Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
So my point is Buck you need to stop this faux outrage of yours and need to confront these deviants directly--the likes of Barry, Xeno, Sal directly like Judy, Jim, Steve and others. What if Barry were to insult your daughter or wife and call her a cunt like he has of the women on FFL? Would you still continue acting in this manner, talking about rules, regulations, decorum--and pleading to authority? No you will directly confront the aggressor. Remember Barry play this indirect game. He is weak willed, he never takes on any challenge directly, he is emotionally, intellectually weak. He is a scheming, deceptive wuss. He resorts to innuendo, distortions, dishonesty. He keeps on repeating the lie over and over again. Stop this faux outrage of yours Buck, you do a great disservice to yourself and to others. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Oh stop acting like a shameless, witless oaf and making a fool of yourself Buck. It's not about rules, guidelines. It's about being honest, being truthful and not acting in a juvenile, repulsive, disgusting way and you are being no different Buck. Put an end to this idiotic, faux persona and faux-righteousness. No one can take you seriously and You do such a huge disservice to others arguing against this toxicity and dishonesty of Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : The logic of this post was really fine but the post failed the yahoo-groups guidelines where it adopted the meme of the ad hominem. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Here's a start, a twofer from salyavin at his dimwittiest: If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. How about just *general* awareness of what's going on around you? I haven't left any posts on The Peak. I never joined it. Oooopsie! Took a little nap there, did you? Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. Oh? Who exactly was I happy to have driven off? Please show your work--quote some posts in which I stated my intention to do so, and/or rejoiced at having been successful. Then let's see if you have the cojones to apologize to me as Michael did to Jim when he couldn't back up an accusation. I'm guessing you don't. More later... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhai
He's got some good ideas. Problem is that the Scandinavian countries are pro-active and the US always seems to be re-active. IOW, things have to go really bad before anything is done here. And sometimes it's just a band-aid like the bank bailout of 2008. With the bankstas and corporations driving the bus it will likely go off the cliff. And that's history repeating itself as it has many times before. On 06/04/2015 06:17 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: So what do you think of this guy? 'Scandinavian Dream' is true fix for America's income inequality http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/03/news/economy/stiglitz-income-inequality/index.html?sr=fbmoney060315inequality1100story image http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/03/news/economy/stiglitz-income-inequality/index.html?sr=fbmoney060315inequality1100story 'Scandinavian Dream' is true fix for America's income in... http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/03/news/economy/stiglitz-income-inequality/index.html?sr=fbmoney060315inequality1100story Joseph Stiglitz wants to rewrite the rules of the American economy to address income inequality. View on money.cnn.com http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/03/news/economy/stiglitz-income-inequality/index.html?sr=fbmoney060315inequality1100story Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:
Yep, good science-based public policy going forward should unequivocally restrict the access of youth to nicotine products. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : KANDEL: What we found is that when an animal was primed by nicotine and then was exposed to cocaine, the effect of cocaine was amplified many times. RATH: Dr. Kandel wants people to pay attention to their results. She says that given how well nicotine primes the brain for addiction, she's concerned about reports showing e-cigarette use among young people on the rise. KANDEL: Because as we said, you know, nicotine is nicotine, whether it comes from an e-cigarette or from a combustible cigarette, you end up with nicotine in the brain. -JaiGuruYou! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Cigarette smoking demonstrates a profound lack of healthy spiritual discipline: What about David Lynch? Hell - what about Nisargadatta Maharaj ? If anyone was enlightened he was - and he was a lifelong chain smoker! I think he gave up (on doctor's orders) at the close of his time with us. But he took to chewing tobacco instead! I think my estimation of President Obama would rise considerably if he were to appear at a Presidential press conference; pull out a soft pack of Marlboro smokes; shake out a cigarette; flip open a Zippo lighter; take a long pull on his cancer stick; slowly breathe out with a look of blissful gratification on his face and then address the press pack with an insouciant Okay. Any questions? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Good example, I have always felt cigarette smoking demonstrates a profound lack of healthy spiritual discipline. I never hire people who are addicted to nicotine/cigarettes. Their habit becomes a complete waste of time in the work place as they constantly search out time and places away for a quick smoke. They become cancerous in the morale of the work place. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : 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] Re: A request for the TM teachers reading Fairfield Life
Re Myself I couldn't care less whether I keel over tomorrow or when I'm 92 or 302: There are only four groups of people who are indifferent to the thought that they could die tomorrow: (A) Those who have achieved enlightenment and are established as The Witness. To them everything else is just a modification of awareness. Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. (Lao Tzu) ☐ (B) Those who are facing a debilitating illness which is making life unbearable. ☐ (C) Those who have tasted to the full life's pleasures and whose jaded palates can no longer stimulate their imaginations. Brit actor George Sanders left a suicide note saying: Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. What a terrible thing to say! ☐ (D) Those who are to be executed the next day and for whom the body's normal survival instincts have died in anticipation of the death of the body for real. ☐ Bhairitu, please tick the box that best describes your condition. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I think he's driving down the road and seeing the big seven-oh sign coming up and realizing that he can barely do 55 any more and 70 might be a stretch. That, of course, is all in his mind but many of my fellow boomers are becoming terrified as their peers are keeling over dead even with no prior major diseases. Myself I could care less whether I keel over tomorrow or when I'm 92 or 302. Tomorrow though might be more a problem for my relatives though. ;-) On 05/30/2015 12:06 PM, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Ha! Hilarious. Bhairitu gave the correct answer, but because Barry has turned into his own type of fundamentalist, it is beyond his comprehension. BUT, he got to play the card he wanted to play, which is what this was all about. Show of hands? Who didn't know what Barry's entreaty was leading up to? Right. Almost no one. TPR, folks. TPR. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : From: Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com On 05/30/2015 06:45 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Since no one really responded to the issue I brought up in the post titled I think former TM teachers fear the C word because of the D word, I'll try to put it a different way, in hopes that one of you will be able to explain things to me and to others reading this forum. See, here's the issue as I see it. Many of you TM teachers (or former TM teachers) don't seem to like being referred to as cultists, but you ACTED like cultists for many years, LYING to literally every person you instructed. In the intro lectures you gave to these people, you parroted what you had been told to say if the subject of religion came up -- TM is NOT a religion. What I'm wondering is HOW you could have said this when before you instruct someone in TM, you have to perform a puja. You chant the puja in Sanskrit, but you were clearly instructed on your TM Teacher Training Course to hold the English meaning of the words lively in your mind as you chanted the Sanskrit words. You were even *tested* on your ability to do this before you became a teacher. So here's the thing...here you are in the puja room, chanting in Sanskrit but with the following English-language meaning lively in your mind the whole time: To Lord Narayana, to lotus-born Brahma the Creator, to Vasishtha, to SHAKTI and his son, Parashara, to Vyasa, to Shukadeva, to the great GaudaPada, to Govinda, ruler among yogis, from him to his disciple, Shri Shankaracharya, from him to his disciples, Padma Pada and Hastamalaka, to him, Trotakacharya and Vartika-Kara, to others, to the eternal tradition of our abode of the wisdom of the Shrutis, Smritis and Purana, to the abode of compassion, to the personified glory of the Lord, to Shankara, emancipator of the world, I bow down. To Shankaracharya, the Emancipator, adored as Krishna and Badarayana, to the two authors of the commentary on the Brahma Sutras, I bow down To both expressions of the Divine, in Shankara, I bow down again and again At whose door the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and night Adorned with immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having bowed to Him we gain complete fulfillment. So what's up with this? I mean, you were chanting words you *clearly knew the meaning of*, saying that you were *bowing down* to quite a few Hindu deities, who were either mentioned by name or by their common nicknames. You had all of this bowing down to Hindu deities lively in your mind every time you
[FairfieldLife] For Bhai
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[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:
The potency of these new marijuana too evidently can rip open the subtle psycho-spiritual systems of people and make their mental and spiritual well-being vulnerable to all kinds of trouble in life. I'd say for good spiritual reasons in life as well as good public health policy in civil life there should zero societal tolerance for adults selling pot or tobacco products to minors. It just should not happen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : unequivocally restrict the access of youth to nicotine products. ..and these hybrid strains of marijuana too. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Yep, good science-based public policy going forward should unequivocally restrict the access of youth to nicotine products. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : KANDEL: What we found is that when an animal was primed by nicotine and then was exposed to cocaine, the effect of cocaine was amplified many times. RATH: Dr. Kandel wants people to pay attention to their results. She says that given how well nicotine primes the brain for addiction, she's concerned about reports showing e-cigarette use among young people on the rise. KANDEL: Because as we said, you know, nicotine is nicotine, whether it comes from an e-cigarette or from a combustible cigarette, you end up with nicotine in the brain. -JaiGuruYou! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Cigarette smoking demonstrates a profound lack of healthy spiritual discipline: What about David Lynch? Hell - what about Nisargadatta Maharaj ? If anyone was enlightened he was - and he was a lifelong chain smoker! I think he gave up (on doctor's orders) at the close of his time with us. But he took to chewing tobacco instead! I think my estimation of President Obama would rise considerably if he were to appear at a Presidential press conference; pull out a soft pack of Marlboro smokes; shake out a cigarette; flip open a Zippo lighter; take a long pull on his cancer stick; slowly breathe out with a look of blissful gratification on his face and then address the press pack with an insouciant Okay. Any questions? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Good example, I have always felt cigarette smoking demonstrates a profound lack of healthy spiritual discipline. I never hire people who are addicted to nicotine/cigarettes. Their habit becomes a complete waste of time in the work place as they constantly search out time and places away for a quick smoke. They become cancerous in the morale of the work place. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : 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
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhai
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From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhai
He's got some good ideas. Problem is that the Scandinavian countries are
pro-active and the US always seems to be re-active. IOW, things have to go
really bad before anything is done here. And sometimes it's just a band-aid
like the bank bailout of 2008. With the bankstas and corporations driving the
bus it will likely go off the cliff. And that's history repeating itself as it
has many times before.
On 06/04/2015 06:17 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
So what do you think of this guy?
