Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I never got into these things, being neither a puzzle nor a game person, but the fellow I live with in my extended family did. He can solve a normal Rubik's cube (3x3) in a couple of minutes. What's more interesting is to see him take on bigger cubes (5x5, 7x7). I'd love to know what having this level of abstract thinking would be like. Maybe science can come up with a pill that temporarily makes one capable of doing a Rubik's in your head, but would you ever want to lose it once you've had it? From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/ https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
[FairfieldLife] Monsanto's Losing Battle Against GMO Labeling
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[FairfieldLife] Re: For Buck
This is interesting. I got Quaker meeting https://sites.google.com/site/primitivequakers/ https://sites.google.com/site/primitivequakers/ here right now of old Quaker-meditators starting here in a few minutes but will be back on this topic. Most groups wither or die for lack of substantial spiritual experience enough that is compelling enough to come together for. Is often not enough to just say we want to live 'sustainably' together... It comes the other way around when it works for any length of time. -JaiGeorgeFox!
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Price Of Enlightenment
He had one job to do: get enlightenment in 5-7 years; produce one single enlightened student. We got two decades of talking about TM. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I suspect, Richard, that is one post Barry would have liked to get back. Or maybe he pushed the send button too soon. I mean, here is someone who has written about TM three or four times a day, seven days a week for the last 15-20 years, and he notes a comment that says, TM, People still write about TM?, as though there is nothing to talk about. What gives? No, it's far better for Barry that he is immune from such feedback. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : Maybe they should get out more - everyone is talking about TM and meditation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=meditations_it=header_form_v1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=meditations_it=header_form_v1 Quoting TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: Posted by a friend of a friend on Facebook. It drew several comments, many of them from TMers who interestingly said that they felt it was a fair article. Best comment of the bunch, however, was from someone who said simply, TM? People still write about TM? The Price of Enlightenment | | | | | | | | | | | The Price of Enlightenment(Spoiler: It’s $1,000,000.000) | | | | View on medium.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
[FairfieldLife] Re: Freedom Summit
San Antonio - People with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign have said it’s likely she’ll ask HUD Secretary Julián Castro to be her vice presidential running mate... Cisneros: Hillary Clinton’s only option for VP is Castro http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Cisneros-Hillary-Clinton-s-only-option-for-VP-6268491.php http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Cisneros-Hillary-Clinton-s-only-option-for-VP-6268491.php Cisneros: Hillary Clinton’s only option for VP is Castro http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Cisneros-Hillary-Clinton-s-only-option-for-VP-6268491.php Henry Cisneros told a Spanish-language television network that Julian Castro is Hillary Clinton’s first and only option to run as her vice presidential running mate... View on www.mysanantonio... http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Cisneros-Hillary-Clinton-s-only-option-for-VP-6268491.php Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : Sen. Cruz is authentically bright, sufficiently so for the liberal Alan Dershowitz to declare that he was the best student he had ever had at Harvard’s Law School. He’s so smart that he is not the least impressed by the conservative foreign policy establishment. Ted Cruz, the Only Republican Arrogant Enough to Be President http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ Ted Cruz, the Only Republican Arrogant Enough to Be Pres... http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ Ted Cruz is intellectually arrogant, like Ronald Reagan. The difference is that Reagan masked his arrogance with self-deprecating humor. Sen. Cruz does... View on pjmedia.com http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says a recent trip to Israel reinforces his belief that the United State must aggressively deal with terrorists abroad. Scott Walker calls for aggressive stance against terrorism http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html Scott Walker calls for aggressive stance against t... http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says a recent trip to Israel reinforces his belief that the United State must aggressivel... View on news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : 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
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
You've just described The Maharishi Effect. Now can you spell cognitive dissonance? Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of. One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. We know, if we drop a stone in a pond, the ripples begin to move, and they move over the whole pond, reaching all the extremities. One slight stir in any part of the pond stirs the whole pond, influences the entire field of water, and its surroundings. Similarly, by every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi TM Power: Tapping the untapped source of power that lies within http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y To this day, I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe as hierarchical, rather than relational. According to what I've read, one of the demonstrable powers claimed by TM is the Maharishi effect. According to TM scientists: collective meditation causes changes in a fundamental, unified physical field, and...those changes radiate into society and affect all aspects of society for the better... Anyway, back to that temporarily capable of ... thing you mentioned, Rama thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads. I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was right about this one. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/ https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I never got into these things, being neither a puzzle nor a game person, but the fellow I live with in my extended family did. He can solve a normal Rubik's cube (3x3) in a couple of minutes. What's more interesting is to see him take on bigger cubes (5x5, 7x7). I'd love to know what having this level of abstract thinking would be like. Maybe science can come up with a pill that temporarily makes one capable of doing a Rubik's in your head, but would you ever want to lose it once you've had it? I never really got into gaming, whether that mindset was expressed via chess or solving complex puzzles. But I *did* get into computer science as a model of and facilitator of expanding consciousness. The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of. One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. To this day, I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe as hierarchical, rather than relational. Anyway, back to that temporarily capable of ... thing you mentioned, Rama thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads. I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was right about this one. Hmm, I'd have to know more about his theory to really glom what he's on about. Seems like it could be both relational and heirarchical to me? At least in a physics sense... I used to work with data bases, I really enjoyed it as once you've amassed vast amounts of information you can, if you were systematic enough, mine them for fascinating and hitherto unknown information - things you can't see just from looking at random data. I impressed many a corporate boss with my reports on their media coverage, it looks like you've got super powers if you can see beyond the mundane like that. When I stopped working for the TMO I went back to my old media analysis firm to see if they wanted me back but another division of my company had invented a piece of software to monitor the then new fangled internet for what I used to have to do with newspaper clippings, and they'd all been downsized. Doh! I'm into photography and being able to construct abstract models is essential there too. If you're confronted with a scene and have to adjust something to get results beyond what the auto settings can manage, you've really got to know how what you shift will affect the outcome. Sure, you can take a shot and look at the results on the screen (these days) but to really get what you want you need a working model of a camera in your head and doing this can mean the difference between getting the shot and not getting it. As all cameras are the functionally the same they are also easier to use than Rubik's cubes, to me anyway. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Price Of Enlightenment
If he fibbed to us all those years, who would believe anything he says now? /A mechanism for realizing that which should have been obvious from the start, one's always-already-present nature as enlightenment, and as silence./ - UT Quoting steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: you're on tonight Richard. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : He had one job to do: get enlightenment in 5-7 years; produce one single enlightened student. We got two decades of talking about TM. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I suspect, Richard, that is one post Barry would have liked to get back. Or maybe he pushed the send button too soon. I mean, here is someone who has written about TM three or four times a day, seven days a week for the last 15-20 years, and he notes a comment that says, TM, People still write about TM?, as though there is nothing to talk about. What gives? No, it's far better for Barry that he is immune from such feedback. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : Maybe they should get out more - everyone is talking about TM and meditation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=meditations_it=header_form_v1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=meditations_it=header_form_v1 Quoting TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: Posted by a friend of a friend on Facebook. It drew several comments, many of them from TMers who interestingly said that they felt it was a fair article. Best comment of the bunch, however, was from someone who said simply, TM? People still write about TM? The Price of Enlightenment | | | | | | | | | | | The Price of Enlightenment(Spoiler: It’s $1,000,000.000) | | | | View on medium.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
/By every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation./ -MMY Quoting steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: nice one, Richard ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : You've just described The Maharishi Effect. Now can you spell cognitive dissonance? Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of. One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. We know, if we drop a stone in a pond, the ripples begin to move, and they move over the whole pond, reaching all the extremities. One slight stir in any part of the pond stirs the whole pond, influences the entire field of water, and its surroundings. Similarly, by every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi TM Power: Tapping the untapped source of power that lies within http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y To this day, I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe as hierarchical, rather than relational. According to what I've read, one of the demonstrable powers claimed by TM is the Maharishi effect. According to TM scientists: collective meditation causes changes in a fundamental, unified physical field, and...those changes radiate into society and affect all aspects of society for the better... Anyway, back to that temporarily capable of ... thing you mentioned, Rama thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads. I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was right about this one. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/ https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
and there comes a point when we transition from this life and we come face to face with the thoughts, words and actions of the life we have just left. and at that time, there is no one we have to impress by trying to be hip. we don't have to claim we have no interest in whether there is, or is not, a bardo because we are now there, just as we figured we'd be. and yes, it means to live like a warrior in the Carlos Castendes sense, here and now, so that journey is one of interest and fun, and we're not trying to get our ducks in a row, just a bit too late. that, is my Sunday evening, rap. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : By every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation. -MMY Quoting steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: nice one, Richard ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : You've just described The Maharishi Effect. Now can you spell cognitive dissonance? Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of. One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. We know, if we drop a stone in a pond, the ripples begin to move, and they move over the whole pond, reaching all the extremities. One slight stir in any part of the pond stirs the whole pond, influences the entire field of water, and its surroundings. Similarly, by every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi TM Power: Tapping the untapped source of power that lies within http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y To this day, I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe as hierarchical, rather than relational. According to what I've read, one of the demonstrable powers claimed by TM is the Maharishi effect. According to TM scientists: collective meditation causes changes in a fundamental, unified physical field, and...those changes radiate into society and affect all aspects of society for the better... Anyway, back to that temporarily capable of ... thing you mentioned, Rama thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads. I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was right about this one. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
nice one, Richard ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : You've just described The Maharishi Effect. Now can you spell cognitive dissonance? Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of. One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. We know, if we drop a stone in a pond, the ripples begin to move, and they move over the whole pond, reaching all the extremities. One slight stir in any part of the pond stirs the whole pond, influences the entire field of water, and its surroundings. Similarly, by every thought, word and action, every individual is setting forth influence in his surroundings, and that influence is not restricted to any boundaries. It goes on and on and reaches every level of creation. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi TM Power: Tapping the untapped source of power that lies within http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y http://tinyurl.com/42ggy3y To this day, I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe as hierarchical, rather than relational. According to what I've read, one of the demonstrable powers claimed by TM is the Maharishi effect. According to TM scientists: collective meditation causes changes in a fundamental, unified physical field, and...those changes radiate into society and affect all aspects of society for the better... Anyway, back to that temporarily capable of ... thing you mentioned, Rama thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads. I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was right about this one. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/ https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Price Of Enlightenment
you're on tonight Richard. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : He had one job to do: get enlightenment in 5-7 years; produce one single enlightened student. We got two decades of talking about TM. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I suspect, Richard, that is one post Barry would have liked to get back. Or maybe he pushed the send button too soon. I mean, here is someone who has written about TM three or four times a day, seven days a week for the last 15-20 years, and he notes a comment that says, TM, People still write about TM?, as though there is nothing to talk about. What gives? No, it's far better for Barry that he is immune from such feedback. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : Maybe they should get out more - everyone is talking about TM and meditation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=meditations_it=header_form_v1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=meditations_it=header_form_v1 Quoting TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: Posted by a friend of a friend on Facebook. It drew several comments, many of them from TMers who interestingly said that they felt it was a fair article. Best comment of the bunch, however, was from someone who said simply, TM? People still write about TM? The Price of Enlightenment | | | | | | | | | | | The Price of Enlightenment(Spoiler: It’s $1,000,000.000) | | | | View on medium.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
[FairfieldLife] Re: vibhuuti-s and kaivalya?
1. kaivalya - isolation; perfect isolation, detachment of the soul from matter
or further transmigrations...
2. kaivalya - exclusiveness, absolute oneness, eternal happiness...
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hepa7@... wrote :
Yep, that's true. The substantive kaivalya is a so called vRddhi-derivative,
from the adjective kevala (growth from 'e' to 'ai'):
kevala , f. {I} (later {A}) exclusive, belonging only to (gen. or dat.);
alone, simple, pure, mere; whole, entire, each, all. ---
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote :
The term kaivalya means *iolation* of the purusha (absolute pure
consciousness) from the prakrit (relative motal force) by means of yoga
(meditation).
Quoting hepa7@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com:
Why is practicing / having siddhis (vibhuuti-s) necessary for (to?)
kaivalya.
One can't be genuinely non-attached to something one doesn't have or has
not experienced, can one?
YS III 50 (or 51):
tadvairaagyaadapi doShabIjakShaye kaivalyam
[tat-vairaagyaat api dawsha-beeja-kshaye kaivalyam.]
By non-attachment even to that [all these siddhis], the seed of
bondage is destroyed and thus follows Kaivalya (Independence).
[FairfieldLife] Re: vibhuuti-s and kaivalya?
Yep, that's true. The substantive kaivalya is a so called vRddhi-derivative,
from the adjective kevala (growth from 'e' to 'ai'):
kevala , f. {I} (later {A}) exclusive, belonging only to (gen. or dat.);
alone, simple, pure, mere; whole, entire, each, all. ---
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote :
The term kaivalya means *iolation* of the purusha (absolute pure
consciousness) from the prakrit (relative motal force) by means of yoga
(meditation).
Quoting hepa7@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com:
Why is practicing / having siddhis (vibhuuti-s) necessary for (to?)
kaivalya.
One can't be genuinely non-attached to something one doesn't have or has
not experienced, can one?
YS III 50 (or 51):
tadvairaagyaadapi doShabIjakShaye kaivalyam
[tat-vairaagyaat api dawsha-beeja-kshaye kaivalyam.]
By non-attachment even to that [all these siddhis], the seed of
bondage is destroyed and thus follows Kaivalya (Independence).
Re: [FairfieldLife] Agriculture and the Descent of Woman..
I noticed this article, too, and was fascinated by it, especially the thing you
focused on -- the link between agriculture (and thus staying in one location)
and unequal treatment of women. Hunter-gatherers (moving from place to place
constantly) were more gender-equal.
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:35 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Agriculture and the Descent of Woman..
(And a nice picture of the Flintstones)
Early men and women were equal, say scientists
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Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis,
suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of
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[FairfieldLife] Agriculture and the Descent of Woman..
(And a nice picture of the Flintstones) Early men and women were equal, say scientists http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists Early men and women were equal, say scientists http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
I never got into these things, being neither a puzzle nor a game person, but
the fellow I live with in my extended family did. He can solve a normal Rubik's
cube (3x3) in a couple of minutes. What's more interesting is to see him take
on bigger cubes (5x5, 7x7).
I'd love to know what having this level of abstract thinking would be like.
Maybe science can come up with a pill that temporarily makes one capable of
doing a Rubik's in your head, but would you ever want to lose it once you've
had it?
I never really got into gaming, whether that mindset was expressed via chess or
solving complex puzzles. But I *did* get into computer science as a model of
and facilitator of expanding consciousness. The Rama guy I spent some time with
had some interesting theories, some of which I still lean in the direction of.
One of them was that the universe is relational, not hierarchical. To this day,
I am SO down with this. Pretty much ALL of the problems with spiritual practice
can be traced back to that moment of mistaking the basic nature of the universe
as hierarchical, rather than relational.
Anyway, back to that temporarily capable of ... thing you mentioned, Rama
thought that the study of relational database was quite beneficial to people on
a spiritual path because to become good at it you have to be capable of holding
a huge, three-dimensional representation of a hunk of data -- and more
importantly the relationships *between* the different parts and types of this
hunk of data -- in your head. He likened being able to hold a complex corporate
database in your head to be this century's counterpart of Tibetan monks holding
whole, three-dimensional mandalas in their heads.
I still agree with him about this. He may have been a crazy fuck, but he was
right about this one.
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
Re Set faces to stunned:
I am fully gobsmacked.
The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's
miraculous. Who needs sidhis?
Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either.
And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page
because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also
juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly
talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them
between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they
achieve it.
* I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when
we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at
it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which
made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in
less than a minute.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Hong Sau Meditation technique
Let's not overlook the source of this technique: How and why to do this hamsah sadhana is explained in the Yoga Upanishads - specifically Nadârada-Parivrâjaka-Upanišad, the Dhyânabindu-Upanišad and especially in the Hamsa-Upanišad. Hamsa-Upanishad: Now hamsa is the rishi, the meter is avyaktâ gâyatrî, paramahamsa is the devatâ; ham is the bîja, sa is the šakti and so'ham is the wedge (kîlaka) to which the whole mantra is fastened. Dhyânabindu-Upanishad: The jiva goes out with the letter ha and comes in with the letter sa. Thus the jiva always utters the mantra “hamsa, hamsa. In Sanskrit, the actual sounds are pronounced as hum and suh. Thus hum is sounded when exhaling and suh is sounded when inhaling. Both phonemes fuse into the sound So-Hum which is pronounced together in the famous prana-mantra - Sooo ... Hummm However, Yogananda wrote and taught it as hong sau because he was Bengali and had the usual sound variances of Bengali speakers. Consequently bija turns into vija, uh as in the word 'umpire' becomes ah and the (anusvara) nasalization 'mm turns into ng). Also the KriyaYoga manner of using the sound (hong sah) is to apply it as a device for focusing attention and pacifying mental activity. In the KriyaYoga lineage of Lahiri Mahasaya it is therefore considered as a preparation for meditation - particularly the om meditation and the KriyaYoga chakra pranayama.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lookout Overhead!
I think you mean the FAA but this is only a 3 x 3 quad. Kinda fun and the controls work the same as they do on larger ones that have cameras on them. Very resilient to hitting things as I practice flying it around the house. And it was only $20. On 05/16/2015 05:24 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Should we let the Dept. of Homeland Security know? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I just bought a quadcopter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Price Of Enlightenment
Is more of a recent journalism on the layers of TM meditator sociology; This seems to go along with a recent genre written by or about a younger generation that came of age in Utopia Fairfield, Iowa and TM. For an outsider coming in this journalist does a good job of touching on layers of the sociology from interviews. Often time journalists or scholars coming in as outsiders can suffer a lack of perspective on what they are seeing and hearing from a lack of back-story and nuance. This seems an okay piece-ing together of material. The genre of Growing up in meditating Fairfield, Iowa: Willy Blackmore https://medium.com/the-archipelago/growing-up-in-utopia-8102f58dfcbc https://medium.com/the-archipelago/growing-up-in-utopia-8102f58dfcbc Donna Schill Cleveland http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/ http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/ The Price of Enlightenment https://medium.com/@cici_carmignani/the-price-of-enlightenment-be1bb0f801c0 https://medium.com/@cici_carmignani/the-price-of-enlightenment-be1bb0f801c0 The Price of Enlightenment https://medium.com/@cici_carmignani/the-price-of-enlightenment-be1bb0f801c0 (Spoiler: It’s $1,000,000.000) View on medium.com https://medium.com/@cici_carmignani/the-price-of-enlightenment-be1bb0f801c0 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Set faces to stunned: I am fully gobsmacked. The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's miraculous. Who needs sidhis? Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either. And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they achieve it. * I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in less than a minute. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/ https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: Ex Machina
[ Here's a followup rap that I write purely for my *own* amusement, because many (most?) people here have probably not seen the film in question. I've now seen it three times, and think it's pretty interesting, so below I'll rap about my experience of discussing it on another forum. I will do my best to avoid presenting any terrible spoilers, for the benefit of those who have not seen it but may plan on doing so. ] Speaking of gobsmacked (in another thread, having to do with juggling Rubik's cubes), you must color me gobsmacked because of a few replies to me having posted this review of Ex Machina on another forum. There it was seen by a number of people who then saw the movie. All of them had a great deal of experience in computer science, and all of them had an equal amount of experience dealing with thinking about consciousness, having been taught to meditate by the Rama guy we all studied with. Some liked the movie as much as I did, some didn't, and a few hated it. The ones who hated it were all women. This struck me as odd. Admittedly, one of the three main characters is kind of a gnarly, male-chauvinist-pig kinda guy, with some odd, misogynistic ideas about women. Just the fact that he is allowed to speak them probably pissed off women who have been taught about male oppression for years. And on another level, the characters played by female humans in the film are portrayed by really *attractive* female humans, and I've noticed over the years that many women who have thought of themselves as feminists for a decade or two very often display an immediate (and often unrecognized) distrust and dislike of really attractive women themselves. So there's that. But what really gobsmacked me was when a couple of these intelligent, successful, computer-literate women who didn't like the movie described it as just another pygmalion fantasy and complained that it didn't allow sufficient character development in the female characters to suit them. So they wrote it off as just another misogynist movie. Color me gobsmacked. I didn't get that at all. First, technically, there aren't even any female characters IN the film. It's about AI. Second, these women seem to have been fooled by the *appearance* and *behavior* of the AI into believing that it is not only human, but FEMALE. Third, they didn't seem to realize that this made the character -- as presented in the film -- clearly capable of *passing* Alan Turing's test for true Artificial Intelligence. They bought the AI's presentation layer so thoroughly that they were offended at how a misogynist guy thought of or treated her. Finally, they seem to have missed the ending completely, in terms of how things work out. Anyway, I just thought I'd rap about this stuff for a bit, just for fun. The whole thing -- film plus these women getting their feminist buttons pushed by it -- has made me think back to the origins of the Turing Test, which was created as a kind of party game trying to determine whether other players you can't see and can only communicate with via writing are male or female. Turing then took that concept and extended it, replacing one of the characters in the game with a computer. What I'm left wondering about, in terms of consciousness, is whether these women would perceive a transsexual as male or female? All they're presented with, after all, is the same thing they were in the film -- presentation layer. I still think it's a good film, if anyone else agrees and wants to rap about it. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: Ex Machina Finally! After a long, long dry spell with absolutely nothing worth even writing about, there's finally a movie worth raving about. It;s the directorial debut of Alex Garland, who in the past has written several interesting films with sci-fi themes, such as 28 Days Later and Sunshine and Never Let Me Go. Suffice it to say this won't be his last film as a director -- Natalie Portman has already been mentioned as signing on to star in his next movie. He managed to shoot Ex Machina on a budget of only 11 million dollars. That amount of money would barely have paid for five minutes of the recent Avengers: Age Of Ultron, and Ex Machina is by far the better movie. It's intelligent, it's respectful of both the science of AI and the history of science fiction about AI, and it's got a trio of acting performances that are among the best of the year. Domhnall Gleeson (who obviously inherited his father Brendan Gleeson's acting chops) is tremendous as the young nerd mysteriously transported to an isolated location to perform a Turing Test on a robot named Ava who just might have achieved sentience. Oscar Issac is tremendous as the brilliant but more than a little
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
I never got into these things, being neither a puzzle nor a game person, but
the fellow I live with in my extended family did. He can solve a normal Rubik's
cube (3x3) in a couple of minutes. What's more interesting is to see him take
on bigger cubes (5x5, 7x7).
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 8:11 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
Re Set faces to stunned:
I am fully gobsmacked.
The coordination between brain, hands and cubes is so finely tuned it's
miraculous. Who needs sidhis?
Not this guy for sure, or mindfulness either.
And this video may have started something. It popped up on my Facebook page
because a friend of mine - who can do Rubik's cubes in his head* and can also
juggle - has seen it as a challenge. He reckons himself and a friend, similarly
talented, will be able to do seven cubes while juggling and passing them
between them. They start practising this week I will post the video if they
achieve it.
* I know he can do them in his head because we were round someone's house when
we were kids and they had a cube and we asked if he could do them. He looked at
it for a minute and said he could tell that some stickers had been moved which
made us laugh, but then he moved a few around and then did the whole thing in
less than a minute.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
https://www.facebook.com/EightNinetySeven/videos/10153461649158747/
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[FairfieldLife] For Buck
They Built It. No One Came. | | | | | | | | | | | They Built It. No One Came.In Pennsylvania, two men with 63 acres and a communal vision of utopia learn the hard way that not everyone follows the leader. | | | | View on www.nytimes.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
[FairfieldLife] Re: Freedom Summit
Sen. Cruz is authentically bright, sufficiently so for the liberal Alan Dershowitz to declare that he was the best student he had ever had at Harvard’s Law School. He’s so smart that he is not the least impressed by the conservative foreign policy establishment. Ted Cruz, the Only Republican Arrogant Enough to Be President http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ Ted Cruz, the Only Republican Arrogant Enough to Be Pres... http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ Ted Cruz is intellectually arrogant, like Ronald Reagan. The difference is that Reagan masked his arrogance with self-deprecating humor. Sen. Cruz does... View on pjmedia.com http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/05/16/ted-cruz-the-only-republican-arrogant-enough-to-be-president/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says a recent trip to Israel reinforces his belief that the United State must aggressively deal with terrorists abroad. Scott Walker calls for aggressive stance against terrorism http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html Scott Walker calls for aggressive stance against t... http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says a recent trip to Israel reinforces his belief that the United State must aggressivel... View on news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/scott-walker-calls-aggressive-stance-against-terrorism-195520454--election.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : 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
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Buck
Well, God damn!
What did they expect?
Mormon gays living like the pioneers and shitting in a chamber pot?
None of my gay friends would be drawn to such as that.
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:15 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] For Buck
They Built It. No One Came.
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| They Built It. No One Came.In Pennsylvania, two men with 63 acres and a
communal vision of utopia learn the hard way that not everyone follows the
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[FairfieldLife] Re: For Buck
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/17/fashion/17FLAXJP3/17FLAXJP3-articleLarge.jpg http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/17/fashion/17FLAXJP3/17FLAXJP3-articleLarge.jpg http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/17/fashion/17FLAXJP3/17FLAXJP3-articleLarge.jpg http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/17/fashion/17FLAX... http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/17/fashion/17FLAXJP3/17FLAXJP3-articleLarge.jpg View on static01.nyt.com http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/17/fashion/17FLAXJP3/17FLAXJP3-articleLarge.jpg Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : They Built It. No One Came. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# They Built It. No One Came. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# In Pennsylvania, two men with 63 acres and a communal vision of utopia learn the hard way that not everyone follows the leader. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Buck
Addressing the important issues! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Well, God damn! What did they expect? Mormon gays living like the pioneers and shitting in a chamber pot? None of my gay friends would be drawn to such as that. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For Buck They Built It. No One Came. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# They Built It. No One Came. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# In Pennsylvania, two men with 63 acres and a communal vision of utopia learn the hard way that not everyone follows the leader. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# Preview by Yahoo
