[FairfieldLife] May Day
Today is a holiday in France and, to tell the truth, most of the Northern Hemisphere. The only exception seems to be the United States, which abandoned the holiday during the Cold War. They were fearful that if they celebrated it they'd be called Commies (due to the holiday's association with International Worker's Day), so they created Labor Day on another day entirely. Yet another proof that paranoia is its own punishment. :-) The holiday is, of course, much older than Communism, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian traditions (another reason the uptight Americans eschewed it), and celebrating the Celtic/Pagan goddess Flora, ruler of flowers. In France, way back in 1561, King Charles IX received a lily on that day, and being the superstitious cuss he was, considered it a good omen. So he developed the custom of giving lilies to the women of the court, a tradition that persists to this day. All over Paris there will be stands selling lilies, which you are supposed to buy and give to the women in your life. I plan to do the same thing today, buying a big bouquet of lilies and giving them to the women I find attractive. Especially the frowny ones...there is always the chance that a flower from a stranger can bring a smile to their faces, and that's worth taking a chance on. So here's wishing a happy May Day to all FFLers. Or, for our Nordic contingent, a happy Walpurgisnacht to Nabby and a happy Walpurgis Night to Card. To our UK friends, I wish you a happy Beltane, and hope that you don't scorch your balls if you're jumping over a bonfire naked later tonight in a fit of Pagan revelry. :-) Even some Canadians celebrate May Day, so here's a virtual lily extended to Ann and Robin, even though I don't expect it to cause either of them to smile. I don't think we have any Hawaiians on FFL, but if we have a few lurking, I wish them a happy Lei Day. May you all enjoy a hula or two, and get happily Lei'd at the end of the day. For the Americans, well, there's not much one can do. For them, it's just another work day like any other, and chances are that even being handed a flower by a stranger wouldn't lighten it. Someday I hope that the country gets over its belief that May Poles are for shoving up one's ass and leaving them there permanently, and learns that they are for dancing around.
[FairfieldLife] Another reason to celebrate
Not only is it May Day, it's Post Out Day. :-) The long, annoying attempt to get Share and Curtis (and, in passing, me and anyone else who dares to like or support either one) will probably come to an end. NOT because the perpetrators have run out of bile and venom and grudges, but because they'll run out of posts. The instigator of all of this, Judy, only has 2 posts left. Doctordumbass (gotta compliment him on picking, finally, the right screen name to hide behind) has only six left. Ravi can only splooge three more of his ...uh...offerings onto our screens before heading for the bench. I guess Ann and Emily will have to keep the hate-ball rolling, with 16 and 12 posts remaining, respectively. Me, I've still got 35 posts left. Try to imagine the frustration they'll feel about that, and the paranoia they'll feel that I might say something about them they can't refute for a couple of days. Fuck lilies...that thought puts a smile on *my* face. :-) :-) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Tidy Sum!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html Turns out there isn't but I thought I would work out what 60,000 Crore actually was in proper money. 1 crore = 10,000,000 rupees. 1000 rupees = 12.9 British pounds. 1 crore = 112,885 British pounds. 60,000 crore = 6,833,100,000 British pounds. That article claims that one 900 acre bit of land is worth 15,000 crore, or about $1.5 billion British pounds ($3 billion US), despite being completely run down. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
--- turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Today is a holiday in France and, to tell the truth, most of the Northern Hemisphere. The only exception seems to be the United States, which abandoned the holiday during the Cold War. They were fearful that if they celebrated it they'd be called Commies (due to the holiday's association with International Worker's Day), so they created Labor Day on another day entirely. Yet another proof that paranoia is its own punishment. :-) The holiday is, of course, much older than Communism, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian traditions (another reason the uptight Americans eschewed it), and celebrating the Celtic/Pagan goddess Flora, ruler of flowers. In France, way back in 1561, King Charles IX received a lily on that day, and being the superstitious cuss he was, considered it a good omen. So he developed the custom of giving lilies to the women of the court, a tradition that persists to this day. All over Paris there will be stands selling lilies, which you are supposed to buy and give to the women in your life. I plan to do the same thing today, buying a big bouquet of lilies and giving them to the women I find attractive. Especially the frowny ones...there is always the chance that a flower from a stranger can bring a smile to their faces, and that's worth taking a chance on. So here's wishing a happy May Day to all FFLers. Or, for our Nordic contingent, a happy Walpurgisnacht to Nabby and a happy Walpurgis Night to Card. I am sure your gesture is well appreciated here. It's a big day in asia as well. The point is kind words alone are not enough. What is really needed is a paradigm shift in the way we view the political process itself. Norway seems to have struck a good balance between political ideology and economic ideology. The US and Britain insist and persist in using a mercenary political system in which the lawmakers represent their sponsors and not the people. Narrow vested interests try to step into the political space and hijack the political system. Powerful corporate intrests want to keep status quo and use this dogmatic, obsolete political system. Nothing in the universe is static. All things change, mutate and evolve. We evolve better systems only for our survival. When a political-party receives funds from corporates and private vested interests. It's ethics and loyalty to the republic gets compromised on a subtle level. It happens unconsciously and it's not apparent on the surface. In Norway, Government funding accounted for 68 per cent of 'political parties' income in the election year 2011. http://www.ssb.no/partifin_en/ Here are some excerpts from the website below. http://www.idea.int/political-finance/country.cfm?cc=NO 19. Are there provisions for direct public funding to political parties? In Norway, registered political parties at national level have been subsidised by the state since the early 1970s. Parties at local and county level of have received state subsidies since 1975.; Over recent decades the funding provided to parties has undergone a significant increase. 20. If there are provisions for direct public funding to political parties, what are the eligibility criteria? P 7, The funding is based on the amount of votes a national, county or local party/party unit has received in the most recent elections at national, regional or local level. At national level, political parties may apply to the Ministry of Government Administration for government grants.; These government grants are divided into ;called vote support (90 percent of the total annual funding provided) and basic support (10 percent of the total annual funding provided).; Vote support is provided in proportion to the amount of votes the political party received in the respective elections.; No threshold exists for receiving vote support.; Basic support is provided to political parties at national level which have received at least 2.percent of the votes in the last national election or had at least 1 representative elected to the Storting (Section 11 PPA).; To our UK friends, I wish you a happy Beltane, and hope that you don't scorch your balls if you're jumping over a bonfire naked later tonight in a fit of Pagan revelry. :-) Even some Canadians celebrate May Day, so here's a virtual lily extended to Ann and Robin, even though I don't expect it to cause either of them to smile. I don't think we have any Hawaiians on FFL, but if we have a few lurking, I wish them a happy Lei Day. May you all enjoy a hula or two, and get happily Lei'd at the end of the day. For the Americans, well, there's not much one can do. For them, it's just another work day like any other, and chances are that even being handed a flower by a stranger wouldn't lighten it. Someday I hope that the country gets over its belief that May Poles are for shoving up one's
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Tidy Sum!
--- Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear FFL, That dredged up old copy is such a piece of demoralizing and terrifying propaganda whether it is true or not. In fact I feel it is hateful to be posting crap like that here while like the phoenix the TM movement is rising again teaching transcendence once again. A large meditation movement is coming right now out of a few people doing good work. It is once again like the times of old TM, a movement where a few people have fanned out and are connecting the message of spiritual regeneration in to a rudderless culture ready to hear it new at a time of great transition. Dredging up an old dateline proves nothing. That journalism is nearly a year old. Those of us who know better are moving forward with meditation and leaving the rest behind. The past is a lesser state of evolution, look now to the youth of the future and a better world. It is time to step forward. -Buck in the Dome --- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: Erm, it's a year old. Which means the lawyers are preparing their briefs and booking court time for the showdown. All of which will get posted here because this is what the TMO has been about - huge amounts of money being raised under false pretences and invested without any of the original projects coming to fruition. Like it or not, people care about what gets done with their money and to call it propaganda is as devious as raising cash for global world towers of world peace and then buying some office block in Dheli and forgetting about it until the next fundraising drive which, if memory serves, was the give me a billion dollars and I'll save the world panhandle. And all the people I know who would shake their heads and say; if *only* we had the money we could save the world, would then reach into their wallets for their well worn credit cards one more time all while not knowing that there is billions just sitting in a land bank. Every couple of years a new project, another new reason to give. And everyone thinks they failed because there wasn't enough money! J'accuse *you* of propaganda in trying to suppress the ugly facts. I'm all for truth and reconcilliation myself. That's the whole point, isn't it? 10 Lakhs is = One million 10 million is = One Crore 100 Crores is = One billion Considering the vast amount on money locked up in land assets and nothing productive came out of it, it's not a surprise that donations are dwindling and the goodwill is diminishing. All movements tend to shrink after it's founders time. Yogananda, Ramana, Ramakrishna math, Hare Krishna and even the Rama Lenz guy. --- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I was checking up on the *real* big story in TM just to see if there were any developments in the argument over Marshy's alleged 60,000 crore fortune: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html Turns out there isn't but I thought I would work out what 60,000 Crore actually was in proper money. 1 crore = 10,000,000 rupees. 1000 rupees = 12.9 British pounds. 1 crore = 112,885 British pounds. 60,000 crore = 6,833,100,000 British pounds. This is a quite extraordinary amount of money and completely give the lie to Marshy's plea for a billion dollars to save the world. They already had it many times over! But still the call goes out to support the pundit programme. Still, my friends give money every month - thinking that the movement actually needs support. People I know working for the TMO *still* don't get paid a penny for their efforts, but more money is going to be needed to pay lawyers to get back the money people have already given. The rajas presumably know all this and have acquired Marshy's gift of compartmentalising the TMO so that one section (the mug punters) think it's in a state of poverty and spend their lives working to donate and keep it afloat. While the other section spends its time investing in land and managing the ever growing fortune. When I learned TM I was put on the very keen database which meant I got begging letters for every project the TMO claimed to be working on. But I decided not to give them anything until I knew a bit more about them - like where the money actually went. Now I know and feel happy that I was never a donor. What a rip-off. What a con. But I do almost admire a mind capable of pulling off such a stunt over so many decades. PS. This all assuming the Indian paper has its facts right. I've checked the conversion rates and used two calculators to make sure of my figures and it looks like £7 billion. If my maths are completely askew don't blame me, blame my maths teacher. She was rubbish, it wasn't me.
