[FairfieldLife] Re: In Case Dr.D Missed This One - Enjoy !
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Any grown up person who decides to learn something completely new is like a brother to me as I do that all the time, it is as if the freshness of the new reshapes the body. I play the flute but marvel at those guitar-players; how do they do it ?? All cudos to you for wanting to learn to play the guitar ! If you want my advice; do take a teacher. Sitting with a Master is a very interesting thing and will speed up the learning immensely. In case you can't afford one, or stuff, do as e.g. Eric Clapton did: record your playing and listen to it very carefully! I've been very reluctant to record my drum playing, but once I did it, it seemed to me some aspects of my playing improved drastically after that! In the case of, say, electronic drums, the possible Coach mode is very useful in improving various aspects of ones drum work... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsErTub8zI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsErTub8zI (Kinda depressing to watch someone who obviously nothing short of really can play drums, LoL!)
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
The DirecTV iPad app is great as a channel guide and remote control for the DirecTV receiver. OTOH, the DirecTV app's channel streaming totally sucks, but pumping the DirecTV receiver's audio and component video into a Belkin place-shifting device does a fantastic job of streaming all channels and DVR recordings to the iPad. The iPad in my bedroom is held in a SpiderArm, clamped to my bedside table, that holds it up in front of my face when I'm in bed. In the bedroom, I use it primarily as a TV and for doing the occasional web search or checking the weather. Flat on my back in bed, a tablet is actually the superior computer platform. Like I said, it's a niche product that does certain things very well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote : I've never understood why anyone would even *want* a tablet computer. I can think of only one reason to have one. Anything one can do on the Net I can do with either my laptop or my iPhone. Why would I ever need an iPhone with a bigger screen (which, if you think about it, is kinda the definition of a tablet computer)? The only reason I can think of to own one is that there has actually been a lot of cool educational software developed for the iPads and similar tablets. For a kid, a touchscreen is a plus. For the rest of us, it's an inconvenience. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB I went the other way and my new low end gadget is a Firefox OS phone which arrived yesterday. It's a ZTE Open and recommended by Mozilla as a test device for developing apps for the OS. Firefox OS apps are HTML5 and mainly written in Javascript. Thing is you can also run these apps on Android and iPhone too and probably a Windows 8 phone. The target market for Firefox phones are emerging countries where they can't even afford Android phones. They are even planning on a $25 smartphone for that market. There are some quirks with the OS so far. Firefox doesn't display Neo properly and the right side of messages are cut off. On Android I look at FFL in Neo with Chrome which handles it fine. In some cases like looking at the Firefox Marketplace the one button to go back just takes you out of the app itself. Good points are the battery life seems good. The phone is also GSM so if I want to try it as a phone I can just use the SIM card from the Android phone. Otherwise it works fine with wifi. Also it comes with built in FM receiver. Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset. I also have two Android tablets and an Android Tegra Shield game device. On 03/18/2014 05:48 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com mailto:doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
Different strokes for different folks. Some folks don't want to lug even a laptop with them but a phone is too small. The Samsung Galaxy Note series has become popular because they are size wise in between a phone screen and a tablet. My friends who used to work at Microsoft and said they would never have any use for a smartphone both have them and were on them as much as any teenager the last time they visited here. :-D And old fogy boomer don't understand the millennials who don't even own TVs and watch their entertainment on their phones or tablets. On 03/18/2014 10:59 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: I've never understood why anyone would even *want* a tablet computer. I can think of only one reason to have one. Anything one can do on the Net I can do with either my laptop or my iPhone. Why would I ever need an iPhone with a bigger screen (which, if you think about it, is kinda the definition of a tablet computer)? The only reason I can think of to own one is that there has actually been a lot of cool educational software developed for the iPads and similar tablets. For a kid, a touchscreen is a plus. For the rest of us, it's an inconvenience. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:14 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB I went the other way and my new low end gadget is a Firefox OS phone which arrived yesterday. It's a ZTE Open and recommended by Mozilla as a test device for developing apps for the OS. Firefox OS apps are HTML5 and mainly written in Javascript. Thing is you can also run these apps on Android and iPhone too and probably a Windows 8 phone. The target market for Firefox phones are emerging countries where they can't even afford Android phones. They are even planning on a $25 smartphone for that market. There are some quirks with the OS so far. Firefox doesn't display Neo properly and the right side of messages are cut off. On Android I look at FFL in Neo with Chrome which handles it fine. In some cases like looking at the Firefox Marketplace the one button to go back just takes you out of the app itself. Good points are the battery life seems good. The phone is also GSM so if I want to try it as a phone I can just use the SIM card from the Android phone. Otherwise it works fine with wifi. Also it comes with built in FM receiver. Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset. I also have two Android tablets and an Android Tegra Shield game device. On 03/18/2014 05:48 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com mailto:doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
These devices all assume some knowledge of portable devices. I guess it is that no one ever reads manuals so they dispensed with them but you might want to check for an online PDF manual. Also companies feel extreme pressure to rush things out before they are ready or someone else will beat them to it. Not like software development of 20 years ago where you never ship a product before it's time. These days the devices are connected so bugs can be fixed quickly and of course they want us to run cloud apps so when you run them they always have the latest version. New paradigms. I've always had to tweak my mobile apps to make the interface more obvious than necessary. People can be really dense sometimes like not knowing that something most people would recognize as a button really is a button and will pop up a list of options. Or that the menu button or icon on a mobile device also works with apps not just the system. The heated argument I got into young developers with was that some apps really NEED an exit option. Otherwise you sometimes have to hit the back button WAY TOO MANY TIMES to get out of it. On 03/18/2014 11:06 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: 'Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset.' Just ran into my latest, using the camera. The camera itself, rocks - great tool, but, then, I somehow set it on video, and couldn't find a way, to reset it, back to photo. Had to google it, and turns out, that unique to *this* app's interface, a swiping upward motion is needed, over the name of the mode you are selecting - wtf? It worked, but not intuitive *at all*. I am beginning to understand its personality, and did finally get it to stfu, about wanting to enable its GPS - my answer is still nada on that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I went the other way and my new low end gadget is a Firefox OS phone which arrived yesterday. It's a ZTE Open and recommended by Mozilla as a test device for developing apps for the OS. Firefox OS apps are HTML5 and mainly written in Javascript. Thing is you can also run these apps on Android and iPhone too and probably a Windows 8 phone. The target market for Firefox phones are emerging countries where they can't even afford Android phones. They are even planning on a $25 smartphone for that market. There are some quirks with the OS so far. Firefox doesn't display Neo properly and the right side of messages are cut off. On Android I look at FFL in Neo with Chrome which handles it fine. In some cases like looking at the Firefox Marketplace the one button to go back just takes you out of the app itself. Good points are the battery life seems good. The phone is also GSM so if I want to try it as a phone I can just use the SIM card from the Android phone. Otherwise it works fine with wifi. Also it comes with built in FM receiver. Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset. I also have two Android tablets and an Android Tegra Shield game device. On 03/18/2014 05:48 AM, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Case Dr.D Missed This One - Enjoy !
I will keep these suggestions in mind. For now, to master the basics, I have an excellent piece of software, Rock Prodigy - Courses 1 to 4 - all on my iPAD, now. It not only teaches guitar, but also music theory, notation, and many other aspects of music, I have yet to discover. Quite challenging, but very well done. I used to produce on-line learning courses, and this one is consistent with professional standards. After that, who knows? Thanks for the tips. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Any grown up person who decides to learn something completely new is like a brother to me as I do that all the time, it is as if the freshness of the new reshapes the body. I play the flute but marvel at those guitar-players; how do they do it ?? All cudos to you for wanting to learn to play the guitar ! If you want my advice; do take a teacher. Sitting with a Master is a very interesting thing and will speed up the learning immensely. In case you can't afford one, or stuff, do as e.g. Eric Clapton did: record your playing and listen to it very carefully! I've been very reluctant to record my drum playing, but once I did it, it seemed to me some aspects of my playing improved drastically after that! In the case of, say, electronic drums, the possible Coach mode is very useful in improving various aspects of ones drum work... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsErTub8zI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsErTub8zI (Kinda depressing to watch someone who obviously nothing short of really can play drums, LoL!)
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Case Dr.D Missed This One - Enjoy !
Thanks, Nabby! Yeah, I love learning new stuff - I have also been looking for an artistic expression, that fits my personality. I enjoy the visual arts, but the performance and the audience are separate, and so another step must be taken, to organize the exhibition, attract people, rent space, etc. With music, I can play anywhere, and if I am good, it will make people happy, and that is why I want to do it. I want to reach people's hearts, but not through words - music is far more insidious, and subversive, very intimate, yet, non-threatening.:-) I will still keep up with my visual arts, too, since the one complements the other. Bonus: the iPAD has superior throughput for vids, so I can watch your links, without endless buffering. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Any grown up person who decides to learn something completely new is like a brother to me as I do that all the time, it is as if the freshness of the new reshapes the body. I play the flute but marvel at those guitar-players; how do they do it ?? All cudos to you for wanting to learn to play the guitar ! If you want my advice; do take a teacher. Sitting with a Master is a very interesting thing and will speed up the learning immensely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhqqEfiO3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhqqEfiO3Q Other guitar heros include these two obvious fellows, the chap at the left is actually a master-guitarist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRYQz_ramI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRYQz_ramI A guitarist extraordinare: Bill Frisell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-1Euq2RBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-1Euq2RBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nzloBmuPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nzloBmuPE Guitar-playing on a high level: John Scofield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPGdjZr8PI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPGdjZr8PI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCyb_jGAMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCyb_jGAMo (Snake Dance) Another American guitarist of high esteem is Ry Cooder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-e0XvZHYGAlist=RD_oYzxkfzJZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-e0XvZHYGAlist=RD_oYzxkfzJZ0 Enjoy !