'Scandinavian Dream' is true fix for America's income inequality
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
And now a couple from Barry. He writes: One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* Barry's lying. What I said (at least twice) is that while I stopped posting to FFL (not left) for positive reasons, *those reasons had nothing to do with FFL per se*. (I realize, Barry, that due to your recent age-related cognitive decline, you may have missed the distinction here. But take my word for it, it utterly demolishes your attempt at analysis. And by the way, you've lost track of your pronouns.) As to negativity, you guys are still dishonest thugs, worse than ever; why should I regard you any differently? Then one more from Barry: To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal... As he proceeds to discuss--wait for it!--not ideas, but people. Quel surprise. More later... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Since you cracked open the post, might as well share the whole thing... Rick, I am sorry, but a forum where anyone is allowed to suggest sexual violence AGAINST children, is not someplace I want to be. I am truly sorry things have degenerated to this point. I am local to the Yahoo corporation, and am considering a detailed notice to the Yahoo administrators, including screen names, of this current activity. Barry makes one excuse after another, about using this foul, sexually perverted, and unbalanced voice, and is clearly not well. This is no longer a healthy environment for anyone to participate in. I am all for differing opinions on here, but you have allowed one individual's mental illness to co-opt what could be a fun place to hang out, and I guess I am one of the casualties. See ya!! Anyway, Rick hasn't done jack, so who cares whether I post here or not, or what I said about posting here, previously? Is that truly our most pressing issue here on FFL, Xeno? If you agree that it is, I'd love to hear why. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : 'Perhaps they were under the impression' refers to Barry and Salyavin; 'persons' refers to Jim and Judy. Jim on 28 Nov 2014 Rick - Until Barry is removed - Goodbye So, if Jim was true to his word, he ought not be posting to FFL now. So he lied. Judy made no such announcement, just stopped posting one day, but returned 24 April 2015 for a few posts and then on 27 April 2015 wrote, 'You can all relax now.' and 'Now I'm going to go take a long hot bath to wash off the corruption. Phew. Bye.' This implied she was signing off and would prefer not to have to deal with certain people on FFL, for example 'It was the relentless vicious and dishonest personal attacks, led by Barry, on those TM supporters that finally triggered the mass exodus to The Peak.' Judy made references to Barry's thugs, which might include me. However she did not specifically say she would not return. As for me, because Judy said 'I stand by what I wrote', she cannot have a discussion with me without lying because I have not withdrawn or documented certain accusations, Judy saying 'Why don't you fuck off? I'm not going to discuss anything with you until you've documented your accusations, or withdrawn them.' As far as I can tell, Judy is consistent here, as far as never having said she would not return. Returning to a situation that has never resolved is a good example of how the mind's thinking processes revolve in samsara, and this is not a bad thing, rebirth involves both experiences we wish not to revisit and those we wish to. Ah, the glory of battle! Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash! And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing, Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing! Better one hour's stour than a year's peace With fat boards, bawds, wine and frail music! Bah! there's no wine like the blood's crimson! —Ezra Pound ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Somebody Cares is a gift shop in Fairfield Iowa. I don't live there any more. There are pressing issues on FFL? You just did not do what you said, that's all. That is not an issue with me, but to write about something here, an attempt at subject matter gives focus, until the conversation drifts off on another tangent. By the way, violence against children in the world is fairly commonplace, but here no one I am aware of is a child molester, so its mention is not really a matter of any concern unless a person is accused of it, and then it is a concern to that person perhaps as it was to Barry. Where violence is actually directed at children is the concern. Why you got off on that tangent is beyond me. Maybe you have or had a particular button that got pressed. It happens. Everybody has buttons. Conditioning lasts all life long. Enlightenment does not get rid of conditioning automatically, it does rid the mind of certain patterns of thought and reaction, but not all patterns. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, reverse_archery@... wrote : Since you cracked open the post, might as well share the whole thing... Rick, I am sorry, but a forum where anyone is allowed to suggest sexual violence AGAINST children, is not someplace I want to be. I am truly sorry things have degenerated to this point. I am local to the Yahoo corporation, and am considering a detailed notice to the Yahoo administrators, including screen names, of this current activity. Barry makes one excuse after another, about using this foul, sexually perverted, and unbalanced voice, and is clearly not well. This is no longer a healthy environment for anyone to participate in. I am all for differing opinions on here, but you have allowed one individual's mental illness to co-opt what could be a fun place to hang out, and I guess I am one of the casualties. See ya!! Anyway, Rick hasn't done jack, so who cares whether I post here or not, or what I said about posting here, previously? Is that truly our most pressing issue here on FFL, Xeno? If you agree that it is, I'd love to hear why. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : 'Perhaps they were under the impression' refers to Barry and Salyavin; 'persons' refers to Jim and Judy. Jim on 28 Nov 2014 Rick - Until Barry is removed - Goodbye So, if Jim was true to his word, he ought not be posting to FFL now. So he lied. Judy made no such announcement, just stopped posting one day, but returned 24 April 2015 for a few posts and then on 27 April 2015 wrote, 'You can all relax now.' and 'Now I'm going to go take a long hot bath to wash off the corruption. Phew. Bye.' This implied she was signing off and would prefer not to have to deal with certain people on FFL, for example 'It was the relentless vicious and dishonest personal attacks, led by Barry, on those TM supporters that finally triggered the mass exodus to The Peak.' Judy made references to Barry's thugs, which might include me. However she did not specifically say she would not return. As for me, because Judy said 'I stand by what I wrote', she cannot have a discussion with me without lying because I have not withdrawn or documented certain accusations, Judy saying 'Why don't you fuck off? I'm not going to discuss anything with you until you've documented your accusations, or withdrawn them.' As far as I can tell, Judy is consistent here, as far as never having said she would not return. Returning to a situation that has never resolved is a good example of how the mind's thinking processes revolve in samsara, and this is not a bad thing, rebirth involves both experiences we wish not to revisit and those we wish to. Ah, the glory of battle! Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash! And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing, Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing! Better one hour's stour than a year's peace With fat boards, bawds, wine and frail music! Bah! there's no wine like the blood's crimson! —Ezra Pound ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote :
[FairfieldLife] Truth about the Maharishi
The Book Stripping the Gurus is online. Chapter 7 is devoted to MMY: Stripping the Gurus The Sixth Beatle http://www.tinyurl.com/q7py4cj Stripping the Gurus The Sixth Beatle http://www.tinyurl.com/q7py4cj CHAPTER VIII THE SIXTH BEATLE (MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI) View on www.tinyurl.com http://www.tinyurl.com/q7py4cj Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
/So, it's all about girls posting to the group, trying to get Barry. Go figure./ Quoting TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: /I KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO START UP THEIR OLD MEAN GIRLS CLUB HATE BARRY SESSIONS AGAIN, BUT I'M TRYING TO IGNORE THEM SO THAT THEY DON'T DRAG FFL BACK INTO THE GUTTER OF THEIR OWN STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AGAIN. //I'M NOT SURPRISED TO SEE JIM AND HIS MINIONS CONTINUING TO PLAGUE FFL SO THEY CAN DROP THEIR GET BARRY BOMBS. AFTER ALL, THAT'S REALLY WHY THEY LEFT. JIMBO MADE A BIG STINK ABOUT NOTHING BECAUSE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO BADGER RICK INTO THROWING ME OFF OF THE FORUM. WHEN RICK CALLED HIS BLUFF AND IGNORED HIM, JIMBO WAS STUCK OVER THEIR ON BORING FORUM, HAVING TO MAKE UP NEW LIES ABOUT HIS SUPPOSED ENLIGHTENMENT EVERY DAY TO KEEP THE PEOPLE HE'D SUCKERED INTO FOLLOWING HIM THERE ENTERTAINED. //PERSONALLY I THINK HIS MOST RECENT ATTEMPTS TO PANDER TO HIS FELLOW THE_LEAK PEOPLE *BY WRITING TO THEM ON FFL* ARE (DARE I SAY IT) THE PEAK OF SILLINESS AND IDIOCY. HE TALKED THESE POOR PEOPLE INTO RUNNING AWAY FROM THIS NEGATIVE FORUM AND NOW HE WRITES *TO* THEM HERE, HAVING CREATED A SITUATION IN WHICH THEY'RE SO BORED WITH HIM AND THE BS HE SLINGS OVER THERE ON THE_LEAK THAT THEY HAVE TO COME BACK HERE AND READ FFL EVERY DAY JUST TO GET BY. WHAT MAKES IT EVEN MORE EMBARRASSING FOR HIM (AND MORE HILARIOUS FOR US TO WATCH) IS THAT HE HAS TO DO ALL OF THIS WHILE PRETENDING TO BE THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. //AS FOR THE JUDESTER, IT IS KINDA SURPRISING THAT SHE'S STILL SO *OBVIOUSLY* STUCK IN HATE BARRY MODE. I DON'T THINK SHE'S MADE A *SINGLE* POST IN EITHER OF HER DRIVE-BYS THAT *DIDN'T* ATTEMPT TO DEMONIZE BARRY AND HIS (HER NEW FAVORITE WORD) THUGS. ONE WOULD THINK THAT IF A PERSON IS TRYING TO CLAIM THEY LEFT FFL FOR POSITIVE REASONS, THEY SHOULDN'T UNDERCUT THAT CLAIM BY COMING BACK EVERY SO OFTEN TO PROVE THAT SHE'S STILL *JUST AS NEGATIVE AS EVER* AND TOWARDS *THE SAME PEOPLE AS EVER* -- BARRY AND ANYONE WHO DARES TO LIKE HIM. / /BUT, AS SALYAVIN SUGGESTS, I GUESS WE HAVE TO BE SOMEWHAT COMPASSIONATE TOWARDS THESE DWEEBS BECAUSE WE -- THE ONES THEY OBSESS ON AND HAVE *BEEN* OBSESSING ON FOR YEARS -- ARE CLEARLY THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES. THEY MAY CLAIM TO HATE US, BUT THEY *CLEARLY* CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT US./
[FairfieldLife] Re: Good Ol' Deepak
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : What Deepak is promoting is a philosophy - a theology, maybe - or perhaps a metaphysics is a better term. I don't have any problem with that. His views could be wrong of course but to demand that all explanations of life, the universe and everything must conform to scientific methodology is simply scientism. In fact, the very idea that all explanations must conform to scientific methodology *is* a metaphysical assumption! How could you prove that assumption using the techniques of science? How falsify it? Yes, if you're talking about evolution or quantum physics you have to accommodate the latest thinking of scientists who have specialised in those fields but it's legitimate to tease out the implications for our worldview. By the way: I've only ever read one of Deepak's books and it was pretty tedious and shallow. But that's a different issue altogether. Why would he release only one shallow and tedious book do you think? His views could be wrong of course but to demand that all explanations of life, the universe and everything must conform to scientific methodology is simply scientism. Isn't scientism that thing that creationists invented to try and turn the demanding of proof into an optional extra? Like you, I don't think there's anything wrong with speculative thinking, we simply wouldn't have an ideas at all without it. Where Deepak goes wrong is that he can't be bothered to check whether his ideas have any sort of validity. And by that I mean whether they fit in with what is known to be possible in the physical world and if they don't, how come? Any rewriting of majorly well tested ideas requires an understanding of those ideas and a demonstration of where they are inadequate. I don't think it's just a case of accepting things because they might be possible anymore. I know it's the vedic way, as is misappropriating other people's research to repackage religious ideas in the hope that your audience is familiar enough with the terms to recognise them but not familiar enough to know they are being used incorrectly. Anything he says with the word quantum in it for instance. He just doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.You simply can't have a worldview whereby something that is known to happen, or to have happened is contradicted by your metaphysical outlook. Not and remain credible. It has to all fit together doesn't it? Otherwise our theory of everything will be a theory of nearly everything and some other stuff that doesn't fit. So Deepak is either hopelessly ignorant or wilfully misleading - unless he knows something fundamental to the running of the universe that no one else has worked out and he acquired the knowledge somehow instinctively rather than via the usual methods of trial and error testing and refining. Given our shared opinion of him, I wonder which is most likely? 'This is what drives people nuts about the new quasi-religious quantum nutjobbery of the internet. Without an editor it's a dangerous place to try going to learn things. Every idea should stand or fall based on it's evidence but too many people are forgetting to do the background checks. It's actually interesting watching the speed with which memes evolve on the net. I used to work for a company that could track press releases via webpages, be interesting to watch how far and fast an idea like some of Deepak's or say, the Maharishi Effect, could travel in a given time and what is needed as a framework for people to recognise it as a possibility and pass it on. Maybe the next step in advertising is seeding the social media background with stupid ideas and then tailoring a campaign to exploit them. Or is Facebook already doing that? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Scientist: Why Deepak Chopra is driving me crazy http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ Scientist: Why Deepak Chopra is driving me crazy http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ 'Chopra promises proof for his outlandish claims that Darwin was wrong and that consciousness drives evolution, but I’m not going to hold my breath.' View on www.washingtonpost... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Down the pan....
