date:20140303

I saw this Swedish group this weekend.  It was simply spiritual.  The a 
should have an umlaut over it.  I'd never seen a nyckelharpa before. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWorsJwzycw 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWorsJwzycw 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTceV4xNDQ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTceV4xNDQ

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment?  
I mean, Huh?  What?   
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie soundtracks.  Here is a clip of 
Deller singing Greensleeves:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU
 
 Also one of my TTC course leaders was a contratenor and sang for the group.
 
 On 03/01/2014 12:04 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo

[FairfieldLife] RE: Vasen

2014-03-03 Thread cardemaister


väsen = essence, being (pronounced ~ veh-sen)
nyckelharpa = key-harp (~ nuekkel-harpa)
(vasen = left [as opposed to right] in Finnish...)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Vasen

Thanks!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogNV13TA-Alist=RDgE6j-Zp323w 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogNV13TA-Aamp;list=RDgE6j-Zp323w
 

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

 
väsen = essence, being (pronounced ~ veh-sen)
nyckelharpa = key-harp (~ nuekkel-harpa)
(vasen = left [as opposed to right] in Finnish...)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Avert the danger, before it arises!

Richard, thank you so much. This is such a rich explanation. I appreciate how 
you not only use the old snake and rope analogy, but also the pot analogy which 
I've never heard. Also wonderful is how you make the discernment between 
identification and superimposition. Thanks again for taking the time to explain 
this so well. Superimposition is such a, dare I say, layered word and I'd never 
heard it used this way before.





On Sunday, March 2, 2014 10:39 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
On 3/2/2014 12:26 PM, Share Long wrote:

Richard, I still wish you would say more about what is meant by suffering being 
caused by the superimposition of the material onto the non material.


The superimposition doctrine is the cornerstone of Shankara's
Advaita Vedanta. Shankaracharya explains the genesis of ignorance
and our perception of the plurality of things in terms of
superimposition, what Maharishi called identification. The classic
example is the rope-snake metaphor: In the night you see a snake; in
the light of day you realize what you thought was a snake was but a
coiled-up rope. The perception of a plurality of things, where there
is only one thing, is a superimposition; the analogy of the space
in the pot - the point being that there is only one space inside or
outside a pot. This is only a superimposition to think that it is a
pot with different spaces inside or out.

Read more:

'A Companion Encyclopedia of Asia Philosophy'
By Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam
Routledge, 1997







On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:15 PM, Richard J. Williams 
pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  
On 2/18/2014 6:47 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Avert the danger before it arises!

pains 2 avoid

What is to be avoided is suffering that has
  not yet come. - Yoga Sutra 
2.16

It's a little easier to understand when you
  read the YS in context: 2:15 
- Everything is suffering for the wise man
  because of change, stress, 
and anxiety. 2:17 - The cause of the suffering
  is the super-imposition 
of the material onto the immaterial.



 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Vasen

Thanks for posting this Emily. Wonderful music and fun to learn something new, 
meaning, never heard of or seen before this very cool instrument.





On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:10 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com 
emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
I saw this Swedish group this weekend.  It was simply spiritual.  The a 
should have an umlaut over it.  I'd never seen a nyckelharpa before. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWorsJwzycw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTceV4xNDQ

Re: [FairfieldLife] Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

The best thing about this piece are the comments. Evidently the TMO doesn't 
have many trolls in the UK looking for negative TM comments to attempt to quash 
-  most of the commenters are properly skeptical.

On Mon, 3/3/14, Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 2:10 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Here's an entertaining article
 from the Guardian
 Newspaper about TM and the need to chill
 out:
 
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/01/transcendental-meditation-does-it-work

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

Richard, so both Rita and her sister are very involved in music. Did any of 
your children inherit that gift?





On Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:28 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  
Rita and I appreciate all kinds of music including serious classical music and 
world music. Rita's sister has an M.A. in Music from Eastern Michigan State. 
Here she is singing the solo (2:43) at St.John's in Detroit (not sure if this 
is serious music):

Easter 2012 at St. John's Detroit: The promise which was made (Bairstow)  
http://youtu.be/XtLdQUnhVTQ

She recently sent us this YouTube to listen to:

Song to the Moon from Rusalka by Dvorak. Sung in English
http://youtu.be/ag3UKxfTLmc



On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:47 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
  
Yeah, not quite the same thing. I'm talking about serious music and highly 
trained singers.


Justin Timberlake, for one, sings in a much higher voice than his regular 
voice.  Same for Neal Young I believe.


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




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


I'm not a big fan of countertenors myself; the voices always sound a little 
strained to me. But this dude is special, not just the voice but the 
musicality.


The ear is more important than any musical knowledge (for the listener, at 
any rate).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo


Phew! And this is not generally my kind of thing but it certainly evokes 
all sorts of primal, albeit refined primal, sensations. His voice and those 
instruments and the light and the setting and the crystal hanging from the 
ceiling. All of these things transported me to a long-ago time. Thank you 
for that. I am an ignoramus when it comes to knowing about music but my ear 
seems to make up for what I lack in theoretical musical knowledge.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Spell it out for me Emily. 

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

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What?   
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie soundtracks.  Here is a clip of 
Deller singing Greensleeves:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU
 
 Also one of my TTC course leaders was a contratenor and sang for the group.
 
 On 03/01/2014 12:04 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Yep, kinda sick and tired of everyone trying to get real about sex, no matter 
what flavor. The way so many people run around, acting like they *invented* 
fucking (of whatever orifice). 
My advice, to most of them, would be, switch to decaf, and visit a library, 
once in your life. What a bunch of superficial nonsense - and yes, I do like 
fucking as much as the next person, but since humans have been at it for 
millions of years already, I sincerely doubt there is anything, I, or anyone 
else, can say about said act, that is truly new, or startling. As for gay 
rights - Sure, whatever, no problem - just shut up about it, for awhile. 
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:

 Spell it out for me Emily. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote:

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What?   
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie soundtracks.  Here is a clip of 
Deller singing Greensleeves:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU
 
 Also one of my TTC course leaders was a contratenor and sang for the group.
 
 On 03/01/2014 12:04 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Did you perhaps respond to the wrong post, DoctorDumbass? I can't see any 
connection between what you wrote and the post you're responding to. 
 Yep, kinda sick and tired of everyone trying to get real about sex, no 
matter what flavor. The way so many people run around, acting like they 
*invented* fucking (of whatever orifice). 
My advice, to most of them, would be, switch to decaf, and visit a library, 
once in your life. What a bunch of superficial nonsense - and yes, I do like 
fucking as much as the next person, but since humans have been at it for 
millions of years already, I sincerely doubt there is anything, I, or anyone 
else, can say about said act, that is truly new, or startling. As for gay 
rights - Sure, whatever, no problem - just shut up about it, for awhile.
 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What?  
 

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs.
 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man.
 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-: 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie soundtracks.  Here is a clip of 
Deller singing Greensleeves:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU
 
 Also one of my TTC course leaders was a contratenor and sang for the group.
 
 On 03/01/2014 12:04 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo

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ondemnation of a 'violation of Ukraine's sovereignty'. Ukraine has ordered full mobilisation to counter the military intervention." More here. The White House considers sanctions. FP's John Hudson: "In response to Russia's surprise takeover of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, the Obama administration on Sunday floated an array of punitive measures aimed at isolating Moscow, including economic sanctions and visa bans. Though Secretary of State John Kerry called the Russian incursions a "brazen act of aggression," a senior administration official downplayed the likelihood of a U.S. military intervention, revealing the limits of Washington's influence over the situation. Though [Secretary of State John Kerry
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Yeah, it was a bit of a left turn down a dirt road. Thanks for noticing. So, 
what do you think about what I posted?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


On 3/2/2014 10:49 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:

I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits.


Or, just go out with a body cast already on - I think the idea in bull 
riding is to get yourself hurt. Go figure.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puns Can Be Fun

A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
veteran.


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.


 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 When chemists die, they barium.


 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 I tried to catch some fog. I mist.


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies
 with the assistance of a tribal Brujo who indicated that the leaves of a
 particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation.

 When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the Brujo looked him in
 the eye and said,

 Let me tell you, with fronds like these, you don't need enemas.


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 There were three Indian squaws.

 One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third
 slept
 on a hippopotamus skin.  All three became  pregnant.  The first two
 each had a baby boy.  The one who slept on the  hippopotamus skin
 had twin boys.

 This just goes to prove that...the squaw  of the hippopotamus is equal
 to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.


 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his
 name
  missing from the town register.  His wife insisted on complaining to
 the
  local civic official who apologized profusely saying, I must have
 taken  Leif
 off my census.