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras
Judy Thanks for the heads up! Bhairitu Thanks for the history of beej mantras. As a meditator / siddha for 37 years I still am fascinated with the history of yoga and veda. In spite of the mud slinging here at FFL, I find this group largely educational and rewarding. There has been so much mystery surrounding the practice that I have been very open minded about learning from many NON TM sources as well as “being on the program”. Learning more about the source of beej mantras and sri vidya might no more help me than to win a bar bet. It’s not necessary information, but it is interesting information. I find myself comfortably and permanently ensconced between the TB and Rabid Detractors in this community. Between the shitbombs of adhomin grits flying throw the internet, there's a lot to learn here (and occasional fun). YMMV Gotta go marathon watch the last 4 episodes of Season 2 of House of Cards!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: First sane theory about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
On 3/18/2014 10:51 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Just in general, if you haven't been following the story closely all along, it doesn't behoove you to make pronouncements on the quality of the current non-woo-woo theories. In fact, to do so, especially with such know-it-all arrogance, makes you look even more foolish than the woo-wooists. Maybe Barry should start out by just reading a few newspapers. A pilot or a co-pilot can't key in a new route on the plane's computer if they're already dead. This plane wasn't being steered by a novice. Go figure. WASHINGTON — The first turn to the west that diverted the missing Malaysia Airlines plane from its planned flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was carried out through a computer system that was most likely programmed by someone in the plane’s cockpit who was knowledgeable about airplane systems, according to senior American officials... New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html?_r=0 WTF is *wrong* with commentators and conspiracy nuts that they forget about fuckin' Occam's Razor and common sense?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things On 3/18/2014 10:55 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: *Wow, Barry, you're /awfully/ hard up if you have to slam Carl Sagan in order to take a shot at me.* * *Speaking of Woo Woo, I wonder why Barry doesn't want to talk about the Rama levitation? There is the human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things. LoL! See what I mean about cultists and retards self-identifying by getting all reactive in response to generic raps that don't even mention them? So far today that includes Richard, Doctordumb, Ann, and now Judy. Do less, accomplish more. :-) :-) :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
On 3/18/2014 12:38 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: The number of Windows Surface apps, compared to Apple apps, is like comparing a glass of water, to an ocean, and since this thing runs on downloads, it is ridiculous to spend money on the Microsoft product. go figure. You can run any Windows app on a Surface Pro. Compared to Adobe apps, Apple apps are just for beginners - there's only so much you can do with a touch screen - I wouldn't touch one if you paid me. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City
These particular practiced ministerial communitarian spiritual Unity people I spoke with are busy at it providing services to people with younger families now and looking out for the elderly who are still active but potentially in transition; the older who though elderly are independent and well before needing nursing homes or hospice end-of-life. Talking with these active ministers is like talking with the active David Lynch Foundation TM teachers and some of the successful TM.org field teachers now. They have a lot of shakti in their work. In talking with these active Unity ministers it's like what we have seen in TM, that the WWII generation that recognized what was going on spiritually and shared their success and support by the checkbook is pretty much demographically gone now. The traditional WWII generation is pretty much gone now. Now the baby-boom, the “spiritual but not-religious” atheistic individualistic 'in-it-for-yours-truly' sorts are not yet there to supporting altruistically much good in community works. A couple of the California ministers were saying a challenge in Marin Co. California where they live is that only 4 percent of their populations attend a church. 4 percent. The rest? They go hiking for themselves, have membership in fitness centers, and may be go to a yoga studio for their community and spirituality. These ministers I interviewed over coffee were front-line with active large communities who were visiting back on a conference at Unity Village sharing their movement's challenge. Within TM we have seen this trend too as our TM elders who facilitated the late 1950's, 60's, and 1970's TM movement with Maharishi have pretty much all passed away now with their check-books gone too. There are some baby-boomers who are able and community minded with resources but they are fewer now too from the heady days of a few years ago. A lot of the upper-middle-class TM meditators left the TM movement in the 1990's. Likewise, a security person there reflecting on the Unity Village campus spoke in 3rd person about how just 10 years ago Unity V. was still a happening hopping place with a lot of people there and has really since dropped off to not much now in the last five years or so. The challenge the Unity movement see there with these elders-in-transition is that those deeper and sustaining check-books move with these elderly and consequently those deeper check-books move away from supporting their local Unity churches and the larger Unity movement; the baby-boomers are not as able or interested in keeping up the support behind their parents. Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity foundation boards of trustees are dealing with is trying to keep engaged whatever subsequent stalwart-generational members there are of their Unity Churches out in the world so that when those folks [baby-boom] pass away some of their check-books can come to support the physical-plant of even their Unity mecca -Unity Village in Kansas. Om, I was in Unity last nite and meditated there this morning too. Unity Village, Kansas City. Was there last week too passing through. It was really a nice place to meditate. The chapels were nice places to meditate. They were a bunch of spiritual transcendentalists that came out also at the time of the New Thought Movements [google New Thought later for the fun of it] of the late 19th and early 20th Century who though fundamentally transcendentalists in experience couched themselves in 'practical christianity'. Was a big deal in its time. Unity Village in Kansas City, Mo. is sort of like Fairfield, Iowa is now to the TM movement in the USA. An artifact of a time. -Buck back in the Meditating Community of Fairfield, Iowa . . .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras
On 3/18/2014 12:42 PM, ultrarishi wrote: If there is a picture of said yantra, has any one alliterated it with arrows pointing to what I would assume to be sanskrit markings and labels saying this (insert mantra here, ram, e.g. or shiam). There are excellent diagrams in Susan Schumsky's book with the bija mantras shown in Sanskrit on the petals of the Sri Yantra. Dr. Shumsky served on MMY's personal staff for many years - personally trained by MMY to teach yoga and meditation. Exploring Meditation: Master the Ancient Art of Relaxation and Enlightenment by Susan G. Shumsky New Page Books, 2001 Amazon usually ships within 24 hours http://tinyurl.com/xhjb I've done some google image searches, but have found nothing. Inquiring minds want to know.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
On 3/18/2014 12:59 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: The only reason I can think of to own one is that there has actually been a lot of cool educational software developed for the iPads and similar tablets. For a kid, a touchscreen is a plus. For the rest of us, it's an inconvenience. Most schools are replacing Windows PCs and Apple devices with Google Chromebooks. Google's laptops -- made by Samsung and Acer -- are now the two top sellers on Amazon.com, and six out of the top 14 are Google Chromebooks. Talk to many schools and you'll see them either throwing out Microsoft and Apple products already, or plotting to replace them with Chromebooks in the next year or two. 'Why Google's Chromebook Is Better than Windows, Mac and Android' http://www.thestreet.com/why-googles-chromebook-is-better-than-windows-mac-and-android/ http://www.thestreet.com/story/12480667/1/why-googles-chromebook-is-better-than-windows-mac-and-android.html?puc=yahoocm_ven=YAHOO
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City
In Unity congregations, serving both the families with children and the elderly-in-transition are strategies intertwined for a succession. Likewise TM [Maharishi Foundation] is very consciously looking at teaching TM again to student populations which was so long neglected by the TM-sidhis centric movement of Bevan and Maharishi's administration for years and recent decades gone by now. The Unity ministers recognized too that the generation of the 1980-90's got skipped, the X-er's neglecting within their studies the liberal arts, the classics and spirituality for their MBA's and other technical and professional degrees got missed entirely by spiritual movements. . The lost generation. These particular practiced ministerial communitarian spiritual Unity people I spoke with are busy at it providing services to people with younger families now and looking out for the elderly who are still active but potentially in transition; the older who though elderly are independent and well before moving to assisted living, moving away to where their kids live, or to nursing homes or hospice end-of-life. Talking with these active ministers is like talking with the active David Lynch Foundation TM teachers and some of the successful TM.org field teachers now. They have a lot of shakti in their work. In talking with these active Unity ministers it's like what we have seen in TM, that the WWII generation that recognized what was going on spiritually and shared their success and support by the checkbook is pretty much demographically gone now. The traditional WWII generation is pretty much gone now. Now the baby-boom, the “spiritual but not-religious” atheistic individualistic 'in-it-for-yours-truly' sorts are not yet there to supporting altruistically much good in community works. A couple of the California ministers were saying a challenge in Marin Co. California where they live is that only 4 percent of their populations attend a church. 4 percent. The rest? They go hiking for themselves, have membership in fitness centers, and may be go to a yoga studio for their community and spirituality. These ministers I interviewed over coffee were front-line with active large communities who were visiting back on a conference at Unity Village sharing their movement's challenge. Within TM we have seen this trend too as our TM elders who facilitated the late 1950's, 60's, and 1970's TM movement with Maharishi have pretty much all passed away now with their check-books gone too. There are some baby-boomers who are able and community minded with resources but they are fewer now too from the heady days of a few years ago. A lot of the upper-middle-class TM meditators left the TM movement in the 1990's. Likewise, a security person there reflecting on the Unity Village campus spoke in 3rd person about how just 10 years ago Unity V. was still a happening hopping place with a lot of people there and has really since dropped off to not much now in the last five years or so. The challenge the Unity movement see there with these elders-in-transition is that those deeper and sustaining check-books move with these elderly and consequently those deeper check-books move away from supporting their local Unity churches and the larger Unity movement; the baby-boomers are not as able or interested in keeping up the support behind their parents. Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity foundation boards of trustees are dealing with is trying to keep engaged whatever subsequent stalwart-generational members there are of their Unity Churches out in the world so that when those folks [baby-boom] pass away some of their check-books can come to support the physical-plant of even their Unity mecca -Unity Village in Kansas. Om, I was in Unity last nite and meditated there this morning too. Unity Village, Kansas City. Was there last week too passing through. It was really a nice place to meditate. The chapels were nice places to meditate. They were a bunch of spiritual transcendentalists that came out
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Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
wtf? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 3/18/2014 12:38 PM, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: The number of Windows Surface apps, compared to Apple apps, is like comparing a glass of water, to an ocean, and since this thing runs on downloads, it is ridiculous to spend money on the Microsoft product. go figure. You can run any Windows app on a Surface Pro. Compared to Adobe apps, Apple apps are just for beginners - there's only so much you can do with a touch screen - I wouldn't touch one if you paid me. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Springtime is Wartime for Washington
See? Even Bhairitu is against welfare, the rich supporting the poor. Now, it won't be a few rich hippies dictating what part of California secedes and joins up with whoever. It'll be Hispanics that decide if they join Mexico. Now here in Texas, we remember the Alamo! On Monday, March 17, 2014 9:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: No, we Californians want to secede and form a new country probably taking in Oregon and Washington. Oh, SoCal can join Mexico though. Why secede? Because the Red States are getting more money back from the feds than Blue California and we pay in a lot. And California has one of the largest economies in world. On 03/17/2014 07:23 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: And ... and and if the people of California want to secede and be part of Mexico again, what's wrong with that? On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:06 AM, Mike Dixon mailto:mdixon.6...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, I'm sure the people of Austria and the Sudetenland wanted to be annexed as well back in the 30's. No biggie there. On Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:59 PM, mailto:steve.sun...@yahoo.com mailto:steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote : Yes, I'd dispose of the nest for sure. Look online...gotta bb gun? yes, whole arsenal of bb and pellet guns. (backyard activity) (no animals though) have you ever seen aerosol paint cans explode? They've probably made a real mess in there. understatement!! Wear a mask, maybe. yes, definitely I had mice that came in the kitchen every year while we were on vacation in Whistler. I would have to remove and clean everything and set traps. I killed 7 one year in short order with peanut butter. And we caught a few and took them to a nearby park. And, the cat did a bang up job outside with mice and moles for several years. Then, after about a month, they would leave and I wouldn't see them until the next year. I couldn't figure how they were getting in until I had water damage and found out there was a big hole in the drywall behind the sink. Problem solved. I wasn't a fan of poison but it was a huge hassle. doesn't take much of an opening, to create an opening, if you know what I mean. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote : They've got the run of the whole length of the eves, and I have access to only one little part. I think I will remove the nest, unblock the hole and try to coax them out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote : Yeah, either that or just take the nest out. They might have to abandon this year's chicks, but hopefully the birds will relocate. It would be a lot easier if they find a new home. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote : Great Idea. I can get to the next. It is reachable. And I can open the window during the day. So, I'll put the nest next to the window. Thanks ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote : Can you get to the nest? Open the window. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote : Yes, I guess that would be a problem. Here's what I was faced with today, (and I don't mean to belittle the Crimean Tatars), I am trying to fix up a building we own and turn it into rental property. There was an area in the eves where a family of pigeons was getting in. With all the noise, I thought they had left, and I blocked up the hole yesterday with some bricks. But this morning I saw two of them running around, and a nest with two eggs in it. I also saw that the eves area was much larger than I thought, so there was no way to try to catch them, or shoo them out of a window. So, I am resigned, I think to just let them die there. But because the wall is all torn out, I may go up tomorrow, and open a window, and see if they will fly out. But truthfully, I also think they may just be a casualty of the circumstances. So, how far do we, or the international community go, to make sure the Crimea Tatars aren't oppressed? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:punditster@... wrote : On 3/16/2014 6:36 PM, steve.sundur@... wrote: If the people of Crimea wish to be a part of Russia, why is it that big of a deal? Maybe because the indigenous inhabitants, the Crimean Tatars, want to be free and not deported to Siberia gain?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ‘Pirated’ Boeing 777 may return t o skies as stealth nuclear weapon
Or maybe only the best Christians were on board and that was the rapture and everybody else was *left behind*. On Monday, March 17, 2014 2:52 PM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Maybe there were some TMers on board and they foolishly did the flying sutra during prog, thus altering local gravity and sent the plane into orbit? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi@... wrote : My friends are all talking about a UFO connection.the entire plane was beamed up
[FairfieldLife] Sweet Baby Rhino Dreams
Yusuf, a keeper, sleeps with three orphaned baby rhinos at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. The youngest rhino on the right was orphaned when poachers killed his mother on Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The largest rhino, Nicky, is not an orphan but is being hand-raised because her mother is partially blind. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/18/faces-of-the-day-105/ http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/18/faces-of-the-day-105/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sri Yantra and Mantras
Thanks, Richard! This sounds like what I am looking for. I will put it on the Kindle tonight.
[FairfieldLife] Photos of Maharishi from 1958 to 1968
A unique collection of Maharishi photos. The video is about 20 minutes long and there is some repetition in it. Published on May 18, 2013 Photos from Pearl Shipman's collection. Pearl was Maharishi's secretary when he came to Hawaii. Maharishi stayed at Chuck and Pearl Shipmans' house. The slideshow includes photos of Maharishi in Hawaii from 1958 -1968 and pictures from his stays in Lake Tahoe, LA, Squaw Valley and India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfddgH-ieIfeature=share
[FairfieldLife] Re: Why some people are REALLY bothered by others who might feel special
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Ego competition, of course. There are a couple of people on here, always ranting and raving against others, who, they insist, are involved in all things spiritual, ONLY because, it makes them feel special. I have always thought it was the mightiest of assumptions to know what someone else is thinking. Nonetheless, I am curious, not about what drives a person's feelings of specialness, but why another person would bring this up as some kind of personal sin against *themselves*, for years. On and on - ranting and raving, for days, weeks, months and years. Pretty funny when it becomes clear, the one denigrating others for feeling special, is doing so, because, they don't like the competition. Who cares if someone else feels, special? Seriously, who cares? And if someone is feeling inappropriately special, what is the alternative being proposed? Oh, right, there isn't one - simply a case of jealousy, and ego competition. No alternative is ever proposed, except that the perceived special one, STFU. SO if you see anyone around here, getting down on anyone who might feel special, ask yourselves why. The answer is because the one making the accusation, is feeling *extra* special, and doesn't like the competition, from those who are not seeing this critic's self-righteous view of the world, as they bloody well should. What a spiritually unenlightened viewpoint. Such thinking is the antithesis of this forum. Someone who criticizes others, strongly and regularly, for being special, or for believing in God, or for not seeing the world as they do, or for speaking too much about enlightenment - It appears such a person continues on a forum like this, because their differing opinions are strongly outweighed by their loneliness. There is no attempt to provide alternatives - just bash, bash, bash, as if they are saying, All of the negatives I am pointing out, are to turn you attention back to me. What lengths some of us will go to, simply for a little attention, and love.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sri Yantra and Mantras
On 3/18/2014 8:34 PM, ultrarishi wrote: Thanks, Richard! This sounds like what I am looking for. I will put it on the Kindle tonight. In the Shankaracharya tradition, the Adi Shankara is supposed to have engaged pundits in several important debates. One of the first such debates took place in Kambhoja, which is in the region of North Kashmere, with a tantrik, Navagupta, at Kamarupa. According to Swami Tapasyananda , Shankara visited the Sarvajna Pitha (Sharada Peeth), which is in Kashmir (now Pakistan). Some Shankara initiates, Shankara went up to Kashmere where was initiated into Kashmere Tantrism and it was in Kashmere that he acquired the Sri Yantra. This Northern tradition of Sri Yantra was taken to South India and thus became the Sri Vidya school. The Sri Yantra is the object of devotion in Sri Vidya. Sri Vidya focuses worship on Devi in the form of the goddess Lalita-Tripurasundari, who is regarded as the Great Goddess (Mahadevi). Rooted in first-millennium Kashmir, Srikula became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and is today the prevalent form of Shaktism practiced in South Indian regions such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Tamil areas of Sri Lanka - the symbol of Srikula adepts most often worship Lalita using the abstract Sri Chakra yantra, which is regarded as her subtle form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaktism In fact, according to my research, all the MMY mantras come from the Sri Vidya tradition which is in turn based on the Shat Chakra Nirupana, which elaborates on the seven chakras corresponding to the seven states of consciousness in the subtle body. You will find illustrations of the chakras along with the vertical axis of the spine and the various petals that emanate from each chakra, and the diagram of the Sri Yantra mandala. There are numerous commentaries explaining the esoteric meaning of the Sri Yantra and the mode of worship, such as the commentary by Lakshmidhara on Sound Arya Lahari and on the Ananda Lahari, both composed by the Adi Shankara. There is a chapter in the Tripura Upanishad and one in the Bhavano Upanishad and the importance of the importance given to the worship of Sri Yantra. Worship of the Sri Yantra is as interesting as it is complex: it is ritualistic, abstract and esoteric, and yet the Sri Yantra is one of the most meaningful and useful symbols that has been handed down to us from the Adi Shankaracharya: The essence of the vibration is the ecstatic self-recurrent consciousness. Impelled by universal welfare, the Adi Shankara gave great importance to Sakti worship. And to this end, the Adi Shankara installed a Sri Yantra in at places of Sakti worship. The very quintessence of the Sri Vidya is a chapter which deals with the fundamentals of the ancient mystic syllables that constitute Devi worship and the relevance of simple worship of Sri Saraswati - Lalita - Tripurasundari and the place where the Sri Yantra is installed. There is also the life story of Bhaskararaya which shows how effective are the mystic diagram and the mantras used in the meditation on Devi Shakti. The most complex yantra, like the Oregon yantra, is the Shri Yantra of the tantric school of Sri Vidya. Khanna says that the structure of this yantra is described in the Shankara's Saundaryalahari (Wave of Beauty). Mantras, the Sanskrit syllables inscribed on yantras, are essentially 'thought forms' representing divinities or cosmic powers, which exert their influence by means of sound-vibrations. Works cited: 'The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism' by Douglas Renfrew Brooks University Of Chicago Press, 1998 pp. 88-90 'Sankara-Dig-Vijaya' by Swami Tapasyananda Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1996 pp. 160–185. 'Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity' by Madhu Khanna Inner Traditions, 2003 p. 21
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sweet Baby Rhino Dreams
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Yusuf, a keeper, sleeps with three orphaned baby rhinos at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. The youngest rhino on the right was orphaned when poachers killed his mother on Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The largest rhino, Nicky, is not an orphan but is being hand-raised because her mother is partially blind. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/18/faces-of-the-day-105/ http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/18/faces-of-the-day-105/ Thank God that for every poacher, for every animal abuser, for every human who finds pleasure in tormenting another animal there are 500 who will give their time, energy and intention to rid the world of unnecessary suffering of those splendid, loving, rare creatures that surround us. Just look at that sleeping rhino's eye and understand he/she dreams of nothing more threatening and harmful than the plains of Africa or where to forage for its next vegetarian meal. And those ears - little trumpets. The rings around the eyes that make one so young look so old - almost as old as the dinosaurs. But the horn, the thing that dooms this little fellow and others like him because of some antiquated notion of magic potion that enhances fertility. If anyone wants to get excited about woo woo let this be the cause that might compel one to counteract such ignorance with a vengeance.
[FairfieldLife] Mediating The Crimea
“The single most profound application of my Vedic Science and Technology is through the collective practice of the TM-Sidhi Programme” -Maharishi [Absolute Theory of Defence: Sovereignty in Invincibility: p. 83] Create Coherence in Collective Consciousness and Eliminate Collective Stress, You Can Make a Difference; Avert the Danger Before it Comes.. I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. II “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Damn the Torpedoes, Come to Meditation, -Buck
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City
Transcending Meditation, TM ? One of the Unity ministers from California told of an active younger Unity laity minister who just started TM that found it very helpful.. Everyone older at the coffee table discussion acknowledged starting TM back in the day, “Oh yes, TM everyone [they] started with that years ago.. tried and true”. “Nice technique well taught”. . But in their spiritual lives they went on to other things spiritual like affecting healing-prayer and meditation sort of like Patanjali TM-sidhis of the subtle system in practice of healing and prayer in a higher level of spiritual practice and service. In Unity congregations, serving both the families with children and the elderly-in-transition are strategies intertwined for a succession. Likewise TM [Maharishi Foundation] is very consciously looking at teaching TM again to student populations which was so long neglected by the TM-sidhis centric movement of Bevan and Maharishi's administration for years and recent decades gone by now. The Unity ministers recognized too that the generation of the 1980-90's got skipped, the X-er's neglecting within their studies the liberal arts, the classics and spirituality for their MBA's and other technical and professional degrees got missed entirely by spiritual movements. . The lost generation. These particular practiced ministerial communitarian spiritual Unity people I spoke with are busy at it providing services to people with younger families now and looking out for the elderly who are still active but potentially in transition; the older who though elderly are independent and well before moving to assisted living, moving away to where their kids live, or to nursing homes or hospice end-of-life. Talking with these active ministers is like talking with the active David Lynch Foundation TM teachers and some of the successful TM.org field teachers now. They have a lot of shakti in their work. In talking with these active Unity ministers it's like what we have seen in TM, that the WWII generation that recognized what was going on spiritually and shared their success and support by the checkbook is pretty much demographically gone now. The traditional WWII generation is pretty much gone now. Now the baby-boom, the “spiritual but not-religious” atheistic individualistic 'in-it-for-yours-truly' sorts are not yet there to supporting altruistically much good in community works. A couple of the California ministers were saying a challenge in Marin Co. California where they live is that only 4 percent of their populations attend a church. 4 percent. The rest? They go hiking for themselves, have membership in fitness centers, and may be go to a yoga studio for their community and spirituality. These ministers I interviewed over coffee were front-line with active large communities who were visiting back on a conference at Unity Village sharing their movement's challenge. Within TM we have seen this trend too as our TM elders who facilitated the late 1950's, 60's, and 1970's TM movement with Maharishi have pretty much all passed away now with their check-books gone too. There are some baby-boomers who are able and community minded with resources but they are fewer now too from the heady days of a few years ago. A lot of the upper-middle-class TM meditators left the TM movement in the 1990's. Likewise, a security person there reflecting on the Unity Village campus spoke in 3rd person about how just 10 years ago Unity V. was still a happening hopping place with a lot of people there and has really since dropped off to not much now in the last five years or so. The challenge the Unity movement see there with these elders-in-transition is that those deeper and sustaining check-books move with these elderly and consequently those deeper check-books move away from supporting their local Unity churches and the larger Unity movement; the baby-boomers are not as able or interested in keeping up the support behind their parents. Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think crop circles are 100% human artefacts. It has been show how easy it is to make them. The explanation that they are made by an alien intelligence is a highly improbable explanation. From a scientific point of view, ignoring this explanation is standard procedure unless a much higher quality source of evidence is discovered. If this is the way they, the aliens, are attempting to communicate with us, it is incredibly stupid. If they really wanted us to know they exist, they would be a lot more direct than doing what is incredibly ambiguous as far a means of communication. It could be that all the aged cheese one finds in markets packaged in plastic neat rectangular blocks is some kind of digital code being communicated to us by aliens, because aged cheese is normally found in wax-covered wheels. Wait a minute! Wheels of cheese are round, just like crop circles. Oh boy. We are really on to something here. The moon is round, wheel-shaped too. Nabby, you need better evidence. Methinks Nabby's Space Brothers are the retards of the universe, just as Benny Creme followers are the retards of Earth. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : Quite revealing post from the Turq. He does not include in his universe even the possebilities that real Crop Circles excist. Why are some people so stuck in Kali Yuga that change is ruled out once and for all ? Is it a Buddhist misunderstanding shining through, after all they believe that Sat Yuga will only happen in 310111 years from now, or some such absurd number. One can but feel sorry for these souls. About 5% of the Crop Circles are manmade. It is but impossible to judge if one is real or faking from a picture, it must be analyzed on the ground. Its fake if the straws are broken not bent and if it layed down with perfect symmetries or if the ground is muddy. The Crop Circles are happening all over the world and is a project in corraboration between our Space Brothers and Maitreya to prepare Mankind for completely new sources of energy that we soon will be able to enjoy, independent of sources of energy known to man today. Unfortunately, for some souls dedicated to old, outdated and stale religions these huge leaps of progress for mankind will not be enjoyed in this lifetime.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra
From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra Judy, you may be right. But there is just one thing. People have been know to be petty, and to take petty disputes to unreasonable lengths. Do you sort of know what I mean? Good point. This is the insight that writers like John Le Carré and Len Deighton brought to the world of spy fiction. People don't betray their countries because of principle, or politics -- they do it for petty reasons, like not getting that promotion they were hoping for, or because someone is banging their wife. There is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification (internally, anyway) for their odd behavior. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Why it makes no sense to suspect the pilot of terrorism or hijacking because of his political views: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html Plus which, he and his wife were already either divorced or separated, although they are (or were until very recently) still living in the same house. And all his children are grown. (He has one grandchild.) The notion that he was terribly upset because his wife had left him and taken the kids is just sensationalized gossip with no basis in fact. I've seen no solid evidence that he had any family problems. For all we know, his wife had been planning to move into her own place, and the day before Flight 370 was her scheduled moving day. lot of evidence pointing to the pilot. family problems. (wife and son moved out day before flight), and anger at government, (attended trial of opposition leader he strongly supported, and who was sentenced to jail, day of flight) for those who may not be keeping up
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. For example, Carl Sagan's plaque that was sent on the Voyager spacecraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque). If we were really dumb, instead of launching an admittedly primitive spacecraft out of the solar system, we could have launched stone models of trilobites instead, or even better actual fossils. But how would another civilisation interpret such an offering? Stone models would be really puzzling, while actual fossils might be interpreted as possibly life on a planet that long ago exploded or was destroyed, fragments cast out into interstellar space. A stone model might be interpreted as the remnants of a primitive civilisation also cast into space by some disaster. Ask yourself this: what kind of demonstration would convince you that Zeus, the King of the Gods, is real? Then apply that logic to any other fantastical situation. To convince me, Zeus would have to provide me with consorts like his. He could skip the little voyeur angels. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : You are mistaken. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I think crop circles are 100% human artefacts. It has been show how easy it is to make them. The explanation that they are made by an alien intelligence is a highly improbable explanation. From a scientific point of view, ignoring this explanation is standard procedure unless a much higher quality source of evidence is discovered. If this is the way they, the aliens, are attempting to communicate with us, it is incredibly stupid. If they really wanted us to know they exist, they would be a lot more direct than doing what is incredibly ambiguous as far a means of communication. It could be that all the aged cheese one finds in markets packaged in plastic neat rectangular blocks is some kind of digital code being communicated to us by aliens, because aged cheese is normally found in wax-covered wheels. Wait a minute! Wheels of cheese are round, just like crop circles. Oh boy. We are really on to something here. The moon is round, wheel-shaped too. Nabby, you need better evidence. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : Quite revealing post from the Turq. He does not include in his universe even the possebilities that real Crop Circles excist. Why are some people so stuck in Kali Yuga that change is ruled out once and for all ? Is it a Buddhist misunderstanding shining through, after all they believe that Sat Yuga will only happen in 310111 years from now, or some such absurd number. One can but feel sorry for these souls. About 5% of the Crop Circles are manmade. It is but impossible to judge if one is real or faking from a picture, it must be analyzed on the ground. Its fake if the straws are broken not bent and if it layed down with perfect symmetries or if the ground is muddy. The Crop Circles are happening all over the world and is a project in corraboration between our Space Brothers and Maitreya to prepare Mankind for completely new sources of energy that we soon will be able to enjoy, independent of sources of energy known to man today. Unfortunately, for some souls dedicated to old, outdated and stale religions these huge leaps of progress for mankind will not be enjoyed in this lifetime.
[FairfieldLife] Finnish words of power (voima-sanat: swears)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknIPMOCoMQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknIPMOCoMQ Otherwise very good, but he sounds a bit lame, because most foreigners can't pronounce the double consonants (kk, pp, tt) correctly (i.e, long enough, e.g: vittu). Hint: you first pronounce 'vit' and then keep a very very short pause before 'tu' (~ too) , without releasing the stop-position, so to speak (in the case of the t-sounds, keep your tongue against your teeth)!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
Quite frankly, I think we can attribute the fact that the tin foil hat types come out in droves any time there is a seeming mystery to two simple human traits -- fear and self-importance. The first trait manifests when these retards encounter something -- anything -- they can't understand or claim to understand. They can't cope with uncertainty, so they make up something -- anything -- to explain it, to push the cognitive dissonance of unknowing away. The second trait is a no-brainer. The whole *point* of being a tin foil hatter is to believe that they are more special and know more than other people. That's how charlatans like Benny Creme suck them in -- they tell them things that only the special people know, so voila...they get to consider themselves special. Whether it's disappearing planes or designs drawn in cornfields, the tin hat folk have an explanation for it. The craziest of them find a way to blend the two, as in The Malaysian flight was abducted by a UFO because passengers on board photographed the aliens creating a crop circle. :-) From: yifux...@yahoo.com yifux...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things RightDr. Michael Shermer goes into some of the (in his opinion) reasons why people are TB - True Believers in anything, especially when contrary to the evidence.. He goes into the influences of supposed non-physical beings as offering explanations for supernatural occurrences. You can't argue with such people - no matter what you say, they'll just say something like (Cuz Mr. Creme says so). ... On the other hand, Shermer switched his allegiance away from Evangelical Christianity to scientific athiesm, which in many cases blocks the mind from examining the Supernatural in a true light of truth. One of Shermer's points: TB tend to believe in Absolutist terms (either l00% true or 100% false) and they can't tolerate situations in which: a. the truth is unknown b. the truth is midway between extremes, or c. simply unknowable, or d. variants such as true some of the time, but at other times not truet, or true for some people but not others. Since TB seem to always know what is right, it has to be 100% right all the time in their worldview. Typical example: Evangelicals are certain (because their KJV Bible says so); that everybody who's not a Believer in Jesus is automatically going to Hell. However, the Catholic Bible has Tobit and Maccabees. In the latter, prayers for the dead are encouraged. Generally speaking, Evangelicals don't pray for the dead since they believe people are judged instantaneously and sent to either Heaven or Hell, with no progression (Purgatory) allowed. Looks like this leaves out the Hindus and Buddhists. ..My pov: Where one goes at death depends on a. to Whom one is devoted to, if any, and b. moral status and storehouse of bad karma. As to complete athiests with no Spiritual inclinations, or non-devotional Advaitins, more research is needed on that. ... .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Finnish words of power (voima-sanat: swears)
By the way, Biblical Hebrew has a somewhat similar phonetic feature: e.g. ha + gadol (the big [one]) should be pronounced something like 'hug-gud-awl
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. Following up, because Xeno's rap really cuts to the bottom line, I find it difficult to fathom how anyone could *possibly* be so fascinated by the obviously human-origin prankster crop circles as to obsess on them, or even to attribute them to something unknown, or other than human. It really just doesn't compute for me. How can anyone's life be that EMPTY and unaware of the ongoing mystery that is normal everyday life that they have to go searching for deeper mysteries that involve little green men? Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe, or to those who are impressed by their ability to mush down a bunch of cornstalks in the middle of a field located in Upper Buttfuck Nowhere, England. I mean, retard is a socially-unacceptable word these days, but I really don't see any other description that adequately conveys how ridiculous such people are. People impressed by stories they've heard of supposed miracles, maybe I can make excuses for. That belief -- however lame it might be -- would be mitigated to some extent by their desire to believe in an equally-made-up God or Divinity or people with super-powers or stuff like that. But people who actually try to make a case for crop circles being either mysterious or signs of alien intelligence? Seems to me that the word intelligence shouldn't even appear in the same paragraph with people who believe this stuff.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
You got it right in a previous post - the followers get to be special by believing in what the so-called master tells them. On Tue, 3/18/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 9:41 AM From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. Following up, because Xeno's rap really cuts to the bottom line, I find it difficult to fathom how anyone could *possibly* be so fascinated by the obviously human-origin prankster crop circles as to obsess on them, or even to attribute them to something unknown, or other than human. It really just doesn't compute for me. How can anyone's life be that EMPTY and unaware of the ongoing mystery that is normal everyday life that they have to go searching for deeper mysteries that involve little green men? Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe, or to those who are impressed by their ability to mush down a bunch of cornstalks in the middle of a field located in Upper Buttfuck Nowhere, England. I mean, retard is a socially-unacceptable word these days, but I really don't see any other description that adequately conveys how ridiculous such people are. People impressed by stories they've heard of supposed miracles, maybe I can make excuses for. That belief -- however lame it might be -- would be mitigated to some extent by their desire to believe in an equally-made-up God or Divinity or people with super-powers or stuff like that. But people who actually try to make a case for crop circles being either mysterious or signs of alien intelligence? Seems to me that the word intelligence shouldn't even appear in the same paragraph with people who believe this stuff.
[FairfieldLife] David Lynch: The Factory Photographs at The Photograpers Gallery
I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste. David Lynch Anyone familiar with David Lynch’s (b. 1946, USA) enigmatic visual language will identify similarities between this series of photographs and his iconic films. Featuring black and white interiors and exteriors of industrial structures, the exhibition exudes his unique cinematic style through dark and brooding images. Shot in various locations including Germany, Poland, New York, New Jersey and England, the works depict the labyrinthine passages, detritus and decay of these man-made structures – haunting cathedrals of a bygone industrial era slowly being taken over by nature. The exhibition is the first European showcasing of this project and is accompanied by one of Lynch’s sound installations. David Lynch: The Factory Photographs is curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, a curator and author based in Munich, Germany. A fully illustrated book, David Lynch: The Factory Photographs http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/david-lynch-the-factory-photographs-3, published by Prestel, will be available from the Gallery Bookshop. Download http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/images/DAVID_LYNCH___THE_FACTORY_PHOTOGRAPHS_52d90eaba399e.pdf Teachers' Exhibition notes Admission to Lynch, Burroughs and Warhol £4 (£2.50 concs) Free admission on Monday from 10.00-18.00 and Thursday from 18.00-20.00 Free Entry to under 17s Pre-booked education groups http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/group-tours of 10+ £1 per person
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
yifuxero wrote: On the other hand, Shermer switched his allegiance away from Evangelical Christianity to scientific athiesm, which in many cases blocks the mind from examining the Supernatural in a true light of truth. I agree. This is what I've been trying to say to salyavin et al. In a way, the atheists are also TBers. Where is the fMRI machine when we need it?! IMO the only non TBers are those who have liek 99% of their brain functioning in a very healthy way. Let's hear what those people have to say about the nature of reality! On Monday, March 17, 2014 8:53 PM, yifux...@yahoo.com yifux...@yahoo.com wrote: RightDr. Michael Shermer goes into some of the (in his opinion) reasons why people are TB - True Believers in anything, especially when contrary to the evidence.. He goes into the influences of supposed non-physical beings as offering explanations for supernatural occurrences. You can't argue with such people - no matter what you say, they'll just say something like (Cuz Mr. Creme says so). ... On the other hand, Shermer switched his allegiance away from Evangelical Christianity to scientific athiesm, which in many cases blocks the mind from examining the Supernatural in a true light of truth. One of Shermer's points: TB tend to believe in Absolutist terms (either l00% true or 100% false) and they can't tolerate situations in which: a. the truth is unknown b. the truth is midway between extremes, or c. simply unknowable, or d. variants such as true some of the time, but at other times not truet, or true for some people but not others. Since TB seem to always know what is right, it has to be 100% right all the time in their worldview. Typical example: Evangelicals are certain (because their KJV Bible says so); that everybody who's not a Believer in Jesus is automatically going to Hell. However, the Catholic Bible has Tobit and Maccabees. In the latter, prayers for the dead are encouraged. Generally speaking, Evangelicals don't pray for the dead since they believe people are judged instantaneously and sent to either Heaven or Hell, with no progression (Purgatory) allowed. Looks like this leaves out the Hindus and Buddhists. ..My pov: Where one goes at death depends on a. to Whom one is devoted to, if any, and b. moral status and storehouse of bad karma. As to complete athiests with no Spiritual inclinations, or non-devotional Advaitins, more research is needed on that. ... .
[FairfieldLife] The 2014 Crop Circle season soon to begin
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[FairfieldLife] Why some people are REALLY bothered by others who might feel special
Ego competition, of course. There are a couple of people on here, always ranting and raving against others, who, they insist, are involved in all things spiritual, ONLY because, it makes them feel special. I have always thought it was the mightiest of assumptions to know what someone else is thinking. Nonetheless, I am curious, not about what drives a person's feelings of specialness, but why another person would bring this up as some kind of personal sin against *themselves*, for years. On and on - ranting and raving, for days, weeks, months and years. Pretty funny when it becomes clear, the one denigrating others for feeling special, is doing so, because, they don't like the competition. Who cares if someone else feels, special? Seriously, who cares? And if someone is feeling inappropriately special, what is the alternative being proposed? Oh, right, there isn't one - simply a case of jealousy, and ego competition. No alternative is ever proposed, except that the perceived special one, STFU. SO if you see anyone around here, getting down on anyone who might feel special, ask yourselves why. The answer is because the one making the accusation, is feeling *extra* special, and doesn't like the competition, from those who are not seeing this critic's self-righteous view of the world, as they bloody well should. What a spiritually unenlightened viewpoint. Such thinking is the antithesis of this forum. Someone who criticizes others, strongly and regularly, for being special, or for believing in God, or for not seeing the world as they do, or for speaking too much about enlightenment - It appears such a person continues on a forum like this, because their differing opinions are strongly outweighed by their loneliness. There is no attempt to provide alternatives - just bash, bash, bash, as if they are saying, All of the negatives I am pointing out, are to turn you attention back to me. What lengths some of us will go to, simply for a little attention, and love.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buck in Unity
Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity foundation boards of trustees are dealing with is trying to keep engaged whatever subsequent stalwart-generational members there are of their Unity Churches out in the world so that when those folks [baby-boom] pass away some of their check-books can come to support the physical-plant of even their Unity mecca -Unity Village in Kansas. Om, I was in Unity last nite and meditated there this morning too. Unity Village, Kansas City. Was there last week too passing through. It was really a nice place to meditate. The chapels were nice places to meditate. They were a bunch of spiritual transcendentalists that came out also at the time of the New Thought Movements [google New Thought later for the fun of it] of the late 19th and early 20th Century who though fundamentally transcendentalists in experience couched themselves in 'practical christianity'. Was a big deal in its time. Unity Village in Kansas City, Mo. is sort of like Fairfield, Iowa is now to the TM movement in the USA. An artifact of a time. -Buck back in the Meditating Community of Fairfield, Iowa
[FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
On 3/17/2014 9:20 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: Ask yourself this: what kind of demonstration would convince you that Zeus, the King of the Gods, is real? Then apply that logic to any other fantastical situation. So, let's ask Barry: What kind of demonstration would convince you that Rama, the Zen Master, levitated in front of hundreds of people? The Rama guy I studied with had this particular siddhi down pat. He could just lift off and hang ten in mid-air pretty much whenever he felt like it. - TurquoiseB https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/FairfieldLife/63670 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/63670
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
On 3/18/2014 2:02 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Methinks Nabby's Space Brothers are the retards of the universe, just as Benny Creme followers are the retards of Earth. Speaking of retards, who in their right mind believes Barry actually saw a demonstration of REAL levitation by Rama the Zen Master? And why is it that nobody out of the hundreds that Barry claims saw the levitation event, do we not read about this momentous event in the newspapers? Can Benny Creme top Rama levitating in front of a crowd of people? Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra
On 3/18/2014 2:20 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Judy, you may be right. But there is just one thing. People have been know to be petty, and to take petty disputes to unreasonable lengths. Do you sort of know what I mean? Good point. This is the insight that writers like John Le Carré and Len Deighton brought to the world of spy fiction. People don't betray their countries because of principle, or politics -- they do it for petty reasons, like not getting that promotion they were hoping for, or because someone is banging their wife. There is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification (internally, anyway) for their odd behavior. Good point. This insight might explain why you betrayed your country for petty reasons and moved to France and then posted that story about Rama levitating - there is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification for their odd behavior. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Buck in [ Unity Village Kansas City ]
The challenge the Unity movement see there with these elders-in-transition is that those deeper and sustaining check-books move with these elderly and consequently those deeper check-books move away from supporting their local Unity churches and the larger Unity movement; the baby-boomers are not as able or interested in keeping up the support behind their parents. Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity foundation boards of trustees are dealing with is trying to keep engaged whatever subsequent stalwart-generational members there are of their Unity Churches out in the world so that when those folks [baby-boom] pass away some of their check-books can come to support the physical-plant of even their Unity mecca -Unity Village in Kansas. Om, I was in Unity last nite and meditated there this morning too. Unity Village, Kansas City. Was there last week too passing through. It was really a nice place to meditate. The chapels were nice places to meditate. They were a bunch of spiritual transcendentalists that came out also at the time of the New Thought Movements [google New Thought later for the fun of it] of the late 19th and early 20th Century who though fundamentally transcendentalists in experience couched themselves in 'practical christianity'. Was a big deal in its time. Unity Village in Kansas City, Mo. is sort of like Fairfield, Iowa is now to the TM movement in the USA. An artifact of a time. -Buck back in the Meditating Community of Fairfield, Iowa .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
TurquoiseB: To convince me, Zeus would have to provide me with consorts like his. He could skip the little voyeur angels. In order for Barry to convince me that Rama Lenz could levitate at will, he would have to provide more proof that a PhotoShopped image of Rama Lenz floating above water in a monkey suit, even if Rama did have angels at his side.. [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:26 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: *From:* anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:20 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. For example, Carl Sagan's plaque that was sent on the Voyager spacecraft ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque). If we were really dumb, instead of launching an admittedly primitive spacecraft out of the solar system, we could have launched stone models of trilobites instead, or even better actual fossils. But how would another civilisation interpret such an offering? Stone models would be really puzzling, while actual fossils might be interpreted as possibly life on a planet that long ago exploded or was destroyed, fragments cast out into interstellar space. A stone model might be interpreted as the remnants of a primitive civilisation also cast into space by some disaster. Ask yourself this: what kind of demonstration would convince you that Zeus, the King of the Gods, is real? Then apply that logic to any other fantastical situation. To convince me, Zeus would have to provide me with consorts like his. He could skip the little voyeur angels. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : You are mistaken. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I think crop circles are 100% human artefacts. It has been show how easy it is to make them. The explanation that they are made by an alien intelligence is a highly improbable explanation. From a scientific point of view, ignoring this explanation is standard procedure unless a much higher quality source of evidence is discovered. If this is the way they, the aliens, are attempting to communicate with us, it is incredibly stupid. If they really wanted us to know they exist, they would be a lot more direct than doing what is incredibly ambiguous as far a means of communication. It could be that all the aged cheese one finds in markets packaged in plastic neat rectangular blocks is some kind of digital code being communicated to us by aliens, because aged cheese is normally found in wax-covered wheels. Wait a minute! Wheels of cheese are round, just like crop circles. Oh boy. We are really on to something here. The moon is round, wheel-shaped too. Nabby, you need better evidence. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : Quite revealing post from the Turq. He does not include in his universe even the possebilities that real Crop Circles excist. Why are some people so stuck in Kali Yuga that change is ruled out once and for all ? Is it a Buddhist misunderstanding shining through, after all they believe that Sat Yuga will only happen in 310111 years from now, or some such absurd number. One can but feel sorry for these souls. About 5% of the Crop Circles are manmade. It is but impossible to judge if one is real or faking from a picture, it must be analyzed on the ground. Its fake if the straws are broken not bent and if it layed down with perfect symmetries or if the ground is muddy. The Crop Circles are happening all over the world and is a project in corraboration between our Space Brothers and Maitreya to prepare Mankind for completely new sources of energy that we soon will be able to enjoy, independent of sources of energy known to man today. Unfortunately, for some souls dedicated to old, outdated and stale religions these huge leaps of progress for mankind will not be enjoyed in this lifetime.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. For example, Carl Sagan's plaque that was sent on the Voyager spacecraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque). If we were really dumb, instead of launching an admittedly primitive spacecraft out of the solar system, we could have launched stone models of trilobites instead, or even better actual fossils. But how would another civilisation interpret such an offering? Stone models would be really puzzling, while actual fossils might be interpreted as possibly life on a planet that long ago exploded or was destroyed, fragments cast out into interstellar space. A stone model might be interpreted as the remnants of a primitive civilisation also cast into space by some disaster. Ask yourself this: what kind of demonstration would convince you that Zeus, the King of the Gods, is real? Then apply that logic to any other fantastical situation. I am not sure what you are saying here. One moment you are claiming you would need to see proof that is characterized by something technologically superior to what we could presently accomplish in order to believe something and the next moment you say it is all relative anyway. So which is it? Is there ever proof enough? And what does that say about the person who requires the proof? The harder, the more extreme the proof the less imaginative or expanded a person is? Or are those who don't require such rigorous physical evidence indicate someone who is feeble or weak in some way (as some here try and argue)? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : You are mistaken. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I think crop circles are 100% human artefacts. It has been show how easy it is to make them. The explanation that they are made by an alien intelligence is a highly improbable explanation. From a scientific point of view, ignoring this explanation is standard procedure unless a much higher quality source of evidence is discovered. If this is the way they, the aliens, are attempting to communicate with us, it is incredibly stupid. If they really wanted us to know they exist, they would be a lot more direct than doing what is incredibly ambiguous as far a means of communication. It could be that all the aged cheese one finds in markets packaged in plastic neat rectangular blocks is some kind of digital code being communicated to us by aliens, because aged cheese is normally found in wax-covered wheels. Wait a minute! Wheels of cheese are round, just like crop circles. Oh boy. We are really on to something here. The moon is round, wheel-shaped too. Nabby, you need better evidence. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : Quite revealing post from the Turq. He does not include in his universe even the possebilities that real Crop Circles excist. Why are some people so stuck in Kali Yuga that change is ruled out once and for all ? Is it a Buddhist misunderstanding shining through, after all they believe that Sat Yuga will only happen in 310111 years from now, or some such absurd number. One can but feel sorry for these souls. About 5% of the Crop Circles are manmade. It is but impossible to judge if one is real or faking from a picture, it must be analyzed on the ground. Its fake if the straws are broken not bent and if it layed down with perfect symmetries or if the ground is muddy. The Crop Circles are happening all over the world and is a project in corraboration between our Space Brothers and Maitreya to prepare Mankind for completely new sources of energy that we soon will be able to enjoy, independent of sources of energy known to man today. Unfortunately, for some souls dedicated to old, outdated and stale religions these huge leaps of progress for mankind will not be enjoyed in this lifetime.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: anartaxius@... anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think crop circles are 100% human artefacts. It has been show how easy it is to make them. The explanation that they are made by an alien intelligence is a highly improbable explanation. From a scientific point of view, ignoring this explanation is standard procedure unless a much higher quality source of evidence is discovered. If this is the way they, the aliens, are attempting to communicate with us, it is incredibly stupid. If they really wanted us to know they exist, they would be a lot more direct than doing what is incredibly ambiguous as far a means of communication. It could be that all the aged cheese one finds in markets packaged in plastic neat rectangular blocks is some kind of digital code being communicated to us by aliens, because aged cheese is normally found in wax-covered wheels. Wait a minute! Wheels of cheese are round, just like crop circles. Oh boy. We are really on to something here. The moon is round, wheel-shaped too. Nabby, you need better evidence. Methinks Nabby's Space Brothers are the retards of the universe, just as Benny Creme followers are the retards of Earth. More like Mereacts... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nabby wrote : Quite revealing post from the Turq. He does not include in his universe even the possebilities that real Crop Circles excist. Why are some people so stuck in Kali Yuga that change is ruled out once and for all ? Is it a Buddhist misunderstanding shining through, after all they believe that Sat Yuga will only happen in 310111 years from now, or some such absurd number. One can but feel sorry for these souls. About 5% of the Crop Circles are manmade. It is but impossible to judge if one is real or faking from a picture, it must be analyzed on the ground. Its fake if the straws are broken not bent and if it layed down with perfect symmetries or if the ground is muddy. The Crop Circles are happening all over the world and is a project in corraboration between our Space Brothers and Maitreya to prepare Mankind for completely new sources of energy that we soon will be able to enjoy, independent of sources of energy known to man today. Unfortunately, for some souls dedicated to old, outdated and stale religions these huge leaps of progress for mankind will not be enjoyed in this lifetime.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra Judy, you may be right. But there is just one thing. People have been know to be petty, and to take petty disputes to unreasonable lengths. Do you sort of know what I mean? Good point. This is the insight that writers like John Le Carré and Len Deighton brought to the world of spy fiction. People don't betray their countries because of principle, or politics -- they do it for petty reasons, like not getting that promotion they were hoping for, or because someone is banging their wife. There is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification (internally, anyway) for their odd behavior. Le Carre and Deighton - both experts on human motivation according to Bawwy. These men write fiction in case you hadn't noticed. Kind of like the stuff you paste all over the internet. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Why it makes no sense to suspect the pilot of terrorism or hijacking because of his political views: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html Plus which, he and his wife were already either divorced or separated, although they are (or were until very recently) still living in the same house. And all his children are grown. (He has one grandchild.) The notion that he was terribly upset because his wife had left him and taken the kids is just sensationalized gossip with no basis in fact. I've seen no solid evidence that he had any family problems. For all we know, his wife had been planning to move into her own place, and the day before Flight 370 was her scheduled moving day. lot of evidence pointing to the pilot. family problems. (wife and son moved out day before flight), and anger at government, (attended trial of opposition leader he strongly supported, and who was sentenced to jail, day of flight) for those who may not be keeping up
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: anartaxius@... anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. Following up, because Xeno's rap really cuts to the bottom line, I find it difficult to fathom how anyone could *possibly* be so fascinated by the obviously human-origin prankster crop circles as to obsess on them, or even to attribute them to something unknown, or other than human. It really just doesn't compute for me. How can anyone's life be that EMPTY and unaware of the ongoing mystery that is normal everyday life that they have to go searching for deeper mysteries that involve little green men? Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe, or to those who are impressed by their ability to mush down a bunch of cornstalks in the middle of a field located in Upper Buttfuck Nowhere, England. I mean, retard is a socially-unacceptable word these days, but I really don't see any other description that adequately conveys how ridiculous such people are. People impressed by stories they've heard of supposed miracles, maybe I can make excuses for. That belief -- however lame it might be -- would be mitigated to some extent by their desire to believe in an equally-made-up God or Divinity or people with super-powers or stuff like that. But people who actually try to make a case for crop circles being either mysterious or signs of alien intelligence? Seems to me that the word intelligence shouldn't even appear in the same paragraph with people who believe this stuff. If you believe half the stuff you write I would be amazed. Since I don't read the other half I can't comment on that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
Your experience spells out exactly why the idea that tablets will replace PCs is ridiculous. Tablets are great little niche products that do a few things very well, but as general usage computers, they totally suck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
On 3/18/2014 3:15 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Quite frankly, I think we can attribute the fact that the tin foil hat types come out in droves any time there is a seeming mystery to two simple human traits -- fear and self-importance. What puzzles me is that Barry claimed to have witnessed REAL levitation by Rama. Now, someone please tell me the difference between REAL levitation and unreal levitation. The question is: Why did Barry put on a tin-foil hat and attempt to one-up everyone with a levitation claim? Fear and self-importance? Go figure. The first trait manifests when these retards encounter something -- anything -- they can't understand or claim to understand. They can't cope with uncertainty, so they make up something -- anything -- to explain it, to push the cognitive dissonance of unknowing away. Like claimiing to have witnessed Rama levitate? The question is: Why can't Barry explain why he has the cognitive dissonance? Even a retard wouldn't believe that Barry saw Rama levitate! Maybe Barry can't cope with with uncertainty - or maybe he is just a delusional serial fibber. Talk about cognitive dissonance! Where is Dr. Pete when we need him? The second trait is a no-brainer. The whole *point* of being a tin foil hatter is to believe that they are more special and know more than other people. That's how charlatans like Benny Creme suck them in -- they tell them things that only the special people know, so voila...they get to consider themselves special. The reason Barry made up this levitation story is a no-brainer. The whole *point* of claiming he saw a levitation event, is to believe he is more special and knows morethan other people. That's how charlatans like Rama sucked him in - they tell them things that only the special people know, in order to make themselves look spiritually superior. Whether it's disappearing planes or designs drawn in cornfields, the tin hat folk have an explanation for it. The craziest of them find a way to blend the two, as in The Malaysian flight was abducted by a UFO because passengers on board photographed the aliens creating a crop circle. :-) The Rama guy I studied with had this particular siddhi down pat. He could just lift off and hang ten in mid-air pretty much whenever he felt like it. - TurquoiseB https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/FairfieldLife/63670/ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/63670
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : You got it right in a previous post - the followers get to be special by believing in what the so-called master tells them. A sense of being special is not because one believes what someone else (a master) tells them. It can result from someone, anyone, indicating that they think you are gifted or privy to special knowledge or just simply attractive. These accolades can come from your best friend, your sister or your wife or they can come from someone you choose to believe is special as some sort of spiritual know-it-all. Come on, who hasn't felt special or in some way singled out by someone else's compliments or just someone's attention? Not a single person here, that's who. To have chosen to get involved in some spiritual group and listening and believing some master's words doesn't necessarily make one feel extraordinary in the ego sense of the word but if, as many cults do, the leader indicates that you and you alone as part of their 'group' are privy to special knowledge and privilege by merely being a part of the group then that starts to become a way to make someone feel superior to others who are not part of the group. But to say that ...the followers get to be special by believing in what the so-called master tells them. is way too simplistic and imo, false. On Tue, 3/18/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 9:41 AM From: anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@...; anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things I think a complex design circle cut 200 metres deep into a stone hill that appeared overnight would be a bit more impressive demonstration than one in a field of straw flattened with wood planks. That would reveal some technological expertise that is something beyond what can be done with pre-industrial-revolution technology, and even ours today. A space-faring civilisation can't be so clueless as to not understand that a demonstration of logic, mathematical power, and technological prowess requires some exceptional evidence in the eyes of a scientifically oriented observer. A stone age tribesman might be impressed with a cigarette lighter, but not us. Following up, because Xeno's rap really cuts to the bottom line, I find it difficult to fathom how anyone could *possibly* be so fascinated by the obviously human-origin prankster crop circles as to obsess on them, or even to attribute them to something unknown, or other than human. It really just doesn't compute for me. How can anyone's life be that EMPTY and unaware of the ongoing mystery that is normal everyday life that they have to go searching for deeper mysteries that involve little green men? Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe, or to those who are impressed by their ability to mush down a bunch of cornstalks in the middle of a field located in Upper Buttfuck Nowhere, England. I mean, retard is a socially-unacceptable word these days, but I really don't see any other description that adequately conveys how ridiculous such people are. People impressed by stories they've heard of supposed miracles, maybe I can make excuses for. That belief -- however lame it might be -- would be mitigated to some extent by their desire to believe in an equally-made-up God or Divinity or people with super-powers or stuff like that. But people who actually try to make a case for crop circles being either mysterious or signs of alien intelligence? Seems to me that the word intelligence shouldn't even appear in the same paragraph with people who believe this stuff.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The 2014 Crop Circle season soon to begin
You just keep loving your crop circles, Nabby. They're beautiful and that's enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Avebury Trusloe, nr Avebury, Wiltshire, UK. Reported 7th July. Images Jim Peyton Copyright 2013 http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/ Make a donation to keep the web site alive http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/ Images Lucy Pringle http://blog.lucypringle.co.uk/news/urgent-appeal-from-lucy-pringle/ Copyright 2013 http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/conduct.html FOR VISITING THE CROP CIRCLES. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/conduct.html Image Bert Janssen http://www.cropcirclesandmore.com/content/welcome.html Copyright 2013 http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/CGI2013.html http://www.cropcircleconnectorforum.com/ JOIN THE CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR MEMBERSHIP NOW ONLINE Click above to join the Crop Circle Connector Membership http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/http:/www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/ml.html Images Paul Jacobs (CGI http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/CGI2013.html) Copyright 2013
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
On 3/18/2014 4:41 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Following up, because Xeno's rap really cuts to the bottom line, I find it difficult to fathom how anyone could *possibly* be so fascinated by the obviously human-origin prankster crop circles as to obsess on them, or even to attribute them to something unknown, or other than human. If this isn't a clear case of cognitive dissonance, I don't know what is! Good point. I find it difficult to fathom how anyone could *possibly* claim that they saw Rama Lenz, an obvious prankster, levitate in front of a big crowd of people, and fill the whole room with golden light. Obviously, if someone could levitate up in the air and hover there, and light up the whole room, they could construct a crop circle at night in the dark in less than an hour. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
On 3/18/2014 5:52 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: You got it right in a previous post - the followers get to be special by believing in what the so-called master tells them. So, you don't want to talk about Barry's claim to have witnessed Rama levitate. Maybe that's because you think Barry is special and because your Master Barry told it to you. LoL! The levitation I and thousands of other people witnessed *was* real. We saw it. We felt it. - TurquoiseB https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/FairfieldLife/63670 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/63670
[FairfieldLife] First sane theory about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
WTF is *wrong* with commentators and conspiracy nuts that they forget about fuckin' Occam's Razor and common sense? http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
On 3/18/2014 7:48 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday Didn't you once post that you'd never touch a touch screen computer? You should have bought a Microsoft Surface Pro. That way, you could could make use of a keyboard; you could multi-task with a professional OS; and you could use your USB flash drive. Windows 8.1 supports internet Yahoo Mail. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buck in [ Unity Village Kansas City ]
These ministers I interviewed over coffee were front-line with active large communities who were visiting back on a conference at Unity Village sharing their movement's challenge. Within TM we have seen this trend too as our TM elders who facilitated the late 1950's, 60's, and 1970's TM movement with Maharishi have pretty much all passed away now with their check-books gone too. There are some baby-boomers who are able and community minded with resources but they are fewer now too from the heady days of a few years ago. A lot of the upper-middle-class TM meditators left the TM movement in the 1990's. Likewise, a security person there reflecting on the Unity Village campus spoke in 3rd person about how just 10 years ago Unity V. was still a happening hopping place with a lot of people there and has really since dropped off to not much now in the last five years or so. The challenge the Unity movement see there with these elders-in-transition is that those deeper and sustaining check-books move with these elderly and consequently those deeper check-books move away from supporting their local Unity churches and the larger Unity movement; the baby-boomers are not as able or interested in keeping up the support behind their parents. Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity foundation boards of trustees are dealing with is trying to keep engaged whatever subsequent stalwart-generational members there are of their Unity Churches out in the world so that when those folks [baby-boom] pass away some of their check-books can come to support the physical-plant of even their Unity mecca -Unity Village in Kansas. Om, I was in Unity last nite and meditated there this morning too. Unity Village, Kansas City. Was there last week too passing through. It was really a nice place to meditate. The chapels were nice places to meditate. They were a bunch of spiritual transcendentalists that came out also at the time of the New Thought Movements [google New Thought later for the fun of it] of the late 19th and early 20th Century who though fundamentally transcendentalists in experience couched themselves in 'practical christianity'. Was a big deal in its time. Unity Village in Kansas City, Mo. is sort of like Fairfield, Iowa is now to the TM movement in the USA. An artifact of a time. -Buck back in the Meditating Community of Fairfield, Iowa .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra
But Ann it's also true that writers of fiction can express truths about the human condition. Think Shakespeare. It's not only scientists and gurus who express such truths imo. On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra Judy, you may be right. But there is just one thing. People have been know to be petty, and to take petty disputes to unreasonable lengths. Do you sort of know what I mean? Good point. This is the insight that writers like John Le Carré and Len Deighton brought to the world of spy fiction. People don't betray their countries because of principle, or politics -- they do it for petty reasons, like not getting that promotion they were hoping for, or because someone is banging their wife. There is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification (internally, anyway) for their odd behavior. Le Carre and Deighton - both experts on human motivation according to Bawwy. These men write fiction in case you hadn't noticed. Kind of like the stuff you paste all over the internet. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Why it makes no sense to suspect the pilot of terrorism or hijacking because of his political views: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html Plus which, he and his wife were already either divorced or separated, although they are (or were until very recently) still living in the same house. And all his children are grown. (He has one grandchild.) The notion that he was terribly upset because his wife had left him and taken the kids is just sensationalized gossip with no basis in fact. I've seen no solid evidence that he had any family problems. For all we know, his wife had been planning to move into her own place, and the day before Flight 370 was her scheduled moving day. lot of evidence pointing to the pilot. family problems. (wife and son moved out day before flight), and anger at government, (attended trial of opposition leader he strongly supported, and who was sentenced to jail, day of flight) for those who may not be keeping up
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The 2014 Crop Circle season soon to begin
On 3/18/2014 9:00 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: You just keep loving your crop circles, Nabby. They're beautiful and that's enough for me. The crop circle photos posted by Nabby sure are more beautiful than the photos of Rama that Barry tacked on the wall of his bedroom. LoL! [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:00 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: You just keep loving your crop circles, Nabby. They're beautiful and that's enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : *--* *Avebury Trusloe, nr Avebury, Wiltshire, UK. Reported 7th July.* *Images Jim Peyton Copyright 2013* *--* http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html *CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html* *--* *--* * http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/ Make a donation to keep the web site alive http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/* *--* *Images Lucy Pringle http://blog.lucypringle.co.uk/news/urgent-appeal-from-lucy-pringle/ Copyright 2013* *--* * http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/conduct.htmlFOR VISITING THE CROP CIRCLES. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/conduct.html -- Image Bert Janssen http://www.cropcirclesandmore.com/content/welcome.html Copyright 2013-- * * http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/CGI2013.html* *--* *-- * * http://www.cropcircleconnectorforum.com/ * *JOIN THE CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR MEMBERSHIP NOW ONLINE* *Click above to join the Crop Circle Connector Membership http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/http:/www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/ml.html--Images Paul Jacobs (CGI http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/CGI2013.html) Copyright 2013--*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The 2014 Crop Circle season soon to begin
Good point, Ann and I agree: they're beautiful and that's enough for me. On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:01 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: You just keep loving your crop circles, Nabby. They're beautiful and that's enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Avebury Trusloe, nr Avebury, Wiltshire, UK. Reported 7th July. Images Jim Peyton Copyright 2013 CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD Make a donation to keep the web site alive Images Lucy PringleCopyright 2013 FOR VISITING THE CROP CIRCLES. Image Bert JanssenCopyright 2013 JOIN THE CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR MEMBERSHIP NOW ONLINE Click above to join the Crop Circle Connector Membership Images Paul Jacobs (CGI) Copyright 2013
Re: [FairfieldLife] First sane theory about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
On 3/18/2014 9:23 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: WTF is *wrong* with commentators and conspiracy nuts that they forget about fuckin' Occam's Razor and common sense? http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/ This theory pretty much describes the scenario I first posted about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. WTF is *wrong* with Barry that he can't seem to keep up with the conversation? Is he nuts and thinks we don't read internet blogs and watch the news on TV and read the newspapers? Go figure. 'Here Are the 634 Runways Where the Malaysia Airlines Plane Could Have Landed' http://www.slate.com/634_runways_where_malaysian_airlines_flight_could_have_landed/ http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/03/15/mh370_the_634_runways_where_malaysian_airlines_flight_could_have_landed.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Crop Circle in Italy: Cavallo Grigio, Robella, Asti.
On 3/18/2014 9:39 AM, Share Long wrote: Ok, Richard, that got me laughing out loud, that posing as a levitating flower salesman. Posing as a flower salesman, that's what really made me chuckle... Thanks, I thought it was kind of funny. The Zen Master Rama, guru of the TurquoiseB, selling flowers while he demonstrated levitation, for REAL. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : But Ann it's also true that writers of fiction can express truths about the human condition. Think Shakespeare. It's not only scientists and gurus who express such truths imo. Share, you took me a little too literally. On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra Judy, you may be right. But there is just one thing. People have been know to be petty, and to take petty disputes to unreasonable lengths. Do you sort of know what I mean? Good point. This is the insight that writers like John Le Carré and Len Deighton brought to the world of spy fiction. People don't betray their countries because of principle, or politics -- they do it for petty reasons, like not getting that promotion they were hoping for, or because someone is banging their wife. There is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification (internally, anyway) for their odd behavior. Le Carre and Deighton - both experts on human motivation according to Bawwy. These men write fiction in case you hadn't noticed. Kind of like the stuff you paste all over the internet. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Why it makes no sense to suspect the pilot of terrorism or hijacking because of his political views: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html Plus which, he and his wife were already either divorced or separated, although they are (or were until very recently) still living in the same house. And all his children are grown. (He has one grandchild.) The notion that he was terribly upset because his wife had left him and taken the kids is just sensationalized gossip with no basis in fact. I've seen no solid evidence that he had any family problems. For all we know, his wife had been planning to move into her own place, and the day before Flight 370 was her scheduled moving day. lot of evidence pointing to the pilot. family problems. (wife and son moved out day before flight), and anger at government, (attended trial of opposition leader he strongly supported, and who was sentenced to jail, day of flight) for those who may not be keeping up
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
For the record, it's a myth promoted by skeptics that those who have alien-abduction experiences are all social misfits. Many of them are otherwise perfectly normal, ordinary people who are well educated, hold down jobs, have families, and have no problems interacting socially. (No, that doesn't validate the experiences they report. It's just a point of interest.) Carl Sagan pointed out that reports of abductions by weird creatures are common throughout history. In Demon-Haunted World, he wrote: There is no spaceship in these stories. But most of the central elements of the alien abduction account are present, including sexually obsessive non-humans who live in the sky, walk through walls, communicate telepathically, and perform breeding experiments on the human species. Unless we believe that demons really exist, how can we understand so strange a belief system, embraced by the whole Western world (including those considered the wisest among us), reinforced by personal experience in every generation, and taught by Church and State? Is there any real alternative besides a shared delusion based on common brain wiring and chemistry? Somehow I doubt Sagan would have approved of characterizing such people as social misfits or retards. Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra
Ann, I'm working on my taxes today. That tends to make me very nitpicky and literal. Go figure! On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:41 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: But Ann it's also true that writers of fiction can express truths about the human condition. Think Shakespeare. It's not only scientists and gurus who express such truths imo. On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:45 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative View of Deepak Chopra Judy, you may be right. But there is just one thing. People have been know to be petty, and to take petty disputes to unreasonable lengths. Do you sort of know what I mean? Good point. This is the insight that writers like John Le Carré and Len Deighton brought to the world of spy fiction. People don't betray their countries because of principle, or politics -- they do it for petty reasons, like not getting that promotion they were hoping for, or because someone is banging their wife. There is simply no telling what a human being is going to choose to obsess upon and use as a justification (internally, anyway) for their odd behavior. Le Carre and Deighton - both experts on human motivation according to Bawwy. These men write fiction in case you hadn't noticed. Kind of like the stuff you paste all over the internet. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Why it makes no sense to suspect the pilot of terrorism or hijacking because of his political views: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/pilot_zaharie_ahmad_shah_supported_anwar_ibrahim_was_he_a_terrorist.html Plus which, he and his wife were already either divorced or separated, although they are (or were until very recently) still living in the same house. And all his children are grown. (He has one grandchild.) The notion that he was terribly upset because his wife had left him and taken the kids is just sensationalized gossip with no basis in fact. I've seen no solid evidence that he had any family problems. For all we know, his wife had been planning to move into her own place, and the day before Flight 370 was her scheduled moving day. lot of evidence pointing to the pilot. family problems. (wife and son moved out day before flight), and anger at government, (attended trial of opposition leader he strongly supported, and who was sentenced to jail, day of flight) for those who may not be keeping up
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
See what I mean about cultists and retards self-identifying by getting all reactive in response to generic raps that don't even mention them? So far today that includes Richard, Doctordumb, Ann, and now Judy. Do less, accomplish more. :-) :-) :-) From: authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things For the record, it's a myth promoted by skeptics that those who have alien-abduction experiences are all social misfits. Many of them are otherwise perfectly normal, ordinary people who are well educated, hold down jobs, have families, and have no problems interacting socially. (No, that doesn't validate the experiences they report. It's just a point of interest.) Carl Sagan pointed out that reports of abductions by weird creatures are common throughout history. In Demon-Haunted World, he wrote: There is no spaceship in these stories. But most of the central elements of the alien abduction account are present, including sexually obsessive non-humans who live in the sky, walk through walls, communicate telepathically, and perform breeding experiments on the human species. Unless we believe that demons really exist, how can we understand so strange a belief system, embraced by the whole Western world (including those considered the wisest among us), reinforced by personal experience in every generation, and taught by Church and State? Is there any real alternative besides a shared delusion based on common brain wiring and chemistry? Somehow I doubt Sagan would have approved of characterizing such people as social misfits or retards. Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe
[FairfieldLife] UFO fleet video
For my dear friend Nabby: http://community.humanityhealing.net/video/massive-ufo-fleet-heading-towards -earth-2014-hd-available
Re: [FairfieldLife] Crop Circle in Italy: Cavallo Grigio, Robella, Asti.
On 3/18/2014 9:54 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: If you think the image is silly, wait'll you read the blog that this idiot (whoever it was) chose to illustrate with it. Many may find it refreshing, because it's even nuttier than some of the stuff said on FFL. So now it's official -- Richard and Nabby are NOT the craziest people on earth. :-) Who said it was a silly image? What's silly is you claiming to have seen the Rama guy levitating and NOT posting an image of the event. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: First sane theory about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
FWIW, Barry, many of the various theories have come from officials and other experts who have been working on finding the plane and are actually in possession of what hard information there is (and most likely some we haven't been told about yet). Knowledgeable flight professionals have also been weighing in. It really isn't the case that commentators and conspiracy nuts are the only theorists; I'm not sure how you came to that very odd conclusion. And Occam's razor is really not terribly helpful in a situation this complicated where so much is still unknown. This guy's theory is more plausible than some, but it's hardly a slam-dunk. If you bother to read the comments, you'll see some solid objections to it have been raised. Just in general, if you haven't been following the story closely all along, it doesn't behoove you to make pronouncements on the quality of the current non-woo-woo theories. In fact, to do so, especially with such know-it-all arrogance, makes you look even more foolish than the woo-wooists. WTF is *wrong* with commentators and conspiracy nuts that they forget about fuckin' Occam's Razor and common sense? http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/ http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/ http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
Wow, Barry, you're awfully hard up if you have to slam Carl Sagan in order to take a shot at me. See what I mean about cultists and retards self-identifying by getting all reactive in response to generic raps that don't even mention them? So far today that includes Richard, Doctordumb, Ann, and now Judy. Do less, accomplish more. :-) :-) :-) From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things For the record, it's a myth promoted by skeptics that those who have alien-abduction experiences are all social misfits. Many of them are otherwise perfectly normal, ordinary people who are well educated, hold down jobs, have families, and have no problems interacting socially. (No, that doesn't validate the experiences they report. It's just a point of interest.) Carl Sagan pointed out that reports of abductions by weird creatures are common throughout history. In Demon-Haunted World, he wrote: There is no spaceship in these stories. But most of the central elements of the alien abduction account are present, including sexually obsessive non-humans who live in the sky, walk through walls, communicate telepathically, and perform breeding experiments on the human species. Unless we believe that demons really exist, how can we understand so strange a belief system, embraced by the whole Western world (including those considered the wisest among us), reinforced by personal experience in every generation, and taught by Church and State? Is there any real alternative besides a shared delusion based on common brain wiring and chemistry? Somehow I doubt Sagan would have approved of characterizing such people as social misfits or retards. Furthermore, these retards seem to have no problem reconciling their belief that these little green men come from the stars, and thus are capable of interstellar travel, and yet choose to communicate their presence only to social misfits who they abduct and anally probe
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The human tendency to find a Woo Woo explanation for things
BTW, is this a new addition to Barry's Rules, that it's only appropriate for one to comment on a post in which one has been mentioned? Generic raps (at least, Barry's generic raps) are from now on to be immune to comments? (I won't bother to ask whether this new rule applies to Barry as well as to everyone else. We know that none of Barry's Rules ever apply to himself.) See what I mean about cultists and retards self-identifying by getting all reactive in response to generic raps that don't even mention them? So far today that includes Richard, Doctordumb, Ann, and now Judy. Do less, accomplish more. :-) :-) :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
I went the other way and my new low end gadget is a Firefox OS phone which arrived yesterday. It's a ZTE Open and recommended by Mozilla as a test device for developing apps for the OS. Firefox OS apps are HTML5 and mainly written in Javascript. Thing is you can also run these apps on Android and iPhone too and probably a Windows 8 phone. The target market for Firefox phones are emerging countries where they can't even afford Android phones. They are even planning on a $25 smartphone for that market. There are some quirks with the OS so far. Firefox doesn't display Neo properly and the right side of messages are cut off. On Android I look at FFL in Neo with Chrome which handles it fine. In some cases like looking at the Firefox Marketplace the one button to go back just takes you out of the app itself. Good points are the battery life seems good. The phone is also GSM so if I want to try it as a phone I can just use the SIM card from the Android phone. Otherwise it works fine with wifi. Also it comes with built in FM receiver. Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset. I also have two Android tablets and an Android Tegra Shield game device. On 03/18/2014 05:48 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
There should be an iOS app for Yahoo Mail. There is one for Android. On 03/18/2014 07:35 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 3/18/2014 7:48 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday Didn't you once post that you'd never touch a touch screen computer? You should have bought a Microsoft Surface Pro. That way, you could could make use of a keyboard; you could multi-task with a professional OS; and you could use your USB flash drive. Windows 8.1 supports internet Yahoo Mail. Go figure.
RE: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
Speaking of iPads, can someone recommend an app that resembles Outlook and syncs well with an IMAP account? I use Outlook on my PC, and IMAP for my BatGap account, but the mail app on my iPad doesn’t work well, and mail2web.com is a hassle.
[FairfieldLife] Re: my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
Yep - makes the best toast, on the planet! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote : Your experience spells out exactly why the idea that tablets will replace PCs is ridiculous. Tablets are great little niche products that do a few things very well, but as general usage computers, they totally suck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
The number of Windows Surface apps, compared to Apple apps, is like comparing a glass of water, to an ocean, and since this thing runs on downloads, it is ridiculous to spend money on the Microsoft product. go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 3/18/2014 7:48 AM, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday Didn't you once post that you'd never touch a touch screen computer? You should have bought a Microsoft Surface Pro. That way, you could could make use of a keyboard; you could multi-task with a professional OS; and you could use your USB flash drive. Windows 8.1 supports internet Yahoo Mail. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras
I have a question or two about the mantra origin. From what I gather, the history is that Shankara, when he established the 4 Maths around India placed a Sri Yantra with mantras on them at each location. Is there a picture of any of these SriYantras or Sri Vidyas showing this? Could one visit any one of the Shankarcharya locations and see the Sri Yantra? If there is a picture of said yantra, has any one alliterated it with arrows pointing to what I would assume to be sanskrit markings and labels saying this (insert mantra here, ram, e.g. or shiam). I've done some google image searches, but have found nothing. Inquiring minds want to know.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : There should be an iOS app for Yahoo Mail. There is one for Android. There is, even comes pre-loaded on the unit, and installs cleanly, and quickly - BUT, no support for Yahoo biz accts. No kidding, even got an explicit msg. about it, when I tried to access my biz email. So, that definitely, *does* suck.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras
From: ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:42 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras I have a question or two about the mantra origin. From what I gather, the history is that Shankara, when he established the 4 Maths around India placed a Sri Yantra with mantras on them at each location. Is there a picture of any of these SriYantras or Sri Vidyas showing this? Could one visit any one of the Shankarcharya locations and see the Sri Yantra? If there is a picture of said yantra, has any one alliterated it with arrows pointing to what I would assume to be sanskrit markings and labels saying this (insert mantra here, ram, e.g. or shiam). I've done some google image searches, but have found nothing. Inquiring minds want to know. Why? What difference could the answer possibly make to your everyday life?
[FairfieldLife] Finally, a sane article about the US giving up control of the Internet
Similar to the partisan-, conspiracy-, and paranoia-driven reports about Flight 370 have been reactions to the US bailing on trying to control domain names on the Internet. As this article points out, it's actually a pretty savvy move, one that moves in the direction of a *more* user-driven and free Net, not the opposite. http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/03/how-us-outsmarted-everyone-giving-internet/80716/
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
I've never understood why anyone would even *want* a tablet computer. I can think of only one reason to have one. Anything one can do on the Net I can do with either my laptop or my iPhone. Why would I ever need an iPhone with a bigger screen (which, if you think about it, is kinda the definition of a tablet computer)? The only reason I can think of to own one is that there has actually been a lot of cool educational software developed for the iPads and similar tablets. For a kid, a touchscreen is a plus. For the rest of us, it's an inconvenience. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB I went the other way and my new low end gadget is a Firefox OS phone which arrived yesterday. It's a ZTE Open and recommended by Mozilla as a test device for developing apps for the OS. Firefox OS apps are HTML5 and mainly written in Javascript. Thing is you can also run these apps on Android and iPhone too and probably a Windows 8 phone. The target market for Firefox phones are emerging countries where they can't even afford Android phones. They are even planning on a $25 smartphone for that market. There are some quirks with the OS so far. Firefox doesn't display Neo properly and the right side of messages are cut off. On Android I look at FFL in Neo with Chrome which handles it fine. In some cases like looking at the Firefox Marketplace the one button to go back just takes you out of the app itself. Good points are the battery life seems good. The phone is also GSM so if I want to try it as a phone I can just use the SIM card from the Android phone. Otherwise it works fine with wifi. Also it comes with built in FM receiver. Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset. I also have two Android tablets and an Android Tegra Shield game device. On 03/18/2014 05:48 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my review of the iPAD Air w/128 GB
'Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset.' Just ran into my latest, using the camera. The camera itself, rocks - great tool, but, then, I somehow set it on video, and couldn't find a way, to reset it, back to photo. Had to google it, and turns out, that unique to *this* app's interface, a swiping upward motion is needed, over the name of the mode you are selecting - wtf? It worked, but not intuitive *at all*. I am beginning to understand its personality, and did finally get it to stfu, about wanting to enable its GPS - my answer is still nada on that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I went the other way and my new low end gadget is a Firefox OS phone which arrived yesterday. It's a ZTE Open and recommended by Mozilla as a test device for developing apps for the OS. Firefox OS apps are HTML5 and mainly written in Javascript. Thing is you can also run these apps on Android and iPhone too and probably a Windows 8 phone. The target market for Firefox phones are emerging countries where they can't even afford Android phones. They are even planning on a $25 smartphone for that market. There are some quirks with the OS so far. Firefox doesn't display Neo properly and the right side of messages are cut off. On Android I look at FFL in Neo with Chrome which handles it fine. In some cases like looking at the Firefox Marketplace the one button to go back just takes you out of the app itself. Good points are the battery life seems good. The phone is also GSM so if I want to try it as a phone I can just use the SIM card from the Android phone. Otherwise it works fine with wifi. Also it comes with built in FM receiver. Yup, most of these devices come with VERY LITTLE documentation. I didn't know for over a year that the control on the earbuds was really a microphone as hands free headset. I also have two Android tablets and an Android Tegra Shield game device. On 03/18/2014 05:48 AM, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: I bought this thing, yesterday, because it is a superior appliance for learning the guitar, using a specific piece of software - great display, blazingly fast, doesn't crash, has lots of great apps on-line, and is portable. So far, so good. Yet, compared to my PC, even the simplest of tasks - sending email - ranges, from, big pain in the butt, if I need to set the cursor location, by tapping, to *impossible* -- there is NO WAY to access my Yahoo Biz account email (currently *unsupported*). Also, entering any password, that contains both text and numbers, requires switching between *two* virtual keyboards - only one of which can be on-screen, at a time. The stroking, swiping and tapping interface, although elegant, leaves the screen all smudged up, very quickly. Also, the Apps have inconsistent controls, with the option to return to a previous page, performed by, sometimes closing a window, OR tapping in the space behind it, OR pressing the one function button on the side of the unit. It is a hunt and guess, to determine which action to take. The unit comes with no documentation, at all. Overall, it is a great high-end gadget, performing a few functions very well, but if I wasn't so interested in finding the right platform, to run a specific piece of software, I would buy something else.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras
Be careful, ultrarishi. Turq's been having a really bad few days, and he's seriously on edge. Step carefully. I have a question or two about the mantra origin. From what I gather, the history is that Shankara, when he established the 4 Maths around India placed a Sri Yantra with mantras on them at each location. Is there a picture of any of these SriYantras or Sri Vidyas showing this? Could one visit any one of the Shankarcharya locations and see the Sri Yantra? If there is a picture of said yantra, has any one alliterated it with arrows pointing to what I would assume to be sanskrit markings and labels saying this (insert mantra here, ram, e.g. or shiam). I've done some google image searches, but have found nothing. Inquiring minds want to know. Why? What difference could the answer possibly make to your everyday life?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sri Yantra and Mantras
The beej mantras most likely way predate Shankara. They are nothing unique or special. Anyone can give them (guess why Maharishi figured out a meditation system anyone could teach). They are often suggested for practice from Indian astrologers and ayurvedic practitioners. The sounds influence different areas of the body. For instance in ayurveda, hoom or hoong will clear your head which makes it good for kapha imbalances. Shreem or shring is recommended for pitta and relaxes the digestive tract. Ram is recommended for vata imbalances because it is calming. This whole yoga philosophy is based on managing the autonomic nervous system. Yogi use Swara Yoga to know whether the sympathetic or parasympathetic system is dominant. This can change throughout the day. If the right nostril is open then the solar phase (sympathetic or in Chinese medicine Yang) is dominating. If the left nostril then the lunar phase (parasympathetic or Yin). So if one is kapha and does a mantra for pitta they can wind up gaining weight. Some gurus will observe a student for a while and observe what is dominating and give them a mantra to balance it. That's why TM can't work for everyone but then to be fair MMY probably thought for those it didn't work for would just move on to find something else (as they tend to do so in India). On 03/18/2014 10:42 AM, ultrarishi wrote: I have a question or two about the mantra origin. From what I gather, the history is that Shankara, when he established the 4 Maths around India placed a Sri Yantra with mantras on them at each location. Is there a picture of any of these SriYantras or Sri Vidyas showing this? Could one visit any one of the Shankarcharya locations and see the Sri Yantra? If there is a picture of said yantra, has any one alliterated it with arrows pointing to what I would assume to be sanskrit markings and labels saying this (insert mantra here, ram, e.g. or shiam). I've done some google image searches, but have found nothing. Inquiring minds want to know.
[FairfieldLife] In Case Dr.D Missed This One - Enjoy !
Any grown up person who decides to learn something completely new is like a brother to me as I do that all the time, it is as if the freshness of the new reshapes the body. I play the flute but marvel at those guitar-players; how do they do it ?? All cudos to you for wanting to learn to play the guitar ! If you want my advice; do take a teacher. Sitting with a Master is a very interesting thing and will speed up the learning immensely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhqqEfiO3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhqqEfiO3Q Other guitar heros include these two obvious fellows, the chap at the left is actually a master-guitarist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRYQz_ramI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRYQz_ramI A guitarist extraordinare: Bill Frisell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-1Euq2RBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-1Euq2RBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nzloBmuPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nzloBmuPE Guitar-playing on a high level: John Scofield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPGdjZr8PI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPGdjZr8PI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCyb_jGAMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCyb_jGAMo (Snake Dance) Another American guitarist of high esteem is Ry Cooder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-e0XvZHYGAlist=RD_oYzxkfzJZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-e0XvZHYGAlist=RD_oYzxkfzJZ0 Enjoy !
[FairfieldLife] Buck in Unity Village, Kansas City
In talking with these active Unity ministers it's like what we have seen in TM, that the WWII generation that recognized what was going on spiritually and shared their success and support by the checkbook is pretty much demographically gone now. The traditional WWII generation is pretty much gone now. Now the baby-boom, the “spiritual but not-religious” atheistic individualistic 'in-it-for-yours-truly' sorts are not yet there to supporting altruistically much good in community works. A couple of the California ministers were saying a challenge in Marin Co. California where they live is that only 4 percent of their populations attend a church. 4 percent. The rest? They go hiking for themselves, have membership in fitness centers, and may be go to a yoga studio for their community and spirituality. These ministers I interviewed over coffee were front-line with active large communities who were visiting back on a conference at Unity Village sharing their movement's challenge. Within TM we have seen this trend too as our TM elders who facilitated the late 1950's, 60's, and 1970's TM movement with Maharishi have pretty much all passed away now with their check-books gone too. There are some baby-boomers who are able and community minded with resources but they are fewer now too from the heady days of a few years ago. A lot of the upper-middle-class TM meditators left the TM movement in the 1990's. Likewise, a security person there reflecting on the Unity Village campus spoke in 3rd person about how just 10 years ago Unity V. was still a happening hopping place with a lot of people there and has really since dropped off to not much now in the last five years or so. The challenge the Unity movement see there with these elders-in-transition is that those deeper and sustaining check-books move with these elderly and consequently those deeper check-books move away from supporting their local Unity churches and the larger Unity movement; the baby-boomers are not as able or interested in keeping up the support behind their parents. Their challenge as a movement now out in the world is the competitive marketplace in spirituality where fewer and fewer places have demographics with spiritual church-attending people. I sat with some ministers from California and Texas Unity churches, their comment was around their work engaging young families and middle-age 40's with families with programming like schools, services and such and then additionally attending to their 'transitional-elderly' who are being removed from their independence around by their baby-boomer kids, moving from their active communities and churches in to care facilities away from their communities. Like TM now, their [Unity] founding generations are passed and gone and their successive continuing elders then of the 20th Century height of their movement (1920-30-40-50's) are gone now too with their deep check-books. Like TM now is post-founder, the trick their Unity foundation boards of trustees are dealing with is trying to keep engaged whatever subsequent stalwart-generational members there are of their Unity Churches out in the world so that when those folks [baby-boom] pass away some of their check-books can come to support the physical-plant of even their Unity mecca -Unity Village in Kansas. Om, I was in Unity last nite and meditated there this morning too. Unity Village, Kansas City. Was there last week too passing through. It was really a nice place to meditate. The chapels were nice places to meditate. They were a bunch of spiritual transcendentalists that came out also at the time of the New Thought Movements [google New Thought later for the fun of it] of the late 19th and early 20th Century who though fundamentally transcendentalists in experience couched themselves in 'practical christianity'. Was a big deal in its time. Unity Village in Kansas City, Mo. is sort of like Fairfield, Iowa is now to the TM movement in the USA. An artifact of a time. -Buck back in the Meditating Community of Fairfield, Iowa . .
