[FairfieldLife] What we can learn about MMY from Bill Cosby
I think there are interesting parallels in terms of both being stuck in the past and being stuck in denial here. So far, at least 13 women have come forward to say that Bill Cosby drugged and raped them, or at the very least, in some way forced them to have sex with him. Several other voices (some of them male) have confirmed that there was a whole support mechanism in place among Cosby's staff and organization to keep any of these rapes from ever becoming public. At the same time, the other night at a comedy performance, the audience gave Cosby a standing ovation. Does anyone else see the parallels here? - First, how lost in the past do you have to BE to attend a Bill Cosby performance, all these years after he's gone over the hill? That's a clear parallel to people still caring about Maharishi, who is even more over the hill, being...uh...dead, in addition to being discredited. - Second, for these Cosby True Believers, nothing they've seen in the press or heard seems to bother them. They're still willing to stand and applaud Cosby, either refusing to believe that he could possibly have done any wrong, or refusing to consider using his position of power to rape women wrong. Another clear parallel to what TM True Believers do when new tales of Maharishi screwing his women students come out. They find ways to ignore them completely, so that they can continue idolizing MMY. - Third, notice what the Cosby True Believers say about these women coming forward. They call them names, Liars! being the least of them, and demonstrate their misogyny with every word. The MMY supporters do the exact same thing, demonizing the women who have had the courage to tell the truth about both how Maharishi seduced them, and then went out of his way to hide it. All in all, it looks like the behavior of True Believers is equally shameful, whether they're clinging to their illusions about Bill Cosby, or about Maharishi... A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault | | | | | | | | | | | A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cos...The following women have alleged as a matter of public record that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted or raped them. They are listed in the order their allegations becam... | | | | View on www.slate.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!!
Here is an apt re-run, from yesterday: Dream on. Nobody is planning to do anything, with you, or to you. Such a Walter Mitty type, aren't you? You live in your little room, watching TV, and build empty fantasies about how interested we are in you. Nothing could be further from the truth, Barry. You get attention, by being an asshole. No one gives a damn about you, otherwise. Get used to it. We'll still be posting here when you are dead, with no one giving you a second thought. The really creepy bit, as Edg, Emily, Steve, Judy, Sal, Richard, Nabby, Share, Dr. Pete, Rick, Alex, Bhairitu, Ann, Bob, Robin, Rory, and many, many others have already noted, is that you know you are broken, you know you aren't enlightened, you know your social skills are anti-social, you know all this doesn't help one bit, and yet you just can't help yourself. You are One Sick Monkey, dude. Perhaps reliving the glory days with Freddie will help...now, run along and fantasize some more - you are SO good at it! :-) :-) :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!! [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=0b8m3ft1a6o9h#TopText from anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] included below] What might lie at the bottom of Barry's barrel? Barry just m Barry's classification. Disclaimer: This post is not meant to impune the intelligence of anyone, whether they be highly intelligent or highly unintelligent. After all, only the enlightened are aware of the nature of the intelligence of the universe, how it works, and what has it, and where it is actually located. I think we ought to allow the Post Count to determine the bottom of the barrel. So far this week, the person who claims to be enlightened has demonstrated the highest degree of obsession, making 31 posts in one day, MOST of them about a person he claims is beneath notice and beneath contempt (moi). I leave you to puzzle out whether that sounds enlightened to you or just jealous. Similarly, Share seems to have done little else but Obsess On Barry, as have Richard and Ann and Steve. Just another Saturday at Fairfield Life. Since all of these people have gone out of their way in the past and the present to comment about how LOW Barry is, and yet they choose to focus almost all of their writings on him anyway, I think we have to assume that they are the LOWEST in terms of intelligence. What you focus on, you become...and all that... :-) On another level, it should be obvious by now that none of them is able to think of anything to post EXCEPT ragging on Barry. I have become the catalyst that allows them to pretend that they actually have something to say. Seems to me they should be thanking me for providing them a much-needed writing prompt. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: What we can learn about serial rapist Frederick Lenz from Bill Cosby
Your mind is going...:-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I think there are interesting parallels in terms of both being stuck in the past and being stuck in denial here. So far, at least 13 women have come forward to say that Bill Cosby drugged and raped them, or at the very least, in some way forced them to have sex with him. Several other voices (some of them male) have confirmed that there was a whole support mechanism in place among Cosby's staff and organization to keep any of these rapes from ever becoming public. At the same time, the other night at a comedy performance, the audience gave Cosby a standing ovation. Does anyone else see the parallels here? - First, how lost in the past do you have to BE to attend a Bill Cosby performance, all these years after he's gone over the hill? That's a clear parallel to people still caring about Maharishi, who is even more over the hill, being...uh...dead, in addition to being discredited. - Second, for these Cosby True Believers, nothing they've seen in the press or heard seems to bother them. They're still willing to stand and applaud Cosby, either refusing to believe that he could possibly have done any wrong, or refusing to consider using his position of power to rape women wrong. Another clear parallel to what TM True Believers do when new tales of Maharishi screwing his women students come out. They find ways to ignore them completely, so that they can continue idolizing MMY. - Third, notice what the Cosby True Believers say about these women coming forward. They call them names, Liars! being the least of them, and demonstrate their misogyny with every word. The MMY supporters do the exact same thing, demonizing the women who have had the courage to tell the truth about both how Maharishi seduced them, and then went out of his way to hide it. All in all, it looks like the behavior of True Believers is equally shameful, whether they're clinging to their illusions about Bill Cosby, or about Maharishi... A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cos... http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru The following women have alleged as a matter of public record that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted or raped them. They are listed in the order their allegations becam... View on www.slate.com http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!!
I am just curious, as your thoughts really don't address anything, do you smoke a lot of weed?? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I am reattaching that image of the barrel with the TM thought bubbles. Maharishi said, concerning a 'bad' thought that 'they are rotten to the core'. That could give one pause as to the ultimate origin of rottenness. Also if one reacts to a 'bad' thought someone expresses, from where does the 'bad' arise, with the person who expresses the thought, or the person who interprets the thought. Think of ISIS (or ISIL), a group of people who seem utterly in the thrall of certain thought forms. They seem to think what they are doing is good, while in the West we tend to think of them as deranged and horrifying, so who is right? If we do not like those thoughts they have, we can label them as dangerous to our way of life and attempt to destroy the containers of those thoughts as a practical measure without considering their ultimate character as good or bad, much in the way chemotherapy can destroy cancer, which is a naturally occurring process that brings ill health to the body. All individual beings die from one thing or another as a result of the flow of natural processes. Good health and ill health are equally a part of nature. Naturally we want good health for the body, but nature ultimately never complies with that wish. Ultimately all thoughts spring from processes occurring naturally, and if one conceptualises the world as emerging from being according to natural law, the rottenness of thoughts that we encounter have a more overreaching source than an individual body. So if we do not like something, certainly there is something out there beyond our individual body that we react to, but the reaction springs wholly from within our body, so as our thoughts measure the world that our mind interprets. From the Tao Te Ching: When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises When it knows good as good, evil arises Thus being and non-being produce each other Difficult and easy bring about each other Long and short reveal each other High and low support each other Music and voice harmonize each other Front and back follow each other Therefore the sages: Manage the work of detached actions Conduct the teaching of no words They work with myriad things but do not control They create but do not possess They act but do not presume They succeed but do not dwell on success It is because they do not dwell on success That it never goes away === ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : What might lie at the bottom of Barry's barrel? Obviously, he does, and calls it home. I have *another* name for it. :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : What might lie at the bottom of Barry's barrel? Barry just made an offer that would, if accepted by John, would put Jim up one notch on the ladder of intelligence, per Barry's classification. Disclaimer: This post is not meant to impune the intelligence of anyone, whether they be highly intelligent or highly unintelligent. After all, only the enlightened are aware of the nature of the intelligence of the universe, how it works, and what has it, and where it is actually located. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Barry is in a race with himself, to the bottom of the barrel. And look, he's winning! LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Hey Barry, Speaking of lying, you've started this thread with a lie dude. THAT is what's put a bug up your ass? My Subject line for this thread? No problemo. I didn't mean to start a dick-size contest between you and Jimbo. If you are offended at being considered less dumb than Jim Flanegin, I retract the statement. You can be the dumbest.
[FairfieldLife] Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
Seriously?? This is one of your dumbest, most contrived posts, ever, and that is saying something... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!!
He is available - Its a language difference, Steve. When Barry refers to mountain climbing, the rest of us oughta know, he refers to carrying that beer-belly up three flights of stairs. To him, that's an expedition...Sorta like when you or I would go out to buy a book or something, Barry travels through portals of time and space. Similarly, what looks like him walking his dog, is actually a sacred convo between Master (the dog), and Barry (the other dog). Once you learn Barry-speak, its a breeze! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : He just walked into it. The thing he was berating you about, he just walked into it. Admitting he made horrible error, of taking something someone said at face value. He may conveniently be on his mountain climbing expedition and conveniently can't respond. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Steve, turq wasn't the only one who went silent with that image of me undressing him! Talk about thought stopper! Anyway, for posterity, here's what I had written: dear *dear * turq, hopefully you see the irony of your first sentence! Otherwise we are doomed doomed doomed! MAYBE when you admit you were wrong about CS series, I will admit my total wrongness. MAYBE... In his first sentence, turq had written that, on that ill-fated one and only *date*, he believed someone when she told him that the Chicken Soup series began in FF. Guess I'm not the only gullible idiot in the Funny Farm Lounge (-: From: steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!! Share, Barry's gone silent on this one, and I cants sez that I blame him. To his credit. To his credit, however, if it were Judy, and she were caught in such a trap of her own makings, we could be in for a two to three week spin of why she didn't just hoist herself on her own petard. Maybe Barry has enough dignity to remain silent and appear stupid, (which he is, in this instance), than to open his mouth and remove all doubt. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Share, that is brilliant! Barry probably won't get it, but you just undressed him. I'm not looking but if that's the case, for God's sake and all of the rest of us, get him dressed!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place. Aha. Now we understand why Maharishi ripped off the Burger King crown for his Rajas:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
Perhaps you can move UP, and share a few 'knock, knock' jokes with us - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place. Aha. Now we understand why Maharishi ripped off the Burger King crown for his Rajas:
[FairfieldLife] Barry's failure this morning
I wrote yesterday about these changing times, how the light is reaching everywhere now. Just now, I glanced at my PC and saw that Barry, thinking most of us asleep, tried to quietly lay a few turds on the FFL doorstep, sit back for a few hours, and watch the outrage, as we awaken (as he often has in the past). Didn't work. Not even close. I shot his stuff down without thinking twice about it. Those who live in the dark, who sneak around, will always be discovered now. The more Barry rants, the more we find out about him. Mostly, how little he has to offer.
[FairfieldLife] Zen koan of the day
Why is someone who claims to be fully enlightened still up at 2 a.m. obsessing about someone he claims is beneath him? Why would an enlightened person have spent the previous 24 hours writing almost 40 posts about the person he claims is beneath him? If all of this makes sense to you, perhaps you should sign up to learn Jimbo-Enlightenment. But watch out if he invites you over for dinner... :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Zen koan of the day
PLEASE READ THIS, Barry - It tells you everything you want to know. Dream on. Nobody is planning to do anything, with you, or to you. Such a Walter Mitty type, aren't you? You live in your little room, watching TV, and build empty fantasies about how interested we are in you. Nothing could be further from the truth, Barry. You get attention, by being an asshole. No one gives a damn about you, otherwise. Get used to it. We'll still be posting here when you are dead, with no one giving you a second thought. The really creepy bit, as Edg, Emily, Steve, Judy, Sal, Richard, Nabby, Share, Dr. Pete, Rick, Alex, Bhairitu, Ann, Bob, Robin, Rory, and many, many others have already noted, is that you know you are broken, you know you aren't enlightened, you know your social skills are anti-social, you know all this doesn't help one bit, and yet you just can't help yourself. You are One Sick Monkey, dude. Perhaps reliving the glory days with Freddie will help...now, run along and fantasize some more - you are SO good at it! :-) :-) :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Why is someone who claims to be fully enlightened still up at 2 a.m. obsessing about someone he claims is beneath him? Why would an enlightened person have spent the previous 24 hours writing almost 40 posts about the person he claims is beneath him? If all of this makes sense to you, perhaps you should sign up to learn Jimbo-Enlightenment. But watch out if he invites you over for dinner... :-)
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[FairfieldLife] How to tell you're in Leiden on a Sunday afternoon in November
First, get out and take a walk or a bike ride. If you stay inside, you could be anywhere, right? Now that you're out, do you see gangs of brightly dressed people in black face makeup walking around? Hundreds of them? OK, you're in Leiden. For those of you who have never experienced the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas and his Zwarte Piet companions, it sounds kinda weird. And it probably is, but the blackface has been part of the tradition since medieval periods, and people aren't about to change it now, even though there have been protests about it for racist reasons. Anyway, it's a lot of fun. Sinterklaas himself arrived yesterday a boat, while thousands of parents and their kids cheered his arrival. The Zwarte Piets are his helpers, sorta like elves but with more clought. If a kid has been good, the Zwarte Piets give them a pepper cookie. If they've been bad, theoretically the Zwarte Piets get to throw the kid into a big sack and take him off to Spain. Don't ask me what happens to the bad kids once they get there...I've never wanted to know. sinterklaas leiden 2014 - Google Search | | | | | | | | | | | sinterklaas leiden 2014 - Google Searchvandaagopstap.nl Intocht Sinterklaas Leiden 502 × 315 - 123k - jpg vandaagopstap.nl Huis van Sinterklaas in Leiden 502 × 315 - 34k - jpg nufoto.nl fullscreen 1024 ×... | | | | View on www.google.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!!
Sorry, turq, but I was experiencing Irony Overwhelm upon reading your demand
that John apologize to you. And then again when you said you believed something
that someone told you. Just like I had done! I think I'm recuperated now, MAYBE.
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!!
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What might lie at the bottom of Barry's barrel? Barry just m Barry's
classification.
Disclaimer: This post is not meant to impune the intelligence of anyone,
whether they be highly intelligent or highly unintelligent. After all, only the
enlightened are aware of the nature of the intelligence of the universe, how it
works, and what has it, and where it is actually located.
I think we ought to allow the Post Count to determine the bottom of the
barrel. So far this week, the person who claims to be enlightened has
demonstrated the highest degree of obsession, making 31 posts in one day, MOST
of them about a person he claims is beneath notice and beneath contempt (moi).
I leave you to puzzle out whether that sounds enlightened to you or just
jealous.
Similarly, Share seems to have done little else but Obsess On Barry, as have
Richard and Ann and Steve. Just another Saturday at Fairfield Life.
Since all of these people have gone out of their way in the past and the
present to comment about how LOW Barry is, and yet they choose to focus almost
all of their writings on him anyway, I think we have to assume that they are
the LOWEST in terms of intelligence. What you focus on, you become...and all
that... :-)
On another level, it should be obvious by now that none of them is able to
think of anything to post EXCEPT ragging on Barry. I have become the catalyst
that allows them to pretend that they actually have something to say. Seems to
me they should be thanking me for providing them a much-needed writing
prompt. :-)
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
On 11/22/2014 3:14 PM, Tormod Kinnes wrote: You get a horde of mantras with variants, that is true, but not the Advaitic Smartist system that TM traces its first mantras to, SBS was initiated into the Shankaracharya tradition by his guru, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati of the Upper Kashi. It is incumbent on all Saraswati Swamis to meditate at least twice every day. Everyone already knows this. Brahmananda Saraswati practiced samaya marga of Sri Vidya, according to his biographer. Sri Vidya is a path of internal puja to the deity of the Sri Yantra. There are fifteen bija mantras enumerated in the Saundalahari composed by the Adi Shankara. All the Shankaracharya Advaita sannyasin worship Shakti, this is a fact. According to Shankara's Soundaryalahari, all saanyasins meditate on the bija mantra of Saraswati. That's why SBS gave out the Saraswati bija mantra - for people to meditate on. According to Swami Rama, SBS used to meditate just like TMers do today - a meditation that is transcendental. According to Duffy: /This too, is my understanding of Guru Dev's practice as well. ...via mantras and nyasas. I would add that the bija mantras used are the same as the mantras used in TM.../ Works cited: /*The swami is said to have been one of those rare siddhas (accomplished ones) who had the knowledge of Sri Vidya/ Rama, Swami (1999) Himalayan Institute, *Living With the Himalayan Masters*, page 247 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmananda_Saraswati Subject: Re: Guru Dev and Sri Vidya From: James Duffy Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2003-04-21 12:17:54 PST Read more: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/srividya.htm Swami Brahmananda Sarasvati: Srividya siddha; highly respected Shankaracharya of Jyotirmya pitha, Shankara Matha, Badrinath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankaracharya /His disciples included Swami Shantanand Saraswati, Transcendental Meditation founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Swami Swaruananda Saraswati and Swami Karpatri. Five months before his death in 1953, he made a will naming his disciple, Swami Shantanand Saraswati as his successor./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmananda_Saraswati
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
yep, Bhairitu, my food bill per week used to be about $100. Now it's twice
that! So glad I only eat chicken fish and eggs each only once a week. How do
families survive?!
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your
head
On 11/22/2014 12:28 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that
should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by
evading taxes. Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear,
and be headed for a second revolution, eventually.
Food prices are climbing very high. The pound of butter I paid $2.99 for at
Trader Joes the last time cost me $3.99 the other day. That's a 33% increase.
I don't eat beef but the price of hamburger is over $4 now. The riots in
Greece were because people could no longer afford food not because they were
economic experts. Only a matter of time until riots begin here and the
government is trying to be proactive but just the wrong way.
Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries
and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn
as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real
leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this
country.
But being in tech also you know the corporate titans are not the visionaries.
They buy small companies started by people who are visionary or accidentally
(more often than not) created something visionary.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a
safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime
reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different
countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise
limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are
mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield.
Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism
bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us
back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and
the extremely poor. Don't stand for it!
Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust.
On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in,
was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and
absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived
entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that
would happen, without monetary rewards.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
Peoplesure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest
ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think
what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making
money.
On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Can'tfindyour car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.)
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Re: [FairfieldLife] How to tell you're in Leiden on a Sunday afternoon in November
St. Nicholas Center ::: The Evolution of Zwarte Piet
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From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 6:50 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] How to tell you're in Leiden on a Sunday afternoon in
November
First, get out and take a walk or a bike ride. If you stay inside, you
could be anywhere, right?
Now that you're out, do you see gangs of brightly dressed people in black face
makeup walking around? Hundreds of them? OK, you're in Leiden.
For those of you who have never experienced the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas
and his Zwarte Piet companions, it sounds kinda weird. And it probably is, but
the blackface has been part of the tradition since medieval periods, and people
aren't about to change it now, even though there have been protests about it
for racist reasons.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun. Sinterklaas himself arrived yesterday a boat, while
thousands of parents and their kids cheered his arrival. The Zwarte Piets are
his helpers, sorta like elves but with more clought. If a kid has been good,
the Zwarte Piets give them a pepper cookie. If they've been bad, theoretically
the Zwarte Piets get to throw the kid into a big sack and take him off to
Spain. Don't ask me what happens to the bad kids once they get there...I've
never wanted to know.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] What we can learn about MMY from Bill Cosby
Its dangerous to be a woman even in the best of places
A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA
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From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 3:38 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] What we can learn about MMY from Bill Cosby
I think there are interesting parallels in terms of both being stuck in
the past and being stuck in denial here.
So far, at least 13 women have come forward to say that Bill Cosby drugged and
raped them, or at the very least, in some way forced them to have sex with him.
Several other voices (some of them male) have confirmed that there was a whole
support mechanism in place among Cosby's staff and organization to keep any
of these rapes from ever becoming public.
At the same time, the other night at a comedy performance, the audience gave
Cosby a standing ovation.
Does anyone else see the parallels here?
- First, how lost in the past do you have to BE to attend a Bill Cosby
performance, all these years after he's gone over the hill? That's a clear
parallel to people still caring about Maharishi, who is even more over the
hill, being...uh...dead, in addition to being discredited.
- Second, for these Cosby True Believers, nothing they've seen in the press or
heard seems to bother them. They're still willing to stand and applaud Cosby,
either refusing to believe that he could possibly have done any wrong, or
refusing to consider using his position of power to rape women wrong. Another
clear parallel to what TM True Believers do when new tales of Maharishi
screwing his women students come out. They find ways to ignore them completely,
so that they can continue idolizing MMY.
- Third, notice what the Cosby True Believers say about these women coming
forward. They call them names, Liars! being the least of them, and
demonstrate their misogyny with every word. The MMY supporters do the exact
same thing, demonizing the women who have had the courage to tell the truth
about both how Maharishi seduced them, and then went out of his way to hide it.
All in all, it looks like the behavior of True Believers is equally shameful,
whether they're clinging to their illusions about Bill Cosby, or about
Maharishi...
A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault
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[FairfieldLife] Re: How to tell you're in Leiden on a Sunday afternoon in November
The question is, why do you have to get smacked around so much, before posting something like this, written by a normal human being? Curious minds want to know. Otherwise, we will just continue to assume you are an emotional two year old. PS Glad you enjoyed the day in Leiden - I only wish you did that more often. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : First, get out and take a walk or a bike ride. If you stay inside, you could be anywhere, right? Now that you're out, do you see gangs of brightly dressed people in black face makeup walking around? Hundreds of them? OK, you're in Leiden. For those of you who have never experienced the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas and his Zwarte Piet companions, it sounds kinda weird. And it probably is, but the blackface has been part of the tradition since medieval periods, and people aren't about to change it now, even though there have been protests about it for racist reasons. Anyway, it's a lot of fun. Sinterklaas himself arrived yesterday a boat, while thousands of parents and their kids cheered his arrival. The Zwarte Piets are his helpers, sorta like elves but with more clought. If a kid has been good, the Zwarte Piets give them a pepper cookie. If they've been bad, theoretically the Zwarte Piets get to throw the kid into a big sack and take him off to Spain. Don't ask me what happens to the bad kids once they get there...I've never wanted to know. sinterklaas leiden 2014 - Google Search https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY sinterklaas leiden 2014 - Google Search https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY vandaagopstap.nl Intocht Sinterklaas Leiden 502 × 315 - 123k - jpg vandaagopstap.nl Huis van Sinterklaas in Leiden 502 × 315 - 34k - jpg nufoto.nl fullscreen 1024 ×... View on www.google.com https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Sattvic Tea
More Sattva from the Land of the Veda 23 November 2014Last updated at 06:27 ET India tea workers kill owner in pay dispute in West Bengal Workers at a tea plantation in eastern India have killed the owner during negotiations over a pay dispute. The owner of the Sonali tea estate in West Bengal was dragged out of talks on the payment of arrears. He died after being beaten up and stabbed by a crowd. Police say the owner had come to pacify angry workers who had reportedly not been paid for two or three months. Correspondents say many workers in India's tea plantations are malnourished and poorly paid. Several incidents of attacks on tea executives by workers have been reported in recent years. In 2012 a tea plantation owner and his wife were burned to death in the neighbouring state of Assam.
[FairfieldLife] India in Israel
Jerusalem's 800-year-old Indian hospice | | | | | | | | | | | Jerusalem's 800-year-old Indian hospiceJerusalem - perhaps the most fiercely contested stretch of ground anywhere in the world - has been the unlikely host to an Indian lodge for more than 800 years. | | | | View on www.bbc.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
On 11/22/2014 3:48 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I don't think anyone knows for sure where the beej mantras came from. Those are lost in antiquity and undoubtedly commonly in use even at the time of Shankara. So let's review what we know about the TM bija mantras: The Sankrit word man in Sanskrit means to think and tra, means a tool; bija in Sanskrit means a seed. Bija mantras are seed sounds used as a tools for meditation. So, in TMer practice you just become aware of the seed syllable, experienced just like any other thought; then you add a little fertilizer; you just water the root and enjoy the fruit. It's not complicated. Are we agreed so far? Now we can review the purpose of bija mantra: There are several uses of bija mantras: for purification, acquisition, propitiation, or in some cases, for protection. But, according to Brooks, the most noble use of bija mantras is for spontaneous meditation. Seed-syllables (bijasaras), are the purest form of mantric sound - they do not make a request or praise a God - they are natures purest expression of Being. Now we can consider the history of bija mantra usage: There are no bija mantras mentioned in the Rik Veda - bija mantras came much later during the alchemical phase of the Nath Siddhas, after the rise of Tantric Buddhism in the Indian Gupta period. To sum up: Meditation on a bija mantra seed syllables rather than words, transcends such mundane considerations as semantic meaning. Accordingly, a bija-only mantra meditation is not merely esoteric, but inherently superior. However, bija mantras are not meaningless sounds; everything in the cosmos has meaning. But, bija mantras are non-semantic sounds - they are not words found in any standard Sanskrit lexicon. Bija mantras, by definition, are esoteric. Works cited: *Auspicious Wisdon* The Texts and Traditions of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India by Douglas Renfrew Brooks SUNY, 1992 p.95 On the origin of the TM bija mantras: /Bija mantras issued by TM are ''Sri Vidya'' bija mantras. To be fair, I won't go into what they are, but if one listens to all TM mantras, except for 2, they are 2 or 3 syllable, and this is a very important component of the // //technique... / From: Billy Smith Subject: Re: Guru Dev and Sri Vidya Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: April 22, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ye8my2 / //You are getting warmer when it comes to understanding TM's origins with your posts regarding the Shankaracharya tradition and its practice of Srividya... / From: James Duffy Subject: Re: TM: Siva Sutra Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, alt.yoga, alt.meditation Date: September 21, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/yjwa2yr
Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
On 11/22/2014 4:51 PM, Tormod Kinnes wrote: There are some sources outside TM, sources that reveal the settings and transmission to Maharishi when he was trained by Guru Dev, benefited by his company, and was asked to bring swift and deep meditation to the masses. /Hariharananda Saraswati, (Karpatri Swami), the disciple of SBS, was also the great expert of Shree Vidya and probably all the present day experts in Varanasi have somehow or the other obtained Shree vidya from him or his pupils./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Karpatri Shree Vidya: /The details of the beliefs vary in different texts, but the general principles are similar to those found in Kashmir Shaivism...The name srividya is also used to refer to a specific mantra used in this tradition having fifteen syllables./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Vidya
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
Barry considers himself a writer, and as such, I think he feels compelled to write something every day. He despises this site, and most of the people on it, but he has not place else to go. He lugs around his laptop from bar to bar, (or maybe dimension to dimension), telling us just how unworthy we are for him to participate here. A strange life indeed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Seriously?? This is one of your dumbest, most contrived posts, ever, and that is saying something... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There IS someone on FFL dumber than JohnR !!! [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=0b8m3ft1a6o9h#TopText from anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] included below] What might lie at the bottom of Barry's barrel? Barry just m Barry's classification. Disclaimer: This post is not meant to impune the intelligence of anyone, whether they be highly intelligent or highly unintelligent. After all, only the enlightened are aware of the nature of the intelligence of the universe, how it works, and what has it, and where it is actually located. I think we ought to allow the Post Count to determine the bottom of the barrel. So far this week, the person who claims to be enlightened has demonstrated the highest degree of obsession, making 31 posts in one day, MOST of them about a person he claims is beneath notice and beneath contempt (moi). I leave you to puzzle out whether that sounds enlightened to you or just jealous. Similarly, Share seems to have done little else but Obsess On Barry, as have Richard and Ann and Steve. Just another Saturday at Fairfield Life. Since all of these people have gone out of their way in the past and the present to comment about how LOW Barry is, and yet they choose to focus almost all of their writings on him anyway, I think we have to assume that they are the LOWEST in terms of intelligence. What you focus on, you become...and all that... :-) On another level, it should be obvious by now that none of them is able to think of anything to post EXCEPT ragging on Barry. I have become the catalyst that allows them to pretend that they actually have something to say. Seems to me they should be thanking me for providing them a much-needed writing prompt. :-) You have come in just under the wire on what I predicted. The only thing lacking is the actual made up post count on how many times your name was mentioned. However, you did comment on the Post Count in general so we'll chalk that up as batting 1000, you little darling you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How to Fake Enlightenment
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Learn 'the look' This is why I've been attracted to the tradition of Zen portraiture - Zen masters aren't shown as having some special spiritual look but are instead shown as angry, disgruntled, idiotic, enjoying a joke, or bored. That is: they're pictured simply being themselves - which is what they *are*! Perhaps one of the original forms of caricature. This is done with great mastery. These brush paintings are a great example in art of doing less and portraying more. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I found this on the Internet, as are most things discussed on FFL. As FFL is not direct contact with others, point four below probably has the most relevance. 1. Learn 'the look'. The look is the face and actions of a guy (or chick!) totally at peace, and at one with the universe. First, the face. Look at yourself in the mirror. What do you see? You see a guy (or a gal!) with worry lines and muscles pulled into the mask that people think of as 'you'. The enlightened master is relaxed and at ease, and his serene look shows it! Let your facial muscles go slack. Don't let your jaw drop open, but your lips should just barely touch each other. Your eyelids should be drooping, so that they are just touching the top of your pupils, and you should have just a hint of a 'Mona Lisa' smile. Get just the slightest hint of a smirk, like you *know* Victoria's secret! Not too much, though, or you'll ruin the effect. Practice this in the mirror every day until you can do it by feel. 2. Walk the walk. This is part two of 'the look', and is just as important. Chicks should get the feeling that you are relaxed, yet powerful, ready to spring into action, like a panther. First of all, SLOW DOWN! If you are at one with the universe, who are you hurrying to meet? Yourself! And you won't be disappointed if YOU turn up a little late, will you? Walk slowly and deliberately, letting your arms swing free. It takes a while to get the rhythm, but it is not as hard as getting the face right. Practice is the key. It's not you walking, it's God walking through you, baby! 3. Meeting people's eye. This might be the hardest part -- you have to be able to look directly at people, yet look through them at the same time. What do you usually do when you come across someone on the street or in the office? If you know them, you might look them in the eye and say 'hi', but if you don't, you look away. NUH UH. That won't fly. The enlightened master can look directly into the eyes of a stranger, because he is looking at himself! Of course, you won't be able to actually look into your own eyes unless you have had the 'big flash', so try this instead: look directly through people at things behind them, but not too far to the side. Look at the tree for a few seconds, the car for a few seconds, the sidewalk, that bird, whatever. You will look like you are looking directly into their soul if that is what they want to think (and believe me, the babes want exactly that!) and they will think you are looking at things behind that if they are uncomfortable thinking otherwise. This takes practice. 4. Conversation. It is not as hard as you might think. Just think, 'What would the Buddha/Jesus/Mohammed/Maharishi say?' Say you are at a party, and you have 'the face' and 'the walk' and you are sitting, relaxed, drinking a beer and talking to a babe. She asks you what you do for a living. Your response? 'I teach people how to live. That sounded weird... you know, some people just aren't comfortable in the world, and I help them out. I guess I'll never have you for a client. You look like you are extremely together, Denise. Oh, it's Carla? Well believe me, in another life it was Denise, and she was really together too.' See how easy it is? Babes want to be spiritual, and they want you to notice.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
On 11/22/2014 7:13 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Do you know what shaktipat is? The term Shaktipat in Sanskrit means /the transference of psychic energy to another person/ either by means of an initiation, a sacred word or phrase, a mantra, a touch or even a thought or a mere glance. Swami Muktananda was a great teacher of the shakti tradition who used shaktipat on many occasions to initiate his students. The question is, how or why did the Shankara Saraswati tradition adopt the shakti siddha doctrine? According to this tradition, Shankara journeyed to Kamarup - the present Guwahati-in Assam and held a controversy with Abhinava Gupta, the Shakta commentator. Kamarupa is the site of an ancient tantric cult of the Shakti Kamakhya which is located in Assam. It is one of the main Shakti-pithas in the tanric Shakti cult. Shankara supposedly won an important debate with Abhinava. Shankara then went to the Himalayas and built a Mutt at Joshi and a Mandir at Badri and then he then proceeded to Kedarnath higher up in the Himalayas where he became one with the Shakti Devi in 820 A.D. in his thirty-second year. The Sharda Temple, which by tradition was visited by Shankara in his travels, is located in Kishanganga Valley just across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The meaning of this tradition story is that Shankara reached the peak of spirituality when he converted to Shaki worship. As it is not possible to visit this shakti peetha, one can visit the famous Saraswathi temple in Basara in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. Basara is 200 km from Hyderabad. You can read more about the Shakti Pithas here: http://www.srinithyakalyani.org/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya Suggested Reading: *Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography* by Swami Muktananda, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and Paul Muller-Ortega SYDA Foundation, 1994 *Secret of the Siddhas* by Swami Muktananda SYDA Foundation, 1994 *The Doctrine of Vibration* An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski State University of New York Press, 1987 *Meditation Revolution* A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage by S.P. Sabharathnam and Douglas Brooks Agama Press, 1997
[FairfieldLife] Re: Zen koan of the day
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Why is someone who claims to be fully enlightened still up at 2 a.m. obsessing about someone he claims is beneath him? Why would an enlightened person have spent the previous 24 hours writing almost 40 posts about the person he claims is beneath him? If all of this makes sense to you, perhaps you should sign up to learn Jimbo-Enlightenment. But watch out if he invites you over for dinner... :-) I think bawee is omniscient or else he is 'secretly' reading Jim's posts in the dark thinking no one will know.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
On 11/22/2014 10:20 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: You have no idea what I or anyone else knows about India and your trip or trips there make you no expert. In fact, we don't even know who you are. Go figure. Your time in TM seems to have given you a certain amount of TM similar hubris on your expertise - Apparently /Bhairitu/ was a teacher of TM and studied with a famous tantric for a decade in order to become a tantric acharya. He has been to India and can speak and read Hindi and Sanskrit. He and /emptybill/ are probably the foremost experts on tantric mantra shastra on FFL - they make you look like a piker. perhaps you can give us some John Hagelin style videos of your I'm certain I'm right cuz I been to new Delhi? Non sequitur. Piker: /Someone who bakes bread on a small scale and in an amatuerish fashion. /
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place. Dearest bawee, Hang on just one cotton pickin'! As someone who craves your attention, even if it is negative attention, I want to be the dumbest. C'mon, bawee. You haven't known me as long as you have known some of these others but it is quality of time together that really counts, not quantity - don't you think? And you have to admit the quality of our interactions together has been the thing that has captured your imagination, your attention, the most. You know I need you to say yes. Don't deny me this one small privilege that you, and only you, can grant me. MAKE ME THE DUMBEST, I AM BEGGING YOU. I'll even sample human meat first if you say yes (if you'll bring the beer). Signed, The One and Only, Thundertwat (and former Judy minion and Robin stalker)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
The FFL experience has backfired on him - He was going to cruise on here, all polyamortized and livin' the Ex-Pat Hipster Euro lifestyle, and don't even *ask* the dude about meditation, levitation, evolution, or movies - He Was HERE, To Show US, How It Is Done. But, it isn't working out. No Plan B, either. All his eggs in one basket, and the bottom fell out. So all he is left with, is himself, naked, on FFL. Got soap? :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Barry considers himself a writer, and as such, I think he feels compelled to write something every day. He despises this site, and most of the people on it, but he has not place else to go. He lugs around his laptop from bar to bar, (or maybe dimension to dimension), telling us just how unworthy we are for him to participate here. A strange life indeed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Seriously?? This is one of your dumbest, most contrived posts, ever, and that is saying something... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : The FFL experience has backfired on him - He was going to cruise on here, all polyamortized and livin' the Ex-Pat Hipster Euro lifestyle, and don't even *ask* the dude about meditation, levitation, evolution, or movies - He Was HERE, To Show US, How It Is Done. But, it isn't working out. No Plan B, either. All his eggs in one basket, and the bottom fell out. So all he is left with, is himself, naked, on FFL. Got soap? :-) Here, one of these might do the trick:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
Certainly we all pale when compared to your expertise on India, Michael. BTW, when was I in Delhi and what did I see there? On 11/22/2014 08:20 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You have no idea what I or anyone else knows about India and your trip or trips there make you no expert.Your time in TM seems to have given you a certain amount of TM similar hubris on your expertise - perhaps you can give us some John Hagelin style videos of your I'm certain I'm right cuz I been to new Delhi? *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, November 22, 2014 9:36 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published Visiting India will give you an understanding of their culture which you cannot otherwise get. And you MJ, make huge mistakes misunderstanding Indian culture. What would you think if someone told you how some bakery good you make tastes if they never eaten it? On 11/22/2014 06:20 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com mailto:mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Refreshing - we see that not everyone is impressed with I went to India and so I'm an expert. *From:* Tormod Kinnes tkin...@gmail.com mailto:tkin...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, November 22, 2014 5:51 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published Dear Bhairatu You write of your background for saying TM is nothing but . . .. Good. But I cannot help noting that you still don't give real examples to document your stand. For example, you write: I also like to refer to Sivananda's Mind Its Mysteries and Control . . . to point out the method of meditation TM uses with the mantras is nothing new either as that work was first published in 1936. I took the trouble to search through Sivananda's book, but if it contains anything specific about the TM system, I missed it. The Smartist mantras and the main criteria for selecting from among them are not specified there, not as far as I could see after a quick search. Nor are Guru Dev's warning that OM (which is often found in Sivananda's writings) is not a proper mantra for householders. You write mantras were published in the west before Maharishi. Yes, but a mass of syllables is not the TM system either. Many sounds and words of the language - Long, Fine, and so on - may in fact be used as mantras. Then you suggest something about seed sounds: TM uses beej mantras because they don't need any empowerment. You also say that the TM initiation ceremony helps, and that other ways may help too. The puja helps but Indian astrologers and ayurvedic practitioners hand them out to clients without any elaborate initiation. In Guru Dev's discourses one finds a similar view in choosing the mantras. One gets a suitable mantra either by the guru or in some other way. Paul Mason has gathered, translated and published several books with ideas of Guru Dev. where the beej mantras came from . . lost in antiquity and undoubtedly commonly in use even at the time of Shankara. This seems to be speculation. TM is really just yoga lite. - I should say your proofs are lite too. Good, specific documentation is the thing called for. ROUNDING OFF There are some sources outside TM, sources that reveal the settings and transmission to Maharishi when he was trained by Guru Dev, benefited by his company, and was asked to bring swift and deep meditation to the masses. Elsa Dragemark presents Dr. Raj Varma: Doctor Varma came to Guru Dev six months before Maharishi and knows more about Guru Dev and Maharishi than any other person I have met. [p. 240] Dr. Raj Varma tells (in Elsa Dragemark. The Way to Maharishi's Himalayas. Stockholm: E. Dragemark, 1972): Maharishi loyally followed in his master's footsteps. . . . Maharishi stayed with Guru Dev until the day his master left his body. It was in Calcutta, the 20th of May, 1953. Guru Dev then called Maharishi and asked him to sit down. Guru Dev said: — My time is up. It is time to leave, but still one thing remains. There was something else I should have done, but I did not have the time to carry it out. It is the usual custom that the work remaining for a guru is completed by his disciples. It is a tradition that the father's task is completed by his son and what now remains you shall complete by yourself. —
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sattvic Tea
Hmm, I wonder how Americans would react if they weren't paid for two or three months? On 11/23/2014 05:09 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: More Sattva from the Land of the Veda 23 November 2014 Last updated at 06:27 ET India tea workers kill owner in pay dispute in West Bengal Workers at a tea plantation in eastern India have killed the owner during negotiations over a pay dispute. The owner of the Sonali tea estate in West Bengal was dragged out of talks on the payment of arrears. He died after being beaten up and stabbed by a crowd. Police say the owner had come to pacify angry workers who had reportedly not been paid for two or three months. Correspondents say many workers in India's tea plantations are malnourished and poorly paid. Several incidents of attacks on tea executives by workers have been reported in recent years. In 2012 a tea plantation owner and his wife were burned to death in the neighbouring state of Assam.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to tell you're in Leiden on a Sunday afternoon in November
Dia de Los Muertos, San Antonio: http://youtu.be/7J8EQa5ST8o On 11/23/2014 6:55 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: St. Nicholas Center ::: The Evolution of Zwarte Piet http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/zwarte-piet/ image http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/zwarte-piet/ St. Nicholas Center ::: The Evolution of Zwarte Piet http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/zwarte-piet/ Everything about St Nicholas: stories, customs, crafts more View on www.stnicholascenter.org http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/zwarte-piet/ Preview by Yahoo *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Sunday, November 23, 2014 6:50 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] How to tell you're in Leiden on a Sunday afternoon in November */First, get out and take a walk or a bike ride. If you stay inside, you could be anywhere, right?/* */ /* */Now that you're out, do you see gangs of brightly dressed people in black face makeup walking around? Hundreds of them? OK, you're in Leiden./* */ /* */For those of you who have never experienced the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas and his Zwarte Piet companions, it sounds kinda weird. And it probably is, but the blackface has been part of the tradition since medieval periods, and people aren't about to change it now, even though there have been protests about it for racist reasons./* */ /* */Anyway, it's a lot of fun. Sinterklaas himself arrived yesterday a boat, while thousands of parents and their kids cheered his arrival. The Zwarte Piets are his helpers, sorta like elves but with more clought. If a kid has been good, the Zwarte Piets give them a pepper cookie. If they've been bad, theoretically the Zwarte Piets get to throw the kid into a big sack and take him off to Spain. Don't ask me what happens to the bad kids once they get there...I've never wanted to know./* */ /* */sinterklaas leiden 2014 - Google Search https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY/* image https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY sinterklaas leiden 2014 - Google Search https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY vandaagopstap.nl Intocht Sinterklaas Leiden 502 × 315 - 123k - jpg vandaagopstap.nl Huis van Sinterklaas in Leiden 502 × 315 - 34k - jpg nufoto.nl fullscreen 1024 ×... View on www.google.com https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1hl=ensite=imghptbm=ischsource=hpbiw=1036bih=560q=sinterklaas+leiden+2014oq=sinterklaas+leidengs_l=img.1.0.0i24l2.1864.9597.0.11575.20.19.1.0.0.0.197.1965.12j7.19.0.cprnk%2Cekomodo%3Dtrue%2Ckpnr%3D100...0...1.1.58.img..1.19.1865.24a8eWIYrQY Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
On 11/22/2014 11:54 AM, Bhairitu wrote: People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making money. /Just think what a nicer world this would be if everyone had a job so they could earn some money, so they wouldn't be so desperate./ On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.) http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob image http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your he... http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob It sounds crazy, but it extends its range just a little bit. View on www.vox.com http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Preview by Yahoo Turn your brain into an antenna, by holding your key fob close to your head...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head [1 Attachment]
On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. /A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share// Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making money. On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.) http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob image http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your he... http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob It sounds crazy, but it extends its range just a little bit. View on www.vox.com http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Preview by Yahoo Turn your brain into an antenna, by holding your key fob close to your head...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
On 11/22/2014 12:28 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. On 11/22/2014 4:08 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Food prices are climbing very high. The pound of butter I paid $2.99 for at Trader Joes the last time cost me $3.99 the other day. That's a 33% increase. I don't eat beef but the price of hamburger is over $4 now. /It is a fact that prices have gone up, but people need to realize that most of the food they consume is killing them. All the average person really needs in order to be healthy are clean air, pure water, salt, a few simple grains, vegetables, salads and olive oil, and a little fruit. The average person should consume only 1800 calories per day. We have eliminated all dairy and sugar and most carbohydrates from our diet and we've never felt better. ///We try to avoid all refined sugar, corn syrup, corn, potatoes, meat and poultry, eggs, milk and any boxed food at the store. We still have a weakness for chocolate, good wine, and occasional chicken taco when we eat out./ Our food bill is way down! / The riots in Greece were because people could no longer afford food not because they were economic experts. Only a matter of time until riots begin here and the government is trying to be proactive but just the wrong way. /There would be no food riots if everyone ate a sensible diet - most people do not need a lot of beer, wine and tobacco smoke, to which they are addicted, including the Greeks./ Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. But being in tech also you know the corporate titans are not the visionaries. They buy small companies started by people who are visionary or accidentally (more often than not) created something visionary. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making money. On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.) http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob image http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your he... http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob It sounds crazy, but it extends its range just a little bit. View on www.vox.com http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Preview by Yahoo Turn your brain into an antenna, by holding your key fob close to your head...
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
I just wanna know who gets which title?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
The current situation is shameful. It is lying with statistics, based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making money. On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.) Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your he... It sounds crazy, but it extends its range just a little bit. View on www.vox.com Preview by Yahoo Turn your brain into an antenna, by holding your key fob close to your head...
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Surprise! Your curiosity has been rewarded - You get 'em both! (whatever they were...) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : I just wanna know who gets which title?
Re: [FairfieldLife] What we can learn about MMY from Bill Cosby
On 11/23/2014 2:38 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */I think there are interesting parallels in terms of both being stuck in the past and being stuck in denial here. /* For the record, I'm not a Cosby fan and I'm not taking up for him, but it's not as if this is a new breaking story, Barry - you've had a decade or more to post a comment on this subject, but for some reason you had to wait until a black man was accused. Is there some kind of White Rape Privilege going on here? It's also not very fair of you to include MMY in your comment. You failed to mention a few of your favorites: Fred Lenz, Roman Polanski Woody Allen, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Terry Richardson. Go figure. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/bill-cosby-terry-richardson /I don't think I was ever a starry-eyed TMer, and// //I definitely never thought he had any kind of // //pipeline to any useful knowledge, but I used to // //go to his Friday night talks in L.A. regularly, // //because it was the best place in town for a TM // //guy to get lucky. // // //The women would go and listen to him and get all// //starry-eyed and feel that lower chakra kundalini // //energy flowing, and then they'd go for the first // //non-celibate guy they ran into. Even non-TM guys // //knew about the scene and would go there looking // //to get laid, usually successfully./ - TurquoiseB http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/msg66703.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg66703.html */ /* */So far, at least 13 women have come forward to say that Bill Cosby drugged and raped them, or at the very least, in some way forced them to have sex with him. Several other voices (some of them male) have confirmed that there was a whole support mechanism in place among Cosby's staff and organization to keep any of these rapes from ever becoming public. /* */ /* */At the same time, the other night at a comedy performance, the audience gave Cosby a standing ovation. /* */ /* */Does anyone else see the parallels here?/* */ /* */- First, how lost in the past do you have to BE to attend a Bill Cosby performance, all these years after he's gone over the hill? That's a clear parallel to people still caring about Maharishi, who is even more over the hill, being...uh...dead, in addition to being discredited. /* */ /* */- Second, for these Cosby True Believers, nothing they've seen in the press or heard seems to bother them. They're still willing to stand and applaud Cosby, either refusing to believe that he could possibly have done any wrong, or refusing to consider using his position of power to rape women wrong. Another clear parallel to what TM True Believers do when new tales of Maharishi screwing his women students come out. They find ways to ignore them completely, so that they can continue idolizing MMY. /* */ /* */- Third, notice what the Cosby True Believers say about these women coming forward. They call them names, Liars! being the least of them, and demonstrate their misogyny with every word. The MMY supporters do the exact same thing, demonizing the women who have had the courage to tell the truth about both how Maharishi seduced them, and then went out of his way to hide it. /* */ /* */All in all, it looks like the behavior of True Believers is equally shameful, whether they're clinging to their illusions about Bill Cosby, or about Maharishi.../* */ /* */A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru/* image http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cos... http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru The following women have alleged as a matter of public record that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted or raped them. They are listed in the order their allegations becam... View on www.slate.com http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
Good mornin' to ya'll, It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
On 11/23/2014 1:01 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: The current situation is shameful. /Agreed, but the answer is not//in continuing the current tax structure. I am opposed to unfair income taxation. A better idea might be a tax on luxury goods. One of the reason businesses are leaving California and the U.S. is because of unfair corporate taxation./ It is lying with statistics, /The chart was compiled in 2011 by President Obama's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - it's a non-partisan analysis. It proves that the rich pay almost all of the income tax in the U.S. Do the math.// // //https://www.cbo.gov// /http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share// based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. /So, it's an Obama government conspiracy to quiet those who don't pay any income tax? You're not even making any sense today, Jim.// The federal government’s most intrusive and potentially punitive institution, the IRS, unquestionably worked for Barack Obama’s reelection by suppressing activities by conservative groups.// // //http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will// http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-in-wisconsin-done-in-by-john-doe/2014/10/24/b30ee2ec-5ad8-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? /A few million here and a few million there and pretty soon you're talking real money. But, seriously it's not about the money - it's all about the jobs./ The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. /Not sure how you figure rich people paying 90% of all the U.S. income tax is paying their fair share. It sounds more like the rich are the ones being screwed. The only fair income tax would be a flat tax. We are all supposed to be equal under the law, not prejudiced against those that have more. Without the opportunity to be rich people, everyone would be poor. Go figure./ If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. /It's not good enough for me until they reform the tax code and eliminate the IRS and implement a flat tax. A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no deductions. //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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. /A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share// Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
I was reading an article about Amazon in Seattle this morning and how Jeff Bezos is a libertarian and we know how cruel that thinking is. it's sink or swim, I've got mine and to hell with everyone else. Not only that you probably noticed that the previously apolitical software programmers decided that libertarianism was the cat's meow back in the 1990s. Society is doomed with that kind of thinking. It's very Dickensonian. Are rich really that stupid? Must be or wealth has fogged their minds and they are one pointed about one thing: making more money even though they have plenty already. They are destroying society. Not that this is anything new it has happened before and regardless of what we try to do history just repeats itself. The article on Amazon: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/commentary-amageddon-seattles-increasingly-obvious-future/ I was last in Seattle in 2007 and it has lost it's charm. Downtown looked like something out of Bladerunner. On 11/23/2014 11:01 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The current situation is shameful. It is lying with statistics, based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. /A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share// Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making money. On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.) http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Can't find
Re: [FairfieldLife] Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
Avoid the ones that say chai tea on the box. :-D I used to get the Trader Joes chai which came with milk built in. But milk turns me into fartsville as I'm lactose intolerant so I learned to pass on chai. I've also been reading about the shortage of organic milk in California. Apparently the drought has been taking it's toll in that area. Lindsay Lohan, doing her nude scenes between meditation sessions. Now just wait for Kim Kardashian to start. :-D On 11/23/2014 12:01 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Good mornin' to ya'll, It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
On 11/22/2014 2:11 PM, Bhairitu wrote: One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. /What would be the incentive to work if there was a guaranteed annual income?/ That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. /You are not even making any sense. How would everyone being poor reduce the crime rate? In an ideal world, everyone would be rich, not poor - there would be no crime because everyone would have all they want, so there would be no reason to steal. / /But, we don't live in an ideal world yet, so we have to be practical and earn money ourselves and not depend on the government./ Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. /Non sequitur. There is no evidence that being a billionaire would indicate a person was mentally ill. The richest man on the planet, Bill Gates, gives away millions of dollars every day to help people. Most rich Americans are the biggest donors to charity and good causes./ Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! /If my plan is implemented there will be plenty of work for everyone, making good money so they can buy what they need and pay their own way./ Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. /You're not even making any sense: without a job to earn money there would be no gifts to give. You are just being negative and showing your prejudice - t//he whole idea of Christmas is to give./ On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be if people didn't have to worry about making money. On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your head. (Really.) http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob image http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Can't find your car? Hold your key fob up to your he... http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob It sounds crazy, but it extends its range just a little bit. View on www.vox.com http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/22/7259707/car-key-fob Preview by Yahoo Turn your brain into an antenna, by holding your key fob close to your head...
Re: [FairfieldLife] What we can learn about MMY from Bill Cosby
I guess the freebies weren't up to snuff for Cos. Anyone who has been a rock star knows about the freebies and they rape you (not that guys mind it). So that's what I don't understand why he needed to arrange for any women. Just sez that karma has a way of coming back on you. As for TB'ers, note that yesterday I called out a TB'er for his ignorance and explained how things actually work. For some reason MJ took the side of the TB'er (or was too drunk to realize that he did). On 11/23/2014 12:38 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */I think there are interesting parallels in terms of both being stuck in the past and being stuck in denial here. /* */ /* */So far, at least 13 women have come forward to say that Bill Cosby drugged and raped them, or at the very least, in some way forced them to have sex with him. Several other voices (some of them male) have confirmed that there was a whole support mechanism in place among Cosby's staff and organization to keep any of these rapes from ever becoming public. /* */ /* */At the same time, the other night at a comedy performance, the audience gave Cosby a standing ovation. /* */ /* */Does anyone else see the parallels here?/* */ /* */- First, how lost in the past do you have to BE to attend a Bill Cosby performance, all these years after he's gone over the hill? That's a clear parallel to people still caring about Maharishi, who is even more over the hill, being...uh...dead, in addition to being discredited. /* */ /* */- Second, for these Cosby True Believers, nothing they've seen in the press or heard seems to bother them. They're still willing to stand and applaud Cosby, either refusing to believe that he could possibly have done any wrong, or refusing to consider using his position of power to rape women wrong. Another clear parallel to what TM True Believers do when new tales of Maharishi screwing his women students come out. They find ways to ignore them completely, so that they can continue idolizing MMY. /* */ /* */- Third, notice what the Cosby True Believers say about these women coming forward. They call them names, Liars! being the least of them, and demonstrate their misogyny with every word. The MMY supporters do the exact same thing, demonizing the women who have had the courage to tell the truth about both how Maharishi seduced them, and then went out of his way to hide it. /* */ /* */All in all, it looks like the behavior of True Believers is equally shameful, whether they're clinging to their illusions about Bill Cosby, or about Maharishi.../* */ /* */A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru/* image http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cos... http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru The following women have alleged as a matter of public record that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted or raped them. They are listed in the order their allegations becam... View on www.slate.com http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/21/bill_cosby_accusers_list_sexual_assault_rape_drugs_feature_in_women_s_stories.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Many Swami Brahmananda Saraswati discourses are waiting to be published
On 11/22/2014 07:01 PM, sri...@ymail.com wrote: Maharishi originated TM. He repacked traditional meditation for the masses. In fact it is known he only gave out Ram as the mantra in the beginning. And he also gave shaktipat. He modified it over time and we don't know who made the suggestion but there are a lot of people in India who could have suggested the changes including maybe his astrologer. He was not allowing himself to be on the puja table while alive but he should be now. Under tradition we was not an acharya and thus could not be a guru dev. No-one else's teaching is at all needed . That mantra set will not work for everyone. If you really want to learn more the TMO doesn't offer that. You can't become an acharya with TM. Good for you to be doing service to Brahmanada Saraswati but there is no greater teacher than Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. So you say. There have been many great teachers. It is not demeaning to MMY nor SBS to say so either. We just seem to have some zealots around who want to turn TM into a religion. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is our Guru Dev now. Not really as explained above. Don't hold MMY to things he wasn't set up for. Maharaja is also our Guru Dev. Jaya Guru Deva. And that would be messing with the purity of the teaching.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
On 11/23/2014 2:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I was reading an article about Amazon in Seattle this morning and how Jeff Bezos is a libertarian and we know how cruel that thinking is. it's sink or swim, I've got mine and to hell with everyone else. /Nobody on this forum today seems to be making any sense to me today. Why should I depend on you or the government, an authority or anyone else, to tell me what I should be doing or thinking with my free will? I am the owner of myself and nobody else - I should be able to pursue free market economics if I want to./ Not only that you probably noticed that the previously apolitical software programmers decided that libertarianism was the cat's meow back in the 1990s. Society is doomed with that kind of thinking. It's very Dickensonian. /Libertarianism is //the rejection of dogma, its deliberate avoidance of rigidly systematic theory, and, above all, its stress on extreme freedom of choice and on the primacy of the individual judgment. / Are rich really that stupid? /You in fact, just posted libertarian ideas today. Go figure. / //Woodcock, George (2004). */Anarchism: A History Of Libertarian Ideas And Movements/**. Peterborough*, Ont.: Broadview Press. p. 16. / / Must be or wealth has fogged their minds and they are one pointed about one thing: making more money even though they have plenty already. They are destroying society. Not that this is anything new it has happened before and regardless of what we try to do history just repeats itself. The article on Amazon: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/commentary-amageddon-seattles-increasingly-obvious-future/ I was last in Seattle in 2007 and it has lost it's charm. Downtown looked like something out of Bladerunner. On 11/23/2014 11:01 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The current situation is shameful. It is lying with statistics, based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. /A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share// Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
On 11/23/2014 12:51 PM, emptybill wrote: I just wanna know who gets which title? On this forum anyone can pretty much choose their own title or alias. For example, I am the /Master Pundit/, because I like punditry. You chose /emptybill/ for your title, but you are hardly empty of opinions. Go figure. You tried to give me the title of /Professor/, but I am not an educator. So, you can address me as /Pundit Sir. /
Re: [FairfieldLife] Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
The chai mix I bought is powdered and has skimmed milk in it. This one might work for you. I too am lactose intolerant and it doesn't bother me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Avoid the ones that say chai tea on the box. :-D I used to get the Trader Joes chai which came with milk built in. But milk turns me into fartsville as I'm lactose intolerant so I learned to pass on chai. I've also been reading about the shortage of organic milk in California. Apparently the drought has been taking it's toll in that area. Lindsay Lohan, doing her nude scenes between meditation sessions. Now just wait for Kim Kardashian to start. :-D On 11/23/2014 12:01 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Good mornin' to ya'll, It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sattvic Tea
Must have been T'd -off .
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Sattvic Tea
Hmm, I wonder how Americans would react if they weren't paid for two or
three months?
On 11/23/2014 05:09 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
More Sattva from the Land of the Veda
23 November 2014 Last updated at 06:27 ET
India tea workers kill owner in pay dispute in West Bengal
Workers at a tea plantation in eastern India have killed the owner during
negotiations over a pay dispute. The owner of the Sonali tea estate in West
Bengal was dragged out of talks on the payment of arrears. He died after being
beaten up and stabbed by a crowd. Police say the owner had come to pacify
angry workers who had reportedly not been paid for two or three months.
Correspondents say many workers in India's tea plantations are malnourished and
poorly paid. Several incidents of attacks on tea executives by workers have
been reported in recent years. In 2012 a tea plantation owner and his wife were
burned to death in the neighbouring state of Assam.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
Hi jr. - I drink Oregon Chai (available everywhere, but best price at TraderJoe's) - It is a liquid concentrate, 1/2 milk, 1/2 Chai, but you can use skim or that de-lactosed stuff. Been into it for over ten years. They shorted the spices about seven years ago, but I no longer notice. Go Niners!! Now that I no longer subsidize their stadium, I am again a fan. Harbaugh can take a hike. After Stanford, it is too scary for him, dealing with adults. PS More rain on Saturday! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Good mornin' to ya'll, It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
Corporations DO NOT pay their fair share - It is supposed to be 35 to 40%, but several pay NO taxes at all. They can go incorporate in Liberia, for all I care - Greedy, unpatriotic bastards. I like the idea of a flat tax, but will settle for the letter of the law. PS There is exactly ONE political party in the USA - Quit getting played for a chump. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/23/2014 1:01 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: The current situation is shameful. Agreed, but the answer is not in continuing the current tax structure. I am opposed to unfair income taxation. A better idea might be a tax on luxury goods. One of the reason businesses are leaving California and the U.S. is because of unfair corporate taxation. It is lying with statistics, The chart was compiled in 2011 by President Obama's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - it's a non-partisan analysis. It proves that the rich pay almost all of the income tax in the U.S. Do the math. https://www.cbo.gov/ https://www.cbo.gov/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. So, it's an Obama government conspiracy to quiet those who don't pay any income tax? You're not even making any sense today, Jim. The federal government’s most intrusive and potentially punitive institution, the IRS, unquestionably worked for Barack Obama’s reelection by suppressing activities by conservative groups. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-in-wisconsin-done-in-by-john-doe/2014/10/24/b30ee2ec-5ad8-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? A few million here and a few million there and pretty soon you're talking real money. But, seriously it's not about the money - it's all about the jobs. The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. Not sure how you figure rich people paying 90% of all the U.S. income tax is paying their fair share. It sounds more like the rich are the ones being screwed. The only fair income tax would be a flat tax. We are all supposed to be equal under the law, not prejudiced against those that have more. Without the opportunity to be rich people, everyone would be poor. Go figure. If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. It's not good enough for me until they reform the tax code and eliminate the IRS and implement a flat tax. A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no deductions. 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote : On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
mooost definately! Chai twice a day. Indian black tea boiled in half water,
half milk, add tea spices and sugar to taste.T relaxing.
From: fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 3:53 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
Hi jr. - I drink Oregon Chai (available everywhere, but best price at
TraderJoe's) - It is a liquid concentrate, 1/2 milk, 1/2 Chai, but you can use
skim or that de-lactosed stuff. Been into it for over ten years. They shorted
the spices about seven years ago, but I no longer notice. Go Niners!! Now that
I no longer subsidize their stadium, I am again a fan. Harbaugh can take a
hike. After Stanford, it is too scary for him, dealing with adults. PS More
rain on Saturday!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote :
Good mornin' to ya'll,
It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the
needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday
How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes
of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last
week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant.
I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood.
But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells
the same product...
For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up
TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an
ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night.
She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the
TMO...
It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might
win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing
season...
This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored
to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering
rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is
over...
Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Another test of who is the dumbest person on FFL
In Norse mythology the Trolls crack up and die if exposed to direct sunlight. That's what's happening to the Turq after Judy's, Fleetwoods and Richards' relentless exposure of the fellow as a liar and drunkard in denial of past and present. His attacks on posters here and Maharishi in particular is becoming more crazy every day spelling out loud for everyone to see that he is about to crack. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : The FFL experience has backfired on him - He was going to cruise on here, all polyamortized and livin' the Ex-Pat Hipster Euro lifestyle, and don't even *ask* the dude about meditation, levitation, evolution, or movies - He Was HERE, To Show US, How It Is Done. But, it isn't working out. No Plan B, either. All his eggs in one basket, and the bottom fell out. So all he is left with, is himself, naked, on FFL. Got soap? :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Barry considers himself a writer, and as such, I think he feels compelled to write something every day. He despises this site, and most of the people on it, but he has not place else to go. He lugs around his laptop from bar to bar, (or maybe dimension to dimension), telling us just how unworthy we are for him to participate here. A strange life indeed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Seriously?? This is one of your dumbest, most contrived posts, ever, and that is saying something... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Since so many seem to be vying for this position, I propose another test to help determine the winner. Uh...I mean, the ultimate loser. JohnR has already expressed his dismay at having been considered less dumb than Jim, so I graciously retracted my suggestion that JimF is dumber, and allowed JohnR to retain his title. BUT, in other threads, Nabby seems to be moving down the list towards the bottom fast in *his* attempt to be considered the Dumbest by coming out as a fan of cannibalism. You've got to admit that considering Indian vagrants who eat other people saints is pretty dumb, and tough to beat. That's even dumber than Waiting For Maitreya, which was Nabby's previous low mark in terms of Dumbnessitude. Therefore I suggest that if there needs to be a tie-breaker to decide whether JohnR or JimF are really the Dumbest, the title will go to whichever one of them piles on to the pro-cannibalism idea first and supports Nabby in his quest for the taste of human flesh. I don't see any of the rest of the bottom-dwellers (Steve, Share, Ann, Richard) as having the ability to think on their own enough to win the Who Will Consume Human Flesh First contest, so I'm going to give the edge to JimF in this contest. After all, he's *already* moved out into the boonies, where there are fewer people around to notice if some of them go missing at the same time Jim seems to be preparing a new buncha meat for the winter in his smokehouse. The only question seems to be whether Jimbo will share any of his Long Pig with Nabby, who, after all, suggested it first. If that happens, I suggest that we allow JimF and Nabby to share the title of Dumbest, with JohnR in second place.
[FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 24-Nov-14 00:15:09 UTC
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
Here is a pretty good article in Chico's alternative paper (The Chico News and Review), about how Jeff runs the heart of Amazon, its warehouses: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/dark-side-of-a-commercial/content?oid=15407823 http://www.newsreview.com/chico/dark-side-of-a-commercial/content?oid=15407823 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I was reading an article about Amazon in Seattle this morning and how Jeff Bezos is a libertarian and we know how cruel that thinking is. it's sink or swim, I've got mine and to hell with everyone else. Not only that you probably noticed that the previously apolitical software programmers decided that libertarianism was the cat's meow back in the 1990s. Society is doomed with that kind of thinking. It's very Dickensonian. Are rich really that stupid? Must be or wealth has fogged their minds and they are one pointed about one thing: making more money even though they have plenty already. They are destroying society. Not that this is anything new it has happened before and regardless of what we try to do history just repeats itself. The article on Amazon: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/commentary-amageddon-seattles-increasingly-obvious-future/ http://www.geekwire.com/2014/commentary-amageddon-seattles-increasingly-obvious-future/ I was last in Seattle in 2007 and it has lost it's charm. Downtown looked like something out of Bladerunner. On 11/23/2014 11:01 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The current situation is shameful. It is lying with statistics, based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote : On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their national responsibility, by evading taxes. A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share. http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear, and be headed for a second revolution, eventually. Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income. That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You can look up the different countries implementing it and see how they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield. Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like capitalism good, socialism bad meme that its difficult to get any decent change and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't stand for it! Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or Crassmust. On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000 years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : People sure are desperate for making money so they come up with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this would be
[FairfieldLife] Re: Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
Fleetwood, I'll have to try Trader Joe's. I usually don't shop there, but will try it...The Niners won a tough game today. Now, the next challenge is to win against the Seahawks this Thursday. That should be a barn burner. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Hi jr. - I drink Oregon Chai (available everywhere, but best price at TraderJoe's) - It is a liquid concentrate, 1/2 milk, 1/2 Chai, but you can use skim or that de-lactosed stuff. Been into it for over ten years. They shorted the spices about seven years ago, but I no longer notice. Go Niners!! Now that I no longer subsidize their stadium, I am again a fan. Harbaugh can take a hike. After Stanford, it is too scary for him, dealing with adults. PS More rain on Saturday! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Good mornin' to ya'll, It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
On 11/23/2014 2:01 PM, jr_esq wrote: Good mornin' to ya'll, Good evening. It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday We had rain last night and today it is clear and warm. How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. We used to enjoy prepared hot /chai/ in the morning, or anytime for that matter. We can't consume it much anymore since I am diabetic and Rita is on a diet. Now I have to drink my coffee black, so we only buy beans at Whole Foods and grind them ourselves. I wonder how old those beans are? We can't stand cheap coffee anymore. A friend of ours drives across town just to get fresh-roasted beans that are only one hour old if you get there in the morning. Go figure. Here is a nice recipe for home brewed /chai /from Epicurious: Ingredients: / Filtered water; Darjeeling black tea leaves; cardamon pods, ginger, cinnamon, black peppercorns, whole cloves, brown sugar; and whole milk./ Directions: / Combine the ingredients by lightly crushing using a mortar and pestle and place in a saucepan. Add and bring to a boil on high heat; reduce heat and cover and let simmer for 10 minutes. ///Place the tea leaves in a strainer. Immerse the strainer full of leaves in the tea cup full of the ingredients mixture and steep for a few minutes. Remove the strainer filled with the tea leaves and add milk and sugar to taste and whisk for a few minutes. Serve hot in a cup or mug./Enjoy. /http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Homemade-Chai-201226/ /Thoughts on the word /chai:/ /Camellia sinensis/, from the Madarin Chinese word for tea (cha) which was invented in China as a medicinal drink back in the 10th century B.C. The word /chai/ comes from the Persian which was derived from Mandarin Chinese, which passed overland to Central Asia and Persia on the Silk Road, where it picked up the Persian grammatical suffix -yi before passing on to Russian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, and Indian languages. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... /Everyone seems to be getting into the TM these days./ It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from the activity, so this cannot be unbounded awareness either, as it does not penetrate into the world of the senses, it is bound by this separation, and neither does more enhanced sensory experience add anything to the equation. Now even unity, where objects are appreciated in terms of 'I', that sense of 'I am that' still shows a lingering sense of separated identity, fragmentation, and decoherence of experience, otherwise it would not be necessary to say there is an I in relation to 'that'. For experience to be 'unbounded' the essential value of existence has to be equally present at every aspect of experience all the time as that experience. This is actually a no brainer, because ignorant or enlightened, the essential value of existence is always present as the experience, so it is something one has always known. That is, enlightenment does not bring anything new into experience. The things you do to get enlightened obviously do have a sometimes profound influence on experience, but enlightenment itself is nothing new under the sun. It is also open to question whether the silence ascribed to enlightenment is really silence. The absence or reduction of mind chatter, does not necessarily indicate one is enlightened, there are many situations that can lead to the mind
[FairfieldLife] Re: Thoughts and Chai in the Morning
Yep, that Chai is good! - I caught the 49er/Skins highlights - Glad they won - Looking forward to Thursday's match too! Saw Harbaugh on the news, and he was talking about the team as if was someone else's - He's definitely leaving... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Fleetwood, I'll have to try Trader Joe's. I usually don't shop there, but will try it...The Niners won a tough game today. Now, the next challenge is to win against the Seahawks this Thursday. That should be a barn burner. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Hi jr. - I drink Oregon Chai (available everywhere, but best price at TraderJoe's) - It is a liquid concentrate, 1/2 milk, 1/2 Chai, but you can use skim or that de-lactosed stuff. Been into it for over ten years. They shorted the spices about seven years ago, but I no longer notice. Go Niners!! Now that I no longer subsidize their stadium, I am again a fan. Harbaugh can take a hike. After Stanford, it is too scary for him, dealing with adults. PS More rain on Saturday! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Good mornin' to ya'll, It's an overcast day out here in my neck of the woods, a nice respite from the needed rain we had last Thursday and Friday How many of you have tried a packaged chai in the morning? I bought two boxes of this cardamon chai at a Muslim Indian grocery store in Berkeley, CA last week. The chai is just a good as the one you'd get at an Indian restaurant. I couldn't find this brand at Safeway or other supermarket in my neighborhood. But there is a small Indian grocery store at the Fillmore District which sells the same product... For the naysayers here, you should know that Lindsay Lohan has also taken up TM. That's probably understandable since she has worked for Oprah Winfrey, an ardent TMer. I saw this from a video clip of Ellen Degeneris Show last night. She too is a meditatorThere appears to be a tacit connection here with the TMO... It was nice to see the Raiders win a football game last Thursday. They might win another game or two. But in the end, they would still have a losing season... This afternoon the 49ers take on RG3 and the Redskins. The Niners are favored to win. They could probably make the playoffs. But there is still a lingering rumor that Coach Harbaugh might jump ship to another team after the season is over... Meanwhile, a violin player is playing a blissful tune on the radio...
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Here's another pertinent point, and I'm sorry if this doesn't address whatever you've written below. And these are almost exact quotes. From anartaxius: Barry likes to push people's buttons to see what kind of reaction he can get And from sal: Barry likes a good tease Evidently the manner in which Barry pushes people's buttons, or likes a good tease is acceptable to you. I think it might indicate something a little out of whack, and I'd just bet, that if Barry consulted his psychiatrist friend who made the NPD diagnosis on Robin about what it might indicate about a person who engages continually in a a good tease, or pushing people's buttons, the conclusion may not be too favorable. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from the activity, so this cannot be unbounded awareness either, as it does not penetrate into the world of the senses, it is bound by this separation, and neither does more enhanced sensory experience add anything to the equation. Now even unity, where objects are appreciated in terms of 'I', that sense of 'I am that' still shows a lingering sense of separated identity, fragmentation, and decoherence of experience, otherwise it would not be necessary to say there is an I in relation to 'that'. For
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
If I boil this down, there is a familiar, and tiresome, challenge here - Is Jim's enlightenment real? Specifically his reports of 24/7 silence? Can the two even be equated? Here is my esteemed answer: Who cares? I don't. I've written volumes about my experience, far more than the snippet below. Knock yourself out dude, trying to prove my enlightenment, one way or the other. My point has always been that enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. If I can do it, anyone can. Enlightenment is a natural state of consciousness. That's the point. Now, stay on point - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from the activity, so this cannot be unbounded awareness either, as it does not penetrate into the world of the senses, it is bound by this separation, and neither does more enhanced sensory experience add anything to the equation. Now even unity, where objects are appreciated in terms of 'I', that sense of 'I am that' still shows a lingering sense of separated identity, fragmentation, and decoherence of experience, otherwise it would not be necessary to say there is an I in relation to 'that'. For experience to be 'unbounded' the essential value of existence has to be equally present at every aspect
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from the activity, so this cannot be unbounded awareness either, as it does not penetrate into the world of the senses, it is bound by this separation, and neither does more enhanced sensory experience add anything to the equation. Now even unity, where objects are appreciated in terms of 'I', that sense of 'I am that' still shows a lingering sense of separated identity, fragmentation, and decoherence of experience, otherwise it would not be necessary to say there is an I in relation to 'that'. For experience to be 'unbounded' the essential value of existence has to be equally present at every aspect of experience all the time as that experience. This is actually a no brainer, because ignorant or enlightened, the essential value of existence is always present as the experience, so it is something one has always known. That is, enlightenment does not bring anything new into experience. The things you do to get enlightened obviously do have a sometimes profound influence on experience, but enlightenment itself is nothing new under the sun. It is also open to question whether the silence ascribed to enlightenment is really silence. The absence or reduction of mind chatter, does not necessarily indicate one is
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Anartaxius is a coward, and cowards like bullies, like Barry. That is all it is. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Here's another pertinent point, and I'm sorry if this doesn't address whatever you've written below. And these are almost exact quotes. From anartaxius: Barry likes to push people's buttons to see what kind of reaction he can get And from sal: Barry likes a good tease Evidently the manner in which Barry pushes people's buttons, or likes a good tease is acceptable to you. I think it might indicate something a little out of whack, and I'd just bet, that if Barry consulted his psychiatrist friend who made the NPD diagnosis on Robin about what it might indicate about a person who engages continually in a a good tease, or pushing people's buttons, the conclusion may not be too favorable. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from the activity, so this cannot be unbounded awareness either, as it does not penetrate into the world of the senses, it is bound by this separation, and neither does more enhanced sensory experience add anything to the equation. Now even unity, where objects are appreciated in terms of 'I', that sense of 'I am that' still shows a lingering sense of
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Anartaxius is a coward, and cowards like bullies, like Barry. That is all it is. Maybe he just needs better reading glasses. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
That's funny Ann. In reading you reply, I caught the last line of xeno's dissertation about Barry being a terrorist in Beliefland Xeno is probably pretty proud of what he thinks is a clever phrase, and he probably just made Barry' month. Speaking of which, I wonder if the Leiden gang will celebrate Thanksgiving. Prolly not, unless it could be perceived as a multi dimensional affair, I suppose, or at least for Barry. Anyway, what you said Ann, is right on. If he could just pull himself out of the strawman rut, he's make a much better informant. But, I don't see that happening, unfortunately. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from the activity, so this cannot be unbounded awareness either, as it does not penetrate into the world of the senses, it is bound by this separation, and neither does more enhanced sensory experience add anything to the equation. Now even unity, where objects are appreciated in terms of 'I', that sense of 'I am that' still shows a lingering sense of separated identity, fragmentation, and decoherence of experience, otherwise it would not be necessary to say there is an I in relation to 'that'. For experience to be 'unbounded' the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
On 11/23/2014 5:58 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Corporations DO NOT pay their fair share - It is supposed to be 35 to 40%, but several pay NO taxes at all. They can go incorporate in Liberia, for all I care - Greedy, unpatriotic bastards. I like the idea of a flat tax, but will settle for the letter of the law. PS There is exactly ONE political party in the USA - Quit getting played for a chump. It looks like we are in some agreement. Both political parties are not working in our interest. Bhairitu's idea of a third party makes a lot of sense. In the next presidential election I may vote independent. It's easy to paint taxation with a large brush and to combine notions of individual earned income tax with corporate taxation and the idea of taxing the rich. It's complicated. The problem with taxing the rich is that when the economy is good politicians love it, but when the economy is poor, they hate it - the instability is not a good thing. In California what is needed is a flat tax rate to help stabilize state revenues, according to U.S. Rep Tom McClintock (R., CA). /The working class may be taking a beating from spending cuts used to close a cavernous deficit, Mr. Williams said, but the root of California's woes is its reliance on taxing the wealthy. / http://online.wsj.com/articles/ http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704604704576220491592684626/ /Libertarian Party on Tax Reform:/ // //Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a “Balanced Budget Amendment” to the US Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, not raising taxes.// // /http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Libertarian_Party_Tax_Reform.htm /The kid-glove treatment of corporate tax offenders by both parties is exhibit A in America's shift from a functioning democracy to a nascent oligarchy./ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever-20140827?page=4 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/23/2014 1:01 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: The current situation is shameful. /Agreed, but the answer is not//in continuing the current tax structure. I am opposed to unfair income taxation. A better idea might be a tax on luxury goods. One of the reason businesses are leaving California and the U.S. is because of unfair corporate taxation./ It is lying with statistics, /The chart was compiled in 2011 by President Obama's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - it's a non-partisan analysis. It proves that the rich pay almost all of the income tax in the U.S. Do the math.// // //https://www.cbo.gov// /http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share// based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. /So, it's an Obama government conspiracy to quiet those who don't pay any income tax? You're not even making any sense today, Jim.// The federal government’s most intrusive and potentially punitive institution, the IRS, unquestionably worked for Barack Obama’s reelection by suppressing activities by conservative groups.// // //http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will// http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-in-wisconsin-done-in-by-john-doe/2014/10/24/b30ee2ec-5ad8-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? /A few million here and a few million there and pretty soon you're talking real money. But, seriously it's not about the money - it's all about the jobs./ The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. /Not sure how you figure rich people paying 90% of all the U.S. income tax is paying their fair share. It sounds more like the rich are the ones being screwed. The only fair income tax would be a flat tax. We are all supposed to be equal under the law, not prejudiced against those that have more. Without the opportunity to be rich people, everyone would be poor. Go figure./ If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that would be good enough for me. /It's not good enough for me until they reform the tax code and eliminate the IRS and implement a flat tax. A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no deductions. // //Flat taxes offer
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. This is a delusion - no one has ever become enlightened doing TM - ever, in the nearly 60 years TM has existed. No one. The anger and vituperation you exhibit in your writings are indicative of your lack of enlightenment as defined by Marshy himself. I am not saying enlightenment can't occur in someone practicing TM, but much more prevalent are the 90% of TM initiates who quit TM in the first year, more, much more prevalent are the scores of people left who do TM and have flat to no experiences and those who have so-called good experiences yet remain ignorance and those few who have fabulous experiences that always come to an end with time and those who go nuts or kill themselves or become basket cases through TM's negative side effects, called unstressing. From: fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more If I boil this down, there is a familiar, and tiresome, challenge here - Is Jim's enlightenment real? Specifically his reports of 24/7 silence? Can the two even be equated? Here is my esteemed answer: Who cares? I don't. I've written volumes about my experience, far more than the snippet below. Knock yourself out dude, trying to prove my enlightenment, one way or the other. My point has always been that enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. If I can do it, anyone can. Enlightenment is a natural state of consciousness. That's the point. Now, stay on point - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Anartaxius is a coward, and cowards like bullies, like Barry. That is all it is. Statements like this pretty much prove that you are still unenlightened in your pervasive silence. From: fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:06 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more Anartaxius is a coward, and cowards like bullies, like Barry. That is all it is. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Here's another pertinent point, and I'm sorry if this doesn't address whatever you've written below. And these are almost exact quotes. From anartaxius: Barry likes to push people's buttons to see what kind of reaction he can get And from sal: Barry likes a good tease Evidently the manner in which Barry pushes people's buttons, or likes a good tease is acceptable to you. I think it might indicate something a little out of whack, and I'd just bet, that if Barry consulted his psychiatrist friend who made the NPD diagnosis on Robin about what it might indicate about a person who engages continually in a a good tease, or pushing people's buttons, the conclusion may not be too favorable. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some notes here: Anyone who happens to be a Buddhist needs to substitute another word for self in the above discussion, as the central feature of Buddhism is there is no self, meaning the individual self, person, that people think they are. Whereas in the above discussion, self refers to unbounded awareness. Now in Maharishi's schema, transcendental consciousness cannot count as unbounded awareness because in TC you have no thought and the concept 'unbounded awareness' cannot be formulated, the concept is formulated once back in ordinary waking as a description of that state as it is remembered and compared to waking. Cosmic consciousness, also in Maharishi's scheme, is silence that accompanies activity, but it is walled off from
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Ann, at least took the time to write more than a couple of one liners. I do indeed think Barry makes up stuff to meet his own agenda. Don't we all. Jim makes up all sorts of stuff too. I make up stuff. Most of what others write about Barry, including me is stuff they make up. Our minds are good a fabricating shit. It is a necessary skill in order for it to attempt to figure out the world. I do not see that Jim, for example, is making up less than Barry. One of the primary ways to go after someone's beliefs is to be a contrarian, to deliberately state you think the opposite of what the other guy or gal thinks, even if you do not really believe that. Now this is objectionable to some. I do not object to Barry because I don't see him and other people really as persons, they are objects in my field of experience. On FFL, everyone is a text object in my field of experience. My body is an object in my field of experience. Now calling everyone, you even, as an object does not mean I, in person, will interact with you as if you were an inanimate object. I can hold conversations, more or less. I tend not to like small talk. People here mostly talk about how other people behave, which I find boring. There are few substantive conversations. Curtis is good for a substantive argument. Barry less so, he does not seem to have a lot of patience, so if you want to communicate with Barry, you have to be succinct, not like me, but one or two line retorts like Jim fires off are mindless, they usually show no deep thought. People on the Internet are not necessarily the same as they are in person. Distance and anonymity, the lack of physical contact allows certain darker sides of our personalities shine. Most of what I think of others would probably seem very strange to those others. Jim says certain things about others, and I don't see it at all; Judy did this all the time. Barry does it too. The target of such comments almost invariable say that is not what they think. So the real question, as I see it, is why do we think what we think is true, and so little of what others say they think, especially about us, we think is false? This mismatch of reality among we human beings is rampant. One needs a certain flexibility to deal with it without going nuts. There is a woman here with me; we have very divergent views on many things, often including the nature of enlightenment, but we get along pretty well and have for some time. I make up stuff all the time to puncture her belief system, she calls me a contrarian, but the trick is to make her laugh, to see the absurdity of a position. I doubt very much Barry is as serious about what he says as most people on this forum take things. he has been beaten around by the spiritual con as much as any here, but unlike you, Jim, and others, I think he understands the spiritual con better than most. Barry does repeat many themes many many times. For all I know he could be a computer. There have been experiments on the Internet where a computer program posts to social forums and people think it is a real person. I tend to like people who have good intellects rather than emotional responses. These tend to be people who have much more slack in their belief systems, are willing to consider themselves idiots at times, and to consider the status quo, or the prevailing peer paradigm as potentially bonkers. You seem much more a people person than I am. Also, I like much smaller mammals than you do, ones that can't kill you, and which require low maintenance. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : This is a non starter Xeno for one simple and real reason: bawee never speaks to what people actually believe - he simply makes stuff up to fit his own agenda. Consequently you have taken all this time to write a small essay and it is groundless because your first premise is out to lunch possibly, and most likely, as a result of the fact that you simply don't read bawee's post carefully enough to have figured this small factoid out. Xeno, 99% of what bawee claims people believe is not what they believe at all. When I and others object to his never-ending tirades saying the same thing over and over and over again it is not because he is attacking our beliefs, it is because he makes up stuff about what he thinks various people actually believe and it is all BS to suit his self-centered agenda. I object to the person bawee, not to any 'attacks on my beliefs'. He has no interest in what anyone really thinks, he simply gets off on tooting his horn as the 'independent thinker' who isn't subject (in his own fantasy world) to any dogma or run-of-the-mill paradigms. You certainly don't 'get' him at all Xeno. There is only one thing to know here - bawee is all about bawee. He doesn't give a crap about anyone else; his advice, his opinion doesn't seek to enlighten anyone or to encourage dialogue it
Re: [FairfieldLife] Brain-tenna? Unlock your car, by touching your head
California is in pretty good shape fiscally. This is a specious argument, about only taxing the rich here. Real estate costs a small fortune in California, and *everybody* pays a mint in property taxes. It adds up. Contrary to what you say, taxing the rich is not complicated, because their wealth doesn't fluctuate during economic ebbs and flows. In fact, the wealth of the rich always goes up, unlike yours and mine. They can definitely afford to throw more into the coffers. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 11/23/2014 5:58 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: Corporations DO NOT pay their fair share - It is supposed to be 35 to 40%, but several pay NO taxes at all. They can go incorporate in Liberia, for all I care - Greedy, unpatriotic bastards. I like the idea of a flat tax, but will settle for the letter of the law. PS There is exactly ONE political party in the USA - Quit getting played for a chump. It looks like we are in some agreement. Both political parties are not working in our interest. Bhairitu's idea of a third party makes a lot of sense. In the next presidential election I may vote independent. It's easy to paint taxation with a large brush and to combine notions of individual earned income tax with corporate taxation and the idea of taxing the rich. It's complicated. The problem with taxing the rich is that when the economy is good politicians love it, but when the economy is poor, they hate it - the instability is not a good thing. In California what is needed is a flat tax rate to help stabilize state revenues, according to U.S. Rep Tom McClintock (R., CA). The working class may be taking a beating from spending cuts used to close a cavernous deficit, Mr. Williams said, but the root of California's woes is its reliance on taxing the wealthy. http://online.wsj.com/articles/ http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704604704576220491592684626 Libertarian Party on Tax Reform: Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a “Balanced Budget Amendment” to the US Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, not raising taxes. http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Libertarian_Party_Tax_Reform.htm http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Libertarian_Party_Tax_Reform.htm The kid-glove treatment of corporate tax offenders by both parties is exhibit A in America's shift from a functioning democracy to a nascent oligarchy. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever-20140827?page=4 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote : On 11/23/2014 1:01 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote: The current situation is shameful. Agreed, but the answer is not in continuing the current tax structure. I am opposed to unfair income taxation. A better idea might be a tax on luxury goods. One of the reason businesses are leaving California and the U.S. is because of unfair corporate taxation. It is lying with statistics, The chart was compiled in 2011 by President Obama's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - it's a non-partisan analysis. It proves that the rich pay almost all of the income tax in the U.S. Do the math. https://www.cbo.gov/ https://www.cbo.gov/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/ based on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out, is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the very rich. So, it's an Obama government conspiracy to quiet those who don't pay any income tax? You're not even making any sense today, Jim. The federal government’s most intrusive and potentially punitive institution, the IRS, unquestionably worked for Barack Obama’s reelection by suppressing activities by conservative groups. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-in-wisconsin-done-in-by-john-doe/2014/10/24/b30ee2ec-5ad8-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred million or so? A few million here and a few million there and pretty soon you're talking real money. But, seriously it's not about the money - it's all about the jobs. The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks. Not sure how you figure rich people paying 90% of all the U.S. income tax is paying their fair share. It sounds more like
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
What doubt? :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Anartaxius is a coward, and cowards like bullies, like Barry. That is all it is. Maybe he just needs better reading glasses. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Damn, nothing like bring the conversation down to earth. I find it both readable and interesting. I think it is one thing to be the devils advocate, which is a means to have someone defend, or clarify their position. It is quite another thing to engage in cavil, or at least misrepresentations for the purposes of getting a rise out of people, or really, to just elevate one's point of view. You obviously see the dynamics here differently, which is fine, but at least you've staked out your position, and I respect you for that. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Ann, at least took the time to write more than a couple of one liners. I do indeed think Barry makes up stuff to meet his own agenda. Don't we all. Jim makes up all sorts of stuff too. I make up stuff. Most of what others write about Barry, including me is stuff they make up. Our minds are good a fabricating shit. It is a necessary skill in order for it to attempt to figure out the world. I do not see that Jim, for example, is making up less than Barry. One of the primary ways to go after someone's beliefs is to be a contrarian, to deliberately state you think the opposite of what the other guy or gal thinks, even if you do not really believe that. Now this is objectionable to some. I do not object to Barry because I don't see him and other people really as persons, they are objects in my field of experience. On FFL, everyone is a text object in my field of experience. My body is an object in my field of experience. Now calling everyone, you even, as an object does not mean I, in person, will interact with you as if you were an inanimate object. I can hold conversations, more or less. I tend not to like small talk. People here mostly talk about how other people behave, which I find boring. There are few substantive conversations. Curtis is good for a substantive argument. Barry less so, he does not seem to have a lot of patience, so if you want to communicate with Barry, you have to be succinct, not like me, but one or two line retorts like Jim fires off are mindless, they usually show no deep thought. People on the Internet are not necessarily the same as they are in person. Distance and anonymity, the lack of physical contact allows certain darker sides of our personalities shine. Most of what I think of others would probably seem very strange to those others. Jim says certain things about others, and I don't see it at all; Judy did this all the time. Barry does it too. The target of such comments almost invariable say that is not what they think. So the real question, as I see it, is why do we think what we think is true, and so little of what others say they think, especially about us, we think is false? This mismatch of reality among we human beings is rampant. One needs a certain flexibility to deal with it without going nuts. There is a woman here with me; we have very divergent views on many things, often including the nature of enlightenment, but we get along pretty well and have for some time. I make up stuff all the time to puncture her belief system, she calls me a contrarian, but the trick is to make her laugh, to see the absurdity of a position. I doubt very much Barry is as serious about what he says as most people on this forum take things. he has been beaten around by the spiritual con as much as any here, but unlike you, Jim, and others, I think he understands the spiritual con better than most. Barry does repeat many themes many many times. For all I know he could be a computer. There have been experiments on the Internet where a computer program posts to social forums and people think it is a real person. I tend to like people who have good intellects rather than emotional responses. These tend to be people who have much more slack in their belief systems, are willing to consider themselves idiots at times, and to consider the status quo, or the prevailing peer paradigm as potentially bonkers. You seem much more a people person than I am. Also, I like much smaller mammals than you do, ones that can't kill you, and which require low maintenance. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : This is a non starter Xeno for one simple and real reason: bawee never speaks to what people actually believe - he simply makes stuff up to fit his own agenda. Consequently you have taken all this time to write a small essay and it is groundless because your first premise is out to lunch possibly, and most likely, as a result of the fact that you simply don't read bawee's post carefully enough to have figured this small factoid out. Xeno, 99% of what bawee claims people believe is not what they believe at all. When I and others object to his never-ending tirades saying the same thing over and over and over again it is not because he is attacking our beliefs, it is because he makes up stuff
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
This is a delusion - no one has ever become enlightened doing TM - ever, in the nearly 60 years TM has existed. I have, and am enlightened. Haven't you been reading what I write??? lol Enlightenment doesn't happen overnight, as you expected it to. It takes a lot of work, a lot of time, and a person, through the integration of TM and activity, must get to know themselves, very well, on all levels, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Only then will a person achieve enlightenment, all pervading pure awareness, and silence. If, on the other hand, they spend their time on wasteful pursuits, like envying, blaming and resenting others, as you do, it is a pity you started, for a halfway journey will only make you sensitive to your suffering, without having reached the goal. The regular practice, by anyone, of TM and the TMSP does lead to enlightenment, silence, Being. Get on with it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. This is a delusion - no one has ever become enlightened doing TM - ever, in the nearly 60 years TM has existed. No one. The anger and vituperation you exhibit in your writings are indicative of your lack of enlightenment as defined by Marshy himself. I am not saying enlightenment can't occur in someone practicing TM, but much more prevalent are the 90% of TM initiates who quit TM in the first year, more, much more prevalent are the scores of people left who do TM and have flat to no experiences and those who have so-called good experiences yet remain ignorance and those few who have fabulous experiences that always come to an end with time and those who go nuts or kill themselves or become basket cases through TM's negative side effects, called unstressing. From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more If I boil this down, there is a familiar, and tiresome, challenge here - Is Jim's enlightenment real? Specifically his reports of 24/7 silence? Can the two even be equated? Here is my esteemed answer: Who cares? I don't. I've written volumes about my experience, far more than the snippet below. Knock yourself out dude, trying to prove my enlightenment, one way or the other. My point has always been that enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. If I can do it, anyone can. Enlightenment is a natural state of consciousness. That's the point. Now, stay on point - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Steve, perhaps anartaxius has staked out a brilliant position with regard to waking state. You know, the one where we have static beliefs, and play a stupid game of duality. So what? Enlightenment is BY ITS VERY NATURE, non-attachment, and so these types of carefully crafted scenarios, designed to challenge one side of a duality, don't mean jack to an enlightened person. An enlightened person can obviously express an idea, in the moment, but to try to hold onto a belief, is impossible. The nervous system no longer supports it. Beliefs are used as crutches, and an enlightened person doesn't need crutches. It is a different way of functioning than before. Less thought - more silence, and more direct action. The integration of the subjective and the objective; always a proponent of Reality. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Damn, nothing like bring the conversation down to earth. I find it both readable and interesting. I think it is one thing to be the devils advocate, which is a means to have someone defend, or clarify their position. It is quite another thing to engage in cavil, or at least misrepresentations for the purposes of getting a rise out of people, or really, to just elevate one's point of view. You obviously see the dynamics here differently, which is fine, but at least you've staked out your position, and I respect you for that. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Ann, at least took the time to write more than a couple of one liners. I do indeed think Barry makes up stuff to meet his own agenda. Don't we all. Jim makes up all sorts of stuff too. I make up stuff. Most of what others write about Barry, including me is stuff they make up. Our minds are good a fabricating shit. It is a necessary skill in order for it to attempt to figure out the world. I do not see that Jim, for example, is making up less than Barry. One of the primary ways to go after someone's beliefs is to be a contrarian, to deliberately state you think the opposite of what the other guy or gal thinks, even if you do not really believe that. Now this is objectionable to some. I do not object to Barry because I don't see him and other people really as persons, they are objects in my field of experience. On FFL, everyone is a text object in my field of experience. My body is an object in my field of experience. Now calling everyone, you even, as an object does not mean I, in person, will interact with you as if you were an inanimate object. I can hold conversations, more or less. I tend not to like small talk. People here mostly talk about how other people behave, which I find boring. There are few substantive conversations. Curtis is good for a substantive argument. Barry less so, he does not seem to have a lot of patience, so if you want to communicate with Barry, you have to be succinct, not like me, but one or two line retorts like Jim fires off are mindless, they usually show no deep thought. People on the Internet are not necessarily the same as they are in person. Distance and anonymity, the lack of physical contact allows certain darker sides of our personalities shine. Most of what I think of others would probably seem very strange to those others. Jim says certain things about others, and I don't see it at all; Judy did this all the time. Barry does it too. The target of such comments almost invariable say that is not what they think. So the real question, as I see it, is why do we think what we think is true, and so little of what others say they think, especially about us, we think is false? This mismatch of reality among we human beings is rampant. One needs a certain flexibility to deal with it without going nuts. There is a woman here with me; we have very divergent views on many things, often including the nature of enlightenment, but we get along pretty well and have for some time. I make up stuff all the time to puncture her belief system, she calls me a contrarian, but the trick is to make her laugh, to see the absurdity of a position. I doubt very much Barry is as serious about what he says as most people on this forum take things. he has been beaten around by the spiritual con as much as any here, but unlike you, Jim, and others, I think he understands the spiritual con better than most. Barry does repeat many themes many many times. For all I know he could be a computer. There have been experiments on the Internet where a computer program posts to social forums and people think it is a real person. I tend to like people who have good intellects rather than emotional responses. These tend to be people who have much more slack in their belief systems, are willing to consider themselves idiots at times, and to consider the status quo, or the prevailing peer paradigm as potentially bonkers. You seem much more a people person than I am. Also, I like much
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Jim, I like that, what you have written below. I commend taxius on writing something that I find interesting, and concrete. Maybe it is just a waking state perspective, but it is at least something I can understand. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Steve, perhaps anartaxius has staked out a brilliant position with regard to waking state. You know, the one where we have static beliefs, and play a stupid game of duality. So what? Enlightenment is BY ITS VERY NATURE, non-attachment, and so these types of carefully crafted scenarios, designed to challenge one side of a duality, don't mean jack to an enlightened person. An enlightened person can obviously express an idea, in the moment, but to try to hold onto a belief, is impossible. The nervous system no longer supports it. Beliefs are used as crutches, and an enlightened person doesn't need crutches. It is a different way of functioning than before. Less thought - more silence, and more direct action. The integration of the subjective and the objective; always a proponent of Reality. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Damn, nothing like bring the conversation down to earth. I find it both readable and interesting. I think it is one thing to be the devils advocate, which is a means to have someone defend, or clarify their position. It is quite another thing to engage in cavil, or at least misrepresentations for the purposes of getting a rise out of people, or really, to just elevate one's point of view. You obviously see the dynamics here differently, which is fine, but at least you've staked out your position, and I respect you for that. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Ann, at least took the time to write more than a couple of one liners. I do indeed think Barry makes up stuff to meet his own agenda. Don't we all. Jim makes up all sorts of stuff too. I make up stuff. Most of what others write about Barry, including me is stuff they make up. Our minds are good a fabricating shit. It is a necessary skill in order for it to attempt to figure out the world. I do not see that Jim, for example, is making up less than Barry. One of the primary ways to go after someone's beliefs is to be a contrarian, to deliberately state you think the opposite of what the other guy or gal thinks, even if you do not really believe that. Now this is objectionable to some. I do not object to Barry because I don't see him and other people really as persons, they are objects in my field of experience. On FFL, everyone is a text object in my field of experience. My body is an object in my field of experience. Now calling everyone, you even, as an object does not mean I, in person, will interact with you as if you were an inanimate object. I can hold conversations, more or less. I tend not to like small talk. People here mostly talk about how other people behave, which I find boring. There are few substantive conversations. Curtis is good for a substantive argument. Barry less so, he does not seem to have a lot of patience, so if you want to communicate with Barry, you have to be succinct, not like me, but one or two line retorts like Jim fires off are mindless, they usually show no deep thought. People on the Internet are not necessarily the same as they are in person. Distance and anonymity, the lack of physical contact allows certain darker sides of our personalities shine. Most of what I think of others would probably seem very strange to those others. Jim says certain things about others, and I don't see it at all; Judy did this all the time. Barry does it too. The target of such comments almost invariable say that is not what they think. So the real question, as I see it, is why do we think what we think is true, and so little of what others say they think, especially about us, we think is false? This mismatch of reality among we human beings is rampant. One needs a certain flexibility to deal with it without going nuts. There is a woman here with me; we have very divergent views on many things, often including the nature of enlightenment, but we get along pretty well and have for some time. I make up stuff all the time to puncture her belief system, she calls me a contrarian, but the trick is to make her laugh, to see the absurdity of a position. I doubt very much Barry is as serious about what he says as most people on this forum take things. he has been beaten around by the spiritual con as much as any here, but unlike you, Jim, and others, I think he understands the spiritual con better than most. Barry does repeat many themes many many times. For all I know he could be a computer. There have been experiments on the Internet where a computer program posts to social forums and people think it is a real person. I tend to like people who have good intellects rather than
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Hey Michael, Your statements of absolute certainty always give me a chuckle. Wishing you an early, pleasant Thanksgiving, in case I don't get a chance to do so later. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. This is a delusion - no one has ever become enlightened doing TM - ever, in the nearly 60 years TM has existed. No one. The anger and vituperation you exhibit in your writings are indicative of your lack of enlightenment as defined by Marshy himself. I am not saying enlightenment can't occur in someone practicing TM, but much more prevalent are the 90% of TM initiates who quit TM in the first year, more, much more prevalent are the scores of people left who do TM and have flat to no experiences and those who have so-called good experiences yet remain ignorance and those few who have fabulous experiences that always come to an end with time and those who go nuts or kill themselves or become basket cases through TM's negative side effects, called unstressing. From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 10:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more If I boil this down, there is a familiar, and tiresome, challenge here - Is Jim's enlightenment real? Specifically his reports of 24/7 silence? Can the two even be equated? Here is my esteemed answer: Who cares? I don't. I've written volumes about my experience, far more than the snippet below. Knock yourself out dude, trying to prove my enlightenment, one way or the other. My point has always been that enlightenment is achievable, by anyone, using the techniques of TM and the TM Sidhis. If I can do it, anyone can. Enlightenment is a natural state of consciousness. That's the point. Now, stay on point - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This is in regard to the faux enlightenment call that Barry makes in regard to Jim. Now I do not know what Barry experiences, or what Jim experiences, but Barry always seems to me more in control of what he says than Jim. At any rate the exchanges between these two would not probably pass muster as a discussion that had anything to do with enlightenment, but Barry is not claiming that this is what it is about, while Jim seems to be promoting the exchange as a demonstration of enlightenment (Jim) versus ignorance (Barry). Jim said the following (emphasis in the original): Enlightenment is simply defined as life, accompanied by eternal and deep silence, Being, during any state of consciousness. End of story. There are no automatic attributes beyond that, as the universe takes care of the rest. Anyone can gain enlightenment, and with that, their individuality will always express enlightenment. To try for some sort of personal algorithm beyond that, is a fool's errand; better to focus on your own path, than try to come up with any comprehensive list of personal attributes. Silence in activity, always. Period. In the following the first four paragraphs are an edited down version of an essay by a Vedantist. The rather short attention span of most of the readers on FFL is the reason for the edits. 'Many teachers promote one of the most famous myths, that silence is somehow the ultimate teaching. While understanding the nature of the self in silence apparently finishes seeking for a few individuals, silence is certainly not superior to the skillful use of words in bringing about enlightenment. This is so because silence is in harmony, not in conflict, with self ignorance, as it is with everything.' 'One can sit in silence without instruction for lifetimes and never realize that one is the silence. Knowledge, however, which is a legitimate means of knowledge, destroys self ignorance like light destroys darkness. Additionally no experience, including the experience of silence, can change thinking patterns.' 'An experience of non-duality may temporarily suspend thought or increase one's resolve to see oneself as limitless awareness, but the notion that the I is limited, inadequate, incomplete and separate is hard wired. It is only by diligent practice of the knowledge I am limitless, ordinary awareness and not this body-mind that the mind's understanding of reality gets in line with the nature of the self.' 'Why are binding desires such a major problem for anyone seeking enlightenment? Because they disturb the mind to such a degree that contact with the self as it reflects in the mind is broken, making self inquiry impossible. It is contemplation on the reflection of the self in the mind that allows the intellect to investigate the self in line with the teachings of self inquiry and gain the knowledge I am the self. Some
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Ann, at least took the time to write more than a couple of one liners. I do indeed think Barry makes up stuff to meet his own agenda. Don't we all. Jim makes up all sorts of stuff too. I make up stuff. Most of what others write about Barry, including me is stuff they make up. Our minds are good a fabricating shit. It is a necessary skill in order for it to attempt to figure out the world. I do not see that Jim, for example, is making up less than Barry. I don't make stuff up here Xeno. What you see here is exactly what you would see if you saw me standing in a room talking to you. I have absolutely no reason to pretend I am someone else. I do not understand the need of others to use the internet as a way to become another kind of person. Does this mean they can't be all of who they are when standing next to a breathing person? And if so why would that be? (Rhetorical questions.) One of the primary ways to go after someone's beliefs is to be a contrarian, to deliberately state you think the opposite of what the other guy or gal thinks, even if you do not really believe that. Now this is objectionable to some. I do not object to Barry because I don't see him and other people really as persons, they are objects in my field of experience. On FFL, everyone is a text object in my field of experience. My body is an object in my field of experience. Now calling everyone, you even, as an object does not mean I, in person, will interact with you as if you were an inanimate object. I can hold conversations, more or less. I tend not to like small talk. You are so interesting, Xeno. I can't figure out what actually animates you. Maybe animate is the wrong word because it is as if you are robotic in some fundamental way although I don't mean this to insult you. I have no interest in insulting you so if it comes across like that then my apologies. But to say you don't see those at FFL as anything other than a text object seems to me like you are missing some essential sensory equipment. It is as if people are reduced to molecules and cells and basic components that don't include blood or feelings. It makes me think you are not equipped to grasp the really important things about human beings that could make your life richer. People here mostly talk about how other people behave, which I find boring. There are few substantive conversations. Curtis is good for a substantive argument. Barry less so, he does not seem to have a lot of patience, so if you want to communicate with Barry, you have to be succinct, not like me, but one or two line retorts like Jim fires off are mindless, they usually show no deep thought. Sometimes brevity takes lots more creativity than wordiness. Think poetry vs a novel. People on the Internet are not necessarily the same as they are in person. Distance and anonymity, the lack of physical contact allows certain darker sides of our personalities shine. Most of what I think of others would probably seem very strange to those others. Jim says certain things about others, and I don't see it at all; Judy did this all the time. Barry does it too. The target of such comments almost invariable say that is not what they think. So the real question, as I see it, is why do we think what we think is true, and so little of what others say they think, especially about us, we think is false? This mismatch of reality among we human beings is rampant. One needs a certain flexibility to deal with it without going nuts. I don't mind being misunderstood but I will often object when someone begins to abuse me about what they think I believe or about who they think I am, especially if it is coming from a place of narrow mindedness and ill will. I will not be a punching bag for those with their own personal, unresolved issues and who wish to take their lack of self awareness and hit me over the head with it. There is a woman here with me; we have very divergent views on many things, often including the nature of enlightenment, but we get along pretty well and have for some time. I make up stuff all the time to puncture her belief system, she calls me a contrarian, but the trick is to make her laugh, to see the absurdity of a position. I doubt very much Barry is as serious about what he says as most people on this forum take things. he has been beaten around by the spiritual con as much as any here, but unlike you, Jim, and others, I think he understands the spiritual con better than most. Barry does repeat many themes many many times. For all I know he could be a computer. There have been experiments on the Internet where a computer program posts to social forums and people think it is a real person. I tend to like people who have good intellects rather than emotional responses. These tend to be people who have much more slack in their belief systems, are
Re: [FairfieldLife] A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
Just to follow up on the experiment, a scan of FFL Neo (just the list of posts,
plus the first few words indicating who the post is replying to and what it's
about) seems to indicate that the four folks named below found it necessary to
write 26 posts about me yesterday in the 19 hours since I posted this.
Can you say obsession? I think you can...
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 12:05 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] A new definition of Do less but accomplish more
In the last 24 hours, I've read nothing posted by fleetwood_suckndick,
willywanker, thundertwat, or sirbitchalot. I've just posted what I felt like
posting, in about a dozen posts, most of which didn't mention them at all.
Yet if I read the Post Count and scroll down the list of non-filtered posts on
FFL Neo, it appears that between the four of them they've made 60 to 70 posts
about me in that time.
This might make me a troll in your eyes, but if so it also makes them the
people being trolled, and it's pretty clear who's winning. Do less, accomplish
more.
One wonders what would happen if I escalated to the next level of Maharishi's
one-liner, Do nothing, accomplish everything. If I not only didn't read them
but didn't even mention them, would they write more posts about me than ever?
Curious minds want to know...
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[FairfieldLife] All you need to know about the differences between US and Netherlands
Americans use drones to surveil people they don't like and kill them. The Dutch use drones to see things they wouldn't normally have been able to see, so they can enjoy them. Waiting 10 Months For The Perfect Drone Footage | | | | | | | | | | | Waiting 10 Months For The Perfect Drone FootageDutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie waited 10 months for the right weather conditions to shoot this amazing drone footage of the Dom Tower in Utrecht... | | | | View on digg.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
[FairfieldLife] Two intelligent time travel movies
Both Australian, both enjoyable for those who like to see time travel done well, meaning that every twist and turn seems to actually be possible, given physicists' speculations about time travel. The first was called The Infinite Man and I saw it back during the Leiden Film Festival. Very clever and funny premise -- a nerd wants to create the perfect weekend away with his girlfriend, and it goes wrong. Obsessed, he invents a time machine so they can travel back in time and make it perfect this time. Suffice it to say that with every attempt the whole scenario gets worse, and he winds up creating the ultimate time-travel endless-loop clusterfuck. The Infinite Man SXSW Trailer (2014) HD | | | | | | | | | | | The Infinite Man SXSW Trailer (2014) HD | | | | View on www.youtube.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | The second, Predestination, seems to have just been released on DVD and BluRay. It's another intellectual time travel movie, this time based on an old classic story by Robert Heinlein. A time travel cop played by Ethan Hawke tries to recruit a talented guy to help him track down the only time criminal who has so far escaped him. Again, very circular logic, with appropriate use of the song I'm My Own Grandpa playing on the jukebox of a saloon. Predestination International TRAILER 1 (2014) - Ethan Hawke Sci-Fi Thriller HD | | | | | | | | | | | Predestination International TRAILER 1 (2014) - Ethan Ha... | | | | View on www.youtube.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