 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote:



 Richard, imho these are very good for preventing dementia and or
 Alzheimers (-:




   On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:25 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine
 man.

 After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin
 strip of
 elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off,
 chew,and
 swallow one inch of the leather every day.

 After a month, the medicine man  returned to see how the chief was
 feeling.

 The chief shrugged and said, The thong is ended, but the malady
 lingers on.


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the toilets
 and urinals, leaving no clues.  A spokesperson was quoted as
 saying, We have absolutely nothing to go on.


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  Back in the 1800's the Tate's Watch Company of Massachusetts wanted
 to
  produce other products, and since they already made the cases for
 watches,
  they used them to produce compasses.

 The new compasses were so bad that  people often ended up in Canada
 or
 Mexico rather than California .

 This, of  course, is the origin of the expression,He who has a
 Tate's is lost!


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered
 dolphins
 that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of  seagulls.


 One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and
 trap
 some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road.

 Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he
 was
 arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for
 immortal porpoises.


 On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Richard J. Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war
  with the Hittites.  His last great possession was the Star of the
 Euphrates,
  the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.  Desperate, he went
 to
  Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.

  Croesus said, I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it.

  But I paid a million dinars for it, the King protested. Don't
 you know
  who I am?  I am the king!

 Croesus replied, When you wish to pawn a  Star, makes no difference
 who you are.


 On 12/1/2013 3:46 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:

 Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid
 bowlers.  Unfortunately, all the Swiss league records were destroyed
 in a
 fire.  And, so we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Actually, I haven't noticed many (or any) people running around acting like 
they *invented* fucking, so I can't really comment on that.
 

 As to gay rights, I'd say it will be time to shut up about them once they've 
been secured.
 

 Yeah, it was a bit of a left turn down a dirt road. Thanks for noticing. So, 
what do you think about what I posted?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

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

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Interesting - You haven't noticed the endless string of entertainers, with less 
and less on, the faux-sex shows becoming common, wardrobe malfunctions, the 
titillation on the news about pussy riots and penises and on and on? As if 
those acting out, and those commenting on it, have just discovered, or 
invented, fucking? Watch less PBS, Judy, it is EVERYWHERE.

As for gay rights, I would rather some of earth's real problems be given 
greater precedence. The focus is skewed towards those who already have enough 
to eat, shelter, clothing, and good incomes. Let's work on the invisible ones 
first, and decide whether, or not, more homosexuals can get married, next. I 
don't mind hearing about such concerns, but it does seem like a darling issue 
for the media, and I am quite sick of it.
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Actually, I haven't noticed many (or any) people running around acting like 
they *invented* fucking, so I can't really comment on that.
 

 As to gay rights, I'd say it will be time to shut up about them once they've 
been secured.
 

 Yeah, it was a bit of a left turn down a dirt road. Thanks for noticing. So, 
what do you think about what I posted?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie soundtracks.  Here is a clip of 
Deller singing Greensleeves:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU
 
 Also one of my TTC course leaders was a contratenor and sang for the group.
 
 On 03/01/2014 12:04 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie soundtracks.  Here is a clip of 
Deller singing Greensleeves:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41O5J-EIGU
 
 Also one of my TTC course leaders was a contratenor and sang for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Dear Jude, 

 I wish you would wake up one day and decide to be more of straight shooter, 
instead of being such an obstructer. 
 

 Your constant proclamation of being a staunch upholder of truth is in such 
tatters, that you really should consider a different platform.  
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Steve or Feebs or whatever name you care to use.
 

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

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Steve, with all due respect, I think that looking at the statistics you're 
referring to might not be as convincing as you think. That, as it turns out, is 
exactly what the Dutch government did when coming up with its rules and regs. 


The result of a statistical study across all of the EU revealed that countries 
that required helmets for bicycles and under-250cc scooters and motorbikes 
actually had significantly *higher* rates of injury and death than those that 
did not. As a result, you don't need a helmet for either type of device here. 
Haven't had to for over a decade, and the Dutch stats are still significantly 
lower than any of the countries surveyed. 

In all of the countries riders of real motorcycles need helmets. And bike 
riders here are required to have both front and back lights and warning bells. 


Some of this can be legitimately attributed to better infrastructure on the 
part of the Dutch, because in most cases bike and scooter riders never share 
roads with cars (they have their own lanes). But still, it's not as clear-cut a 
case for helmet wearing as some might think.




 From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!
 


  
Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there. 

Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!

You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

I don't watch television at all, actually. But your description of the 
specifics below doesn't resonate, for me, with your just discovered or 
invented fucking characterization. Seems like rather wildly unfocused 
hyperbole. 

 As far as Earth's real problems are concerned, we might as well forget all 
of them but climate change if we're going to give the most crucial top 
priority. I don't think we as a society get to decide which issues we're sick 
of, though, except on an individual basis. So you go right ahead and fume about 
those awful entertainers on TV and those selfish gays who want to have the same 
rights as anybody else.
 

 Interesting - You haven't noticed the endless string of entertainers, with 
less and less on, the faux-sex shows becoming common, wardrobe malfunctions, 
the titillation on the news about pussy riots and penises and on and on? As if 
those acting out, and those commenting on it, have just discovered, or 
invented, fucking? Watch less PBS, Judy, it is EVERYWHERE. 
As for gay rights, I would rather some of earth's real problems be given 
greater precedence. The focus is skewed towards those who already have enough 
to eat, shelter, clothing, and good incomes. Let's work on the invisible ones 
first, and decide whether, or not, more homosexuals can get married, next. I 
don't mind hearing about such concerns, but it does seem like a darling issue 
for the media, and I am quite sick of it.
 

 Actually, I haven't noticed many (or any) people running around acting like 
they *invented* fucking, so I can't really comment on that. 

 As to gay rights, I'd say it will be time to shut up about them once they've 
been secured.
 

 Yeah, it was a bit of a left turn down a dirt road. Thanks for noticing. So, 
what do you think about what I posted?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective. 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

2014-03-03 Thread s3raphita

One comment I appreciate is this one from Denis Postle: I've been doing TM off 
and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate about it is that it is a reliable 
way of taking us to the hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and 
awake and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results . . .  
 
 David Lynch says something similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those 
who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch says that everyone has already 
experienced it. When you're lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you 
occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness dips towards 
unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting and actually jolts you awake. 
Lynch claims that TM is essentially training you to bounce around at that level 
as a regular routine.
 

 Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers to try a similar practice: when 
waking up in the morning keep your consciousness at the point where you've just 
emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any thinking kicks in. 
Maharshi claimed that learning to balance yourself at this razor's edge would 
enable you to see the true nature of the Self.

 

 Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch and Maharshi are talking nonsense?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

In tatters? Really? Do you have some examples? 

 And what does this perception of yours have to do with the post you're 
commenting on?
 

 Dear Jude, 

 I wish you would wake up one day and decide to be more of straight shooter, 
instead of being such an obstructer. 
 

 Your constant proclamation of being a staunch upholder of truth is in such 
tatters, that you really should consider a different platform.  
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Steve or Feebs or whatever name you care to use.
 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Thanks Barry, I had not been aware of that.   

 I know that here biking is not so much a part of how people get around than in 
EU countries.  Maybe that has something to do with it.  Bike helmets are very 
much encouraged in the US at least, and especially among children.  Actually, I 
do not wear one myself, except when I know I'm going to be going fast and on 
city streets.
 

 One of my company's best customers is one of the main bike advocates here.  
She is always in the paper debating, sometimes quite contentiously with other 
bike advocates on the best way to promote bike safety when riding in 
metropolitan areas.
 

 Her philosophy is to educate drivers to share the road, more than creating 
special bike lanes.
 

 I haven't followed all the debate, but I think she recently prevailed in a 
recent ordinance that was passed along these lines.
 

 Another funny twist on that, was that they got their motivation for biking 
when my wife and I along with our 6 or 7 year old son rode our bikes to their 
house one afternoon.  That seemed to spark something in them.
 

 Now they bike all over, using their bikes and public transportation.  Even 
though they are millionaires!
 

 
 

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

 Steve, with all due respect, I think that looking at the statistics you're 
referring to might not be as convincing as you think. That, as it turns out, is 
exactly what the Dutch government did when coming up with its rules and regs. 

 

 The result of a statistical study across all of the EU revealed that countries 
that required helmets for bicycles and under-250cc scooters and motorbikes 
actually had significantly *higher* rates of injury and death than those that 
did not. As a result, you don't need a helmet for either type of device here. 
Haven't had to for over a decade, and the Dutch stats are still significantly 
lower than any of the countries surveyed. 
 

 In all of the countries riders of real motorcycles need helmets. And bike 
riders here are required to have both front and back lights and warning bells. 

