Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : snip (because of certifiable short memory and time) And BTW, it was Jeffery Jones character Emperoro Joseph II, who says too many notes in the film Amadeus not Salieri. The story a variation of Alexander Pushkin's play Mozart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери, 1830) and other. Amadeus - There are simply too many notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU Amadeus - There are simply too many notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. Which few did you have in mind? A scene from my favorite movie of all time. View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU Preview by Yahoo Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. Which few You have in mind.. Another damn film I need to find a BD of as my DVD was letterboxed instead of anamorphic. On 05/14/2015 07:21 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yeah but look who he was saying it about. :-) But I understand...some people have short attention spans, and can't read more than 30 words. This post is for them. :-) From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault As Antonio Salieri would say... too many notes! snip (because of certifiable short memory and reading ability)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault
Too sad for words. Now we know what an enlightened person -- someone who claims to have achieved the peak in life -- does with his time. He looks up a number of old posts from someone he doesn't like, carefully snips passages from them and concatenates them together to give the impression that they were all written at once in a big wall of words, and posts them in an attempt to further demonize the person he doesn't like. What were the terms a couple of this dweeb's followers posted recently on FFL, claiming that they deplored such tactics? Misrepresentation? Straw man arguments? This appears to be the counterpart of what Mr. Enlightened was doing shortly before he ran away from FFL with his tail between his legs. Back then he spent hours scouring the Internet for photographs of the same person he didn't like, cropped and modified them in Photoshop to make them look more embarrassing than they really were, and then posted them to FFL. Here he's doing the same thing, only with words. For the record -- and for the benefit of his followers on The_Leak, who we all know will be reading this on FFL -- this is a person who claims to be enlightened, demonstrating how he believes an enlightened person should act. Even if you ignore the total lack of ethics involved in this little exercise in lashing out, you have to wonder how someone supposedly enlightened and representing the peak of human achievement has that much hatred in his heart and time on his hands... :-) From: reverse_arch...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault Will someone please tell Barry that he is welcome to submit his application to me, for membership over at The Peak, at any time. But I do have a small requirement for him first, not reflected in his writing below: mental stability. Thanks. What's always boggled my mind is how many of the people whohave *BEEN* kept in line by TM teachers and Governors of theAge of Enlightenment (I mean...just *think* about that term, and thatpeople are *so* brainwashed that they take it for granted and never questionit) react. Rather than resenting having been told what they can and cannot doand what they can and cannot think for years by these dweebs, *they aspire tobe just like them*. Thus you find people like Jim Flanegin, who never had whatit took to become a TM teacher, wanting to become just like them and impose hiswill on others and force them to live the way *he* wants them to. In a veryreal sense, this strikes me as the same kind of inherited behaviorwe see in victims of child abuse. Instead of growing up to hate such abuse,they tend to grow up to become abusers themselves. I find the very existence ofThe_Leak quite fascinating. It started because one person on FFL(Jim Flanegin) had a grudge against another person on FFL (moi) because hewouldn't buy into his (ludicrous) claims of being enlightened. Mr.Enlightened got angrier and angrier and angrier until one day I used athrowaway phrase to make a point, and Jimbo went fuckin' crazy over it andstarted slinging libel accusing me of being a pedophile, and encouraging peopleto sic the authorities on me in the real world. He *also* did the same thingthat Doug/Buck is *still* doing, and started appealing to Rick Archer to haveme thrown off of FFL, and created whole threads with this in theSubject line, thus smearing my name in search engines. Rick of course ignoredhim like the idiotic control freak he was acting like. Me, because what he wasdoing was ILLEGAL and the very definition of libel, I sicced the Dutch cops onhis ass. Mr. Enlightened reacted by not only NOT apologizing forthe libel, but by running away and forming his own group, where he has nowdeveloped a history of banning anyone who dares to say something he doesn'tlike. It's not just the COWARDICE of all of this that gets me, but theabused trying to become the abuser phenomenon that makes me roll myeyes. After all these years of being indoctrinated by the TM movement, it'sunderstandable that someone with as weak an intellect as Jimbo's can no longereven *conceive* of thinking any way other than he's been told to think. What isless understandable is that he wants to be able to do to other people what wasdone to him. I guess he finally managed it, by creating a forum on which *HE*has the final word on what anyone can say and what they can't. I hope he'sfinally happy. That would be a first, in the entire time I've knownhim on the Internet. I honestly hope that Jimbo and his followers have a grandtime over on The_Leak. He gets to finally be the control freak he's alwayswanted to be, and his followers get to feel superior to thosethey've left behind. But the bottom line is that they simply couldn't handledealing with a forum on which people
[FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
Barry, Has it ever occurred to you, how obsessed you are with NPD? Do you think that says something? I'd say it's one of the great loves of your life, along with Judy Stein. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Here's an interesting apology letter from one of the most embarrassing examples of Neo-Advaita teaching ever, Andrew Cohen. If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I advise skimming the mea culpa letter (which I regard as total bullshit and being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of Robin Carlsen's similar mea culpa postings), and instead reading through many of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was told to give way to him or their relationship would end and forbidden to express an opinion on anything. She says that she knew if I seriously objected to anything, I'd be kicked out and stated that her son, formerly the sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into an unrecognizable tyrant. All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim to be enlightened. It also points out the problems with this whole faux lineage of Neo-Advaitans: One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching ministry is that he either told, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals to believe they were fully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many, powerful experiences of awakening. These enlightened teachers then proceeded to enlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born what is known as the neo-Advaita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Advaita, or satsang movement in western culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_%28spiritual_teacher%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaplan200916-17-39 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_%28spiritual_teacher%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaplan200916-17-39 An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical Dear Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of our shared Utopian experiment collapsed so violently and so completely. It’s also been almost that long that I have dropped out of sight. View on www.andrewcohen.org http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault
merundanda, there aren't enough letters in BD for me to figure out what that
is!Perhaps purloined by Amadeus and trans muted into notes?
From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is
Maharishi's fault
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
snip
(because of certifiable short memory and time)
And BTW, it was Jeffery Jones character Emperoro Joseph II, whosays too many
notes in the film Amadeus not Salieri. The story a variation of Alexander
Pushkin's play Mozart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери, 1830) and other.
Amadeus - There are simply too many notes.
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|||| Amadeus - There are simply too many notes. Just
cut a few and it'll be perfect. Which few did you have in mind? A scene from
my favorite movie of all time.||
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Just cut a few and it'll be perfect.
Which few You have in mind..
Anotherdamn film I need to find a BD of as my DVD was letterboxedinstead of
anamorphic.
On 05/14/2015 07:21 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Yeah but look who he was saying itabout. :-)
But I understand...some peoplehave short attention spans, and can't read
morethan 30 words. This post is for them. :-)
From:Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...
[FairfieldLife]FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.comFairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent:Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:14 PM
Subject:Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria wesee on FFL is
Maharishi's fault
AsAntonio Salieri would say... toomany notes!
snip (because of certifiable short memory and reading ability)
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[FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
The apology? I did not see the part where he asks his friends to offer a rooster for him as he takes this bitter swill. Did I miss that part in Cohen's apology? “..he said (and they were his last words), Crito, we owe a cock to Æsculapius; pay it, therefore; and do not neglect it. Evidently these are not Cohen's last words. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Barry, Has it ever occurred to you, how obsessed you are with NPD? Do you think that says something? I'd say it's one of the great loves of your life, along with Judy Stein. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Here's an interesting apology letter from one of the most embarrassing examples of Neo-Advaita teaching ever, Andrew Cohen. If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I advise skimming the mea culpa letter (which I regard as total bullshit and being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of Robin Carlsen's similar mea culpa postings), and instead reading through many of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was told to give way to him or their relationship would end and forbidden to express an opinion on anything. She says that she knew if I seriously objected to anything, I'd be kicked out and stated that her son, formerly the sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into an unrecognizable tyrant. All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim to be enlightened. It also points out the problems with this whole faux lineage of Neo-Advaitans: One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching ministry is that he either told, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals to believe they were fully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many, powerful experiences of awakening. These enlightened teachers then proceeded to enlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born what is known as the neo-Advaita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Advaita, or satsang movement in western culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_%28spiritual_teacher%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaplan200916-17-39 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_%28spiritual_teacher%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaplan200916-17-39 An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical Dear Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of our shared Utopian experiment collapsed so violently and so completely. It’s also been almost that long that I have dropped out of sight. View on www.andrewcohen.org http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
Just as a followup, I loved the comment from 'Joel P,' who just nailed it:
...the overall message that this post conveys can more or less be summed up as
follows: 'I was so amazing, inspired, and committed to a project that was so
unbelievable and historically significant that I didn't pay enough attention to
how hard it was for all of you to follow me. . . and I'm so sorry for that. Did
I mention how amazing I am?'
That's really it. That's the vibe I always got from Robin Carlsen. Pure,
classic, textbook Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 11:52 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
Here's an interesting apology letter from one of the most embarrassing
examples of Neo-Advaita teaching ever, Andrew Cohen.
If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I
advise skimming the mea culpa letter (which I regard as total bullshit and
being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of
Robin Carlsen's similar mea culpa postings), and instead reading through many
of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up
comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was
told to give way to him or their relationship would end and forbidden to
express an opinion on anything. She says that she knew if I seriously
objected to anything, I'd be kicked out and stated that her son, formerly the
sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into an unrecognizable tyrant.
All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can
go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim
to be enlightened. It also points out the problems with this whole faux
lineage of Neo-Advaitans: One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching
ministry is that he either told, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals
to believe they were fully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many,
powerful experiences of awakening. These enlightened teachers then proceeded
to enlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born what is
known as the neo-Advaita, or satsang movement in western culture.
An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.
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| An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.Dear
Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of our shared Utopian
experiment collapsed so violently and so completely. It’s also been almost that
long that I have dropped out of sight. |
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault
Barry, you are fuckin' crazy? Admit it, you live for this stuff. Any sane person would simply ignore posters they don't like. But, you? You become fully engaged. Seriously, my friend, try to find something of interest besides Jim Flanegin and The_Peak. No matter what anyone tells you, you do have options. Remember Judy? Well, she doesn't post here because she realized the reality of diminishing returns. You, on the other hand, have no such understanding. Good luck. Oh, sorry about Paris. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Too sad for words. Now we know what an enlightened person -- someone who claims to have achieved the peak in life -- does with his time. He looks up a number of old posts from someone he doesn't like, carefully snips passages from them and concatenates them together to give the impression that they were all written at once in a big wall of words, and posts them in an attempt to further demonize the person he doesn't like. What were the terms a couple of this dweeb's followers posted recently on FFL, claiming that they deplored such tactics? Misrepresentation? Straw man arguments? This appears to be the counterpart of what Mr. Enlightened was doing shortly before he ran away from FFL with his tail between his legs. Back then he spent hours scouring the Internet for photographs of the same person he didn't like, cropped and modified them in Photoshop to make them look more embarrassing than they really were, and then posted them to FFL. Here he's doing the same thing, only with words. For the record -- and for the benefit of his followers on The_Leak, who we all know will be reading this on FFL -- this is a person who claims to be enlightened, demonstrating how he believes an enlightened person should act. Even if you ignore the total lack of ethics involved in this little exercise in lashing out, you have to wonder how someone supposedly enlightened and representing the peak of human achievement has that much hatred in his heart and time on his hands... :-) From: reverse_archery@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault Will someone please tell Barry that he is welcome to submit his application to me, for membership over at The Peak, at any time. But I do have a small requirement for him first, not reflected in his writing below: mental stability. Thanks. What's always boggled my mind is how many of the people who have *BEEN* kept in line by TM teachers and Governors of the Age of Enlightenment (I mean...just *think* about that term, and that people are *so* brainwashed that they take it for granted and never question it) react. Rather than resenting having been told what they can and cannot do and what they can and cannot think for years by these dweebs, *they aspire to be just like them*. Thus you find people like Jim Flanegin, who never had what it took to become a TM teacher, wanting to become just like them and impose his will on others and force them to live the way *he* wants them to. In a very real sense, this strikes me as the same kind of inherited behavior we see in victims of child abuse. Instead of growing up to hate such abuse, they tend to grow up to become abusers themselves. I find the very existence of The_Leak quite fascinating. It started because one person on FFL (Jim Flanegin) had a grudge against another person on FFL (moi) because he wouldn't buy into his (ludicrous) claims of being enlightened. Mr. Enlightened got angrier and angrier and angrier until one day I used a throwaway phrase to make a point, and Jimbo went fuckin' crazy over it and started slinging libel accusing me of being a pedophile, and encouraging people to sic the authorities on me in the real world. He *also* did the same thing that Doug/Buck is *still* doing, and started appealing to Rick Archer to have me thrown off of FFL, and created whole threads with this in the Subject line, thus smearing my name in search engines. Rick of course ignored him like the idiotic control freak he was acting like. Me, because what he was doing was ILLEGAL and the very definition of libel, I sicced the Dutch cops on his ass. Mr. Enlightened reacted by not only NOT apologizing for the libel, but by running away and forming his own group, where he has now developed a history of banning anyone who dares to say something he doesn't like. It's not just the COWARDICE of all of this that gets me, but the abused trying to become the abuser phenomenon that makes me roll my eyes. After all these years of being indoctrinated by the TM movement, it's understandable that someone with as weak an intellect as Jimbo's can no longer even *conceive* of thinking any way other
[FairfieldLife] For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
Here's an interesting apology letter from one of the most embarrassing examples of Neo-Advaita teaching ever, Andrew Cohen. If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I advise skimming the mea culpa letter (which I regard as total bullshit and being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of Robin Carlsen's similar mea culpa postings), and instead reading through many of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was told to give way to him or their relationship would end and forbidden to express an opinion on anything. She says that she knew if I seriously objected to anything, I'd be kicked out and stated that her son, formerly the sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into an unrecognizable tyrant. All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim to be enlightened. It also points out the problems with this whole faux lineage of Neo-Advaitans: One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching ministry is that he either told, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals to believe they were fully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many, powerful experiences of awakening. These enlightened teachers then proceeded to enlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born what is known as the neo-Advaita, or satsang movement in western culture. An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. | | | | | | | | | An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.Dear Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of our shared Utopian experiment collapsed so violently and so completely. It’s also been almost that long that I have dropped out of sight. | | | | View on www.andrewcohen.org | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault
Hey Steve, this is getting complicated...Will you please pass on to Barry that he is making it ever more difficult for his application to me, for membership at The Peak, to be approved? His latest outburst, hysterically accusing me of carefully snipping and concatenating his words was very worrisome, as the entire vomitus came from just two screeds he had written earlier. Someone sure doesn't like to be reminded of his less than rational responses these days...He also tries to excuse the picture I posted about a year ago, not photoshopped, of our very portly ex-pat. I remember one of the last things Barry wrote when I would still respond to him, was, Jim Flanegin is not fucking enlightened!!! Only it was BOLD and ALL CAPS. Really made his point - lol. As my wife says, You can't argue with crazy. Good advice for us all. Good morning. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Barry, you are fuckin' crazy? Admit it, you live for this stuff. Any sane person would simply ignore posters they don't like. But, you? You become fully engaged. Seriously, my friend, try to find something of interest besides Jim Flanegin and The_Peak. No matter what anyone tells you, you do have options. Remember Judy? Well, she doesn't post here because she realized the reality of diminishing returns. You, on the other hand, have no such understanding. Good luck. Oh, sorry about Paris. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Too sad for words. Now we know what an enlightened person -- someone who claims to have achieved the peak in life -- does with his time. He looks up a number of old posts from someone he doesn't like, carefully snips passages from them and concatenates them together to give the impression that they were all written at once in a big wall of words, and posts them in an attempt to further demonize the person he doesn't like. What were the terms a couple of this dweeb's followers posted recently on FFL, claiming that they deplored such tactics? Misrepresentation? Straw man arguments? This appears to be the counterpart of what Mr. Enlightened was doing shortly before he ran away from FFL with his tail between his legs. Back then he spent hours scouring the Internet for photographs of the same person he didn't like, cropped and modified them in Photoshop to make them look more embarrassing than they really were, and then posted them to FFL. Here he's doing the same thing, only with words. For the record -- and for the benefit of his followers on The_Leak, who we all know will be reading this on FFL -- this is a person who claims to be enlightened, demonstrating how he believes an enlightened person should act. Even if you ignore the total lack of ethics involved in this little exercise in lashing out, you have to wonder how someone supposedly enlightened and representing the peak of human achievement has that much hatred in his heart and time on his hands... :-) From: reverse_archery@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault Will someone please tell Barry that he is welcome to submit his application to me, for membership over at The Peak, at any time. But I do have a small requirement for him first, not reflected in his writing below: mental stability. Thanks. What's always boggled my mind is how many of the people who have *BEEN* kept in line by TM teachers and Governors of the Age of Enlightenment (I mean...just *think* about that term, and that people are *so* brainwashed that they take it for granted and never question it) react. Rather than resenting having been told what they can and cannot do and what they can and cannot think for years by these dweebs, *they aspire to be just like them*. Thus you find people like Jim Flanegin, who never had what it took to become a TM teacher, wanting to become just like them and impose his will on others and force them to live the way *he* wants them to. In a very real sense, this strikes me as the same kind of inherited behavior we see in victims of child abuse. Instead of growing up to hate such abuse, they tend to grow up to become abusers themselves. I find the very existence of The_Leak quite fascinating. It started because one person on FFL (Jim Flanegin) had a grudge against another person on FFL (moi) because he wouldn't buy into his (ludicrous) claims of being enlightened. Mr. Enlightened got angrier and angrier and angrier until one day I used a throwaway phrase to make a point, and Jimbo went fuckin' crazy over it and started slinging libel accusing me of being a pedophile, and encouraging people to sic the authorities on me in the real world. He *also* did the same thing that Doug/Buck
[FairfieldLife] Another cool, shiny, spiritual moment...
...happened for me the other night, sitting around the polyamory dinner table. It was just the normal family at the table -- Maya, Mommy, Daddy, Mama, and Uncle Barry. And it was just a normal family dinner until Maya asked what jealousy was. The word and the subject had come up in school, and she was wondering what the term meant, and why people get jealous. We spent over five minutes trying to explain it to her, but in the end we could tell that she didn't get it. She'd never seen it before, at least at home, so she was having difficulty with the whole concept. Good for her.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Former Japan Prime Minister ...
BANZAI!
From: email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To:
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:15 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Former Japan Prime Minister ...
Former Japan Prime Minister to Address Record Number of Grads at 2015 Maharishi
University Commencement
Read more:
http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/15/05/p5513908/former-japan-prime-minister-to-address-record-number-of-grads-at-2015-m#ixzz3aDjAZX5c
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Former Japan Prime Minister ...
This TM'er had a short tenure as prime minister because someone was monkeying
around with the money:
Hatoyama, the grandson of a prime minister who earned a Ph.D in engineering at
Stanford University, was sometimes viewed as aloof and eccentric by the
Japanese public, earning him the nickname alien.
Such perceptions increased after investigators found that Hatoyama had received
15 million yen ($170,000) a month from his mother to support his political
activities – although he said had no knowledge of the contributions until the
prosecutors' investigation.
Momma is giving him $170,000 a month and he didn't know it???
If they've got that much money, no wonder Bevan wants to rub elbows with him.
From: email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To:
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 11:15 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Former Japan Prime Minister ...
Former Japan Prime Minister to Address Record Number of Grads at 2015 Maharishi
University Commencement
Read more:
http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/15/05/p5513908/former-japan-prime-minister-to-address-record-number-of-grads-at-2015-m#ixzz3aDjAZX5c
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[FairfieldLife] OMG, driving is already difficult enough in Kalifornia!
But now Google self driving cars are going to hit the road this summer. Bet you are glad they aren't Microsoft self-driving cars as you would hate being hit by the blue screen of death. Well, let me tell you this, having developed apps for Android I wouldn't trust the Google cars to be bug free either. http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/googles-quirky-self-driving-bubble-car-hits-public-roads-this-summer/
Re: [FairfieldLife] OMG, driving is already difficult enough in Kalifornia!
What's the one word you don't want to hear from a software-driven car?
Oops.
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 6:02 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] OMG, driving is already difficult enough in
Kalifornia!
But now Google self driving cars are going to hit the road this summer.
Bet you are glad they aren't Microsoft self-driving cars as you would
hate being hit by the blue screen of death. Well, let me tell you
this, having developed apps for Android I wouldn't trust the Google cars
to be bug free either.
Google’s quirky self-driving bubble car hits public roads this summer
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| Google’s quirky self-driving bubble car hits public road...Cars will be
manned throughout and capped to a gentle 25mph. |
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| View on arstechnica.com | Preview by Yahoo |
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Re: [FairfieldLife] A Philip K Dick Speech
Glad you liked the film. :-D On 05/14/2015 08:21 PM, Duveyoung wrote: The film, Extraterrestrial, was a major pain in the ass. You want to experience that film? Here;Prepare yourself to be sorry you're watching but are already too invested to quit the film -- but get this -- sorry because the film is so dang good at manipulating your mind using now well known moviedom tactics and it becomes tiresome to have to keep coming upright and getting pissed at the attempts, nd, then the film grabs you again and you forgive the psychiatric rape until, YES AGAIN, they sit you up straight with the abusive fucking hacking at your mind's underpinings, and, BAM, they suddenly switch gears on ya and you're in a whole new milieu and this cheap trick makes you stay in the film even longer without fastforwarding because you can't believe these characters are now going to have to adjust to a WHOLEFUCKINGNEW paradign again and again so you just have to watch 20 more seconds and THAT'S ENOUGH time in which the present peril is heightened and then a few seconds of the next cut elsewhere in the script where another ongoing peril is being forwarded yet more while GET THIS the script is well written, and the acting's topnotch, and the direction's okay, and the editing is like PERFECT for triggering you again and again without resolve as it drags you relentlessly without your permission through some of the most overwrought scenes in which at least a dozen actors get to chew the scenery to shreds in massive bad emoting and it becomes obvious how they got a decent actor to take the lousy parts strewn throughout this film like shrapnel. Aand then the film lasts another 85 minutes with the ending being the most elongated TRUE LOVE scene in any slasher/alien/horror/scifi/everyone fucking dies film. It would win a daytime Emmy for sure. Took about a thousand hours of hyper-time.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault
YouTube is such a great resource. Good thing that some studios aren't so uptight as the purge all these little gems from it. One of the things I regret from my college days was falling asleep in my afternoon music history lectures. The professor was really damn good and I didn't want to miss a minute but the old parasympathetic system wanted to take over. One of the popular books with music students of the day was a collection of Mozart's letters which were quite pithy and risqué. The modern day version of too many notes for many a musician is having someone trundle up to the stage and saying you play too many dischords! To which many musicians would respond which chord? Dis chord or dat chord. But that was many years ago and the public has long since become accustom to chords which would have triggered that response by pop music using more of them. On 05/15/2015 12:12 AM, merudanda wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : snip (because of certifiable short memory and time) And BTW, it was Jeffery Jones character Emperoro Joseph II, who says too many notes in the film Amadeus not Salieri. The story a variation of Alexander Pushkin's play Mozart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери, 1830) and other. Amadeus - There are simply too many notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU Amadeus - There are simply too many notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. Which few did you have in mind? A scene from my favorite movie of all time. View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU Preview by Yahoo Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. Which few You have in mind.. Another damn film I need to find a BD of as my DVD was letterboxed instead of anamorphic. On 05/14/2015 07:21 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: */Yeah but look who he was saying it about. :-) /* */But I understand...some people have short attention spans, and can't read more than 30 words. This post is for them. :-) /* *From:* Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:14 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault As Antonio Salieri would say... too many notes! /*snip */(because of certifiable short memory and reading ability)*/ /*
[FairfieldLife] Three Narcissists Walk Into a Bar
Now there are three more narcissists in the bar. or add your own punch line.
[FairfieldLife] Former Japan Prime Minister ...
Former Japan Prime Minister to Address Record Number of Grads at 2015 Maharishi University Commencement Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/15/05/p5513908/former-japan-prime-minister-to-address-record-number-of-grads-at-2015-m#ixzz3aDjAZX5c
Re: [FairfieldLife] Three Narcissists Walk Into a Bar
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Now there are three more narcissists in the bar. or add your own punch line. My punchline would have to be: No one noticed. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Another cool, shiny, spiritual moment...
Re Maya asked what jealousy was . . .: That's a nice story. And good for her. But bear in mind that envy occurs when we lack something someone else has. (Kids can feel that.) Jealousy occurs when something we possess (a special relationship usually) is threatened by a third person. A child in a secure family is unlikely to have that emotion unless they feel insecure about a sibling. Jealousy will kick in when adolescence does! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ...happened for me the other night, sitting around the polyamory dinner table. It was just the normal family at the table -- Maya, Mommy, Daddy, Mama, and Uncle Barry. And it was just a normal family dinner until Maya asked what jealousy was. The word and the subject had come up in school, and she was wondering what the term meant, and why people get jealous. We spent over five minutes trying to explain it to her, but in the end we could tell that she didn't get it. She'd never seen it before, at least at home, so she was having difficulty with the whole concept. Good for her.
Re: [FairfieldLife] That ashram - more Fab Four than MMY
I stayed there about a week or so in '73. I never saw any Bee-hive huts. They
must have ben built later but there were under ground *caves* for meditation.
Started to go in but there were too many Fruit bats hanging from the ceiling.
Creeped me out.
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] That ashram - more Fab Four than MMY
BBC article on the current state of the Rishikesh ashram and its attraction
for Beatles' fans. Nice pics . . .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32509156
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[FairfieldLife] Lucille is a widow
B.B. King R.I.P: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-legacy-of-lucille-the-surprising-story-behind-b-b-kings-guitar-20150515
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death
If that's so, it appears that the best punishment would be life imprisonment with no parole. But his father is appealing. So, the story has not ended for this one. And, the lawyers can keep this case going to fill their bank accounts. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Nah, those dummies will think they'll get their 72 virgins faster that way. They're in it for suicide by jihad. On 05/15/2015 01:05 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The jurors had to make this difficult decision to send a stern message to potential jihadists in the future. But it's likely Tsarnaev would stay in death row for a very long time. Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokha... More than two years after the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penalty. View on news.yahoo.com Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sat 16-May-15 00:15:08 UTC
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 05/09/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 05/16/15 00:00:00 276 messages as of (UTC) 05/15/15 23:52:39 64 richard 34 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 30 dhamiltony2k5 27 Michael Jackson mjackson74 17 steve.sundur 17 Bhairitu noozguru 13 salyavin808 12 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569 10 s3raphita 10 aryavazhi 9 yifuxero 7 jr_esq 5 anartaxius 4 reverse_archery 3 merudanda 3 email4you mikemail4you 3 Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius 2 srijau 1 spearson 1 hepa7 1 Share Long sharelong60 1 FairfieldLife 1 Duveyoung 1 Diane arlingtonlife Posters: 24 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death
Yeah, these appeals could go on for twenty years. Now if he were here in
Texaswell we could probably nock off a few years.
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Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death
If that's so, it appears that the best punishment would be life
imprisonment with no parole. But his father is appealing. So, the story has
not ended for this one.
And, the lawyers can keep this case going to fill their bank accounts.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
Nah, those dummies will think they'llget their 72 virgins faster that way.
They're in it for suicideby jihad.
On 05/15/2015 01:05 PM, jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The jurors had to make this difficult decision tosend a stern message to
potential jihadists in thefuture. But it's likely Tsarnaev would stay in
deathrow for a very long time.
Jurysentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev todeath
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[FairfieldLife] That ashram - more Fab Four than MMY
BBC article on the current state of the Rishikesh ashram and its attraction for Beatles' fans. Nice pics . . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32509156 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32509156
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone know?
Hi, I know this is an old topic but I was wondering if you might have a photo of Alex Grace that I could use for a slideshow I'm creating for our 10 year high school anniversary. I'm looking for an older photo of him. I believe he was 13 years old. I can provide my email if you happen to have a photo. Thanks.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:
Yes, the idea that nicotine is *the* gateway drug has been suggested before. If you think about it, anyone who takes up smoking (like me) is saying that they need a chemical input to help them cope with life - or to make life more enjoyable. As cigarettes are legal it seems inevitable that a drug addict would have previously sampled nicotine. (As tobacco is so addictive, I've wondered if many people who think they are dependent on marijuana aren't actually hooked on the tobacco leaf without being aware of it!) There's also evidence (as your link suggests) that use of nicotine initiates physiological changes in the brain that make users more responsive to other drugs. I'm always a bit dubious about those claims . . . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Really interesting research setting the record straight on gateways.. http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400658693/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-phrase-gateway- http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400658693/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-phrase-gateway-drugSetting The Record Straight On The Phrase 'Gateway Drug' http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400658693/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-phrase-gateway-drug Setting The Record Straight On The Phrase 'Gateway Drug' http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400658693/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-phrase-gateway-drug Denise Kandel coined the term, often associated with marijuana, in a research paper 40 years ago. But her work suggested nicotine, not pot, was most likely to lead to the use of harder drugs. View on www.npr.org http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400658693/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-phrase-gateway-drug Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Accidental Genius
This lady had an accident which traumatized her brain. She forgets her past and becomes a genius. Can this happen to enlightenment as well? Colorado Rancher Become Accidental Genius After Brain Injury http://news.yahoo.com/video/colorado-rancher-become-accidental-genius-061802145.html http://news.yahoo.com/video/colorado-rancher-become-accidental-genius-061802145.html Colorado Rancher Become Accidental Genius After Bra... http://news.yahoo.com/video/colorado-rancher-become-accidental-genius-061802145.html Watch the video Colorado Rancher Become Accidental Genius After Brain Injury on Yahoo News . Leigh Erceg says she can now view the world through m... View on news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/video/colorado-rancher-become-accidental-genius-061802145.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Freedom Summit
While Clinton has already had more than 40 staffers in the ground since April in the state, which holds the first nominating contest in the Democratic primary, O’Malley has locked down one of Iowa’s top Democratic operatives. Presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley makes crucial Iowa hire http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/martin-omalley-hires-top-operative-iowa http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/martin-omalley-hires-top-operative-iowa Presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley makes crucial I... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/martin-omalley-hires-top-operative-iowa Securing Joe O’Hern, a veteran field operative in the early-voting state, is a sign that the former Maryland governor is serious about taking on Hillary Clinton View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/15/martin-omalley-hires-top-operative-iowa Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : RENO, Nev. — Jeb Bush came face-to-face here Wednesday with the perils of carrying a politically divisive family name, skirmishing with voters over the Iraq war and continuing to struggle with how to differentiate himself from his brother... On Iraq question, Jeb Bush stumbles and the GOP hopefuls pounce http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-iraq-question-jeb-bush-stumbles-and-his-gop-rivals-pounce/2015/05/13/05dccac4-f97c-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-iraq-question-jeb-bush-stumbles-and-his-gop-rivals-pounce/2015/05/13/05dccac4-f97c-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html On Iraq question, Jeb Bush stumbles and the GOP hop... http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-iraq-question-jeb-bush-stumbles-and-his-gop-rivals-pounce/2015/05/13/05dccac4-f97c-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html The former Florida governor still struggles with how to handle — and differentiate himself from — his brother’s legacy. View on www.washingtonpos... http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-iraq-question-jeb-bush-stumbles-and-his-gop-rivals-pounce/2015/05/13/05dccac4-f97c-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : Foriegn policy will probably be the big issue in the next U.S. presidential election. We will examine all aspects in the coming debates and they better have a good plan to protect America, considering that the enemies of the open society are are already at the gates and working from the inside. Laying out a hawkish foreign policy vision repudiating the Obama era, Sen. Marco Rubio declared in Manhattan today that America’s physical and ideological strength had “deteriorated” since Mr. Obama took office in 2009... Marco Rubio Says America's Physical Strength Has 'Deteriorated' Under Obama http://observer.com/2015/05/marco-rubio-says-americas-physical-strength-has-deteriorated-under-obama/ http://observer.com/2015/05/marco-rubio-says-americas-physical-strength-has-deteriorated-under-obama/ Marco Rubio Says America's Physical Strength Has ... http://observer.com/2015/05/marco-rubio-says-americas-physical-strength-has-deteriorated-under-obama/ Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida laid out his foreign policy vision in Manhattan today. View on observer.com http://observer.com/2015/05/marco-rubio-says-americas-physical-strength-has-deteriorated-under-obama/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : OMG! The likely Republican presidential candidate will instead attend a competing event, the RedState Gathering in Atlanta, the day of the Iowa event, GOP sources in Iowa told The Des Moines Register... Jeb Bush to skip Iowa Straw Poll http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-skip-iowa-straw-poll/27187589/ http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-skip-iowa-straw-poll/27187589/ Jeb Bush to skip Iowa Straw Poll http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-skip-iowa-straw-poll/27187589/ Jeb Bush will instead attend a competing GOP event in Atlanta. View on www.desmoinesregis... http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-skip-iowa-straw-poll/27187589/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : “I really think this is going to be a national security election, really for the first time since 2004,” said Sam Clovis, a college professor and influential political activist in Iowa. Perry sets focus on military, foreign policy http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Perry-sets-focus-on-military-foreign-policy-6254791.php http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Perry-sets-focus-on-military-foreign-policy-6254791.php Perry sets focus on military, foreign
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault
Message to Barry from Jim: You can apply for membership at The_Peak if you want to. End of message. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Too sad for words. Now we know what an enlightened person -- someone who claims to have achieved the peak in life -- does with his time. He looks up a number of old posts from someone he doesn't like, carefully snips passages from them and concatenates them together to give the impression that they were all written at once in a big wall of words, and posts them in an attempt to further demonize the person he doesn't like. What were the terms a couple of this dweeb's followers posted recently on FFL, claiming that they deplored such tactics? Misrepresentation? Straw man arguments? This appears to be the counterpart of what Mr. Enlightened was doing shortly before he ran away from FFL with his tail between his legs. Back then he spent hours scouring the Internet for photographs of the same person he didn't like, cropped and modified them in Photoshop to make them look more embarrassing than they really were, and then posted them to FFL. Here he's doing the same thing, only with words. For the record -- and for the benefit of his followers on The_Leak, who we all know will be reading this on FFL -- this is a person who claims to be enlightened, demonstrating how he believes an enlightened person should act. Even if you ignore the total lack of ethics involved in this little exercise in lashing out, you have to wonder how someone supposedly enlightened and representing the peak of human achievement has that much hatred in his heart and time on his hands... :-) From: reverse_archery@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault Will someone please tell Barry that he is welcome to submit his application to me, for membership over at The Peak, at any time. But I do have a small requirement for him first, not reflected in his writing below: mental stability. Thanks. What's always boggled my mind is how many of the people who have *BEEN* kept in line by TM teachers and Governors of the Age of Enlightenment (I mean...just *think* about that term, and that people are *so* brainwashed that they take it for granted and never question it) react. Rather than resenting having been told what they can and cannot do and what they can and cannot think for years by these dweebs, *they aspire to be just like them*. Thus you find people like Jim Flanegin, who never had what it took to become a TM teacher, wanting to become just like them and impose his will on others and force them to live the way *he* wants them to. In a very real sense, this strikes me as the same kind of inherited behavior we see in victims of child abuse. Instead of growing up to hate such abuse, they tend to grow up to become abusers themselves. I find the very existence of The_Leak quite fascinating. It started because one person on FFL (Jim Flanegin) had a grudge against another person on FFL (moi) because he wouldn't buy into his (ludicrous) claims of being enlightened. Mr. Enlightened got angrier and angrier and angrier until one day I used a throwaway phrase to make a point, and Jimbo went fuckin' crazy over it and started slinging libel accusing me of being a pedophile, and encouraging people to sic the authorities on me in the real world. He *also* did the same thing that Doug/Buck is *still* doing, and started appealing to Rick Archer to have me thrown off of FFL, and created whole threads with this in the Subject line, thus smearing my name in search engines. Rick of course ignored him like the idiotic control freak he was acting like. Me, because what he was doing was ILLEGAL and the very definition of libel, I sicced the Dutch cops on his ass. Mr. Enlightened reacted by not only NOT apologizing for the libel, but by running away and forming his own group, where he has now developed a history of banning anyone who dares to say something he doesn't like. It's not just the COWARDICE of all of this that gets me, but the abused trying to become the abuser phenomenon that makes me roll my eyes. After all these years of being indoctrinated by the TM movement, it's understandable that someone with as weak an intellect as Jimbo's can no longer even *conceive* of thinking any way other than he's been told to think. What is less understandable is that he wants to be able to do to other people what was done to him. I guess he finally managed it, by creating a forum on which *HE* has the final word on what anyone can say and what they can't. I hope he's finally happy. That would be a first, in the entire time I've known him on the Internet. I honestly hope that Jimbo and his followers have a grand time over on The_Leak. He gets to finally be the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Lucille is a widow
Well, that's because the Thrill is gone.
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucille is a widow
B.B. King R.I.P:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-legacy-of-lucille-the-surprising-story-behind-b-b-kings-guitar-20150515
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
I think, what you are saying, is that the spiritual path is full of traps. And, nothing, in my opinion, could be more accurate. You take your eye off the ball for a moment, and you get beaned in the head. Much of this site is devoted to pointing out each other's perceived faults. If someone does this to someone whose point of view we agree with, they are labeled a troll. If someone, whose point of view we agree with, does it do someone, whose point of view we don't agree with, they are seen as trying to help that person get over their short shortsightedness. And if that person takes exception to the analysis, then they are dubbed a cult apologist, or a true believer. This constitutes about 80% of the interactions, I'd say. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Narcissistic tendencies are at the heart of ego. We all have them. We all know how great we are in spite of THEM. What we tend not to know is how our tendencies fit into the world at large. Gurus in particular have a propensity to get caught in a bubble of adoration and those narcissistic tendencies can spiral out of control if they are strong. I sometimes wonder if individuals who are more withdrawn in this way might be better spiritual teachers eventually. One problem is followers seem to like and gravitate to a commanding figure, someone who seems in control of his/her life. A follower tends to be looking for a way out of a definite weakness in this regard, and wants to be told what to do to 'fix' their life. This is an inevitable recipe for disaster. And, it often seems to me, once a follower has acquired some (not a lot) of spiritual memes and some experience, the innate narcissism we have tends to wrap itself around that new spiritualised identity. For now we 'know' we have something all those other unenlightened ass-holes do not have. Except of course that is entirely untrue. In many ways we have become worse than the people we look down upon for failing to see our new found 'truth'. This problem will persist through all stages of 'consciousness' a person experiences, and even persists after a clear awakening and will probably take years following that before it is adequately moderated. From: steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 12:16 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon Barry, Has it ever occurred to you, how obsessed you are with NPD? Do you think that says something? I'd say it's one of the great loves of your life, along with Judy Stein. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Here's an interesting apology letter from one of the most embarrassing examples of Neo-Advaita teaching ever, Andrew Cohen. If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I advise skimming the mea culpa letter (which I regard as total bullshit and being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of Robin Carlsen's similar mea culpa postings), and instead reading through many of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was told to give way to him or their relationship would end and forbidden to express an opinion on anything. She says that she knew if I seriously objected to anything, I'd be kicked out and stated that her son, formerly the sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into an unrecognizable tyrant. All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim to be enlightened. It also points out the problems with this whole faux lineage of Neo-Advaitans: One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching ministry is that he either told, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals to believe they were fully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many, powerful experiences of awakening. These enlightened teachers then proceeded to enlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born what is known as the neo-Advaita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Advaita, or satsang movement in western culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_%28spiritual_teacher%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaplan200916-17-39 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_%28spiritual_teacher%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaplan200916-17-39 An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical. http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/open-letter-all-my-former-students-upon-return-my-sabbatical Dear Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of
Re: [FairfieldLife] That ashram - more Fab Four than MMY
There's a caption on one pic saying: From left to right: Unknown, Lennon, McCartney, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Harrison, Farrow, Unknown, Donovan: The left Unknown is Nancy Cooke de Herrera. Took me a five-second Google to see that. What's up with sub editors these days? Sigh . . . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : I stayed there about a week or so in '73. I never saw any Bee-hive huts. They must have ben built later but there were under ground *caves* for meditation. Started to go in but there were too many Fruit bats hanging from the ceiling. Creeped me out. From: s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 5:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] That ashram - more Fab Four than MMY BBC article on the current state of the Rishikesh ashram and its attraction for Beatles' fans. Nice pics . . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32509156 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32509156
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault
It sounds like like a interesting approach. And I think it defines the positive parts of Barry's interaction, or rather,the interaction we, (or at least, I) used to see. But, there comes a point, (IMO), where you can stray off course, and the combat which was there to produce some enlightenment, or insight just gets perverted, and becomes something else all together. But, maybe you're just a greater warrior than I am. I do like to benchmark myself against different parameters, some considered more normal, and some more esoteric, and also apply those benchmarks to those I interact with, both in the online world and the everyday world. Dharma combat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_combat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_combat Dharma combat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_combat Dharma combat, called issatsu (一拶, いっさつ?, literally challenge[1]) or shosan[2] in Japanese, is a term in some schools of Buddhism referring to an intens... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_combat Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault
We are all crazy. Who in their right mind would spend so many years in pursuit of 'the absolute' whose description (no qualities) is exactly the same as nothing. Admittedly, it has been a lot of fun. At the core of everything, a vast blank to which we attribute all. Because to talk about it we have to concoct attributes, thus spending all our time making up shit about it to convince others it is somehow more real than what they are currently thinking . Or we adopt other people's made up shit and regurgitate it to others, or re-purpose it to others. The reason it is fun is because it engages the intellect and the creative process, to make up stuff about nothing, and make it seem as if it is something. Kind of like being a deity. Steve, I do not think you understand the process that the Zen people call 'dharma combat', which on FFL tends to settle into personal rivalry rather than illumination. The ideas expressed are what is important, not the people. As the Joker said to Batman 'you complete me'. If you are engaged, a process is working to completion. That means a process of expansion is happening. The whole spiritual arc is about completion. Those who are ignored should be considered unworthy of the journey. Think of it in a positive light. From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault Barry, you are fuckin' crazy? Admit it, you live for this stuff. Any sane person would simply ignore posters they don't like. But, you? You become fully engaged. Seriously, my friend, try to find something of interest besides Jim Flanegin and The_Peak. No matter what anyone tells you, you do have options. Remember Judy? Well, she doesn't post here because she realized the reality of diminishing returns. You, on the other hand, have no such understanding. Good luck. Oh, sorry about Paris. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Too sad for words. Now we know what an enlightened person -- someone who claims to have achieved the peak in life -- does with his time. He looks up a number of old posts from someone he doesn't like, carefully snips passages from them and concatenates them together to give the impression that they were all written at once in a big wall of words, and posts them in an attempt to further demonize the person he doesn't like. What were the terms a couple of this dweeb's followers posted recently on FFL, claiming that they deplored such tactics? Misrepresentation? Straw man arguments? This appears to be the counterpart of what Mr. Enlightened was doing shortly before he ran away from FFL with his tail between his legs. Back then he spent hours scouring the Internet for photographs of the same person he didn't like, cropped and modified them in Photoshop to make them look more embarrassing than they really were, and then posted them to FFL. Here he's doing the same thing, only with words. For the record -- and for the benefit of his followers on The_Leak, who we all know will be reading this on FFL -- this is a person who claims to be enlightened, demonstrating how he believes an enlightened person should act. Even if you ignore the total lack of ethics involved in this little exercise in lashing out, you have to wonder how someone supposedly enlightened and representing the peak of human achievement has that much hatred in his heart and time on his hands... :-) From: reverse_archery@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault Will someone please tell Barry that he is welcome to submit his application to me, for membership over at The Peak, at any time. But I do have a small requirement for him first, not reflected in his writing below: mental stability. Thanks. What's always boggled my mind is how many of the people whohave *BEEN* kept in line by TM teachers and Governors of theAge of Enlightenment (I mean...just *think* about that term, and thatpeople are *so* brainwashed that they take it for granted and never questionit) react. Rather than resenting having been told what they can and cannot doand what they can and cannot think for years by these dweebs, *they aspire tobe just like them*. Thus you find people like Jim Flanegin, who never had whatit took to become a TM teacher, wanting to become just like them and impose hiswill on others and force them to live the way *he* wants them to. In a veryreal sense, this strikes me as the same kind of inherited behaviorwe see in victims of child abuse. Instead of growing up to hate such abuse,they tend to grow up to become abusers themselves. I find the very existence ofThe_Leak quite fascinating.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] Narcissistic tendencies are at the heart of ego. We all have them. We all know how great we are in spite of THEM. What we tend not to know is how our tendencies fit into the world at large. Gurus in particular have a propensity to get caught in a bubble of adoration and those narcissistic tendencies can spiral out of control if they are strong. I sometimes wonder if individuals who are more withdrawn in this way might be better spiritual teachers eventually. One problem is followers seem to like and gravitate to a commanding figure, someone who seems in control of his/her life. A follower tends to be looking for a way out of a definite weakness in this regard, and wants to be told what to do to 'fix' their life. This is an inevitable recipe for disaster. And, it often seems to me, once a follower has acquired some (not a lot) of spiritual memes and some experience, the innate narcissism we have tends to wrap itself around that new spiritualised identity. For now we 'know' we have something all those other unenlightened ass-holes do not have. Except of course that is entirely untrue. In many ways we have become worse than the people we look down upon for failing to see our new found 'truth'. This problem will persist through all stages of 'consciousness' a person experiences, and even persists after a clear awakening and will probably take years following that before it is adequately moderated. Thanks for understanding. IMO, understanding the concepts and definitions of narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder are *key* to understanding spiritual practice on this planet. And the worst thing about NPD is that it's catching, infectious in the same way that any other nasty virus is. Spend enough time studying with an NPD teacher, and most people take *decades* to eliminate the NPD traits they've picked up from him, or her. If they *ever* manage to get rid of them. In my opinion, any spiritual seeker who has ever committed to a living spiritual teacher for more than a decade and, reading the DSM-IV definitions of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, claims to *not* see his spiritual teacher in those definitions, is almost certainly still carrying the NPD virus themselves. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita phenomenon
Narcissistic tendencies are at the heart of ego. We all have them. We all know
how great we are in spite of THEM. What we tend not to know is how our
tendencies fit into the world at large. Gurus in particular have a propensity
to get caught in a bubble of adoration and those narcissistic tendencies can
spiral out of control if they are strong. I sometimes wonder if individuals who
are more withdrawn in this way might be better spiritual teachers eventually.
One problem is followers seem to like and gravitate to a commanding figure,
someone who seems in control of his/her life. A follower tends to be looking
for a way out of a definite weakness in this regard, and wants to be told what
to do to 'fix' their life. This is an inevitable recipe for disaster. And, it
often seems to me, once a follower has acquired some (not a lot) of spiritual
memes and some experience, the innate narcissism we have tends to wrap itself
around that new spiritualised identity. For now we 'know' we have something all
those other unenlightened ass-holes do not have. Except of course that is
entirely untrue. In many ways we have become worse than the people we look down
upon for failing to see our new found 'truth'. This problem will persist
through all stages of 'consciousness' a person experiences, and even persists
after a clear awakening and will probably take years following that before it
is adequately moderated.
From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 12:16 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the Neo-Advaita
phenomenon
Barry,
Has it ever occurred to you, how obsessed you are with NPD?
Do you think that says something?
I'd say it's one of the great loves of your life, along with Judy Stein.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
Here's an interesting apology letter from one of the most embarrassing
examples of Neo-Advaita teaching ever, Andrew Cohen.
If you're interesting in this particular branch of spiritual craziness, I
advise skimming the mea culpa letter (which I regard as total bullshit and
being as clearly symptomatic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as many of
Robin Carlsen's similar mea culpa postings), and instead reading through many
of the comments, especially the one from Rick Taylor. You might also look up
comments made by Cohen's *mother*, who became his student at one point, and was
told to give way to him or their relationship would end and forbidden
toexpress an opinion on anything. She says that she knew if I
seriouslyobjected to anything, I'd be kicked out and stated that her
son,formerly the sweetest, sensitive kid, had changed into anunrecognizable
tyrant.
All in all, this is an example of how badly a supposed spiritual teaching can
go wrong, when people are stupid enough to just believe someone when they claim
to be enlightened. It also points out the problems with this whole faux
lineage of Neo-Advaitans: One of the tragedies of Poonjaji's teaching
ministry is that he eithertold, inferred, or allowed hundreds of individuals to
believe they werefully enlightened simply because they'd had one, or many,
powerfulexperiences of awakening. These enlightened teachers then proceeded
toenlighten their own students in a similar way, and thus was born whatis known
as the neo-Advaita, or satsang movement in western culture.
An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.
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| An open letter to all my former students upon return from my sabbatical.Dear
Ones, It has been almost 2 years since the structures of our shared Utopian
experiment collapsed so violently and so completely. It’s also been almost that
long that I have dropped out of sight. |
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[FairfieldLife] New ride is nearly perfect
Here's the latest incarnation of my ride. A whole new upnotching all around. Upgraded T30 Field Trials Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5PAoDoC4o0
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone know?
Hi, I know this is an old topic but I was wondering if you might have a photo of Alex Grace that I could use for a slideshow I'm creating for our 10 year high school anniversary. I'm looking for an older photo of him. I believe he was 13 years old. I can provide my email if you happen to have a photo. Thanks. Soren
[FairfieldLife] The Web Envisioned in the 1930s.
Or maybe he was a time traveler. http://www.wired.com/2015/05/1930s-futurist-foresaw-web-televised-book/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone know?
His father, Nigel Grace, is active on Facebook. You might try contacting him there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, spear...@mum.edu wrote : Hi, I know this is an old topic but I was wondering if you might have a photo of Alex Grace that I could use for a slideshow I'm creating for our 10 year high school anniversary. I'm looking for an older photo of him. I believe he was 13 years old. I can provide my email if you happen to have a photo. Thanks. Soren
[FairfieldLife] Bad News for TMO Celibates
Especially if the story from this movie takes hold. It takes place in a future where everyone must have a mate and if they don't they are subject to zoological conversion turning them into an animal. Sal will probably delight in the science behind this. :-D http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lobster-cannes-review-795869
Re: [FairfieldLife] OMG, driving is already difficult enough in Kalifornia!
or Google Car has closed unexpectedly. Since they are limited to 25 mph they're going to be about as popular as Google Glass and bicyclists around here. Locally one couple was driving a Gem car for awhile that would only do 25 mph. Our streets are usually 35 mph even if two lane so people behind them would be fuming if they couldn't pass. Seems they traded it in for a smart car. I bet they'll be first in line to get a Google Car. On 05/15/2015 09:06 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */What's the one word you don't want to hear from a software-driven car?/* */ /* */Oops. /* *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2015 6:02 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] OMG, driving is already difficult enough in Kalifornia! But now Google self driving cars are going to hit the road this summer. Bet you are glad they aren't Microsoft self-driving cars as you would hate being hit by the blue screen of death. Well, let me tell you this, having developed apps for Android I wouldn't trust the Google cars to be bug free either. Google’s quirky self-driving bubble car hits public roads this summer http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/googles-quirky-self-driving-bubble-car-hits-public-roads-this-summer/ image http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/googles-quirky-self-driving-bubble-car-hits-public-roads-this-summer/ Google’s quirky self-driving bubble car hits public road... http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/googles-quirky-self-driving-bubble-car-hits-public-roads-this-summer/ Cars will be manned throughout and capped to a gentle 25mph. View on arstechnica.com http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/googles-quirky-self-driving-bubble-car-hits-public-roads-this-summer/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death
The jurors had to make this difficult decision to send a stern message to potential jihadists in the future. But it's likely Tsarnaev would stay in death row for a very long time. Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokha... http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html More than two years after the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penalty. View on news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death
Nah, those dummies will think they'll get their 72 virgins faster that way. They're in it for suicide by jihad. On 05/15/2015 01:05 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The jurors had to make this difficult decision to send a stern message to potential jihadists in the future. But it's likely Tsarnaev would stay in death row for a very long time. Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html image http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokha... http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html More than two years after the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penalty. View on news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-verdict-185613591.html Preview by Yahoo
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Bad News for TMO Celibates
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Especially if the story from this movie takes hold. It takes place in a future where everyone must have a mate and if they don't they are subject to zoological conversion turning them into an animal. Sal will probably delight in the science behind this. :-D Sounds utterly bizarre and probably not a true story. But didn't HG Wells do this with The Island of Dr Moreau? But I like my dystopia so http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lobster-cannes-review-795869 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lobster-cannes-review-795869
