[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Since we know from other sources that he wasn't He might not have been, Judy, but its entirely a he said, she said scenario here, and he is now dead so he can't refute the she said part. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : That's how one version of the story goes. In another version, told by Cynthia Lennon, Magic Alex convinced John and George that Maharishi had had sex with one of the American students (not Mia), and that's why they left. Cynthia thinks Alex was jealous of Maharishi's influence over John and wanted to get the Beatles away from him: http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ For Magic Alex's version, see here (pages 8 and 9): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf I've seen yet another version, which I can't find now on the Web, in which Alex set Maharishi up, collaborating with this American student to stage the scene implicating Maharishi that Alex took John to witness. Mia Farrow wasn't involved in any of these versions. From everything I can determine, it appears that the Mia story and the John-and-George-leaving story got conflated somewhere along the line. In any case, as Lawson says, Mia has backed way off her original claim. But if the issue is whether Maharishi was or wasn't celibate, which of the above versions (if any) is the correct one is irrelevant, since we know from other sources that he wasn't. Really? That's how the story goes, last read by me in that definitive book about the Beatles released 10-ish years ago. The fact her sister is a TM teacher means nothing to me about anything. Except maybe she might want to always paint the movement in a good light. I read somewhere that they do that a lot. You should get down the local Krishna restaraunt and get a copy of Chant and be Happy it's all about the Beatles and Krishna, boy will you see them in a new light. In fact you will see the power of selective editing at work. The TMO never mentions HL's devotion to Krishna and the Isckon book doesn't mention TM. LOL, these cults and their obsession with one-upmanship. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : I havent been able to find an account by Mia Farrow where she says that MMY attempted to get her to lie down, just that he started to give her a hug. At least, that is what her autobiography says. She may have watered down her story from the time of the incident. Her sister is an active TM teacher, after all. Continually attacking her sister's teacher would be a bad way to keep peace in the family. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : 1 Comment below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : He was a brilliant manipulator, said Mrs Pearce. I just couldn't see that he was a dirty old man. We made love regularly. At one stage I even thought I was pregnant by him. And I don't think I was the only girl. There was a lot of talk that he'd tried to rape This seems a far cry from the poignant tale of love told in her story of the affair (I've never read it, so going by hearsay). Anthony Campbell commented on her claim and said that Maharishi was in meetings with large groups of people at all hours of hte day and night during that time, and tehre's no way a secret affair could have happened without everyone (including him) being in on it. Campbell is now a practicing Buddhist. Mia Farrow says that given her frame of mind at that time, had Jesus given her a hug, she would have taken it the wrong way. The two surviving Beatles gave a benefit concert to raise money for TM some years back, spoke highly of Maharishi in interviews, and John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, even attended the concert. The two non-surviving Beatles, Lennon and Harrison (the ones who were actually in Rishikesh at the time of the incident), quit TM soon after getting back from India. Harrison had the Iskcon camping in his garden by the end of that year. They both said that chanting the Krishna mantra was the ultimate spiritual experience and did it for years, Harrison kept it up until he died, claiming it saved his life many times. Iskcon publish a book about it but they don't mention TM, saying that Harrison and Lennon had been doing a type of mantra meditation for a while. Regarding Mia Farrow, she was alone with the reesh and he tried to put his arms round her and get her to lie down. You don't need to know anything else do you, it's inappropriate enough without any fantasies. When LH heard about it they announced
[FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF?
As most of us might know, saMyama (sanyama) consists of dhaaraNaa, dhyaana and samaadhi. What might be the stage of samaadhi you think you can reach during YF? (Legend: Sh = Alistair Shearer) A: saMprajñaata (Sh: accompanied by mental activity) 1. vitarka (Sh: gross level [of mental activity?]) 2. vicaara (Sh: subtle level) 3. aananda (Sh: feeling of bliss, [FoB]) 4. asmitaa ([?FoB +] Sh: sense of pure I-AM-ness) B: asaMprajñaata (Sh: only latent impressions of past experience remain) (?nirbiija, dharma-megha?)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Richard Wagner!
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF?
I'd bet on the mood making stage. From: cardemais...@yahoo.com cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 9:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF? As most of us might know, saMyama (sanyama) consists of dhaaraNaa, dhyaana and samaadhi. What might be the stage of samaadhi you think you can reach during YF? (Legend: Sh = Alistair Shearer) A: saMprajñaata (Sh: accompanied by mental activity) 1. vitarka (Sh: gross level [of mental activity?]) 2. vicaara (Sh: subtle level) 3. aananda (Sh: feeling of bliss, [FoB]) 4. asmitaa ([?FoB +] Sh: sense of pure I-AM-ness) B: asaMprajñaata (Sh: only latent impressions of past experience remain) (?nirbiija, dharma-megha?)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:00 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. What amazes me is the WHY of people still trying to argue that Maharishi was celibate and that none of these things really happened. Does it make them believe that if they can shoot the messenger and cast doubt that Maharishi did these things that the pedestal they've placed him on would be taller than if he was gettin' his rocks off like everybody else? Do they think that admitting that he *did* get his rocks off like everyone else would somehow lower the pedestal they've placed him on? And that, as a result, *they* would be diminished? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Since we know from other sources that he wasn't He might not have been, Judy, but its entirely a he said, she said scenario here, and he is now dead so he can't refute the she said part. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : That's how one version of the story goes. In another version, told by Cynthia Lennon, Magic Alex convinced John and George that Maharishi had had sex with one of the American students (not Mia), and that's why they left. Cynthia thinks Alex was jealous of Maharishi's influence over John and wanted to get the Beatles away from him: http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ For Magic Alex's version, see here (pages 8 and 9): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf I've seen yet another version, which I can't find now on the Web, in which Alex set Maharishi up, collaborating with this American student to stage the scene implicating Maharishi that Alex took John to witness. Mia Farrow wasn't involved in any of these versions. From everything I can determine, it appears that the Mia story and the John-and-George-leaving story got conflated somewhere along the line. In any case, as Lawson says, Mia has backed way off her original claim. But if the issue is whether Maharishi was or wasn't celibate, which of the above versions (if any) is the correct one is irrelevant, since we know from other sources that he wasn't. Really? That's how the story goes, last read by me in that definitive book about the Beatles released 10-ish years ago. The fact her sister is a TM teacher means nothing to me about anything. Except maybe she might want to always paint the movement in a good light. I read somewhere that they do that a lot. You should get down the local Krishna restaraunt and get a copy of Chant and be Happy it's all about the Beatles and Krishna, boy will you see them in a new light. In fact you will see the power of selective editing at work. The TMO never mentions HL's devotion to Krishna and the Isckon book doesn't mention TM. LOL, these cults and their obsession with one-upmanship. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : I havent been able to find an account by Mia Farrow where she says that MMY attempted to get her to lie down, just that he started to give her a hug. At least, that is what her autobiography says. She may have watered down her story from the time of the incident. Her sister is an active TM teacher, after all. Continually attacking her sister's teacher would be a bad way to keep peace in the family. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : 1 Comment below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : He was a brilliant manipulator, said Mrs Pearce. I just couldn't see that he was a dirty old man. We made love regularly. At one stage I even thought I was pregnant by him. And I don't think I was the only girl. There was a lot of talk that he'd tried to rape This seems a far cry from the poignant tale of love told in her story of the affair (I've never read it, so going by hearsay). Anthony Campbell commented on her claim and said that Maharishi was in meetings with large groups of people at all hours of hte day and night during that time, and tehre's no way a secret affair could have happened without everyone (including him) being in on it. Campbell is now a practicing Buddhist. Mia Farrow says that given her frame of mind at that time, had Jesus given her a hug, she would have taken it the wrong way. The two surviving Beatles gave a benefit concert to raise money for TM some years back, spoke highly of Maharishi in interviews, and John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, even attended the concert. The two non-surviving Beatles, Lennon and Harrison (the ones who were actually in Rishikesh at the time of the incident), quit TM soon after getting back from India. Harrison had the Iskcon camping in his garden by the end of that year. They both said that chanting the Krishna mantra was the ultimate
[FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets
Excellent. At last someone has made the proper association between Woo Woo and where it belongs. :-) From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 11:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets Good Business: James Young, Woo Woo toilets
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stage of samaadhi during YF?
What do you think of Ali Shearers work Carde? Is he intepreting the ancient texts well or just trying to fit them into the TM mythos? Or is his stuff considered the best by the cognoscenti - assuming there is one other than you ;-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote : As most of us might know, saMyama (sanyama) consists of dhaaraNaa, dhyaana and samaadhi. What might be the stage of samaadhi you think you can reach during YF? (Legend: Sh = Alistair Shearer) A: saMprajñaata (Sh: accompanied by mental activity) 1. vitarka (Sh: gross level [of mental activity?]) 2. vicaara (Sh: subtle level) 3. aananda (Sh: feeling of bliss, [FoB]) 4. asmitaa ([?FoB +] Sh: sense of pure I-AM-ness) B: asaMprajñaata (Sh: only latent impressions of past experience remain) (?nirbiija, dharma-megha?)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
I'm more interested in why Judy is willing to accept words in a book as persuasive. Did the book draw a timeline that showed that there were significant periods of private face-time on a regular basis between the author and Maharishi? Did the book provide evidence that Maharishi rearranged his schedule to make sure these period occured? Did the book provide a semen-stained dress? It is entirely plausible that MMY DID have one or more affairs. He stopped using the title of a life-long celibate starting in the early 60's. He admitted in a radio interview in the late 60's that had he known it was possible to become enlightened without being celibate, he would have married and had kids. I'm just curious as to why Judy finds the book so persuasive (whether or not *I* would find the book persuasive is immaterial). L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Since we know from other sources that he wasn't He might not have been, Judy, but its entirely a he said, she said scenario here, and he is now dead so he can't refute the she said part. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : That's how one version of the story goes. In another version, told by Cynthia Lennon, Magic Alex convinced John and George that Maharishi had had sex with one of the American students (not Mia), and that's why they left. Cynthia thinks Alex was jealous of Maharishi's influence over John and wanted to get the Beatles away from him: http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ For Magic Alex's version, see here (pages 8 and 9): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf I've seen yet another version, which I can't find now on the Web, in which Alex set Maharishi up, collaborating with this American student to stage the scene implicating Maharishi that Alex took John to witness. Mia Farrow wasn't involved in any of these versions. From everything I can determine, it appears that the Mia story and the John-and-George-leaving story got conflated somewhere along the line. In any case, as Lawson says, Mia has backed way off her original claim. But if the issue is whether Maharishi was or wasn't celibate, which of the above versions (if any) is the correct one is irrelevant, since we know from other sources that he wasn't. Really? That's how the story goes, last read by me in that definitive book about the Beatles released 10-ish years ago. The fact her sister is a TM teacher means nothing to me about anything. Except maybe she might want to always paint the movement in a good light. I read somewhere that they do that a lot. You should get down the local Krishna restaraunt and get a copy of Chant and be Happy it's all about the Beatles and Krishna, boy will you see them in a new light. In fact you will see the power of selective editing at work. The TMO never mentions HL's devotion to Krishna and the Isckon book doesn't mention TM. LOL, these cults and their obsession with one-upmanship. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : I havent been able to find an account by Mia Farrow where she says that MMY attempted to get her to lie down, just that he started to give her a hug. At least, that is what her autobiography says. She may have watered down her story from the time of the incident. Her sister is an active TM teacher, after all. Continually attacking her sister's teacher would be a bad way to keep peace in the family. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : 1 Comment below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : He was a brilliant manipulator, said Mrs Pearce. I just couldn't see that he was a dirty old man. We made love regularly. At one stage I even thought I was pregnant by him. And I don't think I was the only girl. There was a lot of talk that he'd tried to rape This seems a far cry from the poignant tale of love told in her story of the affair (I've never read it, so going by hearsay). Anthony Campbell commented on her claim and said that Maharishi was in meetings with large groups of people at all hours of hte day and night during that time, and tehre's no way a secret affair could have happened without everyone (including him) being in on it. Campbell is now a practicing Buddhist. Mia Farrow says that given her frame of mind at that time, had Jesus given her a hug, she would have taken it the wrong way. The two surviving Beatles gave a benefit concert to raise money for TM some years back,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stage of samaadhi during YF?
I would think any level can be reached. The point isn't which level is reached, but which level is maintained once the hopping starts, I think. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote : As most of us might know, saMyama (sanyama) consists of dhaaraNaa, dhyaana and samaadhi. What might be the stage of samaadhi you think you can reach during YF? (Legend: Sh = Alistair Shearer) A: saMprajñaata (Sh: accompanied by mental activity) 1. vitarka (Sh: gross level [of mental activity?]) 2. vicaara (Sh: subtle level) 3. aananda (Sh: feeling of bliss, [FoB]) 4. asmitaa ([?FoB +] Sh: sense of pure I-AM-ness) B: asaMprajñaata (Sh: only latent impressions of past experience remain) (?nirbiija, dharma-megha?)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF?
The TM model of samadhi seems to fit the observed EEG behavior pretty well. Brain scans during TM's 'pure consciousness' state (PC) don't exist as far as I know, so the activity level of the thalamus during PC hasn't been measured, though it could be. I'm not sure if any brain imaging technology is able to directly measure the activity of specific connective circuits in realtime, so we can't completely verify the TM model for samadhi, but there's no reason to assume that it's all moodmaking during Yogic Flying. The EEG just before hopping, and the EEG during other sutra practice seems to fit the TM model pretty well, and that last few seconds of EEG shown on that video suggests that there is a kind of spillover of EEG patterns from TM-SIdhis practice, back into TM practice, as highly coherent EEG in beta and gamma frequencies during TM is, according to Alaric, rare in all but the most experienced people who only practice TM, but is quite a bit more common during TM in people who have been on the Invincible America course. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I'd bet on the mood making stage. From: cardemaister@... cardemaister@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 9:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF? As most of us might know, saMyama (sanyama) consists of dhaaraNaa, dhyaana and samaadhi. What might be the stage of samaadhi you think you can reach during YF? (Legend: Sh = Alistair Shearer) A: saMprajñaata (Sh: accompanied by mental activity) 1. vitarka (Sh: gross level [of mental activity?]) 2. vicaara (Sh: subtle level) 3. aananda (Sh: feeling of bliss, [FoB]) 4. asmitaa ([?FoB +] Sh: sense of pure I-AM-ness) B: asaMprajñaata (Sh: only latent impressions of past experience remain) (?nirbiija, dharma-megha?)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
As Br'er Barry has declared, I have the siddhis of always knowing what other people think and know and of always being right. How dare you question my intuition? I'm more interested in why Judy is willing to accept words in a book as persuasive. Did the book draw a timeline that showed that there were significant periods of private face-time on a regular basis between the author and Maharishi? Did the book provide evidence that Maharishi rearranged his schedule to make sure these period occured? Did the book provide a semen-stained dress? It is entirely plausible that MMY DID have one or more affairs. He stopped using the title of a life-long celibate starting in the early 60's. He admitted in a radio interview in the late 60's that had he known it was possible to become enlightened without being celibate, he would have married and had kids. I'm just curious as to why Judy finds the book so persuasive (whether or not *I* would find the book persuasive is immaterial). L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Since we know from other sources that he wasn't He might not have been, Judy, but its entirely a he said, she said scenario here, and he is now dead so he can't refute the she said part. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : That's how one version of the story goes. In another version, told by Cynthia Lennon, Magic Alex convinced John and George that Maharishi had had sex with one of the American students (not Mia), and that's why they left. Cynthia thinks Alex was jealous of Maharishi's influence over John and wanted to get the Beatles away from him: http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ For Magic Alex's version, see here (pages 8 and 9): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf I've seen yet another version, which I can't find now on the Web, in which Alex set Maharishi up, collaborating with this American student to stage the scene implicating Maharishi that Alex took John to witness. Mia Farrow wasn't involved in any of these versions. From everything I can determine, it appears that the Mia story and the John-and-George-leaving story got conflated somewhere along the line. In any case, as Lawson says, Mia has backed way off her original claim. But if the issue is whether Maharishi was or wasn't celibate, which of the above versions (if any) is the correct one is irrelevant, since we know from other sources that he wasn't.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
On 4/5/2014 10:01 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently you didn't get the joke. Let's invent a some new issues to discuss for the next U.S. presidential election: 1. Some people are making too much money. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 4/5/2014 10:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:03 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 2:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The motherfucker needs to suffer a stroke or heart attack and real soon! You sound really scared of free market enterprise. You're starting to sound like the people you oppose. Go figure. Too stupid to understand the irony in my statement? Apparently there are more than on Koch brother - only two are into politics. You're not even making any sense.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 4/5/2014 10:04 PM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:28 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 8:56 PM, Share Long wrote: Richard, I think they have bazillions of dollars and thus way more power than any 2 humans should. We live in a free market society - you can make as much money as you want and you can do with it almost anything you want to. Including making life difficult for others? In the U.S., everyone has equal opportunity to earn money - it's a free market system.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
If that was the case and not outdated propaganda few believe, why are nearly 52 million Americans short of food ? The new documentary Finding North premiering here at the Sundance Film Festival exposes how one in every four American children suffers from hunger, despite living in the wealthiest nation in the world, and nearly 30 percent of American families, more than 49 million people, often go without meals http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/23/raj_patel_in_attacks_on_obama http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/23/raj_patel_in_attacks_on_obama ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/5/2014 10:04 PM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:28 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 8:56 PM, Share Long wrote: Richard, I think they have bazillions of dollars and thus way more power than any 2 humans should. We live in a free market society - you can make as much money as you want and you can do with it almost anything you want to. Including making life difficult for others? In the U.S., everyone has equal opportunity to earn money - it's a free market system.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
It's not complicated. After reading all the published reports posted online and most of the books about the incident, I guess I can safely say that MMY did not rape Mia Farrow. So, let's review what we know: John and Cynthia went to a yoga meditation camp over in India, according to Nancy. Paul was there too, with Jane Asher. At the yoga camp, John tried to sneak Yoko Ono in through the bathroom window, but Cynthia kicked John out of the bedroom, according to Cynthia. John went over to Paul and Jane's room and they smoked some weed smuggled in by Magic Alex, according to Chopra. When MMY found out about it, he kicked John and Paul out of the camp. When John and Paul got back from India they told a few fibs about their experience in India as a cover-up. Then, John grew a long beard, dressed himself up in white pajamas, shacked up with Yoko in a Canadian hotel room,and went on TV to demonstrate their yoga technique - bed yoga for world peace. You can't make this stuff up. [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:49 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: As Br'er Barry has declared, I have the siddhis of always knowing what other people think and know and of always being right. How dare you question my intuition? I'm more interested in why Judy is willing to accept words in a book as persuasive. Did the book draw a timeline that showed that there were significant periods of private face-time on a regular basis between the author and Maharishi? Did the book provide evidence that Maharishi rearranged his schedule to make sure these period occured? Did the book provide a semen-stained dress? It is entirely plausible that MMY DID have one or more affairs. He stopped using the title of a life-long celibate starting in the early 60's. He admitted in a radio interview in the late 60's that had he known it was possible to become enlightened without being celibate, he would have married and had kids. I'm just curious as to why Judy finds the book so persuasive (whether or not *I* would find the book persuasive is immaterial). L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Since we know from other sources that he wasn't He might not have been, Judy, but its entirely a he said, she said scenario here, and he is now dead so he can't refute the she said part. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : That's how one version of the story goes. In another version, told by Cynthia Lennon, Magic Alex convinced John and George that Maharishi had had sex with one of the American students (not Mia), and that's why they left. Cynthia thinks Alex was jealous of Maharishi's influence over John and wanted to get the Beatles away from him: http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/2008/02/10/cynthia-lennon-the-beatles-the-maharishi-and-me/ For Magic Alex's version, see here (pages 8 and 9): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Mardas.pdf I've seen yet another version, which I can't find now on the Web, in which Alex set Maharishi up, collaborating with this American student to stage the scene implicating Maharishi that Alex took John to witness. Mia Farrow wasn't involved in any of these versions. From everything I can determine, it appears that the Mia story and the John-and-George-leaving story got conflated somewhere along the line. In any case, as Lawson says, Mia has backed way off her original claim. But if the issue is whether Maharishi was or wasn't celibate, which of the above versions (if any) is the correct one is irrelevant, since we know from other sources that he wasn't.
[FairfieldLife] Beatles in India, was Marshy
On 4/6/2014 1:00 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. By almost all accounts, John Lennon was not a pleasant person at any time in his short life. Certainly his estranged wife Cynthia, writing in 'A Twist of Lennon' relates a very unflattering account of how John betrayed his own family and subsequently neglected his son for years while in the company of a purported artist of no talent by name of Yoko Ono. It's not complicated. I have it on good authority that it was Ono who in fact broke up the Beatles, and who was the cause of Julian Lennon being denied his inheritance for years after John's death. However, as Julian recently said: Yoko Ono will never have the blood of a Lennon, nor will she ever have the talent. Apparently, the years following the Beatles breakup have been the most productive for Paul, who married Linda and bought a farm and raised a family, while at the same time producing some of the best popular music with his band 'Wings.' George produced his greatest hits in the two years following his visit to Rishikesh. Even Ringo, who was at Rishikesh for only ten days, produced a blues band of some renown, all a direct result of their involvement in TM. Unfortunately, John opted for infidelity, riotous living, and the writing of poetry describing erstwhile peace, love and family values. However, it was interesting to see John and Yoko aping the Maharishi by wearing white bedsheets, and sitting yoga style on a king size bed in a Toronto hotel during the infamous 'bed-in for peace.' John Lennon was obviously a somewhat talented artist who thought very highly of himself as a song writer, even 'imagining' himself a film producer, while not having the slightest experience behind a camera, nor in producing films. A purview of his published 'art' leaves much doubt as to his ability in drawing or painting as well. From what I've read, Lennon never read any of MMY's books, yet found the time to secretly write love letters to one not his wife, while humiliating and/or ignoring his own Go figure. And, subsequently left the yoga camp in a huff when he didn't get his way, again failing to compensate the TMO or MMY for his financial expenses, including film, food, clothing, and rent, up to and including the taxi fare from the ashram to the New Delhi airport! IMHO John Lennon was a poser, and apparently Cynthia and Julian Lennon agree. Go figure. 'When Maharishi threw Beatles out' The Times of India, Wednesday, February 15, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/zxocv Now, after almost four decades of rumour and counter-rumour, a confidant of both sides has gone public with revelations that could upset many of the band's fans: 'Beatles spiritual guru 'never made a pass at Mia Farrow' By David Orr in New Delhi The Telegraph, February 19, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/ep5a2
[FairfieldLife] How Can Someone Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
[FairfieldLife] Those Murdering Animals Tsk Tsk
http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/ http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/
[FairfieldLife] 50 MILLION AMERICANS
That's how many people in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet don't know where their next meal is coming from. And one in four are children. Hunger is complex problem — and one which could be solved once and for all — if the American public finally decided to make it a priority. These stories of hunger show just how complex and pervasive the problem is today. Just because you're not hungry doesn't mean you're not affected by hunger. http://www.takepart.com/hunger http://www.takepart.com/hunger
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Richard Wagner!
Apparently Wagner wore pink underwear, climbed trees, and liked to stand on his head. To match his pink pink underwear he often wore satin breeches, a pink eiderdown-padded house robe and pink slippers with the rose bouquets. Go figure. As a young student at a community college we listened to several of Wagner's operas or works, in two courses of music appreciation. I attended this course twice so that I could get the perspective from two different professors of music. We would sit here for hours listening to the arias,which were translated, probably because nobody in the class could understand all those complicated German words. It's complicated. You can always tell a genuine Wagner opera because they last for hours on end when performed on the stage. One critic at the time wrote about a Wagner opera: Of all the clumsy,lumbering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage; of all the affected, sapless, soul-less, beginingless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsy-turviest doggeral of sound I ever endured the deadliness of,that eternity of nothing was the deadliest. Work cited: 'Lives of the Musical Greats' by Victor Borge Doubleday-Tarcher, 1971 p. 119 On 4/6/2014 3:09 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/story-jews/
[FairfieldLife] 10 Hungriest Places in America
Hunger in America’s Cities In 2012, 16 metro areas in the U.S. reported that at least one in five people were struggling with finding enough food to eat. And while many people might assume that hunger in America was most prevalent in the Midwestern and Northeastern urban areas that have been battered by poverty in recent decades, the South and California actually lead the pack. Click through to see the 10 hungriest cities in America. http://www.takepart.com/photos/10-hungriest-places-america/hunger-in-americas-cities http://www.takepart.com/photos/10-hungriest-places-america/hunger-in-americas-cities Photo: Getty Images Source: FRAC: Food Hardship in America 2012 http://frac.org/pdf/food_hardship_2012.pdf
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF?
On 4/6/2014 3:22 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: I'd bet on the mood making stage. How much would you be willing to wager? The mood making is actually just a preliminary exercise, not the actual levitation itself. First, you need to rent a lecture hall with a stage and have some leaflets and posters printed up. These you hand out and tack up all over town. Then, you need to maybe rent one of those smoke machines they use for stage productions. Or failing that, buy up a big load of punk to burn as joss sticks placed all around the stage. Also, you might consider passing out LSD tabs at the door. Then, just before the actual levitation event, slowly start up the bass drums, then introduce the bells, then the whistles. It's not complicated. *From:* cardemais...@yahoo.com cardemais...@yahoo.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, April 6, 2014 9:31 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Stage of samaadhi during YF? As most of us might know, saMyama (sanyama) consists of dhaaraNaa, dhyaana and samaadhi. What might be the stage of samaadhi you think you can reach during YF? (Legend: Sh = Alistair Shearer) A: saMprajñaata (Sh: accompanied by mental activity) 1. vitarka (Sh: gross level [of mental activity?]) 2. vicaara (Sh: subtle level) 3. aananda (Sh: feeling of bliss, [FoB]) 4. asmitaa ([?FoB +] Sh: sense of pure I-AM-ness) B: asaMprajñaata (Sh: only latent impressions of past experience remain) (?nirbiija, dharma-megha?)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 3:27 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: What amazes me is the WHY of people still trying to argue that Maharishi was celibate and that none of these things really happened. What were you doing in MMY's bedroom? Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets
This is an example of a brick shit house. [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:22 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Excellent. At last someone has made the proper association between Woo Woo and where it belongs. :-) -- *From:* nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, April 6, 2014 11:15 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets Good Business: James Young, Woo Woo toiletshttp://positivenews.org.uk/2014/blogs/goodbusiness/15092/good-business-james-young-woo-woo-toilets/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 7:14 AM, lengli...@cox.net wrote: Did the book draw a timeline that showed that there were significant periods of private face-time on a regular basis between the author and Maharishi? There's no time-line and very little detail in her book. If you can believe this scenario, Judith was able to sneak into MMY's house in the dead of night when everyone else was sleeping, - even the the skin-boy. How she got past Nanda Keshore and Ms Jemima Pittman is beyond me. So, apparently she either climbed into bed with MMY or maybe they went up on the roof or out onto the veranda. But, it's a stretch to imagine a little guy like MMY on top of a big gal like Judith - he could have been tossed clear across the room from all that bucking. It's not complicated. Judith Bourque is about as honest as she could be, I guess, considering that she teaches 'vedic mantra meditation' with Conny Larsson. I wonder how honest she was when she told MMYthat she had slept with a married man and totally destroyed the guy's family - a wife and four children? If Judith was an honest person, she didn't sound very remorseful in her book about that. In fact, she sounds kind of boastful about her sexual exploits. What we CAN conclude from our reading is that these two, Judith and Conny, are guru-screwers, MMY and Sai Baba respectively, of the lowest sort. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Venture Fund
“We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” The people listed on this venture capital project seem successful community people who evidently are practically looking out for Fairfield, Iowa Life. Most you don't live here; however while the rest of rural America is in decline and de-population Jefferson County, Iowa has fortunately bucked that trend. This is high-minded pro-active thinking on their parts of community-minded elders looking ahead for the local economy where we live. -U.S. Buck in the Dome Actually the attorneys general protecting the general public have put most the crooked community meditators out of business either in to jail or barred from at least security business, some barred for life. It is not that these bad-minded ones were meditators but much more likely examples of asocial bad-upbringing. Much more likely they were victim of their poor upbringings from where ever they came from. Those crooked while certainly part of the old story of Fairfield, Iowa hardly represent the larger good of the meditating community of Fairfield, Iowa. Om, just to be a little more accurate about some things mentioned below for any outsiders looking in, it was [International Trading Group] ITG churning accounts with made up information that the SEC sanctioned. Telegroup was taking in good people's money from the community at their front door while loading it out the back door as they were filing for bankruptcy. Beckley's and his people was a different route of consumer fraud played on people. -Buck Yes, and thanks be to the Unified Field for the States Attorneys Generals out there doing the good work of protecting us all as the larger and civic [meditating] community from bad people doing bad things. -Buck Mjackson74 writes: I'd just as soon invest my money with Ed Beckley. There have been a bunch of them there in Fairfield, haven't there? My favorite TM business scam story to date is one that someone shared here right after I first began posting on FFL about the Movement asking for investors to create an ayurvedic clinic there in Fairfield and the investors would get their money back, plus profit sharing and discounts on products and services - and the minute the Movement had the money the immediately reneged on the deal, saying all the investors would be re-payed only with the discounts - no profits, no return of initial investments, nothing! My favorite! Duveyoung writes: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Venture Fund Telegroup? I would think they'd be ashamed to even mention the name. Crooks, liars and thieves sure love to do highfalutin' sounding enterprises. Is this another one? Sorry guys, maybe your intents are pure, but look at the track history of faith-based businesses in Fairfield -- if you're not going to address all the failures -- especially of the businesses that seemingly toed the movement line, then, hey, you're just bullshitting us. How'z about someone in this new group explains how USAGlobalLink failed, or how it was okay for Kaplan to steal the business of Reading's Fun from a former partner or how Telegroup [ITG] just made up their advice to their customers in order to churn the accounts? BAH! . . . .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Venture Fund
Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014.. .] There are times when the world asks ordinary people to do extraordinary things. The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” The people listed on this venture capital project seem successful community people who evidently are practically looking out for Fairfield, Iowa Life. Most you don't live here; however while the rest of rural America is in decline and de-population Jefferson County, Iowa has fortunately bucked that trend. This is high-minded pro-active thinking on their parts of community-minded elders looking ahead for the local economy where we live. -U.S. Buck in the Dome Actually the attorneys general protecting the general public have put most the crooked community meditators out of business either in to jail or barred from at least security business, some barred for life. It is not that these bad-minded ones were meditators but much more likely examples of asocial bad-upbringing. Much more likely they were victim of their poor upbringings from where ever they came from. Those crooked while certainly part of the old story of Fairfield, Iowa hardly represent the larger good of the meditating community of Fairfield, Iowa. Om, just to be a little more accurate about some things mentioned below for any outsiders looking in, it was [International Trading Group] ITG churning accounts with made up information that the SEC sanctioned. Telegroup was taking in good people's money from the community at their front door while loading it out the back door as they were filing for bankruptcy. Beckley's and his people was a different route of consumer fraud played on people. -Buck Yes, and thanks be to the Unified Field for the States Attorneys Generals out there doing the good work of protecting us all as the larger and civic [meditating] community from bad people doing bad things. -Buck Mjackson74 writes: I'd just as soon invest my money with Ed Beckley. There have been a bunch of them there in Fairfield, haven't there? My favorite TM business scam story to date is one that someone shared here right after I first began posting on FFL about the Movement asking for investors to create an ayurvedic clinic there in Fairfield and the investors would get their money back, plus profit sharing and discounts on products and services - and the minute the Movement had the money the immediately reneged on the deal, saying all the investors would be re-payed only with the discounts - no profits, no return of initial investments, nothing! My favorite! Duveyoung writes: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Venture Fund Telegroup? I would think they'd be ashamed to even mention the name. Crooks, liars and thieves sure love to do highfalutin' sounding enterprises. Is this another one? Sorry guys, maybe your intents are pure, but look at the track history of faith-based businesses in Fairfield -- if you're not going to address all the failures -- especially of the businesses that seemingly toed the movement line, then, hey, you're just bullshitting us. How'z about someone in this new group explains how USAGlobalLink failed, or how it was okay for Kaplan to steal the business of Reading's Fun from a former partner or how Telegroup [ITG] just made up their advice to their customers in order to churn the accounts? BAH! . . . . .O
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
Well this could actually be true. The Koch bros have a lumbar industry in Arkansas that probably utilizes pulp to make paper, maybe even toilet paper. Personally, I'm an Angel Soft kind of guy. On Sunday, April 6, 2014 5:51 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/5/2014 10:01 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently you didn't get the joke. Let's invent a some new issues to discuss for the next U.S. presidential election: 1. Some people are making too much money. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
How disgusting that some women have sex lives. How unbelievable that not everyone's marriage lasts forever. How vile of these hussies to tempt those poor innocent guru's away from their chosen path of righteousness. How positively criminal that some people teach TM illegally! How weird that some people think there is only one sexual position. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 7:14 AM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... wrote: Did the book draw a timeline that showed that there were significant periods of private face-time on a regular basis between the author and Maharishi? There's no time-line and very little detail in her book. If you can believe this scenario, Judith was able to sneak into MMY's house in the dead of night when everyone else was sleeping, - even the the skin-boy. How she got past Nanda Keshore and Ms Jemima Pittman is beyond me. So, apparently she either climbed into bed with MMY or maybe they went up on the roof or out onto the veranda. But, it's a stretch to imagine a little guy like MMY on top of a big gal like Judith - he could have been tossed clear across the room from all that bucking. It's not complicated. Judith Bourque is about as honest as she could be, I guess, considering that she teaches 'vedic mantra meditation' with Conny Larsson. I wonder how honest she was when she told MMYthat she had slept with a married man and totally destroyed the guy's family - a wife and four children? If Judith was an honest person, she didn't sound very remorseful in her book about that. In fact, she sounds kind of boastful about her sexual exploits. What we CAN conclude from our reading is that these two, Judith and Conny, are guru-screwers, MMY and Sai Baba respectively, of the lowest sort. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Those Murdering Animals Tsk Tsk
It's those *crazy hormones*. The lioness probably had a false pregnancy. No babies but that strong motherly instinct to nurture and protect. I had an English Setter that used to go through this every time she came into *season*. Sixty-three days later she adopted all kinds of stuffed toys to cuttle and try to nurse. She even adopted my telephone once and would whimper and cry when it began ringing. Another one that I placed with friends in San Antonio once went next door and killed a mother cat and brought her kittens home to raise! On Sunday, April 6, 2014 6:50 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/
Re: [FairfieldLife] 50 MILLION AMERICANS
You can lead a horse to water... You can give all the *food stamps* you want but if people buy junk foods with them Hope no one is advocating for food Nazis You vill eat zis unt not zat! On Sunday, April 6, 2014 6:53 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: That's how many people in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet don't know where their next meal is coming from. And one in four are children. Hunger is complex problem — and one which could be solved once and for all — if the American public finally decided to make it a priority. These stories of hunger show just how complex and pervasive the problem is today. Just because you're not hungry doesn't mean you're not affected by hunger. http://www.takepart.com/hunger
Re: [FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets
James Franco's character in PineApple Express fanatsized about building something like this so *little kids could take a shit at the play ground*. On Sunday, April 6, 2014 7:21 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: This is an example of a brick shit house. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:22 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Excellent. At last someone has made the proper association between Woo Woo and where it belongs. :-) From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2014 11:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Woo Woo toilets Good Business: James Young, Woo Woo toilets
Re: [FairfieldLife] Those Murdering Animals Tsk Tsk
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : It's those *crazy hormones*. The lioness probably had a false pregnancy. Not this time. I have seen other accounts of a different species protect the offspring of a mother it had just killed. This tells me that initial killing is out of necessity (hunger) and not for bloodlust. It also indicates an innate, interspecies understanding of the helplessness of young animals which there is a sort of universal need to respect. This cross-species bonding or seemingly empathetic set of behaviors is pretty extraordinary. And yes, for all the cynics out there there are all sorts of examples of seemingly random and indiscriminate cruelty within nature. Take domestic cats for example... No babies but that strong motherly instinct to nurture and protect. I had an English Setter that used to go through this every time she came into *season*. Sixty-three days later she adopted all kinds of stuffed toys to cuttle and try to nurse. She even adopted my telephone once and would whimper and cry when it began ringing. Another one that I placed with friends in San Antonio once went next door and killed a mother cat and brought her kittens home to raise! On Sunday, April 6, 2014 6:50 AM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... wrote: http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/ http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: How vile of these hussies to tempt those poor innocent guru's away from their chosen path of righteousness. Not sure how much tempting there had to be in the case of Sai Bba and Conny Larsson. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles in India, was Marshy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles in India, was Marshy
So Marshy never made a pass at Mia Farrow because you don't like John Lennon. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 1:00 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Don't worry Lawson, there are plenty of people willing to refute it on his behalf. By almost all accounts, John Lennon was not a pleasant person at any time in his short life. Certainly his estranged wife Cynthia, writing in 'A Twist of Lennon' relates a very unflattering account of how John betrayed his own family and subsequently neglected his son for years while in the company of a purported artist of no talent by name of Yoko Ono. It's not complicated. I have it on good authority that it was Ono who in fact broke up the Beatles, and who was the cause of Julian Lennon being denied his inheritance for years after John's death. However, as Julian recently said: Yoko Ono will never have the blood of a Lennon, nor will she ever have the talent. Apparently, the years following the Beatles breakup have been the most productive for Paul, who married Linda and bought a farm and raised a family, while at the same time producing some of the best popular music with his band 'Wings.' George produced his greatest hits in the two years following his visit to Rishikesh. Even Ringo, who was at Rishikesh for only ten days, produced a blues band of some renown, all a direct result of their involvement in TM. Unfortunately, John opted for infidelity, riotous living, and the writing of poetry describing erstwhile peace, love and family values. However, it was interesting to see John and Yoko aping the Maharishi by wearing white bedsheets, and sitting yoga style on a king size bed in a Toronto hotel during the infamous 'bed-in for peace.' John Lennon was obviously a somewhat talented artist who thought very highly of himself as a song writer, even 'imagining' himself a film producer, while not having the slightest experience behind a camera, nor in producing films. A purview of his published 'art' leaves much doubt as to his ability in drawing or painting as well. From what I've read, Lennon never read any of MMY's books, yet found the time to secretly write love letters to one not his wife, while humiliating and/or ignoring his own Go figure. And, subsequently left the yoga camp in a huff when he didn't get his way, again failing to compensate the TMO or MMY for his financial expenses, including film, food, clothing, and rent, up to and including the taxi fare from the ashram to the New Delhi airport! IMHO John Lennon was a poser, and apparently Cynthia and Julian Lennon agree. Go figure. 'When Maharishi threw Beatles out' The Times of India, Wednesday, February 15, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/zxocv http://tinyurl.com/zxocv Now, after almost four decades of rumour and counter-rumour, a confidant of both sides has gone public with revelations that could upset many of the band's fans: 'Beatles spiritual guru 'never made a pass at Mia Farrow' By David Orr in New Delhi The Telegraph, February 19, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/ep5a2 http://tinyurl.com/ep5a2
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: How weird that some people think there is only one sexual position. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. But, it is kind of strange to think of MMY screwing Judith on a antelope skin in front of a paining of SBS, with a skin-boy in the next room and Ms Pittman guarding the front door. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: How disgusting that some women have sex lives. It's is kind of low to screw somebody's husband and break up a marriage with four kids. That must be complicated.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles in India, was Marshy
On 4/6/2014 10:41 AM, salyavin808 wrote: So Marshy never made a pass at Mia Farrow because you don't like John Lennon. Go figure. According to Mia Farrow, MMY did not rape her, so I guess that makes John Lennon a liar. Go figure. It looks like MMY threw the Beatles out for taking illegal drugs that they smuggled into the compound and for sleeping with other female students and neglecting their own wives. Apparently MMY didn't approve of drug taking and the mixing of the sexes while at the yoga camp. It's complicated. According to Albert Goldman, in his book Lennon, John was really into drug taking - weed, pot, hash, ganja, LSD, and later methedrine and heroin - all kinds of tranquilizers, pep pills, uppers and downers, and lots of booze and tobacco. Apparently John was really screwed up on drugs. According to Cynthia Lennon in her book A Twist of Lennon, the John left Rishikesh in a huff. Nancy Cooke de Herrera, in her book Beyond Gurus, says that Paul was upset because he wanted to have sex with Jane Asher in his room, so that's why he left the retreat. Chopra says John was upset because the Maharishi told him he couldn't do drugs while on TTC. So, John left his wife Cynthia and his son for Yoko, and then made up a big fib about Maharishi having raped Mia. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
Yes, billionairism is a disease. The cure is known as progressive taxation. On 04/06/2014 05:51 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 10:01 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently you didn't get the joke. Let's invent a some new issues to discuss for the next U.S. presidential election: 1. Some people are making too much money. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 04/06/2014 05:54 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 10:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:03 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 2:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The motherfucker needs to suffer a stroke or heart attack and real soon! You sound really scared of free market enterprise. You're starting to sound like the people you oppose. Go figure. Too stupid to understand the irony in my statement? Apparently there are more than on Koch brother - only two are into politics. You're not even making any sense. We discuss the dangerous ones here. _._,_.___
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
Apparently Richard knows so little about the Koch brothers that he doesn't know one of their companies is Georgia-Pacific. Go look at how many toilet paper products are made by that company. Plus here in California they funded a campaign to get rid of our pollution laws so they could make more money. Californians said no at the ballot box. On 04/06/2014 08:06 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: Well this could actually be true. The Koch bros have a lumbar industry in Arkansas that probably utilizes pulp to make paper, maybe even toilet paper. Personally, I'm an Angel Soft kind of guy. On Sunday, April 6, 2014 5:51 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/5/2014 10:01 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently you didn't get the joke. Let's invent a some new issues to discuss for the next U.S. presidential election: 1. Some people are making too much money. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
On 4/6/2014 11:06 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Yes, billionairism is a disease. The cure is known as progressive taxation. So, you're thinking people should be unequal - some should pay more taxation on their earnings than others - the more money you earn, the more taxes to the federal government you have to pay. This doesn't sound to me like an issue that would decide the next U.S. presidency. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 50 MILLION AMERICANS
Food prices are rising ridiculously in this country. Some of it may be due to threat of a California drought (which looks like that might have subsided). But it is also due to speculation in the commodities market or capitalism on steroids. I also think they are tip toeing the populace into austerity because a nation of gun owners might not take too kindly to it being introduced overnight. On 04/06/2014 06:52 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: That's how many people in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet don't know where their next meal is coming from. And one in four are children. Hunger is complex problem — and one which could be solved once and for all — if the American public finally decided to make it a priority. These stories of hunger show just how complex and pervasive the problem is today. Just because you're not hungry doesn't mean you're not affected by hunger. http://www.takepart.com/hunger
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 4/6/2014 11:07 AM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/06/2014 05:54 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 10:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:03 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 2:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The motherfucker needs to suffer a stroke or heart attack and real soon! You sound really scared of free market enterprise. You're starting to sound like the people you oppose. Go figure. Too stupid to understand the irony in my statement? Apparently there are more than on Koch brother - only two are into politics. You're not even making any sense. We discuss the dangerous ones here. So, why is it dangerous to have a lot of money? From what I've read, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have lots of money. How do you think they would vote on the progressive taxation idea? Go figure. _._,_.___
Re: [FairfieldLife] How Can Someone Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
Because most Americans know shit about nutrition. They'll go buy a 5 pack of ramen on sale for $1 where if they like ramen so much they could just buy a package of vermicelli for $1 which would go much farther and is healthier. Plus that's what most Chinese cooks use. What food advice they get is for people with metabolic syndrome and they may not even have those problems. Hence they wind up eating too many carbs or at the other end of the spectrum too much fried foods. On 04/06/2014 06:49 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
On 4/6/2014 11:10 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently Richard knows so little about the Koch brothers that he doesn't know one of their companies is Georgia-Pacific. Go look at how many toilet paper products are made by that company. Plus here in California they funded a campaign to get rid of our pollution laws so they could make more money. Californians said no at the ballot box. Nobody is forcing you to buy toilet paper - you could use a corn cob like most people, on your tender behind. I just don't see ownership of Georgia-Pacific as an issue in the next U.S. presidential election. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] What's a Geep?
It's the offspring of a goat and a sheep. Here's a geep just recently born in Ireland:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
On 04/06/2014 09:17 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/6/2014 11:06 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Yes, billionairism is a disease. The cure is known as progressive taxation. So, you're thinking people should be unequal - some should pay more taxation on their earnings than others - the more money you earn, the more taxes to the federal government you have to pay. This doesn't sound to me like an issue that would decide the next U.S. presidency. Go figure. What have the rich done for you that you champion them so much? Have they showed wealth all over you? Last time I looked you were considering moving to a shack in the Texas desert. Doesn't seem the rich are helping you much. And haven't you been complaining that the rent is too high? Go figure. For the 1000th time progressive taxes are useful to discourage wealth hoarding and not to make the government richer. Maybe someday that will sink into your thick skull.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 04/06/2014 09:20 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/6/2014 11:07 AM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/06/2014 05:54 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 10:03 PM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:03 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/5/2014 2:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The motherfucker needs to suffer a stroke or heart attack and real soon! You sound really scared of free market enterprise. You're starting to sound like the people you oppose. Go figure. Too stupid to understand the irony in my statement? Apparently there are more than on Koch brother - only two are into politics. You're not even making any sense. We discuss the dangerous ones here. So, why is it dangerous to have a lot of money? From what I've read, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have lots of money. How do you think they would vote on the progressive taxation idea? Go figure. LOL! There were progressive taxes during the Clinton era. So just how do you think Bill and Hillary would stand on the idea of progressive taxes? Also you might ask Warren Buffet and Bill Gates the same question.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
On 04/06/2014 09:24 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/6/2014 11:10 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently Richard knows so little about the Koch brothers that he doesn't know one of their companies is Georgia-Pacific. Go look at how many toilet paper products are made by that company. Plus here in California they funded a campaign to get rid of our pollution laws so they could make more money. Californians said no at the ballot box. Nobody is forcing you to buy toilet paper - you could use a corn cob like most people, on your tender behind. I just don't see ownership of Georgia-Pacific as an issue in the next U.S. presidential election. Go figure. Oh yeah, have you seen corn prices lately?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
Feel free to indulge your fantasies but I'd rather not dwell on it at all if you don't mind... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: How weird that some people think there is only one sexual position. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. But, it is kind of strange to think of MMY screwing Judith on a antelope skin in front of a paining of SBS, with a skin-boy in the next room and Ms Pittman guarding the front door. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
It takes two to tango, or do you have no self control in the presence of a hot woman? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: How disgusting that some women have sex lives. It's is kind of low to screw somebody's husband and break up a marriage with four kids. That must be complicated.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Beatles in India, was Marshy
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 10:41 AM, salyavin808 wrote: According to Mia Farrow, MMY did not rape her, so I guess that makes John Lennon a liar. Go figure. I never suggested he did, but she ran away sharpish after her private audience with the reesh. It looks like MMY threw the Beatles out for taking illegal drugs that they smuggled into the compound and for sleeping with other female students and neglecting their own wives. Apparently MMY didn't approve of drug taking and the mixing of the sexes while at the yoga camp. It's complicated. What an imagination you have! The Beatles were happy to have quit drugs to do TM, in fact they said they wouldn't have bothered in the first place if they had mantras to play with. Within a year they were chanting Krishna. But I guess any story will do for you apart from the obvious one... According to Albert Goldman, in his book Lennon, John was really into drug taking - weed, pot, hash, ganja, LSD, and later methedrine and heroin - all kinds of tranquilizers, pep pills, uppers and downers, and lots of booze and tobacco. Apparently John was really screwed up on drugs. See above. According to Cynthia Lennon in her book A Twist of Lennon, the John left Rishikesh in a huff. Nancy Cooke de Herrera, in her book Beyond Gurus, says that Paul was upset because he wanted to have sex with Jane Asher in his room, so that's why he left the retreat. Chopra says John was upset because the Maharishi told him he couldn't do drugs while on TTC. So, John left his wife Cynthia and his son for Yoko, and then made up a big fib about Maharishi having raped Mia. Go figure. Everyone has a story to tell. I can see why everyone was pleased when they left! Still, it didn't stop the TMO milking it for all it was worth even thought they all stopped meditating almost immediately. LOL. The fickleness of the famous. Why everyone still falls for it is beyond me, especially as all they can get these days is Russell Brand!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dubya's Artworks
John, George Clooney's birthday is May 6, 1961 so right away we know something important: exalted Sun! On Saturday, April 5, 2014 4:29 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Share, I'd be interested to look at his jyotish chart. He probably has a yoga for bachelorhood, but not necessarily celebate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, he has often stated that he never intends to marry. In fact, he broke up with one girlfriend simply because she admitted in an interview that she wanted to marry someday and have children. On Saturday, April 5, 2014 3:33 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, Now that you've mentioned it, I've always wondered why George Clooney is still single after dating all of those gorgeous women he was associated with in the past. Now, he's got a new girlfriend again. One wonders if he'll ever get married. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, beauty is a fascinating topic from many angles. For example, I can totally see why people say that George Clooney is very handsome, etc. But there are other actors who I find far more attractive. Go figure! On Saturday, April 5, 2014 2:49 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, As the old saying goes, Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. But I imagine, the artistry lies in combining different colors, along with the shades of dark and light. I remember one painting style which makes the portrait look crystal clear. I don't how it's done. But I appreciate it's because I can't see that clearly without my glasses. :) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, I understand what you're saying. Van Gogh is not one of my favorite artists and it has nothing to do with his mental situation. I am also mystified as to why some artists' works fetch such a high price. OTOH, I walk into an art gallery and immediately find the work that I absolutely love. Though I don't understand my preferences, I trust them. And enjoy... On Saturday, April 5, 2014 1:40 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Judy, I'm still puzzled at how these art critics can proclaim the works of Van Gogh to be artistic genius. From what I understand, when he painted his self-portrait, he was already insane. And, if he were alive today, he'd be astonished that his paintings are now valued in millions of dollars. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : I seriously doubt he'll sell them (he might give away a few to friends). The best of them will probably end up in his presidential library for the public to see. In any case, if art collectors were to get hold of them, they'd be valued only as curiosities. They're hardly works of artistic genius. Salyavin, It all depends if he can sell these artworks for millions during his lifetime, and if the art collectors in the future would value them like those of Van Gough and Monet. But I would have to give him credit for expanding his creative talents after leading the US into expensive war campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : George W. Bush has recently displayed his works of art, as shown in the link below. What do you think? He's a better artist than he was a president. http://news.yahoo.com/photos/portraits-by-george-w-bush-slideshow/
Re: [FairfieldLife] How Can Someone Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
noozguru, wikipedia wasn't much help about vermicilli which I've never heard of. Why is it more nutritious? I thought all pasta were pretty bad. On Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:49 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
Re: [FairfieldLife] How Can Someone Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.livescience.com/21851-maligned-pasta-good-carb.html http://www.livescience.com/21851-maligned-pasta-good-carb.html noozguru, wikipedia wasn't much help about vermicilli which I've never heard of. Why is it more nutritious? I thought all pasta were pretty bad. It's vermicelli (note spelling), and it's just very thin pasta. Not much to say about it otherwise. (Means little worm--from the Latin.) On Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:49 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
Re: [FairfieldLife] How Can Someone Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
Vermicelli is diameter wise between angle hair and spaghetti. So it cooks up fast like ramen. There are recipes for it in Chinese cookbooks. A friend told me years ago that many Chinese cooks just use regular pasta for chow mein, etc. Linguine works well for chow mein. But I also used to get 5 lb boxes of mein noodles at the local Asian supermarket. Durum wheat being heavy is almost a whole grain and especially when used in pasta and cooked al dente. Look in the pasta section of your store the next time and you'll probably find vermicelli. BTW a report about research that says obese folks may actually be healthier: http://nypost.com/2014/04/05/america-rejoice-being-fat-may-actually-make-you-healthier/ On 04/06/2014 11:54 AM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, wikipedia wasn't much help about vermicilli which I've never heard of. Why is it more nutritious? I thought all pasta were pretty bad. On Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:49 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
Re: [FairfieldLife] How Can Someo ne Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
Thanks for posting, what a relief to read the article ! Living alone, along with a dog, pasta comes to the rescue for both of us several times a week being fast to prepare and easy even for someone who can't cook. But it's a no-no amongst the besserwissers in the know about GI and so forth and even today I was told, by someone I now know to be a nutter, not to eat the stuff if I want to keep the waistline and continue to attract admirable numbers of maidens like always. Thanks again. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.livescience.com/21851-maligned-pasta-good-carb.html http://www.livescience.com/21851-maligned-pasta-good-carb.html noozguru, wikipedia wasn't much help about vermicilli which I've never heard of. Why is it more nutritious? I thought all pasta were pretty bad. It's vermicelli (note spelling), and it's just very thin pasta. Not much to say about it otherwise. (Means little worm--from the Latin.) On Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:49 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 4/6/2014 11:54 AM, Bhairitu wrote: There were progressive taxes during the Clinton era. Sorry, I'm just not buying into the progressive taxation on earnings and the federal agency to collect it. It's way too complicated. Too many loopholes in the current tax system. If you're going to have an income tax then everyone should just pay their fair share of a flat tax - everyone be equal under the law. That way, people will have more money to spend and pay the consumer tax on purchases, or not. It's not complicated. Flat taxes offer simplicity in the tax code, which has been reported to increase compliance and decrease administration costs. A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no exceptions. The flat rate would be applied to all taxable income and profits without exception or exemption. It could be argued that under such an arrangement, no one is subject to a preferential or unfair tax treatment. No industry receives special treatment, large households are not advantaged at the expense of small ones, etc. Moreover, the cost of tax filing for citizens and the cost of tax administration for the government would be further reduced, as under a true flat tax only businesses and the self-employed would need to interact with the tax authorities. In general, the question of how to eliminate deductions is fundamental to the flat tax design. That's what I think.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Send the Koch brothers to Mars
On 4/6/2014 11:55 AM, Bhairitu wrote: On 04/06/2014 09:24 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/6/2014 11:10 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Apparently Richard knows so little about the Koch brothers that he doesn't know one of their companies is Georgia-Pacific. Go look at how many toilet paper products are made by that company. Plus here in California they funded a campaign to get rid of our pollution laws so they could make more money. Californians said no at the ballot box. Nobody is forcing you to buy toilet paper - you could use a corn cob like most people, on your tender behind. I just don't see ownership of Georgia-Pacific as an issue in the next U.S. presidential election. Go figure. Oh yeah, have you seen corn prices lately? Yes, and I don't support corn-based ethanol production. That should be an issue in the next U.S. presidential election, and all government farm subsidies should be an issue. The evidence here is that Obama’s green programs are about funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to cronies and supporters.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 12:25 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Feel free to indulge your fantasies but I'd rather not dwell on it at all if you don't mind... Obviously for a guy the best position is all in, but the point is that it seems totally out of character for MMY to be doing something like that with Judith. Where I come from. anything that is self-contradictory, does not exist. Almost everything said about MMY is self-contradictory, so most of what you read and hear is probably untrue. Unfortunately MMY isn't here to be cross-examined - there's nothing like the cross to get to the truth. Otherwise, it's all just speculation and rumor. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: How weird that some people think there is only one sexual position. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. But, it is kind of strange to think of MMY screwing Judith on a antelope skin in front of a painting of SBS, with a skin-boy in the next room and Ms Pittman guarding the front door. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How Can Someo ne Be Both ‘Stuffed and Starved’?
Well, just don't overindulge. And don't load down the pasta with fatty sauces. Sautee veggies in olive oil and use them for a sauce, or tomatoes, or just olive oil and a little bit of butter and some herbs, maybe a sprinkling of Parmesan. A cup and a half cooked is a reasonable portion. Use common sense, IOW. I swear, this kind of extreme, obsessive fanaticism about food is probably more unhealthy than any of the foods the besserwissers (great term!) go to such lengths to avoid. There's very little in the way of edibles that's actually bad for you (unless you're allergic or intolerant) other than sugar (and even a little of that from time to time is fine) and fish that's full of mercury or fruits and veggies that have been drenched in pesticides. Generally speaking, the more different things you eat, the better. Ruling out a perfectly healthy food like pasta is just dumb (and it won't help bring in the maidens). There are even a couple of recent studies that say saturated fat is good for you. And then there's Bhairitu's article saying skinny people are less healthy than overweight people! Thanks for posting, what a relief to read the article ! Living alone, along with a dog, pasta comes to the rescue for both of us several times a week being fast to prepare and easy even for someone who can't cook. But it's a no-no amongst the besserwissers in the know about GI and so forth and even today I was told, by someone I now know to be a nutter, not to eat the stuff if I want to keep the waistline and continue to attract admirable numbers of maidens like always. Thanks again. http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.culinate.com/articles/opinion/pasta_myth http://www.livescience.com/21851-maligned-pasta-good-carb.html http://www.livescience.com/21851-maligned-pasta-good-carb.html noozguru, wikipedia wasn't much help about vermicilli which I've never heard of. Why is it more nutritious? I thought all pasta were pretty bad. It's vermicelli (note spelling), and it's just very thin pasta. Not much to say about it otherwise. (Means little worm--from the Latin.) On Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:49 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: It’s an unprecedented paradox: More Americans than ever are overweight or obese—yet many of those same people are going hungry, forced to rely on food with few nutrients. http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/12/stuffed-and-starved-raj-patel
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
A progressive tax is NOT complicated. We've had it before. The purpose is to prevent the country from having oligarchs like we have now buying politicians through their corporations and lording influence over us. That's the fascist state we have now. What flat tax rate are you proposing? Let's say for simplicity it was 10% which of course sounds good to a lot of people. However to someone who only earns $50,000 a year that's quite a hit. To someone earning $250,000 it isn't such a hit. See the problem? Are you going to exempt people under a certain income? On 04/06/2014 01:54 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/6/2014 11:54 AM, Bhairitu wrote: There were progressive taxes during the Clinton era. Sorry, I'm just not buying into the progressive taxation on earnings and the federal agency to collect it. It's way too complicated. Too many loopholes in the current tax system. If you're going to have an income tax then everyone should just pay their fair share of a flat tax - everyone be equal under the law. That way, people will have more money to spend and pay the consumer tax on purchases, or not. It's not complicated. Flat taxes offer simplicity in the tax code, which has been reported to increase compliance and decrease administration costs. A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no exceptions. The flat rate would be applied to all taxable income and profits without exception or exemption. It could be argued that under such an arrangement, no one is subject to a preferential or unfair tax treatment. No industry receives special treatment, large households are not advantaged at the expense of small ones, etc. Moreover, the cost of tax filing for citizens and the cost of tax administration for the government would be further reduced, as under a true flat tax only businesses and the self-employed would need to interact with the tax authorities. In general, the question of how to eliminate deductions is fundamental to the flat tax design. That's what I think.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 4/6/2014 5:16 PM, Bhairitu wrote: A progressive tax is NOT complicated. We've had it before. The purpose is to prevent the country from having oligarchs like we have now buying politicians through their corporations and lording influence over us. That's the fascist state we have now. All sales taxes are flat tax. What flat tax rate are you proposing? Let's say for simplicity it was 10% which of course sounds good to a lot of people. However to someone who only earns $50,000 a year that's quite a hit. To someone earning $250,000 it isn't such a hit. See the problem? Flat tax systems are in place in several states in the U.S. California income tax rate is 10.55% on income over $1 million. If there was a federal flat tax on earnings, I would be willing to pay my fair share - 1.0 % to the federal government - there is no tax on income in Texas, so it's not an issue for me in the next presidential election. Are you going to exempt people under a certain income? Just for the record, I am opposed to all taxation on general principles. Go figure.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Extended FFL Puja
On 04/06/2014 04:55 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 4/6/2014 5:16 PM, Bhairitu wrote: A progressive tax is NOT complicated. We've had it before. The purpose is to prevent the country from having oligarchs like we have now buying politicians through their corporations and lording influence over us. That's the fascist state we have now. All sales taxes are flat tax. What flat tax rate are you proposing? Let's say for simplicity it was 10% which of course sounds good to a lot of people. However to someone who only earns $50,000 a year that's quite a hit. To someone earning $250,000 it isn't such a hit. See the problem? Flat tax systems are in place in several states in the U.S. California income tax rate is 10.55% on income over $1 million. If there was a federal flat tax on earnings, I would be willing to pay my fair share - 1.0 % to the federal government - there is no tax on income in Texas, so it's not an issue for me in the next presidential election. California has other taxes like on capital gains. For instance I just had to pay the capital gains tax on the house I sold last year. And at that they make you pay some of that when the house is sold so I what I paid was the balance. Are you going to exempt people under a certain income? Just for the record, I am opposed to all taxation on general principles. How are you going to pay for things like roads, bridges, schools, police and fire departments? Go figure. Better check your math.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
There's a reason why my favorite quote of Richards is: I've probably posted 10,000 messages here without a response. He spouts endless repetitive nonsense and actually wonders why no one bothers to respond? Go figure. Feel free to indulge your fantasies but I'd rather not dwell on it at all if you don't mind... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/6/2014 10:17 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Hide message history How weird that some people think there is only one sexual position. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. But, it is kind of strange to think of MMY screwing Judith on a antelope skin in front of a paining of SBS, with a skin-boy in the next room and Ms Pittman guarding the front door. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Rick's Robert Svoboda Interview
I just finished watching Rick's interview with my old friend Robert Svododa on the Buddha at the Gas Pump channel. It's a long interview (almost 3 hours) but well worth listening to or watching. One thing however is that the audio needs to be run through a dynamic range compressor since Rick's audio is too high (clipping sometimes) and Robert's is too low. http://youtu.be/bkuPriBfm_Q
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dubya's Artworks
Share, Yes, he does have an exalted Sun. In Bhrigu Nandi Nadi jyotish, it means that his father was very successful. He also has an exalted Venus, which refers to his aunt, since Venus is next to the Sun. His aunt is further a well known musical celebrity herself. In addition, this Venus holds the key for knowing his future wife. She too will be well known and very beautiful. She will be almost like a royalty. So, it appears that George is looking for this lady to marry. If he can't find her, he'll remain a bachelor. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, George Clooney's birthday is May 6, 1961 so right away we know something important: exalted Sun! On Saturday, April 5, 2014 4:29 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, I'd be interested to look at his jyotish chart. He probably has a yoga for bachelorhood, but not necessarily celebate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, he has often stated that he never intends to marry. In fact, he broke up with one girlfriend simply because she admitted in an interview that she wanted to marry someday and have children. On Saturday, April 5, 2014 3:33 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, Now that you've mentioned it, I've always wondered why George Clooney is still single after dating all of those gorgeous women he was associated with in the past. Now, he's got a new girlfriend again. One wonders if he'll ever get married. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, beauty is a fascinating topic from many angles. For example, I can totally see why people say that George Clooney is very handsome, etc. But there are other actors who I find far more attractive. Go figure! On Saturday, April 5, 2014 2:49 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, As the old saying goes, Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. But I imagine, the artistry lies in combining different colors, along with the shades of dark and light. I remember one painting style which makes the portrait look crystal clear. I don't how it's done. But I appreciate it's because I can't see that clearly without my glasses. :) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, I understand what you're saying. Van Gogh is not one of my favorite artists and it has nothing to do with his mental situation. I am also mystified as to why some artists' works fetch such a high price. OTOH, I walk into an art gallery and immediately find the work that I absolutely love. Though I don't understand my preferences, I trust them. And enjoy... On Saturday, April 5, 2014 1:40 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Judy, I'm still puzzled at how these art critics can proclaim the works of Van Gogh to be artistic genius. From what I understand, when he painted his self-portrait, he was already insane. And, if he were alive today, he'd be astonished that his paintings are now valued in millions of dollars. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : I seriously doubt he'll sell them (he might give away a few to friends). The best of them will probably end up in his presidential library for the public to see. In any case, if art collectors were to get hold of them, they'd be valued only as curiosities. They're hardly works of artistic genius. Salyavin, It all depends if he can sell these artworks for millions during his lifetime, and if the art collectors in the future would value them like those of Van Gough and Monet. But I would have to give him credit for expanding his creative talents after leading the US into expensive war campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : George W. Bush has recently displayed his works of art, as shown in the link below. What do you think? He's a better artist than he was a president. http://news.yahoo.com/photos/portraits-by-george-w-bush-slideshow/ http://news.yahoo.com/photos/portraits-by-george-w-bush-slideshow/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy
On 4/6/2014 8:11 PM, geezerfr...@yahoo.com wrote: There's a reason why my favorite quote of Richards is: I've probably posted 10,000 messages here without a response. I've probably posted 10,000 messages here and got a response. He spouts endless repetitive nonsense and actually wonders why no one bothers to respond? Go figure. Apparently Mr. Freak took me seriously and responded, and I actually wonder why he spouted more endless repetitive nonsense? Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Rick's Robert Svoboda Interview
On 4/6/2014 8:12 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I just finished watching Rick's interview with my old friend Robert Svododa We attended Svoboda's lecture at the East Side Yoga studio in Austin a couple of years ago. We saw Svaboda again with his mother at the Mi Tierra Cantina in the Mercado in downtown San Antonio. Svaboda told me his mother lives in Floresville which is about 50 miles south of here. His Aunt Elenora lives on the San Antonio River, a few blocks from our place.
[FairfieldLife] Acedia, and Spiritually Negative Thot Forms.
In Fairfield Today I sat through a complete Vedic performance of the Chandi Path, the allegorical battle with those negative and un-spiritual thought-forms as MJ, Turqb and some other negativists will often here post. Then, in this evening at the weekly harmony singing here too were these old hymns that were by coincidence of the same theme too; the age old problem of acedia/spiritual depression, apostasy and having apostates that need to have their meditations and spiritual practices checked. Really remarkable and a good lesson, -Buck