 

 Some of this can be legitimately attributed to better infrastructure on the 
part of the Dutch, because in most cases bike and scooter riders never share 
roads with cars (they have their own lanes). But still, it's not as clear-cut a 
case for helmet wearing as some might think.

 

 From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@...
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 4:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!
 
 
   Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there. 
 

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

 
 

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

 My freshman year of college I played a concert with the famous contratenor 
Alfred Deller and the University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a 
church which now houses Bastyr University, a naturopathic school and the church 
is used for many recordings including movie

[FairfieldLife] The Reason I Quit TM

Maybe momma's cooking at when I was a kid led to my quitting since she was fond 
of using onion and garlic.

 Onion and garlic are tamasic (grounding but dull) in nature and make one prone 
to ignorant choices in life.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?





On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com 
awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  




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


Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there. 

Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!

You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  

You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my stance 
on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat belts!




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







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


Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.


I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   



Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety 
vest hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is 
that redundant?).


I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.


No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing 
a bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest 
to walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.





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







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


Definitely moving in that direction. (-:  


Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce 
those hard collisions at home plate.


But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  
Helmets for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played 
without them.  


How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? 
Frankly, I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. 
Concussions are a big deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for 
most sports and so they should. Damaging your brain in the service of 
entertainment is hardly worth it. One thing I do have a problem with, 
however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I think of all the miles and 
hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never once fell on my head, as 
hard as that might be to believe.


And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples 
may be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.


I think you are guessing dead wrong.


  I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for 
many years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they 
would want to get married. 


Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?


 But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who 
might have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might 
arise, well why don't you now get married


No, no. Silly notion.


And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting 
married does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.


Well, that's a relief.





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:


Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.



On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... 
wrote:

 
Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 


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


(guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs.


Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who 
just likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot 
like the guy on this
recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the guy 
Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man.


So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered 
high art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all 
oooh, and aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  EvidentlyI am missing something. 
(-:







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


My freshman year of college I played a
concert with the famous contratenor Alfred Deller and the
University of Washington symphony.   The concert was in a church
which now houses Bastyr University, a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Hey Ann, 

 Thanks for making me smile this morning.  I confess, I am not a seat belt 
wearer either except when on the interstate, or when I am rushing.
 

 It was around this time several years ago, when I was making a ride into the 
country at night, when I hit an ice match, and rolled my Ford Explorer about 
five times before coming to a stop down in a ditch. 
 

 Yes, I was glad I was wearing it then.  
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

I like this comment better:

formersufferer

I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with a severe type of 
epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting up to five hours, and I became very 
unstable and unbalanced. I gave it up and was involved in a TV programme 
exposing it, called Credo. Prof Peter Fenwick of the Maudesley Psychiatric 
Hospital did some research which he reported on the programme. He explained 
that the EEG waves of a person practising TM and those of someone having an 
epileptic fit are identical. There has been quite a lot of research showing how 
damaging TM is but the TM people have a lot of money which enables them to 
override the truth. TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE 
APPEARING TO BE RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might have a 
similar effect


On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@...
 wrote:
 
 One comment I appreciate is this one from
 Denis Postle:I've been
 doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
 about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
 hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and awake
 and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .
 . .  
 David Lynch says something
 similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
 who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch says
 that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
 lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
 occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness
 dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting
 and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
 essentially training you to bounce around at that level as a
 regular routine.
 Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
 to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
 keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
 emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any
 thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to balance
 yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
 the true nature of the Self.
 Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
 and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
 Funny you
 should ask that because while reading their assertion it
 simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
 between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my book.
 It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
 transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
 my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
 up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


 Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples if you 
replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it up if you want, 
or not. No matter to me.

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

 In tatters? Really? Do you have some examples? 

 And what does this perception of yours have to do with the post you're 
commenting on?
 

 Dear Jude, 

 I wish you would wake up one day and decide to be more of straight shooter, 
instead of being such an obstructer. 
 

 Your constant proclamation of being a staunch upholder of truth is in such 
tatters, that you really should consider a different platform.  
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Steve or Feebs or whatever name you care to use.
 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM


 

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

 One comment I appreciate is this one from Denis Postle: I've been doing TM 
off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate about it is that it is a 
reliable way of taking us to the hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between 
sleep and awake and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results . . . 
 
 
 David Lynch says something similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those 
who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch says that everyone has already 
experienced it. When you're lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you 
occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness dips towards 
unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting and actually jolts you awake. 
Lynch claims that TM is essentially training you to bounce around at that level 
as a regular routine.
 

 Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers to try a similar practice: when 
waking up in the morning keep your consciousness at the point where you've just 
emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any thinking kicks in. 
Maharshi claimed that learning to balance yourself at this razor's edge would 
enable you to see the true nature of the Self.

 

 Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
 

 Funny you should ask that because while reading their assertion it simply did 
not resonate with my experience. The transition between waking and sleeping is 
not transcendence in my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not 
feel transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than my subjectivity 
and gut feeling to back this up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

This may be a duplicate, but gotta log off for a while, and want to reply. 

 Thanks Jim for your comment.
 

 Interacting with Judy can sometimes be like mining for gold.  You may get a 
spec of gold for every ton of dirt you excavate.  But excavating that ton of 
dirt creates a lot of waste and has been shown to be very harmful for the 
environment.
 

 Just a thought.
 

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

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

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

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

This one is quite good too:

I tried it. Got it bought for me as a gift. Yeah it did feel good the first 
couple of times, but no better than breathing exercises I've done before. 
Everyone there seemed to gob the nonsense that goes with it about thought 
bubbles and the absolute base of human thought. What a load of wishy washy 
nonsense made up by a man with a mind for making cash. Apart from the lack of 
institutional infiltration, it's all very L Ron Hubbard. I'd like to see a 
truly scientific comparison of TM versus breathing excersises with placebo.


On Mon, 3/3/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper 
about TM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:43 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   I like this comment better:
 
 
 
 formersufferer
 
 
 
 I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with
 a severe type of epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting
 up to five hours, and I became very unstable and unbalanced.
 I gave it up and was involved in a TV programme exposing it,
 called Credo. Prof Peter Fenwick of the Maudesley
 Psychiatric Hospital did some research which he reported on
 the programme. He explained that the EEG waves of a person
 practising TM and those of someone having an epileptic fit
 are identical. There has been quite a lot of research
 showing how damaging TM is but the TM people have a lot of
 money which enables them to override the truth. TM IS
 EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE APPEARING TO BE
 RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might have
 a similar effect
 
 
 
 
 
 On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com
 awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian
 Newspaper about TM
 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
  Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 

 
  
 
  
 
  
 

 

 

 
  
 
  
 
  ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@...
 
  wrote:
 
  
 
  One comment I appreciate is this one from
 
  Denis Postle:I've been
 
  doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
 
  about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
 
  hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and
 awake
 
  and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results
 .
 
  . .  
 
  David Lynch says something
 
  similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
 
  who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch
 says
 
  that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
 
  lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
 
  occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your
 awareness
 
  dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather
 disconcerting
 
  and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
 
  essentially training you to bounce around at that level as
 a
 
  regular routine.
 
  Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
 
  to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
 
  keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
 
  emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before*
 any
 
  thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to
 balance
 
  yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
 
  the true nature of the Self.
 
  Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
 
  and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
 
  Funny you
 
  should ask that because while reading their assertion it
 
  simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
 
  between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my
 book.
 
  It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
 
  transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
 
  my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
 
  up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Thanks for that Jim.  But I guess it's good practice for me to interact with 
someone like Judy occasionally.   

 Maybe with Judy it's like mining for gold.  You may find a speck of gold for 
every ton of dirt removed.  But of course excavating that ton of dirt produces 
a lot of waste and isn't particularly good for the environment. (-: 
 

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

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

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

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

It's really a cool way to travel. Recently, I realized that I was paying for a 
parking sticker for a car I hadn't used in a year, so I sold it. Don't have one 
now, don't miss having one. 

 From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Thanks Barry, I had not been aware of that.  
I know that here biking is not so much a part of how people get around than in 
EU countries.  Maybe that has something to do with it.  Bike helmets are very 
much encouraged in the US at least, and especially among children.  Actually, I 
do not wear one myself, except when I know I'm going to be going fast and on 
city streets.

One of my company's best customers is one of the main bike advocates here.  She 
is always in the paper debating, sometimes quite contentiously with other bike 
advocates on the best way to promote bike safety when riding in metropolitan 
areas.

Her philosophy is to educate drivers to share the road, more than creating 
special bike lanes.

I haven't followed all the debate, but I think she recently prevailed in a 
recent ordinance that was passed along these lines.

Another funny twist on that, was that they got their motivation for biking when 
my wife and I along with our 6 or 7 year old son rode our bikes to their house 
one afternoon.  That seemed to spark something in them.

Now they bike all over, using their bikes and public transportation.  Even 
though they are millionaires!

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

Steve, with all due respect, I think that looking at the statistics you're 
referring to might not be as convincing as you think. That, as it turns out, is 
exactly what the Dutch government did when coming up with its rules and regs. 

The result of a statistical study across all of the EU revealed that countries 
that required helmets for bicycles and under-250cc scooters and motorbikes 
actually had significantly *higher* rates of injury and death than those that 
did not. As a result, you don't need a helmet for either type of device here. 
Haven't had to for over a decade, and the Dutch stats are still significantly 
lower than any of the countries surveyed. 

In all of the countries riders of real motorcycles need helmets. And bike 
riders here are required to have both front and back lights and warning bells. 

Some of this can be legitimately attributed to better
infrastructure on the part of the Dutch, because in most cases bike and scooter 
riders never share roads with cars (they have their own lanes). But still, it's 
not as clear-cut a case for helmet wearing as some might think.

 From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there. 

Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!

You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.

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

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective. 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples. 

 (Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a kind and 
reasonable person. I got quite a giggle out of that.)
 
 Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples if you 
replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it up if you want, 
or not. No matter to me.
 

 In tatters? Really? Do you have some examples?
 

 And what does this perception of yours have to do with the post you're 
commenting on?
 

 Dear Jude, 

 I wish you would wake up one day and decide to be more of straight shooter, 
instead of being such an obstructer. 
 

 Your constant proclamation of being a staunch upholder of truth is in such 
tatters, that you really should consider a different platform.  
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Steve or Feebs or whatever name you care to use.
 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

lol - that is an interesting image. I have been mining, sorting, and donating, 
my inherited stuff, for the last three weeks, so I can relate.
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:

 This may be a duplicate, but gotta log off for a while, and want to reply. 

 Thanks Jim for your comment.
 

 Interacting with Judy can sometimes be like mining for gold.  You may get a 
spec of gold for every ton of dirt you excavate.  But excavating that ton of 
dirt creates a lot of waste and has been shown to be very harmful for the 
environment.
 

 Just a thought.
 

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

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

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

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

seriously?
 

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

 I like this comment better:
 
 formersufferer
 
 I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with a severe type of 
epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting up to five hours, and I became very 
unstable and unbalanced. I gave it up and was involved in a TV programme 
exposing it, called Credo. Prof Peter Fenwick of the Maudesley Psychiatric 
Hospital did some research which he reported on the programme. He explained 
that the EEG waves of a person practising TM and those of someone having an 
epileptic fit are identical. There has been quite a lot of research showing how 
damaging TM is but the TM people have a lot of money which enables them to 
override the truth. TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE 
APPEARING TO BE RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might have a 
similar effect
 
 
 On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
s3raphita@...
 wrote:
 
 One comment I appreciate is this one from
 Denis Postle:I've been
 doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
 about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
 hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and awake
 and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .
 . .  
 David Lynch says something
 similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
 who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch says
 that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
 lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
 occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness
 dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting
 and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
 essentially training you to bounce around at that level as a
 regular routine.
 Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
 to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
 keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
 emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any
 thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to balance
 yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
 the true nature of the Self.
 Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
 and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
 Funny you
 should ask that because while reading their assertion it
 simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
 between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my book.
 It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
 transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
 my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
 up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review

It's the original French series Les Revenants and not an American 
remake.  At the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US 
remake in the works.


Hannibal was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+.  Probably 
because it is primarily a Canadian production.  But it was available on 
desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and Chromecast it to my 
TV.  It's a little like video conferencing the show to your TV in that 
the frame rate is about 10 frames a second.


I was not all that impressed with Machete Kills.  It was kind of a 
mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in the way of 
a homage to grindhouse films.  Many of those old exploitation films were 
also shoot in scope.   He had a fun cast though.  And the BD actually 
was not a Universal rental and had the making of and extended and 
deleted scenes.


On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:


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


I won't be reading this because I will be watching Hannibal tonight 
on Hulu+.  But I was going to mention yesterday that the second season 
started last night and that I almost rented the BD of Machete Kills 
for the evening but decided on watching a couple more episodes of The 
Returned on Netflix.


I have to ask...are you watching the original French series Les 
Revenants, or the American remake called (either, depending on where 
you see it referenced) The Returned or Resurrection. I'm about to 
finish watching the French series, and you know me w.r.t. European 
TV...I wouldn't touch an American remake with a ten foot pole, but I 
was just wondering...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Vasen

Seeing any movie in Seattle would have someone seeing it with a Swedish 
group or a Norwegian group. Lot's of both there.  My sister-in-law 
was part Swedish.


On 03/03/2014 12:09 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote:
I saw this Swedish group this weekend.  It was simply spiritual.  The 
a should have an umlaut over it.  I'd never seen a nyckelharpa before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWorsJwzycw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTceV4xNDQ

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II.
 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review

Cool, both that you're getting to see the real version of Les Revenants, and 
that you got to see the real version of Machete Kills. It's *not* a great 
movie, but I thought it was fun, and I hope you did, too. Did the BD have 
another one of Rodriguez's patented Ten Minute Film School episodes on it?

I finished the French series, BTW, and I'm glad I watched it. Very, very 
different take on the returning from the dead concept, and refreshing in that 
it didn't fall into any real genre ruts. But to be honest, one of the things I 
loved the most about watching this series is the opportunity it provided me to 
see the scenery in an area of France I am not familiar with, the Haute-Savoie. 
It's just stunningly lovely...like Switzerland without all of those awful 
Swiss.  :-)




 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
 


  
It's the original French series Les Revenants and not an American remake.  At 
the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US remake in the works.

Hannibal was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+.  Probably
  because it is primarily a Canadian production.  But it was
  available on desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and
  Chromecast it to my TV.  It's a little like video conferencing the
  show to your TV in that the frame rate is about 10 frames a
  second.

I was not all that impressed with Machete Kills.  It was kind of
  a mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in
  the way of a homage to grindhouse films.  Many of those old
  exploitation films were also shoot in scope.   He had a fun cast
  though.  And the BD actually was not a Universal rental and had
  the making of and extended and deleted scenes.

On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:

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



I won't be reading this because I will be watching Hannibal tonight on 
Hulu+.  But I was going to mention yesterday that the second season started 
last night and that I almost rented the BD of Machete Kills for the evening 
but decided on watching a couple more episodes of The Returned on Netflix.

I have to ask...are you watching the original French series Les Revenants, 
or the American remake called (either, depending on where you see it 
referenced) The Returned or Resurrection. I'm about to finish watching the 
French series, and you know me w.r.t. European TV...I wouldn't touch an 
American remake with a ten foot pole, but I was just wondering...

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review

I almost got into a binge watch with Les Revenants and will watch a 
couple more episodes tonight.


There's no ten minute film school on the Machete Kills BD just the 
extras I mentioned.  Usually Universal movies rented at Redbox are 
rental editions with just the movie on them.  But that costs extra and 
the studios that even do the rental discs may not be doing them for the 
more cult and art film titles.  El Mariachi and Desperado were added 
over the weekend on Netflix.


In other news, we had a tragedy occur about a mile from me. A teenage 
girl who was sitting on the railroad tracks with her boyfriend near a 
trestle and they got up to move as a train approached.  Her cellphone 
fell and she ran back to retrieve it and was hit and killed by the 
train.  I only mention it as it will probably arise as national or 
international story.  Very sad and will be used as an object lesson for 
teens and their obsession with phones.


On 03/03/2014 09:29 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
Cool, both that you're getting to see the real version of Les 
Revenants, and that you got to see the real version of Machete 
Kills. It's *not* a great movie, but I thought it was fun, and I hope 
you did, too. Did the BD have another one of Rodriguez's patented Ten 
Minute Film School episodes on it?


I finished the French series, BTW, and I'm glad I watched it. Very, 
very different take on the returning from the dead concept, and 
refreshing in that it didn't fall into any real genre ruts. But to be 
honest, one of the things I loved the most about watching this series 
is the opportunity it provided me to see the scenery in an area of 
France I am not familiar with, the Haute-Savoie. It's just stunningly 
lovely...like Switzerland without all of those awful Swiss.  :-)



*From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Monday, March 3, 2014 6:19 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener 
review


It's the original French series Les Revenants and not an American 
remake. At the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US 
remake in the works.


Hannibal was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+.  Probably 
because it is primarily a Canadian production.  But it was available 
on desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and Chromecast it to 
my TV.  It's a little like video conferencing the show to your TV in 
that the frame rate is about 10 frames a second.


I was not all that impressed with Machete Kills.  It was kind of a 
mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in the way 
of a homage to grindhouse films.  Many of those old exploitation films 
were also shoot in scope.   He had a fun cast though. And the BD 
actually was not a Universal rental and had the making of and 
extended and deleted scenes.


On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com 
mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... 
mailto:noozguru@... wrote:


I won't be reading this because I will be watching Hannibal tonight 
on Hulu+.  But I was going to mention yesterday that the second 
season started last night and that I almost rented the BD of Machete 
Kills for the evening but decided on watching a couple more episodes 
of The Returned on Netflix.


I have to ask...are you watching the original French series Les 
Revenants, or the American remake called (either, depending on where 
you see it referenced) The Returned or Resurrection. I'm about to 
finish watching the French series, and you know me w.r.t. European 
TV...I wouldn't touch an American remake with a ten foot pole, but I 
was just wondering...

[FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

2014-03-03 Thread feste37

Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a blaze last night on the pundit campus 
outside of the city. Just before 5pm crews responded to reports of smoke in a 
building. Upon arrival, the residential building was completely engulfed in 
flames. Crews were on the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and 
making sure the fire did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing 
unit has nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin and cause 
of the fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

On 3/3/2014 6:33 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 The best thing about this piece are the comments
 
So, what does the TMO have to do with your meditating or not?

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

well it was his experience, didn't Marshy say never doubt your experiences?

On Mon, 3/3/14, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com 
wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper 
about TM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:18 PM

   seriously?

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

 I like this
 comment better:

 formersufferer

 I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with
 a severe type of epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting
 up to five hours, and I became very unstable and unbalanced.
 I gave it up and was involved in a TV programme exposing it,
 called Credo. Prof Peter Fenwick of the Maudesley
 Psychiatric Hospital did some research which he reported on
 the programme. He explained that the EEG waves of a person
 practising TM and those of someone having an epileptic fit
 are identical. There has been quite a lot of research
 showing how damaging TM is but the TM people have a lot of
 money which enables them to override the truth. TM IS
 EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE APPEARING TO BE
 RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might have
 a similar effect

  On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelflebater@...
 awoelflebater@...
 wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian
 Newspaper about TM

 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM

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

 wrote:

 One comment I appreciate is this one from

 Denis Postle:I've been

 doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate

 about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the

 hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and
 awake

 and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .

 . .  

 David Lynch says something

 similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those

 who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch
 says

 that everyone has already experienced it. When you're

 lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you

 occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your
 awareness

 dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting

 and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is

 essentially training you to bounce around at that level as
 a

 regular routine.

 Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers

 to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning

 keep your consciousness at the point where you've just

 emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before*
 any

 thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to
 balance

 yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see

 the true nature of the Self.

 Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch

 and Maharshi are talking nonsense?

 Funny you

 should ask that because while reading their assertion it

 simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition

 between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my
 book.

 It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel

 transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than

 my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this

 up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puns Can Be Fun

I know a guy who is addicted to brake fluid - he say he can stop anytime.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
 veteran.


 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.


 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 When chemists die, they barium.


 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 I tried to catch some fog. I mist.


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

 A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies
 with the assistance of a tribal Brujo who indicated that the leaves of
 a
 particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation.

 When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the Brujo looked him in
 the eye and said,

 Let me tell you, with fronds like these, you don't need enemas.


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 There were three Indian squaws.

 One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third
 slept
 on a hippopotamus skin.  All three became  pregnant.  The first two
 each had a baby boy.  The one who slept on the  hippopotamus skin
 had twin boys.

 This just goes to prove that...the squaw  of the hippopotamus is equal
 to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.


 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his
 name
  missing from the town register.  His wife insisted on complaining
 to the
  local civic official who apologized profusely saying, I must have
 taken  Leif
 off my census.


 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Share Long 
 sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote:



 Richard, imho these are very good for preventing dementia and or
 Alzheimers (-:




   On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:25 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the
 medicine man.

 After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin
 strip of
 elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off,
 chew,and
 swallow one inch of the leather every day.

 After a month, the medicine man  returned to see how the chief was
 feeling.

 The chief shrugged and said, The thong is ended, but the malady
 lingers on.


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the
 toilets
 and urinals, leaving no clues.  A spokesperson was quoted as
 saying, We have absolutely nothing to go on.


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  Back in the 1800's the Tate's Watch Company of Massachusetts
 wanted to
  produce other products, and since they already made the cases for
 watches,
  they used them to produce compasses.

 The new compasses were so bad that  people often ended up in Canada
 or
 Mexico rather than California .

 This, of  course, is the origin of the expression,He who has a
 Tate's is lost!


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered
 dolphins
 that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of
  seagulls.

 One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and
 trap
 some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road.

 Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he
 was
 arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for
 immortal porpoises.


 On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Richard J. Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

 King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of
 war
  with the Hittites.  His last great possession was the Star of the
 Euphrates,
  the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.  Desperate, he
 went to
  Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.

  Croesus said, I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it.

  But I paid a million dinars for it, the King protested. Don't
 you know
  who I am?  I am the king!

 Croesus replied, When you wish to pawn a  Star, makes no difference
 who you are.


 On 12/1/2013 3:46 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:

 Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid
 bowlers.  Unfortunately, all the Swiss league records were
 destroyed in a
 fire.  And, so we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Reason I Quit TM

On 3/3/2014 10:39 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 Maybe momma's cooking at when I was a kid led to my quitting
 
You are not even making any sense today - you're still eating your 
momma's cooking? Go figure.

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[FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

2014-03-03 Thread jr_esq

Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

On 3/3/2014 10:53 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 I'd like to see a truly scientific comparison of TM versus breathing 
 excersises with placebo.
 
What exactly, would a TM placebo look like? Maybe you don't need to 
meditate or practice TM - everyone is already transcending even without 
a technique. Maybe you've gone about  as far down the spiritual path 
as you are able to this time around. You are only going to get as much 
enlightenment as you are going to get. Maybe you should just give up 
your spiritual striving and get to work on something else and just 
enjoy. Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

glad you got a giggle out of something Judy.  you've always have had a peculiar 
sense of humor. 

 at any rate, I don't think you'd survive the breaking of this illusion of your 
so called honesty.  It's not a struggle for the fainthearted.
 

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

 Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples. 

 (Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a kind and 
reasonable person. I got quite a giggle out of that.)
 
 Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples if you 
replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it up if you want, 
or not. No matter to me.
 

 In tatters? Really? Do you have some examples?
 

 And what does this perception of yours have to do with the post you're 
commenting on?
 

 Dear Jude, 

 I wish you would wake up one day and decide to be more of straight shooter, 
instead of being such an obstructer. 
 

 Your constant proclamation of being a staunch upholder of truth is in such 
tatters, that you really should consider a different platform.  
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Steve or Feebs or whatever name you care to use.
 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Dixon

incense fell out of holder




On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
  
  
Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a blaze 
last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just before 5pm 
crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon arrival, the 
residential building was completely engulfed in flames. Crews were on 
the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making sure the fire did 
not spread to other buildings. The one story housing unit has 
nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin and cause of the 
fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

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

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II.
 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


 

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

 Hey Ann, 

 Thanks for making me smile this morning.  I confess, I am not a seat belt 
wearer either except when on the interstate, or when I am rushing.

Well, I'm glad you're smiling because none of my posts to you in the last day 
were meant to be anything but light, if not slightly humorous - especially the 
bull riding ones. I hope your sense of humour sticks around for a while.

 

 It was around this time several years ago, when I was making a ride into the 
country at night, when I hit an ice match, and rolled my Ford Explorer about 
five times before coming to a stop down in a ditch. 
 

 Yes, I was glad I was wearing it then.  
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it came out that the cause of the 
fire was a pundit meth lab going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff. :-)

 From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

incense fell out of holder

On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a blaze 
last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just before 5pm 
crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon arrival, the 
residential building was completely engulfed in flames. Crews were on 
the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making sure the fire did 
not spread to other buildings. The one story housing unit has 
nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin and cause of the 
fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Dixon

and you lose your image in the mirror.




On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:15 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:
  
  
Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

All things in context.  It is good for vata imbalances because it is 
heating.  I also just heard this morning that mainstream medicine issued 
a report saying that garlic is effective in treating some viruses that 
have developed an immunity to antibiotics.


We used to have a great restaurant over here in the Easy Bay called 
Magic Garlic and we would frequently order a roasted large garlic 
clove to spreed on the bread as a treat.


On 03/03/2014 11:13 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:


Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

Placebos themselves, including medical ones, seem to work on the 
principle of samyama which of course medical researchers are unaware 
of.  Shows that consciousness is very powerful and there is a strong 
mind over matter effect.


On 03/03/2014 11:28 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


On 3/3/2014 10:53 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 I'd like to see a truly scientific comparison of TM versus breathing
 excersises with placebo.

What exactly, would a TM placebo look like? Maybe you don't need to
meditate or practice TM - everyone is already transcending even without
a technique. Maybe you've gone about as far down the spiritual path
as you are able to this time around. You are only going to get as much
enlightenment as you are going to get. Maybe you should just give up
your spiritual striving and get to work on something else and just
enjoy. Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

Love to see that tried with other mantra meditation techniques.  The 
effect should be the same.  But here's a thought.  What if epilepsy is 
merely the body's attempt to throw off stress gone out of control?  I 
think many of us who have had strong meditations have observed movements 
that might be attributed to epilepsy but some of us also note it is just 
a release of something from a muscle group and it  often goes away 
immediately.  Yoga asanas were developed to do some of this too.


Just says how primitive western medicine is but I would encourage the 
medical researchers to dig deeper and they may indeed come up with an 
non drug way of curing folks of epilepsy.


On 03/03/2014 08:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:


I like this comment better:

formersufferer

I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with a severe 
type of epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting up to five hours, 
and I became very unstable and unbalanced. I gave it up and was 
involved in a TV programme exposing it, called Credo. Prof Peter 
Fenwick of the Maudesley Psychiatric Hospital did some research which 
he reported on the programme. He explained that the EEG waves of a 
person practising TM and those of someone having an epileptic fit are 
identical. There has been quite a lot of research showing how damaging 
TM is but the TM people have a lot of money which enables them to 
override the truth. TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE 
APPEARING TO BE RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might 
have a similar effect



On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:

Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper 
about TM

To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM





























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

One comment I appreciate is this one from
Denis Postle:I've been
doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and awake
and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .
. . 
David Lynch says something
similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
who wonder what transcending is like, Lynch says
that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness
dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting
and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
essentially training you to bounce around at that level as a
regular routine.
Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any
thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to balance
yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
the true nature of the Self.
Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
Funny you
should ask that because while reading their assertion it
simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my book.
It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Sure Ann, thanks. 

 This winter weather has been good for our business, so the last two months 
have seen a nice jump in sales.
 

 I just read an article, or heard a story that a lot of movie production has 
moved to BC.
 

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

 
 

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

 Hey Ann, 

 Thanks for making me smile this morning.  I confess, I am not a seat belt 
wearer either except when on the interstate, or when I am rushing.

Well, I'm glad you're smiling because none of my posts to you in the last day 
were meant to be anything but light, if not slightly humorous - especially the 
bull riding ones. I hope your sense of humour sticks around for a while.

 

 It was around this time several years ago, when I was making a ride into the 
country at night, when I hit an ice match, and rolled my Ford Explorer about 
five times before coming to a stop down in a ditch. 
 

 Yes, I was glad I was wearing it then.  
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
well why don't you now get married
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble. Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II. 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-03 Thread anartaxius

Bhairitu
 

 I think it is great you had a chance to work with Alfred Deller. Among 
countertenors he had a unique quality of sound.
 

 The following is for seventhray27:
 

 High male voice singing has been a part of European culture for centuries. 
Undoubtedly this began because women were not allowed to sing in church, just 
men and boys. Men (that is older) generally have greater control and greater 
musical maturity than boys. The countertenor tradition has been fairly strong 
in England. Today many 'classical' performances tend to use countertenors in 
part originally sung by boy altos. In the past (when food was a bit scarcer) 
boy's broke around age 16, today it is more likely around the age of 12, so 
today it is less likely to find musically mature boy altos or trebles, so 
countertenors are used for the altos, and women sopranos with more 'boyish' 
sounding voices for the boys' treble voice. It does not sound the same, but 
times change. I once asked a countertenor here on the East Coast what his 
normal signing voice would be like if he did not sing in the countertenor range 
and he replied he was a baritone. 
 

 High falsetto singing by males is frequently heard in popular music, in rock 
etc., so this kind of singing (minus operatic training) is not restricted to 
classical venues. So it is not the case as seventhray said these are men trying 
to sound like women, they are singing parts originally written for men, 
castrati, or boys. The whole effect is instrumental colour, the voice is an 
instrument and it has a distinct timbre just like any other instrument, and 
that is how it is used. It should be noted than in older European drama, like 
opera, unlike in the late 19th century, roles of villains tended to be given to 
high male voices, such as a castrato soprano, while the hero was often a deep 
bass voice. Today a castrato soprano part has to be performed by a woman. The 
last known castrato, a singer for the Vatican died in 1922.
 

 Alfred Deller, Countertenor
 singing 'Music for a While' by Henry Purcell, a strange, mesmerising and 
plaintive song by one of England's greatest composers. This was recorded 
shortly before Deller's death in 1979
 http://youtu.be/trOXaDeFeD4 http://youtu.be/trOXaDeFeD4
 

 Another countertenor with a beautiful singing voice is Paul Esswood. The New 
York composer Philip Glass cast him in the role of Akhnaten in his opera here 
in the 1980s. Esswood's voice seems a bit more fleshed out than most other 
countertenors, and is able to sing with more vibrato, a very expressive voice. 
He lives in England and also conducts.
 

 Paul Esswood, countertenor, singing a part from Monteverdi's opera 'The 
Coronation of Poppea' written about 1643.
 http://youtu.be/zAuxsIhixKI http://youtu.be/zAuxsIhixKI
 

 He has a website:
 http://www.esswood.co.uk http://www.esswood.co.uk

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

I reckon they just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough to offer 
Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 'em a hot foot to worn 'em 
about holding out.

Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to donate MORE money to the 
pundit program to cover the cost of repairing the building and of course to 
cover the cost of a fire prevention yagya.

Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place bein' so 
close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?

On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff.
 :-)
 
 

 From: Mike
 Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com
  To:
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 8:32 PM
  Subject: Re:
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   incense fell out of
 holder 
  
  On Monday, March 3,
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 blaze 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 before 5pm 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 arrival, the 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 Crews were on 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 sure the fire
  did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 unit has 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 and cause of
  the fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Ann, I see what you mean. But what if wearing your seat belt also protects 
passengers in your car. IOW, you're still behind the steering wheel and maybe 
steering. 


There's a very visceral scene in the Meryl Streep movie Adaptation. A car is 
going pretty slowly and suddenly collides and a body goes flying out through 
the windshield. Very motivating with regards to using seat belts, to say the 
least!




On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:47 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com 
awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.



On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:

 




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


Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there. 

Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!

You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  

You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my stance 
on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat belts!




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







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


Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.


I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with 
bull riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some 
extent.   



Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top 
of an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety 
vest hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is 
that redundant?).


I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.


No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not 
wearing a bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a 
safety vest to walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for 
unnecessarily endangering yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it 
comes to my own safety.





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







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


Definitely moving in that direction. (-:  


Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce 
those hard collisions at home plate.


But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  
Helmets for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played 
without them.  


How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? 
Frankly, I think bull
riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big deal now and 
virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they should. Damaging 
your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. One thing I do 
have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I think of all 
the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never once fell on 
my head, as hard as that might be to believe.


And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples 
may be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.


I think you are guessing dead wrong.


  I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for 
many years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they 
would want to get married. 


Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?


 But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who 
might have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might 
arise, well why don't you now get married


No, no. Silly notion.


And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting 
married does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.


Well, that's a relief.





---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote:


Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.



On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... 
wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

noozguru, isn't garlic also good for the heart?





On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:45 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
 
  
All things in context.  It is good for vata imbalances because it is heating.  
I also just heard this morning that mainstream medicine issued a report saying 
that garlic is effective in treating some viruses that have developed an 
immunity to antibiotics.

We used to have a great restaurant over here in the Easy Bay
  called Magic Garlic and we would frequently order a roasted
  large garlic clove to spreed on the bread as a treat.

On 03/03/2014 11:13 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:

  
Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

2014-03-03 Thread feste37

When I posted this I was wondering how long it would take for the first 
Heartless Bastard to respond, and what the order would be. I guessed it would 
be a three-horse race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin. Mike 
Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a neutral one, but then 
Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick succession, with Turq getting in just 31 
minutes before MJ. So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my 
Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them. 
 

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

 I reckon they just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough to offer 
Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 'em a hot foot to worn 'em 
about holding out.
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to donate MORE money to 
the pundit program to cover the cost of repairing the building and of course to 
cover the cost of a fire prevention yagya.
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place bein' so 
close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
 
 On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; 
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff.
 :-)
 
 
 
 From: Mike
 Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@...
 To:
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com;
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 8:32 PM
 Subject: Re:
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of
 holder 
 
 On Monday, March 3,
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 blaze 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 before 5pm 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 arrival, the 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 Crews were on 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 sure the fire
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 unit has 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 and cause of
 the fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

C'mon Feste! Get real - it is a legitimate comment to ask how such a thing 
could happen right near the Dome where such things are supposed NOT to happen 
if the ME is real (which it isn't) If the TMO is gonna take credit for Obama 
getting elected and other such events including weather, economy etc you should 
expect someone to say such things. 

OK - I admit the lack of butter oblations was sort of a cheap shot.

But in the vein of averting the danger AS it is arising, I offer this snippet 
of Global Good News, or at least San Francisco Good News:

Congratulations to activist parents! David Lynch Foundation's Quiet Time 
cover for TM was voted out of one San Francisco High School.

I am very, very happy to announce, NO MORE TM IN MY SON'S HIGH SCHOOL! 

I just received an email from the principal; the teachers voted to discontinue 
TM and will be considering a secular alternative for next year! Thank you, 
everyone, for all your support, information and insightful comments. TM has no 
place in a public school. Next, the district superintendent and the board of 
the unified school district! The first battle is won! On to the next! Many, 
many thanks, dear friends!

On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   When I posted this I was wondering how long it
 would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and
 what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse
 race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin.
 Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a
 neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick
 succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ.
 So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my
 Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them.
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@...
 wrote:
 
 I reckon they
 just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough
 to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave
 'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out.
 
 
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to
 donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of
 repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a
 fire prevention yagya.
 
 
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit
 place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya
 know?
 
 
  On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last
 night
 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 
 going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff.
 
 :-)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Mike
 
 Dixon mdixon.6569@...
 
 To:
 
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 
 8:32 PM
 
 Subject: Re:
 
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of
 
 holder 
 
 
 
 On Monday, March 3,
 
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 
 wrote:
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 
 blaze 
 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 
 before 5pm 
 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 
 arrival, the 
 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 
 Crews were on 
 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 
 sure the fire
 
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 
 unit has 
 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 
 and cause of
 
 the fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

After re-reading my post Feste I invite you to search your own heart. You think 
Hagelin et al WONT ask for donations to cover the cost of the damages? Wait 
and see. And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself who may 
have filled certain individuals with a great deal of energy when he wanted 
something from them and completely ignored the people who became mentally and 
emotionally dysfunctional, or the people who gave him every penny they had only 
to have him turn them away since they could no longer give him money?

I have been talking with someone raised in the Movement whose sidha wife 
attempted suicide twice and through him I found out about the at least dozen 
people he knew who DID commit suicide (all sidhas or governors) - Marshy and 
his sycophants deserve the award, not me and Turq.

On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   When I posted this I was wondering how long it
 would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and
 what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse
 race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin.
 Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a
 neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick
 succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ.
 So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my
 Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them.
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@...
 wrote:
 
 I reckon they
 just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough
 to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave
 'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out.
 
 
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to
 donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of
 repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a
 fire prevention yagya.
 
 
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit
 place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya
 know?
 
 
  On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last
 night
 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 
 going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff.
 
 :-)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Mike
 
 Dixon mdixon.6569@...
 
 To:
 
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 
 8:32 PM
 
 Subject: Re:
 
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of
 
 holder 
 
 
 
 On Monday, March 3,
 
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 
 wrote:
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 
 blaze 
 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 
 before 5pm 
 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 
 arrival, the 
 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 
 Crews were on 
 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 
 sure the fire
 
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 
 unit has 
 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 
 and cause of
 
 the fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

By the time I was in my early 30's, I had gotten 4 tickets for not wearing a 
seat belt (it was a secondary offense at that time). I found them constricting 
and was exercising my freedom not to wear them.  I paid the fines; the fines 
had no effect on my behavior at all.  Finally, I was sent to seat belt school 
where I learned and experienced, visually, mentally, and emotionally what the 
reality might be and what the stats were in terms of death and disability with 
and without their use, in the case of a major accident.  That had a huge effect 
and forever changed my behavior.  I would wear my seat belt whether it was the 
law or not.   
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ann, I see what you mean. But what if wearing your seat belt also protects 
passengers in your car. IOW, you're still behind the steering wheel and maybe 
steering. 
 

 There's a very visceral scene in the Meryl Streep movie Adaptation. A car is 
going pretty slowly and suddenly collides and a body goes flying out through 
the windshield. Very motivating with regards to using seat belts, to say the 
least!

 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:47 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

2014-03-03 Thread wleed3

I most always delete  their posts  wish them well , less karma on my side  
far less negative energy in reading or never replying so as not to cause them 
to negatively reply, let sleeping dogs lie




In a message dated 03/03/14 16:20:14 Eastern Standard Time, 
mjackso...@yahoo.com writes:
After re-reading my post Feste I invite you to search your own heart. You think 
Hagelin et al WONT ask for donations to cover the cost of the damages? Wait 
and see. And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself who may 
have filled certain individuals with a great deal of energy when he wanted 
something from them and completely ignored the people who became mentally and 
emotionally dysfunctional, or the people who gave him every penny they had only 
to have him turn them away since they could no longer give him money? 

I have been talking with someone raised in the Movement whose sidha wife 
attempted suicide twice and through him I found out about the at least dozen 
people he knew who DID commit suicide (all sidhas or governors) - Marshy and 
his sycophants deserve the award, not me and Turq. 
 
On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: 

Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM 














  

  



  



  
  
  When I posted this I was wondering how long it 
would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and 
what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse 
race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin. 
Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a 
neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick 
succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ. 
So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my 
Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them. 



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

I reckon they 
just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough 
to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 
'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out. 



Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to 
donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of 
repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a 
fire prevention yagya. 



Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit 
place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya 
know? 

 
 On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... 
wrote: 



Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last 
night 

To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 

Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM 

































  



















Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it 

came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab 

going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff. 

:-) 







From: Mike 

Dixon mdixon.6569@... 

To: 

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Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 

8:32 PM 

Subject: Re: 

[FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night 





  



















incense fell out of 

holder 



On Monday, March 3, 

2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 

wrote: 



  



















Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a 

blaze 

last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just 

before 5pm 

crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon 

arrival, the 

residential building was completely engulfed in flames. 

Crews were on 

the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making 

sure the fire 

did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing 

unit has 

nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin 

and cause of 

the fire haven’t been released. 



  









  











 

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[FairfieldLife] Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

Well, most of us know that but few of us do that.  However more research 
came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an article 
by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar.  He also touches on the argument about 
not all calories being the same.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html

We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim 
the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories 
than you take in.  Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig was 
on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception 
and why it doesn't work.   Part of it has to do with not all calories 
being the same.

Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):

http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcastid=4372is_corp=0

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

also called not willing to look at reality

On Mon, 3/3/14, wleed3 wle...@aol.com wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 9:26 PM

 I most always delete 
 their posts  wish them well , less karma on my side
  far less negative energy in reading or never replying
 so as not to cause them to negatively reply, let
 sleeping dogs lie

 In a message dated 03/03/14 16:20:14 Eastern Standard
 Time, mjackso...@yahoo.com writes:

 After re-reading my post Feste I invite you to search your
 own heart. You think Hagelin et al WONT ask for
 donations to cover the cost of the damages? Wait and see.
 And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself
 who may have filled certain individuals with a great deal of
 energy when he wanted something from them and completely
 ignored the people who became mentally and emotionally
 dysfunctional, or the people who gave him every penny they
 had only to have him turn them away since they could no
 longer give him money? 

 I have been talking with someone raised in the Movement
 whose sidha wife attempted suicide twice and through him I
 found out about the at least dozen people he knew who DID
 commit suicide (all sidhas or governors) - Marshy and his
 sycophants deserve the award, not me and Turq. 

 On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 wrote: 

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundi
  t campus last night 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM 

       When I posted this I was wondering how
 long it 
 would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and 
 what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse

 race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin. 
 Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a 
 neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick 
 succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ.

 So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my

 Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them.

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

 wrote: 

 I reckon they 
 just ran out of clar
  ified butter and didn't have enough 
 to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 
 'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out. 

 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to 
 donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of

 repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a

 fire prevention yagya. 

 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit

 place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya 
 know? 

  On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... 
 wrote: 

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last 
 night 

 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 

 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM 

 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it 

 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab 

 going up in flames. Real Breaking Bad stuff. 

 :-) 

 From: Mike 

 Dixon mdixon.6569@... 

 To: 

 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 

 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 

 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 

 8:32 PM 

 Subject: Re: 

 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night 

 incense fell out of 

 holder 

 On Monday, March 3, 

 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 

 wrote: 

 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a 
  BR
 blaze 

 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just 

 before 5pm 

 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon 

 arrival, the 

 residential building was completely engulfed in flames. 