[FairfieldLife] Les joies d'un petit dejeuner
Americans and Brits (and, to some extent, the Dutch) have this odd idea about breakfast. They believe that the only way to face the coming day is after pigging out on as much protein as humanly possible, stuffing mounds of eggs, sausage, and bacon (and, for the Brits, baked beans...ick) into their mouths and spending the rest of the morning trying to digest them. Me, that just makes me sluggish and sleepy, the *last* thing I want going for me in the mornings. Besides, my old and metabolism-slowed-down body is still working on digesting dinner early in the mornings, so I don't have *room* for all that stuff. So at home I content myself with coffee and a piece of toast or English muffin or (if I feel the need for a protein boost) a bagel with cream cheese. That keeps me going just fine until lunch, without any energy or attention-deficit dropouts. So France is just My Kinda Place. The French seem to have similar metabolisms to mine. The cafes may offer un petit déjeuner Americaine, with all of the above excess, but that's just for tourists. Real French people content themselves with what is in front of me as I type this -- a petit déjeuner consisting of coffee, a glass of juice, a tartine (a 1/4 slice of a standard French baguette, served with jam), and a hot croissant, fresh from the bakery next door. Heaven On Earth. Maharishi can keep his version of that term. I don't need world peace and blissed-out devas dancing the Brahmaloka Suffle in the streets to have a good morning. And I *certainly* don't need no spiritual fascists telling me what a good morning entails and how I *have* to enjoy it, trudging through the snow to the Holy Lemming Domes. Buck might be willing to settle for that shit, but I am not. It's too damned restrictive. It negates the joys and charms (and yes...occasional less-than-charming scenarios) of the real world, seeking to replace them with a fantasy world that does not, has not in the past, and never will in the future exist. Here and now exists. And it does a pretty good job of existing, if you ask me. It's still a little cloudy and chilly here, but that just makes for comfortable walking, and I plan to do a lot of walking today. My petit déjeuner will keep me fueled and walking just fine until lunch time, which I will hopefully spend in yet another sidewalk cafe. My kinda Heaven On Earth. YMMV.
[FairfieldLife] Lying?
Is lying, or at least exaggerating, in most cases necessary for e.g. commercial success? As an example, was the original success of Coca Cola based on big lies about its health benefits?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lying?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: Is lying, or at least exaggerating, in most cases necessary for e.g. commercial success? As an example, was the original success of Coca Cola based on big lies about its health benefits? Wiki: Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.[11]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lying?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Is lying, or at least exaggerating, in most cases necessary for e.g. commercial success? As an example, was the original success of Coca Cola based on big lies about its health benefits? Wiki: Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.[11] So, without the art of telling non-truths, would we still be bushmen? RO-FLL-OL!
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Vedic Observatory Course
Maharishi Vedic Observatory Course 20 - 25 May 2013, MERU, Holland Also available as a Webinar http://www.merucourses.com/videos/Vedic_observatory_2013/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Les joies d'un petit dejeuner
Aww, c'mon Turq, you know Marshy based all his cream puff dream enticements on the fabulous Vedic society that once existed somewhere way back in the mists of time, you know along with Atlantis, Lemuria and all those other enlightened societies, like that Gobi desert deal that old liar Guy Ballard yapped about? From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Les joies d'un petit dejeuner Americans and Brits (and, to some extent, the Dutch) have this odd idea about breakfast. They believe that the only way to face the coming day is after pigging out on as much protein as humanly possible, stuffing mounds of eggs, sausage, and bacon (and, for the Brits, baked beans...ick) into their mouths and spending the rest of the morning trying to digest them. Me, that just makes me sluggish and sleepy, the *last* thing I want going for me in the mornings. Besides, my old and metabolism-slowed-down body is still working on digesting dinner early in the mornings, so I don't have *room* for all that stuff. So at home I content myself with coffee and a piece of toast or English muffin or (if I feel the need for a protein boost) a bagel with cream cheese. That keeps me going just fine until lunch, without any energy or attention-deficit dropouts. So France is just My Kinda Place. The French seem to have similar metabolisms to mine. The cafes may offer un petit déjeuner Americaine, with all of the above excess, but that's just for tourists. Real French people content themselves with what is in front of me as I type this -- a petit déjeuner consisting of coffee, a glass of juice, a tartine (a 1/4 slice of a standard French baguette, served with jam), and a hot croissant, fresh from the bakery next door. Heaven On Earth. Maharishi can keep his version of that term. I don't need world peace and blissed-out devas dancing the Brahmaloka Suffle in the streets to have a good morning. And I *certainly* don't need no spiritual fascists telling me what a good morning entails and how I *have* to enjoy it, trudging through the snow to the Holy Lemming Domes. Buck might be willing to settle for that shit, but I am not. It's too damned restrictive. It negates the joys and charms (and yes...occasional less-than-charming scenarios) of the real world, seeking to replace them with a fantasy world that does not, has not in the past, and never will in the future exist. Here and now exists. And it does a pretty good job of existing, if you ask me. It's still a little cloudy and chilly here, but that just makes for comfortable walking, and I plan to do a lot of walking today. My petit déjeuner will keep me fueled and walking just fine until lunch time, which I will hopefully spend in yet another sidewalk cafe. My kinda Heaven On Earth. YMMV.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lying?
Maybe it did cure all that stuff, after all, it did have coca leaf in it - I bet it was 10 times better than amrit kalash From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 6:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lying? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: Is lying, or at least exaggerating, in most cases necessary for e.g. commercial success? As an example, was the original success of Coca Cola based on big lies about its health benefits? Wiki: Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.[11]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lying?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Is lying, or at least exaggerating, in most cases necessary for e.g. commercial success? As an example, was the original success of Coca Cola based on big lies about its health benefits? Wiki: Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.[11] So, without the art of telling non-truths, would we still be bushmen? RO-FLL-OL! Probably. We'd also be non-religious, as Ricky Gervais makes a good case for in his film The Invention Of Lying. It's really a good film, and paints a portrait of what a society that had never learned to lie would be like. If you're interested in this subject, you *have* to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-H2dNfx-Uw
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Tidy Sum!
Are Board members like Bevan and John legally liable for the financial misdeeds of the entire organization, especially the Indian contingent? I wonder if they knew all along that things were not right and yet felt helpless to confront MMY's relatives and so just looked the other way? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: --- Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear FFL, That dredged up old copy is such a piece of demoralizing and terrifying propaganda whether it is true or not. In fact I feel it is hateful to be posting crap like that here while like the phoenix the TM movement is rising again teaching transcendence once again. A large meditation movement is coming right now out of a few people doing good work. It is once again like the times of old TM, a movement where a few people have fanned out and are connecting the message of spiritual regeneration in to a rudderless culture ready to hear it new at a time of great transition. Dredging up an old dateline proves nothing. That journalism is nearly a year old. Those of us who know better are moving forward with meditation and leaving the rest behind. The past is a lesser state of evolution, look now to the youth of the future and a better world. It is time to step forward. -Buck in the Dome --- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Erm, it's a year old. Which means the lawyers are preparing their briefs and booking court time for the showdown. All of which will get posted here because this is what the TMO has been about - huge amounts of money being raised under false pretences and invested without any of the original projects coming to fruition. Like it or not, people care about what gets done with their money and to call it propaganda is as devious as raising cash for global world towers of world peace and then buying some office block in Dheli and forgetting about it until the next fundraising drive which, if memory serves, was the give me a billion dollars and I'll save the world panhandle. And all the people I know who would shake their heads and say; if *only* we had the money we could save the world, would then reach into their wallets for their well worn credit cards one more time all while not knowing that there is billions just sitting in a land bank. Every couple of years a new project, another new reason to give. And everyone thinks they failed because there wasn't enough money! J'accuse *you* of propaganda in trying to suppress the ugly facts. I'm all for truth and reconcilliation myself. That's the whole point, isn't it? 10 Lakhs is = One million 10 million is = One Crore 100 Crores is = One billion Considering the vast amount on money locked up in land assets and nothing productive came out of it, it's not a surprise that donations are dwindling and the goodwill is diminishing. All movements tend to shrink after it's founders time. Yogananda, Ramana, Ramakrishna math, Hare Krishna and even the Rama Lenz guy. --- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I was checking up on the *real* big story in TM just to see if there were any developments in the argument over Marshy's alleged 60,000 crore fortune: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html Turns out there isn't but I thought I would work out what 60,000 Crore actually was in proper money. 1 crore = 10,000,000 rupees. 1000 rupees = 12.9 British pounds. 1 crore = 112,885 British pounds. 60,000 crore = 6,833,100,000 British pounds. This is a quite extraordinary amount of money and completely give the lie to Marshy's plea for a billion dollars to save the world. They already had it many times over! But still the call goes out to support the pundit programme. Still, my friends give money every month - thinking that the movement actually needs support. People I know working for the TMO *still* don't get paid a penny for their efforts, but more money is going to be needed to pay lawyers to get back the money people have already given. The rajas presumably know all this and have acquired Marshy's gift of compartmentalising the TMO so that one section (the mug punters) think it's in a state of poverty and spend their lives working to donate and keep it afloat. While the other section spends its time investing in land and managing the ever growing fortune. When I learned TM I was put on the very keen database which meant I got begging letters for every project the TMO claimed to be working on. But I decided not to give them anything until I knew a bit more about them - like where the money actually went. Now I know and feel happy that I was never a donor. What a
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lying?