I wonder how many people will read this and head for the nearest drain to try and score for the weekend? There is more cocaine in London's sewer system than any other European city http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/there-is-more-cocaine-in-londons-sewer-system-than-any-other-european-city-study-shows-10298542.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/there-is-more-cocaine-in-londons-sewer-system-than-any-other-european-city-study-shows-10298542.html There is more cocaine in London's sewer system than... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/there-is-more-cocaine-in-londons-sewer-system-than-any-other-european-city-study-shows-10298542.html A new study appears to show how widespread cocaine use is in London, as scientists say sewage from the capital has the highest concentration of the dru... View on www.independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/there-is-more-cocaine-in-londons-sewer-system-than-any-other-european-city-study-shows-10298542.html Preview by Yahoo
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Xeno baby, this bit of trivia is for you trivia obsessed slut |ˈtrivēə əbˈsesd ˈslət | noun a person preoccupied with trivia while being oblivious to the real intent and meaning: Xeno was a self-professed, self-aware psychopath yet a hilariously clueless trivia obsessed slut DERIVATIVES trivia obsessed sluttish |-ish| adjective trivia obsessed sluttishly |-ish -lē| adverb trivia obsessed sluttiness |- ish -ness| noun ORIGIN early 21st cent. (blend of trivia, obsession and slut) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : does it ever end? whatever Barry has written below, does it ever end? Eternity, while defined in different ways is always sought, so why complain if it is in your face? this folks, is content, according to Barry. Content: 1. The things that are held or included in something. 2. Information made available by a website or other electronic medium. 3. The substance or material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc., as distinct from its form or style. So, it would indeed appear it is content, just as your posts are. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:
unequivocally restrict the access of youth to nicotine products. ..and these hybrid strains of marijuana too. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Yep, good science-based public policy going forward should unequivocally restrict the access of youth to nicotine products. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : KANDEL: What we found is that when an animal was primed by nicotine and then was exposed to cocaine, the effect of cocaine was amplified many times. RATH: Dr. Kandel wants people to pay attention to their results. She says that given how well nicotine primes the brain for addiction, she's concerned about reports showing e-cigarette use among young people on the rise. KANDEL: Because as we said, you know, nicotine is nicotine, whether it comes from an e-cigarette or from a combustible cigarette, you end up with nicotine in the brain. -JaiGuruYou! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Cigarette smoking demonstrates a profound lack of healthy spiritual discipline: What about David Lynch? Hell - what about Nisargadatta Maharaj ? If anyone was enlightened he was - and he was a lifelong chain smoker! I think he gave up (on doctor's orders) at the close of his time with us. But he took to chewing tobacco instead! I think my estimation of President Obama would rise considerably if he were to appear at a Presidential press conference; pull out a soft pack of Marlboro smokes; shake out a cigarette; flip open a Zippo lighter; take a long pull on his cancer stick; slowly breathe out with a look of blissful gratification on his face and then address the press pack with an insouciant Okay. Any questions? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Good example, I have always felt cigarette smoking demonstrates a profound lack of healthy spiritual discipline. I never hire people who are addicted to nicotine/cigarettes. Their habit becomes a complete waste of time in the work place as they constantly search out time and places away for a quick smoke. They become cancerous in the morale of the work place. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : 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
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
'Perhaps they were under the impression' refers to Barry and Salyavin; 'persons' refers to Jim and Judy. Jim on 28 Nov 2014 Rick - Until Barry is removed - Goodbye So, if Jim was true to his word, he ought not be posting to FFL now. So he lied. Judy made no such announcement, just stopped posting one day, but returned 24 April 2015 for a few posts and then on 27 April 2015 wrote, 'You can all relax now.' and 'Now I'm going to go take a long hot bath to wash off the corruption. Phew. Bye.' This implied she was signing off and would prefer not to have to deal with certain people on FFL, for example 'It was the relentless vicious and dishonest personal attacks, led by Barry, on those TM supporters that finally triggered the mass exodus to The Peak.' Judy made references to Barry's thugs, which might include me. However she did not specifically say she would not return. As for me, because Judy said 'I stand by what I wrote', she cannot have a discussion with me without lying because I have not withdrawn or documented certain accusations, Judy saying 'Why don't you fuck off? I'm not going to discuss anything with you until you've documented your accusations, or withdrawn them.' As far as I can tell, Judy is consistent here, as far as never having said she would not return. Returning to a situation that has never resolved is a good example of how the mind's thinking processes revolve in samsara, and this is not a bad thing, rebirth involves both experiences we wish not to revisit and those we wish to. Ah, the glory of battle! Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash! And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing, Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing! Better one hour's stour than a year's peace With fat boards, bawds, wine and frail music! Bah! there's no wine like the blood's crimson! —Ezra Pound ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
[FairfieldLife] Quorum of the Twelve, 1898
First Presidency [of LDS] and Council of the Twelve Apostles, 1898. Are these gents now Ascended Masters? Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://www.tinyurl.com/olbm9y6 http://www.tinyurl.com/olbm9y6 Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church) - Wi... http://www.tinyurl.com/olbm9y6 In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Quorum of the Twelve, the Council of th... View on www.tinyurl.com http://www.tinyurl.com/olbm9y6 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhai
The usual neo-Marxist claptrap. Shameless thieves stealing others resoures. Can you say Frank Marshall Davis?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
/So, the group has been taken over by the trolls and nobody will help the few TMers that remain, so Barry wins the FFL religious debate by default, since all the others quit and Judy won't talk to us anymore. Go figure./ Quoting steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com: I'm guessing it's about 100 to 1 in words for what you guys have written about the-peak, compared to what the_peak (folks) have written about you. (not that I bothered to read anything below) of course, that irony is completely lost on you. what, I'm afraid you're missing, is that Barry is, what is defined as, a classic troll. that is to say, there are some lines that he respects, but overall, his agenda is to push people's buttons, and misrepresent people's opinions in a way to get a reaction.
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Bhai
On 06/04/2015 07:38 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The usual neo-Marxist claptrap. Shameless thieves stealing others resoures. Or taking back what the others stole from us. Apparently you prefer being a slave to the rich? Can you say Frank Marshall Davis?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Here's a start, a twofer from salyavin at his dimwittiest: If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. How about just *general* awareness of what's going on around you? I haven't left any posts on The Peak. I never joined it. Oooopsie! Took a little nap there, did you? Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. Oh? Who exactly was I happy to have driven off? Please show your work--quote some posts in which I stated my intention to do so, and/or rejoiced at having been successful. Then let's see if you have the cojones to apologize to me as Michael did to Jim when he couldn't back up an accusation. I'm guessing you don't. More later...
[FairfieldLife] The rising tide?
