date:20140207

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi  wrote:

 Suggestions come from all fronts.

Indeed they do. That's why I cannot fathom anyone being interested in a
supposed algorithm to categorize movies and TV to better sell them to
customers. Just thinking back over the things I've enjoyed this last
year, there simply *isn't* any genre or even half a dozen of them they
could be categorized into.

I get my tips from folks here, from the occasional professional
reviewer whose taste I trust (there are only 2-3 of them at this point),
and from the recommendations of Internet friends and Pirate suppliers
whose taste I've come to trust because they've never let me down. If
they recommend it, it's interesting...even if it turns out to be not
entirely my cuppa tea.

But on the whole I can't *conceive* of being so dependent on Other
People's Taste to shape my own that I'd have to rely on genre
descriptions or reviews. That just doesn't compute. I see a title in my
list of available downloads, and either get an intuitive hit on it or
I don't. If I do, I immediately check it out on the IMDB, and if the
cast, director, writer, or short description appeal to me, I download
it.

That said, thanks for the reminder about Top Of The Lake. I avoided it
at first because of Jane Campion. She fell off my Directors To Be
Trusted list with Holy Smoke and In The Cut and I've been avoiding
her ever since. But maybe I'll give this one a try. I avoided Dancing
On The Edge because yet another series about the British upper crust
just didn't appeal to me after Downton Abbey. But, as you remind me,
it's Chiwetel Ejiofor, so maybe I should transcend my aversions and give
it a try. Thanks.

As mentioned a few times, I'm a fan of Canada's Lost Girl, but for
reasons that may not appeal to others here. First and foremost, of
course, is the Babe Factor, which Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo, and Zoie
Palmer supply in spades every week. Second is the fairly remarkable
approach the writing takes to sex and sexuality, which I find refreshing
and rare -- there are straight relationships, gay ones, and even odder
ones, and *none* of them are treated as anything but normal. The third
factor is what does it for me (but probably won't for most people), and
that's the writing. Lost Girl is FUNNY, in a way that allows
comparison only to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. That, for me, is a high
compliment. There are more great one-liners per show than pretty much
anything else on the air (but they go fast quickly, without drawing
attention to themselves, so many people may miss them).

I'm all caught up on The Blacklist now, and will probably keep
watching. The draw is, of course, James Spader. What a surprise. My
first reaction when I heard his name was the same as everyone else's I
mention this series to: Is he still alive? But he not only is, he's
turned into a damned good character actor. The boyish good looks have
been replaced by a paunch, somewhat bloated  features, and a balding
head, and not only does he not hide these things, he turns them into
*assets* when forming his character. Plus, the writers are good enough
to keep us guessing, and to foil all of our assumptions from time to
time.

But I think you nailed the Big Thing about a TV series for me in your
posts. As I've mentioned before, I'm more drawn to character-driven
series than plot-driven series. But it's the issue of overriding arc
that makes for good characters. Whether it's one long plot (like True
Detective) or episodic (like The Blacklist), the hook for me is
whether the characters are allowed to have their own long stories that
develop over time. If they don't, I'm pretty much outa there.

I'm also outa there even if they have long stories if those stories
become boring, and I lose interest in the characters and find myself not
really caring what happens to them. That has happened for me with Mad
Men and Boardwalk Empire. I go back and try to catch up, and can't
even finish an episode, because I can't bring myself to care about these
people any more. Go figure.

Anyway, thanks for the raps about TV and movies, and enjoy your
viewings...

 This is the first year we watched the Golden Globes.  We're glad we
did because it gave us a heads up on 2 series we would have not known
about otherwise.  The NZ crime drama Top of the Lake was excellent with
an award winning performance by Elizabeth Moss.  That's available on
Netflix streaming already.

 The British series Dancing on the Edge we just started and it appears
to be very good as well.  It is starring
  Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is having one helluva year.

 Orphan Black was tremendous because of the many, many characters the
incredibly talented Tatiana Maslany is able to play seamlessly.  The
writing is great as well.

 Ray Donovan  is intense and gritty.  Just our cup of tea. Didn't
overly pander like some cable shows with excessive tits and ass and
violence because, after all, it's cable and it's why people go there. 
Just good story telling,

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhairitu

I never pay any attention to them. Why do you ask?
 

  So what do you think about Netflix's recommendations of shows for you?
 

 Well, let's take a look at what you actually said:
 I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago.  However their 
suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends...

 
 
 Which, you know, makes it appear that this refers to the relevance of 
Netflix's suggestions. And that (as I said) is not what the article I 
recommended is about. Nor is it about what you go on to talk about in your next 
paragraph:
 
 You seemed to have missed that I said this information is a couple weeks old.  
You are also forgetting that I'm a programmer and was well aware of heuristic 
procedures being used to determine tastes.  In fact I am on home theater forums 
where this is discussed quite a bit including your aforementioned article.  And 
being in the entertainment industry know how we engineer products to appeal 
to tastes.
 
 It seems that you do not, in fact, know what this particular article is about. 
Nothing to do with determining or appealing to tastes, you see.
 
 
 But heaven forbid you actually read the article and find out.
 
 
 Oh, and what did the folks on your home theater forums have to say about Perry 
Mason? 
 On 02/06/2014 09:33 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   The relevance of Netflix's suggestions is NOT NOT NOT what this article is 
about, Bhairitu. If you actually have a look at it, I'm pretty sure you'll be 
intrigued.
 
 
 Thanks.  I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago.  However their 
suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends because 
of the way I use Netflix.  For instance I only watched Atlas Shrugged II for 
reference and gave it only 1 star (you can't give no stars) so they post a 
message after such a rating that they have no recommendations based on that 
rating.  The movie itself is quite laughable.
 
 On 02/05/2014 09:37 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood To understand how people look for 
movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre 
descriptions, broke them down to their key words, … and built our own new-genre 
generator.
 

 This article from The Atlantic by Alexis Madrigal is a  whole lot more 
fascinating than it sounds. Especially the Perry Mason Ghost in the Machine, 
which emerges toward the end. The new-genre generator is the least of it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

The funny thing is that if Barry had discovered the article I recommended to 
Bhairitu, he'd be the one touting it on FFL.
 

  Suggestions come from all fronts.
 

 Indeed they do. That's why I cannot fathom anyone being interested in a 
supposed algorithm to categorize movies and TV to better sell them to 
customers. Just thinking back over the things I've enjoyed this last year, 
there simply *isn't* any genre or even half a dozen of them they could be 
categorized into.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Oh, such an announcement would prove that TM works beyond any shadow of a 
doubt. ;-)
 

 There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING 
-- meaning Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One. The only reason it works is that people who bought into 
it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that they keep 
perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole stack of cards.
 
If I'm wrong about this, please show me one -- count them, one -- press 
statement or announcement from the TMO saying, This (insert photo and name of 
shill here) is a fully enlightened being, and he got that way by practicing the 
TM and/or TM-Sidhi programs.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Marshy Enlightened?

On 2/6/2014 12:59 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 Everyone says Marshy never claimed to be enlightened, yet - 
 
So  ,it's all about Marshy- you are always talking about Marshy, 
Marshy, Marshy, but you seem to never talk about the TM technique or if 
it worked for you. Most of the informants posting here probably never 
even met MMY so all these stories about him just seem like so much 
prattle. What exactly, does MMY have to do with your own transcending, 
or not? That's the question. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment.- Will Rogers


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 If you drink, don't park; accidents cause people. - Will Rogers


 On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Hey Richard, I just found out that Will Rogers was Native American or
 what the Canadians call First Nations. What a wonderful thinker he was.
 Thanks so much for posting these.




   On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:51 AM, Pundit Sir 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. - Will
 Rogers


 On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 Don't squat with your spurs on.- Will Rogers


 On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was
 probably worth it. - Will Rogers


 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he
 will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - Will Rogers


 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:


  LOL, Richard, thanks, hope you have a good week...




   On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:10 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. - Will Rogers


 On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
 That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their
 shoes. - Will Rogers


 On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
 payments. - Will Rogers


 On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities
 without your help.- Will Rogers


 On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:


  Another great Will Rogers quote, Richard, thanks




   On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:51 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
 warning to others.- Will Rogers


 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote:


  Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-:




   On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  Never test the depth of the water with both feet. - Will Rogers


 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be
 promoted.- Will Rogers


 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your
 neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. - Will Rogers


 On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger
 generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger
 generation.


 On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.- Will Rogers


 On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote:

 The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a
 leaky tire. - Will Rogers

[FairfieldLife] Little Buddha

[image: Inline image 1]

We really liked this film when we first saw it and Rita likes Kurt Russell,
who was played the part of Agent Cooper in Lynch's Twin Peaks pilot. The
film is based on a true story: Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the
reincarnation of his teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young
Jesse Conrad...

Little Buddha
http://youtu.be/eScQZZPCHJk

Faraway Song - Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPj0rD78820feature=sharelist=PLE5F20DDEBC9765B0index=3

[image: Inline image 2]

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Muic score: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Staring: Kurt Russell, Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/

Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed by
Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu
Reeves as Prince Siddhartha (the Buddha before his enlightenment).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Buddha

[FairfieldLife] All the Illumined

2014-02-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5

Ha, they just want someone to hang out a sign or post a declaration for them to 
read so they can spray their graffiti work over it. There is fame and there is 
infamy and these neganaut guys here evidently are just being virulent bad 
again.  Look down the list of Rick Archer's Buddha-at-the-gas-pump for TM 
even there. Lot of them Buddhas are transcendental meditators way back in their 
spiritual pedigrees.  
 

 Yep, Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and all the work he did in the great strides in 
a lifetime he made to bring spirituality up in to mass culture.
 
 
 Yep, and check out this Wonderful Pete Seeger rendition of singing, We Shall 
Overcome
 Beautiful rendition:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnPVP23rzo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnPVP23rzo
 
 
 Have a nice day,
 -Buck in the Dome
 
 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Oh, such an announcement would prove that TM works beyond any shadow of a 
doubt. ;-)
 

 There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING 
-- meaning Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One. The only reason it works is that people who bought into 
it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that they keep 
perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole stack of cards.
 
If I'm wrong about this, please show me one -- count them, one -- press 
statement or announcement from the TMO saying, This (insert photo and name of 
shill here) is a fully enlightened being, and he got that way by practicing the 
TM and/or TM-Sidhi programs.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam

On 2/7/2014 1:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote:

 I did have a 10 raam note though but the wife threw it away because 
 she thought it wasn't real money!
 
So, you're not in favor of alternate payment systems like Bitcoin's 
cryptocurrency? Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING 
-- meaning Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One. The only reason it works is that people who bought into 
it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that they keep 
perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole stack of cards. 

If I'm wrong about this, please show me one -- count them, one -- press 
statement or announcement from the TMO saying, This (insert photo and name of 
shill here) is a fully enlightened being, and he got that way by practicing the 
TM and/or TM-Sidhi programs. 

It's never happened, and it never will. The same way that they'll never 
achieve the numbers to prove the ME. For the believers, it's the eternal 
carrot on a string, pursued by the faithful, who are more committed to the 
will to believe than the wish to find out. For the onlookers, there's not 
even a carrot. It's the promise of a carrot, and from their point of view the 
True Believers are furiously chasing a stick with a string tied to it, and 
nothing at the end of the string.
 

 And who exactly are you preaching to here, Bawwy? What do you think you have 
written here, for the umpteenth time, that the choir doesn't already know? 
What have you written that you haven't said, in one form or another, a 
gazillion times? Who, in particular, are you trying to offend now, the eminent 
scholars (we know you love the idea of celebrity and fame surrounding your 
sorry ass)? If I'm gonna take the time to read some of your dreck here then do 
try and say something new, won't you, pretty please? BTW, I haven't had any 
dreams of you lately, what gives?

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote:

 It wouldn't surprise me, they were pretty good at manipulating the facts to 
 suit the moment. I remember a Reuters article which was taken up by the BBC 
 on how the raam should be avoided by investors as it is a totally unsupported 
 currency and only accepted in exchange for lentils at TM centres. 
 
 The press officer edited the Reuters release so it looked like the financial 
 world was hailing the raam as the greatest thing ever and put the story in 
 the UK's TM News magazine. I was shocked at how easily peoples quotes were 
 manipulated and told him that the BBC would sue us out of existence if they 
 found out but only a few people read it anyway so it doesn't really matter. I 
 stopped believing TMO quotes by supposedly disinterested third parties. 
 
 The whole redevelopment thing was rubbish anyway, printing money to give 
 people doesn't work as it has to be exchanged for something real at some 
 point. 
 
 I did have a 10 raam note though but the wife threw it away because she 
 thought it wasn't real money! 
 
 I stopped believing TMO quotes by supposedly disinterested third parties 
 after that. I had a list of quotes by scientists in my office that I was to 
 use on press releases to give them a bit of weight. Would love to have that 
 list and recheck it and the original sources. 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@ wrote: 
 
 I seem to recall that when Marshy and Company first rolled out the raam and 
 they were trying to get people to buy it, some minister of the global 
 whatever claimed that they had a bunch of gold to back it up, and when they 
 were questioned on that they admitted that was not so, but then claimed India 
 was backing the raam with its gold which turned out not to be true either. 
 
 Am I remembering correctly, or was that an opium dream I had?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam


On 2/7/2014 1:35 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One./*


So, what happened to all the money? Maybe there should be an apology 
posted here by the TurquoiseB,  since he's one of the guys that sold us 
the snake-oil. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buck Just Turned 60



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 Happy birthday, Doug. This explains much...you're just a young whippersnapper. 
:-)

Presumably your alter ego Buck is much older, and that's why he can refer to 
others here as young'uns. :-)

My advice -- both to young Doug and old Buck -- is to remember this sage advice 
when trying to navigate this vast wasteland of egos trying to win. Every time 
they fail to do so, they lose. 

 
I'll remember that next time I find something humourous - I'll blow a 
raspberry. I always used to laugh and chuckle when I found something funny but 
I'll try this new approach next time. Thanking you and Charles Schulz for the 
advice.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:

 Buck is 60. 
 
 As of a few minutes ago (8:58pn CST). 
 Around the campfire they just sang for me: 
 
 Happy Birthday to You, 
 Happy Birthday to You, 
 Happy Birthday Dear (, Dear) Buck in the Dome; 
 
 Happy CC, 
 Happy GC, 
 Happy UC to You. 
 
 Through You Heaven on Earth, 
 Through You Heaven on Earth, 
 Through You Heaven on Earth for All.â 
 
 The harmonies the way that us really conservative meditators sing is so 
 beautifully perfect. I was touched, 
 -Buck

[FairfieldLife] Another Interesting Take on Addiction

Stumbled across this today: 
 
http://debbiebayerblog.com/2014/02/04/phillip-seymour-hoffman-did-not-have-choice-or-free-will-and-neither-do-you/
 
http://debbiebayerblog.com/2014/02/04/phillip-seymour-hoffman-did-not-have-choice-or-free-will-and-neither-do-you/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu


On 2/7/2014 2:15 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/I cannot fathom anyone being interested in a supposed algorithm to 
categorize movies and TV to better sell them to customers./*


You are supposed to read the article BEFORE you post your comments. LoL!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu


On 2/7/2014 6:33 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
The funny thing is that if /Barry/ had discovered the article I 
recommended to Bhairitu, he'd be the one touting it on FFL.


Does almost everything Barry posts to FFL have to have something to do 
with winning some subject debate with Judy? Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Congress Must Raise the Debt Limit

So you don't have Medicare Advantage? You know Medicare doesn't pay all your 
medical bills. Actually those *Republican  cronies* are now in Obama's pockets 
since he has promised them the moon...including bail-outs when Obamacare falls 
flat on it's face. So you think government  bureaucracy is more efficient and 
less corrupt than private industry? One size fits all vs customized, targeted  
healthcare is more efficient and less costly?



On Thursday, February 6, 2014 5:00 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
  
  
I already have Single Payer: Medicare.  FYI, I'm 67.  All I had to do was go 
online  to sign up and it took very little time at all.   And yes the 
Republicans want government off healthcare as much as possible so their cronies 
can have an orgy screwing you over.