Well, perhaps he actually believed it did... But what the fvck is William's definition of sexual relations? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZfrLTD1PZ0 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Maybe it did cure all that stuff, after all, it did have coca leaf in it - I bet it was 10 times better than amrit kalash From: card cardemaister@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 6:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lying? Â --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Is lying, or at least exaggerating, in most cases necessary for e.g. commercial success? As an example, was the original success of Coca Cola based on big lies about its health benefits? Wiki: Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.[11]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Groovy at the Godless Church.
hey salyavin, according to the Catholic Church of my youth, once a person is baptised they have what is called, an indelible mark on the soul showing that. If I remember correctly, the other sacraments that leave indelible marks are Confirmation and Holy Orders. So in this sense one is never really even an ex Catholic. I * left the Church * when I was 17. In the beginning I thought of myself as an ex or lapsed Catholic. But that label has dropped from my thinking as time goes by. And sometimes for family events, I still attend Mass and Communion. I admit this probably horrifies me half sister who has been a devout Catholic. OTOH she did ask me to be godmother for her youngest so maybe not (-: I really don't like the word seeker and humanist sounds a little dry. I've read books etc. in which people use the phrase spiritual but not religious. But even the word spiritual doesn't sound encompassing enough to me now. Does that make any sense? How about devoted Earthling? From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Groovy at the Godless Church. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: That is interesting. Lot like the primitive Quaker meeting. Like the Sunday Quaker meeting we have in Fairfield. Very high spiritual group gathering but not religious in the sense of iron age mythology. Very contemporary. Interesting how something fills a need that we all have, whether it's religious or not doesn't seem to matter. When they start reading Richard Dawkins lectures and saying 'all praise to DNA' at the end is when I'll start to think it's odd... Polling shows that ex-Catholics are the third largest religious group in the United States. What do they call themselves now then? http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-24/national/38776675_1_communion-body-and-blood-catholic-church
[FairfieldLife] world map showing where research is being done
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[FairfieldLife] Unclaimed - The Documentary
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Les joies d'un petit dejeuner
Chuckling as I remember when I was 20 something and married and breakfast would be coffee and a cigarette! In my 40s I confess there was a time or two when I had melted Haagen Daaz coffee ice cream for breakfast. Thus the eventual necessity to remove gall bladder and accompanying stones! Making amends for such indulgence, I tried baked pears which are also quite yummy but I'm not much of a fruit eater. Now it's instant oatmeal sweetened with stevia from the Amazon rainforest and devoid of milk. I keep wishing I could get my Mom off the morning milk because it's sugar on an empty stomach. Not best for her Type II. I try not to badger. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Les joies d'un petit dejeuner Americans and Brits (and, to some extent, the Dutch) have this odd idea about breakfast. They believe that the only way to face the coming day is after pigging out on as much protein as humanly possible, stuffing mounds of eggs, sausage, and bacon (and, for the Brits, baked beans...ick) into their mouths and spending the rest of the morning trying to digest them. Me, that just makes me sluggish and sleepy, the *last* thing I want going for me in the mornings. Besides, my old and metabolism-slowed-down body is still working on digesting dinner early in the mornings, so I don't have *room* for all that stuff. So at home I content myself with coffee and a piece of toast or English muffin or (if I feel the need for a protein boost) a bagel with cream cheese. That keeps me going just fine until lunch, without any energy or attention-deficit dropouts. So France is just My Kinda Place. The French seem to have similar metabolisms to mine. The cafes may offer un petit déjeuner Americaine, with all of the above excess, but that's just for tourists. Real French people content themselves with what is in front of me as I type this -- a petit déjeuner consisting of coffee, a glass of juice, a tartine (a 1/4 slice of a standard French baguette, served with jam), and a hot croissant, fresh from the bakery next door. Heaven On Earth. Maharishi can keep his version of that term. I don't need world peace and blissed-out devas dancing the Brahmaloka Suffle in the streets to have a good morning. And I *certainly* don't need no spiritual fascists telling me what a good morning entails and how I *have* to enjoy it, trudging through the snow to the Holy Lemming Domes. Buck might be willing to settle for that shit, but I am not. It's too damned restrictive. It negates the joys and charms (and yes...occasional less-than-charming scenarios) of the real world, seeking to replace them with a fantasy world that does not, has not in the past, and never will in the future exist. Here and now exists. And it does a pretty good job of existing, if you ask me. It's still a little cloudy and chilly here, but that just makes for comfortable walking, and I plan to do a lot of walking today. My petit déjeuner will keep me fueled and walking just fine until lunch time, which I will hopefully spend in yet another sidewalk cafe. My kinda Heaven On Earth. YMMV.
[FairfieldLife] Free Man In Paris, v2.17
People-watching is SO much fun. Even when the sidewalk café I'm sitting in is chilly (13C) and the people walking by are all bundled up. No short skirts and muscle shirts today, methinks. But the unseasonal chill in the air has not daunted the spirit of the French and tourists walking by. Some of their thoughts may be on the cold, but their hearts are warm, if the smiles on their faces are any indication. After all, they're in Paris, and on holiday. The Centre Pompidou, opposite which I'm sitting in one of my favorite writing and people-watching cafés, is closed today for the holiday. Here's a photo of it, from their free Wifi login page (it's still daylight in my view): [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8132/8697770111_c3e52f4005.jpg] My intended destination was the Musée Guimet, in which resides the originals of The Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama. I've been dying to see it, but the 16th arrondissement is just so far away -- both spatially and in terms of mindset (it's full of unhappy rich people) -- that I haven't made it there yet. But alas, it's closed, too, so I won't make it there today, either. Maybe over the weekend. One thing I notice as people walk by is that it's remarkably easy to tell the French from the tourists. Especially the women. The tourists are all wearing sensible shoes (as am I, so don't think this is a putdown). The French women are almost all wearing high heels. I simply don't know how they do it. They walk effortlessly and gracefully in them, as if the shoes weren't killing their feet and their backs. The ability to do this must really be in the gene pool, because I've met few women from other places who so willingly would subject themselves to such torture while walking around a city, just to make their legs look better. The men are tougher, because on a cold day like today everybody's bundled up in pretty much the same keep warm chic. The guys with kids are easy to nail as French because they're holding their kids' hands, while the tourists aren't. It's not a keep track of them thang on the part of the French; it's just that they really *love* their kids. The tourists, on the whole, look exasperated by theirs. Across the way a clown with a painted face is making balloon animals for some of the kids. Nearby street performers are doing magic or break-dancing. Sadly, the state of the world being what it is, three soldiers (two male, one female) just walked by wearing designer camouflage uniforms, accessorized with machine guns. They look serious, charged with protecting a favorite terrorist target and all; the people they're charged with protecting fortunately do not. They're here to enjoy their holiday, and nothing is going to get in the way of that. And me, as much as this is a good people-watching spot and all, I've finished my apertif and I'm off to have lunch in a more reasonably-priced restaurant I know of nearby. Afterwards, more walking, more people-watching. Maybe even some people-chatting-up, if they look interesting. All in all, my kinda way to spend a Day Off...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Synopsis
Excellent!!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: It has been a marathon. Emily is speaking in tongues, gesticulating on the floor after having worn herself plum out with all of those CAPITAL LETTERS today, behind which lies a lot of heart and a generous dollop of pure, human feeling. She is near done in. Share has opened her archives of private correspondence in a last ditch effort to demonstrate the purity of her heart and intention. Judy is not quite buying it. Doc is relaxing back with a soothing drink and taking it all in as just another interesting manifestation of the human condition. Barry sits poised ready to churn out his usual morning fare, commenting on the darker aspects of what this all means. Buck waxes forth on unrelated subjects that continue to pop up rather humorously between diatribes - like radishes suddenly appearing on a New York sidewalk. Curtis is not sure whether to keep unraveling the meaning of a song nearly a century old or to proudly assert his good and upright intentions. Raunchy simply waits for the perfect moment to add a little cayenne and tincture of iodine. Ravi, between smokes where he appears languid and unworried, has a stiletto hidden in his pant leg. And Robin, where is Robin in all this? Perhaps well past what is happening in the here and now and preparing for the new day like the little fish looking up from the depths of the ocean at the crashing waves above.
[FairfieldLife] For Boozing Society of FF?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selincro Lundbeck has licensed the drug from Biotie [~ bee-oh-tee-eh: bio-way] Therapies and performed clinical trials with nalmefene for treatment of alcohol-dependence.[5] In 2011 they submitted an application for their drug termed Selincro to the European Medicines Agency.[6] It has not been available on the US market since at least August 2008.[citation needed]
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: Today is a holiday in France and, to tell the truth, most of the Northern Hemisphere. The only exception seems to be the United States, which abandoned the holiday during the Cold War. They were fearful that if they celebrated it they'd be called Commies (due to the holiday's association with International Worker's Day), so they created Labor Day on another day entirely. Yet another proof that paranoia is its own punishment. :-) The holiday is, of course, much older than Communism, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian traditions (another reason the uptight Americans eschewed it), and celebrating the Celtic/Pagan goddess Flora, ruler of flowers. In France, way back in 1561, King Charles IX received a lily on that day, and being the superstitious cuss he was, considered it a good omen. So he developed the custom of giving lilies to the women of the court, a tradition that persists to this day. All over Paris there will be stands selling lilies, which you are supposed to buy and give to the women in your life. I plan to do the same thing today, buying a big bouquet of lilies and giving them to the women I find attractive. Especially the frowny ones...there is always the chance that a flower from a stranger can bring a smile to their faces, and that's worth taking a chance on. So here's wishing a happy May Day to all FFLers. Or, for our Nordic contingent, a happy Walpurgisnacht to Nabby and a happy Walpurgis Night to Card. To our UK friends, I wish you a happy Beltane, and hope that you don't scorch your balls if you're jumping over a bonfire naked later tonight in a fit of Pagan revelry. :-) Even some Canadians celebrate May Day, so here's a virtual lily extended to Ann and Robin, even though I don't expect it to cause either of them to smile. Thanks Barry. Happy May Day to you. I don't think we have any Hawaiians on FFL, but if we have a few lurking, I wish them a happy Lei Day. May you all enjoy a hula or two, and get happily Lei'd at the end of the day. For the Americans, well, there's not much one can do. For them, it's just another work day like any other, and chances are that even being handed a flower by a stranger wouldn't lighten it. Someday I hope that the country gets over its belief that May Poles are for shoving up one's ass and leaving them there permanently, and learns that they are for dancing around.