This must be the age of enlightenment or something, you can't open a newspaper without finding an article on meditation. Some in the TMO will be interpreting it as being all down to the coherence creating effect of TM enlivening world consciousness. Press releases explaining the difference will be being typed out even as we speak and sent to the Torygraph to be used in tomorrows article about meditation. 'Lessons in mindfulness benefit teachers and pupils' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/11644272/Lessons-in-mindfulness-benefit-teachers-and-pupils.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/11644272/Lessons-in-mindfulness-benefit-teachers-and-pupils.html 'Lessons in mindfulness benefit teachers and pupils... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/11644272/Lessons-in-mindfulness-benefit-teachers-and-pupils.html In a high-achieving academic setting, it is important that pupils have resources to draw upon to cope with setbacks, says headmaster Kevin Knibbs View on www.telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/11644272/Lessons-in-mindfulness-benefit-teachers-and-pupils.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
What it shows is that people can be reform-able in the face of the Yahoo-groups guidelines. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : that shows integrity. and then you and everyone else moves on, and the place is better for it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : come to think of it, I believe you are right and I apologize to you here and now. From: reverse_archery@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show MJ, Please find one post where I did that. I certainly stated it as obvious, but I never congratulated myself about it. That is a story someone else invented. I do recall someone posting all caps that I was not fucking enlightened, which is a little extreme, don't you think? It is a tough subject to talk about, especially with the rest of life happening at the same time, and I am certainly neither a teacher or a scholar when it comes to writing about spirituality. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : have never seen anyone congratulating him- or herself on how intelligent or enlightened they really are. Jim did it plenty enough here on FFL. From: authfriend@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 5:53 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show Before Barry and/or one or more of the Thugs decides to pile on, allow me to point out that there is actually only one person from The Peak, Jim, who posts here once in awhile. Doug and Steve have been posting on both forums all along. I don't post on The Peak at all and extremely rarely on FFL (this is my second brief visit since last June). Xeno never left FFL but slums over on The Peak. I think that about covers it. Did you have anyone else in mind? Or were you simply imagining things? And just for the record, I read The Peak occasionally and have never seen anyone congratulating him- or herself on how intelligent or enlightened they really are. I think you must have hallucinated that as well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : Why are all these blustering blowhards scurrying back to FFL from the Peep? Must be really boring over there with everyone congratulating themselves about how intelligent they really are - oh, and enlightened too. Seemed that they all left FFL in a big huff. So how come they're now still going on and on with the same old fluff? So, ca... ca... can we jus... just get along? You know ... being in Unity and all that.
[FairfieldLife] Can Godzilla defeat Isis?
Resident evil: Godzilla made official Japanese citizen http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/04/godzilla-made-official-japanese-citizen http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/04/godzilla-made-official-japanese-citizen Resident evil: Godzilla made official Japanese citizen http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/04/godzilla-made-official-japanese-citizen The reptilian antihero gets civic papers granting special residency for watching over the people of Tokyo (and boosting tourism) View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/04/godzilla-made-official-japanese-citizen Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
[FairfieldLife] Re: French Ghost Signs
An evocative collection of photos. This is one of the (many) things the French have got right and the British completely wrong: our town centres are dominated by the same nationwide chains and franchises which have squeezed out most of the independent, family-owned businesses. That wouldn't be so bad if they didn't also insist on using the identical store frontage and signs so that a high street in Wrexham looks the same as a high street in Bolton. The French had the bright idea of insisting that a chain which opens in an old-fashioned, traditional location adapts its look to blend in with the surroundings. There's nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia. The Germans should have done the same but their war guilt meant they became uneasy about that charming old Germanic architecture and so have vandalised their own towns going for the modern look (and finishing off what little the British and American bomber commands had left standing). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Here's a great resource stumbled upon by my still-favorite Paris blogger, Messy Nessy Chic. It's a stash of really cool photos documenting forgotten ghost signs, shop fronts, vintage typography and general nostalgia of bygone French patrimony. http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/06/04/heres-an-instagram-account-dedicated-to-finding-forgotten-french-ghost-signs/ http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/06/04/heres-an-instagram-account-dedicated-to-finding-forgotten-french-ghost-signs/ I particularly like this one, which captures that curious ability that Paris has of completely changing its nature in mid-block, or at a street corner. For example, the corner of rue du 4 Septembre et rue Vivienne:
[FairfieldLife] Will the Mormons practice Mindfulness?
I saw two Elders yesterday at the library. Now there's a new crop of females. Mormon Missionary Program - Missionaries Serve Two Year Missions http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/topic/missionary-program http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/topic/missionary-program Mormon Missionary Program - Missionaries Serve Two Yea... http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/topic/missionary-program The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' missionary program is one of its most recognized characteristics. Mormon missionary elders and sisters go on tw... View on www.mormonnewsr... http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/topic/missionary-program Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Oh suffering from bouts of exaggerated sense of self-importance I see. It's not the fragrance of your posts see, it's the stench you cause, subtle difference which you seem to be oblivious of Barry and Sal. People have every right to participate here whenever they want and freedom to post whatever they want, and defend the noxious stench of your distortions and dishonesty. This dishonesty of Barry combines with the juvenile nonsense with of Sal and Xeno piling on with this immature, juvenile drivel on how can post where and when, comparing post counts with charts and graphs. Get a grip, stop acting in this repulsive, narcissistic and emotionally challenged manner. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
The logic of this post was really fine but the post failed the yahoo-groups guidelines where it adopted the meme of the ad hominem. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Here's a start, a twofer from salyavin at his dimwittiest: If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. How about just *general* awareness of what's going on around you? I haven't left any posts on The Peak. I never joined it. Oooopsie! Took a little nap there, did you? Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. Oh? Who exactly was I happy to have driven off? Please show your work--quote some posts in which I stated my intention to do so, and/or rejoiced at having been successful. Then let's see if you have the cojones to apologize to me as Michael did to Jim when he couldn't back up an accusation. I'm guessing you don't. More later... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Oh stop acting like a shameless, witless oaf and making a fool of yourself Buck. It's not about rules, guidelines. It's about being honest, being truthful and not acting in a juvenile, repulsive, disgusting way and you are being no different Buck. Put an end to this idiotic, faux persona and faux-righteousness. No one can take you seriously and You do such a huge disservice to others arguing against this toxicity and dishonesty of Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : The logic of this post was really fine but the post failed the yahoo-groups guidelines where it adopted the meme of the ad hominem. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Here's a start, a twofer from salyavin at his dimwittiest: If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. How about just *general* awareness of what's going on around you? I haven't left any posts on The Peak. I never joined it. Oooopsie! Took a little nap there, did you? Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. Oh? Who exactly was I happy to have driven off? Please show your work--quote some posts in which I stated my intention to do so, and/or rejoiced at having been successful. Then let's see if you have the cojones to apologize to me as Michael did to Jim when he couldn't back up an accusation. I'm guessing you don't. More later... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. You wouldn't be referring to Jim and me, would you? Are you afraid to state our names? Actually if they were under that impression based on what I said, they were hallucinating, because I didn't say nuttin'. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Good Ol' Deepak
What Deepak is promoting is a philosophy - a theology, maybe - or perhaps a metaphysics is a better term. I don't have any problem with that. His views could be wrong of course but to demand that all explanations of life, the universe and everything must conform to scientific methodology is simply scientism. In fact, the very idea that all explanations must conform to scientific methodology *is* a metaphysical assumption! How could you prove that assumption using the techniques of science? How falsify it? Yes, if you're talking about evolution or quantum physics you have to accommodate the latest thinking of scientists who have specialised in those fields but it's legitimate to tease out the implications for our worldview. By the way: I've only ever read one of Deepak's books and it was pretty tedious and shallow. But that's a different issue altogether. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Scientist: Why Deepak Chopra is driving me crazy http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ Scientist: Why Deepak Chopra is driving me crazy http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ 'Chopra promises proof for his outlandish claims that Darwin was wrong and that consciousness drives evolution, but I’m not going to hold my breath.' View on www.washingtonpost... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/15/scientist-why-deepak-chopra-is-driving-me-crazy/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Did you replace AdBloc with Bluehell, or do you use both? From: Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. I'll give BluHell a shot. I've been using Privacy Badger at the behest of the EFF. Another tool in my stealth arsenal is welcomed. I love your idea of gaming google with BS seraches.
[FairfieldLife] Re: French Ghost Signs
An evocative collection of photos. This is one of the (many) things the French have got right and the British completely wrong: our town centres are dominated by the same chains and franchises which have squeezed out most of the independent, family-owned businesses. That wouldn't be so bad if they didn't also insist on using the identical store frontage and signs so that a high street in Wrexham looks the same as a high street in Bolton. The French had the bright idea of insisting that a chain which opens in an old-fashioned, traditional location adapts its look to blend in with the surroundings. The Germans should have done the same but
[FairfieldLife] Shambhavi Loraine Chopra
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
These posts in the blue below seem to be rants raving, in violation of the yahoo-groups guidelines. Emptybill's original posting in this thread [#416073] also decried 'blowhards'. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : does it ever end? whatever Barry has written below, does it ever end? this folks, is content, according to Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally tens of thousands of posts trying her best to get not only me, but also to get anyone who dares to like me or the things I post. When I say that I believe she is insane, it is my *long-considered honest opinion*, not lying. She and others like her would like to *believe*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : does it ever end? whatever Barry has written below, does it ever end? Eternity, while defined in different ways is always sought, so why complain if it is in your face? Ha! Yes, I guess that is a different way to look at. If I had more time, I'd try to think of a more clever response. this folks, is content, according to Barry. Content: 1. The things that are held or included in something. 2. Information made available by a website or other electronic medium. 3. The substance or material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc., as distinct from its form or style. So, it would indeed appear it is content, just as your posts are. I guess it is. It's just that content is viewed differently there. My content is generally considered not worth reading. Barry's content often gets rave reviews. On the other hand, that's what makes the site still interesting for me - the audience that Barry still attracts. Feed the Beast! Go figure! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
