[FairfieldLife] Is Hebrew hip right now??
How almost no idea why, but just ordered this: Hip?? http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Online_Store/Books/MyBook/mybook.html
[FairfieldLife] Namesakes of Hadassa aka Esther
Ester Toivonen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ester Toivonen (August 7, 1914 Hamina - December 29, 1979 Helsinki) was elected Miss Finland in 1933. She was 19 and working in a bread shop in Helsinki when she was discovered by the director of the Helsinki Golf-Casino, where the Finnish pageant was to be held. She also won the Miss Europe Contest in Great Britain 1934. Later she became a film-star. http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/Emppu_album/Miss%20Europe/MissEurope1934EsterToivonen.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Namesakes of Hadassa aka Esther
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card wrote: Ester Toivonen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ester Toivonen (August 7, 1914 Hamina - December 29, 1979 Helsinki) was elected Miss Finland in 1933. She was 19 and working in a bread shop in Helsinki when she was discovered by the director of the Helsinki Golf-Casino, where the Finnish pageant was to be held. She also won the Miss Europe Contest in Great Britain 1934. Later she became a film-star. http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/Emppu_album/Miss%20Europe/MissEur\ ope1934EsterToivonen.jpg Esther Hope-nen http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/Emppu_album/Miss%20Europe/MissEu\ rope1934EsterToivonen.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Namesakes of Hadassa aka Esther
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card wrote: Ester Toivonen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ester Toivonen (August 7, 1914 Hamina - December 29, 1979 Helsinki) was elected Miss Finland in 1933. She was 19 and working in a bread shop in Helsinki when she was discovered by the director of the Helsinki Golf-Casino, where the Finnish pageant was to be held. She also won the Miss Europe Contest in Great Britain 1934. Later she became a film-star. http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/Emppu_album/Miss%20Europe/MissEur\ ope1934EsterToivonen.jpg Esther Hope-nen http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p14/Emppu_album/Miss%20Europe/MissEu\ rope1934EsterToivonen.jpg Yikes! Those days people had less than perfect teeth! Yuck!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Namesakes of Hadassa aka Esther
1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. 2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: 3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them : [unto the...: Heb. unto the hand] [Hege: also called, Hegai] 4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. 5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; 6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. [Jeconiah: also called, Jehoiachin] 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is , Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. [brought...: Heb. nourished] [fair...: Heb. fair of form, and good of countenance] 8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. 9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women. [such...: Heb. her portions] [preferred: Heb. changed] 10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it . 11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her. [to know...: Heb. to know the peace] 12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit , six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;) 13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house. 14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name. 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. 16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. [favour: or, kindness] [in his...: Heb. before him] 18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king. [release: Heb. rest] 19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate. 20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him. 21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. [Bigthan: also called, Bigthana] [the door: Heb. the threshold] 22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name. 23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king. Ester 1 Ester 3
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
... .and where is your boat you prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI [http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/images/arbigimages/fe6e861f77\ a3d97790ada7f2a1d0d0a7.jpg] ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI [http://thespiritualbloke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/empty-your-cup.\ jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Another way of answering would be:  Can't you seeâ¦it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea...  And we will sit upon the rocks,     Seeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU  In the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void. Gitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore Festival at Dartington College of Arts, Devon âthe UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta àOh Buck oh Buck Om Happy Day! While in the army You remain... Raising your voice to thunder-tones exclaiming in the same breath, Aim low ! what a pity happy clapping not allowed for youràsacred-harpical Soldier's Delight intonation. (Nr 487 interestingly related to the Latin phrase Ab urbe condita and Anno Urbis Conditae: AUC=not a founding of rome but NRRSRM?lol) But do not forget these American Deep South Georgia hymnalsà(small rural Baptist Anglo-Celtic practices, called 'white spiritual'-very different to bluegrass and to African American Gospel music) are often austere archaic hymns with themes of death and the pain of everyday existence.Far off from happiness and heav'n Could it be You misunderstood Ramayana in Human Physiology whereàallàthe war-like events in the scripture and how the journey leads to Ram are explained? Would it hurt toàlocate the Grahas, the Bhavas and the Rashis in different parts of your physiology, especially the brain ,the thalamus andàthe sensory motor cortex, gaining increasingly command overàyour entire physiology ...?first http://is1.mum.edu/vedicreserve/à...or take Ann's advise. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Ishta-deva While in the Field I remain, I'll speak the truth and bear the cause, And when on board this earth I am, I'll sing the Unified Field's praise the same. Om, As your Ishta-Devata calls for you, Put on your armor bold and true, Put forth your strength, Put forth your rod, Fight for Truth and the Unified Field. Jai Brahmananda Saraswati, -Buck
[FairfieldLife] Re: As one door closes...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Loved this dear Jim, a whiff of fresh air compared to Uncle Tantrum's dumps. HaHa, missed this when Dr.D posted it (struggeling with WIN8, writing a bill to Windows for the time I use to figure out how this nonsense works at $250.- an hour) He nailed it again, what a breeze of fresh air in here, thanks ! On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:42 PM, doctordumbass@... no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Thank you, this past week: Ann, for often saying what is on my mind, and because I always run out of posts before I can express my general enthusiasm. MGC rocks! Seventh Ray, for tackling the issue of how to post images to Yahoo â FB account for Bowser coming up! And for the completely kick-ass pictures of you and The Stooges, and the others, though I haven't looked at them all, yet. Emily, for musical inspiration, wry humor, and that German woman, with Mittens. Barry, for the contrast. With you around, everything else seems so much brighter. It is, simply, Tantriffic. Ravi, for your spiritual tagging, and charioteer drive-bys, from the City of Angels. Judy, because I know you're out there! Rory, for a jolt, bolt, and molt, and handfuls of wildflower seeds. Great to see you again. Buck, for having a good heart, and probably getting bucked off one too many times. Alex, for the wit of Oscar *Meyer*, and now being the same age as George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Ru Paul. Nabby, Peace in all things, worldly and Divine, except maybe Windows 8. RD, for always nailing that jelly to a tree; pinky-swear with Temple Dog. MJ, for writing some fucking great stories, about Brother, and the others. Richard, because every forum needs someone like you, a left turn, off of a left turn, off a dirt road. With a keyboard. Edg, for creatively grinding his teeth for years. And that gizmo you were riding for awhile-- Obba, WTF?? but in a good way... Card, for always reminding me of a larger world, and your Sanskrit musings. M Dixon, for the occasional Molotov Cocktail, lit and rolled, never thrown. Rick, The Dan Rather of spiritual broadcasting â What's The Frequency, Kenneth? Merudanda, for your stream of consciousness pictures, and a playful heart. Share, for your recent post about overwhelming Ananda. A stomp in the right direction. Bhairitu, to paraphrase, I'd never join a conspiracy that would have me as one of its members. Your feedback on my music has been invaluable. John, The Bay Area Rocks, ya?! Feste37, like a dry gin (Bombay Sapphire) martini, straight up. Xeno, for never turning down the air conditioning - Brrr. Susan, for being translucent. Seraphita, kicking ass and taking names, in the nicest possible way. Srijau, for Srijau.
[FairfieldLife] Messiah according to Islam!
W-p: Islamic tradition holds that Jesus, the son of Mary, was the promised Prophet and Masih (Messiah) sent to the Israelites, and that he will again return to Earth at the end of times, along with the Mahdi, and they will defeat Masih ad-Dajjal, the false Messiah or Antichrist.[6]
[FairfieldLife] The real problem with time travel...
...as explained by a writer who made me laugh more times than I can count, but whose brilliance *as* a writer I may have missed: [https://sphotos-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/q71/999436_325652610904\ 118_1246497628_n.jpg] https://sphotos-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/q71/999436_3256526109041\ 18_1246497628_n.jpg https://sphotos-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/q71/999436_325652610904\ 118_1246497628_n.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Berardi with full gain!
[:)] Flute etc, with full gain http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/9478598294/ Angelo BerardiFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#mw-navigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#p-search Angelo Berardi (c. 1636 9 April 1694) was an Italian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy music theorist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theorist and composer. Born in Sant'Agata Feltria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Agata_Feltria ,[citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed ] Sant'Agata, Tuscany,[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#cite_note-grove-1 or some other Sant'Agata yet to be identified,[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#cite_note-larsen-2 he received early education at Forlì http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forl%C3%AC under Giovanni Vincenzo Sarti http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giovanni_Vincenzo_Sartiactio\ n=editredlink=1 (16001655).[citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed ] From 1662 he wasmaestro di cappella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_di_cappella in Montefiascone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montefiascone .[citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed ] He studied under Marco Scacchi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Scacchi at Gallese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallese at some time between 1650 and Scacchi's death in 1662; he included two motets by Scacchi in Book 1 of his Documenti armonici of 1687, and also cites him frequently.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#cite_note-palisca-3 By 1667, when his Salmi vespertini concertati, Op. 4, were published, Berardi was maestro di cappella at the cathedral in Viterbo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbo .[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#cite_note-larsen-2 He was probably made a priest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest in Rome in 1672 or 1673.[citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed ] He was organist and maestro di cappella at Tivoli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoli,_Italy from 21 September 1673 to 1679,[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#cite_note-larsen-2 and maestro di cappella and professor of music at the cathedral in Spoleto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoleto in 1681[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Berardi#cite_note-larsen-2 or from 16791683.[citation needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed ] He was a canon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(priest) at the collegiata of S. Angelo, Viterbo, when the Documenti armonici (1687) and Miscellanea musicale (1689) were published. By 1693 he was maestro di cappella at Santa Maria in Trastevere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_in_Trastevere in Rome.
[FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums
Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Whose picture is on a $10 bill?
Whose... http://www.fender.com/news/amp-basics-whats-the-difference-between-gain\ -and-volume/
[FairfieldLife] Re: As one door closes...