[FairfieldLife] Re: J gets another fact wrong and S apologizes to R
Ignoring all the Judy blather on this topic, I will just put it this way: Search yahoo for the combination of references to PS Maskedzebra 24 Authfriend 81 To all Judy's enemies: enjoy your luck. This is how she treats the person she sheds tears over just thinking about badly other people have treated him. Fortunately I caught their unnatural bond on film. I love the part where Judy pets Robin's eyes. He looks like he is really enjoying this: http://www.wimp.com/slothcuddles/
[FairfieldLife] Re: [not really] Another reason to celebrate
You are becoming irrelevant around here, Barry. Everyone else seems to be coming around to the inevitable conclusion that any subject can have a lot of facets, and they can be discussed. Most of us here are involved in a close relationship with another person. This allows for statement and response, discussions, a leavening of opinion, a reconsideration of position. But not you, Barry, who, unless you have paid for the privilege, wake up every morning alone, eager to jump on FFL with the desire to however ineptly, get some feedback from others. Even the inevitable negative slap is better than nothing, better than emptiness, better than your loneliness, isn't it? You are an old man, alone, not willing to admit it, but sadly wishing to change it. Relationships are about give and take. It isn't all judgment and black and white assertions and your stupid games of gotcha. If it were, you'd have plenty of companionship. But Reality ALWAYS speaks louder than words. Clearly, Doctor Dumbass --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Not only is it May Day, it's Post Out Day. :-) The long, annoying attempt to get Share and Curtis (and, in passing, me and anyone else who dares to like or support either one) will probably come to an end. NOT because the perpetrators have run out of bile and venom and grudges, but because they'll run out of posts. The instigator of all of this, Judy, only has 2 posts left. Doctordumbass (gotta compliment him on picking, finally, the right screen name to hide behind) has only six left. Ravi can only splooge three more of his ...uh...offerings onto our screens before heading for the bench. I guess Ann and Emily will have to keep the hate-ball rolling, with 16 and 12 posts remaining, respectively. Me, I've still got 35 posts left. Try to imagine the frustration they'll feel about that, and the paranoia they'll feel that I might say something about them they can't refute for a couple of days. Fuck lilies...that thought puts a smile on *my* face. :-) :-) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another reason to celebrate
turquoiseb: Not only is it May Day, it's Post Out Day. :-) Posters of the world unite! http://www.theholidayspot.com/mayday/ The long, annoying attempt to get Share and Curtis (and, in passing, me and anyone else who dares to like or support either one) will probably come to an end. NOT because the perpetrators have run out of bile and venom and grudges, but because they'll run out of posts. The instigator of all of this, Judy, only has 2 posts left. Doctordumbass (gotta compliment him on picking, finally, the right screen name to hide behind) has only six left. Ravi can only splooge three more of his ...uh...offerings onto our screens before heading for the bench. So, it's all about Judy. I guess Ann and Emily will have to keep the hate-ball rolling, with 16 and 12 posts remaining, respectively. Don't you just hate that Ann and Emily and Judy and Share and Ruth and Delia and Sherlynn? LoL! Me, I've still got 35 posts left. Try to imagine the frustration they'll feel about that, and the paranoia they'll feel that I might say something about them they can't refute for a couple of days. Fuck lilies...that thought puts a smile on *my* face. :-) :-) :-) Well, I hate to imagine you smiling over something like this, but you sound like you'd like to talk to someone. Go figure. Lordy, mama, we'll be two of a kind Workin' on a full house. http://www.cowboylyrics.com/ http://www.cowboylyrics.com/ http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/brooks-garth/two-of-a-kind-workin-on\ -a-full-house-4999.html Garth Brooks - 'Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full House' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4koDwUmFKUk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4koDwUmFKUk
Re: [FairfieldLife] May Day
And what a way to celebrate capitalism! Somebody grows the flowers (on land financed by banks), picks them and sells them to a middle man, who then sells them to vendors, who sell them to people trying to make up for their transgressions by being nice to someone and giving them a flower and a smile. And the government makes money by taxing everybody along the way! Happy May Day everybody! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] May Day Today is a holiday in France and, to tell the truth, most of the Northern Hemisphere. The only exception seems to be the United States, which abandoned the holiday during the Cold War. They were fearful that if they celebrated it they'd be called Commies (due to the holiday's association with International Worker's Day), so they created Labor Day on another day entirely. Yet another proof that paranoia is its own punishment. :-) The holiday is, of course, much older than Communism, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian traditions (another reason the uptight Americans eschewed it), and celebrating the Celtic/Pagan goddess Flora, ruler of flowers. In France, way back in 1561, King Charles IX received a lily on that day, and being the superstitious cuss he was, considered it a good omen. So he developed the custom of giving lilies to the women of the court, a tradition that persists to this day. All over Paris there will be stands selling lilies, which you are supposed to buy and give to the women in your life. I plan to do the same thing today, buying a big bouquet of lilies and giving them to the women I find attractive. Especially the frowny ones...there is always the chance that a flower from a stranger can bring a smile to their faces, and that's worth taking a chance on. So here's wishing a happy May Day to all FFLers. Or, for our Nordic contingent, a happy Walpurgisnacht to Nabby and a happy Walpurgis Night to Card. To our UK friends, I wish you a happy Beltane, and hope that you don't scorch your balls if you're jumping over a bonfire naked later tonight in a fit of Pagan revelry. :-) Even some Canadians celebrate May Day, so here's a virtual lily extended to Ann and Robin, even though I don't expect it to cause either of them to smile. I don't think we have any Hawaiians on FFL, but if we have a few lurking, I wish them a happy Lei Day. May you all enjoy a hula or two, and get happily Lei'd at the end of the day. For the Americans, well, there's not much one can do. For them, it's just another work day like any other, and chances are that even being handed a flower by a stranger wouldn't lighten it. Someday I hope that the country gets over its belief that May Poles are for shoving up one's ass and leaving them there permanently, and learns that they are for dancing around.
[FairfieldLife] Free Man In Paris, v2.18
My current café is on the rive gauche (the previous one was on the other side of the Seine, rive droit). I always wondered who figured out which way one should be *facing* to determine left bank and right bank with regard to a river. This one is far more crowded, but that has a charm in itself. The couple at the table across from me (two women, holding hands and kissing) are American, and speaking English. Maybe they're from one of those states that have recently recognized the validity of gay marriage, and here on their honeymoon. The two guys on my left are from North Africa, but are speaking a variety of what sounds a little like Arabic but with an accent and pronunciations that I do not recognize; given their dark skin color, they might be from Mali. The three young girls (late teens to early 20s max) to my right are speaking Russian. It amazes me that I remember as much of the language as I do, last having studied it in college. If they knew I was understanding what they were saying, they might not be talking so freely about the three guys they picked up and went home with last night, and comparing their respective dick sizes and amatory prowesses as animatedly as they are. :-) The weather guys said that the day was going to warm up, but they were lying. Call Judy. Somewhere in the universe there is a LIAR, and her services are desperately needed. Maybe she should find the Internet forum that weather guys hang out on and write 48 angry, defamatory posts there, hounding them until they admit their dishonesty and APOLOGIZE profusely to every sentient being in the universe. We all know that the world would be a better place if that happened. But chilly or not, it's still a holiday, and still Paris, both of which more than make up for the weather. And weather is relative. The locals and most of the tourists are bundled up, but the Scandinavian tourists (judging from hair color, language, and the way they carry themselves) are running around in T-shirts. For them this is balmy. For Curtis, I was planning to try to see your friend Kuku perform at a gallery called Goutte de Terre on Saturday, but I just looked up its website and it looks as if they've lost their lease and closed. Therefore I kinda assume that the gig is toast. Maybe next time. Tonight I'm planning to go to a jazz joint I know of. I don't actually know who is playing, but that matters to me less than the ambiance and the history of the place. Miles has played there, and Coltrane, and Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny, and even -- back in the day -- Django Reinhart. That kinda vibe-iance can make up for even the crappiest jazz. :-) For now, I guess I'll go back to people-watching and send this off. I'm just writing this up because the way I figure it, the more fun I have with my day, and the more I share it on FFL, the faster some people here will suffer from paroxysms of jealousy and post out. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] May Day
I love that the ancient peoples also celebrated the half way points between solstices and equinoxes: Oct 31, Samhain, bt autumn equinox and winter solstice; Feb 1, Imbolc, bt winter solstice and spring equinox; May 1, Beltane bt spring equinox and summer solstice; and Aug 1 Lughnasadh bt summer solstice and autumn equinox. The first 3 still have celebrations at that time: Halloween, Groundhog Day, May Day. Only Aug 1 seems to have lost its place in the calendar. Except I think Europe begins its extended summer holidays then. When I was a kid the local playground had something like a Maypole with chains attached that had handles at the end. Grab hold, run a bit, then lift feet off ground and whirl around. But the swings were still my favorite. Those were the good old days when the seats of swings were not rubber slabs that smush the pelvis sideways. Way back then, the seats were flat and very easy to jump out of. There was a huge swing set in my grandparents backyard and so possible to be swinging quite high before jumping out. I only conked out once (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] May Day Today is a holiday in France and, to tell the truth, most of the Northern Hemisphere. The only exception seems to be the United States, which abandoned the holiday during the Cold War. They were fearful that if they celebrated it they'd be called Commies (due to the holiday's association with International Worker's Day), so they created Labor Day on another day entirely. Yet another proof that paranoia is its own punishment. :-) The holiday is, of course, much older than Communism, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian traditions (another reason the uptight Americans eschewed it), and celebrating the Celtic/Pagan goddess Flora, ruler of flowers. In France, way back in 1561, King Charles IX received a lily on that day, and being the superstitious cuss he was, considered it a good omen. So he developed the custom of giving lilies to the women of the court, a tradition that persists to this day. All over Paris there will be stands selling lilies, which you are supposed to buy and give to the women in your life. I plan to do the same thing today, buying a big bouquet of lilies and giving them to the women I find attractive. Especially the frowny ones...there is always the chance that a flower from a stranger can bring a smile to their faces, and that's worth taking a chance on. So here's wishing a happy May Day to all FFLers. Or, for our Nordic contingent, a happy Walpurgisnacht to Nabby and a happy Walpurgis Night to Card. To our UK friends, I wish you a happy Beltane, and hope that you don't scorch your balls if you're jumping over a bonfire naked later tonight in a fit of Pagan revelry. :-) Even some Canadians celebrate May Day, so here's a virtual lily extended to Ann and Robin, even though I don't expect it to cause either of them to smile. I don't think we have any Hawaiians on FFL, but if we have a few lurking, I wish them a happy Lei Day. May you all enjoy a hula or two, and get happily Lei'd at the end of the day. For the Americans, well, there's not much one can do. For them, it's just another work day like any other, and chances are that even being handed a flower by a stranger wouldn't lighten it. Someday I hope that the country gets over its belief that May Poles are for shoving up one's ass and leaving them there permanently, and learns that they are for dancing around.
[FairfieldLife] Occupy Love
http://occupylove.org/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Occupy Love
Good God, Nabby, just watching the trailer was an extraordinary experience! Goose bumps! Thank you so much for posting. I hadn't heard of this before now. Am sending it along to friends near and far... From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Occupy Love http://occupylove.org/
[FairfieldLife] Re: [not really] Another reason to celebrate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: You are becoming irrelevant around here, Barry. Everyone else seems to be coming around to the inevitable conclusion that any subject can have a lot of facets, and they can be discussed. Most of us here are involved in a close relationship with another person. This allows for statement and response, discussions, a leavening of opinion, a reconsideration of position. But not you, Barry, who, unless you have paid for the privilege, wake up every morning alone, eager to jump on FFL with the desire to however ineptly, get some feedback from others. Even the inevitable negative slap is better than nothing, better than emptiness, better than your loneliness, isn't it? You are an old man, alone, not willing to admit it, but sadly wishing to change it. Relationships are about give and take. It isn't all judgment and black and white assertions and your stupid games of gotcha. If it were, you'd have plenty of companionship. But Reality ALWAYS speaks louder than words. Clearly, Doctor Dumbass Well Doc, Barry obviously keeps very close watch on the post count and has a strategy for waiting and watching for when the coast is clear and he can bombard the airways with his writing. He is like the sadist at the zoo who pokes a stick between the bars of the cages of the more dangerous animals taunting, just knowing they can only sit and watch him and suffer his indignities. These stick pokers are the cowards who, under normal circumstances would never confront these animals unless he knew they were at a disadvantage. Notice, when the animals get out of their cages Barry is nowhere to be found, at least he never responds to them directly and waits under the cover of darkness to post! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Not only is it May Day, it's Post Out Day. :-) The long, annoying attempt to get Share and Curtis (and, in passing, me and anyone else who dares to like or support either one) will probably come to an end. NOT because the perpetrators have run out of bile and venom and grudges, but because they'll run out of posts. The instigator of all of this, Judy, only has 2 posts left. Doctordumbass (gotta compliment him on picking, finally, the right screen name to hide behind) has only six left. Ravi can only splooge three more of his ...uh...offerings onto our screens before heading for the bench. I guess Ann and Emily will have to keep the hate-ball rolling, with 16 and 12 posts remaining, respectively. Me, I've still got 35 posts left. Try to imagine the frustration they'll feel about that, and the paranoia they'll feel that I might say something about them they can't refute for a couple of days. Fuck lilies...that thought puts a smile on *my* face. :-) :-) :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: J gets another fact wrong and S apologizes to R
Awww, the video is adorable. I am spending the day restoring my vibe and priorities to where they need to be, but I'll be back. A good day to FFL. From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: J gets another fact wrong and S apologizes to R Ignoring all the Judy blather on this topic, I will just put it this way: Search yahoo for the combination of references to PS Maskedzebra 24 Authfriend 81 To all Judy's enemies: enjoy your luck. This is how she treats the person she sheds tears over just thinking about badly other people have treated him. Fortunately I caught their unnatural bond on film. I love the part where Judy pets Robin's eyes. He looks like he is really enjoying this: http://www.wimp.com/slothcuddles/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Occupy Love
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Good God, Nabby, just watching the trailer was an extraordinary experience! Goose bumps! Thank you so much for posting. I hadn't heard of this before now. Am sending it along to friends near and far... Very good Share ! From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Occupy Love  http://occupylove.org/
[FairfieldLife] Un matin magique
[ I was sitting earlier in one of my favorite people-watching joints, the Café Beaubourg, opposite the Centre Pompidou. Wrote this then, but waited to post it until I got back to my apartment, because I needed to process and upload the photos. ] I spent the morning very pleasantly walking through the Marais, one of my favorite areas of Paris, ending up at my destination, l'Académie de Magie. [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8553/8699517904_2706a1821e.jpg] It's a small, private museum dedicated to magic. It's got a wonderful collection of old magic paraphernalia, posters, and the price of admission even includes a few short performances of close-up magic. Not to mention a collection of automata -- those animated sculptures that the French were so famous for. Best of all, the place -- this being a holiday and all -- was full of kids. The wonder on their faces made the wonder of the museum even more wonderful. The place is full of great interactive exhibits that allow them to *participate* in the illusions, so they really get into seeing through their own hands or laughing at the funny shapes of their bodies in the distorting mirrors. Here's me, after a few weeks on the Croissant Diet: [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8405/8699517768_9913c12897.jpg] All in all, it's a delightful place (although far too expensive at 12), and I have an enormous smile on my face. It's been a really fun way to start my holiday. That said, it's not as nice a place as the *other* museum devoted to magic in France, la Maison de la Magie. That one is in Robert Houdin's old house in Blois, and is about ten times the size of this one. Houdin was the most famous magician of the nineteenth century; the American magician Houdini took his stage name from him. And the museum itself is just *wonderful*, an utter delight. If you're ever touring France, you'll probably have to go to Blois anyway to see the summer palaces of the King and his court, and la Maison de la Magie is only a few steps away. It's worth the walk. It contains a veritable treasure house of magic history, combined with live shows, and, on one of the upper floors, one of the best illusions I've ever seen in my life. It's an undersea world that you get to walk through. Really. The trick is that the undersea world is on the ceiling, crafted in three dimensions and incredibly detailed. You walk through the winding course of this exhibit, holding on to a railing for support. Why? Because you're wearing a kind of helmet apparatus that takes your forward vision and transforms it via a set of mirrors until you're looking at the ceiling as you look straight in front of you. The result is breathtaking, and the illusion nearly complete. You walk cautiously along the sea bottom, avoiding sharks and pits in front of you, enjoying what it would be like to be Jules Verne as he dreamed up 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. WAY cool. I simply can't wait for Maya to come visit me here in France. I want to take her both to L'Académie de la Magie and La Maison de la Magie. She'll just flip. I could hear her laughter ringing in my ears as I walked through the museum this morning. Made my day...
[FairfieldLife] This movie rated Safe for Buck
If you are a film buff, Indiaphile (there might a couple of those here) and have Netflix WI you might like Harishchandrachi Factory. It's the story of the man who made the first feature length film in India in 1913. It's not a documentary and the subject is treated more like a comedy. It's only a 99 minutes long with no dancing around trees. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Harishchandrachi_Factory/70127589
[FairfieldLife] Giraffes just want to have fun
Short film from Nicolas Devaux called 5 meters 80. Well worth the 5 minutes 47 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFxnBrO9n7o
[FairfieldLife] Meditating to music
I've noticed that some people actually seem shocked or offended when I mention that back during my time with the Rama guy we meditated to music. And that from time to time I still do. I sometimes get this 'tude, like, Yeah, but that's not *real* meditation. You can't transcend if you're listen- ing to music. I beg to differ. Just as noise is no barrier to meditation, music is no barrier to meditation. At times, it can even be something that facilitates meditation, and makes it deeper. I bring it up because I just had one of the grooviest meditations of my life, sitting out in my garden, with this old song playing over headphones. The last time I meditated to this piece, I was sitting with Rama in a private room at Windows On The World, a restaurant that sadly is no more. Meditating to it again took me right back there, to that same silence, that same sense of timelessness and eternity. YMMV. It may be one of those You had to be there kinda things... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705OPgjO5Qo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Groovy at the Godless Church.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: hey salyavin, according to the Catholic Church of my youth, once a person is baptised they have what is called, an indelible mark on the soul showing that. If I remember correctly, the other sacraments that leave indelible marks are Confirmation and Holy Orders. So in this sense one is never really even an ex Catholic. I * left the Church * when I was 17. In the beginning I thought of myself as an ex or lapsed Catholic. But that label has dropped from my thinking as time goes by. And sometimes for family events, I still attend Mass and Communion. I admit this probably horrifies me half sister who has been a devout Catholic. OTOH she did ask me to be godmother for her youngest so maybe not (-: Interesting. That's quite a load to put on someone methinks. I wasn't even christened and so have no deep early programming to make me feel part of any church but an indelible mark, that's heavy! I hate it when I hear people say they were born Jewish or Muslim or whatever because they weren't. We are all born scientists, curious and open minded but the adult world seems to be in a race to beat that out of us and as soon as we are set in our ways the poison gets passed on. My parents were really cool about things like that and it took me a long time to notice. I Should thank them for being so irreligious but still very moral. I really don't like the word seeker and humanist sounds a little dry. I've read books etc. in which people use the phrase spiritual but not religious. But even the word spiritual doesn't sound encompassing enough to me now. Does that make any sense? I don't like anything that sounds new-agey like seeker either, because I'm not really. I used to be a determined finder as I refered to having discovered TM but I'm a bit more agnostic now. Same with spiritual as it it sounds like being involved in something that isn't actually real in the sense that there is some sort of extra realm to be discovered, when it seems to me that all I'm doing is refining how I see this one. And even then I don't see how we ever see anything other than what our head machinery can cope with in a mechanical sense and we've got evolution to thank for that. I'm the most materialist meditator I ever met... How about devoted Earthling? Like it. Sounds like an acceptance of reality with an intention to make the most of what we've got. From: salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Groovy at the Godless Church.  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: That is interesting. Lot like the primitive Quaker meeting. Like the Sunday Quaker meeting we have in Fairfield. Very high spiritual group gathering but not religious in the sense of iron age mythology. Very contemporary. Interesting how something fills a need that we all have, whether it's religious or not doesn't seem to matter. When they start reading Richard Dawkins lectures and saying 'all praise to DNA' at the end is when I'll start to think it's odd... Polling shows that ex-Catholics are the third largest religious group in the United States. What do they call themselves now then? http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-24/national/38776675_1_communion-body-and-blood-catholic-church
[FairfieldLife] Re: [not really] Another reason to celebrate
He is easily manipulated, like a puppet. I often use his repressed self-knowledge against him, and like now, when he wants to show us he's better than all of that, he behaves himself, for the most part. Works beautifully, and gives everyone else a chance to contribute around here, which suits me just fine. Appreciatively, Doctor Dumbass --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: You are becoming irrelevant around here, Barry. Everyone else seems to be coming around to the inevitable conclusion that any subject can have a lot of facets, and they can be discussed. Most of us here are involved in a close relationship with another person. This allows for statement and response, discussions, a leavening of opinion, a reconsideration of position. But not you, Barry, who, unless you have paid for the privilege, wake up every morning alone, eager to jump on FFL with the desire to however ineptly, get some feedback from others. Even the inevitable negative slap is better than nothing, better than emptiness, better than your loneliness, isn't it? You are an old man, alone, not willing to admit it, but sadly wishing to change it. Relationships are about give and take. It isn't all judgment and black and white assertions and your stupid games of gotcha. If it were, you'd have plenty of companionship. But Reality ALWAYS speaks louder than words. Clearly, Doctor Dumbass Well Doc, Barry obviously keeps very close watch on the post count and has a strategy for waiting and watching for when the coast is clear and he can bombard the airways with his writing. He is like the sadist at the zoo who pokes a stick between the bars of the cages of the more dangerous animals taunting, just knowing they can only sit and watch him and suffer his indignities. These stick pokers are the cowards who, under normal circumstances would never confront these animals unless he knew they were at a disadvantage. Notice, when the animals get out of their cages Barry is nowhere to be found, at least he never responds to them directly and waits under the cover of darkness to post! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Not only is it May Day, it's Post Out Day. :-) The long, annoying attempt to get Share and Curtis (and, in passing, me and anyone else who dares to like or support either one) will probably come to an end. NOT because the perpetrators have run out of bile and venom and grudges, but because they'll run out of posts. The instigator of all of this, Judy, only has 2 posts left. Doctordumbass (gotta compliment him on picking, finally, the right screen name to hide behind) has only six left. Ravi can only splooge three more of his ...uh...offerings onto our screens before heading for the bench. I guess Ann and Emily will have to keep the hate-ball rolling, with 16 and 12 posts remaining, respectively. Me, I've still got 35 posts left. Try to imagine the frustration they'll feel about that, and the paranoia they'll feel that I might say something about them they can't refute for a couple of days. Fuck lilies...that thought puts a smile on *my* face. :-) :-) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Tidy Sum!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote: Are Board members like Bevan and John legally liable for the financial misdeeds of the entire organization, especially the Indian contingent? No, but I bet it will be them that have to clear up the mess. The movement leaders I knew always seemed devoted to making it all work as well as possible after Marshy died. Things like this must drive them nuts. I wonder if they knew all along that things were not right and yet felt helpless to confront MMY's relatives and so just looked the other way? Who knows? It's impossible to know how much anyone knows about how it's all run and that was Marshy's intention, to compartmentalise. I was told many times that no one knows the whole thing and different sections don't need to know what the others are up to. This was the main reason I thought the internet would finish off the TMO because you can't keep secrets anymore. Things that happen in one country can be discussed in others. I remember one press conference where Marshy was slagging off the government of Brazil for all sorts of ignorance but without explaining exactly what. It turned out (via a brazillian newspaper online) that the TMO had asked for the right to set their own laws in the compound they were building. This was rejected for reasons too obvious to detail but without knowing that you would think Marshy just picked up some evil vibe from the government there. I saw loads of things the TMO was up to without anyone in the UK knowing, quite amazing really how busy they were, Marshy sure had plenty of energy! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: --- Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear FFL, That dredged up old copy is such a piece of demoralizing and terrifying propaganda whether it is true or not. In fact I feel it is hateful to be posting crap like that here while like the phoenix the TM movement is rising again teaching transcendence once again. A large meditation movement is coming right now out of a few people doing good work. It is once again like the times of old TM, a movement where a few people have fanned out and are connecting the message of spiritual regeneration in to a rudderless culture ready to hear it new at a time of great transition. Dredging up an old dateline proves nothing. That journalism is nearly a year old. Those of us who know better are moving forward with meditation and leaving the rest behind. The past is a lesser state of evolution, look now to the youth of the future and a better world. It is time to step forward. -Buck in the Dome --- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Erm, it's a year old. Which means the lawyers are preparing their briefs and booking court time for the showdown. All of which will get posted here because this is what the TMO has been about - huge amounts of money being raised under false pretences and invested without any of the original projects coming to fruition. Like it or not, people care about what gets done with their money and to call it propaganda is as devious as raising cash for global world towers of world peace and then buying some office block in Dheli and forgetting about it until the next fundraising drive which, if memory serves, was the give me a billion dollars and I'll save the world panhandle. And all the people I know who would shake their heads and say; if *only* we had the money we could save the world, would then reach into their wallets for their well worn credit cards one more time all while not knowing that there is billions just sitting in a land bank. Every couple of years a new project, another new reason to give. And everyone thinks they failed because there wasn't enough money! J'accuse *you* of propaganda in trying to suppress the ugly facts. I'm all for truth and reconcilliation myself. That's the whole point, isn't it? 10 Lakhs is = One million 10 million is = One Crore 100 Crores is = One billion Considering the vast amount on money locked up in land assets and nothing productive came out of it, it's not a surprise that donations are dwindling and the goodwill is diminishing. All movements tend to shrink after it's founders time. Yogananda, Ramana, Ramakrishna math, Hare Krishna and even the Rama Lenz guy. --- salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I was checking up on the *real* big story in TM just to see if there were any developments in the argument over Marshy's alleged 60,000 crore fortune: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html Turns out there isn't but I thought I would work out what 60,000 Crore actually was in proper money. 1 crore
[FairfieldLife] The Nature of Existence (2010) - IMDb
Saw this movie last night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196672/ The quick juxtaposition between the expression of different viewpoints makes you realize the everyone's viewpoint is just a peephole into a larger reality. No one has all the pieces of the puzzle.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Un matin magique
I can't wait til Maya visits you in Paris either. Maybe there'll be some more sweet photos of her...Not that the ones today aren't fun (-; PS That movie about lying is so funny and sweet and thought provoking. A real gem of a film IMHO. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Un matin magique [ I was sitting earlier in one of my favorite people-watching joints, the Café Beaubourg, opposite the Centre Pompidou. Wrote this then, but waited to post it until I got back to my apartment, because I needed to process and upload the photos. ] I spent the morning very pleasantly walking through the Marais, one of my favorite areas of Paris, ending up at my destination, l'Académie de Magie. It's a small, private museum dedicated to magic. It's got a wonderful collection of old magic paraphernalia, posters, and the price of admission even includes a few short performances of close-up magic. Not to mention a collection of automata -- those animated sculptures that the French were so famous for. Best of all, the place -- this being a holiday and all -- was full of kids. The wonder on their faces made the wonder of the museum even more wonderful. The place is full of great interactive exhibits that allow them to *participate* in the illusions, so they really get into seeing through their own hands or laughing at the funny shapes of their bodies in the distorting mirrors. Here's me, after a few weeks on the Croissant Diet: All in all, it's a delightful place (although far too expensive at 12€), and I have an enormous smile on my face. It's been a really fun way to start my holiday. That said, it's not as nice a place as the *other* museum devoted to magic in France, la Maison de la Magie. That one is in Robert Houdin's old house in Blois, and is about ten times the size of this one. Houdin was the most famous magician of the nineteenth century; the American magician Houdini took his stage name from him. And the museum itself is just *wonderful*, an utter delight. If you're ever touring France, you'll probably have to go to Blois anyway to see the summer palaces of the King and his court, and la Maison de la Magie is only a few steps away. It's worth the walk. It contains a veritable treasure house of magic history, combined with live shows, and, on one of the upper floors, one of the best illusions I've ever seen in my life. It's an undersea world that you get to walk through. Really. The trick is that the undersea world is on the ceiling, crafted in three dimensions and incredibly detailed. You walk through the winding course of this exhibit, holding on to a railing for support. Why? Because you're wearing a kind of helmet apparatus that takes your forward vision and transforms it via a set of mirrors until you're looking at the ceiling as you look straight in front of you. The result is breathtaking, and the illusion nearly complete. You walk cautiously along the sea bottom, avoiding sharks and pits in front of you, enjoying what it would be like to be Jules Verne as he dreamed up 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. WAY cool. I simply can't wait for Maya to come visit me here in France. I want to take her both to L'Académie de la Magie and La Maison de la Magie. She'll just flip. I could hear her laughter ringing in my ears as I walked through the museum this morning. Made my day...
[FairfieldLife] Re: May Day
turquoiseb: Today is a holiday in France Well, happy religious day to you too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole and, to tell the truth, most of the Northern Hemisphere. The only exception seems to be the United States, which abandoned the holiday during the Cold War. They were fearful that if they celebrated it they'd be called Commies (due to the holiday's association with International Worker's Day), so they created Labor Day on another day entirely. Yet another proof that paranoia is its own punishment. :-) The holiday is, of course, much older than Communism, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian traditions (another reason the uptight Americans eschewed it), and celebrating the Celtic/Pagan goddess Flora, ruler of flowers. In France, way back in 1561, King Charles IX received a lily on that day, and being the superstitious cuss he was, considered it a good omen. So he developed the custom of giving lilies to the women of the court, a tradition that persists to this day. All over Paris there will be stands selling lilies, which you are supposed to buy and give to the women in your life. I plan to do the same thing today, buying a big bouquet of lilies and giving them to the women I find attractive. Especially the frowny ones...there is always the chance that a flower from a stranger can bring a smile to their faces, and that's worth taking a chance on. So here's wishing a happy May Day to all FFLers. Or, for our Nordic contingent, a happy Walpurgisnacht to Nabby and a happy Walpurgis Night to Card. To our UK friends, I wish you a happy Beltane, and hope that you don't scorch your balls if you're jumping over a bonfire naked later tonight in a fit of Pagan revelry. :-) Even some Canadians celebrate May Day, so here's a virtual lily extended to Ann and Robin, even though I don't expect it to cause either of them to smile. I don't think we have any Hawaiians on FFL, but if we have a few lurking, I wish them a happy Lei Day. May you all enjoy a hula or two, and get happily Lei'd at the end of the day. For the Americans, well, there's not much one can do. For them, it's just another work day like any other, and chances are that even being handed a flower by a stranger wouldn't lighten it. Someday I hope that the country gets over its belief that May Poles are for shoving up one's ass and leaving them there permanently, and learns that they are for dancing around.
[FairfieldLife] VI annual YFC!
Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flying® competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly participants. The event will feature four events: 25-meter dash, 25-meter hurdles, high jump, and long jump. First-, second-, and third-place medals will be awarded, and cash prizes will be given to the top contestants by the Super Radiance for Heaven on Earth Foundation. There will also be a live demonstration of the EEG of Yogic Flying conducted by Fred Travis, director of the University's Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition. Dr. Travis will explain how Yogic Flying practice brings about increased orderliness and coherence of brain functioning, demonstrating scientifically the value of this technology for human life. Group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs, including Yogic Flying, has been found to reduce social stress and improve societal quality of life in a number of ways, including reduced crime and accident rates. In the last 25 years, many Yogic Flying participants have come together to demonstrate the peace-creating effect of groups of Yogic Flyers, sometimes traveling to global hot spots and war-torn areas. A tiny percentage of any population can transform life for the entire population, simply by diving within, said Craig Pearson, MUM executive vice-president and author of The Complete Book of Yogic Flying. Entire nations can be made invincible, impervious to negativity, by just a small number of people. This is the Maharishi Effect. Everyone is invited to attend this event. Cookies will be served. --- Have an aning (~uh-ning; hunch in Swedish) we might testify something extraordinary!
[FairfieldLife] Transcend radio
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?searchdesc=transcend
[FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
This was always schtick, but now it is pathetic schtick with the younger more flexible flyers kicking the asses of the older flyers with decades more experience with the technique, exposing the emperor. And the crowd will watch younger more athletic flyers win every event AGAIN, and no one will notice the ass cheeks of the whole theory on full display. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flying® competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly participants. The event will feature four events: 25-meter dash, 25-meter hurdles, high jump, and long jump. First-, second-, and third-place medals will be awarded, and cash prizes will be given to the top contestants by the Super Radiance for Heaven on Earth Foundation. There will also be a live demonstration of the EEG of Yogic Flying conducted by Fred Travis, director of the University's Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition. Dr. Travis will explain how Yogic Flying practice brings about increased orderliness and coherence of brain functioning, demonstrating scientifically the value of this technology for human life. Group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs, including Yogic Flying, has been found to reduce social stress and improve societal quality of life in a number of ways, including reduced crime and accident rates. In the last 25 years, many Yogic Flying participants have come together to demonstrate the peace-creating effect of groups of Yogic Flyers, sometimes traveling to global hot spots and war-torn areas. A tiny percentage of any population can transform life for the entire population, simply by diving within, said Craig Pearson, MUM executive vice-president and author of The Complete Book of Yogic Flying. Entire nations can be made invincible, impervious to negativity, by just a small number of people. This is the Maharishi Effect. Everyone is invited to attend this event. Cookies will be served. --- Have an aning (~uh-ning; hunch in Swedish) we might testify something extraordinary!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
That was brilliant Curtis! And funny too. But who knows, maybe Buck will use his farm muscles to out maneuver all of them on the foam. From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC! This was always schtick, but now it is pathetic schtick with the younger more flexible flyers kicking the asses of the older flyers with decades more experience with the technique, exposing the emperor. And the crowd will watch younger more athletic flyers win every event AGAIN, and no one will notice the ass cheeks of the whole theory on full display. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flying® competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly participants. The event will feature four events: 25-meter dash, 25-meter hurdles, high jump, and long jump. First-, second-, and third-place medals will be awarded, and cash prizes will be given to the top contestants by the Super Radiance for Heaven on Earth Foundation. There will also be a live demonstration of the EEG of Yogic Flying conducted by Fred Travis, director of the University's Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition. Dr. Travis will explain how Yogic Flying practice brings about increased orderliness and coherence of brain functioning, demonstrating scientifically the value of this technology for human life. Group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs, including Yogic Flying, has been found to reduce social stress and improve societal quality of life in a number of ways, including reduced crime and accident rates. In the last 25 years, many Yogic Flying participants have come together to demonstrate the peace-creating effect of groups of Yogic Flyers, sometimes traveling to global hot spots and war-torn areas. A tiny percentage of any population can transform life for the entire population, simply by diving within, said Craig Pearson, MUM executive vice-president and author of The Complete Book of Yogic Flying. Entire nations can be made invincible, impervious to negativity, by just a small number of people. This is the Maharishi Effect. Everyone is invited to attend this event. Cookies will be served. --- Have an aning (~uh-ning; hunch in Swedish) we might testify something extraordinary!
[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms
BC - Brahman Consciousness BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi CC - Cosmic Consciousness GC - God Consciousness MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of Maharishi's program. POV - Point of View SBS - Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's master SCI Science of Creative Intelligence SOC - State of Consciousness SSRS - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Pundit-ji) SV - Stpathya Ved (Vedic Architecture) TB - True Believer (in TM doctrines) TNB - True Non-Believer TMO - The Transcendental Meditation organization TTC TM Teacher Training Course UC - Unity Consciousness WYMS - World Youth Meditation Society later changed to World Youth Movement for the Science of Creative Intelligence was founded by Peter Hübner in Germany, as a national TM outlet competing with SIMS, Students International Meditation Society YMMV = Your Mileage may vary To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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[FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: That was brilliant Curtis! And funny too. But who knows, maybe Buck will use his farm muscles to out maneuver all of them on the foam. I don't really understand what the 'competition' is all about. Do the men compete against the men and do the women have a competition too? And do the men always outdistance the women? And do the younger always outdistance the older? If so, then it seems doubtful any of this is flying. It sounds like a competition of strength - pure and simple. I don't think the mechanics of pushing off a piece of foam with brute force and intention would be the same as having some other physical law that governs the ability of a human being to fly, even though they have no jet engine or feathers or leathery wings or wings like an insect, and therefore lift off is not governed by strength at all but by that mysterious force of nature that would allow (although not, seemingly, so far yet in the history of TM) a humanoid to lift spontaneously off the floor. In other words, I don't buy it; having this competition is sort of like a strange parody of what the siddhi is all about. I think it sort of demeans the whole thing although on another level I kind of like the fact that this event occurs because it is almost like a sort of self-imposed joke by the people who organize this. It is, in the end, an athletic event, IMVHO. From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!  This was always schtick, but now it is pathetic schtick with the younger more flexible flyers kicking the asses of the older flyers with decades more experience with the technique, exposing the emperor. And the crowd will watch younger more athletic flyers win every event AGAIN, and no one will notice the ass cheeks of the whole theory on full display. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flying® competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly participants. The event will feature four events: 25-meter dash, 25-meter hurdles, high jump, and long jump. First-, second-, and third-place medals will be awarded, and cash prizes will be given to the top contestants by the Super Radiance for Heaven on Earth Foundation. There will also be a live demonstration of the EEG of Yogic Flying conducted by Fred Travis, director of the University's Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition. Dr. Travis will explain how Yogic Flying practice brings about increased orderliness and coherence of brain functioning, demonstrating scientifically the value of this technology for human life. Group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs, including Yogic Flying, has been found to reduce social stress and improve societal quality of life in a number of ways, including reduced crime and accident rates. In the last 25 years, many Yogic Flying participants have come together to demonstrate the peace-creating effect of groups of Yogic Flyers, sometimes traveling to global hot spots and war-torn areas. A tiny percentage of any population can transform life for the entire population, simply by diving within, said Craig Pearson, MUM executive vice-president and author of The Complete Book of Yogic Flying. Entire nations can be made invincible, impervious to negativity, by just a small number of people. This is the Maharishi Effect. Everyone is invited to attend this event. Cookies will be served. --- Have an aning (~uh-ning; hunch in Swedish) we might testify something extraordinary!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
I'm sure Buck and others might have a word or two to contribute, but from what I remember of them, the youthful always win, and it is ironic in that you are correct, it is an athletic event, but treated quite seriously by the TM peoples as a genuine competition of who is most adept at enlivening the Absolute in their consciousness. As to the gender of the competition, there have never been any public demonstrations or competitions of women flyers cuz it would be too salacious for the gals to go hopping round the Domes with their boobs flopping about, I mean after all Marshy had to publicly maintain the facade that he was a no sex kind of guy (they started the competitions long ago when he was still alive and I think there were a few he presided over) and it just wouldn't be in the TM style for ladies to do such things in public. So no no no! It wouldn't do to have the gals doing something that might incite the men folks to lust - haven't you ever seen the ridiculous so-called saris the Mother Divine women wear? They show a heap more flesh in India with the authentic ones. From: Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: That was brilliant Curtis! And funny too. But who knows, maybe Buck will use his farm muscles to out maneuver all of them on the foam. I don't really understand what the 'competition' is all about. Do the men compete against the men and do the women have a competition too? And do the men always outdistance the women? And do the younger always outdistance the older? If so, then it seems doubtful any of this is flying. It sounds like a competition of strength - pure and simple. I don't think the mechanics of pushing off a piece of foam with brute force and intention would be the same as having some other physical law that governs the ability of a human being to fly, even though they have no jet engine or feathers or leathery wings or wings like an insect, and therefore lift off is not governed by strength at all but by that mysterious force of nature that would allow (although not, seemingly, so far yet in the history of TM) a humanoid to lift spontaneously off the floor. In other words, I don't buy it; having this competition is sort of like a strange parody of what the siddhi is all about. I think it sort of demeans the whole thing although on another level I kind of like the fact that this event occurs because it is almost like a sort of self-imposed joke by the people who organize this. It is, in the end, an athletic event, IMVHO. From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!  This was always schtick, but now it is pathetic schtick with the younger more flexible flyers kicking the asses of the older flyers with decades more experience with the technique, exposing the emperor. And the crowd will watch younger more athletic flyers win every event AGAIN, and no one will notice the ass cheeks of the whole theory on full display. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flying® competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly participants. The event will feature four events: 25-meter dash, 25-meter hurdles, high jump, and long jump. First-, second-, and third-place medals will be awarded, and cash prizes will be given to the top contestants by the Super Radiance for Heaven on Earth Foundation. There will also be a live demonstration of the EEG of Yogic Flying conducted by Fred Travis, director of the University's Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition. Dr. Travis will explain how Yogic Flying practice brings about increased orderliness and coherence of brain functioning, demonstrating scientifically the value of this technology for human life. Group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi® programs, including Yogic Flying, has been found to reduce social stress and improve societal quality of life in a number of ways,
[FairfieldLife] Thank you Barry
I read your post on meditating to music and I sat a while ago and meditated to Ian Anderson's solo CD Divinities - it is one of the best meditations I have ever had and never realized I had a block to doing so a la old TM indoctrination. So thanks for the healing of my mind and the inspiration to meditate to music. Here is one cut from the CD I quite like - In Sight of the Minaret http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oXcyIuQPH4list=PL2F2C82E0B5FE16D7index=2
[FairfieldLife] Magnesium L Threonate reverses neurodegeneration
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2012/feb2012_Novel-Magnesium-Compound-Reverses-Neurodegeneration_01.htm?source=searchkey=magnesium%20L%20Threonate
[FairfieldLife] Hitler with the Goebbels Family
1938, Heinrich Hoffman: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/7/65202.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Russian Royal Family
The Romanovs, 1913, Livadia Palace: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Russian_Royal_Family_1911_720px.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Netherlandish Proverbs
Peter Brueghel the Elder, 1559: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/59066.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I'm sure Buck and others might have a word or two to contribute, but from what I remember of them, the youthful always win, and it is ironic in that you are correct, it is an athletic event, but treated quite seriously by the TM peoples as a genuine competition of who is most adept at enlivening the Absolute in their consciousness. As to the gender of the competition, there have never been any public demonstrations or competitions of women flyers cuz it would be too salacious for the gals to go hopping round the Domes with their boobs flopping about, Well, women do a whole lot of things that can cause the boobs to cavort about, including riding a horse. However, even meditating women have heard of the 'brassiere' and if things get a little wild in the mammary department they could always don a sports bra. So, I am not sure I buy the explanation of the impetuous breasts having a mind of their own while their owner bounces along on a piece of impact-friendly foam that would be the reason to exclude women from this otherwise equal-opportunity sport. I mean after all Marshy had to publicly maintain the facade that he was a no sex kind of guy (they started the competitions long ago when he was still alive and I think there were a few he presided over) and it just wouldn't be in the TM style for ladies to do such things in public. Oh geez, sounds like the 1800's. So no no no! It wouldn't do to have the gals doing something that might incite the men folks to lust - haven't you ever seen the ridiculous so-called saris the Mother Divine women wear? They show a heap more flesh in India with the authentic ones. No, I have not yet had the privilege to witness white women walking around in saris in Iowa. If ever an anachronism existed this could be a favourite. From: Ann awoelflebater@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: That was brilliant Curtis! And funny too. But who knows, maybe Buck will use his farm muscles to out maneuver all of them on the foam. I don't really understand what the 'competition' is all about. Do the men compete against the men and do the women have a competition too? And do the men always outdistance the women? And do the younger always outdistance the older? If so, then it seems doubtful any of this is flying. It sounds like a competition of strength - pure and simple. I don't think the mechanics of pushing off a piece of foam with brute force and intention would be the same as having some other physical law that governs the ability of a human being to fly, even though they have no jet engine or feathers or leathery wings or wings like an insect, and therefore lift off is not governed by strength at all but by that mysterious force of nature that would allow (although not, seemingly, so far yet in the history of TM) a humanoid to lift spontaneously off the floor. In other words, I don't buy it; having this competition is sort of like a strange parody of what the siddhi is all about. I think it sort of demeans the whole thing although on another level I kind of like the fact that this event occurs because it is almost like a sort of self-imposed joke by the people who organize this. It is, in the end, an athletic event, IMVHO. From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC! àThis was always schtick, but now it is pathetic schtick with the younger more flexible flyers kicking the asses of the older flyers with decades more experience with the technique, exposing the emperor. And the crowd will watch younger more athletic flyers win every event AGAIN, and no one will notice the ass cheeks of the whole theory on full display. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flyingî competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly
[FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I'm sure Buck and others might have a word or two to contribute, but from what I remember of them, the youthful always win, and it is ironic in that you are correct, it is an athletic event, but treated quite seriously by the TM peoples as a genuine competition of who is most adept at enlivening the Absolute in their consciousness. As to the gender of the competition, there have never been any public demonstrations or competitions of women flyers cuz it would be too salacious for the gals to go hopping round the Domes with their boobs flopping about, Well, women do a whole lot of things that can cause the boobs to cavort about, including riding a horse. However, even meditating women have heard of the 'brassiere' and if things get a little wild in the mammary department they could always don a sports bra. So, I am not sure I buy the explanation of the impetuous breasts having a mind of their own while their owner bounces along on a piece of impact-friendly foam that would be the reason to exclude women from this otherwise equal-opportunity sport. I mean after all Marshy had to publicly maintain the facade that he was a no sex kind of guy (they started the competitions long ago when he was still alive and I think there were a few he presided over) and it just wouldn't be in the TM style for ladies to do such things in public. Oh geez, sounds like the 1800's. So no no no! It wouldn't do to have the gals doing something that might incite the men folks to lust - haven't you ever seen the ridiculous so-called saris the Mother Divine women wear? They show a heap more flesh in India with the authentic ones. No, I have not yet had the privilege to witness white women walking around in saris in Iowa. If ever an anachronism existed this could be a favourite. From: Ann awoelflebater@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC!  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: That was brilliant Curtis! And funny too. But who knows, maybe Buck will use his farm muscles to out maneuver all of them on the foam. I don't really understand what the 'competition' is all about. Do the men compete against the men and do the women have a competition too? And do the men always outdistance the women? And do the younger always outdistance the older? If so, then it seems doubtful any of this is flying. It sounds like a competition of strength - pure and simple. I don't think the mechanics of pushing off a piece of foam with brute force and intention would be the same as having some other physical law that governs the ability of a human being to fly, even though they have no jet engine or feathers or leathery wings or wings like an insect, and therefore lift off is not governed by strength at all but by that mysterious force of nature that would allow (although not, seemingly, so far yet in the history of TM) a humanoid to lift spontaneously off the floor. In other words, I don't buy it; having this competition is sort of like a strange parody of what the siddhi is all about. I think it sort of demeans the whole thing although on another level I kind of like the fact that this event occurs because it is almost like a sort of self-imposed joke by the people who organize this. It is, in the end, an athletic event, IMVHO. From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: VI annual YFC! àThis was always schtick, but now it is pathetic schtick with the younger more flexible flyers kicking the asses of the older flyers with decades more experience with the technique, exposing the emperor. And the crowd will watch younger more athletic flyers win every event AGAIN, and no one will notice the ass cheeks of the whole theory on full display. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: Sixth Annual Yogic Flying Competition Coming May 5 A Yogic Flyingî competition will be held at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Domes May 5 at 2:00 p.m., featuring four events and a live demonstration of EEG during Yogic Flying practice. Yogic Flying is a technique that demonstrates the ability of individuals to enliven the total potential of natural law in the simplest form of their own awareness, said Dimitrios Karasis, president of the Ultimate Flying Club. Sponsored by the Global Student Council and the Ultimate Flying Club, the competition will demonstrate the mind-body coordination of the participating Sidhas, students, staff, faculty, and Invincible America Assembly
[FairfieldLife] Grigory Rasputin, Putyatin, and Lotman
Rasputin with Major General Putyatin and Col. Lotman; 1904 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/33894.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Men in Balloon
by Karl Bulla, Russia: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/33905.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Un matin magique
wonderful little magical realm. i really enjoyed the pictures (you look great when you smile). when in paris the next time i will be sure to look up this little magical gem. it is exactly up my alley, so to speak. thanks for posting such a whimsical small journey into another world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: [ I was sitting earlier in one of my favorite people-watching joints, the Café Beaubourg, opposite the Centre Pompidou. Wrote this then, but waited to post it until I got back to my apartment, because I needed to process and upload the photos. ] I spent the morning very pleasantly walking through the Marais, one of my favorite areas of Paris, ending up at my destination, l'Académie de Magie. [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8553/8699517904_2706a1821e.jpg] It's a small, private museum dedicated to magic. It's got a wonderful collection of old magic paraphernalia, posters, and the price of admission even includes a few short performances of close-up magic. Not to mention a collection of automata -- those animated sculptures that the French were so famous for. Best of all, the place -- this being a holiday and all -- was full of kids. The wonder on their faces made the wonder of the museum even more wonderful. The place is full of great interactive exhibits that allow them to *participate* in the illusions, so they really get into seeing through their own hands or laughing at the funny shapes of their bodies in the distorting mirrors. Here's me, after a few weeks on the Croissant Diet: [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8405/8699517768_9913c12897.jpg] All in all, it's a delightful place (although far too expensive at 12), and I have an enormous smile on my face. It's been a really fun way to start my holiday. That said, it's not as nice a place as the *other* museum devoted to magic in France, la Maison de la Magie. That one is in Robert Houdin's old house in Blois, and is about ten times the size of this one. Houdin was the most famous magician of the nineteenth century; the American magician Houdini took his stage name from him. And the museum itself is just *wonderful*, an utter delight. If you're ever touring France, you'll probably have to go to Blois anyway to see the summer palaces of the King and his court, and la Maison de la Magie is only a few steps away. It's worth the walk. It contains a veritable treasure house of magic history, combined with live shows, and, on one of the upper floors, one of the best illusions I've ever seen in my life. It's an undersea world that you get to walk through. Really. The trick is that the undersea world is on the ceiling, crafted in three dimensions and incredibly detailed. You walk through the winding course of this exhibit, holding on to a railing for support. Why? Because you're wearing a kind of helmet apparatus that takes your forward vision and transforms it via a set of mirrors until you're looking at the ceiling as you look straight in front of you. The result is breathtaking, and the illusion nearly complete. You walk cautiously along the sea bottom, avoiding sharks and pits in front of you, enjoying what it would be like to be Jules Verne as he dreamed up 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. WAY cool. I simply can't wait for Maya to come visit me here in France. I want to take her both to L'Académie de la Magie and La Maison de la Magie. She'll just flip. I could hear her laughter ringing in my ears as I walked through the museum this morning. Made my day...