Marketing people are the problem. If you're ever worked with them they are nuts. They will do whatever it takes to sell a product include annoying the customer. And if you tell them those ads are annoying they don't care. One of my employees back in the early 1990s called them marketing pukes and got in trouble for it as he called them that as he walked past their meeting in the rec room. Thing is he later had a better career than any of them had as a CTO of a very major US corporation. I still like watch some TV shows and the way to do that cutting the cable and not wearing an eyepatch is in the US to use Hulu+. It plays on your TV via apps on devices such as my Blu-ray player. What I do is hit the mute button when the ads run which helps. I also keep track of the length of ad breaks and if too long complain. The other night their app crashed on the same ad twice. I sent them an email and got back the usual canned reply to reset my player to factory. Not gonna happen. The error was an SSL server authentication error meaning it was theirs not mine. Last night I did not see the problem watching a show. Some shows I can't watch on TV even with Hulu I record the screen on my computer while running an episode. The run a commercial finding app and use the EDL log to create chapters I can insert in a MKV version of the file. Ad comes up hit next to skip. For Aquarius they targeted me with ads for expensive cars, watches and booze. Boy do they have me tagged wrong. On 06/04/2015 10:47 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I have only encountered one of these and I promptly left it. I get a polite request to turn it off occasionally but there's no point as I'm the sort of person who makes a conscious decision to never buy a product from a company that has annoyed me even slightly. I doubt anyone really clicks on ads with enough frequency to make all the palaver worthwhile, so why bother unless they actually believe ads sink deep into the unconscious and we'll one day be walking past a shop that sells some crappy piece of junk Google found for me because I was trying to buy my Dad a birthday present on Amazon. But the research says that targetted ads are twice as effective as non-targetted ones. So people will have to put up with it or install adblocker. If everyone does though I think there will be more sites that won't let you on with it. I think they've only themselves to blame, advertising got so intrusive I could put up with it no more. Some people I know aren't interested in blocking them though and are happy if it pays for the web to be free. I've always been anti-advert and never watch them on TV ever. The modern world would grind to a halt if everyone was like me. I'm a har! d sell. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. Consumerism must die as it's fueled by a belief in infinite growth which is something we don't have on a finite planet. I'm just playing my part in saving the world! On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I use different browsers too. I use Opera for some Google groups that are newsgroups that I've had a presence on for years. Trying to do that just on Firefox or Chrome has Google insisting on me using my other accounts. How stupid is that? I also have Safari installed on Windows to see how it handles my web sites. I use Chrome when on Android because Firefox doesn't actually handle sites as well mobile. Safari for Windows stopped development about three years ago, so it probably has a lot of unpatched security holes. No kidding, the economy is NOT better. But try telling that to the idiots who run the local country and city governments. They seem to think everything is peachy keen so the the count assessor assesses my house to be worth more. It should have remained at the lower rate they gave us due to the economy not being in keen shape. They need to tighten their belts but they fell victim to Wall Street selling them impractical pensions for the city and county workers mainly so Wall Street could get their hands on that money. In the US the Bureau of Labor Standards started to tinker with the Consumer Price Index about 1980. Until then it was calculated the same since 1913. For example, the percentage of expenses devoted to 'shelter' was reduced to about 1/3 to 1/4 of what it was. This makes it less sensitive to changes in home prices and the cost of maintaining buildings, which also figure into calculations for rental properties. In April the US CPI inflation was minus 0.2% while calculated the old way it is almost 7.5%, which possibly overstates the case. My guess is an accurate figure would be something in between these values. Overspending governments also benefit from keeping interest rates low so borrowing costs are less. This reduces income from people's savings which for lower incomes becomes a real problem as they age. Bank interest rates tend to track the government's. I recall when I was very young a 4% rate on a saving account was fairly standard. Now it is basically near zero. If you use a credit card and don't pay it off, current rates banks charge for these unsecured loans is 13% to almost 16%. These days it is not advisable to have any debt at all. On 06/04/2015 09:44 AM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I use different browsers for different purposes, some with script blockers and ad blockers that let only certain things through. Because so many sites totally fail when you block or turn of scripting, for general browsing I use a private mode browser that deletes all stored content on exit. By the way one of the problems with income inequality are government statistics. To save governments money, cost-of-living indices have been modified over the years reducing the reported inflation below actual cost of living expenses. The economy then deceptively looks better, while wages and social benefits based on these measures progressively decline against real living expenses, so it is not just the big shots at the trough, but a veil of inaccuracies that lead to false conclusions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I have only encountered one of these and I promptly left it. I get a polite request to turn it off occasionally but there's no point as I'm the sort of person who makes a conscious decision to never buy a product from a company that has annoyed me even slightly. I doubt anyone really clicks on ads with enough frequency to make all the palaver worthwhile, so why bother unless they actually believe ads sink deep into the unconscious and we'll one day be walking past a shop that sells some crappy piece of junk Google found for me because I was trying to buy my Dad a birthday present on Amazon. But the research says that targetted ads are twice as effective as non-targetted ones. So people will have to put up with it or install adblocker. If everyone does though I think there will be more sites that won't let you on with it. I think they've only themselves to blame, advertising got so intrusive I could put up with it no more. Some people I know aren't interested in blocking them though and are happy if it pays for the web to be free. I've always been anti-advert and never watch them on TV ever. The modern world would grind to a halt if everyone was like me. I'm a hard sell. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. Consumerism must die as it's fueled by a belief in infinite growth which is something we don't have on a finite planet. I'm just playing my part in saving the world! On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally
Re: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : PR led is very accurate. What I found fascinating is that the writer really doesn't *know* that he's already parroting the things he was told, without putting them in quotes as if they had been told to him by a TM teacher, yet often using the exact same phrases they used. I particularly like this segment. Notice the use of quotes at the beginning, to indicate the things say by Bob Roth, and then notice where the quotes end and yet he's still parroting Bob Roth by repeating exactly what he said: The thing I asked my teacher was, how much of this shit do I have to believe in for it to work? He said you can be 100 percent skeptical and it'll still work. Roth is generous with his smiles, and he shot me a big one. The cool thing about this is you don't have to believe in anything. There's no philosophy. Other forms of meditation require a far greater commitment and can be more difficult to adopt. They teach either extreme concentration (an intense focus on one particular thing, and only that thing) or contemplation (thinking as hard as you can about the present, which is often referred to as mindfulness), but what makes TM so user-friendly is that you don't have to do either. It's easy—effortless, as Roth is fond of saying. You simply allocate twenty minutes of quiet time and use a mantra to liberate your mind from conscious thought and trigger the meditation. Mantras work, in theory, because they are essentially meaningless word sounds. One is chosen for you by your teacher from a library of dozens that go back to TM's ancient Vedic origins. Once a mantra is given, it is never shared under any circumstances. I think we should have a game of Buzzword Bingo! With the next piece that comes up like this. You get one point for mantra's are meaningless sounds Another for TM is effortless compared to other techniques Another for TM isn't a cult etc... First one to have the complete introductory talk wins a prize. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:25 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree. Standard PR led article with quite an amusing family tree on the right. What a motley bunch of devotees! The comments are interesting too. It seems the various concepts and techniques of meditation have merged into one in the public consciousness. The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer GQ addresses transcendental meditation. Should you cross your legs, close your eyes, and join in? View on www.gq.com http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.
On 06/04/2015 01:09 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : */PR led is very accurate. What I found fascinating is that the writer really doesn't *know* that he's already parroting the things he was told, without putting them in quotes as if they had been told to him by a TM teacher, yet often using the exact same phrases they used. I particularly like this segment. Notice the use of quotes at the beginning, to indicate the things say by Bob Roth, and then notice where the quotes end and yet he's still parroting Bob Roth by repeating exactly what he said:/* *The thing I asked my teacher was, how much of this shit do I have to believe in for it to work? He said you can be 100 percent skeptical and it'll still work. Roth is generous with his smiles, and he shot me a big one. The cool thing about this is you don't have to believe in anything. There's no philosophy. * * * *Other forms of meditation require a far greater commitment and can be more difficult to adopt. They teach either extreme concentration (an intense focus on one particular thing, and only that thing) or contemplation (thinking as hard as you can /about/ the present, which is often referred to as mindfulness), but what makes TM so user-friendly is that you don't have to do either. It's easy—effortless, as Roth is fond of saying. * *Buzz!!! No, lots of other mantra meditations work the same way. There is no forced effort. * * * *You simply allocate twenty minutes of quiet time and use a mantra to liberate your mind from conscious thought and trigger the meditation. Mantras work, in theory, because they are essentially meaningless word sounds. One is chosen for you by your teacher from a library of dozens that go back to TM's ancient Vedic origins. Once a mantra is given, it is never shared under any circumstances.* *But Pundit Willytex says there are no bija mantras in the Veda. So how can TM have Vedic origins? :-D * * * I think we should have a game of Buzzword Bingo! With the next piece that comes up like this. You get one point for mantra's are meaningless sounds Another for TM is effortless compared to other techniques Another for TM isn't a cult etc... First one to have the complete introductory talk wins a prize. *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:25 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree. Standard PR led article with quite an amusing family tree on the right. What a motley bunch of devotees! The comments are interesting too. It seems the various concepts and techniques of meditation have merged into one in the public consciousness. The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer image http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer GQ addresses transcendental meditation. Should you cross your legs, close your eyes, and join in? View on www.gq.com http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 06/04/2015 01:07 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : Some shows I can't watch on TV even with Hulu I record the screen on my computer while running an episode. The run a commercial finding app and use the EDL log to create chapters I can insert in a MKV version of the file. Ad comes up hit next to skip. I'm impressed by the ingenuity but distressed that you have to go to those lengths. But TV ads really do kill the atmosphere of a programme. My Panasonic PVR has a really cool editing fucntion that you can use to scan through a show even before you've watched it looking for the channel idents so you can remove ads. I usually record the show during my morning walk. It doesn't take much time at all to ad the chapter markers. I'll have to look but bet your PVR is banned in the US. Broadcasters hate devices like that. They hate the Dish Hopper for the same reason. Comcast had a secret 30 second skip you needed to set up and their OnDemand of shows still have unskippable ads. But they still had the 5 minute skips. Since most breaks were 4 minutes just hit the 5 minute skip then back up one minute. ;-) Or if you have money to burn just buy episodes without ads on Amazon, VUDU or iTunes at $3 a pop for HD or the whole season at about a discount. Banned? Surely that's against the constitution ;-) Shame if it is though, it's my favourite gadget. Can record 200 hours of HD progs and movies! The only trouble is I've got about 6 weeks of TV to catch up on as I set it record whole series and forget to watch them.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
The company I worked for in the 1990s tried to be super hip and super democratic. The latter was almost it's downfall. HR told us to allow people to fail. Bad idea, you want to make sure your people don't fail and feel open to tell you when they're in trouble on a project. Also it was a sweet place to work until it went public. A privately held company needs to make products that customers want to buy and that are good enough that they want to buy your new products too. In that model the customer is king. But a publicly held company makes the stockholder king and forgets about the customer. Bad idea. It's easy money and that's why the public route is taken. The founders get to cash in and split. Publicly held companies are also the downfall of America. They act like a Frankenstein monster destroying anything in their way be it the public or competing corporations. Just look for example at the wars between the tech companies. The consumer loses in the end. That's why I bash capitalism. It's about publicly held companies whereas free enterprise is about privately owned companies. And at that companies either public or private should never get too large or the Peter Principle kicks in. On 06/03/2015 10:49 PM, ultrarishi wrote: What is it like working at Gawker? - Quora https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-working-at-Gawker What is it like working at Gawker? - Quora https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-working-at-Gawker I answered this question for a journalist (and an inquisitive lawyer who was looking to bring a Class Action to Gawker - see: Gawker Hit With Class Action La... View on www.quora.com https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-working-at-Gawker Preview by Yahoo Guess it sucks everywhere.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
Sounds like fun. Since I have my own websites I never felt a need for Facebook which is just a place for people without the inclination, time nor knowledge to build their own sites. I've thought about a company Facebook page because people like that. I have done a company Twitter for years. What I don't get is why these assholes think they own what you created. The latest is PayPal who wants people to cede intellectual property rights to them. Tells you that these companies are really run by evil psychopaths. There's nothing stopping them and actually business schools believe the gangsta approach is viable. I noticed this back in the day when a lot of tech companies seemed to be run like as if by drug dealers. Turned out some of them were run by ex drug dealers trying to do something that kept them out of jail. On 06/03/2015 10:56 PM, ultrarishi wrote: I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
I use different browsers too. I use Opera for some Google groups that are newsgroups that I've had a presence on for years. Trying to do that just on Firefox or Chrome has Google insisting on me using my other accounts. How stupid is that? I also have Safari installed on Windows to see how it handles my web sites. I use Chrome when on Android because Firefox doesn't actually handle sites as well mobile. No kidding, the economy is NOT better. But try telling that to the idiots who run the local country and city governments. They seem to think everything is peachy keen so the the count assessor assesses my house to be worth more. It should have remained at the lower rate they gave us due to the economy not being in keen shape. They need to tighten their belts but they fell victim to Wall Street selling them impractical pensions for the city and county workers mainly so Wall Street could get their hands on that money. On 06/04/2015 09:44 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I use different browsers for different purposes, some with script blockers and ad blockers that let only certain things through. Because so many sites totally fail when you block or turn of scripting, for general browsing I use a private mode browser that deletes all stored content on exit. By the way one of the problems with income inequality are government statistics. To save governments money, cost-of-living indices have been modified over the years reducing the reported inflation below actual cost of living expenses. The economy then deceptively looks better, while wages and social benefits based on these measures progressively decline against real living expenses, so it is not just the big shots at the trough, but a veil of inaccuracies that lead to false conclusions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Pluto news!