 Crews were on 

 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making 

 sure the fire 

 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing 

 unit has 

 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin

 and cause of 

 the fire haven’t been released. 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

On 3/3/2014 10:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE APPEARING TO BE 
 RELAXING in the short term.
 
Maybe it's time to review what we know about basic TM:

Meditation means to think things over. So, TM meditation is based on 
thinking. Anyone who can think is probably already practicing a basic 
meditation. And, there's probably not a person on the entire planet that 
doesn't pause one or twice a day and take stock of their own mental 
contents. And, we're all transcending, even without a technique. TM is 
just like diving within - you just close your eyes and dive into your 
own mind and start thinking. TM is just a technique to take the right 
angle in the diving.

So, you tell me how THINKING is going to be extremely dangerous in the 
long term? Go figure.

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[FairfieldLife] Relief for Viet Nam veterans and Congolese refugees suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

2014-03-03 Thread Dick Mays

Relief for Viet Nam veterans and Congolese refugees suffering Post Traumatic 
Stress Disorder:




www.DavidLynchFoundation.org/Africa
www.Facebook.com/AfricanPTSDRelief
Twitter:  AfricaPTSRelief
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[FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!


 

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

 By the time I was in my early 30's, I had gotten 4 tickets for not wearing a 
seat belt (it was a secondary offense at that time). I found them constricting 
and was exercising my freedom not to wear them.  I paid the fines; the fines 
had no effect on my behavior at all.  Finally, I was sent to seat belt school 
where I learned and experienced, visually, mentally, and emotionally what the 
reality might be and what the stats were in terms of death and disability with 
and without their use, in the case of a major accident.  That had a huge effect 
and forever changed my behavior.  I would wear my seat belt whether it was the 
law or not.  

That is based on an informed decision. All I want is the continued right to 
make my own decisions on things like this. Seat belts definitely save thousands 
of lives. There is no question about that.
 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ann, I see what you mean. But what if wearing your seat belt also protects 
passengers in your car. IOW, you're still behind the steering wheel and maybe 
steering. 
 

 There's a very visceral scene in the Meryl Streep movie Adaptation. A car is 
going pretty slowly and suddenly collides and a body goes flying out through 
the windshield. Very motivating with regards to using seat belts, to say the 
least!

 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:47 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
stance on bike helmets is near sighted you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

And, now you've got 100 more euros in your pocket!

However, it might have come in handy as a way to transport your dogs to the
countryside for a run or to play ball. Do you have any countryside over
there where a dog could run free for a few minutes? My dog likes to get off
the leash a few times a week and run. So, I pack them in my Chevy van and
take them to a dog park or out in the country for some exercise so they can
run free. Go figure.

If Dogs Run Free - Bob Dylan
http://youtu.be/ZC-XgC1ZLo0



On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:03 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:



 It's really a cool way to travel. Recently, I realized that I was paying
 for a parking sticker for a car I hadn't used in a year, so I sold it.
 Don't have one now, don't miss having one.

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  *From:* steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com
 *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 *Sent:* Monday, March 3, 2014 5:31 PM

 *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


  Thanks Barry, I had not been aware of that.
 I know that here biking is not so much a part of how people get around
 than in EU countries.  Maybe that has something to do with it.  Bike
 helmets are very much encouraged in the US at least, and especially among
 children.  Actually, I do not wear one myself, except when I know I'm going
 to be going fast and on city streets.

 One of my company's best customers is one of the main bike advocates here.
  She is always in the paper debating, sometimes quite contentiously with
 other bike advocates on the best way to promote bike safety when riding in
 metropolitan areas.

 Her philosophy is to educate drivers to share the road, more than
 creating special bike lanes.

 I haven't followed all the debate, but I think she recently prevailed in a
 recent ordinance that was passed along these lines.

 Another funny twist on that, was that they got their motivation for biking
 when my wife and I along with our 6 or 7 year old son rode our bikes to
 their house one afternoon.  That seemed to spark something in them.

 Now they bike all over, using their bikes and public transportation.  Even
 though they are millionaires!




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

 Steve, with all due respect, I think that looking at the statistics
 you're referring to might not be as convincing as you think. That, as it
 turns out, is exactly what the Dutch government did when coming up with its
 rules and regs.

 The result of a statistical study across all of the EU revealed that
 countries that required helmets for bicycles and under-250cc scooters and
 motorbikes actually had significantly *higher* rates of injury and death
 than those that did not. As a result, you don't need a helmet for either
 type of device here. Haven't had to for over a decade, and the Dutch
 stats are still significantly lower than any of the countries surveyed.

 In all of the countries riders of real motorcycles need helmets. And bike
 riders here are required to have both front and back lights and warning
 bells.

 Some of this can be legitimately attributed to better infrastructure on
 the part of the Dutch, because in most cases bike and scooter riders never
 share roads with cars (they have their own lanes). But still, it's not as
 clear-cut a case for helmet wearing as some might think.

 --
  *From:* steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@...
 *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 *Sent:* Monday, March 3, 2014 4:14 PM
 *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either
 intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about
 having a near sighted view on safety!

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without
 helmets.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

On 3/3/2014 11:07 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used 
 as a term of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any 
 further.
 
It took a whole day for this thread to go off track and then turn into a 
crap shoot. Very impressive! Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you. 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II.
 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much 

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

 ...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble. Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II. 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


On 3/3/2014 11:09 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples.*

It looks like this thread is in tatters - it started out pretty good, 
about a singer guy, then just went to shit in a few hours. What would it 
take to keep you guys on topic? Go figure.



*
*
*(Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a kind 
and reasonable person. I got quite a giggle out of that.)

*

Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples 
if you replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it 
up if you want, or not. No matter to me.

*
*
*In tatters? Really? Do you have some examples?*




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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

That's OK, Feebie, you made my point for me once, you don't need to do it 
again. 

 Me thinks the lady doth protest too much
 

 ...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble. Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II. 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night


On 3/3/2014 1:38 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it came out that the cause 
of the fire was a pundit meth lab going up in flames. Real Breaking 
Bad stuff. :-)


Never pass up a tragedy in order to win an argument about your religion. 
Go figure.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!


On 3/3/2014 1:38 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Just boil some tea or take a walk or talk to a neighbor.


Some people actually feel better when they have someone to talk to. Go 
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[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

2014-03-03 Thread s3raphita

Re Ann's The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my 
book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental at 
all.:  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's Meditation means to think 
things over. So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.:
 If meditation means thinking then Transcendental Meditation suggests 
going beyond thinking. But meditation only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
meditation in a sense closer to western ideas of contemplation.

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

On 3/3/2014 1:32 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
 incense fell out of holder
 
Or, maybe an electric heater fell over? Do they have central heating in 
those shacks out in Vedic City? Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Well, of course you do! Anything to avoid dealing with the topic at issue 
(which you brought up, by the way) when you begin to have a little difficulty 
dealing with it. 

 I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you.  I 
don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II.
 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Okay, I guess my work is done here then.  Thank you.
 

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

 That's OK, Feebie, you made my point for me once, you don't need to do it 
again. 

 Me thinks the lady doth protest too much
 

 ...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble. Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II. 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

or a hug.  Hey,I wonder if.
 

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

 On 3/3/2014 1:38 PM, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:

  Just boil some tea or take a walk or talk to a neighbor. 
 Some people actually feel better when they have someone to talk to. Go figure.
 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

Yes, it's interesting, that video seemed to make those two fellows quite 
uncomfortable. I wonder why? Some unresolved issues, I guess. 
 

 Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples.
 
 It looks like this thread is in tatters - it started out pretty good, about a 
singer guy, then just went to shit in a few hours. What would it take to keep 
you guys on topic? Go figure. 
 (Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a kind and 
reasonable person. I got quite a giggle out of that.) 
 Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples if you 
replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it up if you want, 
or not. No matter to me.
 
 
 In tatters? Really? Do you have some examples?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

piece of.work, you are, Dame Judith!
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Well, of course you do! Anything to avoid dealing with the topic at issue 
(which you brought up, by the way) when you begin to have a little difficulty 
dealing with it. 

 I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you.  I 
don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term Feebs (nor the inappropriateness of your kind and reasonable 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you Feebs II.
 

 You are calling him, Feebs, for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, Huh?  What? (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

On 3/3/2014 1:13 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.
 
He said he quit TM because his mother fed him garlic when he was growing 
up. I've heard lots of reason for quitting TM but this one just takes 
the cake. LoL!

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[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

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

 Re Ann's The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.:  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's Meditation means to think 
things over. So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.:
 If meditation means thinking then Transcendental Meditation suggests 
going beyond thinking. But meditation only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
meditation in a sense closer to western ideas of contemplation.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM