no, Shakti, your magnificent Siberian Forest cat? I'm so sorry. That is really tough. From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@ wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then So sorry to hear that. I have never grieved more deeply than I have for my departed dogs. I am sure your beloved cat deserved every tear you shed, and more. From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@ wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then Sorry for your loss, MJ. Christmas Cheer for you and everyone who has been blessed to love a pet. http://tinyurl.com/cqybnqx From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@ wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy
Ann, Is that your picture? If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :) JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder. [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Ann, Is that your picture? If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :) No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is lucky to be married to me nonetheless! JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder. [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
Its more like passing an alley and see some guy taking a leak on the side of a building. It Stinks. You ask him as he exits the alley if he just peed on the wall, and he smiles, turning both hands into mudras, and replies, No, it is Tantra, as he remembers to zip up his trousers. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Who the fuck ARE you, anyway?? Here is this perfectly reasonable, though facile, recount of an ordinary experience, with a photo attached. And yet you only seem to turn into this guy, briefly, after being a complete shit to everyone, for awhile. Anyway, just asking the question... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family... Perhaps a web handle like 'doctordumbass' might explain this perplexity. Snidely suggesting his perplexity is dumb. No, it's not dumb. It's an excellent question that many of us have wondered about on those exceedingly rare occasions when Barry writes a post in which he isn't being a complete shit to *somebody*. To suggest otherwise is what's dumb. Our intrepid Doctor not only asked a very cogent question but he asked it very articulately. The thing is, Barry is one of those guys who comes into a room, excretes all sorts of bodily fluids all over everything, turns over the furniture and spray paints the walls then leaves. When the next person comes in and is horrified that their room has been trashed Barry can't, for the life of himself, understand what all the fuss is about then accuses the offended party of being some sort of uptight, clueless over-reactor. It's really quite astounding how he does it time after time and still doesn't take any responsibility. In fact, it's a miracle.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
I've got nothing much more to say on this topic, but am replying to it anyway to point out the contrast between what I wrote (below) and the angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get- Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, Ann, and Ravi. Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030287168_411824051_n.jpg]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
Check out the fake eyelashes! I think she'd be prettier without them, but I'm just being my judgmental self. From: Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:42 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
My condolences Michael. It's never easy to put one's cat companion down. From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone. Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
Gz, I don't know about you three. I woke up grounded, centered, clear, and out of the higher and higher anxiety I've been experiencing most of this month. So high, in fact, I was waking up in tears the last two days and spontaneously crying my way through the whole day. It's a good thing it's been raining here - no one can tell on my ever-longer dog walks. This AM, I woke up early and completely calm - it was very woo woo as I was expecting another day of emotional hell. Of course, not believing in the power of 12-21-12, I am going to start with some preventative actions in my daily life - I suck at self-care. Anyhow, a welcome relief. And then, the fortune in my fortune cookie tonight said this is a good month to take a financial risk. It just gets better and better From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 12:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches I just checked in for a moment. Tell me you're kidding. This morning, getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife was close by checking the mail. I had to step to the side of her where there happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale. I knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade. I apologized to her, and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my tirade wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, why do I have to fight so hard for everything little thing type of tirade. Anyway. In better balance now. Got to be. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Hmmm, must be something in the planets. I bashed into my Mom's glass coffee table with my knee. Had to apologize to her afterwards for the cussing that ensued. Hope you feel better soon. I bet that Carol O of Bat would know who has crutches. From: Rick Archer rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches  Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on the ice and hurt my knee. Â
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I've got nothing much more to say on this topic, but am replying to it anyway to point out the contrast between what I wrote (below) and the angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get- Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, Ann, and Ravi. Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say? :-) No. Or not the way you'd like to think. No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your fantasy, and also an example of what we've been talking about. The contrast is between what you wrote below and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/ DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are your stock in trade, the smarmy I'm just pushing buttons garbage, the faux-Tantra nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest wisp of self-knowledge. You can dish it out, but you can't take it, never have been able to take it, not since I've known you. You think you're entitled to gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like shitting on without ever having to take responsibility for it. You're a coward and a bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally a disgrace as a human being. One pretty little word picture and photo does not erase all that ugliness we're forced to endure from you. If you feel put-upon because you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish instead of getting strokes for your creative effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having to live with you either. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family. And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it. One of the benefits of living in a tight, crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it. The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light On Water. The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were when they arrived. It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt itself to them. It's a cool effect. I kinda like it. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030287168_411824051_n.jpg]