On 06/03/2015 10:36 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I'm starting to see why the ancients left the outer planets out of their jyotish charts, these guys are all over the place! A spinning gravitational field would have all sorts of deletirious effects on your day. They left them out because they couldn't see them. Pluto has a very erratic orbit anyway. But leave it to western astrologers to hang all kinds of interpretations on things like asteroids which really have erratic orbits. That's because their astrological system died around 300 AD. :-D Still, in a few months all questions will be hopefully answered when we get the first close-up pics of our furthest known planetary partner courtesy of NASA's New Horizons probe. How exciting! Something nobody has ever seen before, doesn't that thrill the soul? Thanks to space exploration this must be the most exciting time ever to have been alive. Yeah, especially as you may live to see the extinction of the human race the way things are going. Pluto's moons tumble in orbit, Hubble measurements reveal http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/plutos-moons-have-chaotic-orbits-hubble-measurements-reveal image http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/plutos-moons-have-chaotic-orbits-hubble-measurements-reveal Pluto's moons tumble in orbit, Hubble measurements r... http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/plutos-moons-have-chaotic-orbits-hubble-measurements-reveal Analysis of ten years of data from the space telescope has revealed the unusual trajectories, and also suggests Pluto might in fact be a binary dwarf planet View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/plutos-moons-have-chaotic-orbits-hubble-measurements-reveal Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
I use different browsers for different purposes, some with script blockers and ad blockers that let only certain things through. Because so many sites totally fail when you block or turn of scripting, for general browsing I use a private mode browser that deletes all stored content on exit. By the way one of the problems with income inequality are government statistics. To save governments money, cost-of-living indices have been modified over the years reducing the reported inflation below actual cost of living expenses. The economy then deceptively looks better, while wages and social benefits based on these measures progressively decline against real living expenses, so it is not just the big shots at the trough, but a veil of inaccuracies that lead to false conclusions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
[FairfieldLife] Speaking of Ghosts, watch this.
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[FairfieldLife] This one's shorter but sweeter
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
Got to be *on the program*. Even Charlie got kicked to the curb. I was never
*kicked out* so to speak. I just don't like the organization and prefer to keep
my distance from it. That keeps them and me happy. I'm not compelled to be OTP
to keep anyone else satisfied nor do I need to impress anyone and I expect
nothing from them.
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
How you figger that? Rick initiated hundreds didn't he? And they kicked him
out.
From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
MD,
You could have become a TM bigwig if you had initiated hundreds of meditators
for the TMO, just like Chopra.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote :
Actually, I got a bunch of mantras. When I became a teacher, M authorized me to
teach only students. He said after initiating a few people that he would
authorize me to teach everyone. When he came to Houston a few months later, I
went to his bedroom in the Hotel that he was staying in and he gave me
additional mantras so I could be a full teacher. He even wrote them down and
gave them to me! We had a nice chat. Told him about a guy that I had initiated
a week or so earlier that saw an explosion of light and became the universe
when he heard his mantra for the first time. He laughed and said yes, we sing
some little song and puff!
From: richard@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
You only get one mantra with TM and MMY didn't have a bedroom. Go figure.
Quoting Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com:
Getting more mantras.
From: richard@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
So, what were you doing in the Maharishi's bedroom?
Quoting geezerfreak@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com:
Dayumn! Pretty enough to be escorted into Maharishi's bedroom.
A few minutes later, the skin boy standing outside hears a high pitched what
is this? That's fookin' funny Mike!
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : Why are all these blustering blowhards scurrying back to FFL from the Peep? Must be really boring over there with everyone congratulating themselves about how intelligent they really are - oh, and enlightened too. Seemed that they all left FFL in a big huff. So how come they're now still going on and on with the same old fluff? So, ca... ca... can we jus... just get along? You know ... being in Unity and all that. No, the trouble is they aren't allowed to be negative over there so they have to come here and indulge their inner bitch. I'd rather they came here and posted something they thought was worth reading rather than all this whining but until Rick sets them free we'll be stuck with it because it doesn't seem like any of them are developing any self awareness. We should just be flattered they think us so interesting that they want to read us every day!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally tens of thousands of posts trying her best to get not only me, but also to get anyone who dares to like me or the things I post. When I say that I believe she is insane, it is my *long-considered honest opinion*, not lying. She and others like her would like to *believe* that it's lying, because then they don't have to deal with a larger and far more painful truth: THIS IS HOW PEOPLE REALLY SEE ME. THAT is what they can't cope with. They have such profound and entrenched delusions about who and what they are that they really can't *deal* with anyone disagreeing with these delusions. Try to imagine what a *breakthrough* it would be if Judy were ever able to step back and say, Y'know...many people -- quite literally *dozens* of people -- have been
[FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.
Standard PR led article with quite an amusing family tree on the right. What a motley bunch of devotees! The comments are interesting too. It seems the various concepts and techniques of meditation have merged into one in the public consciousness. The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer GQ addresses transcendental meditation. Should you cross your legs, close your eyes, and join in? View on www.gq.com http://www.gq.com/life/health/201309/gq-transcendental-meditation-guide?currentPage=2utm_content=buffer2a00butm_medium=socialutm_source=facebook.comutm_campaign=buffer Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
No one hates you, Barry. What a ridiculous thing to assert. I don't hate you. I think you spend way too much time on the Internet, wasting your time, trying to get negative reactions from others, instead of finding a woman to share your heart with. I certainly don't hate you, though - I am in a different league from you. With the little that you have accomplished in life, I can't compare myself to you. That would be cruel. Anyway, me hate you? Not a chance. Do I think you are throwing your life away? Yes, I do. Once again, this everyone hates Barry routine, is another strawman fantasy that prevents you from helping yourself. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : Why are all these blustering blowhards scurrying back to FFL from the Peep? Must be really boring over there with everyone congratulating themselves about how intelligent they really are - oh, and enlightened too. Seemed that they all left FFL in a big huff. So how come they're now still going on and on with the same old fluff? So, ca... ca... can we jus... just get along? You know ... being in Unity and all that. No, the trouble is they aren't allowed to be negative over there so they have to come here and indulge their inner bitch. I'd rather they came here and posted something they thought was worth reading rather than all this whining but until Rick sets them free we'll be stuck with it because it doesn't seem like any of them are
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com I think they just all secretly love our wit and wisdom and can't face the day without finding out the latest from the world of dinosaur research. Who can blame them? Indeed. One of my fave dinosaur news items pointed out that scientists have essentially discovered *dragons*. Really. Sorta. They seem to have discovered flying reptiles that look a lot like yer classical depiction of a dragon. Trouble is the skeletons they've found so far are hardly Game Of Thrones size, more like a small dog or a normal-sized NYC rat. But we can always hope they'll find bigger ones...
Re: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.
PR led is very accurate. What I found fascinating is that the writer really
doesn't *know* that he's already parroting the things he was told, without
putting them in quotes as if they had been told to him by a TM teacher, yet
often using the exact same phrases they used. I particularly like this segment.
Notice the use of quotes at the beginning, to indicate the things say by Bob
Roth, and then notice where the quotes end and yet he's still parroting Bob
Roth by repeating exactly what he said:
The thing I asked my teacher was, how much of this shit do I have to believe
in for it to work? He said you can be 100 percent skeptical and it'll still
work. Roth is generous with his smiles, and he shot me a big one. The cool
thing about this is you don't have to believe in anything. There's no
philosophy.
Other forms of meditation require a far greater commitment and can be more
difficult to adopt. They teach either extreme concentration (an intense focus
on one particular thing, and only that thing) or contemplation (thinking as
hard as you can about the present, which is often referred to as mindfulness),
but what makes TM so user-friendly is that you don't have to do either. It's
easy—effortless, as Roth is fond of saying.
You simply allocate twenty minutes of quiet time and use a mantra to liberate
your mind from conscious thought and trigger the meditation. Mantras work, in
theory, because they are essentially meaningless word sounds. One is chosen for
you by your teacher from a library of dozens that go back to TM's ancient Vedic
origins. Once a mantra is given, it is never shared under any circumstances.
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:25 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.
Standard PR led article with quite an amusing family tree on the right. What a
motley bunch of devotees!