On 02/06/2014 03:21 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
 
  
Yes, I earned every penny, including my benefits. The point was *what did the 
rich do for me*.  They gave me an *opportunity* which I took advantage of. 
Republicans want government hands off healthcare as much as possible. Wait 
till you get single payer, LOL, I guess you must like going to the DMV. 



On Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:15 AM, Bhairitu mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
  
  
 
ROTFL!  Got any more funnies?  You earned that pension, dummy. The rich didn't 
give it to you.  The Republican run health insurance companies wanted 
Obamacare so they could put their hands in your pockets.  I paid for that 
alternative care coverage and Bernie Sanders is pushing to make such coverage 
available with the ACA.  It will be a tough fight because big pharma doesn't 
like you to know you might be able to cure an illness with a common kitchen 
spice when they can sell you a pill that costs them 5 cents to make for $100.

On 02/06/2014 09:39 AM, Mike Dixon
  wrote:
 
  
LOL! The *rich* gave me jobs with a nice pension and Republicans keep your 
hands out of my pockets so I don't have to pay for your *alternative* 
healthcare. 



On Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:19 AM, Bhairitu mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
  
  
 
And hence there is no way out other than for the US to collapse.  The 
question is will the those who pull the strings in Washington want to give 
the country a massive suicide pill if they are going down?  Remember most of 
them are psychopaths.

On 02/05/2014
  11:53 AM, 
anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
How much do you propose the tax should be, and how long must the tax operate 
to pay off the debt? It is much more complicated than this. Among other 
things, it would reduce the income of people who rely on pensions, and that 
would reduce tax income in other areas. It would have unexpected ripple 
effects. If we assume that half of the U.S. population actually has assets 
that could be taxed, it would take approximately $107,000 per person to pay 
off the debt. The International Monetary Fund estimates that if every $100 
traded on derivatives, stocks, and bonds were taxed $0.50 it would raise 
approximately $200,000,000,000 a year, and that would pay down the current 
US debt in 85 years. However the US unfunded obligations are currently at 
$92,300,000,000,000 which would take 461 years to pay off. Meanwhile debt 
will still be amassing, so in 461 years, it still will not be paid off. The 
other thing is when investments are taxed at a higher rate, the return
 on small, short trades is less and so there are fewer trades and reduced tax 
income as a result.  

 
The U.S. has to find a way to reduce those obligations because there is no 
way taxation is going to to be able to pay all these obligations off. It 
will have to restructure entitlements and reduce spending, or at some point 
the system may collapse spontaneously in which case everyone will be in the 
soup. Taxing the very wealthy more would of course help, but even if taxed 
at 100%, which is of course unrealistic, the rich cannot provide enough 
income to pay this down. The whole system is just near the point of no 
return.  

 
If the U.S. government prints more money (which it is doing now), it results 
in higher inflation, if gone to excess, and that acts as a tax on everyone 
through devaluation of currency. If currency is devalued investors begin to 
sell out, and then it becomes harder for the government to sell securities 
based on that currency, so interest rates rise to make the securities more 
attractive. There are a lot of vicious circles here that interact in 
unexpected ways. 

 
For example Social Security in the U.S. is based on life expectancy data 
that is obsolete because people are living longer. The solution is to raise 
the age of retirement. Already the goverment over the last third of century 
has tinkered with inflation measures to understate its impact so that 
payouts for programs that use inflation adjustments will be less. In other 
words if you rely on Social Security, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Little Buddha

Correction: It was Chris Issak who played Agent Cooper in the Twin Peaks:
Fire Walk With Me.

Isaak has appeared in numerous films, mostly playing cameo roles. He
starred, however, with Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda in the 1993 Bernardo
Bertolucci-directed Little Buddha, and played a major role in David Lynch's
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Isaak

FBI Special Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper, portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan, is
a fictional character and the protagonist of the ABC television series Twin
Peaks. He briefly appears in the prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Cooper

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

[image: Inline image 1]

We really liked this film when we first saw it and Rita likes Kurt
Russell, who was played the part of Agent Cooper in Lynch's Twin Peaks
pilot. The film is based on a true story: Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in
search of the reincarnation of his teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads
him to young Jesse Conrad...

Little Buddha
http://youtu.be/eScQZZPCHJk

Faraway Song - Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPj0rD78820feature=sharelist=PLE5F20DDEBC9765B0index=3

[image: Inline image 2]

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Muic score: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Staring: Kurt Russell, Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/

Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed by
Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu
Reeves as Prince Siddhartha (the Buddha before his enlightenment).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Buddha

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Interesting Take on Addiction

2014-02-07 Thread s3raphita

The brain produces endorphins - endogenous morphine - naturally. I've 
wondered if some peoples' brains produce less of the goodies than others' which 
would make those deficient in endorphins more likely to succumb to opiate 
addiction. Never seen any discussion on the topic.
 

 But, that said, I don't think I'm buying the author's thesis: This means that 
alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, suicide attempts, phobias, adhd, 
anxiety and depression, et al are all disorders of the brain and as such need 
the treatment of a medical doctor first. 
 There's been a huge rise in rates of all these addictions and disorders over 
the past decades so  I think the primary cause is the sense of alienation of 
modern humans. We're estranged from nature, the clan and the community; until 
we realign our relationships with each other no other treatment is going to be 
more than a temporary fix.

[FairfieldLife] The Golden Child

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the
task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate.

I Want the Knife
http://youtu.be/jr0JXSM_0Nk

[image: Inline image 1]

Scene in Nepal
http://youtu.be/J1yT1WcSJpE

[image: Inline image 2]

The Golden Child Trailer
http://youtu.be/nGumUFmmVBI

Director: Michael Ritchie
Writer: Dennis Feldman
Stars: Eddie Murphy, J.L. Reate, Charles Dance

The Golden Child is a 1986 comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and
starring Eddie Murphy as Chandler Jarrell, who is informed that he is The
Chosen One and is destined to save The Golden Child, the savior of all
humankind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Child

Re: [FairfieldLife] Little Buddha

2014-02-07 Thread Share Long

How about 7 Years in Tibet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_IGypkra3E





On Friday, February 7, 2014 8:17 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  



We really liked this film when we first saw it and Rita likes Kurt Russell, who 
was played the part of Agent Cooper in Lynch's Twin Peaks pilot. The film is 
based on a true story: Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the 
reincarnation of his teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse 
Conrad...

Little Buddha
http://youtu.be/eScQZZPCHJk

Faraway Song - Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch/




Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Muic score: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Staring: Kurt Russell, Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/

Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed by Bernardo 
Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves as Prince 
Siddhartha (the Buddha before his enlightenment).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Buddha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Interesting Take on Addiction

2014-02-07 Thread Share Long

Thanks for the very thorough article, Ann. Seraph, I'd say it's not either or. 
Meaning that something major like addiction requires a multi pronged approach, 
needs to be addressed on the physical level as well as the psychological and 
the spiritual levels. Who knows what kind of approach will best help a person 
thus afflicted?





On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:02 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com 
awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
Stumbled across this today:
http://debbiebayerblog.com/2014/02/04/phillip-seymour-hoffman-did-not-have-choice-or-free-will-and-neither-do-you/

Re: [FairfieldLife] All the Illumined

Doesn't that give you a clue Buck? The fact that these BATGAP folk no longer do 
TM and do other things? If its the fabulous thing you claim, why would they not 
be still in the Domes with you?

On Fri, 2/7/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] All the Illumined
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 2:19 PM

   Ha, they just want
 someone to hang out a sign or post a declaration for them to
 read so they
 can spray their graffiti work over it.  There is fame and
 there is
 infamy and these neganaut guys here evidently are just being
 virulent bad again.      Look down the list
 of Rick Archer's Buddha-at-the-gas-pump for TM
 even there.  Lot of them Buddhas are transcendental
 meditators way
 back in their spiritual pedigrees.  
 Yep, Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
 and all the work he did in the great strides in a lifetime
 he made to
 bring spirituality up in to mass culture.

 Yep, and check out this Wonderful
 Pete Seeger rendition of singing,  We Shall
 OvercomeBeautiful
 rendition:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnPVP23rzo

 Have a nice
 day,-Buck in the
 Dome

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@...
 wrote:

 Oh, such an announcement would
 prove that TM works beyond any shadow of a doubt.
 ;-)
 There is no reason that anyone should be
 surprised about this. The WHOLE THING -- meaning
 Maharishi's teaching and the promise of
 enlightenment -- has been a con since Day One. The only
 reason it works is that people who bought into
 it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that
 they keep perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole
 stack of cards.
 If I'm wrong about this, please show me one -- count
 them, one -- press statement or announcement from the TMO
 saying, This (insert photo and name of shill here) is
 a fully enlightened being, and he got that way by practicing
 the TM and/or TM-Sidhi programs.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements.

2014-02-07 Thread Share Long

But but but...noozguru, I write a lot of those one liners! Oh, maybe you're 
suggesting I liberate myself from those also (-:





On Thursday, February 6, 2014 3:58 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
 
  
This is often the case with online discussion and why I read them using an 
email client like Thunderbird.  A click of the button will arrange the flow of 
a topic to see that it has wandered off into a badminton match and not even 
worth reading.  Do yourself a favor and set up an email client on your computer 
if you are so interested in FFL and liberate yourself from the one liners of 
the website or even Yahoo's poor mail client.

On 02/06/2014 12:57 PM, Share Long wrote:

  
Richard, sometimes there's even a deluge of posts when I'm gone for a couple 
of hours! No wonder some people have given up and dropped out. I end up 
trashing so many posts I'd like to reply to. But I'm trying to have an offline 
life here. Go figure (-:






On Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:48 AM, Richard J. Williams 
pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  
On 2/6/2014 9:43 AM, Share Long wrote:
 Richard, here's my important post
  (-:

The problem with FFL is that the
  messages come at you so fast that you 
hardly have time to think for
  yourself, to sort it all out, much
  less 
try to figure out the deep meaning of
  some of the messages posted here. 
Anyone who wanted to find out any
  insider information would have to wade 
through thousands of messages here and
  on Google Groups in order to find 
out what happened to Jerry Jarvis or
  Lon P. Stacks.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Little Buddha


Try IMDB.com.  I have Little Buddha  on laserdisc. :-D

That is if it hasn't rotted.  I should drag out the player and check my 
box full of LDs.


I'm listed on IMDB too but not as Bhairitu. ;-)

On 02/07/2014 07:22 AM, Pundit Sir wrote:
Correction: It was Chris Issak who played Agent Cooper in the Twin 
Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.


Isaak has appeared in numerous films, mostly playing cameo roles. He 
starred, however, with Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda in the 1993 
Bernardo Bertolucci-directed Little Buddha, and played a major role in 
David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Isaak

FBI Special Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper, portrayed by Kyle 
MacLachlan, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ABC 
television series Twin Peaks. He briefly appears in the prequel film 
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Cooper


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com 
mailto:pundits...@gmail.com wrote:


Inline image 1

We really liked this film when we first saw it and Rita likes Kurt
Russell, who was played the part of Agent Cooper in Lynch's Twin
Peaks pilot. The film is based on a true story: Lama Norbu comes
to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his teacher, Lama
Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad...

Little Buddha
http://youtu.be/eScQZZPCHJk

Faraway Song - Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPj0rD78820feature=sharelist=PLE5F20DDEBC9765B0index=3

Inline image 2

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Muic score: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Staring: Kurt Russell, Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/

Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed
by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and
Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha (the Buddha before his
enlightenment).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Buddha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 On 2/7/2014 1:35 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:

 Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been a con 
since Day One.   
 So, what happened to all the money? Maybe there should be an apology posted 
here by the TurquoiseB,  since he's one of the guys that sold us the snake-oil. 
Go figure.
 
 I think Bawwy's been watching too many bad cop shows on his altar, the TV set.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Marshy Enlightened?



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nabnuts1008 wrote:
 
 His mission in life is that even if one - 1 - person stops TM because of his 
 neverending smearcampaign against the only Yogi he ever met (however briefly) 
 - then he will feel successful.

 All that Barry did is make three posts this morning expressing his OPINION. He 
didn't write them to -- or about -- anyone in particular here, he just wrote 
what was on his mind. Above all, he didn't even *mention* any of the five 
people who have gone batshit crazy over these posts, getting their buttons 
pushed and making 15 posts in response to something that was never about them 
in the first place. Somebody must feel threatened. Go figure.  
 

 Dear Doofus, if you're not talking to anybody here you're evidently lost. Go 
find someone you can talk to that you at least feel might listen to you. If you 
aren't talking to anybody here who are you talking to?

Hey, doofus, nobody was talking to you. End of story.
- Judy Stein, 13 October 2013

:-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

1. Nobody went batshit crazy or had their buttons pushed by Barry's posts 
this morning. A couple of us did snicker at him, though. That must be what has 
his panties in a twist.
 2. Only four people (counting Nabby, just now) commented on his posts, not 
five.
 3. There were only seven posts commenting, not 15.
 

 Somebody must be hallucinating again. Go figure.
 

 All that Barry did is make three posts this morning expressing his OPINION. He 
didn't write them to -- or about -- anyone in particular here, he just wrote 
what was on his mind. Above all, he didn't even *mention* any of the five 
people who have gone batshit crazy over these posts, getting their buttons 
pushed and making 15 posts in response to something that was never about them 
in the first place. Somebody must feel threatened. Go figure.  
 
Hey, doofus, nobody was talking to you. End of story.
- Judy Stein, 13 October 2013

:-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhairitu

They've always been a bit laughable for me because they are recommending
films I've already seen. What Netflix can't do if know that you've seen
via other sources. I rent occasionally at Redbox. These are often
films that Netflix won't be getting for awhile if at all. For instance,
Netflix rarely gets any Universal movies (though that may change now
that Comcast owns Universal and I'll explain later). So Universal's big
films if I am interested in one at all I'll just rent at Redbox on
Bluray. I also rent some indie films at Redbox again dependent on the
distributor or if it is a title I want to see right away rather than
wait maybe a month for it to arrive on Netflix.

One movie Netflix keeps recommending is Assault on Wall Street by Uwe
Boll. Thing is it was definitely a title I was interested in having
seen the trailer posted on conspiracy sites. So when it hit Redbox I
immediately rented it on release day. I even recommended the film
here. About two weeks later it was available to watch on Netflix. But
what was additionally interesting was Boll's commentary which included
why he made the film but also how little money filmmakers get anymore
for their films including how little companies like Showtime will pay
for a film. BTW, I watched Boll's remake of the 1950s film (with Frank
Sinatra) Suddenly last night on Netflix. It's well worth a watch and
Ray Liotta stars and Dominic Purcell who played the lead in Assault on
Wall Street has a supporting role.

BTW, I have 11 Redbox kiosks within 2 miles so I can usually find the
film I want at one. Because of streaming demand on Netflix I often
leave those rentals for the weekend where it might be difficult to get a
decent HD stream from Netflix.

Another place if I am really impatient to see a film is to rent it on
VUDU or Amazon. Both will have films before they are available in
theaters or while in theaters. These aren't the Hollywood blockbusters
but mostly indie films that some distributors like Mark Cuban's Magnolia
Films have taken to releasing online due even prior to theatrical
release due to the dwindling number of art houses. You pay more for
these, though often just the price of a nighttime theater ticket (no
senior discount either).

A bonus with most discs is that they have extras including
commentaries. That is except for the big studios like Universal who now
put rental discs at Redbox which have the film only. However even
Universal, now owned by Comcast, might sell Redbox full featured discs
if it is a indie film. Same with Fox. Seldom if ever from Warner
Brothers. Comcast may be adopting what I think is the smarter business
model that Sony Pictures and Lionsgate uses and that is to get your
content in as many channels as possible to maximize return.

So thing is, being a film and TV buff, I am often ahead of the game as
far as knowing what is coming and what I want to see. Also Netflix
supports third party sites. Unlike some other companies they saw the
value of third party fan and review sites as free advertising. However
they did pull the coming soon data as distributors started
complaining. Obviously if I knew that a film was going to be on Netflix
two weeks after it arrived at Redbox I would wait the two weeks.

As for the article you recommended I politely thanked you for thinking
of me. But that article came out over a month ago. Not only that you
didn't provide a link. I recall looking at it and the discussion on the
Netflix discussion section of a forum I was on. There we had long been
discussing Netflix's suggestions algorithms. And yeah, that article
reveals just what I would have done if I worked at nearby Netflix (about
60 or 70 miles away as the crow flies) as that project lead. It is just
a form of data mining not that far removed from having a word processor
catalog stuff for a document index. Here's the missing link:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

On 02/07/2014 04:29 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

*I never pay any attention to them. Why do you ask?*

So what do you think about Netflix's recommendations of shows for you?

Well, let's take a look at what you /actually/ said:

I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago. However their
suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends...

Which, you know, makes it appear that this refers to the relevance
of Netflix's suggestions. And that (as I said) is not what the
article I recommended is about. Nor is it about what you go on to
talk about in your next paragraph:

You seemed to have missed that I said this information is a couple
weeks old. You are also forgetting that I'm a programmer and was
well aware of heuristic procedures being used to determine tastes.
In fact I am on home theater forums where this is discussed quite a
bit including your aforementioned article.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy


 *The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is ridiculous.

*On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Quite easy actually. Kant lived long before quantum physics and our 
current understanding of cosmology and evolution. 


The last resort of the naive realist is an appeal to instruments. But 
this appeal to instruments is the final blow to naive realism. For an 
appeal to instruments, like the appeal to other senses, to past 
experiences, to repetition, and to other persons, is a confession of 
failure. For it is a confession that apparently obvious objects are NOT 
self-evident.



Shankara I wouldn't even include in a conversation about philosophy.


The key word here is idea. It is interesting to note that Schopenhauer 
made use of the Upanishads - so I wonder if Kant read any Shankara? It's 
actually not very easy to refute the idealism of Kant and Shankara on a 
philosophical level. The whole notion of The Field is based on the idea 
of intelligence and consciousness.


According to Kant, we never have direct experience of 
things-in-themselves; we always experience the phenomenal world through 
our senses.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: For Bhairitu


On 02/06/2014 05:30 PM, ultrarishi wrote:


Suggestions come from all fronts.  This is the first year we watched 
the Golden Globes.  We're glad we did because it gave us a heads up on 
2 series we would have not known about otherwise.  The NZ crime drama 
Top of the Lake was excellent with an award winning performance by 
Elizabeth Moss.  That's available on Netflix streaming already.




Yes I watched that last year on Netflix.  It was a good series.  Had a 
little problem getting a good HD stream for some episodes though.




The British series Dancing on the Edge we just started and it appears 
to be very good as well.  It is starring


Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is having one helluva year.




I'll look for that one.

Orphan Black was tremendous because of the many, many characters the 
incredibly talented Tatiana Maslany is able to play seamlessly.  The 
writing is great as well.


I watched a few episodes and got tired of the shtick.



Ray Donovan  is intense and gritty.  Just our cup of tea. Didn't 
overly pander like some cable shows with excessive tits and ass and 
violence because, after all, it's cable and it's why people go there.  
Just good story telling, excellent stars and writing.


Great show and I'll miss the next season.  Didn't watch Homeland either 
due to cutting the cable.  Interesting take on the kind of person who 
actually exists in Hollywood to clean up things after a big star blows it.




Big dissappointments are Intelligence and Almost Human.  As well 
produced as these shows are they fail to sustain our attention because 
neither show has established a long arc in their stories.  Shows like 
The Good Wife or The Blacklist are much more involving because not 
everything is tied up neatly.  Things carry over the season, and that 
delayed resolution hook's us.  We like to kick around the dinner table 
what if scenarios based on where we think the stories might be going.


I like Almost Human more for the comedy as other viewers do too 
especially Urban's deadpan to Early's character's comments.  This last 
episode has the introduction of a longer arc.  Urban was also perfectly 
cast in Dredd. I gave Intelligence a few episode but it quickly fell 
into a formula rut.


One series which like Breaking Bad stands out but is not for everyone 
is Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy.  It should be a handbook for show 
runners.  Just when you though he couldn't take that show to another 
level Sutter does.  I got a particular joy out of identifying the clue 
he provided in the show promo spot which provided the key points for 
this last season.  I'm looking forward to the final season next fall to 
see how things are resolved and I'm not expecting a Sopranos finale 
either.




My favorite thing about Netflix is the big FU they have given the 
studios and the cajones they have shown to green light their own 
material.  Looking forward to Season 2 next week of the wonderful 
House of Cards.  Orange Is The New Black was fun as well.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam

The TMO could only wish that they had thought up Bitcoin.  And I kick 
myself for ignoring it.


On 02/07/2014 06:25 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


On 2/7/2014 1:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote:

 I did have a 10 raam note though but the wife threw it away because
 she thought it wasn't real money!

So, you're not in favor of alternate payment systems like Bitcoin's
cryptocurrency? Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buck Just Turned 60


Happy Birthday and welcome officially to the Old Farts Club.

On 02/06/2014 07:23 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:


*Buck is 60.*


*As of a few minutes ago (8:58pn CST).*

*Around the campfire they just sang for me:*


*Happy Birthday to You,*

*Happy Birthday to You,*

*Happy Birthday Dear (, Dear) Buck in the Dome;*


*Happy CC,*

*Happy GC,*

*Happy UC to You.*


*Through You Heaven on Earth,*

*Through You Heaven on Earth,*

*Through You Heaven on Earth for All.” *

*
*

The harmonies the way that us really conservative meditators sing is 
so beautifully perfect.  I was touched,


-Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 On 02/06/2014 05:30 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
 
  Ray Donovan  is intense and gritty.  Just our cup of tea. Didn't
  overly pander like some cable shows with excessive tits and ass and
  violence because, after all, it's cable and it's why people go
there.
  Just good story telling, excellent stars and writing.

 Great show and I'll miss the next season.  Didn't watch Homeland
either
 due to cutting the cable.  Interesting take on the kind of person who
 actually exists in Hollywood to clean up things after a big star
blows it.

I'm off work today, so I downloaded Ray Donovan and have now watched
the first three episodes. I'm hooked, and will watch the rest. Liev
Schreiber is excellent, Paula Malcomson is always excellent, and there
are quite a few familiar faces popping up among the rest of the cast,
such as Steven Bauer and Elliot Gould. Still, it's Jon Voight who kinda
steals the show, as the most despicable human being you're ever likely
to see onscreen. I can only imagine that he'll get worse.

Good to chat with people about TV and movies they've actually seen. Much
better than dealing with people who know nothing whatsoever about them,
but repost month-old articles we've all already read before to make it
seem as if they do.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhairitu

Ooh, sorry for the link-lack.

So what did you think of the Perry Mason phenomenon?

They've always been a bit laughable for me because they are recommending films
I've already seen. What Netflix can't do if know that you've seen via other
sources. I rent occasionally at Redbox. These are often films that Netflix
won't be getting for awhile if at all. For instance, Netflix rarely gets any
Universal movies (though that may change now that Comcast owns Universal and
I'll explain later). So Universal's big films if I am interested in one at all
I'll just rent at Redbox on Bluray. I also rent some indie films at Redbox
again dependent on the distributor or if it is a title I want to see right away
rather than wait maybe a month for it to arrive on Netflix.

One movie Netflix keeps recommending is Assault on Wall Street by Uwe Boll.
Thing is it was definitely a title I was interested in having seen the trailer
posted on conspiracy sites. So when it hit Redbox I immediately rented it on
release day. I even recommended the film here. About two weeks later it was
available to watch on Netflix. But what was additionally interesting was
Boll's commentary which included why he made the film but also how little money
filmmakers get anymore for their films including how little companies like
Showtime will pay for a film. BTW, I watched Boll's remake of the 1950s film
(with Frank Sinatra) Suddenly last night on Netflix. It's well worth a watch
and Ray Liotta stars and Dominic Purcell who played the lead in Assault on
Wall Street has a supporting role.

BTW, I have 11 Redbox kiosks within 2 miles so I can usually find the film I
want at one. Because of streaming demand on Netflix I often leave those
rentals for the weekend where it might be difficult to get a decent HD stream
from Netflix.

Another place if I am really impatient to see a film is to rent it on VUDU or
Amazon. Both will have films before they are available in theaters or while in
theaters. These aren't the Hollywood blockbusters but mostly indie films that
some distributors like Mark Cuban's Magnolia Films have taken to releasing
online due even prior to theatrical release due to the dwindling number of art
houses. You pay more for these, though often just the price of a nighttime
theater ticket (no senior discount either).

A bonus with most discs is that they have extras including commentaries. That
is except for the big studios like Universal who now put rental discs at
Redbox which have the film only. However even Universal, now owned by Comcast,
might sell Redbox full featured discs if it is a indie film. Same with Fox.
Seldom if ever from Warner Brothers. Comcast may be adopting what I think is
the smarter business model that Sony Pictures and Lionsgate uses and that is to
get your content in as many channels as possible to maximize return.

So thing is, being a film and TV buff, I am often ahead of the game as far as
knowing what is coming and what I want to see. Also Netflix supports third
party sites. Unlike some other companies they saw the value of third party fan
and review sites as free advertising. However they did pull the coming soon
data as distributors started complaining. Obviously if I knew that a film was
going to be on Netflix two weeks after it arrived at Redbox I would wait the
two weeks.

As for the article you recommended I politely thanked you for thinking of me.
But that article came out over a month ago. Not only that you didn't provide a
link. I recall looking at it and the discussion on the Netflix discussion
section of a forum I was on. There we had long been discussing Netflix's
suggestions algorithms. And yeah, that article reveals just what I would
have done if I worked at nearby Netflix (about 60 or 70 miles away as the crow
flies) as that project lead. It is just a form of data mining not that far
removed from having a word processor catalog stuff for a document index.
Here's the missing link:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

On 02/07/2014 04:29 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

I never pay any attention to them. Why do you ask?

So what do you think about Netflix's recommendations of shows for you?

Well, let's take a look at what you actually said:
I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago. However their
suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends...

Which, you know, makes it appear that this refers to the relevance of
Netflix's suggestions. And that (as I said) is not what the article I
recommended is about. Nor is it about what you go on to talk about in your next
paragraph:

You seemed to have missed that I said this information is a couple weeks old.
You are also

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam


On 2/7/2014 1:35 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/The only reason it works is that people who bought into it early 
are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that they keep 
perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole stack of cards. /*


For most people, TM works as advertised.

So, as a spiritual teacher who bought in to it early, you should be 
ashamed for trying to turn a simple relaxation technique into a 
religion, handing out all those flyers promising enlightenment in 5-7 
years and putting up all those posters promising instant enlightenment. 
And, and you keep perpetuating a belief system which is like a stack of 
cards? Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Crazy Raam crap

You just gotta read it to believe that anyone could be foolish enough to 
believe that anyone would ever buy this kind of thinking. I only got through 11 
pages.

http://www.hiddencures.com/Videos/Raam%20Lecture%202-12-09.pdf

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

Oooopsie! More hallucinating from Barry (at least if he's referring to FFL). He 
can't seem to get his panties untwisted.
 

 Good to chat with people about TV and movies they've actually seen. Much 
better than dealing with people who know nothing whatsoever about them, but 
repost month-old articles we've all already read before to make it seem as if 
they do.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread salyavin808

Comments below
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

  
 style=font-size:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 
san-serif, Roboto;The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is 
ridiculous.
 
 On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
 Quite easy actually. Kant lived long before quantum physics and our current 
understanding of cosmology and evolution. 
 The last resort of the naive realist is an appeal to instruments. But this 
appeal to instruments is the final blow to naive realism. For an appeal to 
instruments, like the appeal to other senses, to past experiences, to 
repetition, and to other persons, is a confession of failure. For it is a 
confession that apparently obvious objects are NOT self-evident. Ah, the old 
last resort ploy eh? Those instruments have revealed more about the universe we 
live in than anything Kant could ever have thought of. And he would have loved 
it. A confession of failure? I think not as you still haven't provided any 
evidence that the field idea of consciousness is a necessary part of any 
explanation for our experience. Or even a possible part that fits in with 
current models as it will have to. 
 
 Shankara I wouldn't even include in a conversation about philosophy. 
 The key word here is idea. It is interesting to note that Schopenhauer made 
use of the Upanishads - so I wonder if Kant read any Shankara? It's actually 
not very easy to refute the idealism of Kant and Shankara on a philosophical 
level. The whole notion of The Field is based on the idea of intelligence and 
consciousness.  Then it ought to be open to study if only via it's effects on 
matter, unless it has none in which case it is unmeasurable and if it's 
unmeasurable how would we know it exists? Experiencing our inner world as an 
infinite void perhaps says more about how our heads are wired than it does 
about any fundamental reality don't you think? 
 
 According to Kant, we never have direct experience of things-in-themselves; we 
always experience the phenomenal world through our senses.
 
No kidding. Bit hard to rely on experience then isn't it?

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy


On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
It's wrong to assume that intelligent things must have had an 
intelligent creator. 


We do not assume anything but we infer based on the valid means of 
knowledge: Objects that enter our consciousness experience seem already 
made. Some unconscious or subconscious process determines our conscious 
experiences for us, even though we can never become aware of it. The 
mystery of consciousness may never be explained satisfactorily, but it 
is obvious, to those who reflect, that something happens within us to 
make us see things the way we do. This something must be taken into 
account in explaining the nature of knowledge. Perhaps the most 
startling construction is that of consciousness itself.

[FairfieldLife] Congress Fails to Raise Debt Ceiling

2014-02-07 Thread jr_esq

Now, the US has about a month before cash runs out to pay for the bills 
including the tax refunds.  For most Americans, this failure is inexcusable and 
is a stupid way to run a government. 
 

 While the politicians bicker, the stock market could care less.  Investors are 
apparently getting smart to the idea that they're not going to lose money again 
over politics in the Capitol.  As of now, the DJ is slightly higher than 
yesterday.
 

 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/skating-close-edge-again-debt-011810413.html 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/skating-close-edge-again-debt-011810413.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu


On 02/07/2014 10:01 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:

 On 02/06/2014 05:30 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
 
  Ray Donovan is intense and gritty. Just our cup of tea. Didn't
  overly pander like some cable shows with excessive tits and ass and
  violence because, after all, it's cable and it's why people go there.
  Just good story telling, excellent stars and writing.

 Great show and I'll miss the next season. Didn't watch Homeland either
 due to cutting the cable. Interesting take on the kind of person who
 actually exists in Hollywood to clean up things after a big star 
blows it.


*/I'm off work today, so I downloaded Ray Donovan and have now 
watched the first three episodes. I'm hooked, and will watch the rest. 
Liev Schreiber is excellent, Paula Malcomson is always excellent, and 
there are quite a few familiar faces popping up among the rest of the 
cast, such as Steven Bauer and Elliot Gould. Still, it's Jon Voight 
who kinda steals the show, as the most despicable human being you're 
ever likely to see onscreen. I can only imagine that he'll get worse.


Good to chat with people about TV and movies they've actually seen. 
Much better than dealing with people who know nothing whatsoever about 
them, but repost month-old articles we've all already read before to 
make it seem as if they do.  :-)/*




That said I would expect you to be on top of this one. ;-)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57618549-93/kickstarter-funded-film-reunites-joss-whedons-dollhouse-cast/

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam

I'm surprised the DOJ hasn't shut the Raam  down already.  They've been 
doing that with some other alternative coin and currency operations.


On 02/07/2014 10:01 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:


I found it in the Global Good News Archives - the TMO did officially 
claim the raam was gold backed at one point.


On Fri, 2/7/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 5:52 PM





























The TMO could
only wish that they had
thought up Bitcoin.  And I kick myself for ignoring
it.



On 02/07/2014 06:25 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:





On 2/7/2014 1:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote:



 I did have a 10 raam note though but the
wife threw
it away because

 she thought it wasn't real money!



So, you're not in favor of alternate
payment systems like
Bitcoin's

cryptocurrency? Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

2014-02-07 Thread nablusoss1008

His mission in life is that even if one - 1 - person stops TM because of his 
neverending smearcampaign against the only Yogi he ever met (however briefly) - 
then he will feel successful.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Crazy Raam crap

On 2/7/2014 12:14 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 You just gotta read it to believe that anyone could be foolish enough 
 to believe that anyone would ever buy this kind of thinking. I only 
 got through 11 pages.
 
Now this is funny - while you're reading about the Raam, we're also 
talking about raising the national debt. So, where is the real money? Go 
figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 On 02/07/2014 10:01 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
  
   On 02/06/2014 05:30 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
   
Ray Donovan is intense and gritty. Just our cup of tea. Didn't
overly pander like some cable shows with excessive tits and ass
and
violence because, after all, it's cable and it's why people go
there.
Just good story telling, excellent stars and writing.
  
   Great show and I'll miss the next season. Didn't watch Homeland
either
   due to cutting the cable. Interesting take on the kind of person
who
   actually exists in Hollywood to clean up things after a big star
  blows it.
 
  */I'm off work today, so I downloaded Ray Donovan and have now
  watched the first three episodes. I'm hooked, and will watch the
rest.
  Liev Schreiber is excellent, Paula Malcomson is always excellent,
and
  there are quite a few familiar faces popping up among the rest of
the
  cast, such as Steven Bauer and Elliot Gould. Still, it's Jon Voight
  who kinda steals the show, as the most despicable human being you're
  ever likely to see onscreen. I can only imagine that he'll get
worse.
 
  Good to chat with people about TV and movies they've actually seen.
  Much better than dealing with people who know nothing whatsoever
about
  them, but repost month-old articles we've all already read before to
  make it seem as if they do.  :-)/*

 That said I would expect you to be on top of this one. ;-)


http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57618549-93/kickstarter-funded-film-reu\
nites-joss-whedons-dollhouse-cast/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57618549-93/kickstarter-funded-film-re\
unites-joss-whedons-dollhouse-cast/

You would be correct, actually. :-) I have a 1080p full HD version of it
ready to watch tonight after dinner. I first heard about it on
whedonesque.com.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/dollhouse-alums-talk-life-in-the\
-whedonverse-or-whedonverse
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/dollhouse-alums-talk-life-in-th\
e-whedonverse-or-whedonverse

Haven't seen it, though, so unlike the person on this forum who likes to
comment about films she's never seen, I can't give you a review yet. 
:-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam

On 2/7/2014 11:52 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
 The TMO could only wish that they had thought up Bitcoin.  And I kick 
 myself for ignoring it. 
 
We could both be internet billionaires by now! Go figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

My God, somebody get him a prescription for antipsychotics, quick. He's been 
having this hallucination off and on for years, but now it seems to have taken 
him over completely.
 

 Haven't seen it, though, so unlike the person on this forum who likes to 
comment about films she's never seen, I can't give you a review yet.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam

I don't know about being a billionaire but I certainly could have paid 
off this house and then some with a modest investment.


On 02/07/2014 10:55 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


On 2/7/2014 11:52 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
 The TMO could only wish that they had thought up Bitcoin. And I kick
 myself for ignoring it.

We could both be internet billionaires by now! Go figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Little Buddha

Nice film! A good introduction to Buddhism.




On Friday, February 7, 2014 6:17 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
  
  



We really liked this film when we first saw it and Rita likes Kurt Russell, who 
was played the part of Agent Cooper in Lynch's Twin Peaks pilot. The film is 
based on a true story: Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the 
reincarnation of his teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse 
Conrad... 

Little Buddha
http://youtu.be/eScQZZPCHJk

Faraway Song - Ryuichi Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPj0rD78820feature=sharelist=PLE5F20DDEBC9765B0index=3




Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Muic score: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Staring: Kurt Russell, Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/

Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed by Bernardo 
Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves as Prince 
Siddhartha (the Buddha before his enlightenment). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Buddha

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 My God, somebody get him a prescription for antipsychotics, quick.
He's been having this hallucination off and on for years, but now it
seems to have taken him over completely.

Ahem. Please note the title of this post, written by Judy Stein about a
film she had never -- and *still* has never -- seen. Note the following
section, added *by her*, *in her own words* at the end of the review she
believed and reposted, again without ever having seen the film:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/126122
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/126122

To highlight what the writer tactfully leaves
implicit, Gibson has slandered the Maya and
mangled history for the purpose of exalting the
purported superiority of Christianity.

And she's *still* trying to pretend that she didn't write this, and
comment about a film she'd never seen.

I'll bet -- even given the publicity surrounding Philip Seymour Hoffman
lately -- that she's *still* never seen Doubt either. Probably because
several people on several Internet forums took a look at the movie and
their first reaction to the insane nun played by Meryl Streep in that
movie was, She reminds me of Judy Stein.  :-)

   Haven't seen it, though, so unlike the person on this forum who
likes to comment about films she's never seen, I can't give you a review
yet.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing

The dB's - Wake up,that time is gone.

[image: Inline image 1]

That Time Is Gone - Peter Holsapple, vocals and guitar
http://youtu.be/f9CwLD1Yrvo

Recorded live in 2012 in Austin, Texas at Threadgill's during the Music Fog
Marathon. When Rita was living in San Diego the guitarist in this video,
Peter Holsapple, was her boyfriends roommate. It was great meeting up with
him again in Austin. An amazing reunion from the old days in California!

MusicFog review:
http://musicfog.com/home/2012/6/12/the-dbs-that-time-is-gone.html


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 Now playing: Get ready for a tribal beat stomp dance down at the Techno
 Club with DJ Pseudo Buddha. Work it!

 [image: Inline image 1]

 How Ya Doin? Factory Mix - Beat Your Meat (Move Your Body 2) 1994
 http://youtu.be/edSWATUnxwc


 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 One Dove

 [image: Inline image 1]

 One Dove - White Love (Psychic Masterbation) - from Platinum on Black Vol
 1
 http://youtu.be/pqIsWexYD74

 White Love - One Dove - Video
 http://youtu.be/5Z_hcAQz1Rw

 One Dove was a Scottish alternative dance music group active in the
 early 1990s, consisting of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven.

 One Dove:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Dove


 On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 The Jim Cullum Jazz Band

 [image: Inline image 1]

 We saw this band a few years ago and we listen to them on PRI every
 week. So, we decided to see them again soon. This is going to be a very
 busy time for music lovers around here what with the San Antonio Stock Show
 and Rodeo followed by South by Southwest (SxSW) the music and film festival
 in Austin (Rodriquez will probably be there and Linklater too). In this
 video the Jim Cullum Jazz Band is joined by David Jellema when they
 performed at the historic Pearl Brewery in San Antonio Texas, for the
 public radio series Riverwalk Jazz in October 2009:

 Clarinet Marmalade
 http://youtu.be/z4RWkTrU2d8

 Jim Cullum Jazz Band
 Boardwalk Bistro
 7:30pm -- 10:30pm
 Friday February 7, 2014
 4011 Broadway, San Antonio

 http://riverwalkjazz.org/

 http://www.pri.org/programs/riverwalk-jazz

 The Jim Cullum Jazz Band is an acoustic seven-piece traditional jazz
 ensemble led by cornetist Jim Cullum, Jr.. Since 1989, the band has been
 featured nationally on their own weekly public radio series Riverwalk Jazz.
 The band performs live Tuesday through Saturday at the Landing Jazz Club on
 the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cullum_Jazz_Band


 On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 The dB's

 [image: Inline image 1]

 That Time Is Gone - Peter Holsapple, vocals and guitar
 http://youtu.be/f9CwLD1Yrvo

 Recorded live in 2012 in Austin, Texas at Threadgill's during the Music
 Fog Marathon. When Rita was living in San Diego the guitarist in this
 video, Peter Holsapple, was her boyfriends roommate. It was great meeting
 up with him again in Austin. An amazing reunion from the old days in
 California!

 MusicFog review:
 http://musicfog.com/home/2012/6/12/the-dbs-that-time-is-gone.html


 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 Orianthi

 [image: Inline image 3]

 Orienthe with Carls Santana

  Orianthi Panagaris, better known by her mononym Orianthi, is an
 Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Orianthi was named
 one of the 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists by Elle magazine.[3] She
 also won the award as Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year 2010 by Guitar
 International magazine.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orianthi

 Voodoo Child
 http://youtu.be/mK6tcgsKgps

 According to You
 http://youtu.be/Pu1aQvm5MrU

 Highly Strung - with Steve Vai - Video
 http://youtu.be/G7b-_YcACuQ

 Heaven In This Hell - Video
 http://youtu.be/2kMXxDkqD6I

 [image: Inline image 2]

 Guitar World Magazine:
 http://www.guitarworld.com/orianthi

 Anyone who can write, sing, and produce an album they play nearly all
 the instruments on is someone special, especially someone only 20 years 
 old
 when it all happened! When Rita was in Adelaide in 2004 she got her CD
 signed by Orienthe. Sweet!

 [image: Inline image 1]

 Violet Journey

 Orianthi Interview at musicasa::
 http://www.musicsa.com.au/artists/orianthi/


 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 [image: Inline image 1]

 Call of the Valley
 http://youtu.be/ptTmZlzIIxQ

 Shivkumar Sharma
 Brijbhushan Kabra
 Hariprasad Chaurasia

 The instrumental album follows a day in the life of an Indian
 shepherd from Kashmir. It is one of the most successful Indian albums and
 one that became popular with an international audience. It was very
 important in introducing Indian music to Western ears and internationally
 the best selling Indian music record.

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

Over the edge. He's gone over the edge. He can no longer tell the difference 
between reality and his fantasies. He isn't lying; he actually believes what 
he's saying.
 

 Of course, I've never denied writing what Barry quotes. That's one of his many 
hallucinations connected to his ridiculous attack on me concerning 
Apocalypto. Folks who were here then and read the exchange know how badly he 
crashed and burned. Apparently that was so traumatic for him that he's turned 
it into a victory in his imagination and hauls it out regularly as if it were 
the real story rather than his elaborate fantasy.
 

 As I say, his mental breakdown is becoming more urgent by the day. I worry, 
frankly, about his family.
 
  My God, somebody get him a prescription for antipsychotics, quick. He's been 
  having this hallucination off and on for years, but now it seems to have 
  taken him over completely. 

 Ahem. Please note the title of this post, written by Judy Stein about a film 
she had never -- and *still* has never -- seen. Note the following section, 
added *by her*, *in her own words* at the end of the review she believed and 
reposted, again without ever having seen the film:

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/126122 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/126122 

To highlight what the writer tactfully leaves
 implicit, Gibson has slandered the Maya and
 mangled history for the purpose of exalting the
 purported superiority of Christianity.


And she's *still* trying to pretend that she didn't write this, and comment 
about a film she'd never seen.

I'll bet -- even given the publicity surrounding Philip Seymour Hoffman lately 
-- that she's *still* never seen Doubt either. Probably because several 
people on several Internet forums took a look at the movie and their first 
reaction to the insane nun played by Meryl Streep in that movie was, She 
reminds me of Judy Stein.  :-)

   Haven't seen it, though, so unlike the person on this forum who likes to 
   comment about films she's never seen, I can't give you a review yet. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhairitu

I would  have to review that.  But there's a problem with speculating 
what Netflix does.  As Barry would tell you, having worked for tech 
companies, it is often not *what* they are actually doing.  But any 
programming just glancing at the article would as expected it would 
speculate that is basically data mining or maybe more correctly data 
scraping.


Netflix will post blog articles about their techniques.  And I get to 
argue with people who claim they are still using these techniques some 3 
or 4 years after the blog article has been posted.  Worse yet I get to 
argue with geeks about Netflix encoding methods.  One ongoing argument 
is that my Sony BD is too old to use adaptive streaming.  Mostly 
Netflix does not have one file for each stream.  Instead streams are 
broken up into each small files for MPEG-4 and those may be for HD as 
small as 1.2 MB each.  They will have several of thees kinds of stream 
files at different resolution ranging from 240p to 1080p.  If they 
detect some congestion between you and their server they will drop down 
to a lower resolution stream just to catch up.  In fact if you watch a 
movie on Netflix they often will use a 240p stream just to start for 
about 30 seconds. That's because at the start of most movies is a bunch 
of studio and distributor logos so it doesn't matter.  In the meantime 
they're able to buffer up to a minute of HD while your player shows those.


And that's for ONE kind of steam.  Netflix admits they may have as many 
as 120 different stream packages for each show.  That's to handle the 
wide range of devices that Netflix can be viewed on. And it gets worse 
than that.  The MPEG-4 example just makes it a little easier to 
understand.  But the files don't have to be broken up into small files 
on the server.  Silverlight which Netflix uses doesn't necessarily do 
that as I've played with Microsoft Expression which can be downloaded 
for free and will do up to 10 minutes of Silverlight encoding at 
different resolutions.  Those are in VC-1 format though the paid pro 
version can do MPEG-4.  Each resolution has only one file and an index 
manifest for seeking.


Favored probably by the industry is the emerging HTML5 codec that Google 
offers... for free. This is Webm which has the VP8 or VP9 codec from the 
company Google bought.  Those are like Silverlight singe files for each 
resolution, video only.  The audio file is separate.  All these have a 
meta data or manifest that allows them to quickly seek the segment to 
send out.  Chromecast is most likely using these for newer films.


Where I get into an argument with the techies is that I have always seen 
varying resolution on my supposedly non-adaptive (DASH) supported BD 
player.  I have even told them that the Netflix app got updated at least 
once.  I also have done projects using Sony's SDKs and know how they 
handle MPEG-4 files.  The player is probably about  the same as on their 
devices I have programmed.  BTW, none of the people I am arguing with 
have EVER done that nor even shot, edited video let alone created video 
players (I've had to create two of those).


The reason Netflix won't tell you *what* they are actually doing is tech 
is VERY dynamic.  So what they did last year might be completely redone 
this year.  They keep upgrading their technology.  They need to remain 
competitive.  And when you work for a tech company you are bound by NDAs 
which severely limit what you can say.  So we don't exactly have Netflix 
employees (who are probably lurking and laughing) drop in to post.


So reverse engineering their suggestions technology might have led to 
gaffaws and grins down in Los Gatos.


On 02/07/2014 10:05 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


Ooh, sorry for the link-lack.


So what did you think of the Perry Mason phenomenon?


They've always been a bit laughable for me because they are 
recommending films I've already seen.  What Netflix can't do if know 
that you've seen via other sources.  I rent occasionally at Redbox.  
These are often films that Netflix won't be getting for awhile if at 
all.  For instance, Netflix rarely gets any Universal movies (though 
that may change now that Comcast owns Universal and I'll explain 
later).  So Universal's big films if I am interested in one at all 
I'll just rent at Redbox on Bluray.  I also rent some indie films at 
Redbox again dependent on the distributor or if it is a title I want 
to see right away rather than wait maybe a month for it to arrive on 
Netflix.



One movie Netflix keeps recommending is Assault on Wall Street by 
Uwe Boll.  Thing is it was definitely a title I was interested in 
having seen the trailer posted on conspiracy sites.  So when it hit 
Redbox I immediately rented it on release day.  I even recommended the 
film here.  About two weeks later it was available to watch on 
Netflix.  But what was additionally interesting was Boll's commentary 
which included why he made the film but also how little money

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

What he said.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 I would  have to review that.  But there's a problem with speculating
 what Netflix does.  As Barry would tell you, having worked for tech
 companies, it is often not *what* they are actually doing.  But any
 programming just glancing at the article would as expected it would
 speculate that is basically data mining or maybe more correctly data
 scraping.

 Netflix will post blog articles about their techniques.  And I get to
 argue with people who claim they are still using these techniques some
3
 or 4 years after the blog article has been posted.  Worse yet I get to
 argue with geeks about Netflix encoding methods.  One ongoing argument
 is that my Sony BD is too old to use adaptive streaming.  Mostly
 Netflix does not have one file for each stream.  Instead streams are
 broken up into each small files for MPEG-4 and those may be for HD as
 small as 1.2 MB each.  They will have several of thees kinds of stream
 files at different resolution ranging from 240p to 1080p.  If they
 detect some congestion between you and their server they will drop
down
 to a lower resolution stream just to catch up.  In fact if you watch a
 movie on Netflix they often will use a 240p stream just to start for
 about 30 seconds. That's because at the start of most movies is a
bunch
 of studio and distributor logos so it doesn't matter.  In the meantime
 they're able to buffer up to a minute of HD while your player shows
those.

 And that's for ONE kind of steam.  Netflix admits they may have as
many
 as 120 different stream packages for each show.  That's to handle the
 wide range of devices that Netflix can be viewed on. And it gets worse
 than that.  The MPEG-4 example just makes it a little easier to
 understand.  But the files don't have to be broken up into small files
 on the server.  Silverlight which Netflix uses doesn't necessarily do
 that as I've played with Microsoft Expression which can be downloaded
 for free and will do up to 10 minutes of Silverlight encoding at
 different resolutions.  Those are in VC-1 format though the paid pro
 version can do MPEG-4.  Each resolution has only one file and an index
 manifest for seeking.

 Favored probably by the industry is the emerging HTML5 codec that
Google
 offers... for free. This is Webm which has the VP8 or VP9 codec from
the
 company Google bought.  Those are like Silverlight singe files for
each
 resolution, video only.  The audio file is separate.  All these have a
 meta data or manifest that allows them to quickly seek the segment to
 send out.  Chromecast is most likely using these for newer films.

 Where I get into an argument with the techies is that I have always
seen
 varying resolution on my supposedly non-adaptive (DASH) supported BD
 player.  I have even told them that the Netflix app got updated at
least
 once.  I also have done projects using Sony's SDKs and know how they
 handle MPEG-4 files.  The player is probably about  the same as on
their
 devices I have programmed.  BTW, none of the people I am arguing with
 have EVER done that nor even shot, edited video let alone created
video
 players (I've had to create two of those).

 The reason Netflix won't tell you *what* they are actually doing is
tech
 is VERY dynamic.  So what they did last year might be completely
redone
 this year.  They keep upgrading their technology.  They need to remain
 competitive.  And when you work for a tech company you are bound by
NDAs
 which severely limit what you can say.  So we don't exactly have
Netflix
 employees (who are probably lurking and laughing) drop in to post.

 So reverse engineering their suggestions technology might have led to
 gaffaws and grins down in Los Gatos.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Buck Just Turned 60

2014-02-07 Thread anartaxius

Happy Birthday Buck. Live long and prosper. 
 

 They they sing for the 'already enlightened' Buck, and was that true for you? 
By the way, as you are younger than I am, you can stop calling me 'son'. That 
will save you time. I give you the gift of time. The problem with that is, time 
brings change, aging and death.
 

 I read that the Romans were the first to celebrate birthdays for non-religious 
figures. The problem here is you seem to be the most religious figure on FFL. 
Do we see a celebration of Buckday sometime in the future? Christians initially 
considered celebration of birthdays a pagan ritual. 
 

 A birthday represents the conversion of being into beings, a beginning of the 
path to death and ignorance. So, aside from social feely-good stuff, it seems 
strange to me that a celebration that encapsulates the loss of wholeness would 
be considered important in a context of enlightenment, singing praises for that 
fictional entity, the ego, that warps the experience of wholeness.
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

 Buck is 60.
 

 As of a few minutes ago (8:58pn CST).
 Around the campfire they just sang for me:
 

 Happy Birthday to You,
 Happy Birthday to You,
 Happy Birthday Dear (, Dear) Buck in the Dome;
 
 
 Happy CC,
 Happy GC,
 Happy UC to You.
 
 
 Through You Heaven on Earth,
 Through You Heaven on Earth,
 Through You Heaven on Earth for All.” 
 

 The harmonies the way that us really conservative meditators sing is so 
beautifully perfect.  I was touched,
 -Buck

Re: [FairfieldLife] Congress Fails to Raise Debt Ceiling

Geez dude, the bills will get paid. But, I guarantee you that Republicans are 
going to draw attention to the spending that is going on and make people aware 
of it so that they can decide if they want to keep on going down the same road.




On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:29 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
  
  
Now, the US has about a month before cash runs out to pay for the bills 
including the tax refunds.  For most Americans, this failure is inexcusable and 
is a stupid way to run a government.

While the politicians bicker, the stock market could care less.  Investors are 
apparently getting smart to the idea that they're not going to lose money again 
over politics in the Capitol.  As of now, the DJ is slightly higher than 
yesterday.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/skating-close-edge-again-debt-011810413.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhairitu

Well, do go review (i.e., read) it and let me know what you think.
 

 I don't see anything in this post or your previous one that's relevant to the 
article I linked to, actually.
 

  I would  have to review that.  But there's a problem with speculating what 
Netflix does.  As Barry would tell you, having worked for tech companies, it is 
often not what they are actually doing.  But any programming just glancing at 
the article would as expected it would speculate that is basically data mining 
or maybe more correctly data scraping.  
 
 Netflix will post blog articles about their techniques.  And I get to argue 
with people who claim they are still using these techniques some 3 or 4 years 
after the blog article has been posted.  Worse yet I get to argue with geeks 
about Netflix encoding methods.  One ongoing argument is that my Sony BD is too 
old to use adaptive streaming.  Mostly Netflix does not have one file for 
each stream.  Instead streams are broken up into each small files for MPEG-4 
and those may be for HD as small as 1.2 MB each.  They will have several of 
thees kinds of stream files at different resolution ranging from 240p to 1080p. 
 If they detect some congestion between you and their server they will drop 
down to a lower resolution stream just to catch up.  In fact if you watch a 
movie on Netflix they often will use a 240p stream just to start for about 30 
seconds. That's because at the start of most movies is a bunch of studio and 
distributor logos so it doesn't matter.  In the meantime they're able to buffer 
up to a minute of HD while your player shows those.
 
 And that's for ONE kind of steam.  Netflix admits they may have as many as 120 
different stream packages for each show.  That's to handle the wide range of 
devices that Netflix can be viewed on.  And it gets worse than that.  The 
MPEG-4 example just makes it a little easier to understand.  But the files 
don't have to be broken up into small files on the server.  Silverlight which 
Netflix uses doesn't necessarily do that as I've played with Microsoft 
Expression which can be downloaded for free and will do up to 10 minutes of 
Silverlight encoding at different resolutions.  Those are in VC-1 format though 
the paid pro version can do MPEG-4.  Each resolution has only one file and an 
index manifest for seeking.
 
 Favored probably by the industry is the emerging HTML5 codec that Google 
offers... for free. This is Webm which has the VP8 or VP9 codec from the 
company Google bought.  Those are like Silverlight singe files for each 
resolution, video only.  The audio file is separate.  All these have a meta 
data or manifest that allows them to quickly seek the segment to send out.  
Chromecast is most likely using these for newer films.
 
 Where I get into an argument with the techies is that I have always seen 
varying resolution on my supposedly non-adaptive (DASH) supported BD player.  I 
have even told them that the Netflix app got updated at least once.  I also 
have done projects using Sony's SDKs and know how they handle MPEG-4 files.  
The player is probably about  the same as on their devices I have programmed.  
BTW, none of the people I am arguing with have EVER done that nor even shot, 
edited video let alone created video players (I've had to create two of those).
 
 The reason Netflix won't tell you what they are actually doing is tech is VERY 
dynamic.  So what they did last year might be completely redone this year.  
They keep upgrading their technology.  They need to remain competitive.  And 
when you work for a tech company you are bound by NDAs which severely limit 
what you can say.  So we don't exactly have Netflix employees (who are probably 
lurking and laughing) drop in to post.
 
 So reverse engineering their suggestions technology might have led to gaffaws 
and grins down in Los Gatos. 
 
 On 02/07/2014 10:05 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   Ooh, sorry for the link-lack.
 
 
 So what did you think of the Perry Mason phenomenon?
 
 
 They've always been a bit laughable for me because they are recommending films 
I've already seen.  What Netflix can't do if know that you've seen via other 
sources.  I rent occasionally at Redbox.  These are often films that Netflix 
won't be getting for awhile if at all.  For instance, Netflix rarely gets any 
Universal movies (though that may change now that Comcast owns Universal and 
I'll explain later).  So Universal's big films if I am interested in one at all 
I'll just rent at Redbox on Bluray.  I also rent some indie films at Redbox 
again dependent on the distributor or if it is a title I want to see right away 
rather than wait maybe a month for it to arrive on Netflix.

 
 One movie Netflix keeps recommending is Assault on Wall Street by Uwe Boll.  
Thing is it was definitely a title I was interested in having seen the trailer 
posted on conspiracy sites.  So when it hit Redbox I immediately rented it on 
release day.  I even

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread salyavin808



 Comment below

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote:

 It's wrong to assume that intelligent things must have had an intelligent 
creator. 
 We do not assume anything but we infer based on the valid means of knowledge: 
Objects that enter our consciousness experience seem already made. Some 
unconscious or subconscious process determines our conscious experiences for 
us, even though we can never become aware of it. The mystery of consciousness 
may never be explained satisfactorily, but it is obvious, to those who reflect, 
that something happens within us to make us see things the way we do. This 
something must be taken into account in explaining the nature of knowledge. 
Perhaps the most startling construction is that of consciousness itself. 
 But the brain evolved too and it didn't require assistance in the same way 
that nothing else required assistance. This is what I am talking about. The 
fact we think consciousness is amazing and can't explain it yet doesn't mean it 
isn't a natural phenomenon is the only point I'm making. In fact, it wouldn't 
make any sense for something that happens entirely in our heads to be more 
mysterious than we can account for, if it wasn't a physical construct it must 
have been hanging around for us to develop a method of using it, as there isn't 
any reason to suspect that is the case why do so many people rely on it?
 I would say it's typical superstitious thinking. Mankind does it with 
everything to the extent we could say it's a truism and maybe our most basic 
intellectual reflex. If we don't understand something we conclude it must have 
had a more sophisticated origin or method of control than a better 
understanding gives us. Everything from the weather to life itself gets the 
god moves in mysterious ways treatment. Darwin killed this thought error 
stone dead but it's still popular because people often value beliefs higher 
than knowledge. I would say that consciousness is the second most amazing thing 
in existence, after the fact there is a universe in the first place.

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  authclueless wrote:

 Well, do go review (i.e., read) it and let me know what you think.



  I don't see anything in this post or your previous one that's
relevant to the article I linked to, actually.

   I would  have to review that.  But there's a problem with
speculating what Netflix does.  As Barry would tell you, having worked
for tech companies, it is often not what they are actually doing.  But
any programming just glancing at the article would as expected it would
speculate that is basically data mining or maybe more correctly data
scraping.

  Netflix will post blog articles about their techniques.  And I get to
argue with people who claim they are still using these techniques some 3
or 4 years after the blog article has been posted.  Worse yet I get to
argue with geeks about Netflix encoding methods.  One ongoing argument
is that my Sony BD is too old to use adaptive streaming.  Mostly
Netflix does not have one file for each stream.  Instead streams are
broken up into each small files for MPEG-4 and those may be for HD as
small as 1.2 MB each.  They will have several of thees kinds of stream
files at different resolution ranging from 240p to 1080p.  If they
detect some congestion between you and their server they will drop down
to a lower resolution stream just to catch up.  In fact if you watch a
movie on Netflix they often will use a 240p stream just to start for
about 30 seconds. That's because at the start of most movies is a bunch
of studio and distributor logos so it doesn't matter.  In the meantime
they're able to buffer up to a minute of HD while your player shows
those.

  And that's for ONE kind of steam.  Netflix admits they may have as
many as 120 different stream packages for each show.  That's to handle
the wide range of devices that Netflix can be viewed on.  And it gets
worse than that.  The MPEG-4 example just makes it a little easier to
understand.  But the files don't have to be broken up into small files
on the server.  Silverlight which Netflix uses doesn't necessarily do
that as I've played with Microsoft Expression which can be downloaded
for free and will do up to 10 minutes of Silverlight encoding at
different resolutions.  Those are in VC-1 format though the paid pro
version can do MPEG-4.  Each resolution has only one file and an index
manifest for seeking.

  Favored probably by the industry is the emerging HTML5 codec that
Google offers... for free. This is Webm which has the VP8 or VP9 codec
from the company Google bought.  Those are like Silverlight singe files
for each resolution, video only.  The audio file is separate.  All these
have a meta data or manifest that allows them to quickly seek the
segment to send out.  Chromecast is most likely using these for newer
films.

  Where I get into an argument with the techies is that I have always
seen varying resolution on my supposedly non-adaptive (DASH) supported
BD player.  I have even told them that the Netflix app got updated at
least once.  I also have done projects using Sony's SDKs and know how
they handle MPEG-4 files.  The player is probably about  the same as on
their devices I have programmed.  BTW, none of the people I am arguing
with have EVER done that nor even shot, edited video let alone created
video players (I've had to create two of those).

  The reason Netflix won't tell you what they are actually doing is
tech is VERY dynamic.  So what they did last year might be completely
redone this year.  They keep upgrading their technology.  They need to
remain competitive.  And when you work for a tech company you are bound
by NDAs which severely limit what you can say.  So we don't exactly have
Netflix employees (who are probably lurking and laughing) drop in to
post.

  So reverse engineering their suggestions technology might have led to
gaffaws and grins down in Los Gatos. 

  On 02/07/2014 10:05 AM, authfriend@ mailto:authfriend@ wrote:

Ooh, sorry for the link-lack.


  So what did you think of the Perry Mason phenomenon?


  They've always been a bit laughable for me because they are
recommending films I've already seen.  What Netflix can't do if know
that you've seen via other sources.  I rent occasionally at Redbox. 
These are often films that Netflix won't be getting for awhile if at
all.  For instance, Netflix rarely gets any Universal movies (though
that may change now that Comcast owns Universal and I'll explain later).
So Universal's big films if I am interested in one at all I'll just rent
at Redbox on Bluray.  I also rent some indie films at Redbox again
dependent on the distributor or if it is a title I want to see right
away rather than wait maybe a month for it to arrive on Netflix.


  One movie Netflix keeps recommending is Assault on Wall Street by
Uwe Boll.  Thing is it was definitely a title I was interested in having
seen the trailer posted on conspiracy sites.  So when it hit Redbox I
immediately rented it on release day.  I even

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Rock Hits of the Past

[image: Inline image 1]

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible (Extended Version)
http://youtu.be/ou9zoChYBQs


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:28 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Don't know who to thank more: Robert Palmer for his effortlessly stylish
 persona or Terence Donovan for his brilliant direction of the iconic video.
 R.I.P. to both of them. And the models played their parts to perfection
 also. Addicted to Love gets a thumbs up from me.

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

So what do you think about the Netflix Perry Mason phenomenon, Barry? If you 
read the article as you claim, you know what I'm talking about.
 

 Well, do go review (i.e., read) it and let me know what you think. 
 
 


  I don't see anything in this post or your previous one that's relevant to 
  the article I linked to, actually. 
 
  I would have to review that. But there's a problem with speculating what 
 Netflix does. As Barry would tell you, having worked for tech companies, it 
 is often not what they are actually doing. But any programming just glancing 
 at the article would as expected it would speculate that is basically data 
 mining or maybe more correctly data scraping. 
 
 Netflix will post blog articles about their techniques. And I get to argue 
 with people who claim they are still using these techniques some 3 or 4 years 
 after the blog article has been posted. Worse yet I get to argue with geeks 
 about Netflix encoding methods. One ongoing argument is that my Sony BD is 
 too old to use adaptive streaming. Mostly Netflix does not have one file 
 for each stream. Instead streams are broken up into each small files for 
 MPEG-4 and those may be for HD as small as 1.2 MB each. They will have 
 several of thees kinds of stream files at different resolution ranging from 
 240p to 1080p. If they detect some congestion between you and their server 
 they will drop down to a lower resolution stream just to catch up. In fact if 
 you watch a movie on Netflix they often will use a 240p stream just to start 
 for about 30 seconds. That's because at the start of most movies is a bunch 
 of studio and distributor logos so it doesn't matter. In the meantime they're 
 able to buffer up to a minute of HD while your player shows those. 
 
 And that's for ONE kind of steam. Netflix admits they may have as many as 120 
 different stream packages for each show. That's to handle the wide range of 
 devices that Netflix can be viewed on. And it gets worse than that. The 
 MPEG-4 example just makes it a little easier to understand. But the files 
 don't have to be broken up into small files on the server. Silverlight which 
 Netflix uses doesn't necessarily do that as I've played with Microsoft 
 Expression which can be downloaded for free and will do up to 10 minutes of 
 Silverlight encoding at different resolutions. Those are in VC-1 format 
 though the paid pro version can do MPEG-4. Each resolution has only one file 
 and an index manifest for seeking. 
 
 Favored probably by the industry is the emerging HTML5 codec that Google 
 offers... for free. This is Webm which has the VP8 or VP9 codec from the 
 company Google bought. Those are like Silverlight singe files for each 
 resolution, video only. The audio file is separate. All these have a meta 
 data or manifest that allows them to quickly seek the segment to send out. 
 Chromecast is most likely using these for newer films. 
 
 Where I get into an argument with the techies is that I have always seen 
 varying resolution on my supposedly non-adaptive (DASH) supported BD player. 
 I have even told them that the Netflix app got updated at least once. I also 
 have done projects using Sony's SDKs and know how they handle MPEG-4 files. 
 The player is probably about the same as on their devices I have programmed. 
 BTW, none of the people I am arguing with have EVER done that nor even shot, 
 edited video let alone created video players (I've had to create two of 
 those). 
 
 The reason Netflix won't tell you what they are actually doing is tech is 
 VERY dynamic. So what they did last year might be completely redone this 
 year. They keep upgrading their technology. They need to remain competitive. 
 And when you work for a tech company you are bound by NDAs which severely 
 limit what you can say. So we don't exactly have Netflix employees (who are 
 probably lurking and laughing) drop in to post. 
 
 So reverse engineering their suggestions technology might have led to gaffaws 
 and grins down in Los Gatos.  
 
 On 02/07/2014 10:05 AM, authfriend@ mailto:authfriend@ wrote: 
 
 Ooh, sorry for the link-lack. 
 
 
 So what did you think of the Perry Mason phenomenon? 
 
 
 They've always been a bit laughable for me because they are recommending 
 films I've already seen. What Netflix can't do if know that you've seen via 
 other sources. I rent occasionally at Redbox. These are often films that 
 Netflix won't be getting for awhile if at all. For instance, Netflix rarely 
 gets any Universal movies (though that may change now that Comcast owns 
 Universal and I'll explain later). So Universal's big films if I am 
 interested in one at all I'll just rent at Redbox on Bluray. I also rent some 
 indie films at Redbox again dependent on the distributor or if it is a title 
 I want to see right away rather than wait maybe a month for it to arrive on 
 Netflix. 
 
 
 One movie Netflix keeps recommending is Assault on Wall Street by Uwe Boll. 
 Thing is it

[FairfieldLife] End the Ban on Psychoactive Drug Research

No, it's not one of those crank articles from them godless liberals and
hippies and anti-TMers, it's from the editors of Scientific American:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/end-the-ban-on-psychoactive-dr\
ug-research/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/end-the-ban-on-psychoactive-d\
rug-research/

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Now, wait.  This sort of sounds like a set up.  I say this because you have 
always been a proponent of the these (supposed) states of consciousness are 
all subjective and can't be proven.  So, why would such a declaration be 
important to you?
 

 I mean, it seems to me, you could immediately jump to the other side, and 
declare how useless it is to make such a declaration.
 

 What am I missing? 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING 
-- meaning Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One. The only reason it works is that people who bought into 
it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that they keep 
perpetuating their belief, and thus the whole stack of cards. 

If I'm wrong about this, please show me one -- count them, one -- press 
statement or announcement from the TMO saying, This (insert photo and name of 
shill here) is a fully enlightened being, and he got that way by practicing the 
TM and/or TM-Sidhi programs. 

It's never happened, and it never will. The same way that they'll never 
achieve the numbers to prove the ME. For the believers, it's the eternal 
carrot on a string, pursued by the faithful, who are more committed to the 
will to believe than the wish to find out. For the onlookers, there's not 
even a carrot. It's the promise of a carrot, and from their point of view the 
True Believers are furiously chasing a stick with a string tied to it, and 
nothing at the end of the string.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote:

 It wouldn't surprise me, they were pretty good at manipulating the facts to 
 suit the moment. I remember a Reuters article which was taken up by the BBC 
 on how the raam should be avoided by investors as it is a totally unsupported 
 currency and only accepted in exchange for lentils at TM centres. 
 
 The press officer edited the Reuters release so it looked like the financial 
 world was hailing the raam as the greatest thing ever and put the story in 
 the UK's TM News magazine. I was shocked at how easily peoples quotes were 
 manipulated and told him that the BBC would sue us out of existence if they 
 found out but only a few people read it anyway so it doesn't really matter. I 
 stopped believing TMO quotes by supposedly disinterested third parties. 
 
 The whole redevelopment thing was rubbish anyway, printing money to give 
 people doesn't work as it has to be exchanged for something real at some 
 point. 
 
 I did have a 10 raam note though but the wife threw it away because she 
 thought it wasn't real money! 
 
 I stopped believing TMO quotes by supposedly disinterested third parties 
 after that. I had a list of quotes by scientists in my office that I was to 
 use on press releases to give them a bit of weight. Would love to have that 
 list and recheck it and the original sources. 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@ wrote: 
 
 I seem to recall that when Marshy and Company first rolled out the raam and 
 they were trying to get people to buy it, some minister of the global 
 whatever claimed that they had a bunch of gold to back it up, and when they 
 were questioned on that they admitted that was not so, but then claimed India 
 was backing the raam with its gold which turned out not to be true either. 
 
 Am I remembering correctly, or was that an opium dream I had?

Re: [FairfieldLife] All the Illumined

On 2/7/2014 10:47 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 Doesn't that give you a clue Buck? The fact that these BATGAP folk no 
 longer do TM and do other things? If its the fabulous thing you claim, 
 why would they not be still in the Domes with you?
 
Maybe the TM basic technique was to complicated for them, or maybe they 
didn't learn TM correctly in the first place. Any technique which 
provides the ideal opportunity for transcending could be called TM.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buck Just Turned 60


On 2/7/2014 1:41 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/remember this sage advice when trying to navigate this vast 
wasteland of egos trying to win. Every time they fail to do so, they 
lose. /*


So, Buck's birthday is all about winning, so you can win? So, it's all 
about Judy. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nabnuts1008  wrote:

 His mission in life is that even if one - 1 - person stops TM because
of his neverending smearcampaign against the only Yogi he ever met
(however briefly) - then he will feel successful.

All that Barry did is make three posts this morning expressing his
OPINION. He didn't write them to -- or about -- anyone in particular
here, he just wrote what was on his mind. Above all, he didn't even
*mention* any of the five people who have gone batshit crazy over these
posts, getting their buttons pushed and making 15 posts in response to
something that was never about them in the first place. Somebody must
feel threatened. Go figure.

Hey, doofus, nobody was talking to you. End of story.
- Judy Stein, 13 October 2013

:-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam

I found it in the Global Good News Archives - the TMO did officially claim the 
raam was gold backed at one point. 

On Fri, 2/7/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 5:52 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
 The TMO could
 only wish that they had
   thought up Bitcoin.  And I kick myself for ignoring
 it.  
 
   
 
   On 02/07/2014 06:25 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 
 
   
   
   
 On 2/7/2014 1:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
 
   
 
I did have a 10 raam note though but the
 wife threw
   it away because 
 
she thought it wasn't real money!
 
   
 
   So, you're not in favor of alternate
 payment systems like
   Bitcoin's 
 
   cryptocurrency? Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Popular Music Greats

Chris Issaks

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Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
http://youtu.be/aHSYXt1iEpE

Wicked Game

In 1999, Isaak's Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing was featured in Stanley
Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. The song is on his 1995 Forever Blue
album. The music video for the song is directed by Herb Ritts, it was shot
in color and featured Isaak and French supermodel Laetitia Casta in a motel
room.

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Isaak


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 Freddy Fender

 [image: Inline image 1]

 Freddy Fender and The Texas Tornados on Austin City Limits

 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
 http://youtu.be/-Qu8RPvhP-U

 Before the Next Teardrop Falls
 http://youtu.be/9MwB5j5lnbY

 Hey Baby Que Paso? - Texas Tornados Live at Gruene Hall, 1992
 http://youtu.be/4tXhAYl173U

 The Texas Tornados:

 Freddy Fender - Vocals, guitar
 Doug Sahm - vocals, guitar, organ, piano
 Augie Meyers - Vocals, organ, piano
 Flaco Jimenez - vocals, accordion
 Speedy Sparks- bass

 Freddy Fender was born in San Benito, Texas, USA and was a
 Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his
 work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas
 Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hits Before the Next Teardrop
 Falls and the subsequent remake of his own Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Fender

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Interesting Take on Addiction



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:

 The brain produces endorphins - endogenous morphine - naturally. I've 
wondered if some peoples' brains produce less of the goodies than others' which 
would make those deficient in endorphins more likely to succumb to opiate 
addiction. Never seen any discussion on the topic.
 

 I have read something related to this. It involves overeaters or those who 
require more of something to get the same kind of satisfaction as someone who 
only imbibes smaller amounts of the same thing (food, alcohol, etc). Scientists 
have determined that the over-imbibers/eaters are those with a lack of chemical 
in the brain responsible for registering pleasure and so one piece of chocolate 
cake might fulfill one person (with the proper amount of this chemical), it 
would take half a cake for the one lacking this sensory feedback mechanism to 
register the same reward/benefit of the former. Not having looked further into 
this at this point, I can not tell you which chemical or chemicals were 
responsible for this but I am sure endorphins are part of the equation.
 

 But, that said, I don't think I'm buying the author's thesis: This means that 
alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, suicide attempts, phobias, adhd, 
anxiety and depression, et al are all disorders of the brain and as such need 
the treatment of a medical doctor first. 
 There's been a huge rise in rates of all these addictions and disorders over 
the past decades so  I think the primary cause is the sense of alienation of 
modern humans. We're estranged from nature, the clan and the community; until 
we realign our relationships with each other no other treatment is going to be 
more than a temporary fix.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam



 It is good for me to remember that Bawwy neither edits, re-reads or evaluates 
his posts - he has said so. This could partly explain why we get this 
regurgitated pablum at frequent intervals. It is all about domination, 
actually. He's the guy in the big Cadillac swerving across two lanes of traffic 
without looking, you know the one.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Barry's memory has always been poor, and he's always recycled his posts, but 
really, the repetition has been getting worse and worse recently.
 

 There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING 
-- meaning Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One...[blah blah blah blahdeblah]
 

 And who exactly are you preaching to here, Bawwy? What do you think you have 
written here, for the umpteenth time, that the choir doesn't already know? 
What have you written that you haven't said, in one form or another, a 
gazillion times? Who, in particular, are you trying to offend now, the eminent 
scholars (we know you love the idea of celebrity and fame surrounding your 
sorry ass)? If I'm gonna take the time to read some of your dreck here then do 
try and say something new, won't you, pretty please? BTW, I haven't had any 
dreams of you lately, what gives?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Barry's memory has always been poor, and he's always recycled his posts, but 
really, the repetition has been getting worse and worse recently.
 

 There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING 
-- meaning Maharishi's teaching and the promise of enlightenment -- has been 
a con since Day One...[blah blah blah blahdeblah]
 

 And who exactly are you preaching to here, Bawwy? What do you think you have 
written here, for the umpteenth time, that the choir doesn't already know? 
What have you written that you haven't said, in one form or another, a 
gazillion times? Who, in particular, are you trying to offend now, the eminent 
scholars (we know you love the idea of celebrity and fame surrounding your 
sorry ass)? If I'm gonna take the time to read some of your dreck here then do 
try and say something new, won't you, pretty please? BTW, I haven't had any 
dreams of you lately, what gives?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Now, wait.  This sort of sounds like a set up.  I say this because you
have always been a proponent of the these (supposed) states of
consciousness are all subjective and can't be proven.  So, why would
such a declaration be important to you?

It wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd think it might
be important to Maharishi (who sold this supposed state of consciousness
for close to 50 years) to be able to point to even one of his students
who embodied it. After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think
that the sales pitch was a pile of crap.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

And if he did, people like Barry would be quick to point out that it didn't 
mean a thing and was just part of the scam, as Stevie says  (And heaven help 
the poor person who was said to embody enlightenment.)
 

 Barry's smart enough to know what a joke his demand is, but he thinks we're 
too stupid to realize it..
 

  Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say this because you have 
  always been a proponent of the these (supposed) states of consciousness are 
  all subjective and can't be proven. So, why would such a declaration be 
  important to you?
 

 It wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd think it might be 
important to Maharishi (who sold this supposed state of consciousness for close 
to 50 years) to be able to point to even one of his students who embodied it. 
After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think that the sales pitch was a 
pile of crap.

[FairfieldLife] Review: Lust For Love

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 
  That said I would expect you to be on top of this one. ;-)
 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57618549-93/kickstarter-funded-film-reu\
nites-joss-whedons-dollhouse-cast/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57618549-93/kickstarter-funded-film-re\
unites-joss-whedons-dollhouse-cast/

 You would be correct, actually. :-) I have a 1080p full HD version of
it
 ready to watch tonight after dinner. I first heard about it on
 whedonesque.com.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/dollhouse-alums-talk-life-in-the\
-whedonverse-or-whedonverse
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/dollhouse-alums-talk-life-in-th\
e-whedonverse-or-whedonverse

It turned out to be pretty charming. It's a Rom-Com, so it's supposed to
be light and fluffy and aimed at a 20-year-old audience, and it does a
pretty good job of doing that. Especially for an Indie film made with
money from Kickstarter.

And of course it was great for me to see all the old gang from
Dollhouse back together again, in completely different characters.
Fran Kranz was tremendous as basically the sweetest nebbish in the
world, but who wowed me a bit was Dichen Lachman as his friend who is
trying to coach him in how to meet girls. She displayed some chops I
might not have suspected she had based on her performances in
Dollhouse. She also produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4OEU5WRsio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4OEU5WRsio

[FairfieldLife] Canada's comment on the Olympic Games in Sochi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effb2JYiKXM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effb2JYiKXM

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Speaking for myself, I never felt I was guaranteed enlightenment.  Yea, I know 
all about cc in 5 - 7 years, but I never put much stock in that,nor did I know 
others who did.  
 

 Perhaps that was the extent of the misrepresentation, it you're looking for a 
smoking gun, at least as far as the gaining enlightenment part.
 

 Otherwise, I think people got involved either for a vision of possibilities, 
or because because they were looking for something, and this seemed to offer 
some potential.
 

 But as for declaring such and such a person as enlightened, that would 
appear to be pretty out of place in any tradition I'm familiar with. 
 

 Spiritual growth is a pretty personal matter, not something you're likely to 
crow about.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 
 Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say this because you have 
 always been a proponent of the these (supposed) states of consciousness are 
 all subjective and can't be proven. So, why would such a declaration be 
 important to you? 

 It wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd think it might be 
important to Maharishi (who sold this supposed state of consciousness for close 
to 50 years) to be able to point to even one of his students who embodied it. 
After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think that the sales pitch was a 
pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Congress Fails to Raise Debt Ceiling

2014-02-07 Thread jr_esq

Mike,
 

 If you notice the news lately, Boehner is speaking with a forked tongue.  A 
few weeks ago, he was saying the debt limit will not be an issue.  And as of 
today, we have a debt limit problem.  Last October, most Americans thought that 
shutting the government down was a terrible political idea.  And, guess what?  
We're in the same situation now.
 

 WTF is going on over there at the Capitol?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Just a follow up.  So, since this declaration would not mean anything to you, I 
assume you are raising the issue for the benefit of others?   

 And yet as soon as the declaration was made, you would declare it as being 
invalid on account that it is referring to an entirely subjective, unverifiable 
state of awareness? 
 

 To me, there seems something out of kilter with this picture.
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 
 Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say this because you have 
 always been a proponent of the these (supposed) states of consciousness are 
 all subjective and can't be proven. So, why would such a declaration be 
 important to you? 

 It wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd think it might be 
important to Maharishi (who sold this supposed state of consciousness for close 
to 50 years) to be able to point to even one of his students who embodied it. 
After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think that the sales pitch was a 
pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam


On 2/7/2014 4:40 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:


And yet as soon as the declaration was made, you would declare it as 
being invalid on account that it is referring to an entirely 
subjective, unverifiable state of awareness?


What's out of kilter is the  TirquoiseB's claim to being an eyewitness 
to a Rama levitation event, and then declaring that the levitation 
wasn't an enlightenment event. If anyone else were to witness such an 
event they would not only be enlightened the spot, they would proclaim 
the Rama guy to be God. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam


On 2/7/2014 4:26 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:

I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years


Actually, in over ten years of being a reader on Yahoo Groups and Google 
Grpups, I've never seen any proof that the TMO or MMY ever promised 
anyone enlightenment in 5-7 years. This is a meme that's been posted on 
the internet for at least fifteen years without any proof. Maybe Barry 
got this phrase mixed up with the World Plan of five years. Go figure.


But, I seriously doubt that MMY ever said such a thing - it's not in any 
MMY book, tape, video, or printed quote that I know of. This was never a 
promise Jerry Jarvis ever made, fer sure and it's not in any TM intro 
lecture that I ever heard. I've got a stack of SIMS literature and 
nowhere does it promise anyone enlightenment.


First of all, it would be non-sensical to promise enlightenment to 
anyone - there were already people who had been TM meditating for over 
five years when the SRM was founded in the USA. And, second according to 
MMY, TM is NOT the cause of enlightenment - it simply provides the ideal 
opportunity for transcending. You are only going to get as much 
enlightenment as you are going to get.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy


On 2/7/2014 1:50 PM, salyavin808 wrote:

I would say it's typical superstitious thinking.


In Hindu Advaita and Yogacara Buddhism you have an idealism which 
asserts that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally 
mental, mentally constructed, knowledge structured in consciousness - 
for the TMers the basis of existence is intelligence and the perceptions 
are immaterial. It is very challenging for anyone to try and refute the 
idealistic POV of Kant where idealism manifests as a skepticism about 
the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing.


Also, you should realize that the earliest extant arguments for the 
world being a mental construct is from South Asia and Greece. According 
to Ludwig, Hindu idealists like Shankara in India and the Greek gave 
good and logical arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the 
ground or true nature of reality.a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

M said Robin Carlsen and Andy Rhymer were enlightened.

On Fri, 2/7/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:26 PM

   Speaking
 for myself, I never felt I was guaranteed enlightenment.
  Yea, I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years, but I never
 put much stock in that,nor did I know others who did.

 Perhaps that was the extent
 of the misrepresentation, it you're looking for a
 smoking gun, at least as far as the
 gaining enlightenment part.
 Otherwise, I think people
 got involved either for a vision of possibilities, or
 because because they were looking for something,
 and this seemed to offer some potential.
 But as for declaring such
 and such a person as enlightened, that would
 appear to be pretty out of place in any tradition I'm
 familiar with. 
 Spiritual growth is a pretty
 personal matter, not something you're likely to crow
 about.

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@...
 wrote:

 --- In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

  Now, wait.  This sort of sounds like a set up.  I say
 this because you have always been a proponent of the
 these (supposed) states of consciousness are all
 subjective and can't be proven.  So, why would
 such a declaration be important to you?

  It
 wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd
 think it might be important to Maharishi (who sold this
 supposed state of consciousness for close to 50 years) to be
 able to point to even one of his students who embodied it.
 After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think
 that the sales pitch was a pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Don't know about Rhymer, but Maharishi didn't make any public announcements 
about Robin's enlightenment. It was to an audience of CPs on (I think) an ATR, 
a comment he made about Robin's own account of what had happened to him a few 
days previously that everyone present, including Robin, took to be Maharishi's 
endorsement of his enlightenment. (Plus which, about seven years later 
Maharishi denied it when Robin forced him to make a recorded deposition in 
Robin's lawsuit against MIU.)
 

  M said Robin Carlsen and Andy Rhymer were enlightened. 

 
 On Fri, 2/7/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... 
mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:26 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Speaking
 for myself, I never felt I was guaranteed enlightenment.
  Yea, I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years, but I never
 put much stock in that,nor did I know others who did.
  
 Perhaps that was the extent
 of the misrepresentation, it you're looking for a
 smoking gun, at least as far as the
 gaining enlightenment part.
 Otherwise, I think people
 got involved either for a vision of possibilities, or
 because because they were looking for something,
 and this seemed to offer some potential.
 But as for declaring such
 and such a person as enlightened, that would
 appear to be pretty out of place in any tradition I'm
 familiar with. 
 Spiritual growth is a pretty
 personal matter, not something you're likely to crow
 about.
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
turquoiseb@...
 wrote:
 
 --- In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 
  Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say
 this because you have always been a proponent of the
 these (supposed) states of consciousness are all
 subjective and can't be proven. So, why would
 such a declaration be important to you?
 
 
 It
 wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd
 think it might be important to Maharishi (who sold this
 supposed state of consciousness for close to 50 years) to be
 able to point to even one of his students who embodied it.
 After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think
 that the sales pitch was a pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5

That is good but too long now to be a bumpersticker:  
 

 Knowledge is Structured in Consciousness - For TM'ers the basis of existence 
is intelligence and the perceptions are immaterial.
 

 

 

 On 2/7/2014 1:50 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
 I would say it's typical superstitious thinking.punditster writes:
 In Hindu Advaita and Yogacara Buddhism you have an idealism which asserts that 
reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally 
constructed, knowledge structured in consciousness - for the TMers the basis of 
existence is intelligence and the perceptions are immaterial. It is very 
challenging for anyone to try and refute the idealistic POV of Kant where 
idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any 
mind-independent thing. 
 
 Also, you should realize that the earliest extant arguments for the world 
being a mental construct is from South Asia and Greece. According to Ludwig, 
Hindu idealists like Shankara in India and the Greek gave good and logical 
arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of 
reality.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Hey Mike,
 

 Since I know you like this kind of thing, I'll relate a few stories from the 
time I was on the first six month course along with Andy Rhymer, Rick Archer 
and others.  In fact, Andy was in my small group, along with some 108's.  It 
was our responsbility to correspond on Maharishi's behalf with some the other 
teacher's and 108's who were stationed around the world.  I remember getting 
letters from, I believe, Michael Brule, was teaching in Iran and was getting 
harassed by the Shaw's secret service.  I believe it was called the Savak, 
(yes, just checked it, and that is correct).  In fact, I think he was even 
imprisoned for a time.  He was feeling pretty discouraged.
 

 At any rate, I remember Andy describing his experience of doing Puja, and 
describing wave after wave of bliss.  I also remember him describing to 
Maharishi some past life experiences, and saying each previous incarnation was 
displayed as a sort of statue park, during an experience he had.
 

 Probably the best moment was when Andy was talking directly to Maharishi, who 
was there in the room, as he often was, and telling Maharishi that the most 
important part of enlightenment was devotion to the Master.  Maharishi said it 
was the most natural, and Andy kept insisting that it was the most 
important. There was a sweet back and forth that when on for a while like 
that.  
 

 As to Andy being, or becoming an alleged pedophile, don't have an answer for 
that.  Edg is on record here saying that he'd remove the alleged part.
 

 If that is a disqualification for being enlightened, I really can't say.  I'm 
not familiar with all the ins and outs of it. But it does seem that many who 
may have done some heavy lifting to get that point, (of enlightenment) will 
sometimes take a funny detour.
 

 As for Robin, yes I found him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had 
classic NPS, I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much of the 
time.  But then again, it doesn't register with me much if a person is said to 
be enlightened or not.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote:

 M said Robin Carlsen and Andy Rhymer were enlightened.
 
 On Fri, 2/7/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... 
mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:26 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Speaking
 for myself, I never felt I was guaranteed enlightenment.
  Yea, I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years, but I never
 put much stock in that,nor did I know others who did.
  
 Perhaps that was the extent
 of the misrepresentation, it you're looking for a
 smoking gun, at least as far as the
 gaining enlightenment part.
 Otherwise, I think people
 got involved either for a vision of possibilities, or
 because because they were looking for something,
 and this seemed to offer some potential.
 But as for declaring such
 and such a person as enlightened, that would
 appear to be pretty out of place in any tradition I'm
 familiar with. 
 Spiritual growth is a pretty
 personal matter, not something you're likely to crow
 about.
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
turquoiseb@...
 wrote:
 
 --- In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 
  Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say
 this because you have always been a proponent of the
 these (supposed) states of consciousness are all
 subjective and can't be proven. So, why would
 such a declaration be important to you?
 
 
 It
 wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd
 think it might be important to Maharishi (who sold this
 supposed state of consciousness for close to 50 years) to be
 able to point to even one of his students who embodied it.
 After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think
 that the sales pitch was a pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Congress Fails to Raise Debt Ceiling

Jr. You want Obama and the Democrats to have a zero limit credit card? Spend 
whatever they want so everybody else can pay for it later? At least Republicans 
are trying to tell you something, whether you're listening or not. When the 
bill comes due, Republicans are going to tell you that they tried to warn you.



On Friday, February 7, 2014 2:34 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
  
  
Mike,

If you notice the news lately, Boehner is speaking with a forked tongue.  A few 
weeks ago, he was saying the debt limit will not be an issue.  And as of today, 
we have a debt limit problem.  Last October, most Americans thought that 
shutting the government down was a terrible political idea.  And, guess what?  
We're in the same situation now.

WTF is going on over there at the Capitol?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

2014-02-07 Thread yifuxero

Thanks for the clarification.  
 Two points:  (1) are they or anybody actually Enlightened?  (or people like 
Sathya Sai Baba, Muktananda, Osho,...etc); and (2)  What is the significance of 
this attainment when coupled with moral turpitude or disturning behavior.
 ...
 Another question when comparing such persons to traditional Christian 
Saints:  does it not seem there's a big difference between the persons 
mentioned (and others); and some of the so-called Saints in terms of (a) moral 
behavior and (b) demonstration of Sidhis such as levitation and healing.  But I 
hasten to add that demon-possessed persons have been seen to levitate.
 ...
 My conclusion: one must examine a variety of factors, all together; before 
coming to an overall conclusion - lest we become a devotee of somebody like Dr. 
Lenz simply because he can levitate.
 ...
 Besides, in any such discussion, people seem to be premised on a prior but 
questionable conclusion: that MMY is an authority on the subject, especially 
when it comes to others and the question of morality.
 .
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Don't know about Rhymer, but Maharishi didn't make any public announcements 
about Robin's enlightenment. It was to an audience of CPs on (I think) an ATR, 
a comment he made about Robin's own account of what had happened to him a few 
days previously that everyone present, including Robin, took to be Maharishi's 
endorsement of his enlightenment. (Plus which, about seven years later 
Maharishi denied it when Robin forced him to make a recorded deposition in 
Robin's lawsuit against MIU.)
 

  M said Robin Carlsen and Andy Rhymer were enlightened. 

 
 On Fri, 2/7/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... 
mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:26 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Speaking
 for myself, I never felt I was guaranteed enlightenment.
  Yea, I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years, but I never
 put much stock in that,nor did I know others who did.
  
 Perhaps that was the extent
 of the misrepresentation, it you're looking for a
 smoking gun, at least as far as the
 gaining enlightenment part.
 Otherwise, I think people
 got involved either for a vision of possibilities, or
 because because they were looking for something,
 and this seemed to offer some potential.
 But as for declaring such
 and such a person as enlightened, that would
 appear to be pretty out of place in any tradition I'm
 familiar with. 
 Spiritual growth is a pretty
 personal matter, not something you're likely to crow
 about.
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
turquoiseb@...
 wrote:
 
 --- In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 
  Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say
 this because you have always been a proponent of the
 these (supposed) states of consciousness are all
 subjective and can't be proven. So, why would
 such a declaration be important to you?
 
 
 It
 wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But you'd
 think it might be important to Maharishi (who sold this
 supposed state of consciousness for close to 50 years) to be
 able to point to even one of his students who embodied it.
 After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think
 that the sales pitch was a pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Thank you for sharing those stories - so what kind of experiences did you have 
on that 1st 6 month course? And did you get the sutra for understanding the 
language of animals? That's the one I always wanted.

On Sat, 2/8/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014,

   Hey
 Mike,
 Since I know you like this
 kind of thing, I'll relate a few stories from the time I
 was on the first six month course along with Andy Rhymer,
 Rick Archer and others.  In fact, Andy was in my small
 group, along with some 108's.  It was
 our responsbility to correspond on Maharishi's behalf
 with some the other teacher's and 108's who were
 stationed around the world.  I remember getting letters
 from, I believe, Michael Brule, was teaching in Iran and was
 getting harassed by the Shaw's secret service.  I
 believe it was called the Savak, (yes, just checked it, and
 that is correct).  In fact, I think he was even
 imprisoned for a time.  He was feeling pretty
 discouraged.
 At any rate, I remember Andy
 describing his experience of doing Puja, and describing wave
 after wave of bliss.  I also remember him describing to
 Maharishi some past life experiences, and saying each
 previous incarnation was displayed as a sort of statue park,
 during an experience he had.
 Probably the best moment was
 when Andy was talking directly to Maharishi, who was there
 in the room, as he often was, and telling Maharishi that the
 most important part of enlightenment was devotion to the
 Master.  Maharishi said it was the most
 natural, and Andy kept insisting that it was the
 most important. There was a sweet back and forth
 that when on for a while like that.  
 As to Andy being, or
 becoming an alleged pedophile, don't have an answer for
 that.  Edg is on record here saying that he'd
 remove the alleged part.
 If that is a
 disqualification for being enlightened, I really can't
 say.  I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs of
 it. But it does seem that many who may have done some heavy
 lifting to get that point, (of enlightenment) will sometimes
 take a funny detour.
 As for Robin, yes I found
 him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had classic NPS,
 I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much
 of the time.  But then again, it doesn't register
 with me much if a person is said to be enlightened or
 not.

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@...
 wrote:

 M said Robin
 Carlsen and Andy Rhymer were enlightened.

  On Fri, 2/7/14, steve.sundur@...
 steve.sundur@...
 wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

 Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:26 PM

 Speaking

 for myself, I never felt I was guaranteed enlightenment.

  Yea, I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years, but I never

 put much stock in that,nor did I know others who did.

 Perhaps that was the extent

 of the misrepresentation, it you're looking for a

 smoking gun, at least as far as the

 gaining enlightenment part.

 Otherwise, I think people

 got involved either for a vision of possibilities, or

 because because they were looking for
 something,

 and this seemed to offer some potential.

 But as for declaring such

 and such a person as enlightened, that would

 appear to be pretty out of place in any tradition I'm

 familiar with. 

 Spiritual growth is a pretty

 personal matter, not something you're likely to crow

 about.

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 turquoiseb@...

 wrote:

 --- In

 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
  wrote:

  Now, wait.  This sort of sounds like a set up.  I say

 this because you have always been a proponent of the

 these (supposed) states of consciousness are all

 subjective and can't be proven.  So, why would

 such a declaration be important to you?

 It

 wouldn't be the least bit important to me. But
 you'd

 think it might be important to Maharishi (who sold this

 supposed state of consciousness for close to 50 years) to
 be

 able to point to even one of his students who embodied it.

 After all, if he didn't, people might begin to think

 that the sales pitch was a pile of crap.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

2014-02-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5

“TM is NOT the cause of enlightenment - it simply provides the ideal 
opportunity for transcending. You are only going to get as much enlightenment 
as you are going to get.” 
 
 
 Only as much as you are going to get. Nay, now don't take that wrong. But if 
at first you do not succeed in that illumination, then certainly try and try 
again. Enlightenment is something you can cultivate the grace of and that is 
something that some may have to do even with some discipline too. Certainly the 
effective method is in transcending meditation where you can more easily be all 
that you can and should Be, and join then also in the army of field effect 
meditators meditating in group. Certainly always take up quiet time to meditate 
for yourSelf and for others. The science is very clear on this now as so is 
scriptural experience of others before you. Do it regularly. Take the time. 
Even the enlightened then continue to meditate as much for others as for 
themselves in that state of Being. It is a great blessing. Make haste. 
 
 
 The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is
significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up
in small things, and then it will be yours. 
 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 
 
 
 Don't kid your Self 
 Yours is a universal Being also.
 Sit up, don't sit back in life.
 Make spiritual haste while you
 got life.
 
 -Buck in the Dome
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 On 2/7/2014 4:26 PM, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:

 I know all about cc in 5 - 7 years 
 Actually, in over ten years of being a reader on Yahoo Groups and Google 
Grpups, I've never seen any proof that the TMO or MMY ever promised anyone 
enlightenment in 5-7 years. This is a meme that's been posted on the internet 
for at least fifteen years without any proof. Maybe Barry got this phrase mixed 
up with the World Plan of five years. Go figure.
 
 But, I seriously doubt that MMY ever said such a thing - it's not in any MMY 
book, tape, video, or printed quote that I know of. This was never a promise 
Jerry Jarvis ever made, fer sure and it's not in any TM intro lecture that I 
ever heard. I've got a stack of SIMS literature and nowhere does it promise 
anyone enlightenment.
 
 First of all, it would be non-sensical to promise enlightenment to anyone - 
there were already people who had been TM meditating for over five years when 
the SRM was founded in the USA. And, second according to MMY, TM is NOT the 
cause of enlightenment - it simply provides the ideal opportunity for 
transcending. You are only going to get as much enlightenment as you are going 
to get.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

I was never one for flashy experiences. The hi-light of the course, was, of 
course, all the face time with Maharishi.
 

 There was all kinds of experimentation going on with diet, and enemas, even to 
the point where we had blood withdrawn, for some sort of testing.  
 

 Also, it was during that time that I developed quite a love, yes love, I will 
say for the Upanishads.  We would read those for hours at a time.  I don't 
recall if it was that period, or a different period when I was actually able to 
sit in a full lotus for at least a half hour period of meditation, sometimes 
with my hands in the mudra pose.  I noticed that that had a profound influence 
on purifying my physiology.  Now, I don't like to use buzz words like that, but 
that is the best way I can describe it.  I remember reading later, that the 
full lotus helps to purify, or have a positive effect on the nerves in your 
body.
 

 I did have one flashy experience which I related here before, I believe.  I 
had worked myself into such a devotional frenzy towards Maharishi, that I 
actually had the sensation of my heart melting.  Yes, I suppose it was some 
effect of the heart chakra, but it was the most exquisite feeling, and it felt 
like.. your heart melted.  
 

 Another funny moment, I may have shared here before.  This six months course 
was the worst, the very worst time for householders in the movement.  We were 
getting all this face time with Maharishi, and the householders were feeling 
very bereft.
 

 Well, one afternoon, John Konhaus, (who was, and still is, I believe, married 
to Sarah Konhaus) has us all convene for a meeting, and declared in a very 
strong voice, Maharishi was VERY embarrassed today  He said that that a hotel 
owner in a different town called the hotel owner in the hotel we were staying 
in, for a recommendation, and asked what kind of guest we were.  Evidently the 
hotel owner said that the guests in this, (our hotel), were like pigs.  Oh, 
we got a big kick out of that.
 

 Good times. Good times.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote:

 Thank you for sharing those stories - so what kind of experiences did you have 
on that 1st 6 month course? And did you get the sutra for understanding the 
language of animals? That's the one I always wanted.
 
 On Sat, 2/8/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... 
mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014,
 
 Hey
 Mike,
 Since I know you like this
 kind of thing, I'll relate a few stories from the time I
 was on the first six month course along with Andy Rhymer,
 Rick Archer and others.  In fact, Andy was in my small
 group, along with some 108's.  It was
 our responsbility to correspond on Maharishi's behalf
 with some the other teacher's and 108's who were
 stationed around the world.  I remember getting letters
 from, I believe, Michael Brule, was teaching in Iran and was
 getting harassed by the Shaw's secret service.  I
 believe it was called the Savak, (yes, just checked it, and
 that is correct).  In fact, I think he was even
 imprisoned for a time.  He was feeling pretty
 discouraged.
 At any rate, I remember Andy
 describing his experience of doing Puja, and describing wave
 after wave of bliss.  I also remember him describing to
 Maharishi some past life experiences, and saying each
 previous incarnation was displayed as a sort of statue park,
 during an experience he had.
 Probably the best moment was
 when Andy was talking directly to Maharishi, who was there
 in the room, as he often was, and telling Maharishi that the
 most important part of enlightenment was devotion to the
 Master.  Maharishi said it was the most
 natural, and Andy kept insisting that it was the
 most important. There was a sweet back and forth
 that when on for a while like that.  
 As to Andy being, or
 becoming an alleged pedophile, don't have an answer for
 that.  Edg is on record here saying that he'd
 remove the alleged part.
 If that is a
 disqualification for being enlightened, I really can't
 say.  I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs of
 it. But it does seem that many who may have done some heavy
 lifting to get that point, (of enlightenment) will sometimes
 take a funny detour.
 As for Robin, yes I found
 him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had classic NPS,
 I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much
 of the time.  But then again, it doesn't register
 with me much if a person is said to be enlightened or
 not.
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mjackson74@...
 wrote:
 
 M said Robin
 Carlsen and Andy Rhymer were enlightened.
 
 
 On Fri, 2/7/14, steve.sundur@...
 steve.sundur@...
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

2014-02-07 Thread yifuxero

Thanks, Buck.  On the whole purpose of life is En; this is questionable.
 ,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

What's NPS, and how were you in a position to think Robin had it, whatever it 
is?
 
  As for Robin, yes I found him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had 
classic NPS, I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much of the 
time.  But then again, it doesn't register with me much if a person is said to 
be enlightened or not.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

Oh, and of course you were never around Robin during his enlightened days 
anyway.
 

  What's NPS, and how were you in a position to think Robin had it, 
whatever it is?
 
  As for Robin, yes I found him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had 
classic NPS, I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much of the 
time.  But then again, it doesn't register with me much if a person is said to 
be enlightened or not.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

I confess I don't understand that at all - were there only men on that first 
course? How come the householders weren't there and what kind of piggy things 
were you guys doing?

On Sat, 2/8/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014, 1:13 AM

   I was
 never one for flashy experiences. The hi-light of the
 course, was, of course, all the face time with
 Maharishi.
 There was all kinds of
 experimentation going on with diet, and enemas, even to the
 point where we had blood withdrawn, for some sort of
 testing.  
 Also, it was during that
 time that I developed quite a love, yes love, I will say for
 the Upanishads.  We would read those for hours at a
 time.  I don't recall if it was that period, or a
 different period when I was actually able to sit in a full
 lotus for at least a half hour period of meditation,
 sometimes with my hands in the mudra pose.  I noticed
 that that had a profound influence on purifying my
 physiology.  Now, I don't like to use buzz words
 like that, but that is the best way I can describe it.
  I remember reading later, that the full lotus helps to
 purify, or have a positive effect on the nerves in your
 body.
 I did have one flashy
 experience which I related here before, I believe.  I
 had worked myself into such a devotional frenzy towards
 Maharishi, that I actually had the sensation of my heart
 melting.  Yes, I suppose it was some effect of the
 heart chakra, but it was the most exquisite feeling, and it
 felt like.. your heart melted.  
 Another funny moment, I may
 have shared here before.  This six months course was
 the worst, the very worst time for householders in the
 movement.  We were getting all this face time with
 Maharishi, and the householders were feeling very
 bereft.
 Well, one afternoon, John
 Konhaus, (who was, and still is, I believe, married to Sarah
 Konhaus) has us all convene for a meeting, and declared in a
 very strong voice, Maharishi was VERY embarrassed
 today  He said that that a hotel owner in a
 different town called the hotel owner in the hotel we were
 staying in, for a recommendation, and asked what kind of
 guest we were.  Evidently the hotel owner said that the
 guests in this, (our hotel), were like pigs.
  Oh, we got a big kick out of that.
 Good times. Good
 times.

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@...
 wrote:

 Thank you for
 sharing those stories - so what kind of experiences did you
 have on that 1st 6 month course? And did you get the sutra
 for understanding the language of animals? That's the
 one I always wanted.

  On Sat, 2/8/14, steve.sundur@...
 steve.sundur@...
 wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

 Date: Saturday, February 8, 2014,

 Hey

 Mike,

 Since I know you like this

 kind of thing, I'll relate a few stories from the time
 I

 was on the first six month course along with Andy Rhymer,

 Rick Archer and others.  In fact, Andy was in my small

 group, along with some 108's.  It was

 our responsbility to correspond on Maharishi's behalf

 with some the other teacher's and 108's who were

 stationed around the world.  I remember getting
 letters

 from, I believe, Michael Brule, was teaching in Iran and
 was

 getting harassed by the Shaw's secret service.  I

 believe it was called the Savak, (yes, just checked it, and

 that is correct).  In fact, I think he was even

 imprisoned for a time.  He was feeling pretty

 discouraged.

 At any rate, I remember Andy

 describing his experience of doing Puja, and describing
 wave

 after wave of bliss.  I also remember him describing
 to

 Maharishi some past life experiences, and saying each

 previous incarnation was displayed as a sort of statue
 park,

 during an experience he had.

 Probably the best moment was

 when Andy was talking directly to Maharishi, who was there

 in the room, as he often was, and telling Maharishi that
 the

 most important part of enlightenment was devotion to the

 Master.  Maharishi said it was the most

 natural, and Andy kept insisting that it was
 the

 most important. There was a sweet back and
 forth

 that when on for a while like that.  

 As to Andy being, or

 becoming an alleged pedophile, don't have an answer for

 that.  Edg is on record here saying that he'd

 remove the alleged part.

 If that is a

 disqualification for being enlightened, I really can't

 say.  I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs
 of

 it. But it does seem that many who may have done some heavy

 lifting to get that point, (of enlightenment) will
 sometimes

 take a funny detour.

 As for Robin, yes I found

 him extraordinary in many

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Interesting Take on Addiction

2014-02-07 Thread s3raphita

Re I have read something related to this.:
 Yes, that sounds like the same territory I was suggesting. The problem with 
heroin addicts is that it's too late to investigate their natural production of 
endorphins when they're already hooked as their chemical self-regulation has 
already been shot.
 My main point was that as rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, eating 
disorders, suicide attempts, phobias, ADHD, anxiety and depression, sex 
addiction, computer addiction, porn addiction, self-harming fads, and gambling 
are all rising it's unlikely to come down to brain chemistry simply requiring a 
Prozac boost. It suggests it's today's society that is engineering isolated 
individuals (consumers) who are trying to escape from their sense of emptiness 
and estrangement via compulsive, immediate-reward behaviour. It's the young who 
are at the sharp end of recent changes and I don't envy them their future. 
 

 On an side note: if you knew who supplied PSH with his heroin would you tell 
the police? If I knew someone was selling *contaminated* drugs causing deaths 
in the community then I would certainly let the authorities know. But 
otherwise, I'd regard a mutually agreed transaction between PSH and his dealer 
as a private affair conducted between consenting adults. I suspect that's a 
minority opinion! 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:

 The brain produces endorphins - endogenous morphine - naturally. I've 
wondered if some peoples' brains produce less of the goodies than others' which 
would make those deficient in endorphins more likely to succumb to opiate 
addiction. Never seen any discussion on the topic.
 

 I have read something related to this. It involves overeaters or those who 
require more of something to get the same kind of satisfaction as someone who 
only imbibes smaller amounts of the same thing (food, alcohol, etc). Scientists 
have determined that the over-imbibers/eaters are those with a lack of chemical 
in the brain responsible for registering pleasure and so one piece of chocolate 
cake might fulfill one person (with the proper amount of this chemical), it 
would take half a cake for the one lacking this sensory feedback mechanism to 
register the same reward/benefit of the former. Not having looked further into 
this at this point, I can not tell you which chemical or chemicals were 
responsible for this but I am sure endorphins are part of the equation.
 

 But, that said, I don't think I'm buying the author's thesis: This means that 
alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, suicide attempts, phobias, adhd, 
anxiety and depression, et al are all disorders of the brain and as such need 
the treatment of a medical doctor first. 
 There's been a huge rise in rates of all these addictions and disorders over 
the past decades so  I think the primary cause is the sense of alienation of 
modern humans. We're estranged from nature, the clan and the community; until 
we realign our relationships with each other no other treatment is going to be 
more than a temporary fix.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Interesting Take on Addiction

2014-02-07 Thread s3raphita

Re I have read something related to this.:
 Yes, that sounds like the same territory I was suggesting. The problem with 
heroin addicts is that it's too late to investigate their natural production of 
endorphins when they're already hooked as their chemical self-regulation has 
already been shot.
 My main point was that as rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, eating 
disorders, suicide attempts, phobias, ADHD, anxiety and depression, sex 
addiction, computer addiction, porn addiction, self-harming fads, and gambling 
are all rising it's unlikely to come down to brain chemistry simply requiring a 
Prozac boost. It suggests it's today's society that is engineering isolated 
individuals (consumers) who are trying to escape from their sense of emptiness 
and estrangement via compulsive, immediate-reward behaviour. It's the young who 
are at the sharp end of recent changes and I don't envy them their future. 
 

 On a side note: if you knew who supplied PSH with his heroin would you tell 
the police? If I knew someone was selling *contaminated* drugs causing deaths 
in the community then I would certainly let the authorities know. But 
otherwise, I'd regard a mutually agreed transaction between PSH and his dealer 
as a private affair conducted between consenting adults. I suspect that's a 
minority opinion!

[FairfieldLife] RE: Marshy Enlightened?



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 What's NPS, and how were you in a position to think Robin had it, whatever 
it is?
 

 I think he hit the S key instead of the D key. Something like that could 
make all the difference.
 
  As for Robin, yes I found him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had 
classic NPS, I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much of the 
time.  But then again, it doesn't register with me much if a person is said to 
be enlightened or not.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Interesting Take on Addiction



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:

 Re I have read something related to this.:
 Yes, that sounds like the same territory I was suggesting. The problem with 
heroin addicts is that it's too late to investigate their natural production of 
endorphins when they're already hooked as their chemical self-regulation has 
already been shot.
 My main point was that as rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, eating 
disorders, suicide attempts, phobias, ADHD, anxiety and depression, sex 
addiction, computer addiction, porn addiction, self-harming fads, and gambling 
are all rising it's unlikely to come down to brain chemistry simply requiring a 
Prozac boost. It suggests it's today's society that is engineering isolated 
individuals (consumers) who are trying to escape from their sense of emptiness 
and estrangement via compulsive, immediate-reward behaviour. It's the young who 
are at the sharp end of recent changes and I don't envy them their future. 
 

 On a side note: if you knew who supplied PSH with his heroin would you tell 
the police?
 

 Most likely.
 

  If I knew someone was selling *contaminated* drugs causing deaths in the 
community then I would certainly let the authorities know. 
 

 Me too.
 

 But otherwise, I'd regard a mutually agreed transaction between PSH and his 
dealer as a private affair conducted between consenting adults. I suspect 
that's a minority opinion! 
 

 It could be complicated but off the top of my head I probably would be a 
tattle tale. I am not a fan of drugs or the drug culture (illicit or legal) so 
I would probably let the police know who it was. Drug dealers are enablers of 
the worst sort. They don't actually care about anything except making money. 
Consequently, so much of what these people busy themselves with is mere 
profiteering and at the expense of so many lives. I know the addict is the one 
ultimately making the choice to administer a toxin of their choice but that 
doesn't mean the enabler is without some aspect of collusion and therefore 
often the destruction of another life. I'm pretty right wing when it comes to 
this stuff, I admit it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu