Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle
That one tunnel is now a bus-train tunnel. After much ado, the Alaskan Way Viaduct is also being replaced with a tunnel that will serve vehicles. Bertha, the largest tunnel boring machine in the world is currently stuck and broken. Real estate in Pioneer Square is settling. A complicated problem for the engineers it has been. There were a lot of politics involved in the decision to move forward with a tunnel along the Waterfront. Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tunnel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tunnel Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel - Wikipedia, the fre... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tunnel The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT), also referred to as the Metro Bus Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) pair of tunnels for public transit that run north–... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tunnel Preview by Yahoo Seattle's unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck http://grist.org/cities/seattles-unbelievable-transportation-megaproject-fustercluck/ http://grist.org/cities/seattles-unbelievable-transportation-megaproject-fustercluck/ Seattle's unbelievable transportation megaproject... http://grist.org/cities/seattles-unbelievable-transportation-megaproject-fustercluck/ Seattle is involved in a slow-motion catastrophe, as construction of a new car-centric tunnel grinds to a halt and cost overruns loom. View on grist.org http://grist.org/cities/seattles-unbelievable-transportation-megaproject-fustercluck/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Emily, Are they going to use light trains for the tunnels in downtown Seattle? As I remember, they were using regular buses in the tunnels 2004. But they've planned the tunnels to be convertible to light rail trains in case the city decided to use that option in the future. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emily.mae50@... wrote : Seattle has changed a lot in the last 10 years and will continue to. Planning for population is always a challenge. Should have gone the way of mass transit decades ago. Yes, the tourist landmarks will stay. Census: Seattle is the fastest-growing big city in the U.S. http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/22/census-seattle-is-the-fastest-growing-big-city-in-the-u-s/ http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/22/census-seattle-is-the-fastest-growing-big-city-in-the-u-s/ Census: Seattle is the fastest-growing big city in the U... http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/22/census-seattle-is-the-fastest-growing-big-city-in-the-u-s/ We've come a long way from the 'Will the last person leaving Seattle –Turn out the lights' era of the 1970s. Last year, Seattle grew faster than any o... View on blogs.seattletimes.com http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/22/census-seattle-is-the-fastest-growing-big-city-in-the-u-s/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : My first long term time in Seattle was in the summer of 1962 when the World's Fair was on and I had a summer job with my brother. It was really a neat place then and easy to get around on even on a bus. Then 1965 as UW student through 1969. Then I came back again in 1972 and lived there through 1982. Moved to Redmond in 1989 and split for California in 1991. I saw a lot of changes over those times but downtown was still pretty accessible in 1991. It wasn't like SF. In fact I've seen SF change over time and wondered why they didn't go the Portland route. Most of the change I'm talking about would have happened in the 2000s. Downtown is a cluster of very big buildings. Usually when I visited friends during the 00s we never went downtown but in 2007 just after Xmas I had some AMC passes so we went downtown to see a movie. It was a mess! My friends have bought another home on the Oregon coast and are retiring there this summer. On 02/03/2015 10:00 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Seattle couldn't have changed that much since I left in 2004. From what I've seen on TV, they still have Pike Place Market. That's a tourist landmark for the city. IMO, they'd leave it the way it is for tourists and the culture there. I used to eat lunch there, at least, once a week. They've gotta have the Pioneer Square, the Downtown Shopping Center, the ferry boats, and the Space Needle. That's Seattle as I remember it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : A lot of Seattlelites have dibelief in the place and are moving out. It isn't the city I knew in the 1970s. My last visit in 2007, the downtown resembled something out of Bladerunner.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
Which stretches from southeastern Europe on the Black Sea all the way into Asia on the Caspian Sea, so if your progenitors came from the more northwestern part of the Caucasus region, the scholars are still correct - southern Europe. From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random? My paternal haplogroup, which occurs almost exclusively in a small percentage of Ashkenazi Jews, originated in the Caucasus region. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote : No one knows where the Ashkenazim came from but most scholars think they started in southern Italy and other parts of southern Europe. From: jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random? By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz jews were central asian converts and they never lived in Israel. They are the ones who migrated to europe. Besides, there was never any need to partition the territory. A special arrangement could have been made for those sephardim jews who wanted to settle down there, without disturbing the indigenous people who were already there. --- richard@... wrote : You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They don't call it the 'Land of Judea' for nothing! Human settlement in Judea stretches back to the Stone Age. The Israelites lived in Jericho, back in 1025 B.C. It's a fact of history that this land was invaded by the Arabs in 636 A.D. The prevailing opinion today is that the Israelites, who eventually evolved into the modern Jews and Samaritans, are an outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanites who had resided in the area since the 8th millennium BCE. Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | | | | | | Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Israelites (/ˈɪzriəˌlaɪts, -reɪ-/)[1] were a Semitic people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th... | | | View on en.wikipedia.org| Preview by Yahoo | | | --- jason_green2@... wrote : Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:25-26). And He was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. (Mark 7:27). The Jews called the Gentiles dogs in the same way we would call someone a bitch (Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15). It was a term of contempt. --- richard@... wrote : According to what I've read, so-called non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a practical standpoint--as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land imbued with holiness well-suited for Torah study. But they don't generally assign religious significance to the formation of the modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture. Zionism is used in the strict sense of the Jews should have a homeland, preferably Israel (Israel is where Zion is, hence Zionism). Criticizing today's Israeli government regarding policies is not the same as anti-Zionism. -- jr_esq@... wrote : Jason, There are still Jews who consider themselves as the Chosen People here in the USA. They may or may not be Zioneists. Nonetheless, they follow several hundred laws relating to food, behavior and worship. They still frown upon intermarriage with outsiders or goyim. I've posted the videos of Rabbis Kraft and Mizrachi and you should watch them for verification. And they don't definitely consider themselves descendants of apes from Africa. ---jr_esq@... wrote : No,I'm not converting to Judaism. I just reacted to the words written byBhairitu based on the issues raised by Carde recently and thecosmological models that have been discussed here for the past week orso. Butit is interesting to know what the current Jewish rabbis
[FairfieldLife] Columubus: Sephardi??
Wikipaedia: Simon Wiesenthal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal postulates that Columbus was a Sephardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi (Spanish Jew), careful to conceal his Judaism yet also eager to locate a place of refuge for his persecuted fellow countrymen. Wiesenthal argues that Columbus' concept of sailing west to reach the Indies was less the result of geographical theories than of his faith in certain Biblical texts—specifically the Book of Isaiah. He repeatedly cited two verses from that book: Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, (60:9); and For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth (65:17). Wiesenthal claimed that Columbus felt that his voyages had confirmed these prophecies.[86] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_theories_of_Christopher_Columbus#cite_note-114
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
just say We don't know but the event is analyzable . . . then go home and have dinner with the SO. Instead of calling it 'random' - which is just woo for science folks who are afraid the conversation might degrade into talking about spirits or the soul. But then, I'm a hard ass : )
[FairfieldLife] Move review: Inherent Vice
If you ever read any Thomas Pynchon back in his heyday (V, The Crying Of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow), you know that he has a...uh...somewhat tenuous relationship with that thing that most people call reality. So what would happen, one is tempted to wonder, if such a writer decided to write an L.A. detective novel? The result might be, as the back-cover blurb for Inherent Vice specified, part-noir, part-psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. And what would happen if a filmmaker with a similarly tenuous relationship with reality (Paul Thomas Anderson) decided to make a movie of it, starring weirdass actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, and a host of lesser-known actors and actresses who all look remarkably at home walking around in a drug-induced early-70s narco-fog? It would be like a private detective trying to solve a mystery in a universe in which by definition mysteries cannot ever be solved. Or something like that. Director-screenwriter PTA manages to parse Pynchon's long-winded language well enough to fit some good examples of it into the screenplay, so occasionally there is a voiceover one-liner that just grabs you by the gnarlies and shakes you and makes you say, Wow, that's good writing! But as to whether the whole film makes you say, Wow, that's good filmmaking, the jury is still out for me...and I just watched it. The movie flows, in the same sense that being stoned in L.A. in the early 70s flowed, meaning that it was groovy without making any sense. Back in the actual 70s, that would have been enough. In 2015, I'm not convinced it is. All I can say right now is that I wasn't stoned while watching this but am a bit after watching it. I'm not sure whether feeling that way is a good enough reason to recommend this movie or not. But the one thing I do know is that it sure is a delight to hear Tom Pynchon taking on Chandleresque 70s-stoned L.A.-speak: * She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe the Fish t-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she'd never look. * What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song. * He's technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi. * Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional. * As a courtesy I’m taking you out to the impound garage to get your vehicle. We’ve been over it with the best tools available to forensic science, and except for enough cannabis debris to keep an average family of four stoned for a year, you’re clean. No blood or impact evidence we can use. Congratulations. * Though he may have rescued Japonica from a life of dark and unspecified hippie horror, apparently restoration to the bosom of her family had been enough to really drive her around the bend. * What was 'walking on water,' if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing? * You can only cruise the boulevards of regret for so long, and then you've got to get up on the freeways again. * Back when, she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on him that he couldn't read at all. * They told me that I was precious cargo that couldn't be insured because of Inherent Vice. What's that? I don't know [Narrator] Inherent Vice, in a marine insurance policy, is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters. And Doc wondered what that meant when applied to ex old ladies. http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4155813401/
[FairfieldLife] Friday! Iowans Return to Freedom Summer at Sondheim
Special Fairfield Screening at Friday's Art Walk! Iowans Return to Freedom Summer Friday, February 6 . 7:30 pm Sondheim Center, Fairfield Arts Convention Center See this moving, powerful documentary recounting the experiences of six Iowans who participated in the Mississippi Summer Project before it airs on Iowa Public Television later this month. Filmmaker and Freedom Summer volunteer Patti Miller weaves first hand accounts with striking footage by Richard Beymer and photographs by Herb Randall, to provide a glimpse into the experiences and motivations of white Iowa students who traveled to the deep South to help black Mississippians register to vote fifty years ago. A question and answer session with Miller and others involved in the film follows the premiere. And Don't Miss: 6:00 pm - Excerpt from Stanley Nelson's Freedom Summer, a PBS American Experience Film 7:00 pm - A Regular Bouquet, a film by Richard Beymer also about Freedom Summer 7:30 pm - Patti Miller's Iowans Return to Freedom Summer Visit us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IowansReturnToFreedomSummerKHAF Iowans Return to Freedom Summer is a project of the Keeping History Alive Foundation, a 501c3 dedicated to educating students about the Civil Rights Movement so they may learn from it's history and lead our country into a more enlightened future. For more information: www.iowansreturntofreedomsummer.com http://iowansreturntofreedomsummer.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
We show that European and Near Eastern lineages largely fall into discrete, ancient clusters, with minor episodes of gene flow, suggesting that haplogroup K diversified separately in Europe and the Near East during the last glacial period. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3543/pdf/ncomms3543.pdf http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3543/pdf/ncomms3543.pdf ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, inmadison@... wrote : just say We don't know but the event is analyzable . . . then go home and have dinner with the SO. Instead of calling it 'random' - which is just woo for science folks who are afraid the conversation might degrade into talking about spirits or the soul. But then, I'm a hard ass : )
[FairfieldLife] Re: Move review: Inherent Vice
THINGS then did not delay in turning curious. If one object behind her discovery of what she was to label the Tristero System or often only The Tristero (as if it might be something's secret title) were to bring to an end her encapsulation in her tower, then that night's infidelity with Metzger would logically be the starting point for it; logically (Pynchon, 3. 44, 1966). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : If you ever read any Thomas Pynchon back in his heyday (V, The Crying Of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow), you know that he has a...uh...somewhat tenuous relationship with that thing that most people call reality. So what would happen, one is tempted to wonder, if such a writer decided to write an L.A. detective novel? The result might be, as the back-cover blurb for Inherent Vice specified, part-noir, part-psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. And what would happen if a filmmaker with a similarly tenuous relationship with reality (Paul Thomas Anderson) decided to make a movie of it, starring weirdass actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, and a host of lesser-known actors and actresses who all look remarkably at home walking around in a drug-induced early-70s narco-fog? It would be like a private detective trying to solve a mystery in a universe in which by definition mysteries cannot ever be solved. Or something like that. Director-screenwriter PTA manages to parse Pynchon's long-winded language well enough to fit some good examples of it into the screenplay, so occasionally there is a voiceover one-liner that just grabs you by the gnarlies and shakes you and makes you say, Wow, that's good writing! But as to whether the whole film makes you say, Wow, that's good filmmaking, the jury is still out for me...and I just watched it. The movie flows, in the same sense that being stoned in L.A. in the early 70s flowed, meaning that it was groovy without making any sense. Back in the actual 70s, that would have been enough. In 2015, I'm not convinced it is. All I can say right now is that I wasn't stoned while watching this but am a bit after watching it. I'm not sure whether feeling that way is a good enough reason to recommend this movie or not. But the one thing I do know is that it sure is a delight to hear Tom Pynchon taking on Chandleresque 70s-stoned L.A.-speak: * She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe the Fish t-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she'd never look. * What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song. * He's technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi. * Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional. * As a courtesy I’m taking you out to the impound garage to get your vehicle. We’ve been over it with the best tools available to forensic science, and except for enough cannabis debris to keep an average family of four stoned for a year, you’re clean. No blood or impact evidence we can use. Congratulations. * Though he may have rescued Japonica from a life of dark and unspecified hippie horror, apparently restoration to the bosom of her family had been enough to really drive her around the bend. * What was 'walking on water,' if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing? * You can only cruise the boulevards of regret for so long, and then you've got to get up on the freeways again. * Back when, she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on him that he couldn't read at all. * They told me that I was precious cargo that couldn't be insured because of Inherent Vice. What's that? I don't know [Narrator] Inherent Vice, in a marine insurance policy, is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters. And Doc wondered what that meant when applied to ex old ladies. http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4155813401/ http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4155813401/ http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4155813401/
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle
I made a little trip today down to Mountain View to a little company whose name starts with G. I don't know whether they will make it or not. Anyway this was kinda last minute and there was fog all the way down 680 until just past Fremont. Such fun. Then I notice they now have tool HOV lanes although with the fog cleared there was not much advantage since it was after rush hour. I would hate to make that commute everyday but people do. On 02/03/2015 12:55 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You were in Seattle when I was there. I used to live in the Magnolia district. When I got to the city, I found an apartment near the top of a hill and the living room window was overlooking the Ballard Bridge. I was paying $600 per month for the place which was a steal compared to the San Francisco rates for the same view. But I soon realized that it was dangerous living on a steep hill during the winter. I found that my car would not stop while going down the hill. Even with the brakes on, the car would slide down the icy road. So, I had to intermittently put the brakes on to safely glide down below. I eventually moved to Federal Way to find an apartment on flatter ground and with good vastu. It was cheaper too than the one in the city. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : My first long term time in Seattle was in the summer of 1962 when the World's Fair was on and I had a summer job with my brother. It was really a neat place then and easy to get around on even on a bus. Then 1965 as UW student through 1969. Then I came back again in 1972 and lived there through 1982. Moved to Redmond in 1989 and split for California in 1991. I saw a lot of changes over those times but downtown was still pretty accessible in 1991. It wasn't like SF. In fact I've seen SF change over time and wondered why they didn't go the Portland route. Most of the change I'm talking about would have happened in the 2000s. Downtown is a cluster of very big buildings. Usually when I visited friends during the 00s we never went downtown but in 2007 just after Xmas I had some AMC passes so we went downtown to see a movie. It was a mess! My friends have bought another home on the Oregon coast and are retiring there this summer. On 02/03/2015 10:00 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Seattle couldn't have changed that much since I left in 2004. From what I've seen on TV, they still have Pike Place Market. That's a tourist landmark for the city. IMO, they'd leave it the way it is for tourists and the culture there. I used to eat lunch there, at least, once a week. They've gotta have the Pioneer Square, the Downtown Shopping Center, the ferry boats, and the Space Needle. That's Seattle as I remember it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : A lot of Seattlelites have dibelief in the place and are moving out. It isn't the city I knew in the 1970s. My last visit in 2007, the downtown resembled something out of Bladerunner. On 02/02/2015 12:52 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I predicted for a friend in Seattle that the Seahawks would win because the city smokes bhong legally. As such, Shiva would help them win the game. But, as America saw, that was not so. And Richard Sherman was heartbroken. Disbelief at final offensive play call reigned on Seattle sideline http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/02/disbelief-at-final-offensive-play-call-reigned-on-seattle-sideline/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle
I try not to cross the Bay Bridge, or any of the bridges or freeways in the SF Bay Area, during the commute hours. We're glad you made it back home in one piece. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I made a little trip today down to Mountain View to a little company whose name starts with G. I don't know whether they will make it or not. Anyway this was kinda last minute and there was fog all the way down 680 until just past Fremont. Such fun. Then I notice they now have tool HOV lanes although with the fog cleared there was not much advantage since it was after rush hour. I would hate to make that commute everyday but people do. On 02/03/2015 12:55 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: You were in Seattle when I was there. I used to live in the Magnolia district. When I got to the city, I found an apartment near the top of a hill and the living room window was overlooking the Ballard Bridge. I was paying $600 per month for the place which was a steal compared to the San Francisco rates for the same view. But I soon realized that it was dangerous living on a steep hill during the winter. I found that my car would not stop while going down the hill. Even with the brakes on, the car would slide down the icy road. So, I had to intermittently put the brakes on to safely glide down below. I eventually moved to Federal Way to find an apartment on flatter ground and with good vastu. It was cheaper too than the one in the city. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : My first long term time in Seattle was in the summer of 1962 when the World's Fair was on and I had a summer job with my brother. It was really a neat place then and easy to get around on even on a bus. Then 1965 as UW student through 1969. Then I came back again in 1972 and lived there through 1982. Moved to Redmond in 1989 and split for California in 1991. I saw a lot of changes over those times but downtown was still pretty accessible in 1991. It wasn't like SF. In fact I've seen SF change over time and wondered why they didn't go the Portland route. Most of the change I'm talking about would have happened in the 2000s. Downtown is a cluster of very big buildings. Usually when I visited friends during the 00s we never went downtown but in 2007 just after Xmas I had some AMC passes so we went downtown to see a movie. It was a mess! My friends have bought another home on the Oregon coast and are retiring there this summer. On 02/03/2015 10:00 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Seattle couldn't have changed that much since I left in 2004. From what I've seen on TV, they still have Pike Place Market. That's a tourist landmark for the city. IMO, they'd leave it the way it is for tourists and the culture there. I used to eat lunch there, at least, once a week. They've gotta have the Pioneer Square, the Downtown Shopping Center, the ferry boats, and the Space Needle. That's Seattle as I remember it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : A lot of Seattlelites have dibelief in the place and are moving out. It isn't the city I knew in the 1970s. My last visit in 2007, the downtown resembled something out of Bladerunner. On 02/02/2015 12:52 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I predicted for a friend in Seattle that the Seahawks would win because the city smokes bhong legally. As such, Shiva would help them win the game. But, as America saw, that was not so. And Richard Sherman was heartbroken. Disbelief at final offensive play call reigned on Seattle sideline
[FairfieldLife] Bitter Lake
Adam Curtis has made a name for himself with some out-of-left-field documentaries. His latest offering looks at the disaster of western intervention in Afghanistan. Wonderfully hypnotic footage and a compelling soundtrack make it an enjoyable ride. From one reviewer: The argument of Curtis’s pulpit provocation is that the pickle we’re in now dates back to the deal Franklin D Roosevelt did with the Saudis to gain access to Arab oil. The virulent faith of Wahhabism, a fundamentalist vision of Islam that was born in the 18th century in Saudi Arabia, was permitted to flourish by the West, and slowly spread its ever mutating tentacles into other Muslim territories. The Russians and, after 9/11, the British were duly caught up in this cynical power play, and here we all are, ushered to the brink of an abyss by a succession of clueless Western leaders who have infantilised world geopolitics into a binary face-off between good (us) and evil (whoever we don’t like). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcpDO8_3qU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcpDO8_3qU
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite
I took Barry's comment to be a gotta get a reaction from somebody quota type thing. I suppose Barry is more of an academic, or movie critic, so really, I wouldn't expect him to understand the nuances of what it might be like to be in a combat situation. Not that I have, but being in real life, engaging with all manner of people, running a small business, you get a feel for what it's like to protect your interests. It is quite a bit different from sitting in a cafe all day and watching pirated movies. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : It should be noted that neither Barry or Michael Moore ever served in the military. If they were in a combat situation, they would probably refuse to shoot a terrorist about to behead a fellow combatant. Instead, they would probably head for the nearest coffee house in town to count their money. Go figure. Moore posted his opinion of American Sniper on stronger terms on his Facebook page January 29, including a hefty heap of his trademark pompous, whiny victimhood. Michael Moore: My 'Fatwa'-Issuing Conservative Critics Are an 'American ISIS' http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis Michael Moore: My 'Fatwa'-Issuing Conservative C... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis Vice Magazine has posted a long, fawning interview with limousine leftist documentary maker Michael Moore, infamous for his recent Twitter attack o... View on newsbusters.org http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I bet if I was a soldier in combat, I would be mighty glad of the snipers, long as they were on my sdie, shootin' at the soldiers who wanted to kill me. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite Another word for sniper is coward. And snipers are considered one step up from the lowest form of coward -- drone pilots -- because they actually have to go out into battle and hide behind a tree, whereas the drone pilot gets to sit in a safe building somewhere and play video games. From: s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite I've not seen this new Clint Eastwood movie yet - and I hadn't realized that Chris Kylie was dead - and indeed had been murdered. To show that nations will show pride in any record they can lay claim to, the other day I was half amused and half disturbed to see the British press crowing about the following claim: A British sniper has 173 confirmed victims compared to 160 by the subject of Oscar-nominated American Sniper. The corporal, who is still serving, made the majority of his kills during a single six-month tour of Helmand province eight years ago. . . . At one point the sniper shot 90 Taliban fighters in a single day. The world record for the longest-range kill is held by a British soldier at more than two-and-a-half kilometers. However the Finns can boast of holding first place in this grisly contest: Simo Hayha, a Finnish soldier nicknamed White Death, was credited with 505 sniper kills during the Winter War of 1939 to 1940, when the Soviet Union invaded Finland. It has been a common practice around the world for captured snipers to be executed out of hand. Rather odd considering that all sides use snipers(!) but probably explained by the gut instinct we have that snipers (like unrestricted submarine warfare) seem to be not playing the game according to the rules of chivalry! From Wiki: The negative reputation of snipers can be traced back to the American Revolution, when American Marksmen would intentionally target British officers, an act considered uncivilized by the British Army. To end, here's a true tale of sniper action that neatly illustrates the utter futility of war: During WWI there was a famous truce on Christmas Day 1914 when British and German troops met and fraternized in no man's land. But at one end of the line things didn't go so smoothly. The peace of Christmas morning was shattered by the piercing, solitary shot of a sniper's rifle fired from a German trench. Private Percy Huggins, who was on sentry duty at a forward
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mummified Monk is not dead
I told you he was just meditating. I was joking though. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : This qualifies for a believe it or not story. Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 A mummified monk found preserved in Mongolia last week is baffling those who uncovered him, with senior Buddhists saying he is still alive. View on www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
According to you, all the quantum physicists are lazy? I suppose assuming about spirits and soul, is hard scientific work? You sure are a hard ass. --- inmadison@... wrote : just say We don't know but the event is analyzable . . . then go home and have dinner with the SO. Instead of calling it 'random' - which is just woo for science folks who are afraid the conversation might degrade into talking about spirits or the soul.But then, I'm a hard ass : ) Claiming some event is random just means the event is too complicated and we don't understand it yet. So there is no calling a thing random, that is only being lazy.
[FairfieldLife] Name that movie
In a movie, you're only allowed to be in the list of actor/actress credits if your character has a speaking role. Even if your character says Hi and that's your only line, you get a screen credit. So, even given the rampant gender bias in Hollywood, what would you think of a movie that contains 93 female characters in the credits, but only 49 of those female characters have names, and their dialogue constitutes only 1.1% of the entire script. Pretty sexist, eh? Given this information, you'd almost expect the movie to be one those misogynist slasher epics in which women are only present to get raped, treated like property, and/or stoned to death, and aren't really considered as important as the men, right? This Is How Many Words Are Spoken By Women In The Bible | | | | | | | | | | | This Is How Many Words Are Spoken By Women In The B...There are 93 women who speak in the Bible, 49 of whom are named. These women speak a total of 14,056 words collectively -- roughly 1.1 percent of the total words in... | | | | View on www.huffingtonpost... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
[FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)
Have you ever looked at mindfulness research? Most of it makes TM research look absolutely brilliant in its design and execution. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO promoted science as a matter of course. TMO promoted science is about 1% reliable based on various reviews of study size, controls, and experimental design. It's the dumbing down effect of religious memes that prevent researchers from thinking more clearly along scientific lines. It is difficult enough to do science properly without also having to get approval from people whose minds work along the lines of metaphysical fantasy. I don't have to do recreational drugs any more, as the doctors have been loading me up on additional pills and injections as I get older and more decrepit (the latter, according to TMO science is a sign my age is reversing) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : You can never fully trust science. Take this study, for example. If Fairfield, IA's claimed reputation as an early-to-bed, fairly drug-free, and fairly non-promiscuous small town is true, all that really means is that its population isn't very intelligent. :-) Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More ... http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ By Steven Bancarz| What is the mark of an intelligent mind in our day and age? When we think of intelligent people, we may have been conditioned to envision them ... View on www.spiritscience... http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Church of Scientology targets film critics over Going Clear documentary
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
--- anartaxius@... wrote : This is not necessarily so. Comments in your text. I'd like to riff on this. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jason_green2@... wrote : Xeno, let's use a little logic here. If you existed before you were born, you will continue to exist after you die. If you didn't exist before you were born, you will not exist after you die. There are multiple possibilities here: 1. You could exist before you were born, be born and live, then die and not exist. That's what happens when, what eastern phil call enlightenment happens. 2. You could exist before you were born, be born and live, then die and exist. That's reincarnation, crux of the eastern phil. 3. You could exist before you were born, be stillborn dead, and then exist. 4. You could exist before you were born, be stillborn dead, and then not exist. 5. You could not exist before you were born, be born and live, and then die and not exist. If there is no such thing as individual jiva, a bundle of subtle vasanas, yes. 6. You could not exist before you were born, be born and live, and then die and exist Yes, but you still would have to cease at some point. That which has a beginning must have an end. 7. You could not exist before you were born, be stillborn and dead, and then exist. 8. You could not exist before you were born, be stillborn and dead, and then not exist. (This last one is a real bummer, but of course you would never know) An infinite regress and infinite progress of incarnations is not possible. All things have a beginning and an end. The reverse of this is your point no. 5. In both the scenarios, there is no hope of enlightenment. In the first scenario you are in eternal bondage. In the second scenario, your condition though hopeless, is comparatively more merciful. What is not so clear is how these various scenarios could work out to be true. Simply saying there is a law of karma and that it is 'subtler' than the laws of physics. is just a way of avoiding describing how the whole thing works, and whether there is any evidence that could support the idea. The laws of physics describe things that are far beyond the ability of the human nervous system to perceive or feel or even experience, but they are not necessarily beyond the ability of machines to detect, which allows us to experience those things by proxy as a mental construct, but never directly. Karma is the theory of cause and effect, action and reaction. In other words it's balance. Yes, no direct proof, but the fact that you exist and have all these experiences should make you ponder. First of all, what does one mean when we use the word 'you'. Is it the same 'you' before birth, at birth and in life, and after death, or what? The experience of, or perhaps, the knowledge of, being as an undefined attribute-less substratum of all existence that remains before, during, and after bodies are born and perish might be considered one's existence, but it then excludes the life of the body with its mental panorama and personality (what we normally consider a person) as being what the 'you' really are. That personality is not what is maintained throughout birth and death in this case. In this case 'you' is your self or being. On the other hand if what people normally consider a person is is somehow maintained through the mill of birth and death, the 'you' that we usually mean when we talk to someone, how does that happen? How is the essence of that personality stored in between births, and where is it stored, and how is it reconstituted? This all seems extraordinarily vague to me; people tell me it does, and leave it at that, which means they do not know otherwise they could explain it. My view of birth and death is this: All things that exist have being. Being is an abstract principle that all things, individually and collectively (that is, the universe as a whole) have. Being is equivalent of having existence, no matter what kind or how. It is totally obvious, anything that exists has being. It is a definition. When the human mind and senses experience an aspect of this being and loses sight as it were, of the connectivity of existence, the totality of all the separate beings together, it experiences this aspect of being as a separate object or thing, and thus the being, which appears to have the property of consciousness under certain circumstances (such as when an aspect of being is a nervous system complex enough to have senses and a decent CPU, is 'born' as that object, not because something is happening, but because the perception and knowledge of timeless eternity is lost in that perception. If the totality of being is not lost in perception and knowledge, then nothing is born or dies. So the reality or non reality of birth and death is really just a matter of how narrow or wide perception and knowledge is. The
[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz jews were central asian converts and they never lived in Israel. They are the ones who migrated to europe. Besides, there was never any need to partition the territory. A special arrangement could have been made for those sephardim jews who wanted to settle down there, without disturbing the indigenous people who were already there. --- richard@... wrote : You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They don't call it the 'Land of Judea' for nothing! Human settlement in Judea stretches back to the Stone Age. The Israelites lived in Jericho, back in 1025 B.C. It's a fact of history that this land was invaded by the Arabs in 636 A.D. The prevailing opinion today is that the Israelites, who eventually evolved into the modern Jews and Samaritans, are an outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanites who had resided in the area since the 8th millennium BCE. Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites The Israelites (/ˈɪzriəˌlaɪts, -reɪ-/)[1] were a Semitic people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Preview by Yahoo --- jason_green2@... wrote : Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:25-26). And He was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. (Mark 7:27). The Jews called the Gentiles dogs in the same way we would call someone a bitch (Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15). It was a term of contempt. --- richard@... wrote : According to what I've read, so-called non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a practical standpoint--as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land imbued with holiness well-suited for Torah study. But they don't generally assign religious significance to the formation of the modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture. Zionism is used in the strict sense of the Jews should have a homeland, preferably Israel (Israel is where Zion is, hence Zionism). Criticizing today's Israeli government regarding policies is not the same as anti-Zionism. -- jr_esq@... wrote : Jason, There are still Jews who consider themselves as the Chosen People here in the USA. They may or may not be Zioneists. Nonetheless, they follow several hundred laws relating to food, behavior and worship. They still frown upon intermarriage with outsiders or goyim. I've posted the videos of Rabbis Kraft and Mizrachi and you should watch them for verification. And they don't definitely consider themselves descendants of apes from Africa. ---jr_esq@... wrote : No, I'm not converting to Judaism. I just reacted to the words written by Bhairitu based on the issues raised by Carde recently and the cosmological models that have been discussed here for the past week or so. But it is interesting to know what the current Jewish rabbis are thinking about the Jewish role in the Middle East conflict. For both the Jews and Arabs, they blame their mutual animosity on the failure of Jews to perform their duties as the Chosen People in the Bible. --- salyavin808@... wrote : The fact that any race thinks they are the chosen ones fills me with dread. Someone should point out that it doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you like. Believing that god gave you all the land west of the river Jordan doesn't - or shouldn't - make it so. A bit less arrogance on that front might have worked wonders in 1948. --- turquoiseb@... wrote : A strong case can be made that it is the very existence of this Chosen People myth that has caused the ongoing persecution of Jews over the centuries. Historically, the same sort of persecution hounds *any* religious group who consider themselves
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite
I bet if I was a soldier in combat, I would be mighty glad of the snipers, long as they were on my sdie, shootin' at the soldiers who wanted to kill me. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite Another word for sniper is coward. And snipers are considered one step up from the lowest form of coward -- drone pilots -- because they actually have to go out into battle and hide behind a tree, whereas the drone pilot gets to sit in a safe building somewhere and play video games. From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite I've not seen this new Clint Eastwood movie yet - and I hadn't realized that Chris Kylie was dead - and indeed had been murdered. To show that nations will show pride in any record they can lay claim to, the other day I was half amused and half disturbed to see the British press crowing about the following claim: A British sniper has 173 confirmed victims compared to 160 by the subject of Oscar-nominated American Sniper. The corporal, who is still serving, made the majority of his kills during a single six-month tour of Helmand province eight years ago. . . . At one point the sniper shot 90 Taliban fighters in a single day. The world record for the longest-range kill is held by a British soldier at more than two-and-a-half kilometers. However the Finns can boast of holding first place in this grisly contest: Simo Hayha, a Finnish soldier nicknamed White Death, was credited with 505 sniper kills during the Winter War of 1939 to 1940, when the Soviet Union invaded Finland. It has been a common practice around the world for captured snipers to be executed out of hand. Rather odd considering that all sides use snipers(!) but probably explained by the gut instinct we have that snipers (like unrestricted submarine warfare) seem to be not playing the game according to the rules of chivalry! From Wiki: The negative reputation of snipers can be traced back to the American Revolution, when American Marksmen would intentionally target British officers, an act considered uncivilized by the British Army. To end, here's a true tale of sniper action that neatly illustrates the utter futility of war: During WWI there was a famous truce on Christmas Day 1914 when British and German troops met and fraternized in no man's land. But at one end of the line things didn't go so smoothly. The peace of Christmas morning was shattered by the piercing, solitary shot of a sniper's rifle fired from a German trench. Private Percy Huggins, who was on sentry duty at a forward listening post just 20 yards from the enemy, was killed with a single bullet to the head. News of the 23-year-old soldier's death enraged his comrades of D company Hertfordshire regiment, especially his platoon Sergeant Tom Gregory. The experienced soldier demanded he take Pte Huggins' place so he could avenge his comrade's death. He immediately set about scanning the frost-covered ground before identifying the sniper, who he took out with a single shot. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of the deadly exchange. Sgt Gregory continued scouring the enemy lines and located a second sniper in his sights. But the German marksman had already spotted him and in a split-second action, he shot and killed Sgt Gregory. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : If you don't have a gun and don't know how to shoot straight, how are you going to kill the terrorists? AUSTIN — Two years after Chris Kyle's death, and days before the man accused of killing him goes to trial, the retired Navy SEAL depicted in the blockbuster movie American Sniper received a state day Monday in his honor... Texas establishes 'Chris Kyle Day' 2 years after his death http://news.yahoo.com/texas-establishes-chris-kyle-day-2-years-death-232043229.html | | | | http://news.yahoo.com/texas-establishes-chris-kyle-day-2-years-death-232043229.html � | | | View on news.yahoo.com| Preview by Yahoo | | | ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : but a backyard is not a place to have legal shooting ranges. The politicians in FL who allow this must be insane - we don't even have that kind of crap here in South Carolina and FYI Sal, the NRA is run by a megalomaniac demagogue named Wayne Lapierre who loves to be the power that has all the politicians running scared- plus he gets lots of money from the gun industry for promoting their agendas which is basically to sell sell sell! He is a fuck head who needs a real good ass
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
Whereas claiming that it is possible to understand everything ISN'T lazy? :-)
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FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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Claiming some event is random just means the event is too complicated and
we don't understand it yet. So there is no calling a thing random, that is
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Stupid Bowl
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : ... It's not just a matter of peanut vendors vs athletes. There is an entire industry creating millions of jobs( at all levels) and products which are all taxed for the *common good*. Professional sports also gives people a way of taking their minds off of the grind of every day life, for a few hours. It's kind of funny, in certain markets we often hear that crime rates drop during big games! Talk about your Maharishi effect! I think professional sports is very healthy for society, psychologically and economically.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
No one knows where the Ashkenazim came from but most scholars think they started in southern Italy and other parts of southern Europe. From: jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random? By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz jews were central asian converts and they never lived in Israel. They are the ones who migrated to europe. Besides, there was never any need to partition the territory. A special arrangement could have been made for those sephardim jews who wanted to settle down there, without disturbing the indigenous people who were already there. --- richard@... wrote : You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They don't call it the 'Land of Judea' for nothing! Human settlement in Judea stretches back to the Stone Age. The Israelites lived in Jericho, back in 1025 B.C. It's a fact of history that this land was invaded by the Arabs in 636 A.D. The prevailing opinion today is that the Israelites, who eventually evolved into the modern Jews and Samaritans, are an outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanites who had resided in the area since the 8th millennium BCE. Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | | | | | | Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Israelites (/ˈɪzriəˌlaɪts, -reɪ-/)[1] were a Semitic people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th... | | | View on en.wikipedia.org| Preview by Yahoo | | | --- jason_green2@... wrote : Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:25-26). And He was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. (Mark 7:27). The Jews called the Gentiles dogs in the same way we would call someone a bitch (Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15). It was a term of contempt. --- richard@... wrote : According to what I've read, so-called non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a practical standpoint--as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land imbued with holiness well-suited for Torah study. But they don't generally assign religious significance to the formation of the modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture. Zionism is used in the strict sense of the Jews should have a homeland, preferably Israel (Israel is where Zion is, hence Zionism). Criticizing today's Israeli government regarding policies is not the same as anti-Zionism. -- jr_esq@... wrote : Jason, There are still Jews who consider themselves as the Chosen People here in the USA. They may or may not be Zioneists. Nonetheless, they follow several hundred laws relating to food, behavior and worship. They still frown upon intermarriage with outsiders or goyim. I've posted the videos of Rabbis Kraft and Mizrachi and you should watch them for verification. And they don't definitely consider themselves descendants of apes from Africa. ---jr_esq@... wrote : No,I'm not converting to Judaism. I just reacted to the words written byBhairitu based on the issues raised by Carde recently and thecosmological models that have been discussed here for the past week orso. Butit is interesting to know what the current Jewish rabbis are thinkingabout the Jewish role in the Middle East conflict. For both the Jewsand Arabs, they blame their mutual animosity on the failure of Jews toperform their duties as the Chosen People in the Bible. --- salyavin808@... wrote : Thefact that any race thinks they are the chosen ones fills me with dread.Someone should point out that it doesn't give you carte blanche to dowhatever you like. Believing that god gave you all the land west of theriver Jordan doesn't - or shouldn't - make it so. A bit less arroganceon that front might have worked wonders in 1948. --- turquoiseb@... wrote : Astrong case can be made that it is the very existence of this
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
My paternal haplogroup, which occurs almost exclusively in a small percentage of Ashkenazi Jews, originated in the Caucasus region. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote : No one knows where the Ashkenazim came from but most scholars think they started in southern Italy and other parts of southern Europe. From: jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random? By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz jews were central asian converts and they never lived in Israel. They are the ones who migrated to europe. Besides, there was never any need to partition the territory. A special arrangement could have been made for those sephardim jews who wanted to settle down there, without disturbing the indigenous people who were already there. --- richard@... wrote : You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They don't call it the 'Land of Judea' for nothing! Human settlement in Judea stretches back to the Stone Age. The Israelites lived in Jericho, back in 1025 B.C. It's a fact of history that this land was invaded by the Arabs in 636 A.D. The prevailing opinion today is that the Israelites, who eventually evolved into the modern Jews and Samaritans, are an outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanites who had resided in the area since the 8th millennium BCE. Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites The Israelites (/ˈɪzriəˌlaɪts, -reɪ-/)[1] were a Semitic people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Preview by Yahoo --- jason_green2@... wrote : Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:25-26). And He was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. (Mark 7:27). The Jews called the Gentiles dogs in the same way we would call someone a bitch (Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15). It was a term of contempt. --- richard@... wrote : According to what I've read, so-called non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a practical standpoint--as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land imbued with holiness well-suited for Torah study. But they don't generally assign religious significance to the formation of the modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture. Zionism is used in the strict sense of the Jews should have a homeland, preferably Israel (Israel is where Zion is, hence Zionism). Criticizing today's Israeli government regarding policies is not the same as anti-Zionism. -- jr_esq@... wrote : Jason, There are still Jews who consider themselves as the Chosen People here in the USA. They may or may not be Zioneists. Nonetheless, they follow several hundred laws relating to food, behavior and worship. They still frown upon intermarriage with outsiders or goyim. I've posted the videos of Rabbis Kraft and Mizrachi and you should watch them for verification. And they don't definitely consider themselves descendants of apes from Africa. ---jr_esq@... wrote : No, I'm not converting to Judaism. I just reacted to the words written by Bhairitu based on the issues raised by Carde recently and the cosmological models that have been discussed here for the past week or so. But it is interesting to know what the current Jewish rabbis are thinking about the Jewish role in the Middle East conflict. For both the Jews and Arabs, they blame their mutual animosity on the failure of Jews to perform their duties as the Chosen People in the Bible. --- salyavin808@... wrote : The fact that any race thinks they are the chosen ones fills
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
Apparently the explanation for these observations is a common genetic origin, which is consistent with an historical formulation of the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelite residents of the Levant. All studies nevertheless agree that genetic overlap with the Fertile Crescent exists in both lineages, albeit at differing rates. Ashkenazi Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (Hebrew: אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: [ˌaʃkəˈnazim], singular: [... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : No one knows where the Ashkenazim came from but most scholars think they started in southern Italy and other parts of southern Europe. From: jason_green2@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random? By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz jews were central asian converts and they never lived in Israel. They are the ones who migrated to europe. Besides, there was never any need to partition the territory. A special arrangement could have been made for those sephardim jews who wanted to settle down there, without disturbing the indigenous people who were already there. --- richard@... wrote : You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They don't call it the 'Land of Judea' for nothing! Human settlement in Judea stretches back to the Stone Age. The Israelites lived in Jericho, back in 1025 B.C. It's a fact of history that this land was invaded by the Arabs in 636 A.D. The prevailing opinion today is that the Israelites, who eventually evolved into the modern Jews and Samaritans, are an outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanites who had resided in the area since the 8th millennium BCE. Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites The Israelites (/ˈɪzriəˌlaɪts, -reɪ-/)[1] were a Semitic people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Preview by Yahoo --- jason_green2@... wrote : Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:25-26). And He was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. (Mark 7:27). The Jews called the Gentiles dogs in the same way we would call someone a bitch (Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15). It was a term of contempt. --- richard@... wrote : According to what I've read, so-called non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a practical standpoint--as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land imbued with holiness well-suited for Torah study. But they don't generally assign religious significance to the formation of the modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture. Zionism is used in the strict sense of the Jews should have a homeland, preferably Israel (Israel is where Zion is, hence Zionism). Criticizing today's Israeli government regarding policies is not the same as anti-Zionism. -- jr_esq@... wrote : Jason, There are still Jews who consider themselves as the Chosen People here in the USA. They may or may not be Zioneists. Nonetheless, they follow several hundred laws relating to food, behavior and worship. They still frown upon intermarriage with outsiders or goyim. I've posted the videos of Rabbis Kraft and Mizrachi and you should watch them
[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
By my logic those that won the war get to do what they want with the land and the resources. Since the Allies won the war they got to chop up the Middle East how they saw fit and so they drew lines in the sand on ethnic and language lines. There are no Red Indians in North America the native inhabitants all came over from Asia. Anyone who actively supports the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish nation is a zionist. Do you acknowledge the right of Saudi Arabia to exist as a Muslim nation? What the Palestinians and most other Arabs really want is to wipe the Jewish state of Israel out of existence. If so, then it's hard to see on what grounds you would deny a comparable right to Israel – especially considering what the Jews have endured throughout their history, and especially considering that Israel is the one and *only* Jewish nation -- in contrast to the Muslims, who have twenty-something nations (and a vastly larger land mass) under their control. One quick quiz according to Delia: Who should be in control of Jerusalem? Answers to choose from: A. Palestinians/Muslims B. Israelis/Jews C. It should be under joint control, since it's important to both religions. D. The United Nations Answers: A is clearly anti-semitic. C and D are pretty much equivalent, and both are borderline antisemitism, or possibly just plain ignorance. B makes the most sense, and is the obvious choice if one has any respect at all for Jews and their traditions. Note: Muslims have Mecca as their holy city (which non-muslims are not even allowed to set foot in); and they also have Medina, their second-holiest city, which is the birthplace of Muhammed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jason_green2@... wrote : By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz jews were central asian converts and they never lived in Israel. They are the ones who migrated to europe. Besides, there was never any need to partition the territory. A special arrangement could have been made for those sephardim jews who wanted to settle down there, without disturbing the indigenous people who were already there. --- richard@... wrote : You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They don't call it the 'Land of Judea' for nothing! Human settlement in Judea stretches back to the Stone Age. The Israelites lived in Jericho, back in 1025 B.C. It's a fact of history that this land was invaded by the Arabs in 636 A.D. The prevailing opinion today is that the Israelites, who eventually evolved into the modern Jews and Samaritans, are an outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanites who had resided in the area since the 8th millennium BCE. Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites The Israelites (/ˈɪzriəˌlaɪts, -reɪ-/)[1] were a Semitic people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites Preview by Yahoo --- jason_green2@... wrote : Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:25-26). And He was saying to her, Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. (Mark 7:27). The Jews called the Gentiles dogs in the same way we would call someone a bitch (Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15). It was a term of contempt. --- richard@... wrote : According to what I've read, so-called non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a practical standpoint--as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land imbued with holiness well-suited for Torah study. But they don't generally assign religious significance to the formation of the modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture. Zionism is used in the strict sense of the Jews should have a homeland, preferably Israel (Israel is where Zion is, hence Zionism).
Re: [FairfieldLife] Columubus: Sephardi??
Not Bloody Likely, since he spent the last few years of his life writing
religious tracts glorifying his role in the conversion of barbarians to the
true faith, Catholicism. Sounds to me as if Simon Wiesenthal is guilty of
trying to find more prominent Jews in history than actually existed there. :-)
It's actually more likely that Columbus (in addition to being responsible for
genocide and systematic torture during his periods as governor in the new
worlds he discovered) was Catalan, not Jewish. At least this theory has some
scholarship backing it up: (Christopher Columbus writings prove he was Spanish,
claims study - Telegraph). (It's fairly hilarious that the Telegraph writer
missed the entire point of the research he was writing up and claimed in a
headline something other than what the researchers found -- that he was
Spanish. Their linguistic research didn't say that at all...it suggested that
he was *Catalan*, which is *not* the same as being Spanish, especially during
that era. It would have been almost as unacceptable for a Catalan person to be
favored by the royalty as it would have for a Jew to be so favored.)
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Columubus: Sephardi??
Wikipaedia:
Simon Wiesenthal postulates that Columbus was a Sephardi (Spanish Jew), careful
to conceal his Judaism yet also eager to locate a place of refuge for his
persecuted fellow countrymen. Wiesenthal argues that Columbus' concept of
sailing west to reach the Indies was less the result of geographical theories
than of his faith in certain Biblical texts—specifically the Book of Isaiah. He
repeatedly cited two verses from that book: Surely the isles shall wait for
me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver
and their gold with them, (60:9); and For behold, I create new heavens and a
new earth (65:17). Wiesenthal claimed that Columbus felt that his voyages had
confirmed these prophecies.[86]
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite
It should be noted that neither Barry or Michael Moore ever served in the military. If they were in a combat situation, they would probably refuse to shoot a terrorist about to behead a fellow combatant. Instead, they would probably head for the nearest coffee house in town to count their money. Go figure. Moore posted his opinion of American Sniper on stronger terms on his Facebook page January 29, including a hefty heap of his trademark pompous, whiny victimhood. Michael Moore: My 'Fatwa'-Issuing Conservative Critics Are an 'American ISIS' http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis Michael Moore: My 'Fatwa'-Issuing Conservative C... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis Vice Magazine has posted a long, fawning interview with limousine leftist documentary maker Michael Moore, infamous for his recent Twitter attack o... View on newsbusters.org http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/02/03/michael-moore-my-fatwa-issuing-conservative-critics-are-american-isis Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I bet if I was a soldier in combat, I would be mighty glad of the snipers, long as they were on my sdie, shootin' at the soldiers who wanted to kill me. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite Another word for sniper is coward. And snipers are considered one step up from the lowest form of coward -- drone pilots -- because they actually have to go out into battle and hide behind a tree, whereas the drone pilot gets to sit in a safe building somewhere and play video games. From: s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite I've not seen this new Clint Eastwood movie yet - and I hadn't realized that Chris Kylie was dead - and indeed had been murdered. To show that nations will show pride in any record they can lay claim to, the other day I was half amused and half disturbed to see the British press crowing about the following claim: A British sniper has 173 confirmed victims compared to 160 by the subject of Oscar-nominated American Sniper. The corporal, who is still serving, made the majority of his kills during a single six-month tour of Helmand province eight years ago. . . . At one point the sniper shot 90 Taliban fighters in a single day. The world record for the longest-range kill is held by a British soldier at more than two-and-a-half kilometers. However the Finns can boast of holding first place in this grisly contest: Simo Hayha, a Finnish soldier nicknamed White Death, was credited with 505 sniper kills during the Winter War of 1939 to 1940, when the Soviet Union invaded Finland. It has been a common practice around the world for captured snipers to be executed out of hand. Rather odd considering that all sides use snipers(!) but probably explained by the gut instinct we have that snipers (like unrestricted submarine warfare) seem to be not playing the game according to the rules of chivalry! From Wiki: The negative reputation of snipers can be traced back to the American Revolution, when American Marksmen would intentionally target British officers, an act considered uncivilized by the British Army. To end, here's a true tale of sniper action that neatly illustrates the utter futility of war: During WWI there was a famous truce on Christmas Day 1914 when British and German troops met and fraternized in no man's land. But at one end of the line things didn't go so smoothly. The peace of Christmas morning was shattered by the piercing, solitary shot of a sniper's rifle fired from a German trench. Private Percy Huggins, who was on sentry duty at a forward listening post just 20 yards from the enemy, was killed with a single bullet to the head. News of the 23-year-old soldier's death enraged his comrades of D company Hertfordshire regiment, especially his platoon Sergeant Tom Gregory. The experienced soldier demanded he take Pte Huggins' place so he could avenge his comrade's death. He immediately set about scanning the frost-covered ground before identifying the sniper, who he took out with a single shot. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of the deadly exchange. Sgt Gregory continued scouring the enemy lines and located
[FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)
There are two main problems with scientific studies of meditation: 1) a scientific definition of meditation and 2) exclude the randomized placebo effect with controlled trials. Most scientific studies on the subject are not double-blind studies. According to Harris, there is no substitute for time spent engaging these practices on retreat. Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/blog/category/meditation http://www.samharris.org/blog/category/meditation Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/blog/category/meditation Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. View on www.samharris.org http://www.samharris.org/blog/category/meditation Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Have you ever looked at mindfulness research? Most of it makes TM research look absolutely brilliant in its design and execution. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO promoted science as a matter of course. TMO promoted science is about 1% reliable based on various reviews of study size, controls, and experimental design. It's the dumbing down effect of religious memes that prevent researchers from thinking more clearly along scientific lines. It is difficult enough to do science properly without also having to get approval from people whose minds work along the lines of metaphysical fantasy. I don't have to do recreational drugs any more, as the doctors have been loading me up on additional pills and injections as I get older and more decrepit (the latter, according to TMO science is a sign my age is reversing) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : You can never fully trust science. Take this study, for example. If Fairfield, IA's claimed reputation as an early-to-bed, fairly drug-free, and fairly non-promiscuous small town is true, all that really means is that its population isn't very intelligent. :-) Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More ... http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ By Steven Bancarz| What is the mark of an intelligent mind in our day and age? When we think of intelligent people, we may have been conditioned to envision them ... View on www.spiritscience... http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] There are many forms of child abuse
This barber will publicly shame your misbehaving kid with an old man’s haircut | | | | | | | | | | | This barber will publicly shame your misbehaving kid wit...Effective discipline, or dangerous parenting that could have a deeper or more lasting effect on the child’s self image? | | | | View on www.washingtonpost... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
[FairfieldLife] Mummified Monk is not dead
This qualifies for a believe it or not story. Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 A mummified monk found preserved in Mongolia last week is baffling those who uncovered him, with senior Buddhists saying he is still alive. View on www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 Preview by Yahoo