Glad you liked it, Ravi - What a crew! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Loved this dear Jim, a whiff of fresh air compared to Uncle Tantrum's dumps. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:42 PM, doctordumbass@... no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: ** Thank you, this past week: Ann, for often saying what is on my mind, and because I always run out of posts before I can express my general enthusiasm. MGC rocks! Seventh Ray, for tackling the issue of how to post images to Yahoo â FB account for Bowser coming up! And for the completely kick-ass pictures of you and The Stooges, and the others, though I haven't looked at them all, yet. Emily, for musical inspiration, wry humor, and that German woman, with Mittens. Barry, for the contrast. With you around, everything else seems so much brighter. It is, simply, Tantriffic. Ravi, for your spiritual tagging, and charioteer drive-bys, from the City of Angels. Judy, because I know you're out there! Rory, for a jolt, bolt, and molt, and handfuls of wildflower seeds. Great to see you again. Buck, for having a good heart, and probably getting bucked off one too many times. Alex, for the wit of Oscar *Meyer*, and now being the same age as George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Ru Paul. Nabby, Peace in all things, worldly and Divine, except maybe Windows 8. RD, for always nailing that jelly to a tree; pinky-swear with Temple Dog. MJ, for writing some fucking great stories, about Brother, and the others. Richard, because every forum needs someone like you, a left turn, off of a left turn, off a dirt road. With a keyboard. Edg, for creatively grinding his teeth for years. And that gizmo you were riding for awhile-- Obba, WTF?? but in a good way... Card, for always reminding me of a larger world, and your Sanskrit musings. M Dixon, for the occasional Molotov Cocktail, lit and rolled, never thrown. Rick, The Dan Rather of spiritual broadcasting â What's The Frequency, Kenneth? Merudanda, for your stream of consciousness pictures, and a playful heart. Share, for your recent post about overwhelming Ananda. A stomp in the right direction. Bhairitu, to paraphrase, I'd never join a conspiracy that would have me as one of its members. Your feedback on my music has been invaluable. John, The Bay Area Rocks, ya?! Feste37, like a dry gin (Bombay Sapphire) martini, straight up. Xeno, for never turning down the air conditioning - Brrr. Susan, for being translucent. Seraphita, kicking ass and taking names, in the nicest possible way. Srijau, for Srijau.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Initiated (A Love Song)
Thanks! Yes, I listen to this stuff A LOT while composing it and mixing it. My kind of music! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: Thank you for reposting the link, Jim; I must have missed this one! I love how closely you have married your rhythmic accompaniment to the chant, Very powerful synergy! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Thank you, Rory, and you are welcome -- I am currently on a quest to make the Vedic hymns more accessible, through my music, and create a less stodgy cultural perception, one listener at a time. Or something like that. It is a very satisfying endeavor, as you might imagine. In fact, that is the driving force, right there. Unraveling the timing and tones is such a wonderful process - balances my brain, on a finger-tip, or two. I also posted a composition here on FFL, right after Vedic Rap, called, Brahmaputra. Here is the link again: Brahmaputra (3:07) https://app.box.com/s/qzzqvzo8sekhszda0ifq copyright Temple Dog --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: Wow, this is a trip, Jim; many thanks! I also loved your last one... vedic rap, was it called? Some powerful stuff here, I hope you keep mining this particular vein! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Some of you may know this one, by another name. Jai Guru Dev -- Initiated (A Love Song) 3:20 https://app.box.com/s/86zrldywdz50cyfq0ccb copyright Temple Dog
[FairfieldLife] Re: As one door closes...
Sounds good! I was partying in my sleep! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: Dear Dr. Dumbass, All night marathon! 13 minutes to Saturday Night, and let the party begin! Thank you for the WTF. It is all good. ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9n7GirhsI -Obba --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: Thank you, this past week: Ann, for often saying what is on my mind, and because I always run out of posts before I can express my general enthusiasm. MGC rocks! Seventh Ray, for tackling the issue of how to post images to Yahoo FB account for Bowser coming up! And for the completely kick-ass pictures of you and The Stooges, and the others, though I haven't looked at them all, yet. Emily, for musical inspiration, wry humor, and that German woman, with Mittens. Barry, for the contrast. With you around, everything else seems so much brighter. It is, simply, Tantriffic. Ravi, for your spiritual tagging, and charioteer drive-bys, from the City of Angels. Judy, because I know you're out there! Rory, for a jolt, bolt, and molt, and handfuls of wildflower seeds. Great to see you again. Buck, for having a good heart, and probably getting bucked off one too many times. Alex, for the wit of Oscar *Meyer*, and now being the same age as George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Ru Paul. Nabby, Peace in all things, worldly and Divine, except maybe Windows 8. RD, for always nailing that jelly to a tree; pinky-swear with Temple Dog. MJ, for writing some fucking great stories, about Brother, and the others. Richard, because every forum needs someone like you, a left turn, off of a left turn, off a dirt road. With a keyboard. Edg, for creatively grinding his teeth for years. And that gizmo you were riding for awhile-- Obba, WTF?? but in a good way... Card, for always reminding me of a larger world, and your Sanskrit musings. M Dixon, for the occasional Molotov Cocktail, lit and rolled, never thrown. Rick, The Dan Rather of spiritual broadcasting What's The Frequency, Kenneth? Merudanda, for your stream of consciousness pictures, and a playful heart. Share, for your recent post about overwhelming Ananda. A stomp in the right direction. Bhairitu, to paraphrase, I'd never join a conspiracy that would have me as one of its members. Your feedback on my music has been invaluable. John, The Bay Area Rocks, ya?! Feste37, like a dry gin (Bombay Sapphire) martini, straight up. Xeno, for never turning down the air conditioning - Brrr. Susan, for being translucent. Seraphita, kicking ass and taking names, in the nicest possible way. Srijau, for Srijau.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
$65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. That's right. Just spent a week in Berlin, must be the friendliest people in Europe, as long as you don't brake any rules :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Messiah according to Islam!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card wrote: W-p: Islamic tradition holds that Jesus, the son of Mary, was the promised Prophet and Masih (Messiah) sent to the Israelites, and that he will again return to Earth at the end of times, along with the Mahdi, and they will defeat Masih ad-Dajjal, the false Messiah or Antichrist.[6] Carde, both Jesus (living in Italy) and The Christ (living in London) are already here, and it's not because it's the end of times but because it's a new beginning for mankind. Just like Maharishi said many, many times :-) http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm\
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
I believe that! I have never visited Germany, though a lot of my DNA comes from there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. That's right. Just spent a week in Berlin, must be the friendliest people in Europe, as long as you don't brake any rules :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Messiah according to Islam!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card wrote: W-p: Islamic tradition holds that Jesus, the son of Mary, was the promised Prophet and Masih (Messiah) sent to the Israelites, and that he will again return to Earth at the end of times, along with the Mahdi, and they will defeat Masih ad-Dajjal, the false Messiah or Antichrist.[6] Carde, both Jesus (living in Italy) and The Christ (living in London) are already here, and it's not because it's the end of times but because it's a new beginning for mankind. Just like Maharishi said many, many times :-) http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm\ And Carde, when you are there be sure to seek info on the Prophet Iman Mahdi. You'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that He is also now amongst us again now and has visited and have been videotaped during several of the demonstrations in the Middle East the last few years.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Messiah according to Islam!
Though I am hardly a biblical scholar, once I began reading the bible as a book of symbols, relative to the dynamics of consciousness, only then did it make any sense. To interpret these symbols literally, though, as the fundamentalists do, causes lots of confusion. End of times or The end times, wrt consciousness, is the process of transcending, leading to experiences of GC, revelations of angels, etc. However, by getting hung up on the names and exact descriptions in that (hidden) holy text, the modern Christians chase many wild geese, instead. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card wrote: W-p: Islamic tradition holds that Jesus, the son of Mary, was the promised Prophet and Masih (Messiah) sent to the Israelites, and that he will again return to Earth at the end of times, along with the Mahdi, and they will defeat Masih ad-Dajjal, the false Messiah or Antichrist.[6] Carde, both Jesus (living in Italy) and The Christ (living in London) are already here, and it's not because it's the end of times but because it's a new beginning for mankind. Just like Maharishi said many, many times :-) http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm\
[FairfieldLife] Fame
Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ... .and where is your boat you prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Another way of answering would be:  Can't you see…it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea...  And we will sit upon the rocks,     Seeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU  In the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void. Gitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore Festival at Dartington College of Arts, Devon â€the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Oh Buck oh Buck Om Happy Day! While in the army You remain... Raising your voice to thunder-tones exclaiming in the same breath, Aim low ! what a pity happy clapping not allowed for your sacred-harpical Soldier's Delight intonation. (Nr 487 interestingly related to the Latin phrase Ab urbe condita and Anno Urbis Conditae: AUC=not a founding of rome but NRRSRM?lol) But do not forget these American Deep South Georgia hymnals (small rural Baptist Anglo-Celtic practices, called 'white spiritual'-very different to bluegrass and to African American Gospel music) are often austere archaic hymns with themes of death and the pain of everyday existence.Far off from happiness and heav'n Could it be You misunderstood Ramayana in Human Physiology where all the war-like events in the scripture and how the journey leads to Ram are explained? Would it hurt to locate the Grahas, the Bhavas and the Rashis in different parts of your physiology, especially the brain ,the thalamus and the sensory motor cortex, gaining increasingly command over your entire physiology ...?first http://is1.mum.edu/vedicreserve/ ...or take Ann's advise. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Ishta-deva While in the Field I remain, I'll speak the truth and bear the cause, And when on board this earth I am, I'll sing the Unified Field's praise the same. Om, As your Ishta-Devata calls for you, Put on your armor bold and true, Put forth your strength, Put forth your rod, Fight for Truth and the Unified Field. Jai Brahmananda
[FairfieldLife] Re: Round up the usual suspects
Tantric Barry is performing a secret rite; liberation, through constipation. By withholding from others, squeezing it back in, so to speak, he can produce, floridly, for himself, when he surmounts his throne. As Uncle Tantra has said, and listen closely, he doesn't, give a shit. Get it?? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Yes dear I am good. Barry gets some perverse, sadistic joy fantasizing turning down your playful overtures, LOL. How can a man in reality turn down a woman so callously, so sadistically, it's mental sickness to even imagine it, Barry is mentally sick, twisted. snip
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fame
Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fame
Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. Sometimes I wonder if the Illuminati or powers that be or whoever, use such *news* items to dumb down and distract the citizens, much like the ancient Romans with their gladiator games, etc. Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fame
Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. Sometimes I wonder if the Illuminati or powers that be or whoever, use such *news* items to dumb down and distract the citizens, much like the ancient Romans with their gladiator games, etc. Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! PS Before unlimited posting I would rarely post a second and even a third time. It was frustrating when another thought came to me after pressing Send button. Confession: I'm still keeping track of my posts. Don't know why. Maybe don't like change, but habit makes change easier? From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fame
I find the whole thing kind of mesmerizing, actually. I mean, they do go to all that trouble to put together publicity campaigns for themselves, and create a public persona, getting caught up in the whirl and swirl of endless camera flashes in the face, and microscopic examination, by the public. I love rubber-necking this stuff, and do find it entertaining - like a candy bar. Doesn't last long, but there is a sweet fascination with it, for a few minutes. TV wasn't really a constant for me until I was in my 30's, didn't really grow up with it, so I can watch just about anything and wring some entertainment value from it. Saw a great episode of I Dream Of Jeannie last night - kept trying to point out to my wife where they had airbrushed out Barbara Eden's navel. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame  Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fame
Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! Yep. Also, what gets posted as news, at the end of the week on Friday. And the duration of posted stories - varies greatly. As for who is doing what behind the scenes, I always have a ready answer: fuck 'em.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. Sometimes I wonder if the Illuminati or powers that be or whoever, use such *news* items to dumb down and distract the citizens, much like the ancient Romans with their gladiator games, etc. Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! PS Before unlimited posting I would rarely post a second and even a third time. It was frustrating when another thought came to me after pressing Send button. Confession: I'm still keeping track of my posts. Don't know why. Maybe don't like change, but habit makes change easier? From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame  Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums
Is Pigalle deserted too? From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 5:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Doors
I just noticed today My front door faces due east. The side door faces due south, but I only use to to take out the trash and yell at the Jehovah's Witnesses when they come around.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 09-Aug-13 00:15:05 UTC
I think you have a split personality - one day you revile me for disparaging Marshy, the next you want first-hand dirt on the old goat? From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 7:41 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 09-Aug-13 00:15:05 UTC Notice, like for instance if anyone surfaces who was involved in Maharishi moving the Kaplan money from Boone to overseas accounts ever writes about those days that woould be real interesting. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: I'll be leaving soon once the whole mob is back and takes over FFL in only a few hours now. Send me e-mail notice if any more good first hand reminiscence accounts of TM history get posted. You know, like from someone who was actually there when something happened. It was FFL, And, I don't care to stay here long. -Buck in the Dome Yea verily, Brother Buck! And, let not thy back door hit thee where thy Good Lord hath split thee!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Round up the usual suspects
I'm happy, I get to go home with Ingrid Bergman, maybe she can help me not be so uptight, after she gets over Monsieur Rick. Very creative piece Barry, I like. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 1:19 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Round up the usual suspects For those who fear they might become...uh...targets of the Mean Girls Club during this upcoming unlimited posting month, I thought I'd continue to have fun with my idea from a couple of nights ago. That is, a way to react that strikes me as non-reactive (and even creative) might be to take derogatory descriptions of you posted on FFL and turn them into a story, set in Rick's Cafe Americain, in Casablanca. The game, if anyone is up for it, is to take epithets thrown at you and illustrate them in words, amplifying or embellishing as you see fit, and thus turning them into a fun parody of the person or persons who sought to characterize you that way. To aid aspiring writers in this challenge, here is my off-the-cuff (meaning that I'm coming up with this on the fly, in a Paris cafe, in the moment, not putting a shitload of thought into it) *casting* of these mini-Casablanca movies, using familiar FFL posters as the actors or actresses. Apologies in advance for not naming everyone, but there really aren't a lot of named characters in the movie, and even fewer of them are women. Everyone Comes To Rick's (the original title) Cast: * Rick (Richard Blaine) -- Duh...Rick * Capt. Louis Renault (enforces the rules...or at least some of them...but always his own way) -- Alex * Victor Laszlo (noble, but sometimes a bit uptight) -- Michael Jackson * Heinrich Strasser -- Duh...the Judester * Col. Heinz (Strasser's aide) -- Jim Flanegin/doctordumbass/whoever he is this week * Signor Ugarte -- Ravi * Yvonne (the cabaret singer with a weakness for men who don't love her back) -- Obbajeeba * Carl the waiter-- Rory * Annina (naive refugee rescued by Rick in the movie) -- Share * Berger (Victor's Resistance contact...always too serious, always trying to get everyone to join the revolution, always failing) -- Buck * Sascha (Russian bartender) -- Salyavin * Signor Ferrari (As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man.) -- Bhairitu * Sam -- another Duh!...Curtis * The Pickpocket -- Willytex * Abdul the doorman (because when anyone brings up this character in a discussion about the movie, no one can even remember him being in it) -- Robin * Minor Nazi officer (as in the movie itself, too unimportant to have any lines or even be given a name in the credits) -- Ann * Ilsa -- You may have noticed that I have saved her for last. That is because it's difficult for me to find anyone among our FFL women, past or present, who captures her combination of inner/outer beauty and, above all else, balance and equanimity. So I'm going to nominate that the role be played in turns by -- Susan (wayback), Sally Sunshine, and Ruth.Have fun writing your own movies. Or not. Either way, have fun... :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Did this come through? (three stooges pic)
Awesome!! Larry and Moe - what a photo, man! From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 8:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Did this come through? (three stooges pic)
Re: [FairfieldLife] This'll get the dome numbers up....
Hot damn! Bye bye TM Movement - your days are numbered! Once folks get a taste of this, they won't give a damn about TMSP - I would love to know what kind of sit down meditation this gal used to do before coming her way to nirvana? From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 3:53 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] This'll get the dome numbers up http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2386806/Orgasmic-meditation-Actress-Karen-Lorre-claims-11-orgasms-day.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Jewglass for Google Glass
This is really funny. I love your writing Barry! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Jewglass for Google Glass One of the first apps for Google Glass has appeared, and lo and behold, it's an app for religious Jews: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/New-app-makes-Google-Glass-a-religious-experience-322288 Reading this, I could not help but imagine what the TMglass app would be like. Here are a few proposed features, displayed on your ever-present Google Glass screen throughout the day to help keep you On The Program and On The Path: * Dome Time Reminders -- Natch, these would pop up to remind you when it is time for you to drop whatever you are doing and race feverishly across town so that you can plop your butt on the foam where it belongs. These alerts will be user-configurable, and can start with a slight darkening of the lenses, so that your world starts to appear gray, escalating to red when you're in danger of not making it to the dome in time. * Maharishi S-V Geopositioning -- Now, no matter where you are, you'll know where you are, which direction you should be facing for maximum support of nature, and when you're in danger of entering or exiting from a building using one of the BAD directions. * OTP Detector -- This feature will appeal to Buck. The TMglass app will scan the auras of everyone within your field of vision, and color-code them according to how On The Program they are, so that you can decide whether to greet them as a fellow meditator, avoid them as risky, or run like hell to avoid cooties. * 24/7 Banking Access -- Useful when you're being hit up to contribute to the Next Big Thing, and can't make it to an ATM. All you'll have to do is say aloud, Google Glass, check my bank balance and give every- thing in it to the TMO. * Dogma Prompts -- Never be caught without an answer to any question that arises. TMglass will detect the questions and pop up a Fully Approved Dogma Quote from Maharishi, so that you can parrot it. * Religion Blinders -- Whenever you are attending a non-religious celebration at a TM center that might be perceived by some as slightly religious in nature because it involves chanting to, saying I bow down to a number of Hindu deities, giving them offerings, and then physically bow down to them, TMglass will alter your brainwaves so that you don't notice, and will prompt you to say, TM is not a religion. * Superiority Prompts -- If you find yourself stuck in the same room (or cyber-chat room) with someone who doesn't do TM, or spit practices some other form of meditation, TMglass will display a series of dogma- reminders of the numerous ways in which you are superior to these lesser beings. * Kill The Messenger feature -- Whenever anyone makes a clear, cogent, and unassailable criticism of TM, the TMO, Maharishi, or anything related to genuflect TM, TMglass will pop up a targeting device and allow you to ZAP! the offending heathens in their tracks, as if struck by a devastatingly coherent laser beam. Actual laser beams will not be available until Release 2.0, of course, but just the belief that you've devastated your enemies should be enough for Release 1.0. After all, that's how Kill the messenger works today. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Yep - student price in November 1975, (Dennis Greely (sp?) was my TM teacher) Corvallis, Oregon - nice town - Had plum trees planted along the sidewalks, and you could pick them when ripe. Used to make the run down Highway 99, to Eugene, to smoke dope and play frisbee with my buddies. I turned 59 a few months ago. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jewglass for Google Glass
Group Huggie?? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: This is really funny. I love your writing Barry! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Jewglass for Google Glass  One of the first apps for Google Glass has appeared, and lo and behold, it's an app for religious Jews: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/New-app-makes-Google-Glass-a-religious-experience-322288 Reading this, I could not help but imagine what the TMglass app would be like. Here are a few proposed features, displayed on your ever-present Google Glass screen throughout the day to help keep you On The Program and On The Path: * Dome Time Reminders -- Natch, these would pop up to remind you when it is time for you to drop whatever you are doing and race feverishly across town so that you can plop your butt on the foam where it belongs. These alerts will be user-configurable, and can start with a slight darkening of the lenses, so that your world starts to appear gray, escalating to red when you're in danger of not making it to the dome in time. * Maharishi S-V Geopositioning -- Now, no matter where you are, you'll know where you are, which direction you should be facing for maximum support of nature, and when you're in danger of entering or exiting from a building using one of the BAD directions. * OTP Detector -- This feature will appeal to Buck. The TMglass app will scan the auras of everyone within your field of vision, and color-code them according to how On The Program they are, so that you can decide whether to greet them as a fellow meditator, avoid them as risky, or run like hell to avoid cooties. * 24/7 Banking Access -- Useful when you're being hit up to contribute to the Next Big Thing, and can't make it to an ATM. All you'll have to do is say aloud, Google Glass, check my bank balance and give every- thing in it to the TMO. * Dogma Prompts -- Never be caught without an answer to any question that arises. TMglass will detect the questions and pop up a Fully Approved Dogma Quote from Maharishi, so that you can parrot it. * Religion Blinders -- Whenever you are attending a non-religious celebration at a TM center that might be perceived by some as slightly religious in nature because it involves chanting to, saying I bow down to a number of Hindu deities, giving them offerings, and then physically bow down to them, TMglass will alter your brainwaves so that you don't notice, and will prompt you to say, TM is not a religion. * Superiority Prompts -- If you find yourself stuck in the same room (or cyber-chat room) with someone who doesn't do TM, or spit practices some other form of meditation, TMglass will display a series of dogma- reminders of the numerous ways in which you are superior to these lesser beings. * Kill The Messenger feature -- Whenever anyone makes a clear, cogent, and unassailable criticism of TM, the TMO, Maharishi, or anything related to genuflect TM, TMglass will pop up a targeting device and allow you to ZAP! the offending heathens in their tracks, as if struck by a devastatingly coherent laser beam. Actual laser beams will not be available until Release 2.0, of course, but just the belief that you've devastated your enemies should be enough for Release 1.0. After all, that's how Kill the messenger works today. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: (snip) I enjoyed your fun posts for Judy. I'll miss her and the whole thing was kind of strange. There were a couple of days when she didn't post at all, again if I remember correctly. You don't. I posted every day that week. And there was nothing strange about my overposting, if you read my explanation of how it happened.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Shall maketh not? Sorry, should've emphasized: not with *any* auxiliary verb (shall, will, do...) Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Uh, no. Hair does not maketh Gino, alone. Gino has that umph. Uhumph. Hmmm...methinks 'maketh' is a finite verb form? Thus, it ought not to be used with an auxiliary verb like 'do'??
[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: (snip) What muddled thinking - Because a group that you no longer associate with, believes in God, you, now, no longer see as possible, a relationship with God?? How is that critical thinking? It is an immature, knee-jerk reaction, to social norms, having nothing to do with a personal spiritual life - merely grandstanding. It's good critical thinking if you have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of christianity and cast a long sober look at the claims made for the existence of supernatural creators. It's hard for anyone who has studied genetics, biology and neuro-psychology to believe anything the religious tell us when there are so many more convincing explanations on offer. Couple of points. First, many thoughtful and deeply devout *Christians* have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of Christianity. Anyone who thinks Christianity is nothing but baby talk is simply ignorant. Second, Christian theology has explanations for aspects of human experience that genetics, biology, and neuro- psychology cannot encompass. Bottom line, as an atheist you may never find even the most sophisticated and rigorous Christian theology convincing; but if you actually engage with it, you'll need to draw upon your best thinking to intellectually justify dismissing it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Round up the usual suspects
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I'm happy, I get to go home with Ingrid Bergman, maybe she can help me not be so uptight, after she gets over Monsieur Rick. Very creative piece Barry, I like. Glad you enjoyed it; I sure enjoyed writing it. Also glad you like your role. If you know the movie, some of my casting choices are quite complimentary. Rory seemed to take umbrage at being cast as Carl, but he's really one of the coolest characters in the movie -- mainly jolly, but with a tongue on him when he has a mind to use it: Captain Renault: Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies. Carl: I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway. Woman: What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish? Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam. Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen. Banker: We have something to look forward to. Even though I've seen the film over 50 times, I was still surprised by some of the things I found out about it while reading the Wiki page about it to refresh my memory of characters' names. For example, that for a film that no one expected to be the classic it became, shot during WWII and about a community of refugees, a *huge* number of the actors and extras were themselves refugees. The Wiki page tells the story of them shooting the scene in which Yvonne reacts to the German officers singing some German song by storming onto the stage and leading the whole room in a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise. Director Michael Curtiz looked around the set after the shot and discovered that half his cast were in tears. It has been theorized that the fact that so many of the actors were refugees from Europe themselves contributed greatly to the believability of Rick's Cafe Americain. SO many great lines in this movie, too, some of them very funny. For example: Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met... Rick: Was La Belle Aurore. Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris. Rick: Not an easy day to forget. Ilsa: No. Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed. As for your question in another thread, I don't know whether Pigalle is deserted at this time of year, because I haven't been there yet during this gig in Paris. But I'm planning to head up that way tomorrow, to spend the day wandering around Montmartre and sitting at Amelie's cafe Les Deux Moulins, so I'll check out Pigalle, just to satisfy your curiosity. I warn you in advance, however, that it's pretty tame these days. Lotsa strip clubs, but the bordels are long gone, closed decades ago by De Gaulle. That may be one reason he is not revered more highly by the French. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fame
Yeah Share, Let's ponder what subject is the least interesting a few times and keep count! LOL You know as long as people are asleep anything goes. It is even written in the English law somewhere (darn, I did read it and I am sorry I have no source to link to), that the laws would cease to exist when everyone wakes up. There will not be a law to tell us when this occurs, nor a leader to follow who said we are done with law or hollywood gossip, whichever comes first, our brilliance or demise as a species. Until then, we are going to be bogged down with tabloid stuff (who cares if it is the illuminati or not. Someone else would do it otherwise and is being done.) we are all directed to where the pretty red balloon takes us, and we can keep this fame thread going with added contemplations just because we can. Unless, we stop it by ignoring stupid crap. Unlimited posting heaven! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. Sometimes I wonder if the Illuminati or powers that be or whoever, use such *news* items to dumb down and distract the citizens, much like the ancient Romans with their gladiator games, etc. Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! PS Before unlimited posting I would rarely post a second and even a third time. It was frustrating when another thought came to me after pressing Send button. Confession: I'm still keeping track of my posts. Don't know why. Maybe don't like change, but habit makes change easier? From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame  Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: (snip) What muddled thinking - Because a group that you no longer associate with, believes in God, you, now, no longer see as possible, a relationship with God?? How is that critical thinking? It is an immature, knee-jerk reaction, to social norms, having nothing to do with a personal spiritual life - merely grandstanding. It's good critical thinking if you have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of christianity and cast a long sober look at the claims made for the existence of supernatural creators. It's hard for anyone who has studied genetics, biology and neuro-psychology to believe anything the religious tell us when there are so many more convincing explanations on offer. Couple of points. First, many thoughtful and deeply devout *Christians* have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of Christianity. Anyone who thinks Christianity is nothing but baby talk is simply ignorant. Sigh. Go on then, explain why Jeesus is the son of some creator god and sent to save us from sin in a way that might convince a sceptic. Second, Christian theology has explanations for aspects of human experience that genetics, biology, and neuro- psychology cannot encompass. Go on then, tell all. Bottom line, as an atheist you may never find even the most sophisticated and rigorous Christian theology convincing; but if you actually engage with it, you'll need to draw upon your best thinking to intellectually justify dismissing it. Not even remotely my best.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Did this come through? (three stooges pic)
I ran out of posts when I was being rationed and I may now add, I love this photo! If there is anyone known in the whole world, ever to be in a celebrity picture with, it is the Three Stoodges! No other is worthy! I bow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Awesome!! Larry and Moe - what a photo, man! From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 8:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Did this come through? (three stooges pic) Â
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
Thanks Auth! Yes, I see you have that correct, and rightly corrected! My perspective was I forgot what order it should be in. It was somewhere housed in the brain, just a bit scrambled and I surely was not going to waste my time digging up the language history, because even today, the word, gay, is not the same as long ago. Ain't, is now a word. Liberal, is now a different meaning, except I am getting confused to which one is correct anymore. hahaha. Lacking brain function when Gino sings that particular song and brings all kind of thoughts and almost causes a stutter. LOL. (Not necessarily about Gino, the wholeness of experience from remembering times, the people we know who we love and of course, Gino, gives us that handsome quality to reminisce, in whatever state of mind that brings us pleasant thoughts of long time love in our past, present and future. He is not my man, he reminds me of one fond memory that does not leave, so far, in this life. Dementia will be my salvation! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Shall maketh not? Sorry, should've emphasized: not with *any* auxiliary verb (shall, will, do...) Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Uh, no. Hair does not maketh Gino, alone. Gino has that umph. Uhumph. Hmmm...methinks 'maketh' is a finite verb form? Thus, it ought not to be used with an auxiliary verb like 'do'??
[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: (snip) What muddled thinking - Because a group that you no longer associate with, believes in God, you, now, no longer see as possible, a relationship with God?? How is that critical thinking? It is an immature, knee-jerk reaction, to social norms, having nothing to do with a personal spiritual life - merely grandstanding. It's good critical thinking if you have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of christianity and cast a long sober look at the claims made for the existence of supernatural creators. It's hard for anyone who has studied genetics, biology and neuro-psychology to believe anything the religious tell us when there are so many more convincing explanations on offer. Couple of points. First, many thoughtful and deeply devout *Christians* have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of Christianity. Anyone who thinks Christianity is nothing but baby talk is simply ignorant. Sigh. Go on then, explain why Jeesus is the son of some creator god and sent to save us from sin in a way that might convince a sceptic. Too complicated to do here. No kidding, you have to immerse yourself in it. And first you have to deal with whether God exists. Second, Christian theology has explanations for aspects of human experience that genetics, biology, and neuro- psychology cannot encompass. Go on then, tell all. Bottom line, as an atheist you may never find even the most sophisticated and rigorous Christian theology convincing; but if you actually engage with it, you'll need to draw upon your best thinking to intellectually justify dismissing it. Not even remotely my best. How do you know? You've never engaged with it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  ... .and where is your boat you prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta àAnother way of answering would be: àCan't you seeââ¬Â¦it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea... àAnd we will sit upon the rocks, ààààSeeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU àIn the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void.àGitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore Festivalàat Dartington College of Arts, Devon ââ¬the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃâàOh Buck oh Buck Om Happy Day! While in the army You remain... Raising your voice to thunder-tones exclaiming in the same breath, Aim low ! what a pity happy clapping not allowed for yourÃâàsacred-harpical Soldier's Delight intonation. (Nr 487 interestingly related to the Latin phrase Ab urbe condita and Anno Urbis Conditae: AUC=not a founding of rome but NRRSRM?lol) But do not forget these American Deep South Georgia hymnalsÃâà(small rural Baptist Anglo-Celtic practices, called 'white spiritual'-very different to bluegrass and to African American Gospel music) are often austere archaic hymns with themes of death and the pain of everyday existence.Far off from happiness and heav'n Could it be You misunderstood Ramayana in Human Physiology whereÃâàallÃâàthe war-like events in the scripture and how the journey leads to Ram are explained? Would it hurt toÃâàlocate the Grahas, the Bhavas and the Rashis in different parts of your
Re: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums
turq, happy vacation a little early. And now I shall do something which in badness falls somewhere between mixing metaphors and mixing traditions and wish for you your very own lipstick-taser toting, Minion loving Lu...er, Ilsa (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! From: Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  ... .and where is your boat you prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Another way of answering would be:  Can't you see…it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea...  And we will sit upon the rocks,     Seeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU  In the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void. Gitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore Festival at Dartington College of Arts, Devon â€the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Oh Buck oh Buck Om Happy Day! While in the army You remain... Raising your voice to thunder-tones exclaiming in the same breath, Aim low ! what a pity happy clapping not allowed for your sacred-harpical Soldier's Delight intonation. (Nr 487 interestingly related to the Latin phrase Ab urbe condita and Anno Urbis Conditae: AUC=not a founding of rome but NRRSRM?lol) But do not forget these American Deep South Georgia hymnals (small rural Baptist Anglo-Celtic practices, called 'white spiritual'-very different to bluegrass and to African American Gospel music) are often austere archaic hymns with themes of death and the pain of everyday existence.Far off from
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
1956, Year of the Fire Monkey hey, didn't someone mention a barrel of monkeys this morning? I'm also just sayin... From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! From: Ann awoelflebater@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta à... .and where is your boatàyou prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃâàAnother way of answering would be: ÃâàCan't you seeâââ¬Ã¦it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea... ÃâàAnd we will sit upon the rocks, ÃâàÃâàÃâàÃâàSeeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU ÃâàIn the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void.ÃâàGitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore FestivalÃâàat Dartington College of Arts, Devon âââ¬the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàOh Buck oh Buck Om Happy Day! While in the army You remain... Raising your voice to thunder-tones exclaiming in the same breath, Aim low ! what a pity happy clapping not allowed for yourÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡Ãâàsacred-harpical Soldier's Delight intonation. (Nr 487 interestingly related to the Latin phrase Ab urbe condita and Anno Urbis Conditae: AUC=not a founding
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Round up the usual suspects
I love Casablanca too, a mighty high quality movie - Capt. Renault is one of my favorite characters for sure. I only know about Pigalle because my sister and some of her teacher friends began going to Europe every couple years back in the mid to late 1970's - they were warned by some locals to stay away, I reckon that's when it was still rough. There was a Frenchman who was in the ESL program at MIU and worked part time in the bakery. We got to talking about France, and as a joke I told him I really wanted to see Paris and spend most of my time in Pigalle. He was pretty shocked that I even knew about it, and told me it was a very bad place. I asked him if he had ever been there, but he sort of evaded the question. I asked also what exactly they had there and he said A lot of girls and lots of alcohol, very expensive alcohol, but not very good quality. He also indicated it was at that time in the 1980's still a good place to wake up with a busted head and missing wallet. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:24 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Round up the usual suspects --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I'm happy, I get to go home with Ingrid Bergman, maybe she can help me not be so uptight, after she gets over Monsieur Rick. Very creative piece Barry, I like. Glad you enjoyed it; I sure enjoyed writing it. Also glad you like your role. If you know the movie, some of my casting choices are quite complimentary. Rory seemed to take umbrage at being cast as Carl, but he's really one of the coolest characters in the movie -- mainly jolly, but with a tongue on him when he has a mind to use it: Captain Renault: Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies. Carl: I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway. Woman: What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish? Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam. Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen. Banker: We have something to look forward to. Even though I've seen the film over 50 times, I was still surprised by some of the things I found out about it while reading the Wiki page about it to refresh my memory of characters' names. For example, that for a film that no one expected to be the classic it became, shot during WWII and about a community of refugees, a *huge* number of the actors and extras were themselves refugees. The Wiki page tells the story of them shooting the scene in which Yvonne reacts to the German officers singing some German song by storming onto the stage and leading the whole room in a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise. Director Michael Curtiz looked around the set after the shot and discovered that half his cast were in tears. It has been theorized that the fact that so many of the actors were refugees from Europe themselves contributed greatly to the believability of Rick's Cafe Americain. SO many great lines in this movie, too, some of them very funny. For example: Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met... Rick: Was La Belle Aurore. Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris. Rick: Not an easy day to forget. Ilsa: No. Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed. As for your question in another thread, I don't know whether Pigalle is deserted at this time of year, because I haven't been there yet during this gig in Paris. But I'm planning to head up that way tomorrow, to spend the day wandering around Montmartre and sitting at Amelie's cafe Les Deux Moulins, so I'll check out Pigalle, just to satisfy your curiosity. I warn you in advance, however, that it's pretty tame these days. Lotsa strip clubs, but the bordels are long gone, closed decades ago by De Gaulle. That may be one reason he is not revered more highly by the French. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
Well Dudy the Off Duty Editor, since I capitalized Beloved, of course I was referring to God. Ann seemed unaware and or unaccepting of a person having a relationship with God that involves filling and emptying, you know, as in grace. BTW, you've just unknowingly addressed me by my Vedic sound, thank you (-: From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! From: Ann awoelflebater@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  ... .and where is your boat you prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Another way of answering would be:  Can't you see…it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea...  And we will sit upon the rocks,     Seeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU  In the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void. Gitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore Festival at Dartington College of Arts, Devon â€the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jewglass for Google Glass
Way better than group Huggies, IMHO (-: ok, that was baaad! From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:33 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jewglass for Google Glass Group Huggie?? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: This is really funny. I love your writing Barry! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Jewglass for Google Glass  One of the first apps for Google Glass has appeared, and lo and behold, it's an app for religious Jews: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/New-app-makes-Google-Glass-a-religious-experience-322288 Reading this, I could not help but imagine what the TMglass app would be like. Here are a few proposed features, displayed on your ever-present Google Glass screen throughout the day to help keep you On The Program and On The Path: * Dome Time Reminders -- Natch, these would pop up to remind you when it is time for you to drop whatever you are doing and race feverishly across town so that you can plop your butt on the foam where it belongs. These alerts will be user-configurable, and can start with a slight darkening of the lenses, so that your world starts to appear gray, escalating to red when you're in danger of not making it to the dome in time. * Maharishi S-V Geopositioning -- Now, no matter where you are, you'll know where you are, which direction you should be facing for maximum support of nature, and when you're in danger of entering or exiting from a building using one of the BAD directions. * OTP Detector -- This feature will appeal to Buck. The TMglass app will scan the auras of everyone within your field of vision, and color-code them according to how On The Program they are, so that you can decide whether to greet them as a fellow meditator, avoid them as risky, or run like hell to avoid cooties. * 24/7 Banking Access -- Useful when you're being hit up to contribute to the Next Big Thing, and can't make it to an ATM. All you'll have to do is say aloud, Google Glass, check my bank balance and give every- thing in it to the TMO. * Dogma Prompts -- Never be caught without an answer to any question that arises. TMglass will detect the questions and pop up a Fully Approved Dogma Quote from Maharishi, so that you can parrot it. * Religion Blinders -- Whenever you are attending a non-religious celebration at a TM center that might be perceived by some as slightly religious in nature because it involves chanting to, saying I bow down to a number of Hindu deities, giving them offerings, and then physically bow down to them, TMglass will alter your brainwaves so that you don't notice, and will prompt you to say, TM is not a religion. * Superiority Prompts -- If you find yourself stuck in the same room (or cyber-chat room) with someone who doesn't do TM, or spit practices some other form of meditation, TMglass will display a series of dogma- reminders of the numerous ways in which you are superior to these lesser beings. * Kill The Messenger feature -- Whenever anyone makes a clear, cogent, and unassailable criticism of TM, the TMO, Maharishi, or anything related to genuflect TM, TMglass will pop up a targeting device and allow you to ZAP! the offending heathens in their tracks, as if struck by a devastatingly coherent laser beam. Actual laser beams will not be available until Release 2.0, of course, but just the belief that you've devastated your enemies should be enough for Release 1.0. After all, that's how Kill the messenger works today. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
See, this is what happens to the logic circuits in the brain as one has more and more birthdays. From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:24 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again!
Judy, are you sure you're not really Susan Howatch?! From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 8:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: (snip) What muddled thinking - Because a group that you no longer associate with, believes in God, you, now, no longer see as possible, a relationship with God?? How is that critical thinking? It is an immature, knee-jerk reaction, to social norms, having nothing to do with a personal spiritual life - merely grandstanding. It's good critical thinking if you have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of christianity and cast a long sober look at the claims made for the existence of supernatural creators. It's hard for anyone who has studied genetics, biology and neuro-psychology to believe anything the religious tell us when there are so many more convincing explanations on offer. Couple of points. First, many thoughtful and deeply devout *Christians* have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of Christianity. Anyone who thinks Christianity is nothing but baby talk is simply ignorant. Second, Christian theology has explanations for aspects of human experience that genetics, biology, and neuro- psychology cannot encompass. Bottom line, as an atheist you may never find even the most sophisticated and rigorous Christian theology convincing; but if you actually engage with it, you'll need to draw upon your best thinking to intellectually justify dismissing it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Round up the usual suspects
No, no, kind Sir, you have mistaken me; I take no umbrage, if I Carl the Waiter be! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: I'm happy, I get to go home with Ingrid Bergman, maybe she can help me not be so uptight, after she gets over Monsieur Rick. Very creative piece Barry, I like. Glad you enjoyed it; I sure enjoyed writing it. Also glad you like your role. If you know the movie, some of my casting choices are quite complimentary. Rory seemed to take umbrage at being cast as Carl, but he's really one of the coolest characters in the movie -- mainly jolly, but with a tongue on him when he has a mind to use it: Captain Renault: Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies. Carl: I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway. Woman: What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish? Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam. Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen. Banker: We have something to look forward to. Even though I've seen the film over 50 times, I was still surprised by some of the things I found out about it while reading the Wiki page about it to refresh my memory of characters' names. For example, that for a film that no one expected to be the classic it became, shot during WWII and about a community of refugees, a *huge* number of the actors and extras were themselves refugees. The Wiki page tells the story of them shooting the scene in which Yvonne reacts to the German officers singing some German song by storming onto the stage and leading the whole room in a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise. Director Michael Curtiz looked around the set after the shot and discovered that half his cast were in tears. It has been theorized that the fact that so many of the actors were refugees from Europe themselves contributed greatly to the believability of Rick's Cafe Americain. SO many great lines in this movie, too, some of them very funny. For example: Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met... Rick: Was La Belle Aurore. Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris. Rick: Not an easy day to forget. Ilsa: No. Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed. As for your question in another thread, I don't know whether Pigalle is deserted at this time of year, because I haven't been there yet during this gig in Paris. But I'm planning to head up that way tomorrow, to spend the day wandering around Montmartre and sitting at Amelie's cafe Les Deux Moulins, so I'll check out Pigalle, just to satisfy your curiosity. I warn you in advance, however, that it's pretty tame these days. Lotsa strip clubs, but the bordels are long gone, closed decades ago by De Gaulle. That may be one reason he is not revered more highly by the French. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta
So far what I notice is that I'm much more replying about ideas than TO persons. It's a relief actually. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta On 08/09/2013 12:53 PM, Share Long wrote: Well, what can I say? I get in (-: Anyway, dear noozguru this hopefully is my very last time clumping together a bunch of replies to you: I paid $125 to learn TM so I guess my karma is worse than those who paid $25. Says that you learned after a certain date though $125 was the price when I returned from TTC in 1976. i don't think it was when I left for TTC fall 1975. At that Charlie Lutes told teachers that he didn't think it was a good idea to raise the price because the US was in a recession then. And I'm obviously older than Dixon. Never seen no shadow people, that I know of but I know people who do shadow work. Yahoo paging worked so well before...they made it worse IMHO! Armageddon? Bring it on! I actually think I'll post less. My form of OCD has been to use up at least 49 posts per week so they've not been lost forever. Clue: you don't have to reply to those who troll you for replies and eat up your time. I DO ignore a fair amount of topics and when some of the usual suspects want to engage in badminton won't play. PS Today I helped a Chinese girl understand her official notification from HSD of green card approval. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta You mean the bouncers at the door who keep the saint visitors out? On 08/08/2013 01:42 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, how about Church of the Holy Bouncers? (-: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta On 08/07/2013 08:05 PM, Buck wrote: Ishta-deva While in the Field I remain, I'll speak the truth and bear the cause, And when on board this earth I am, I'll sing the Unified Field's praise the same. Om, As your Ishta-Devata calls for you, Put on your armor bold and true, Put forth your strength, Put forth your rod, Fight for Truth and the Unified Field. Jai Brahmananda Saraswati, -Buck Another sermon from Reverend Buck and his Church of the Holy Domers. :-D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta
So far Bhairitu, what I notice is that I'm much more replying ABOUT ideas than TO persons. It's a relief actually. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta On 08/09/2013 12:53 PM, Share Long wrote: Well, what can I say? I get in (-: Anyway, dear noozguru this hopefully is my very last time clumping together a bunch of replies to you: I paid $125 to learn TM so I guess my karma is worse than those who paid $25. Says that you learned after a certain date though $125 was the price when I returned from TTC in 1976. i don't think it was when I left for TTC fall 1975. At that Charlie Lutes told teachers that he didn't think it was a good idea to raise the price because the US was in a recession then. And I'm obviously older than Dixon. Never seen no shadow people, that I know of but I know people who do shadow work. Yahoo paging worked so well before...they made it worse IMHO! Armageddon? Bring it on! I actually think I'll post less. My form of OCD has been to use up at least 49 posts per week so they've not been lost forever. Clue: you don't have to reply to those who troll you for replies and eat up your time. I DO ignore a fair amount of topics and when some of the usual suspects want to engage in badminton won't play. PS Today I helped a Chinese girl understand her official notification from HSD of green card approval. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta You mean the bouncers at the door who keep the saint visitors out? On 08/08/2013 01:42 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, how about Church of the Holy Bouncers? (-: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Discourse 16 Ishta On 08/07/2013 08:05 PM, Buck wrote: Ishta-deva While in the Field I remain, I'll speak the truth and bear the cause, And when on board this earth I am, I'll sing the Unified Field's praise the same. Om, As your Ishta-Devata calls for you, Put on your armor bold and true, Put forth your strength, Put forth your rod, Fight for Truth and the Unified Field. Jai Brahmananda Saraswati, -Buck Another sermon from Reverend Buck and his Church of the Holy Domers. :-D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
uh oh, the bar has just been raised. bow to Rory (-: From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fame
Thanks for tip about news posted at end of the work week. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:16 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fame Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! Yep. Also, what gets posted as news, at the end of the week on Friday. And the duration of posted stories - varies greatly. As for who is doing what behind the scenes, I always have a ready answer: fuck 'em.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I will NEVER understand the Kardashian phenomenon. ugh! Nor that of Honey Boo Boo and her Mom.ugh again! And sometimes I wonder if they're really that popular or if the media is simply too lazy to find more interesting people to write about. Sometimes I wonder if the Illuminati or powers that be or whoever, use such *news* items to dumb down and distract the citizens, much like the ancient Romans with their gladiator games, etc. Every morning I like to notice what yahoo is listing as news and in what order. Very interesting IMHO! PS Before unlimited posting I would rarely post a second and even a third time. It was frustrating when another thought came to me after pressing Send button. Confession: I'm still keeping track of my posts. Don't know why. Maybe don't like change, but habit makes change easier? From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fame  Not the musical, but the current cultural obsession (spearheaded by the first family of being famous, For being famous, The Kardashians). I was watching Katie Couric's talk show (Katie) a couple of days ago, and Jon Bon Jovi was on. His song wasn't that great, but he was talking about the I want to be famous cultural meme. He said when he was growing up, that wasn't an expressed value in the culture. The reason he became well known was simply because he would write and perform music, and he wanted to share it, and people liked it. What a boon for the entertainment industry. Driven by reality-like TV, now the entire population wants to be famous, for being famous. As my wife says when something particularly tacky comes on, Look Mom, I'm on TV!. An extension of apes finding a mirror, on a beach somewhere. The entire tribe is in a frenzy about seeing their individual reflections.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Wow, there are a lot of us. A barrel of Fire Monkeys! Sounds perhaps too incendiary even for FFL; instead of a barrel perhaps we better make it a nice steel drum. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: 1956, Year of the Fire Monkey hey, didn't someone mention a barrel of monkeys this morning? I'm also just sayin... From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot. Excellent! (Hi, Rory!)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Well Dudy the Off Duty Editor, since I capitalized Beloved, of course I was referring to God. Ann seemed unaware and or unaccepting of a person having a relationship with God that involves filling and emptying, you know, as in grace. Oh, Bhare, I don't think that's a particularly intelligent conclusion on your part, especially since you were having a back-and-forth with merudanda (on whom, as I recall, you admitted you had a crush at one point) about filling and emptying with distinctly sexual overtones. And of course it isn't at all unusual for a person to capitalize their pet name for the (human) object of their affections. I mean, to leap from someone not realizing a capital letter signifies a divine being, particularly given the above circumstances, to the conclusion that the person is an atheist--in the absence of any other evidence--doesn't make much sense, now, does it? One might even conclude that that explanation was intended as a putdown. BTW, you've just unknowingly addressed me by my Vedic sound, thank you (-: Fixed. From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! From: Ann awoelflebater@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta à--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta Ãâà... .and where is your boatÃâàyou prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàAnother way of answering would be: ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàCan't you seeÃÆ'ââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæit can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea... ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàAnd we will sit upon the rocks, ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàSeeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàIn the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void.ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàGitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
Ha! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
http://www.metaphysicalzone.com/china/monkey4.shtml From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums Wow, there are a lot of us. A barrel of Fire Monkeys! Sounds perhaps too incendiary even for FFL; instead of a barrel perhaps we better make it a nice steel drum. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: 1956, Year of the Fire Monkey hey, didn't someone mention a barrel of monkeys this morning? I'm also just sayin... From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
reconditioned? From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta Ha! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
My thanks, sweet Share! Thy bow I shall return With int'rest, now that I have posts to burn, With careless pow'r! Like lightning shall they strike! Inseminating all, for all to Share alike! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: uh oh, the bar has just been raised. bow to Rory (-: From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... Â --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
Oh that's right, I forgot, you consider it a putdown to call someone an atheist. My bad! From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Well Dudy the Off Duty Editor, since I capitalized Beloved, of course I was referring to God. Ann seemed unaware and or unaccepting of a person having a relationship with God that involves filling and emptying, you know, as in grace. Oh, Bhare, I don't think that's a particularly intelligent conclusion on your part, especially since you were having a back-and-forth with merudanda (on whom, as I recall, you admitted you had a crush at one point) about filling and emptying with distinctly sexual overtones. And of course it isn't at all unusual for a person to capitalize their pet name for the (human) object of their affections. I mean, to leap from someone not realizing a capital letter signifies a divine being, particularly given the above circumstances, to the conclusion that the person is an atheist--in the absence of any other evidence--doesn't make much sense, now, does it? One might even conclude that that explanation was intended as a putdown. BTW, you've just unknowingly addressed me by my Vedic sound, thank you (-: Fixed. From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! From: Ann awoelflebater@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  ... .and where is your boat you prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃÆ'‚ Another way of answering would be: ÃÆ'‚ Can't you seeÃÆ'¢â‚¬Â¦it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea... ÃÆ'‚ And we will sit upon the rocks, ÃÆ'‚ ÃÆ'‚ ÃÆ'‚ ÃÆ'‚ Seeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU ÃÆ'‚ In the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot. Excellent! (Hi, Rory!) Thank You! (Hello, Beloved!) :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
oy vayness in the Heartland my verses ever more be bland with Buck out in field shall I stand ROaring ReallY loudly cuz I can (-: From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... My thanks, sweet Share! Thy bow I shall return With int'rest, now that I have posts to burn, With careless pow'r! Like lightning shall they strike! Inseminating all, for all to Share alike! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: uh oh, the bar has just been raised. bow to Rory (-: From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... Â --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
rec·on·dite /#712;rek#601;n#716;d#299;t/ Adjective (of a subject or knowledge) Little known; abstruse: recondite information. Synonyms abstruse - obscure - secret - deep --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: reconditioned? From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Ha! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
I know, I googlied before I replied. Maybe similar too reconditioned, same roots, etc? From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta rec·on·dite /ˈrekənˌdīt/ Adjective (of a subject or knowledge) Little known; abstruse: recondite information. Synonyms abstruse - obscure - secret - deep --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: reconditioned? From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  Ha! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
[FairfieldLife] Uncle Tantra's Paris: a culinary tour
My 'hood is just full of great little restaurants, each with its own unique flair and cuisine. This tiny little place is famous for its Asian food, as is its sister restaurant in the Marais, Chez Tang. I don't have a clear choice as to which is better, myself, just bouncing back and forth between Poon and Tang. [http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/9477182309_cf3d4b69c5.jpg] This one is Le Petit Zinc, which has a following among Zen monks because it's almost a koan to visit its Art Nouveau restrooms after a dinner and gaze upon the ornate, antique, and very tiny sinks that give the place its name. Because you can only fit one hand into the sink at a time, it gives new meaning to What is the sound of one hand washing? [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5331/9479971422_8154fdf9ab.jpg] Here's a restaurant designed for Bhairitu. It's just a corner bistro in the Vth, but as you can see from its signage, it specializes in that newest of French cooking trends, Cuisine of Terror. This seems to be a natural outgrowth of the French fondness for horror movies. [http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3795/9477201831_7907839d55.jpg] If you're there at lunchtime, you could go for either of the plats du jour -- le soufflé de zombie or le cauchemar sur la rue d'ormes -- both reasonably priced at 1190. Or you could take my advice, spend a little more, and try the specialité de la maison, la massacre Texane à la tronçonneuse, prepared according to the traditional recipe developed by master chef Ed Gein. After a meal there, however, I would advise postponing dessert, walking a few blocks, and having it at this place, which specializes in delicacies gleaned from the insect kingdom. High prices, but good...uh...grub. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5504/9477185475_852f7cbec3.jpg] Continuing in the horror movie theme, here's my 'hood's most popular shapeshifter bar. Interesting crowd, but it can be disconcerting because you start talking to an attractive blonde, only to look up from your drink a few minutes later and find that she's morphed into a brunette, and not one from your species. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5502/9477180513_4b96f4a623.jpg] That can make you want to go outside for a cigarette. Or, these days, you may not even have to go outside. The French may lose their nicotine habit, but they'll never lose that need to fire up a cigarette after dinner. Now they can, and anywhere: [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/9477186961_d81ff8b7b3.jpg] And that's the culinary tour. Maybe I'll follow up with a short tour of Dan Brown territory...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: Ha! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? I have always been a product of cultural conditioning, and Southpark is as good a culture as any with which to be conditioned. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: Thanks Auth! Editors are *supposed* to remember correct English usage. Looking stuff up is for we mere mortals. Maybe dementia is prep for the next lifetime when hopefully I''ll forget all the shit I did in this lifetime. Yes, I see you have that correct, and rightly corrected! My perspective was I forgot what order it should be in. It was somewhere housed in the brain, just a bit scrambled and I surely was not going to waste my time digging up the language history, because even today, the word, gay, is not the same as long ago. Ain't, is now a word. Liberal, is now a different meaning, except I am getting confused to which one is correct anymore. hahaha. Lacking brain function when Gino sings that particular song and brings all kind of thoughts and almost causes a stutter. LOL. (Not necessarily about Gino, the wholeness of experience from remembering times, the people we know who we love and of course, Gino, gives us that handsome quality to reminisce, in whatever state of mind that brings us pleasant thoughts of long time love in our past, present and future. He is not my man, he reminds me of one fond memory that does not leave, so far, in this life. Dementia will be my salvation! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Shall maketh not? Sorry, should've emphasized: not with *any* auxiliary verb (shall, will, do...) Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Uh, no. Hair does not maketh Gino, alone. Gino has that umph. Uhumph. Hmmm...methinks 'maketh' is a finite verb form? Thus, it ought not to be used with an auxiliary verb like 'do'??
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
Oy vayness in Heartland once again Rory and Dudy, where have they been?! And who's the Rooster, who the hen?! (-: From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:55 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot. Excellent! (Hi, Rory!) Thank You! (Hello, Beloved!) :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra's Paris: a culinary tour
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: [snip] And that's the culinary tour. The cost of eating at all those places is way the hell more than the $35 my folks paid to have me learn TM.
[FairfieldLife] Uncle Tantra's Paris: the Way of Woo, Dan Brown style
For those of you whose day is simply not complete without your daily dose of Woo, I made a slight diversion on my walk today just for you. Wandering around the Vth, trying my best to try new streets I'd never been on and get lost, I found myself near l'Église Saint-Sulpice, and thought I'd go in a take a few photos to share with you. [http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3686/9479983198_808fae5a6f.jpg] Those who have read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code will know of the place, and its supposed Woo factor. He pushed suspension of disbelief to new limits by making it the center of one of his tortured plots, but it really *did* have a bit of a Woo factor even before he got to it. Even though there are older and bigger churches in Paris, a lot of history went down in Saint-Sulpice, with Victor Hugo being married there and Charles Baudelaire and the Marquis de Sade being baptized there. Members of the royalty made periodic pilgrimages there (only across town, which is not really all that much of a pilgrimage, but it's the thought that counts) to soak up the Woo before declaring war or those other things kings did to amuse themselves. [http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3802/9479981160_0fe1d5d16b.jpg] Also, there is the French fondness for...uh...oversized organs to bear in mind. Fuck yer Mighty Wurlitzers in American movie houses. Saint-Sulpice has THIS one: [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5444/9477189805_5fcd2bd1df.jpg] But part of the mystique that Dan Brown homed in on has to do with the meridian line that runs through the church and across the main altar. Set in brass as a line in the floor, it is designed such that the light from the sun, shining through a tiny lens in one of the walls, travels along this line as it moves across the sky. To quote Wikipedia: At noon on the winter solstice (21 December), the ray of light touches the brass line on the obelisk. At noon on the equinoxes (21 March and 21 September), the ray touches an oval plate of copper in the floor near the altar. This is clearly Big Woo, and Dan Brown was on it like flies on shit. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/9479979134_30814fbbaf.jpg] And, to be honest, there might have been something to all this belief in Woo. To this day, the apartments surrounding Place Saint-Sulpice are among the priciest in Paris (which is really saying something). I took this last photo from the steps of the church as I left. Apartments in the building you see behind and to the right of the fountain sell for many millions of Euros, and the rich and famous are lining up to buy them, possibly to soak up some of that awesome Saint-Sulpice Woo. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5448/9477188415_fff2d973fc.jpg] In fact, I happen to know that Catherine Deneuve lives in one of them; I'll leave it to you to figure out from the photo which one it is. But to be honest, if I were looking for some Big Woo, I'd be more likely to seek it in her than in an old stone church. YMMV.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
The mighty Buck out standing in his field Unto a Higher Pow'r had planned to yield And in the aftermath of Share's great Roar, Sweet silence echoeth as ne'er before. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: oy vayness in the Heartland my verses ever more be bland with Buck out in field shall I stand ROaring ReallY loudly cuz I can (-: From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... Â My thanks, sweet Share! Thy bow I shall return With int'rest, now that I have posts to burn, With careless pow'r! Like lightning shall they strike! Inseminating all, for all to Share alike! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: uh oh, the bar has just been raised. bow to Rory (-: From: RoryGoff rorygoff@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... ÃÂ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
Apparently not too closely connected... recondite (adj.) 1640s, removed or hidden from view, from Old French recondit, from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up, from re- away, back (see re-) + condere to store, hide, put together, from con- together (see con-) + -dere to put, place, comb. form of dare to give (see date (n.1)). Meaning removed from ordinary understanding, profound is from 1650s; of writers or sources, obscure, it is recorded from 1817. condition (n.) early 14c., condicioun, from Old French condicion stipulation, state, behavior, social status (12c., Modern French condition), from Latin condicionem (nominative condicio) agreement, situation, from condicere to speak with, talk together, from com- together (see com-) + dicere to speak (see diction). Evolution of meaning through stipulation, condition, to situation, mode of being. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I know, I googlied before I replied. Maybe similar too reconditioned, same roots, etc? From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  rec·on·dite /ËrekÉnËdÄ«t/ Adjective (of a subject or knowledge) Little known; abstruse: recondite information. Synonyms abstruse - obscure - secret - deep --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: reconditioned? From: RoryGoff rorygoff@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta àHa! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
I didn't see too many Southpark episodes, but I will always remember Respect my authoritah! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: Ha! Alex, have you always been this filled to overflowing with recondite references? I have always been a product of cultural conditioning, and Southpark is as good a culture as any with which to be conditioned. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, then Ann must be an atheist.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra's Paris: a culinary tour
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: [snip] And that's the culinary tour. The cost of eating at all those places is way the hell more than the $35 my folks paid to have me learn TM. Actually, it's not. Lunch specials range from 9 to 12 Euros.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Good God, Share, why would you wish that on any woman?! The old coot is perfectly capable of having a relationship, I should think. It then follows that there are a lot of potential mates and dates, who have willingly passed on the opportunity, with him. Best left alone, or solved with a quick payment (for a quick liaison). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: turq, happy vacation a little early. And now I shall do something which in badness falls somewhere between mixing metaphors and mixing traditions and wish for you your very own lipstick-taser toting, Minion loving Lu...er, Ilsa (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums  I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra's Paris: a culinary tour
Aw that's nuttin' -- I've got Der Weinerschnitzel, Jack In The Box, McDonalds, with drive-thru, about fourteen Starbucks, and an entire Mall Food Court, including Sbarro's, and Hot Dog On A Stick, within a five block radius. HA! So there, Mr. Smarty Pants!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: My 'hood is just full of great little restaurants, each with its own unique flair and cuisine. This tiny little place is famous for its Asian food, as is its sister restaurant in the Marais, Chez Tang. I don't have a clear choice as to which is better, myself, just bouncing back and forth between Poon and Tang. [http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/9477182309_cf3d4b69c5.jpg] This one is Le Petit Zinc, which has a following among Zen monks because it's almost a koan to visit its Art Nouveau restrooms after a dinner and gaze upon the ornate, antique, and very tiny sinks that give the place its name. Because you can only fit one hand into the sink at a time, it gives new meaning to What is the sound of one hand washing? [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5331/9479971422_8154fdf9ab.jpg] Here's a restaurant designed for Bhairitu. It's just a corner bistro in the Vth, but as you can see from its signage, it specializes in that newest of French cooking trends, Cuisine of Terror. This seems to be a natural outgrowth of the French fondness for horror movies. [http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3795/9477201831_7907839d55.jpg] If you're there at lunchtime, you could go for either of the plats du jour -- le soufflé de zombie or le cauchemar sur la rue d'ormes -- both reasonably priced at 1190. Or you could take my advice, spend a little more, and try the specialité de la maison, la massacre Texane à la tronçonneuse, prepared according to the traditional recipe developed by master chef Ed Gein. After a meal there, however, I would advise postponing dessert, walking a few blocks, and having it at this place, which specializes in delicacies gleaned from the insect kingdom. High prices, but good...uh...grub. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5504/9477185475_852f7cbec3.jpg] Continuing in the horror movie theme, here's my 'hood's most popular shapeshifter bar. Interesting crowd, but it can be disconcerting because you start talking to an attractive blonde, only to look up from your drink a few minutes later and find that she's morphed into a brunette, and not one from your species. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5502/9477180513_4b96f4a623.jpg] That can make you want to go outside for a cigarette. Or, these days, you may not even have to go outside. The French may lose their nicotine habit, but they'll never lose that need to fire up a cigarette after dinner. Now they can, and anywhere: [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/9477186961_d81ff8b7b3.jpg] And that's the culinary tour. Maybe I'll follow up with a short tour of Dan Brown territory...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
Master of Words doeth joust the best And now I need a bit of rest May he and I and all be blest (-: From: RoryGoff roryg...@hotmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:22 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'... The mighty Buck out standing in his field Unto a Higher Pow'r had planned to yield And in the aftermath of Share's great Roar, Sweet silence echoeth as ne'er before. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: oy vayness in the Heartland my verses ever more be bland with Buck out in field shall I stand ROaring ReallY loudly cuz I can (-: From: RoryGoff rorygoff@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...  My thanks, sweet Share! Thy bow I shall return With int'rest, now that I have posts to burn, With careless pow'r! Like lightning shall they strike! Inseminating all, for all to Share alike! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: uh oh, the bar has just been raised. bow to Rory (-: From: RoryGoff rorygoff@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. Aye! Hair alone doth not a Gino make, Poor fools think thus, and make a grave mistake, For he remaineth, e'en when mane doth not, And voice and skin and lung hath gone to rot.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just sayin'...
Yes. I have full respect to Auth. She is good at what she does. Although, I sometimes feel apprehensive with typing here, because, well, Auth appears like a word police, sort of like some people are to fashion and if my shoes/sandals don't match, (and sometimes they don't according to standards laid by hyped up media and I really don't care...sometimes. lol. At the least, I strut and wear them well! hahaha. I dig, Judy's digs. :) Raunchy, since we have no post limit, what are some of the things you can relate to that you are hopeful to forget you did? Inquiring minds want to know! You can make metaphors as to keep it more in a fairy tale style as to not subject yourself to true embarrassment. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Thanks Auth! Editors are *supposed* to remember correct English usage. Looking stuff up is for we mere mortals. Maybe dementia is prep for the next lifetime when hopefully I''ll forget all the shit I did in this lifetime. Yes, I see you have that correct, and rightly corrected! My perspective was I forgot what order it should be in. It was somewhere housed in the brain, just a bit scrambled and I surely was not going to waste my time digging up the language history, because even today, the word, gay, is not the same as long ago. Ain't, is now a word. Liberal, is now a different meaning, except I am getting confused to which one is correct anymore. hahaha. Lacking brain function when Gino sings that particular song and brings all kind of thoughts and almost causes a stutter. LOL. (Not necessarily about Gino, the wholeness of experience from remembering times, the people we know who we love and of course, Gino, gives us that handsome quality to reminisce, in whatever state of mind that brings us pleasant thoughts of long time love in our past, present and future. He is not my man, he reminds me of one fond memory that does not leave, so far, in this life. Dementia will be my salvation! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Shall maketh not? Sorry, should've emphasized: not with *any* auxiliary verb (shall, will, do...) Actually, card, if one is trying to simulate Elizabethan English, it's the auxiliary verb that's the wrong form here (the word order is wrong too). It should be: Hair alone doth not Gino make. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Uh, no. Hair does not maketh Gino, alone. Gino has that umph. Uhumph. Hmmm...methinks 'maketh' is a finite verb form? Thus, it ought not to be used with an auxiliary verb like 'do'??
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Wow, you've actually thought about my religious and spiritual leanings? See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! Yes, we do. We both breath air, need to eat and have a head on our shoulders. Other than that we have nothing in common. From: Ann awoelflebater@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta à... .and where is your boatàyou prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃâàAnother way of answering would be: ÃâàCan't you seeâââ¬Ã¦it can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea... ÃâàAnd we will sit upon the rocks, ÃâàÃâàÃâàÃâàSeeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU ÃâàIn the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void.ÃâàGitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore FestivalÃâàat Dartington College of Arts, Devon âââ¬the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22tsMHtWFgY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: but but but dear merudandaji what about famous Deepak story: I'm creating my own. Dr. ChopChop in airplane, closing eyes, not minding thoughts, etc. Flight attendant arrives to take orders for drinkie poos. Fellow passenger orders daiquiri and asks Dr. D if he also wants one. Reply, with one or both eyes closed or open, don't know: I'm creating my own. Hmmm, wonder what THAT does to Ved in Physiology! OTOH, all This is That, etc. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàOh Buck oh Buck Om Happy Day! While in the army You remain... Raising your voice to thunder-tones exclaiming in the same breath, Aim low ! what a pity happy clapping not allowed for yourÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡Ãâàsacred-harpical
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Doc, Doc why droneth on so? you don't have to be turq's beau. Maybe could even pick a new foe? From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums Good God, Share, why would you wish that on any woman?! The old coot is perfectly capable of having a relationship, I should think. It then follows that there are a lot of potential mates and dates, who have willingly passed on the opportunity, with him. Best left alone, or solved with a quick payment (for a quick liaison). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: turq, happy vacation a little early. And now I shall do something which in badness falls somewhere between mixing metaphors and mixing traditions and wish for you your very own lipstick-taser toting, Minion loving Lu...er, Ilsa (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums  I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. I learned TM in 1970 and paid one week's allowance - one English pound (about $2.40 back then). 1956 was evidently a very good year - you, me, Rory and I think there was one other person here so far, who were born in that year. From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again!
Sigh. Go on then, explain why Jesus is the son of some creator god... Easy - same DNA. I also prefer the spelling as, Jeebus. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: (snip) What muddled thinking - Because a group that you no longer associate with, believes in God, you, now, no longer see as possible, a relationship with God?? How is that critical thinking? It is an immature, knee-jerk reaction, to social norms, having nothing to do with a personal spiritual life - merely grandstanding. It's good critical thinking if you have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of christianity and cast a long sober look at the claims made for the existence of supernatural creators. It's hard for anyone who has studied genetics, biology and neuro-psychology to believe anything the religious tell us when there are so many more convincing explanations on offer. Couple of points. First, many thoughtful and deeply devout *Christians* have taken intellectual steps away from the baby talk of Christianity. Anyone who thinks Christianity is nothing but baby talk is simply ignorant. Sigh. Go on then, explain why Jeesus is the son of some creator god and sent to save us from sin in a way that might convince a sceptic. Second, Christian theology has explanations for aspects of human experience that genetics, biology, and neuro- psychology cannot encompass. Go on then, tell all. Bottom line, as an atheist you may never find even the most sophisticated and rigorous Christian theology convincing; but if you actually engage with it, you'll need to draw upon your best thinking to intellectually justify dismissing it. Not even remotely my best.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
What-eth foe-th? All-eth I-eth see-eth is-eth a-eth self-eth proclaimed-eth Target-eth, so-eth no-eth doubt-eth an-eth arrow-eth sometimes-eth flies-eth in-eth his-eth direction-eth. Does-eth that-eth bother-eth you-eth? If-eth so-eth, I-eth suggest-eth that-eth you-eth talk-eth to-eth the-eth billboard-eth and-eth not-eth the-eth spotlight-eth. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, Doc why droneth on so? you don't have to be turq's beau. Maybe could even pick a new foe? From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  Good God, Share, why would you wish that on any woman?! The old coot is perfectly capable of having a relationship, I should think. It then follows that there are a lot of potential mates and dates, who have willingly passed on the opportunity, with him. Best left alone, or solved with a quick payment (for a quick liaison). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: turq, happy vacation a little early. And now I shall do something which in badness falls somewhere between mixing metaphors and mixing traditions and wish for you your very own lipstick-taser toting, Minion loving Lu...er, Ilsa (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums àI'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
AAH, ya young punks...you and your gang of 57 year olds - toughs, huh? I'LL tell YOU, THAT'S whats wrong with this world - bunch'a 57 year old punks... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: Hah! I learned TM for $65 also - that was the SIMS price in 1974 - I also turn 57 this year, in a few weeks in fact. I learned TM in 1970 and paid one week's allowance - one English pound (about $2.40 back then). 1956 was evidently a very good year - you, me, Rory and I think there was one other person here so far, who were born in that year. From: doctordumbass@ doctordumbass@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  $65 for me to learn TM 38 years ago - I don't think that buys me lunch in Gay Paree. All those Parisians come to San Francisco during the summer. My daughter works in the financial district, and she says it is full of French people, who, conforming to the stereotype, are fairly rude and stand-offish. The Germans, on the other hand, are perfectly sweet and friendly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Some of you, reading my Subject line, might be expecting a morning cafe rap about how listless or despondent the city of Paris -- and me, because I'm here -- are at this Present Perfect moment in time. Au contraire, Pierre. The City of Light *is* in its doldrums, but not in the sense of the modern meaning of that phrase. The Doldrums (capitalized) originally referred to areas of the oceans near the equator where the spin of the Earth often created long periods of calm weather that could become somewhat distressing for sailors. Their ships, after all, were wind-powered. In the Doldrums, there was no wind -- often for weeks at a time. If you were a sailor stuck in such conditions, you might indeed have felt a little listless or despondent, stuck in a small boat on a sea as smooth as glass. But I don't feel that way, stuck here in Paris during its yearly doldrums...quite the opposite, in fact. The Paris doldrums -- which are real, and known to all -- are caused by the yearly exodus from the city of pretty much every Parisian who can afford to leave. They pack up their clothes and swim fins and kids and dogs and cats and head off to their place (either owned or rented) in the country or in the mountains or on the seashore. Which pretty much leaves Paris EMPTY, largely devoid of its regular inhabitants, literally becalmed...in the doldrums. The calm IS occasionally shattered by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come here during this period, unaware that they're busily snapping photos of a ghost town, one that contains a mere fraction of its population. But those of us who live here during other months see the difference, and more important, we FEEL it. Paris is SILENT. The silence permeates everything, even in the busiest shopping district or nightclub-strewn alley. If you're attuned to silence, all you have to do -- wherever you are -- is just stop and pay attention, and there it is. Such a deal. I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it. It's as if the whole city has transcended. And all you have to do to go with it and transcend yourself is just to stop and pay attention to the already-present silence. Such a deal. Much cheaper than learning TM, and in my opinion, more effective.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Doc, ok to take marbles from mouth, cuz ideas are going far to the south, maybe time to visit ocean for douse. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums What-eth foe-th? All-eth I-eth see-eth is-eth a-eth self-eth proclaimed-eth Target-eth, so-eth no-eth doubt-eth an-eth arrow-eth sometimes-eth flies-eth in-eth his-eth direction-eth. Does-eth that-eth bother-eth you-eth? If-eth so-eth, I-eth suggest-eth that-eth you-eth talk-eth to-eth the-eth billboard-eth and-eth not-eth the-eth spotlight-eth. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, Doc why droneth on so? you don't have to be turq's beau. Maybe could even pick a new foe? From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  Good God, Share, why would you wish that on any woman?! The old coot is perfectly capable of having a relationship, I should think. It then follows that there are a lot of potential mates and dates, who have willingly passed on the opportunity, with him. Best left alone, or solved with a quick payment (for a quick liaison). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: turq, happy vacation a little early. And now I shall do something which in badness falls somewhere between mixing metaphors and mixing traditions and wish for you your very own lipstick-taser toting, Minion loving Lu...er, Ilsa (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums  I'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my café crème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Well Dudy the Off Duty Editor, since I capitalized Beloved, of course I was referring to God. Ann seemed unaware and or unaccepting of a person having a relationship with God that involves filling and emptying, you know, as in grace. Ho no, not unaware or unaccepting! How did you read that? I just thought you would be better taking your flirtatious double entendres offline in case you suddenly descended into the smut category. It was a J-O-K-E with references to the interactions between Richard and Rory and Ravi and Obba. Oh, never mind. You're right, you were talking about God all along (snort). BTW, you've just unknowingly addressed me by my Vedic sound, thank you (-: From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: jeez, Ann, I never realized you're an atheist. Now, why on earth would you think that, Thare? See, you and turq have something deep in common after all! From: Ann awoelflebater@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta à--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: My heart is the boat I sail in the ocean of your Love. I bail and bail, your water, my water, whose water it is? Ah, Beloved, let us fill and empty each other without end. Ahh, FFL, who would have pictured it the breeding ground for blossoming love? I'm going to blame it on the no post limit phenomenon. Watch it you two, you are getting closer and closer to the smut button. It might be time to take this offline; all this talk of the filling and emptying and filling of vessels is starting to make me nervous. They've already overflowed a couple of times. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta Ãâà... .and where is your boatÃâàyou prepared for this occasion to sail and save your inner Qu Yuan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WQ90F4HlI ..or just ...empty your cup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhQDgd-IMI --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Beloved, can't you stop overflowing for one dang second?! It's already saturated here, drenched, flooded, deluged, drowned! Every drop of love, a tsunami crashing me to Your every shore. From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Discourse 16 Ishta ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàAnother way of answering would be: ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàCan't you seeÃÆ'ââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæit can hold no more. This beach you've learned seems out of reach, it's access blocked by fallen rocks. No more you'll enjoy the scene -like a child on a summer day, at play with shells on fine white sand. Nor will you see them paddle there, collect salt water in a pail.Sail your boat wherever tides creep in and hear them spin their fantasies of stately galleons out at sea... ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàAnd we will sit upon the rocks, ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàSeeing Marlowe's shepherds feed their flocks... Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMH5l4WeKU ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàIn the silence of gathering night I asked her, Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light. She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful. I have come, she said at last, to dedicate my lamp to the sky. I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void.ÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡ÃâàGitanjali,Song Offerings ,By Rabindranath Tagore While researching the different translations of Tagore's English Gitanjali , I came across this talk by Deepak Chopra about Tagore's relevance for the future of spirituality and humanity. He gave the talk at the Tagore FestivalÃÆ'ââ¬Å¡Ãâàat Dartington College of Arts, Devon ÃÆ'ââââ¬Å¡Ã¬the UK college founded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst according to Tagore's educational philosophy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums
Really?! I saw marbles in your reply, and I thought, Share has inadvertently moved onto dangerous territory OK, here goes: Share, there's already one of us here who has lost their marbles, better not make it two. Pretty good, huh? But, as I explained earlier, it was a set up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, ok to take marbles from mouth, cuz ideas are going far to the south, maybe time to visit ocean for douse. From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums  What-eth foe-th? All-eth I-eth see-eth is-eth a-eth self-eth proclaimed-eth Target-eth, so-eth no-eth doubt-eth an-eth arrow-eth sometimes-eth flies-eth in-eth his-eth direction-eth. Does-eth that-eth bother-eth you-eth? If-eth so-eth, I-eth suggest-eth that-eth you-eth talk-eth to-eth the-eth billboard-eth and-eth not-eth the-eth spotlight-eth. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Doc, Doc why droneth on so? you don't have to be turq's beau. Maybe could even pick a new foe? From: doctordumbass@ doctordumbass@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:30 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paris in the doldrums àGood God, Share, why would you wish that on any woman?! The old coot is perfectly capable of having a relationship, I should think. It then follows that there are a lot of potential mates and dates, who have willingly passed on the opportunity, with him. Best left alone, or solved with a quick payment (for a quick liaison). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: turq, happy vacation a little early. And now I shall do something which in badness falls somewhere between mixing metaphors and mixing traditions and wish for you your very own lipstick-taser toting, Minion loving Lu...er, Ilsa (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Paris in the doldrums ÃâàI'll be doing the same thing as the Parisians soon, taking off next week for the south of France, and staying there until the beginning of September. I'm looking forward to that, and to other types of silence, but right now, sipping my cafÃÆ'é crÃÆ'ème at the Montebello and gazing out across the Seine at Notre Dame, I couldn't be happier with this particular flavor of it.