The comments are interesting too. It seems the various concepts and techniques
of meditation have merged into one in the public consciousness.
The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation
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eyes, and join in?||
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
Did you replace AdBloc with Bluehell, or do you use both?
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a
dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing
that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in
buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D
I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off
and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts
would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a
reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very
annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on.
There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on.
And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on.
I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only
get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the
bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue
they can get.
On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one
account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since
they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a
site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique
username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my
throw away email address.
What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists.
Couldn't be any more blatant could they?
There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot
lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches
on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted
adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it
too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly
odd adverts that I didn't follow up.
I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the
Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's
even legal.
I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other
demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use
it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run
in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
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[FairfieldLife] Good Ol' Deepak
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
On 06/04/2015 11:03 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I use different browsers too. I use Opera for some Google groups that are newsgroups that I've had a presence on for years. Trying to do that just on Firefox or Chrome has Google insisting on me using my other accounts. How stupid is that? I also have Safari installed on Windows to see how it handles my web sites. I use Chrome when on Android because Firefox doesn't actually handle sites as well mobile. Safari for Windows stopped development about three years ago, so it probably has a lot of unpatched security holes. I don't run it for anything other than my own sites and that might be on my local network server. I don't have any Apple machines except for an ancient Blueberry I used for a project and the client didn't want it back. Should have junked it years ago. There are some cross development tools but one still needs a Mac around to ship an app. One of the most annoying ads on Hulu is the latest Microsoft ad. I don't know who their ad agency is but they sure make annoying ads. This one is obviously targeted at kids who want to be the next big game developer star and that they need a Surface machine to do that. Kids are such suckers. No kidding, the economy is NOT better. But try telling that to the idiots who run the local country and city governments. They seem to think everything is peachy keen so the the count assessor assesses my house to be worth more. It should have remained at the lower rate they gave us due to the economy not being in keen shape. They need to tighten their belts but they fell victim to Wall Street selling them impractical pensions for the city and county workers mainly so Wall Street could get their hands on that money. In the US the Bureau of Labor Standards started to tinker with the Consumer Price Index about 1980. Until then it was calculated the same since 1913. For example, the percentage of expenses devoted to 'shelter' was reduced to about 1/3 to 1/4 of what it was. This makes it less sensitive to changes in home prices and the cost of maintaining buildings, which also figure into calculations for rental properties. In April the US CPI inflation was minus 0.2% while calculated the old way it is almost 7.5%, which possibly overstates the case. My guess is an accurate figure would be something in between these values. Overspending governments also benefit from keeping interest rates low so borrowing costs are less. This reduces income from people's savings which for lower incomes becomes a real problem as they age. Bank interest rates tend to track the government's. I recall when I was very young a 4% rate on a saving account was fairly standard. Now it is basically near zero. If you use a credit card and don't pay it off, current rates banks charge for these unsecured loans is 13% to almost 16%. These days it is not advisable to have any debt at all. I know that but there is also the uncounted people who have given up on the job market and I'm not sure how they survive. And they don't often count contractors either. So the situation is actually worse but they like to make it look good. What has happened is the same elite group is trying to rule the world again. Apparently they didn't learn the last time they tried this and will suffer the same consequences. What we can do is make as many people aware of them as possible so there is broad retaliation. On 06/04/2015 09:44 AM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I use different browsers for different purposes, some with script blockers and ad blockers that let only certain things through. Because so many sites totally fail when you block or turn of scripting, for general browsing I use a private mode browser that deletes all stored content on exit. By the way one of the problems with income inequality are government statistics. To save governments money, cost-of-living indices have been modified over the years reducing the reported inflation below actual cost of living expenses. The economy then deceptively looks better, while wages and social benefits based on these measures progressively decline against real living expenses, so it is not just the big shots at the trough, but a veil of inaccuracies that lead to false conclusions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : does it ever end? whatever Barry has written below, does it ever end? Eternity, while defined in different ways is always sought, so why complain if it is in your face? this folks, is content, according to Barry. Content: 1. The things that are held or included in something. 2. Information made available by a website or other electronic medium. 3. The substance or material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc., as distinct from its form or style. So, it would indeed appear it is content, just as your posts are. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally tens of thousands of posts trying
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : Why are all these blustering blowhards scurrying back to FFL from the Peep? Must be really boring over there with everyone congratulating themselves about how intelligent they really are - oh, and enlightened too. Seemed that they all left FFL in a big huff. So how come they're now still going on and on with the same old fluff? So, ca... ca... can we jus... just get along? You know ... being in Unity and all that. No, the trouble is they aren't allowed to be negative over there so they have to come here and indulge their inner bitch. I'd rather they came here and posted something they thought was worth reading rather than all this whining but until Rick sets them free we'll be stuck with it because it doesn't seem like any of them are developing any self awareness. We should just be flattered they think us so interesting that they want to read us every day!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally tens of thousands of posts trying her best to get not only me, but also to get anyone who dares to like me or the things I post. When I say that I believe she is insane, it is my *long-considered honest opinion*, not lying. She and others like her would like to *believe* that it's lying, because then they don't have to deal with a larger and far more painful truth: THIS IS HOW PEOPLE REALLY SEE ME. THAT is what they can't cope with. They have such profound and entrenched delusions about who and what they are that they really can't *deal* with anyone disagreeing with these delusions. Try to imagine what a *breakthrough* it would
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[FairfieldLife] More Rubik's Cube wonder
Remember the post a little while back that posted a video featuring a guy who solved three Rubik's Cubes at the same time...while juggling them? That led to a fascinating (at least to me) discussion with Salyavin during which we expressed our mutual awe of people who can solve three-dimensional puzzles in their heads or visualize enormous corporate databases or hold clear images of complex Tibetan mandalas in their heads. Following up, watch this guy: Sybla TV | Facebook | | | | | | | | | Sybla TV | Facebooksybla.com | | | | View on www.facebook.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
I'm guessing it's about 100 to 1 in words for what you guys have written about the-peak, compared to what the_peak (folks) have written about you. (not that I bothered to read anything below) of course, that irony is completely lost on you. what, I'm afraid you're missing, is that Barry is, what is defined as, a classic troll. that is to say, there are some lines that he respects, but overall, his agenda is to push people's buttons, and misrepresent people's opinions in a way to get a reaction.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
make that 1000 to 1. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally tens of thousands of posts trying her best to get not only me, but also to get anyone who dares to like me or the things I post. When I say that I believe she is insane, it is my *long-considered honest opinion*, not lying. She and others like her would like to *believe* that it's lying, because then they don't have to deal with a larger and far more painful truth: THIS IS HOW PEOPLE REALLY SEE ME. THAT is what they can't cope with. They have such profound and entrenched delusions about who and what they are that they really can't
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Rubik's Cube wonder
I'm sorry, but I can't help it. Barry, do you realize how weird this sounds, this pandering to Salyavin, about this fascinating discussion you had with him? Shit, Barry, most of us have a discussion of interest with other people a dozen times a day. Well, at least you two have each other. Praise be (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Remember the post a little while back that posted a video featuring a guy who solved three Rubik's Cubes at the same time...while juggling them? That led to a fascinating (at least to me) discussion with Salyavin during which we expressed our mutual awe of people who can solve three-dimensional puzzles in their heads or visualize enormous corporate databases or hold clear images of complex Tibetan mandalas in their heads. Following up, watch this guy: Sybla TV | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SyblaTv/videos/923732070993164/ Sybla TV | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SyblaTv/videos/923732070993164/ sybla.com View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/SyblaTv/videos/923732070993164/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Rubik's Cube wonder
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Remember the post a little while back that posted a video featuring a guy who solved three Rubik's Cubes at the same time...while juggling them? That led to a fascinating (at least to me) discussion with Salyavin during which we expressed our mutual awe of people who can solve three-dimensional puzzles in their heads or visualize enormous corporate databases or hold clear images of complex Tibetan mandalas in their heads. Following up, watch this guy: Amazing. I wondered what his gimmick was going to be but that really does deserve a round of applause! That reminds me, I must find out how my friends are getting on with practising their attempt at juggling and completing 7 Rubik's cubes between them. I can't wait to tell them the bar has been raised and they've now got to do it blindfolded... Sybla TV | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SyblaTv/videos/923732070993164/ Sybla TV | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SyblaTv/videos/923732070993164/ sybla.com View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/SyblaTv/videos/923732070993164/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
does it ever end? whatever Barry has written below, does it ever end? this folks, is content, according to Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can drop their Get Barry bombs. After all, that's really why they left. Jimbo made a big stink about nothing because he was attempting to badger Rick into throwing me off of the forum. When Rick called his bluff and ignored him, Jimbo was stuck over their on Boring Forum, having to make up new lies about his supposed enlightenment every day to keep the people he'd suckered into following him there entertained. Personally I think his most recent attempts to pander to his fellow The_Leak people *by writing to them on FFL* are (dare I say it) the peak of silliness and idiocy. He talked these poor people into running away from this negative forum and now he writes *to* them here, having created a situation in which they're so bored with him and the BS he slings over there on The_Leak that they have to come back here and read FFL every day just to get by. What makes it even more embarrassing for him (and more hilarious for us to watch) is that he has to do all of this while pretending to be three different people. As for the Judester, it is kinda surprising that she's still so *obviously* stuck in Hate Barry Mode. I don't think she's made a *single* post in either of her drive-bys that *didn't* attempt to demonize Barry and his (her new favorite word) thugs. One would think that if a person is trying to claim they left FFL for positive reasons, they shouldn't undercut that claim by coming back every so often to prove that she's still *just as negative as ever* and towards *the same people as ever* -- Barry and anyone who dares to like him. But, as Salyavin suggests, I guess we have to be somewhat compassionate towards these dweebs because WE -- the ones they obsess on and have *been* obsessing on for years -- are clearly the most interesting people in their lives. They may claim to hate us, but they *clearly* can't live without us. I hate going on about it in case anyone thinks I'm reciprocating what I claim to dislike or even provoking it, but it is funny to see Judy coming over all self-righteous. Anyone would think she was some sort of ultra-pure force for good on here when the reality of it is that she was as aggressive and intense as they come. Why, even WillyTex came out of character long enough to call her a mean spirited old bag for her endless haranguing of Share. And it was hardly just Share, Judy loves arguing and when she took a dislike to someone she was happy to drive them off. If the peaksters want her as their queen bee I'm happy for them but it does underline what I'm going on about as far as self awareness goes. I'm starting to think people assume I mean just being aware of their feelings or something but being properly self aware is being objective about what we are really like. We dislike in others what we fear in ourselves. I have cosmic love for everyone, I just wish they'd post what they think about things rather than just whining about everybody else. Great minds discuss ideas etc... To hopefully continue discussing actual ideas, Sal, you touch on something I've often noticed -- the almost total lack of self-awareness in this most vocal group of FFL (and former-FFL) whiners. Take one of their most common whines (to paraphrase): They (meaning us, the people they project their self-hatred onto) are always LYING about us, saying things they 'know' aren't true and that they 'really' don't mean. How many times have we heard this, eh? Well, the reality (at least for me) is that this reaction is bogus, because *I really DO mean it*. When I have said, for example, that IMO Judy Stein is insane, I'm not lying when I say that, or saying something I don't mean -- I really, honestly think she's insane. What ELSE could I consider someone who has stalked me for over two decades, spending literally tens of thousands of posts trying her best to get not only me, but also to get anyone who dares to like me or the things I post. When I say that I believe she is insane, it is my *long-considered honest opinion*, not lying. She and others like her would like to *believe* that it's lying, because then they don't have to deal with a larger and far more painful truth: THIS IS HOW PEOPLE REALLY SEE ME. THAT is what they can't cope with. They have such profound and entrenched delusions about who and what they are
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
Just Bluehell. Sites like Yahoo serve ads using your login and they just embed them. What happens is some sites depend on several servers to fill ads and an ad server is overloaded it delays the page load. CBS didn't care for a long time about ad blocking on Linux. They did on Windows. So if you were watching or recording a show on their site with Bluehell on it just skipped the ads. ;-) BTW, one 3-4 minute ad break on broadcast TV pays for the episode. Everything else is just gravy. Hence they can afford to play shorter ads on streaming. If you watch anything on CW on Hulu you'll notice they have all short breaks because their demographic is younger and won't watch at all if there are long ad breaks. Hulu complains if you block ads on the site but they will still serve some commercials. Apparently some ads are targeted and others not. The drug ads are really a joke. One hour TV shows are actually 44 minutes of show. They are written as six acts so there are usually six ad breaks. Hulu will often put 3 long breaks and then often three 15 second ones. The long breaks are often no longer than a minute and a half or half of what you get on broadcast TV. On 06/04/2015 12:34 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did you replace AdBloc with Bluehell, or do you use both? *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:53 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get. On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
[FairfieldLife] Rajasaurus!
That's what they would call it in vedic times anyway. And what a cool looking beastie he was.Did you know that paleontologists hate finding Triceratopses - a close relative of this fellow- because they are so common and not much isn't known about them and it can take most of your career to get one out of the ground and prepare it? What they do is encase them in plaster and leave them at universities for students to practise preservation techniques on. In the old days of the great bone rush dinosaurs which were thought to be already described and thus not making the discoverer famous, were stored in basements and forgotten about. Only a lot of them are new creatures after all and are making people famous 150 years after they were dug up. That isn't how this one was found but it's a good story. This one was found in the usual way of it sticking out of an eroding cliff. You don't get long to excavate them in those conditions as they crumble away quickly. Huge numbers of unknown creatures that might never be seen again have probably come to the surface and disappeared before anyone even knew about them New species of dinosaur, the regaliceratops, discovered in Canada http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/04/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-regaliceratops-discovered-in-canada http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/04/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-regaliceratops-discovered-in-canada New species of dinosaur, the regaliceratops, discovered ... http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/04/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-regaliceratops-discovered-in-canada Nicknamed Hellboy, the dinosaur had short horns over the eyes and a long nose horn, the opposite of the features sported by its close relative triceratops View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/04/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-regaliceratops-discovered-in-canada Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Marketing people are the problem. If you're ever worked with them they are nuts. They will do whatever it takes to sell a product include annoying the customer. And if you tell them those ads are annoying they don't care. One of my employees back in the early 1990s called them marketing pukes and got in trouble for it as he called them that as he walked past their meeting in the rec room. Thing is he later had a better career than any of them had as a CTO of a very major US corporation. I was recommended for a career in advertising by a friend in PR. God knows why, I'd never been so insulted. I still like watch some TV shows and the way to do that cutting the cable and not wearing an eyepatch is in the US to use Hulu+. It plays on your TV via apps on devices such as my Blu-ray player. What I do is hit the mute button when the ads run which helps. I also keep track of the length of ad breaks and if too long complain. The other night their app crashed on the same ad twice. I sent them an email and got back the usual canned reply to reset my player to factory. Not gonna happen. The error was an SSL server authentication error meaning it was theirs not mine. Last night I did not see the problem watching a show. Some shows I can't watch on TV even with Hulu I record the screen on my computer while running an episode. The run a commercial finding app and use the EDL log to create chapters I can insert in a MKV version of the file. Ad comes up hit next to skip. I'm impressed by the ingenuity but distressed that you have to go to those lengths. But TV ads really do kill the atmosphere of a programme. My Panasonic PVR has a really cool editing fucntion that you can use to scan through a show even before you've watched it looking for the channel idents so you can remove ads. Luckily the best stuff is still found on the BBC so it's largely academic for me. I am happy to pay the license fee to watch quality TV without adverts but the government want to scrap it as all their big corporate friends, like Murdoch, say it creates an unfair playing field for the competition. In return for clipping the wings of the beeb they get favourable coverage in the right wing press, which is worth more to them than the knowledge that we might lose the world's best broadcasting company. It'll be a race to the bottom when the BBC finally comes up for sale. I'll go live in a forest, if there are any left... On 06/04/2015 10:47 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad blocker on. I have only encountered one of these and I promptly left it. I get a polite request to turn it off occasionally but there's no point as I'm the sort of person who makes a conscious decision to never buy a product from a company that has annoyed me even slightly. I doubt anyone really clicks on ads with enough frequency to make all the palaver worthwhile, so why bother unless they actually believe ads sink deep into the unconscious and we'll one day be walking past a shop that sells some crappy piece of junk Google found for me because I was trying to buy my Dad a birthday present on Amazon. But the research says that targetted ads are twice as effective as non-targetted ones. So people will have to put up with it or install adblocker. If everyone does though I think there will be more sites that won't let you on with it. I think they've only themselves to blame, advertising got so intrusive I could put up with it no more. Some people I know aren't interested in blocking them though and are happy if it pays for the web to be free. I've always been anti-advert and never watch them on TV ever. The modern world would grind to a halt if everyone was like me. I'm a har! d sell. I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate for any revenue they can get.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Huffington Post
On 06/04/2015 01:07 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Some shows I can't watch on TV even with Hulu I record the screen on my computer while running an episode. The run a commercial finding app and use the EDL log to create chapters I can insert in a MKV version of the file. Ad comes up hit next to skip. I'm impressed by the ingenuity but distressed that you have to go to those lengths. But TV ads really do kill the atmosphere of a programme. My Panasonic PVR has a really cool editing fucntion that you can use to scan through a show even before you've watched it looking for the channel idents so you can remove ads. I usually record the show during my morning walk. It doesn't take much time at all to ad the chapter markers. I'll have to look but bet your PVR is banned in the US. Broadcasters hate devices like that. They hate the Dish Hopper for the same reason. Comcast had a secret 30 second skip you needed to set up and their OnDemand of shows still have unskippable ads. But they still had the 5 minute skips. Since most breaks were 4 minutes just hit the 5 minute skip then back up one minute. ;-) Or if you have money to burn just buy episodes without ads on Amazon, VUDU or iTunes at $3 a pop for HD or the whole season at about a discount.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show
Perhaps they were under the impression, based on what was said, these particular persons would not return to FFL ever. Such a reappearance is like the re-discovery of some rare endangered species thought to be extinct, like the mugwort salamander is to botanists and batrachologists. In this case though, preservation of species is not the goal. I believe hunting techniques to extinction are probably more likely, one of the forces of natural selection here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : This is hilarious. Jim and I pop in for brief visits, leave a few posts each, and Barry and Salyavin spring into full-on jibbering-idiot mode, slapping together a tag-team pastiche of stupid mistakes, lies, misrepresentations, and wildly illogical analyses. Funniest of all, they portray Jim's and my visits as a massive invasion of a horde of bloodthirsty Peakers. I wasn't going to post again for awhile, but this is just too tempting. I have a little extra time this week, so I may stick around and take apart their freakout piece by piece. Stay tuned...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
How you figger that? Rick initiated hundreds didn't he? And they kicked him out.
From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
MD,
You could have become a TM bigwig if you had initiated hundreds of meditators
for the TMO, just like Chopra.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote :
Actually, I got a bunch of mantras. When I became a teacher, M authorized me to
teach only students. He said after initiating a few people that he would
authorize me to teach everyone. When he came to Houston a few months later, I
went to his bedroom in the Hotel that he was staying in and he gave me
additional mantras so I could be a full teacher. He even wrote them down and
gave them to me! We had a nice chat. Told him about a guy that I had initiated
a week or so earlier that saw an explosion of light and became the universe
when he heard his mantra for the first time. He laughed and said yes, we sing
some little song and puff!
From: richard@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
You only get one mantra with TM and MMY didn't have a bedroom. Go figure.
Quoting Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com:
Getting more mantras.
From: richard@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bruce Jenner on Vanity Fair
So, what were you doing in the Maharishi's bedroom?
Quoting geezerfreak@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com:
Dayumn! Pretty enough to be escorted into Maharishi's bedroom.
A few minutes later, the skin boy standing outside hears a high pitched what
is this? That's fookin' funny Mike!
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[FairfieldLife] French Ghost Signs
Here's a great resource stumbled upon by my still-favorite Paris blogger, Messy Nessy Chic. It's a stash of really cool photos documenting forgotten ghost signs, shop fronts, vintage typography and general nostalgia of bygone French patrimony. http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/06/04/heres-an-instagram-account-dedicated-to-finding-forgotten-french-ghost-signs/ I particularly like this one, which captures that curious ability that Paris has of completely changing its nature in mid-block, or at a street corner. For example, the corner of rue du 4 Septembre et rue Vivienne:
