[FairfieldLife] Re: For Share - Peter Mayer Holy Now (with lyrics in captions) - YouTube
A beautiful, inspiring song. Thanks to you, and Share as well. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Just ran into Share at the store and told her about this song. I think all will enjoy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiypaURysz4
[FairfieldLife] Re: MSAE graduate on youtube - the guy's probably sincere
Matthew is probably the son of Walter Reifslager, Jr., a long-time TMer, and grandson of a Walter, Sr., a recently deceased very community-minded and honorable Psychiatrist in Austin. Or a close relative thereof of those two gentlemen. Until proven to be otherwise, or to harm someone, he deserves the opportunity to expound that which he sincerely believes, even if he's deceived himself. Exponents of a new version of reality regularly pay a heavy price. Of course, it's not ironic that FFL's sets such a high threshold for acceptance. If he is an MSAE grad, he's had thousands of hours of exposure to MMYs discourses. IMHO he's contributing to creation of new knowledge. I'm not drawn to it, but may he be given room to try to 'splain it as he sees it. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wrote: He's doing a take-off on some new agish types, right? This is a joke, right? No, it's not a joke. From what I've heard, it's a very messed up cult trip where the guy controls people by telling them, Divine Mother says..., even to the point of people going into debt to support him financially. I watched some of the video, and I'm creeped out by it. There's a sucker born every minute. These creepy gurus are laughing all the way to the bank and man are they getting off on the adulation, big time. Anyone want to go crash the party? It could be a riot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 wrote: From TMFree, apparently a graduate of MSAE who's got his own little thing going. Thoughts anyone? http://youtu.be/T1V_JD9rODk
[FairfieldLife] Re: MSAE graduate on youtube - the guy's probably sincere
Ann said: when he's speaking is a dead giveaway. In this case, if you have even a drop of intuition or reason, let alone instinct, this guy would get you running for the door. In fact, I'd bet my life on it. Bet your life on what? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 wrote: Matthew is probably the son of Walter Reifslager, Jr., a long-time TMer, and grandson of a Walter, Sr., a recently deceased very community-minded and honorable Psychiatrist in Austin. Or a close relative thereof of those two gentlemen. Until proven to be otherwise, or to harm someone, he deserves the opportunity to expound that which he sincerely believes, even if he's deceived himself. Exponents of a new version of reality regularly pay a heavy price. Of course, it's not ironic that FFL's sets such a high threshold for acceptance. If he is an MSAE grad, he's had thousands of hours of exposure to MMYs discourses. IMHO he's contributing to creation of new knowledge. I'm not drawn to it, but may he be given room to try to 'splain it as he sees it. -Mainstream Gee, I don't know. I think anyone who speaks like that and does what he does when he's speaking is a dead giveaway. The guy is seriously a turn off in every possible way. In this case, if you have even a drop of intuition or reason, let alone instinct, this guy would get you running for the door. In fact, I'd bet my life on it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wrote: He's doing a take-off on some new agish types, right? This is a joke, right? No, it's not a joke. From what I've heard, it's a very messed up cult trip where the guy controls people by telling them, Divine Mother says..., even to the point of people going into debt to support him financially. I watched some of the video, and I'm creeped out by it. There's a sucker born every minute. These creepy gurus are laughing all the way to the bank and man are they getting off on the adulation, big time. Anyone want to go crash the party? It could be a riot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 wrote: From TMFree, apparently a graduate of MSAE who's got his own little thing going. Thoughts anyone? http://youtu.be/T1V_JD9rODk
[FairfieldLife] Re: A physical basis of the ritum level -- fourth state of water
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@... wrote: Think Chapter 8 SBAL -- when consciousness becomes conscious From Lesson #8 of the 33 video lesson Science of Creative Intelligence course by MMY: When existence becomes conscious, Intelligence becomes Intelligent. Or something ;) Which other forum? BATGP? The research seems very professional. To me this describes how there could be a purity in human wetware that could be contacted by consciousness. Liquid crystal -- fourth state of water. Amazing. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Edg, I watched the first 12 minutes of it but couldn't get past the microspheres. So I bunged it to my ex who LOVED it so much that he will be putting it on his high tech blog. Well he said it was very cool. When I said he LOVED it that was me being a girl. Anyway, he didn't think it was about ritam or the unified field. He's still on that other forum you used to frequent in case you want to discuss further.   From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A physical basis of the ritum level -- fourth state of water  Come on -- isn't anyone interested in the discovery of the primal source of ORDER in creation? And this is actual science -- not Keith Wallace dinky stuff. Heavy duty laboratory precision. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Hey, anyone even look at this yet? This is NOT METAPHORICthis is about the finest relative -- it's EXPLAINED. BY A GOSH DURNED JIM DANDY ACTUAL REAL RESPECTED SCIENTIST. It's long, but do even ten minutes and you're going to watch the whole thing. This is about the Unified Field. This is about the actual mechanics of how light makes water orderly and begins LIFE. This is about free energy. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=XVBEwn6iWOo Maybe Being is OBVIOUS. Maybe it's VISIBLE to the naked eye. Spill a bit of water, and you've made A BATTERY. I'm excited! Edg
[FairfieldLife] Re: John Farrow in the news? apologies to John T. Farrow, and TM research commu
Thank you, spairig, for the clarification. My apologies to John T. Farrow, and the TM scientific research community. I deleted the original erroneous post to FFL. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: That was JT Farrow. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=farrow%20J%20%5Bauthor%5D%20meditation Mia Farrow's brother appears to be a different person: JC Villier-Farrow. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Brother-of-Mia-Farrow-Accused-of-Child-Sex-Abuse.html John Farrow was welcomed into the TM scientific research community; he's credited in a number of early TM research studies. See the Collected Papers, Vol. 1 - 5. --- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Charged with child sex abuse: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/15/brother-of-mia-farrow-charged-with-child-sex-abuse/
[FairfieldLife] Re: John Farrow in the news? Farrow's '68 brush with MMY in the news
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Brother-of-Mia-Farrow-Accused-of-Child-Sex-Abuse.html John Farrow was welcomed into the TM scientific research community; he's credited in a number of early TM research studies. See the Collected Papers, Vol. 1 - 5. --- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Charged with child sex abuse: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/15/brother-of-mia-farrow-charged-with-child-sex-abuse/
[FairfieldLife] Thanks, Curtis- Summer Eggplant recipe
Thanks, Curtis for your Summer Eggplant recipe, posted to FFL some time ago. I am enjoying a dish of it now, and despite the calendar showing we're into the Fall Season, the dish is wonderful !Kudos! -Mainstream Summer Eggplant recipe contributed to FFL by Curtis (delta blues) I associate eggplant with this season. I layer them with perorino And mozzarella with vadalia onions and slices of stale bread that the Tuscans use as an ingredient in lots of dishes. Sometimes I sacrificesome tomatoes and of course shower each layer with olive oil and fresh marjoram, oregano and basil. (Again not subtle, I want to taste them!) I might pour a can of crushed tomatoes over the top before topping it all with cheese. Bake it hot 400 to brown the edges in a glass pan. I want to see brown when I open the oven 30-40 minutes later. Let it set a bit and then carve away and let it wash over the plate because waiting didn't set it up as you hoped, it is one glorious mess. You can throw it on top of pasta if you want. Top with the best olive oil you can find Mario Battali style and some more fresh basil leaves and inhale. I mean breathe baby, this is Summer so fill your lungs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Poll Numbers- Obama played a dead opossum in first debate
I love the following theory- Obama played a dead opossum in the first debate. Obama is no dummy. Just days before the Oct. 3rd debate, the grim prospects for Romney caused big Republican financiers to plan to give up on Romney to instead divert money meant for Romney toward Republican Congressional races. Obama wants fewer Congressional Republicans rather than more following this election, to prevent increased opposition to his plans for the second term. Romney's big first debate win re-inspired his financial backers to re-commit their financial resources to Romney; and the Republican Congressional races won't receive new funding, increasing the chances of Democratic Congressional candidates, and improving Obama's chances of success during his second term. - Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Romney is ahead. The people have spoken. Obama is now on the spot to perform better during the next debate. If not, his gig as prez is done. http://news.yahoo.com/pew-romney-leads-4-post-debate-survey-200329539--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Best TM Rumor
Neil Paterson and his team of Canadian WYMS,??? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: That sounds just like Claire - I wanted to send this to you privately cuz I didn't want to seem mean to Claire - she got furious with me and two other people on the sidhi preps - I was getting to use a week of my credit and she was there in the dining room at Pinehurst and offered three of us some chutney her mother had made - she made a big shoe of it and was praising it to high heaven - now mind you, we had been rounding for some days. I tasted it and it tasted like vinegar and nothing else. I looked at the other two people at my table and they were both looking and me and each other, no one saying anything and Claire in that high pitched voice of hers was wanting us to praise the chutney as she was - I finally said it tastes like vinegar to me and the other two agreed. Claire jumped up from her chair, stomped over to our table, snatched the jar up, and stormed back to her seat, saying over her shoulder in the most offended voice imaginable Pearls before swine! She was on MD last I heard - she was so large when she went on, I heard Triguna made her go on a strict diet, no sugar or breads and she supposedly lost a lot of weight. Did you ever do any of the sidh prep course in the late '70s at Pinehurst or Boone? That is when I was around? Yes, she did lose alot of weight on MD. Nope, I did AEGTC at the Manor end of 1977 and early 1978 then stayed on staff until after Vedic Science. Things were really hopping around the Manor those years...first WPA at Amherst, Central America Peace Projects, Sidha businesses, Vedic Atoms, early Purusha, Washington DC, Neil Paterson and his team of Canadian WYMS, then Vedic Science. A wonderful, lively time of the Movement, and it was a pleasure to be part of it all. Nothing like the negative things that some people write about Maharishi or the Movement. From: laughinggull108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:47 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Best TM Rumor  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@ wrote: I am laughing and laughing - yep you nailed it - it was Claire Baxter. Another fun story about Claire: She wore glasses just about all the time. One day she came into the TM Center not wearing them and she had this glazed looked about her. She started telling us that she had had a great morning meditation that had corrected her vision so that she no longer needed glasses. She was kind of floating around the center. Of course, this changed back to normal at the end of the day! snip
[FairfieldLife] Re: If Obama wants to win
Mike, Obama will win this November, but it won't be due to warmongering or military action against Iran. There is no benefit for the U.S. or the West to engage Iran militarily, although its petroleum riches make Iran a natural target for colonization. For their good, you of course understand. It's little known that the country that's protesting Iran's possible development of one single nuclear warhead has itself acted without restraint with about 70 nuclear warheads in its back pocket for decades. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: If Obama wants to win in November, he should (i know that reeks of TM Speak) call Netanyahu to the White House, make a big deal of it, and plan the Nuclear bunker-busting strike on Iran and do it as quickly as possible. The Arabs have shot their load and are too emotionally spent, to do much of anything, after protesting for the Prophet. They will hate him but they will respect him for it. He can throw a bigger temper tantrum they they can and that is what seems to talk in that part of the world. It's going to have to be done, might as well be now. Let them wonder was it something I said?
[FairfieldLife] Remote TM checking - would Skype be effective?
Might Skype be an effective bridge for a TM checking session when a meditator and a TM checker are separated by distance?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful Videos: Maharishi Smarak in Allahabad
Might it be- Raja Felix Kägi-from Switzerland? He seems more Sattvic than the average Raja, imho. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: The Raja in the part 1 video who m-c's the report, who is that guy? The one who starts it off who has the close beard. Is he European? Just wondering, he was not introduced like everyone else in the videos. Thanks for posting. These give some insight into an element of the movement today. It is a long way from David Lynch Foundation work of teaching TM to people or the university here. It is amazing how a few people can take and plunge a whole movement otherwise in to something of that scale. Are there a lot of TM meditators living there in the area of this monument? This is different from the pundit project in the geographic center of India? Best, Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@ wrote: Beautiful Videos showing the progress on the .Maharishi Smarak in Allahabad, near Triveni Sangam, the confluence of the 3 holy rivers.. http://www.maharishisamadhi.org/videos.html .Jai Guru Dev
[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful Videos: Maharishi Smarak in Allahabad
Yet, Raja Raphael David, from Purusha, is probably the person in the video. Raphael is identified in several associated Samarak construction reports. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Is interesting that these are folks who are some of the MOST important people in adjudicating how the resources of the TM-movement going forward will goe an none of the top dozen or so people posting on Fairfieldlife according to the `post-count' could come up with the name of the guy who is on that video. That says a lot about how FFL has gone. Really poor list moderation that it (FFL)) could be so hijacked by non-Fairfudlians, anti=meditator people carrying on their personal stuff. It is a kind of terrorism. Lot of these people should take their end-less personal non-spiritual ad hominem personal stuff off-line an communicate directly by e-mail. Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: Might it be- Raja Felix Kägi-from Switzerland? He seems more Sattvic than the average Raja, imho. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: The Raja in the part 1 video who m-c's the report, who is that guy? The one who starts it off who has the close beard. Is he European? Just wondering, he was not introduced like everyone else in the videos. Thanks for posting. These give some insight into an element of the movement today. It is a long way from David Lynch Foundation work of teaching TM to people or the university here. It is amazing how a few people can take and plunge a whole movement otherwise in to something of that scale. Are there a lot of TM meditators living there in the area of this monument? This is different from the pundit project in the geographic center of India? Best, Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@ wrote: Beautiful Videos showing the progress on the .Maharishi Smarak in Allahabad, near Triveni Sangam, the confluence of the 3 holy rivers.. http://www.maharishisamadhi.org/videos.html .Jai Guru Dev
[FairfieldLife] Long Term TMer Ray Dalio in the news
http://tinyurl.com/85xbhoy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Long Term TMer Ray Dalio in the news
Dalio takes hedge crown from Soros Bridgewater Pure Alpha made $13.8bn for investors last year http://tinyurl.com/85xbhoy
[FairfieldLife] National Yagya program- taking two steps back
One step forward - over the past 5 years - was the restoration of the good name of TM - through the David Lynch Foundation. Taking Two steps back - http://www.nationalyagya.org/emailing/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Purusha leaving MUM, going to NC?
The Invincible America website link enumerating the numbers of Yogic Flyers in Fairfield http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html has Sept 30th 2011 as its last entryh 675 Pandits? Weren't there over 1,000 in the Spring, with 1,200 expected Summer 2011?What happened? Perhaps the benefactors of IA became distracted from their focus on IA by pleas from the international TMO, and they are now supporting the larger International Movement. The source of the IA benefactors wealth is Natural Gas exploration / production- the commodity price of Natural Gas dived in the past year. Regarding 100 Purushas move to NC - where to ? Heavenly Mountain, the new home of Mother Divine? Perhaps Purusha will be restoring the roof and plumbing infrastructure there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Despite the best efforts of many, as you may know we have not yet been able to increase Vedic Pandit numbers. As of today they stand at 675. The Community number (~800) is the number excluding Maharishi Vedic Pandits, Purusha, and other special groups I am writing to thank you personally, from the bottom of my heart, for your extra efforts to get to group program during December. On average there were 104 more community members like yourself at evening program and 99 more at morning program during December 2011 than during December 2010. This is a tremendous achievement, the result of great determination on your part, and a very heartwarming response to the appeals from Maharaja Adiraj Raja Raam-ji, Drs Howard and Alice Settle, Mayor Ed, John and myself to keep numbers high while Vedic Pandit numbers are low. -Buck in FF Om, this has the mark of the hand of the Prime Minister on it. Yep, there's something vindictive about them doing this with-drawing of Purusha from the Dome numbers now. Everyone who lives in Fairfield should be concerned about this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Boots on the ground, this is a serious draw-down of peace-keepers here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: FWIW, I'm afraid the 13th baktun, or stuff, of Maya-indians, is approaching its end... :0 Maya- or Mayan-Indians, it don't matter which. This is really bad for the Dome numbers, Fairfield, and the World. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: The immediate urgent priority for national invincibility and world peace is to join the Invincible America Course at MUM. Only 2000 Flyers, rising to 2500, in Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City will bring security to America and defuse the precarious escalation of conflict in the world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: This is from a faculty member at MUM. 100 Purusha are leaving VC next month to go to North Carolina. Is there a new place for Purusha in NC? There go the Dome Numbers, again.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dome meeting with Maharaja-ji
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Sounds really good - glad you were able to go. Yep, I have to thank Raja John Hagelin for granting me an exemption to attend the meeting. It was very nice . turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: (snip) I have very little interest in hearing what King Tony has to say to any easy audience. But I'd actually be interested to hear what he says to a tough audience. No entry requirements. No badges to be shown. Just people, filing in to fill the seats and hear how the supposed leader of a supposedly still-important spiritual move- ment talks its talk. In my not so humble opinion, someone willing to expose themselves to the public only in situations in which he gets to predetermine the loyalty factor or pre-programming of the audience just isn't worth listening to. I'm gonna hold out for those who will talk to anyone...no preconditions, no expectations. But, that said, was there anything *in particular* he said that resonated with you? You are often WAY too vague on this forum. Just as I'd like to see King Tony deal with a real world audience for once, I'd like to see you get real with us for once and tell us what still gets you off about the TM dogma. Raja Ram has the balls to face a 'tough audience'. Once saw him in-person in front of, and taking questions from, a non-screened, non-ticketed, non-controlled and highly-educated urban audience. He was totally wonderful with whatever came his way. If not interested in Raja Ram's talk last night, why probe Buck's nascient interest in the talk? How about internally discerning your wasted decade-plus court-side seat with Frederick 'Rama' Lenz, Instead of Incessantly degrading TMers' far less stupid spiritual interests? -Mainstream
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Sandals
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From a friend (with apologies to Dan Friendman): Dear Rick MMY had several sets of sandals made for him over the years. Mark's were not the original set. Helen Lutes had a set of sandals that M left behind when new ones came as did a few others. Mark had the sandals M used during that time period. But they were not the first set. Five million? Should be careful making personal gain from a holy man's belongings. Bevan has some rules about that and if Mark connects to Rajas he may come across those rules. We had some items and ran into the rules. Nothing happened as a result. I think the rules come from MMY. Perhaps Mark should try Craig's list instead. I envision Bevan as emcee stoking the well-heeled to donate vast sums toward a museum at MMY's pyre site in India to showcase MMY's artifacts (a memorial building to MMY is under construction there). The best return to John Landau from parting with Maharishi's sandals might well be had by donating the sandals to such a cause. The beneficent effect of donation increases the value of Maharishi's sandals and the other items that were vaguely mentioned above. Bevan has some rules.means that private transactions are deeply frowned upon.John, a donation of Maharishi's sandals could mean much to the TMO. What does the TMO have that you want or need to make your future years worthwhile?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Summer - food porn (with a few revisions)
A cornucopia of pleasure. Bravo! -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: I'm gunna talk Summer. Steamy hot, makes every fragrant thing rise into your nose like Jesus's mom ascending into heaven, Summer. It started yesterday when I stuck my nose into a box of white Virgina peaches at a farmer's market. The smell was intoxicating as every perfectly ripe fruit rose up and greeted me with the perfume of Summer. For me trips to this market are church. It is a communion with the season and nothing smells as good as the things in a farmer's market in the steamy season. I'm a fan of all the seasons and each has its foodie charms. But for take-your-clothes-off and pour a pitcher of lemonade mixed with ice tea all over your body (here you will have to put in the type of body you would like to see this drink streaming down)naked sensual joy, nothing beats Summer. It's the heat baby. I have my Summer rituals. I plant a container garden of herbs with 12 kinds of Basil from all over the world. (Yeah, I'm bragging here.) I go out and grab a handful of whatever I touch first when I cook in the Summer. This is key because I am an heirloom tomato fanatic. Thwarted by a lack of enough sun to grow my own, I fork over a percentage of my income each week to stay stocked up. I found this olive oil with a harvest date on it in Whole Foods, Prima something which costs as much as a bottle of good bourbon. It is worth it because when you pour it on the sliced tomatoes it also rises up to meet your nose. The fresher the better with white wines and olive oil. That's how I roll. Then I shower the tomato slices with too much basil. I say too much because I am not subtle about this. I am basil rich and I revel in it. Salt, pepper and here comes the airplane into the hanger. That is a magical combination that only comes together at this time of year. You can't do it in the Winter. That green basil substitute they grow in greenhouses can't hold a candle to the sharp flavor of the tiny leaves on my Greek Basil. And if you had to ask about the tomatoes you wouldn't have read this far. I associate eggplant with this season. I layer them with perorino and mozzarella with vadalia onions and slices of stale bread that the Tuscans use as an ingredient in lots of dishes. Sometimes I sacrifice some tomatoes and of course shower each layer with olive oil and fresh marjoram, oregano and basil. (Again not subtle, I want to taste them!) I might pour a can of crushed tomatoes over the top before topping it all with cheese. Bake it hot 400 to brown the edges in a glass pan. I want to see brown when I open the oven 30-40 minutes later. Let it set a bit and then carve away and let it wash over the plate because waiting didn't set it up as you hoped, it is one glorious mess. You can throw it on top of pasta if you want. Top with the best olive oil you can find Mario Battali style and some more fresh basil leaves and inhale. I mean breath baby, this is Summer so fill your lungs. I bought two kinds of corn, one white delicate and sweet and one mixed white and yellow on each cob which is not as sweet but has a butteriness to it. I eat one of each alternating bites. Each has been blessed with olive oil and salt and fresh ground pepper. I know the purists eat it with nothing and some people eat it with butter, which I love too. But I usually stock fantastic Irish butters in the Winter when I am craving heavier food so I don't have butter around in the Summer too often. I do have lard that I rendered myself but I would never be so indulgent to...oh man I am putting my lard butter on an ear tonight. It comes from special pigs who live in the woods and have a great life and one bad day, just like the rest of us. Only theirs is accomplished by a pro and we will have to make do with whatever random crap comes our way to snuff out our life. (Uncomfortable pause having alienated the vegetarians as well as people who prefer their food porn without a dash of existential death reality check vinaigrette. Sorry.) There are zukes and yellow squash including those funny ones that look like flying saucers and are firmer, have you seen them? You can put them in with the eggplant. But the money shot is the melons. Of course I am referring to lady's breasts pushing against the gauze-like fabric of Summer dresses...wait...sorry, I actually mean melons this time. Cantaloup that you can smell right through their patterned skin and of course the only fruit accused of being racist, watermelons. I prefer them with seeds because I am a snob and that goes against the yuppie trend for convenient everything. Plus my farmer's market owner claims they are sweeter cuz when you mess with genetics you get what you ask for and if you ask for no pits sometimes the sweet gene goes too. This is complete bullshit of
[FairfieldLife] Re: Across The Universe - Maharishi, The Beatles, Mike Love, Donovan in Rishikesh
Familiar faces among Beatles in Rishikesh group photo scene - Walter Koch?- in red, to MMY's left; Geoffrey Baker? - to Lennon's left, waving? Maureen Wynn?, to Ringo's right? and who is at 2:50 - looks like Katy Perry! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, stevelf ysoy10li@ wrote: the good-old-days can really be refreshing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLkNl2dplo Indeed; Knowledge is refreshing ! And it is the ultimate video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLkNl2dplo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Across The Universe - Maharishi, The Beatles, Mike Love, Donovan in Rishikesh
Familiar faces among Beatles in Rishikesh group photo scene? Walter Koch?- in red, to MMY's left; Geoffrey Baker? - waving, to Lennon's left; Maureen Wynn?- to Ringo's right. Who is at 2:50? - looks like Katy Perry! -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, stevelf ysoy10li@ wrote: the good-old-days can really be refreshing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLkNl2dplo Indeed; Knowledge is refreshing ! And it is the ultimate video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLkNl2dplo
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Gulf of Mexico continues to Heat Up...'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardjwilliamstexas willytex@... wrote: mainstream20016: ...the spontaneous combustion of Texas Governor Rick Perry on an outdoor public stage during his announcement that he will be a candidate for President. You sound very prejudiced against certain groups of people, based on their birth circumstances. It's difficult to imagine you being a TM Teacher with this kind of negative attitude. Didn't we just go over this kind of flaming a few months ago with the Gifford attack, which was roundly condemned by almost all of the FFL respondents? My bias - Texans who are Pitta-deranged and who propagate for Texas values such as dominance by force- who think their Texas values ought to be the values of the entire country- e.g. - invading a foreign country such as Iraq with the attitude, What are these Iraqis doing living atop my Oil? Spontaneous combustion is a farciful concept of nature's fury. Have a bit of lemonaid, Richard, and please offer some to your neighbors. Heaven knows it's hot in Texas.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Gulf of Mexico continues to Heat Up...'
If all tropical storms and hurricanes would be guaranteed to refrain from hitting neighboring states, and only hit Texas instead, then I'd support your wish. However, the risk of devastation to neighboring states is too great to wish for tropical storms and hurricanes. That is not saying that Nature's fury cannot bring beneficent results. While you wish for the drenching effect of tropical storms and hurricanes to douse the extreme pitta planet of Texas, perhaps nature's heat wave in Texas has a different plan that would be welcomed to bring good to all - such as the spontaneous combustion of Texas Governor Rick Perry on an outdoor public stage during his announcement that he will be a candidate for President. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Texas could use a couple or three direct hits from hurricanes or tropical storms over the next few months. Even the pine trees are starting to turn brown and we've already lost the Capitol of the Age of Enlightenment in Navasota Tx due to wildfires. The rice fields will be bone dry, no ducks! From: Robert babajii_99@... To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, July 3, 2011 3:45:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'Gulf of Mexico continues to Heat Up...' Â Hurricaine season is underway, as the gulf heats up with heat waves across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California... Fires in Arizona and Texas this season, have been historical... Stay tuned. Agni and Indra
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Gulf of Mexico continues to Heat Up...'
Excuse me. Aren't you the one who's surrounded by flames? Perhaps you might suck your own concoction. Of course wishing death on someone is not life supporting, and neither is the prospect of another right-wing Texas governor as President. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Oh my, the *hate*! Mainline, a little skullcap tea, daily, might cool that raging pitta. BTW, is wishing death on someone *life supporting* thought? From: mainstream20016 mainstream20016@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, July 3, 2011 1:51:53 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Gulf of Mexico continues to Heat Up...' Â If all tropical storms and hurricanes would be guaranteed to refrain from hitting neighboring states, and only hit Texas instead, then I'd support your wish. However, the risk of devastation to neighboring states is too great to wish for tropical storms and hurricanes. That is not saying that Nature's fury cannot bring beneficent results. While you wish for the drenching effect of tropical storms and hurricanes to douse the extreme pitta planet of Texas, perhaps nature's heat wave in Texas has a different plan that would be welcomed to bring good to all - such as the spontaneous combustion of Texas Governor Rick Perry on an outdoor public stage during his announcement that he will be a candidate for President. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Texas could use a couple or three direct hits from hurricanes or tropical storms over the next few months. Even the pine trees are starting to turn brown and we've already lost the Capitol of the Age of Enlightenment in Navasota Tx due to wildfires. The rice fields will be bone dry, no ducks! From: Robert babajii_99@ To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, July 3, 2011 3:45:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'Gulf of Mexico continues to Heat Up...' ÃÂ Hurricaine season is underway, as the gulf heats up with heat waves across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California... Fires in Arizona and Texas this season, have been historical... Stay tuned. Agni and Indra
[FairfieldLife] Re: Record Corporate Profits and the Rich -vs- Everybody Else
No. Perhaps you were thinking, if Corporate Profits were LOWER, the deficit would have been 'worse'. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Record Corporate Profits, the GOP's Wet Dream - But where's the ' Trickle-Down ' ? Hey, if taxes had been higher, the deficit would have been *worse*!!! Isn't that self-evident? L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: MD moving back to Heavenly Mountain?
see maharishi global family chat of April 27th, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/3c75sov purchased: at a cost of $12 / sq. ft, the east campus group buildings; purchase price includes 224 acres of the former 7K acres property. Apparently a great deal of due diligence was applied by the purchasers during the negotiation process to prevent post-purchase surprises. Still needed for occupancy: monies for remedial repairs to interior finishes; plumbing; and of course, roofs. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool fflmod@... wrote: Just heard this from someone who lives in Boone. Word is it was purchased outright. Anyone hear anything?
[FairfieldLife] Re: ObamaBudget: War on the Poor
For 48 years in the U.S., the wealthy have steadily succeeded in transferring the responsibility of funding the public treasury away from themselves and onto everyone else. It's past time to refute the constant drumbeat in the media that the U.S. has an excessive 'spending problem'. In reality, the U.S. has an inadequate 'revenue problem'. Until 1963, the wealthy paid 91% of their income in federal taxes. In 1964, the rate dropped to 77%, and has steadily declined since, to 36.5%. The Republicans and Tea Partyers screamed when the Bush43 tax cuts were set to expire and raise the rate to 39.5%, which would have yielded $750b additional revenue over the next 10 years. Even the most well-educated among us are oblivious to the historical tax rates. In May, '09, I called the office of Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance committee, to object to a proposal floated by his committee to heavily tax 'Cadillac health care plans'. I was connected to Finance committee staff member to discuss the issue. I asked the staffer what he knew of historical income tax rates in the U.S. in the 1950s. That Senate Finance committee staffer guessed that the highest rate of taxation in the late 1950s was probably about 30%. He had no idea that the rate was 91% ! http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Nobody wants to be poor but not everybody wants to earn their keep. This is the problem. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 11:26:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ObamaBudget: War on the Poor  Count Von Dixon, Sounds like a Rakshasa plan to me. Let's see Republicans and Rakshasas both start with R. No wonder. I don't know of any poor person who wants to be poor. Their cards play out that way. You'll have to pay for them anyway so why not organize it and give them a stipend so they don't fall through the cracks that cost YOU money? slavin' to the grave ain't no way to go, must be time for Revolution 2.0. On 02/18/2011 11:05 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: Hey, it's time to stop subsidizing poverty. Tax people who earn less than 20K at a higher rate than those who earn more than 20K. Poverty should be taxed like any other bad behavior. No social programs for those that don't pay into the system and no SS or Medicare until all previous benefits received are repaid in full. From: WillyTexwillytex@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 9:52:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ObamaBudget: War on the Poor With my plan, which is to create good paying jobs for everyone, people would pay next to zero income tax, and what they pay would be a flat tax that is equal and fair for everyone. Bhairitu: So you advocate a social jobs program like FDR had? No, free enterprise system. And a flat tax is disproportionate for lower wage earners. So, you're thinking that 2% of wage earners would pay the federal income tax for the remaining 98% of U.S. wage earners? Screw that! What happened to equality spelled out in the U.S. Constitution? I am opposed to federal and state income taxation, but if everyone paid a flat and equal tax, I would pay my share. Why won't you pay your fair share of federal income tax? You probably get an income tax refund. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dome Numbers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut no_reply@ wrote: I think that group-program, from its very outset, was never meant to create world-peace or anything. It was always a control mechanism, and that shows. If group programs would work, the chinese could have never massacred tibetan monastries, who had thousands of people meditating together, on a permanent basis. Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. I was also around back then in 1977, and agree with you. One more clue, why that is so, is the fact how it developed: there was never any emphasis on group meditation before the sidhis, that is approximately before 1977. Until that time people simply meditated in their rooms, and that was perfectly alright. With the introduction of sidhis, and especially flying, foam matrazes were needed, and having people hopping in their beds, with the consequent damages was simply no option. Originally people came together only for flying sessions into a flying room or tent. Exactly. Only around the years 1977, towards the end, beginning of 1978 the whole ideology of group- practise for world peace, super-radience or how-ever it was called developed. Exactly again. I bailed from the TMO towards the end of 1977, after coming back from my TM-siddhis course. Up until the time I left, there was never a *hint* of the Maharishi Effect or You're doing it for world peace. That was all invented later, as you say. Interesting. I knew quite a few people then, who left right after the Siddhis/Enlightenment course,some right away to India to either Muktananda or Osho. At the time I was still thoroughly immersed in the TM movement. I would have bailed out some 4 years later, but ironically, it was meeting a saint, who made me stay in the movement some years more, and actually have both worlds, until it became clear which way to go. My theory as to *why* it was invented is a little different than yours. Yes, group practice is a control mechanism, and an enforced test of fealty (You're either with us or against us, and check- ing attendance allows us to see which), but the whole ME You're doing it for the world thang was not trotted out until people had started to realize that the siddhis had very little payoff for them, personally. There was no there there. People were starting to quit and drift away from the TMO, because they'd paid big bucks for its most expensive program, and it did diddleysquat for them. Certainly the promises were to high by far. We all thought we would fly within a few month, get lots of initiations. When I first heard of siddhis there were reports of people waking through walls, getting invisible, (I still got that sutra, it was skipped later on) Can't have that. Rephrase things to take the emphasis away from discernible personal benefit, and cast it in terms of You're doing it for the world. Try to appeal to the higher motives of people to get them to stick around, because the techniques themselves weren't sufficient to keep them around. This 'appealing to higher motives' was a very conscious thing from Maharishis side. I actually heard him say, we should always make very general (not specific) appeals, like mentioning 'ideal society' and the like. There is an added thing. People started to move to communities to be able to 'fly' together. Sidhaland came up.So people become dependend (psychologically) on group practice, on the existence of such groups, move their whole lives, families, jobs to other places, Fairfield for example, and such become more and more dependend on the group. If you had an individual scheme of enlightenment, you were told that we are doing it for the world, we are like soldiers for world peace, that we are karmically connected to the world. Sort of like the Bodhisattva ideal, but TM movement version. Skip your own individual enlightenment, and wait till day X when we get all enlightened. May be you weren't around anymore, when Maharishi would answer to questions, why we don't fly yet, that it was because of world consciousness. Again the shift from individual to collective. This is called goal displacement http://www.ex-premie.org/papers/goal_displacement.htm Just as a small follow up: the siddhis were already a goal displacement to the original goal of enlightenment. The group effect, was a goal displacement for the siddhis. The siddhis (as goals in themselves) were just an intermediate station of a larger goal displacement from individual to
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dome Numbers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@... wrote: I was around when the first sutra/flying attempts were made. We were all sitting in chairs in a circle...there was no sitting on foam mats at that time. (This was in one of the hotels around Lake LucernI forget which now.) This would have been probably late 1975. I've mentioned this before since its one of my favorite recollections from that time, but I'll trot it out one more time: We would meet every day at the appointed time, meditate and then run the sutras, finishing with the flying sutra. After 3 or 4 days of nothing, my inner comic finally perked up and I rigged up a device made from a coat hanger that would fit into my tie. I could then manipulate the rising of my tie with one finger of my right hand (which was cupped in my left in classic hands in lap mode.) Several minutes before we were to come out I pulled my right index finger, and like magic, my tie gently lifted up and floated in front of me. I was even able to give the tie a little quivering motion, like it was struggling to stay in a levitated state. I kept my eyes closed while people slowly began coming out. I would hear a gasp to my left, then a gasp to my right...then more people apparently poking each other and pointing. For a minute or so, the group, having meditated for 1/2 hour in the midst of a deep rounding anyway, followed by sutras.thought they were witnessing the true dawn of a new age. I was doing everything I could to remain calm and keep my eyes closed. But when I heard one of my buddies start to chuckle I lost it. Tellingly, about 1/4 of the group thought it was hilarious. The rest were horrified and made it clear that this enlightenment business was NO laughing matter. I think that was probably the moment that the first real crack in my belief system started. Who was the first to - ahem - fly ? Was eventual TM Sidhi administrator Gregg Wilson (husband of Georgina), the first?
[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO connection with the Paterson trial?
Rick, do you think MMY was party to the deliberate dishonest exaggeration of the gold content from the exploratory mines that led to Global Gold Corp's stock value surge ? Perhaps MMY, rather than an intimate participant in the dishonesty by the Global Gold Corp, was innocent of the stock fraud. I recall that Neil P was said to have had a nervous breakdown earlier in the decade. Perhaps news of Neil's 'nervous breakdown' was related to the discovery of the fraud. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Paterson_(politician): Neil Paterson owned 92% of Global Gold Corp, while his brother John owned the remaining 8%. Where did Neil get the money to own that 92% share? He worked full-time for the TMO all his life. Unless there was an inheritance, the TMO must have invested in the company, as it often did in business ventures. If that is the case, knowing MMY's micro-managerial tendencies, he was probably consulting with Neil on a regular basis, dictating or influencing decisions which led to the current state of affairs. The company was worth over $800 million in 2004, when MMY was still very much alive. If you think he wouldn't have had his fingers in that pie, you don't know him very well.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A question about post limits
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 5:41 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A question about post limits --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 5:07 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A question about post limits The language is not at all clear, but it sounds like ditzy wants to forward to FFL a privately emailed reply from Judy. Or publicly reply to Judy's private email on FFL. If either of those are what he wants to do, then that would be up to Judy. He could ask her privately and then post them if she approves. That would amount to Judy posting by proxy, with ditzy essentially giving away part of his allotment. I can see the potential for abuse. OTOH, few people post enough to need such a workaround. But, it's your call, so what the hell do I care? I see what you mean and I agree with you. Forwarding emails from people whose allotment had expired would just be an end run around the posting limit. So if that's what you're asking ditzy, the answer is no. Thanks, Alex and Rick for preventing posting by proxy. The 50 post / week limit prevents FFL from generating more heat than light.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robes of Silk Feet of Clay - RooSFoC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, andrasayer sandraa...@... wrote: Is Judith American or Swedish? Does anyone know if she was at Estes Park? You apparently were at Estes Park. Please tell us more about it. Was that late Summer and early Fall of 1973 ? Judith I Bourque is Probably an American by birth, yet perhaps is a Swedish citizen. The following is likely Judith's mother's obit, which notes her mother reared a family, and was buried, in Massachusetts. This obit of Judith's mum also mentions a grandchild named Jonathon Olivegren Bourque, likely the issue of Judith and the Seelisburg TMO official named Olivegren. Jonathon apparently posted a positive comment about RooSFoC within the past month on some site or another that is promoting RoosFoC. Judith's mum's obit, from: http://www.genealogybuff.com/ucd/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/2501 Bourque, Doris Nov. 7, 1915 - May 15, 2003 Doris Ikalainen Bourque, passed away peacefully on May 15, at her home in Newcastle at the age of 87. She was the daughter of Karl and Mary Ikalainen. Born in Fitchburg, Mass., on Nov. 7, 1915, she grew up in Princeton, Mass. and attended school there. She received her Bachelor's degree from Lowell Teachers' College and taught elementary school in Rutland and Holden, Mass. She then went on to teach remedial reading to students with learning disabilities. She raised her family in Princeton, Massachusetts and retired to Newcastle with her husband Ellsworth J. Bourque in 1996. She was predeceased by her husband in January 2001. Doris was a devoted wife, mother and homemaker. She enjoyed handwork and was especially known for her braided and hooked rugs. She also did hospital volunteer work. Doris was proud of her Finnish heritage. She spoke Finnish fluently and traveled to Finland to research for family's roots. She is survived by her son, Bruce J. Bourque of Hallowell; daughter, Judith I. Bourque of Stockholm, Sweden, as well as three grandchildren, Amanda Bourque, Garrett Bourque and Jonathan Olivegren Bourque, a niece, Mary Ann Mastrorio; nephew, Allen Ikalainen; and her cat Muffin. Graveside service Woodlawn Cemetery in Princeton, Mass., Sat., June 15, 11 a.m. Arrangements are under the care of Strong Funeral Home, 612 Main St., Damariscotta.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal News from Raja Hagelin
Her taste for men is interesting - here's an article from '99 about her ex : http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990430scam3.asp --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Poor woman -- how long before he betrays her? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear fellow Faculty, Staff and Trustees, I would like to take a moment to share with you some personal news. I will soon be announcing my intention to become engaged. This is clearly an important step for me--one which I have made with careful deliberation, including several discussions with Maharishi. I have felt drawn these days, given my expanded National and Global responsibilities, to have more support close at hand-emotional support and nourishment to bring me greater fortitude for what I face each day. Kara Anastasio, 43, was a star organizer for the NLP in Ohio. After the Party dissolved, she continued to serve twice as the Democratic Party Candidate for US Congress-running on the NLP Platform. She is a long-term meditator and aspiring Sidha. She has a 12-year-old son, Brecon Llewellyn, named after his father (Kara's former husband). Kara and Brecon are planning to move from Ohio to join me in Fairfield, where Brecon will attend the Maharishi School and Kara will help me with my numerous Movement responsibilities. As will be obvious to all who know me, this change in my home life will not change, one iota, my one-pointed focus on my crucial responsibilities as a National Raja, Global Minister, MUM faculty and Trustee. On the contrary, I hope to gain even greater strength and solidarity to focus wholeheartedly and dynamically on this. Kara's support and assistance will be invaluable. I look forward to working closely with all of you as we conclude another triumphant year, and look forward to even greater success and expansion in the year ahead. With best wishes, Jai Guru Dev, John Hagelin, Trustee Raja of Invincible America
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
For more than two weeks I have repeatedly and closely listened to the BATGAP episodes via iTunes downloads via a portable iPod. The BATGAP episodes are a fascinating record of the personal histories and subjective perspectives of persons who have courage to publicly discuss permanently established positive shifts in awareness. Here-to-fore, an individual's declaration of a permanent shift in awareness called into question the validity of the experience. Rick Archer and the BATGAP interviewees promote egalitarian principles of experience and expression of higher states of awareness. BATGAP is a vehicle for positive cultural advancement by diminishing the influence of exploitive individuals and hierarchical institutions that for control purposes employ excessively exclusive principles of experience and expression by default and discourage members' advancement. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: And the yahoo group -- I read a 20 or so posts. The posters are way into their heads -- it would appear from their posts. Dry expositions. While a small sample, i don't see the energy, vibrancy, life surging from their words. Hard to strike gold twice. FFL with all it's problems has some good edg (edge) and gets into some interesting discussions. But I think you've pretty well nailed this Buddha at the Gas Pump. And those interviews-I've only listened to the Foster's piece, but there wasn't much there to make me want to push on. Then again, I don't have time to do a lot of speculative exploring.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Fairfield - BATGAP
Every episode is fascinating and together the series presents an intimate insight into the histories and perspectives of the constellation of characters that live in town. My favorite guest to date is Michael 'not Mike' Baxter. His tutorial presentation on the primacy of the Self, and Rick's wise probes of his theory, are a real treat. Highly recommended as a series. iTunes audio downloads make convenient listening. Thanks, Rick. Congratulations. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: =--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: I have only seen one BudPump, but seek to watch more. The contrast of unfettered description of change in ones inner life (kind of ironic huh) from the high-tea, silk couch, victorian approach of the TMO, to a more blue jeans approach of BudGas, snip I agree and think the conception of this project is brilliant no matter where you stand on the higher states thoery. I have listened to 3 of them so far and think Rick is doing an excellent job in providing a safe venue for people to expose something pretty intimate while throwing in some good questions to keep the ball rolling. I'm sure their openness has a lot to do with Rick's friendly acceptance. I've been trying to collect the specific claims about what has changed in their lives. Predictably the people who are still very Maharishi directed use his terms and people who look elsewhere for their intellectual framework use those terms to describe their inner states. Very little to put in a wheelbarrow as should be expected. But the language is so vague and imprecise that is it difficult to pin down what exactly is being claimed. Objects appear more transparent, their self expands. Terms that used to mean so much to me but now seem so empty outside the language system of spirituality. Believing that your self is the Self of everything is poetic. Does it really matter? I'm not sure. I do believe that trans-personal experiences can be helpful but I'm not sure if taking this long to have them might develop a type of internal state, self-fascination that strikes me as odd. It might be best for people to drop a hit of whatever, embrace the feeling of being everything for a while, and then drop back into daily life refreshed but without years of self-absorption. That might give most of the claimed benefits. And despite the strong opinions to the contrary, most of my psychedelic insights have brought permanent shifts in my perspective. It just depends what you want to pay attention to. They certainly are on a par with anything I got out of meditation for permanently shifting my inner states. Nothing has convinced me that this is more than a POV on their inner experiences. People who enjoy thinking this much about their inner state of mind who become more and more expressive of every shift and change. I have had enough shifts of mind myself to believe that they aren't making this up, but believe they may be making a big deal about states that the rest of us take for granted. There are some whose admitted mental history should give us some insight into how radically their minds might shift at any given time. If this time it made them feel better, good for them, I hope it stays that way. Most of all it is a bit hard to get through entire interviews because their micro fascination with their own internal states lacks a language that does it any justice. Describing it head on may be the poorest way to express these states. It may be that for me it is art that does it best. Perhaps if I saw the dancer in the series dance I might be more impressed that she was different in a way that mattered to anyone outside herself. Maybe it is that people who can convey inner states though the arts can actually move and inspire me in a way that these descriptions can't. What is it in art that moves us that shifts our states and conveys such beauty. Why is that inspirational quality lacking in these descriptions? Or perhaps it is just me. I may have drifted too far out of the insider perspective that fills these descriptions with glowy charm. I sense that these people are experienced in describing their new states of mind and have honed their narrative to in corporate the reactions they have had to their phrasing. We are not the first audience for these stories. But if these people are expressing true significant shifts of consciousness that would benefit humanity then Rick's project is going way beyond the movement in opening them for examination. I think either way Rick is really on to something with this project. By now we should expect people living in the states Maharishi described vaguely and promised repeatedly. Hearing from them is a great resource for all of us interested in evaluating these
[FairfieldLife] Re: http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc-2010.html
Nablusoss, The Maha Rajeshwari seems to play an increasingly important role in Vlodrop. By what other names might she be known? nablusoss1008 wrote: March 24th http://streaming.mou.org/MOU/Chat/24_Mar_10.wmv Today is the highly auspicious day of Ram Navami in the Vedic Calendar. The day started early at Meru, Invincible Holland, with a Vedic ceremony to begin planting 400 young fruit trees. The trees are the gift of our dear Maha Raja Rajeshwari and they will always be a reminder of her enlightened and simple nature, and her generosity to all future generations. snip This morning all the Rajas, Ministers, and leadership gathered with Maharaja-ji at the auspicious time in the Brahmasthan for Puja to Guru Dev, snip
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Right: Constantly On The Wrong Side Of History
The Eastern Establishment moderate Republicans who composed a large segment of Republican Party during the 1960s who supported progressive social legislation are now extinct. Following the passage of '60s Civil Rights legislation, the Republican party's Southern Strategy encouraged entrenched southern racists to align with the Republican party to maintain their racism-Republican god Ronald Reagan chose tiny Philadelphia, Mississippi, the scene of a brutal triple murder of 60s civil rights workers, to formally announce his 1980 candidacy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: do.rflex: They were wrong about Social Security... FDR passed Social Security with massive Republican support -- 81 Republicans voted in favor of the measure in the House and only 15 against while 16 Republicans voted in favor in the Senate and just 5 against... Newsbusters: Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/25/lehrer-accuses-gop-blocking-civil-rights-act-kyl-corrects-him#ixzz0jcPOAD0A http://tinyurl.com/yghhj9c
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Bullshit Bingo
Hey, Dix, Check your math regarding 10 generations of your family in America since 1640. About 30 generations of my family have been born in America, beginning in 1637. By the way, in 2000 the U.S. was in great shape, until G.W. Bush and the far right took total control of all aspects of our government. They ruined the country. Barack Obama is extraordinary. This Patriot loves him. - Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Steve, when Obama was elected, I thought it might take about four years to piss off enough people to at least take back the WH and at least one branch of congress. We may be ahead of schedule to take back one or possibly both branches this November. If we don't, two more years will just pound it into the minds of those that voted for Obama that maybe we could have chosen a better candidate. It took four years of Jimmy Carter to create the Reagan Revolution. South America? Why would I want to move there? My family has been here ten generation, since 1640 in Jamestown Virginia. Oh yeah, I've got lots of faith in the American people. When they screw up and see it, they are pretty good at fixing things. Voting, of course all law abiding citizens should vote, however I think there should a voter ID with photo to prove who you are when casting that vote and maybe even at least a high school diploma to show some understanding of our system of government and economics, it's free. If you're not hearing about the war on terror everyday, it's not because we aren't at war, it's because your media choices don't talk about it as much so it will look like Obama has solved the problem. We're safe? Tell that to the 13 that died at Fort Hood at the hands of a terrorist who infiltrated the military or the two army recruiters shot by another terrorist in AK. or the people on the flight coming into Detroit that were nearly blown up, but no, I'm not upset, it's to be expected these days. I thought the war on terror* is* an international issue. I also thought Obama was going to get the rest of the world to take up their fair share of responsibility in that war. Remember that? What bothers me is that we've got a moron *focusing like a dim flash light*on domestic and international issues making things much worse in the short and long run. Now Steve,when Obama and his leftist government ARE thrown out, will you go berserk? Can you go berserk if you already are? . From: lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, March 26, 2010 5:29:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Bullshit Bingo  Come November you can vote the bums out of office Dix. What the HELL are you going to do if that doesn't happen. Maybe you should move to South America. Do you have faith in the American people, or only when they vote your way? Should the American people even have the right to vote? Maybe they can't be trusted with a ballot. Are you upset that the country has been safe, even though we don't hear about the War on Terror everyday. Does it bother you that we have a president who is focussing on domestic, and international issues, and not spending 80% of his time on the War on Terror. And the fact that he lets the military prosecute our conflicts in the way they see best, and not having the president, vice president and secretary of defense trying to call all the shots. Or would it serve your purposes if the country was attacked. How bout it Dix? What's the scoop?. Which is better? And what's your take on the American people Dix? Is their judgment to be trusted, or not. God, you better hope that in November they vote your way. You may just go beserk if they don't. --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ ... wrote: Bullshit  Bingo 1. Before  Barrack Obama's next televised speech, prepare your Bullshit Bingo card by drawing a square -- I find that 5 x 5 is a good size --  and dividing it into columns -- five across and five down.  That will give you 25  1-inch blocks. 2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:   ·        Restored our reputation   ·        Strategic fit    ·        Let me be clear   ·        Make no mistake   ·        Back from the brink   ·        Signs of  recovery   ·        Out of the loop    ·        Benchmark    ·        Job creation   ·        Fiscal  restraint   ·        Win-win   ·        Affordable health care   ·        Previous  Administration   ·        Empower (or empowerment)    ·        Greed on Wall  Street   ·        At the end of the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Bullshit Bingo
My apologies to Dix and his math - 10 generations in America since 1640 is accurate. I misquoted my family's generations in America since the 1630s as 30 generations. The correct number is 13. I'm sorry for questioning your math, Dix. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20...@... wrote: Hey, Dix, Check your math regarding 10 generations of your family in America since 1640. About 30 generations of my family have been born in America, beginning in 1637. By the way, in 2000 the U.S. was in great shape, until G.W. Bush and the far right took total control of all aspects of our government. They ruined the country. Barack Obama is extraordinary. This Patriot loves him. - Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Steve, when Obama was elected, I thought it might take about four years to piss off enough people to at least take back the WH and at least one branch of congress. We may be ahead of schedule to take back one or possibly both branches this November. If we don't, two more years will just pound it into the minds of those that voted for Obama that maybe we could have chosen a better candidate. It took four years of Jimmy Carter to create the Reagan Revolution. South America? Why would I want to move there? My family has been here ten generation, since 1640 in Jamestown Virginia. Oh yeah, I've got lots of faith in the American people. When they screw up and see it, they are pretty good at fixing things. Voting, of course all law abiding citizens should vote, however I think there should a voter ID with photo to prove who you are when casting that vote and maybe even at least a high school diploma to show some understanding of our system of government and economics, it's free. If you're not hearing about the war on terror everyday, it's not because we aren't at war, it's because your media choices don't talk about it as much so it will look like Obama has solved the problem. We're safe? Tell that to the 13 that died at Fort Hood at the hands of a terrorist who infiltrated the military or the two army recruiters shot by another terrorist in AK. or the people on the flight coming into Detroit that were nearly blown up, but no, I'm not upset, it's to be expected these days. I thought the war on terror* is* an international issue. I also thought Obama was going to get the rest of the world to take up their fair share of responsibility in that war. Remember that? What bothers me is that we've got a moron *focusing like a dim flash light*on domestic and international issues making things much worse in the short and long run. Now Steve,when Obama and his leftist government ARE thrown out, will you go berserk? Can you go berserk if you already are? . From: lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, March 26, 2010 5:29:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Bullshit Bingo  Come November you can vote the bums out of office Dix. What the HELL are you going to do if that doesn't happen. Maybe you should move to South America. Do you have faith in the American people, or only when they vote your way? Should the American people even have the right to vote? Maybe they can't be trusted with a ballot. Are you upset that the country has been safe, even though we don't hear about the War on Terror everyday. Does it bother you that we have a president who is focussing on domestic, and international issues, and not spending 80% of his time on the War on Terror. And the fact that he lets the military prosecute our conflicts in the way they see best, and not having the president, vice president and secretary of defense trying to call all the shots. Or would it serve your purposes if the country was attacked. How bout it Dix? What's the scoop?. Which is better? And what's your take on the American people Dix? Is their judgment to be trusted, or not. God, you better hope that in November they vote your way. You may just go beserk if they don't. --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ ... wrote: Bullshit  Bingo 1. Before  Barrack Obama's next televised speech, prepare your Bullshit Bingo card by drawing a square -- I find that 5 x 5 is a good size --  and dividing it into columns -- five across and five down.  That will give you 25  1-inch blocks. 2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:   ·        Restored our reputation   ·        Strategic fit    ·        Let me be clear   ·        Make no mistake   ·        Back from the brink   ·        Signs of  recovery  Â
[FairfieldLife] Re: EVERY Republican voted against Clinton's Economic Plan
Not a single Republican vote. Sound familiar ?Clinton led America to create tremendous prosperity, surpluses, peace and put the U.S. clearly in a beneficent and dominant role at end of his second term. No good deed goes unpunished - and the Republicans, green with envy at Clinton's economic record - relentlessly pursued Clinton with accusations of immorality and perjury witch hunts that led to impeachment by the House, and just short of expulsion from the Presidency by the Senate. G W Bush quickly sewed up the 2000 Republican Presidential nomination, then stole the general election, with the aid of the Supreme Court. The next decade was a disaster largely under complete Republican control. The Republicans have less than zero credibility. November is going to be an aberration as a mid-term election. The Dems will pick up seats, instead of lose them. Bring it On. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: President Clinton signed into law the largest deficit reduction plan in history As part of the 1993 Economic Plan, President Clinton cut taxes on 15 million low-income families and made tax cuts available to 90 percent of small businesses, while raising taxes on just 1.2 percent of the wealthiest taxpayers. From Wikipedia: The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ... was passed by the 103rd United States Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress and signed into law by President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States Bill Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton . It has also been referred to as the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993. Part XIII, which dealt with taxes, is also called the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. [...and just like today's Republicans ] Ultimately *every Republican in Congress voted against the bill,* as did a number of Democrats. Vice President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States Al Gore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore broke a tie in the Senate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate on both the Senate bill and the conference report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Conference_committe\ e#The_conference_report . The House bill passed 219-213.[1] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll199.xml The House passed the conference report on Thursday, August 5, 1993, by a vote of 218 to 216 (217 Democrats and 1 independent (Sanders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders (VT-I)) voting in favor; 41 Democrats and 175 Republicans voting against) ...The Senate passed the conference report ... on Friday, August 6, 1993, by a vote of 51 to 50 (50 Democrats plus Vice President Gore voting in favor, ... and 44 Republicans voting against). President Clinton signed the bill on August 10, 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_Act_of_1993#L\ egislative_history [Results:] During the Bill Clinton Presidency: * Average economic growth of 4.0 percent per year, compared to average growth of 2.8 percent during the previous years. The economy grew for 116 consecutive months, the most in history.[36] * Creation of more than 22.5 million jobsthe most jobs ever created under a single administration, and more than were created in the previous 12 years. Of the total new jobs, 20.7 million, or 92 percent, were in the private sector.[37] * Economic gains spurred an increase in family incomes for all Americans. Since 1993, real median family income increased by $6,338, from $42,612 in 1993 to $48,950 in 1999 (in 1999 dollars).[38] * Overall unemployment dropped to the lowest level in more than 30 years, down from 6.9 percent in 1993 to just 4.0 percent in January 2001. The unemployment rate was below 5 percent for 40 consecutive months. Unemployment for African Americans fell from 14.2 percent in 1992 to 7.3 percent in 2000, the lowest rate on record. Unemployment for Hispanics fell from 11.8 percent in October 1992 to 5.0 percent in 2000, also the lowest rate on record.[37] * Inflation dropped to its lowest rate since the Kennedy Administration, averaging 2.5 percent, and fell from 4.7 percent during the previous administration.[39] * The homeownership rate reached 67.7 percent near the end of the Clinton administration, the highest rate on record. In contrast, the homeownership rate fell from 65.6 percent in the first quarter of 1981 to 63.7 percent in the first quarter of 1993.[40] * The poverty rate also declined from 15.1 percent in 1993 to 11.8 percent in 1999, the largest six-year drop in poverty in nearly 30 years. This left 7 million fewer people in poverty than there were in 1993.[41] * The surplus in fiscal year 2000 was $237 billionthe third consecutive surplus and the largest surplus ever.[40] * Clinton worked with the Republican-led Congress to enact welfare reform. As a result,
[FairfieldLife] Re: EVERY Republican voted against Clinton's Economic Plan
The Republicans voted unanimously AGAINST the Clinton Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. The Republicans had NO PART in the legislation that created the basis of economic strength, prosperity and surpluses in the decade of the 90s. The Republican Congress true colors were revealed as soon as G W Bush took office. Together Bush and the Republican Congress immediately did what they always do - cut taxes on the wealthiest. First and foremost, Republicans cut taxes on the wealthy. Reagan the Republican in the 1980s also dismantled America's then-role as the largest creditor nation into the largest debtor nation, before Reagan left office in 1989. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG wg...@... wrote: Thank God he had a Republican Congress! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: Not a single Republican vote. Sound familiar ?Clinton led America to create tremendous prosperity, surpluses, peace and put the U.S. clearly in a beneficent and dominant role at end of his second term. No good deed goes unpunished - and the Republicans, green with envy at Clinton's economic record - relentlessly pursued Clinton with accusations of immorality and perjury witch hunts that led to impeachment by the House, and just short of expulsion from the Presidency by the Senate. G W Bush quickly sewed up the 2000 Republican Presidential nomination, then stole the general election, with the aid of the Supreme Court. The next decade was a disaster largely under complete Republican control. The Republicans have less than zero credibility. November is going to be an aberration as a mid-term election. The Dems will pick up seats, instead of lose them. Bring it On. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: President Clinton signed into law the largest deficit reduction plan in history As part of the 1993 Economic Plan, President Clinton cut taxes on 15 million low-income families and made tax cuts available to 90 percent of small businesses, while raising taxes on just 1.2 percent of the wealthiest taxpayers. From Wikipedia: The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ... was passed by the 103rd United States Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress and signed into law by President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States Bill Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton . It has also been referred to as the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993. Part XIII, which dealt with taxes, is also called the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. [...and just like today's Republicans ] Ultimately *every Republican in Congress voted against the bill,* as did a number of Democrats. Vice President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States Al Gore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore broke a tie in the Senate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate on both the Senate bill and the conference report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Conference_committe\ e#The_conference_report . The House bill passed 219-213.[1] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll199.xml The House passed the conference report on Thursday, August 5, 1993, by a vote of 218 to 216 (217 Democrats and 1 independent (Sanders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders (VT-I)) voting in favor; 41 Democrats and 175 Republicans voting against) ...The Senate passed the conference report ... on Friday, August 6, 1993, by a vote of 51 to 50 (50 Democrats plus Vice President Gore voting in favor, ... and 44 Republicans voting against). President Clinton signed the bill on August 10, 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_Act_of_1993#L\ egislative_history [Results:] During the Bill Clinton Presidency: * Average economic growth of 4.0 percent per year, compared to average growth of 2.8 percent during the previous years. The economy grew for 116 consecutive months, the most in history.[36] * Creation of more than 22.5 million jobsthe most jobs ever created under a single administration, and more than were created in the previous 12 years. Of the total new jobs, 20.7 million, or 92 percent, were in the private sector.[37] * Economic gains spurred an increase in family incomes for all Americans. Since 1993, real median family income increased by $6,338, from $42,612 in 1993 to $48,950 in 1999 (in 1999 dollars).[38] * Overall unemployment dropped to the lowest level in more than 30 years, down from 6.9 percent in 1993 to just 4.0 percent in January 2001. The unemployment rate was below 5 percent for 40 consecutive months. Unemployment for African Americans fell from 14.2 percent in 1992 to 7.3 percent
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi off-stage - is there a video archive?
The question is whether an audio or video record exists of Maharishi's non-public life such record could give a view of Maharishi's more earthly ambitions, talents, actions, and achievements. We know from anecdotal accounts of Maharishi's immense drive and activity behind the scenes to further the TMO. It would be great to see a documentary record of his non-public life that highlights his worldly actions. Not looking for a holy grail - just the opposite a record of his practical actions dealing with earthly matters to get things done. Such a documentary would enhance his legacy, not threaten it. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mainstream20016 Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:55 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi off-stage - is there a video archive? Every public moment of Maharishi's life was recorded for posterity, probably beginning in '70 or so, right ? The public Maharishi, for all of his expounding of Vedic knowledge ..It's such a joy.. In reality offers a very incomplete perspective of Maharishi and the evolution of the TMO. The TM movement was shaped by Maharishi during his extensive activity behind the public view. Might an extensive audio and/or video record exist of Maharishi `s activities behind the public veil ? What a documentary such a record could become... There was tons of stuff taped that sits in archives not being viewed by anyone, but in all the smaller, more private meetings I was ever in, I didn't notice any taping going on. Right Rick In the beginning of the movement at Olson's place , may be but then Never ever fortunately ---there are some private notes, written records after organizational (and spiritual personal)meetings and many many cherished memories ---and few private recordings by some movement's bystander without real responsibilities (BTW--of course there are some assembly meeting recording in the earlier years and recording during the courses with course participants-- not to be public seen) but to get to the point there are no secret archive! there are no secret private archive! and starting with such a myth and rumor let's ask the question Cui bono? and I really do not understand the question. Were there not enough misuse of private and personal remarks given by Maharishi and said under special circumstances and situation ONLY and hasn't it not enough damage done to the movement in the last 40(I certainly know of) years? In search of a hidden GRAIL OF PRIVATE ARCHIVE what an idea Now HE is laughing REST IN PEACE
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi off-stage - is there a video archive?
Every public moment of Maharishi's life was recorded for posterity, probably beginning in '70 or so, right ? The public Maharishi, for all of his expounding of Vedic knowledge .It's such a joy .In reality offers a very incomplete perspective of Maharishi and the evolution of the TMO. The TM movement was shaped by Maharishi during his extensive activity behind the public view. Might an extensive audio and/or video record exist of Maharishi `s activities behind the public veil ?What a documentary such a record could become ..
[FairfieldLife] Re: Healthcare. Have you Septic Tanks gone civilised?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor uns_tres...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: And how do you feel that your health system costs the British taxpayer half of what the US system costs the US taxpayer? OffWorld A lot of Nones here. As for the last, these insurance companies, now with a flood of new custom, are going to be very interested in remedies that are cost effective. They could have a very pragmatic attitude. TM should get in the frame. You're right - as a newly reconstituted SIMS-like pre-1975 secular TM organization, based in the U.S., the only product of which is TM instruction, TM checking and residence courses. Start by decoupling from the Global Country of World Peace. Eliminate isolation of the stand alone Peace Palace location as a storefront and associate with existing group medical practices, which provide a stream of referrals and space. Advance the concept of health care instead of disease care where the medical group is compensated for the health of its patients instead of the treatment of disease. Creation of a TMer Health Insurance Exchange will bring many financial advantages to its members, lower health insurance premiums, and thereby rejuvenate interest in TM. Who in the U.S. TM movement has the courage to make it happen ? Fullfill Maharishi's goal to make TM available to every human on earth !!!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Health insurance reform: TM's future
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor uns_tres...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: And how do you feel that your health system costs the British taxpayer half of what the US system costs the US taxpayer? OffWorld A lot of Nones here. As for the last, these insurance companies, now with a flood of new custom, are going to be very interested in remedies that are cost effective. They could have a very pragmatic attitude. TM should get in the frame. You're right - as a newly reconstituted SIMS-like pre-1975 secular TM organization, based in the U.S., the only product of which is TM instruction, TM checking and residence courses. Start by decoupling from the Global Country of World Peace. Eliminate the isolation and high overhead of the stand alone Peace Palace location as a storefront - associate with existing group medical practices, which provide a stream of referrals and space. Advance the concept of health care instead of disease care where the medical group is compensated for the health of its patients instead of the treatment of disease. Creation of a TMer Health Insurance Exchange will bring many financial advantages to its members, lower health insurance premiums, and thereby rejuvenate interest in TM. Who in the U.S. TM movement has the courage to make it happen ? Fullfill Maharishi's goal to make TM widely available !!!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The health care meltdown
Whoa, Off. This bill is a necessary small step in the right direction, not in itself an admirable bill. All of inefficient stake holders in the health care industry are boosted by this bill. Private health insurance companies, exhorbitantly-priced pharmaceuticals, for-profit and non-profits who act as for-profit hospitals and health care personell will all see a boost from this bill. The inefficiencies and profit motivation of the private health insurance industry are still in place, despite this bill. How is that admirable, when 40% of health insurance premiums will still go to profits and administrative overhead. Had I not been paying attention to the issue for the past decade and was presented today's headlines and stories on the bill, I'd have thought the Republicans sponsored the bill, because this bill favors the Republican party's interests. Hopefully, this bill is a small step toward a single-payer healthcare system which hopefully will be funded by the top 15% of the U.S. population who've disproportionately benefitted most over the past 30 years. The Republicans, normally loathe to advocate for tax increases, will now advocate FOR a national sales tax, which as a regressive tax would place a greater burden on low-income and middle-class taxpayers. Charles Krauthammer, a conservative columnist, today proposed a national sales tax to pay for healthcare costs. Republicans represent the wealthiest among us, and they will begin to advocate for a national sales tax, to protect the interest of the wealthies among us. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: snip It looks like we voted for the right man for the job when we voted for Obama. Super-big high-five to the O-man. Ted Kennedy's smiling down on us all. Ted Kennedy is royally pissed because Obama sacrificed the public option (while pretending to still be for it). It is WAY better than any Public Option. It insures millions more, and in time will cover anyone currently not covered. It is now illegal for people to not have coverage, but just like in the past, the Democrats made it illegal for hospitals to refuse someone, and so local, state, and federal funding HAD to cover the treatment costs. As it should be. NOW everyone who is not insured has to have insurance, but THEY do not have to pay a penny if they cannot afford it - it is subsidized by the tax payers now. Those who can afford it, but do not want health insurance of any kind (like Willyltex for example, if he was ever self-employed), it will simply be like a tiny insignificant tax on them that they won't even notice, and they will have to put up or shut up, just like in Britain. And the British like their system, and the health insurance tax (which is seperated out on payroll checks) is the LAST thing they would complain about on their paycheck deductions. I saw this is what Obama was doing a long time ago, and these rules will never be repealed, even if Republicans gain in the Fall --- which they won't. This is a GREAT day for America. This is a watershed moment for America, and due to its influence, for the world. The Neocons and Fundies are dead in the water. Change has come. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: The health care meltdown
Whoa, Off. This bill is a necessary small step in the right direction, not in itself an admirable bill. All of inefficient stake holders in the health care industry are boosted by this bill. Private health insurance companies, exhorbitantly-priced pharmaceuticals, for-profit and non-profits who act as for-profit hospitals and health care personell will all see a boost from this bill. The inefficiencies and profit motivation of the private health insurance industry are still in place, despite this bill. How is that admirable, when 40% of health insurance premiums will still go to profits and administrative overhead. Had I not been paying attention to the issue for the past decade and was presented today's headlines and stories on the bill, I'd have thought the Republicans sponsored the bill, because this bill favors the Republican party's interests. Hopefully, this bill is a small step toward a single-payer healthcare system which hopefully will be funded by the top 15% of the U.S. population who've disproportionately benefitted most over the past 30 years. The Republicans, normally loathe to advocate for tax increases, will now advocate FOR a national sales tax, which as a regressive tax would place a greater burden on low-income and middle-class taxpayers. Charles Krauthammer, a conservative columnist, today proposed a national sales tax to pay for healthcare costs. Republicans represent the wealthiest among us, and they will begin to advocate for a national sales tax, to divert attention away from any move toward re-establishing a progressive tax system. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: snip It looks like we voted for the right man for the job when we voted for Obama. Super-big high-five to the O-man. Ted Kennedy's smiling down on us all. Ted Kennedy is royally pissed because Obama sacrificed the public option (while pretending to still be for it). It is WAY better than any Public Option. It insures millions more, and in time will cover anyone currently not covered. It is now illegal for people to not have coverage, but just like in the past, the Democrats made it illegal for hospitals to refuse someone, and so local, state, and federal funding HAD to cover the treatment costs. As it should be. NOW everyone who is not insured has to have insurance, but THEY do not have to pay a penny if they cannot afford it - it is subsidized by the tax payers now. Those who can afford it, but do not want health insurance of any kind (like Willyltex for example, if he was ever self-employed), it will simply be like a tiny insignificant tax on them that they won't even notice, and they will have to put up or shut up, just like in Britain. And the British like their system, and the health insurance tax (which is seperated out on payroll checks) is the LAST thing they would complain about on their paycheck deductions. I saw this is what Obama was doing a long time ago, and these rules will never be repealed, even if Republicans gain in the Fall --- which they won't. This is a GREAT day for America. This is a watershed moment for America, and due to its influence, for the world. The Neocons and Fundies are dead in the water. Change has come. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: FAIRFIELD SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION APRIL 6th
FFSD is seeking an increase of property tax levy from $2.70 / $1,000 to $4.05 / $1,000. Sounds rich, particularly for Iowa, which has managed to produce excellent public education at the existing lower levy. What is particularly troubling is the referendum provides no recourse for renewal, but could allow the higher rate of taxation indefinitely. That's a cardinal no - no, IMHO. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: A hot local issue: Subject: Re: - FAIRFIELD SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION Ed, The vote is April 6th. There are many things involved. You can go to www.fairfieldsfuture.org and click on April 6th Referendum on the left side of the main page. This will give you some information from the school district's point of view. This vote is the most local opportunity we have to make a difference in the ever increasing tax burden issue. They want to raise our property taxes up to $4.05 per $1000.00 of assessed value. If this passes, our district will have the highest taxed bond referendum in the state of Iowa. I am very opposed to this and their proposed spending plans. They have continued to spend blindly even in the most recent meetings, passing expenditures with plans of getting this passed. I want to get the word out to as many people as possible. I would be happy to speak with you and anyone else who has a concern for our local economy and taxation situation. The school board just last week voted to close Lincoln Elementary School for the reason (they say) to save money because the district is seeing a shortfall in enrollment. Then at the same meeting, they discuss adding on to the high school. They talk poor and spend rich! We need to stop them and make them accountable for every penny they spend of our money! Please help us stop this...it is NOT the time to raise taxes AGAIN! If you have any further questions please call me! 641-472-0380 -Carol Lee :-( Didn't they promise in the Ledger that this referendum would not cost more thanabout 30 million dollars? YES, I WANT MY CHILDREN TO RECEIVE THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE BUT NO, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD HAS EDUCATION IN PRIORITY. THE SCHOOL BOARD SEES OUR TAX DOLLARS AS AN EASY MEANS TO CONTINUE A BAD SPENDING HABIT. AS VOTING CITIZENS OF THE FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT- WE HAVE A VOICE - LET IT BE HEARD! I ATTENDED EVERY MEETING REGARDING THE CLOSURE OF LINCOLN ELEMENTARY AND THE MOVE OF THE FIFTH GRADE TO MIDDLE SCHOOL. A FEW PERSONS SPOKE UP AT THE MEETINGS IN AN ATTEMPT DISSUADE THE ALREADY CONCRETE MINDS OF THE BOARD MEMBERS (ASIDE FROM MR. WAUGH) (THE ONLY ONE BRAVE ENOUGH TO CAST A NO VOTE). THE SCHOOL BOARD LET US KNOW THAT THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF A FEW - BUT THEY MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF THE MANY! IF YOU SUPPORT ME IN THE NO (DON'T RAISE OUR TAXES UNDER THE GUISE OF EDUCATION) VOTE, PLEASE CONTACT ME. I ENCOURAGE YOUR EMAIL RESPONSES AND OR PHONE CALLS. CAROL LEE KESSEL 641-472-0380 CELL: 641-233-0092 EMAIL: silverla...@... WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE COMPLACENT ANY LONGER!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The health care meltdown
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip I read what you said. All that would have been the same with the public option, except that there would have been the *additional* component of competition with the private insurance companies to bring down premiums and increase benefits. To say the current bill is better than the public option makes no sense; it's like saying a car without brakes is better than a set of brakes. I can assure you, it is a much better option. One more time: The options were (a) the current bill but with a public option, and (b) the identical bill except with no public option. We got (b). Your logic assumes the (a) version, with the public option, was acceptable to the Senate. It was not. Perhaps your hero Hillary would have insisted on the (a) version, but she would have failed insisting on it, similar to her failures on the health care issue in 1994. Obama is head and shoulders above everyone, in intellect and termperment. Thank God he beat Hillary.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The health care meltdown
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip I read what you said. All that would have been the same with the public option, except that there would have been the *additional* component of competition with the private insurance companies to bring down premiums and increase benefits. To say the current bill is better than the public option makes no sense; it's like saying a car without brakes is better than a set of brakes. I can assure you, it is a much better option. One more time: The options were (a) the current bill but with a public option, and (b) the identical bill except with no public option. We got (b). Your logic assumes the (a) version (with the public option), was acceptable to the Senate. It was not. Perhaps your hero Hillary would have insisted on the (a) version, but she would have failed insisting on it, similar to her failures on the health care issue in 1994. Obama is head and shoulders above everyone, in intellect and temperament. Thank God he beat Hillary.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Judy
Imagine the horror of Judy's distorted personality at the time her father considered his daughter an insufferable aging 30+ year-old wench before Judy learned TM in 1976. It's 34 years later ..and Judy's now 65+. Perhaps her dad embellished his take on TM's positive effect on his spinsterish daughter then, in the now-proven false hope that her neuroses would abate. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: When I accuse you of sophistry is it in regard to a specific technique you are using. I am not using any technique. I'm being completely straightforward. You are not. Yeah, that doesn't work with someone who knows what sophistry refers to. I'm sure you have your own special definition. I'm going by the one in my dictionary-- subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation --or Wikipedia: a specious argument used for deceiving someone That's what you do. Not all that subtle to those who have been following closely (i.e., you and me) but sufficiently so to fool casual observers. I am not labeling you as a sophist as an identity. Your attempt to shift the discussion into being about my character mean There was no such attempt on my part. I made a side comment on your post to Willytex about *my* choices, which you decided to interpret as a slam on you, which *you* then used to shift the discussion to Bad Judy, collaborating with Barry to demonize me. The rest of this is just more of your standard slippery sophistry when you've been caught out. As I said, I'm pretty sure it'll fool everybody else just fine. Again you misuse a technical term with zero evidence thinking it it a general put down. Like I say, I'm going by the standard dictionary definition. And I've already provided gobs of evidence that this is precisely what you do. I am not buying your bullshit and now after a short drum roll what do you do: FOAD. FUCK OFF AND DIE, why use an acronym when we can savor your malevolence in full by spelling it all out. I think everyone here knows what the acronym means. Besides, I like the way the sound of it conveys disgust: FOAD.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Question to Shemp
Shemp, So you advocate lowering income tax rates. At what rate of income is tax revenue maximized ? Please don't insult our intelligence by suggesting 0%. -Mainstream --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: [snip] That's peanuts. Am I right you are therefore against the Bush tax cuts for the rich because of this scenario? No, that is precisely why I am FOR the tax cuts for the HIGHER tax brackets (which, yes, affect the rich). Lowering the higher tax brackets INCREASED tax revenue. The problem was lowing the lower tax brackets which DECREASED tax revenues. That would have made this figure smaller per person, No, the opposite would have happened. You know not of what you speak. and the rich, who are experts at avoiding taxes by all legal means, would hardly notice any significant difference if those tax cuts were repealled. Problem solved, debt paid. Bush left us with a national debt of 11.3 trillion dollars, plus he hid the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The national debt clock today shows 12.5 trillion, and Obama had the war costs put on the books properly. So what's your point again Shemp? I don't get it. Keep reading the post over and over again until you do. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Question to Shemp
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: Ok, that makes sense. I thought it might be for other reasons. I agree. I think we're in trouble. But you don't really see that reflected in the markets. Dollar has regained strength. Gold is moderating. Of course sentiment can change quickly. People knew for years we were in deep shit regarding the mortgage crisis. Yet the stock market reached unprecedented highs. Same thing happening here, I believe. What is of real concern of the wealthy is the inevitable return to progressive taxation; the noise from Republicans about deficit spending is meant to distract from the solution - much higher marginal tax rates on the top earners. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on: the same credentials. Shemp, take away health care for a moment. What is it you find to be so objectionable about Obama's presidency so far? Pretty much the same thing I found objectionable about Bush: the deficit. Two years ago with about $10 trillion in National Debt, the United States paid about $230 billion in interest on its National Debt. That represents about $700 per person per year. This cost, please bear in mind, was born while interest rates were, as they are now, at historic lows. Obama has not only taken Bush's ridiculously high deficits but expanded them to an unbelievable level: $1.6 trillion. What will happen when interest rates go up WHICH THEY MUST AT SOME POINT? When nations such as China stop buying our debt, in order to attract them to buying it, interest rates will have to go up. So, for starters, triple the $230 billion figure to $750 billion a year on the $10 trillion. And that's based on putting interest rates up to a meager 6 or 7 percent interest figure. Not a hard level to reach. Then double the $10 trillion national debt to $20 trillion which we'll reach in about 3 or 4 years. That $750 billion a year in interest will now be $1.5 trillion a year in interest. This represents about $4-5,000 a person, per year, just to service the debt. Factor out the people who don't pay any tax (about 50% of all taxpayers) and you're looking at about $8-10,000 per person per year to service the debt. And all that without reducing the debt at all. And by this time Barack Obama will be out of office and concentrating on his presidential library oblivious to it all. They say that most empires in history ended because of the debt they incurred. This is probably the end of America as we know it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Financial Crimes of GW Bush.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Bush left us with a national debt of 11.3 trillion dollars, plus he hid the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The national debt clock today shows 12.5 trillion, and Obama had the war costs put on the books properly. OffWorld Your math doesn't make sense. Bush left office over a year ago. If he left us with a national debt of 11.3 trillion and you're saying that the current national debt clock is 12.5 trillion, that's a difference of only 1.2 trillion (despite the fact that the deficit is $1.6 trillion, not 1.2 trillion). So where are the hidden costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars if Obama put the war costs on the books? These costs didn't come with revenue attached to them; they are expenses and would therefore be put properly by Obama on the debt side of things. I always hear that the war in Iraq alone has cost $1 trillion. If that's the case, the national debt clock should be 13.5 trillion, not 12.5 trillion. Perhaps the national debt clock doesn't include the Bush-era (2003-2008) Iraq war costs; that would account for the lower figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Judy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: When I accuse you of sophistry is it in regard to a specific technique you are using. I am not using any technique. I'm being completely straightforward. You are not. Yeah, that doesn't work with someone who knows what sophistry refers to. I'm sure you have your own special definition. I'm going by the one in my dictionary-- subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation --or Wikipedia: a specious argument used for deceiving someone That's what you do. Not all that subtle to those who have been following closely (i.e., you and me) but sufficiently so to fool casual observers. I am not labeling you as a sophist as an identity. Your attempt to shift the discussion into being about my character mean There was no such attempt on my part. I made a side comment on your post to Willytex about *my* choices, which you decided to interpret as a slam on you, which *you* then used to shift the discussion to Bad Judy, collaborating with Barry to demonize me. The rest of this is just more of your standard slippery sophistry when you've been caught out. As I said, I'm pretty sure it'll fool everybody else just fine. Again you misuse a technical term with zero evidence thinking it it a general put down. Like I say, I'm going by the standard dictionary definition. And I've already provided gobs of evidence that this is precisely what you do. I am not buying your bullshit and now after a short drum roll what do you do: FOAD. FUCK OFF AND DIE, why use an acronym when we can savor your malevolence in full by spelling it all out. I think everyone here knows what the acronym means. Besides, I like the way the sound of it conveys disgust: FOAD. One can only imagine the horror of Judy's personality at the time her father considered her to be insufferable prior to Judy learning TM in 1976. It's 33 years later ..perhaps her dad embellished what he told her then, in the now-proven false hope that her neuroses would abate.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Judy
One can only imagine the horror of Judy's personality at the time her father considered her to be insufferable prior to Judy learning TM in 1976. It's 34 years later ..perhaps her dad embellished what he told her then, in the now-proven false hope that her neuroses would abate. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: When I accuse you of sophistry is it in regard to a specific technique you are using. I am not using any technique. I'm being completely straightforward. You are not. Yeah, that doesn't work with someone who knows what sophistry refers to. I'm sure you have your own special definition. I'm going by the one in my dictionary-- subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation --or Wikipedia: a specious argument used for deceiving someone That's what you do. Not all that subtle to those who have been following closely (i.e., you and me) but sufficiently so to fool casual observers. I am not labeling you as a sophist as an identity. Your attempt to shift the discussion into being about my character mean There was no such attempt on my part. I made a side comment on your post to Willytex about *my* choices, which you decided to interpret as a slam on you, which *you* then used to shift the discussion to Bad Judy, collaborating with Barry to demonize me. The rest of this is just more of your standard slippery sophistry when you've been caught out. As I said, I'm pretty sure it'll fool everybody else just fine. Again you misuse a technical term with zero evidence thinking it it a general put down. Like I say, I'm going by the standard dictionary definition. And I've already provided gobs of evidence that this is precisely what you do. I am not buying your bullshit and now after a short drum roll what do you do: FOAD. FUCK OFF AND DIE, why use an acronym when we can savor your malevolence in full by spelling it all out. I think everyone here knows what the acronym means. Besides, I like the way the sound of it conveys disgust: FOAD.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Judy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: When I accuse you of sophistry is it in regard to a specific technique you are using. I am not using any technique. I'm being completely straightforward. You are not. Yeah, that doesn't work with someone who knows what sophistry refers to. I'm sure you have your own special definition. I'm going by the one in my dictionary-- subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation --or Wikipedia: a specious argument used for deceiving someone That's what you do. Not all that subtle to those who have been following closely (i.e., you and me) but sufficiently so to fool casual observers. I am not labeling you as a sophist as an identity. Your attempt to shift the discussion into being about my character mean There was no such attempt on my part. I made a side comment on your post to Willytex about *my* choices, which you decided to interpret as a slam on you, which *you* then used to shift the discussion to Bad Judy, collaborating with Barry to demonize me. The rest of this is just more of your standard slippery sophistry when you've been caught out. As I said, I'm pretty sure it'll fool everybody else just fine. Again you misuse a technical term with zero evidence thinking it it a general put down. Like I say, I'm going by the standard dictionary definition. And I've already provided gobs of evidence that this is precisely what you do. I am not buying your bullshit and now after a short drum roll what do you do: FOAD. FUCK OFF AND DIE, why use an acronym when we can savor your malevolence in full by spelling it all out. I think everyone here knows what the acronym means. Besides, I like the way the sound of it conveys disgust: FOAD. One can only imagine the horror of Judy's personality at the time her father considered her to be insufferable prior to Judy learning TM in 1976. It's 34 years later ..perhaps her dad embellished what he told her then, in the now-proven false hope that her neuroses would abate.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip This is a crock, and Curtis knows it's a crock. snip He doesn't agree with my position, but yesterday he made it clear that he understood what it was. Today he egregiously and quite deliberately misrepresents it. snip That's 50 for me. I'll respond more this evening or tomorrow. When you return, you might apologize to Curtis. He writing isn't a crock, yet you are full of _ _ i t, the discomfort of which perhaps drives you to create unfounded citations of deficiencies in others' logical expressions and imagine misrepresentation of your 'position'. How about assuming a position for a self-administered laxative enema ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip This is a crock, and Curtis knows it's a crock. snip He doesn't agree with my position, but yesterday he made it clear that he understood what it was. Today he egregiously and quite deliberately misrepresents it. That's 50 for me. I'll respond more this evening or tomorrow. When you return, you might apologize to Curtis. His writing isn't a crock, yet you are full of _ _ i t, the discomfort of which perhaps drives you to create unfounded citations of deficiencies in others' logical expressions, and to imagine misrepresentation of your 'position'. Please assume a position for a self-administered laxative enema and purge before returning.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A possibly impossible task: Is there a cool area of Houston, TX?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Buck Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:29 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A possibly impossible task: Is there a cool area of Houston, TX? The greater FFL truth about Turq is, he's a CIA operative. A Jason Borne James Bond spy. Going to Houston? He posein' as a 'writer' in Spanish resort towns/ Says he got contracts with big company. You bet, Blackwater in Houston. He's clearly a Blackwater man. MMY saw through Turq's soul years ago and squeezed him out then. Uncovered him. Remember MMY talking about CIA? It evidently was Turq and his friends. Really Turq, who else was CIA? It's been some decades now since the famous Thailand TM course where Maharishi turned out those CIA infiltrators. The CIA infiltrator in Thailand wasn't anything of the sort. He was just an innocent guy on whom Maharishi chose to vent his paranoia. On my TTC I had to go over to the other hotel one day without my buddy (who was sick) and they let me go alone. On the way back I saw one of the course participants target practicing with a gun from his third story balcony. He looked concerned because he didn't expect to see anyone else on the course walking back to the hotel at that time. I probably should have asked the course coordinators why anyone would have a gun on the course. ;-) Was it a handgun the CP was firing ?If so, it was probably Doug Birx, the current Sidhis program administrator leading the Invincible America course in the men's dome. :) Doug supposedly loves handguns and fires them regularly.
[FairfieldLife] Re: George Dubya Bush in a Dream
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: In my dream, I submitted a short paper to Bush about my analysis of a small town called Sausalito in California. He read it and appeared to approve the contents of the report. But he soon rewrote the paper to include his own thoughts using words that came from prior reports, using typical government phrases and presentation. In the end, the report became a thick analysis of what was supposed to be an informal paper. I then found out that he actually had bought a piece of land several miles north of the town. He was farming the land for his own interest. This is an interesting dream in that I'm not a registered Republican nor have I voted for him when he was running for president. Does anyone know what the symbolism of this dream means? Sausalito has a new village idiot.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Janis Joplin's Original Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company In Fairfie
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I wonder how many of the original members are in this 2010 version. When we were at MIU remember the rumor that Susy Levin had sung with Big Brother before Janis? Suzy Levin (now Dillbeck) let her hair down on-stage with a rock band to sing with great voice and incredible stage presence at the wedding reception of Chris Jones and Ellen Abrams in '80 or '81. The woman had great talent as a rock-and -roller. Yeah, she had the chops to have done it at that level - not surprised by the BB H Co. rumor. Of the 5 original Beachboys, how many beside Mike Love still tour? Or is it just Mike? At least with The Who you've got 50% of the members still alive (Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry) although, for my money, the group died with Keith Moon. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: Janis Joplin's Original Band, Big Brother and The Holding Company in Fairfield, Iowa on Thursday the 15th of April at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center. On Thursday the 15th of April, Simple Man Enterprises Presents Janis Joplin's Original Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, with BMA nominee, Blusion artist, Eddie Devilboy Turner at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center in Fairfield, Iowa. Tickets are $22 in advanced, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the SME music scholarship fund for area high school students. Last years scholarship was given to Andrew Powers of Fort Madison, Ia. The doors open at 6:30pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. This is a one time show and tickets are limited. Big Brother and The Holding Company( www.bbhc.com/ )are primarily remembered as the group that gave Janis Joplin her start. But Big Brother also occupies a significant place in the history of San Francisco psychedelic rock, as one of the bands that best captured the era's loosest, reckless, and indulgent qualities in its high-energy mutations of blues and folk-rock. Big Brother was formed in 1965 in the Haight-Ashbury; by the time Joplin joined in mid-1966, the lineup was and still is(with the exception of the late James Gurley, who just passed away in December), Sam Andrew and James Gurley on guitar, Peter Albin on bass, and David Getz on drums. BBHC currently tours with a new guitar player and talented female vocalist. Big Brother catapulted themselves into national attention with their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, particularly with Joplin's galvanizing interpretation of Ball and Chain (which was a highlight of the film of the event). High-powered management and record label bids rolled in immediately, but unfortunately the group had tied themselves up in a bad contract with the small Mainstream label, at a time where they were stranded on the road and needed cash. Their one Mainstream album (released in 1967), contains some of their stronger cuts, such as Down on Me and Coo Coo. It didn't fully capture the band's strengths, and with the help of new high-powered manager Albert Grossman (also handler of Bob Dylan, The Band and Peter, Paul Mary), they extricated themselves from the Mainstream deal and signed with Columbia. The Big Brother album for Columbia that featured Joplin, Cheap Thrills (1968), Celebrated its 40th Anniversary 2 years ago. It was assembled from both studio sessions and live material. Cheap Thrills went to number one when it was finally released, and though it too was an erratic affair, it contained some of the best moments of acid rock's glory days, including Ball and Chain, Summertime, Combination of the Two, and Piece of My Heart. Cheap Thrills made Big Brother superstars. By the end of 1968, Joplin had decided to go solo, a move from which neither she nor Big Brother ever fully recovered. Big Brother and the Holding Company still tour today on rare occasions and they bring with them an extremely talented female vocalist, who never lets you forget who Big Brother and the Holding Company are. Also filling the bill, is national Blusion recording artists(Northern Blues Records) and Blues Music Award nominee, Eddie Devilboy Turner( www.eddiedevilboy.com http://www.eddiedevilboy.com/ ). If you're seeking a guitar player that can channel the spirit of Jimi Hendrix then look no further than Eddie Turner. If anybody ever went down to the Crossroads and let the Devil tune his guitar it was probably Eddie Turner. Man, you get chills every time the guy strikes a note! And the expressions he makes while he's talking out each lick leave one convinced he's
[FairfieldLife] Hillary Slams Greenspan's 2001 tax cut rationale
See Reuters' account of 2/25/10 testimony on the Hill: http://tinyurl.com/yd3xodn
[FairfieldLife] Re: The W T F Factor
For a day or two this posting week, a glimpse of maturity appeared. Now, the sixth-grader has reappeared. Go away, sixth grader ! Don't take the bait ! Re-enter the classroom devoid of juvenile neuroses. You can do it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Speaking only for myself, your reason is bogus. There is only one reason for all of this, Curtis, and I think we both know what it is. She'd laid low for the early part of the week and had not achieved her normal quota of using at least half her posts to rag on one or the both of us. Now she has. Now that both of you have made a special effort to start some fights.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Let's hear it for Jerry+Any particular question lingering for the last 30 ye
Willy, Whereas Jay Latham's Galaxy of Fire apparently profusely praises Jerry Jarvis, it is more than a tad deceptive to quote Latham's book immediately after extensively identifying down to the ISBN, Thirty Years around the World. Please identify the page numbers of Thirty Years around the World that support the idea that the TMO acknowledged Jerry Jarvis. - Mainstream (Judy wrote:) Maybe, but he was also *excluded*--persona non grata. (Willy wrote:) Maybe you're thinking of Deepak Chopra? (Curtis wrote:) He was written out of the movement's first history books for Shiva's sake! As if SIMS had never existed. (Willy wrote:) Maybe so, but not in this early Maharishi history: 'Thirty Years Around the World' Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment - Volume 1 1957 - 1964 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi MVU Press, Netherlands, 1986 No. 1008 ISBN 90 71750 01 9 Hardback. Gold gilt edge. 600 p. Illustrated. Appendix. Index. Read more: This was a great time for TM. Maharishi had a fantastic organization in the States. Jerry Jarvis was our national leader and, in my opinion, the most popular leader in the history of the TM movement other than Maharishi. Under Jerry were four regional coordinators. Charlie Donahue was in charge of the Eastern USA. Bobby Lee ran the South. Stan Crowe and Bill Witherspoon headed up the Midwest and Western states. Under them were state coordinators and regional lecturers such as John Shaw and Larry Kutt, two personal friends of mine. We were one well-coordinated, motivated, successful group, coast-to-coast. The result of this organization was that more than one million people started TM in the United States by the end of the seventies. Under the leadership of Maharishi, Jerry Jarvis and the four regional coordinators, around forty thousand people per month were starting TM, making the American TM organization the most successful of all the countries teaching TM in the world... Work cited: Galaxy of Fire by Jay Latham Sunstar, 2000 p. 219-220.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count -- do the math
The 50 post / week limit has the potential to improve post quality and thereby maximize the utilization of one's attention. I far prefer seeing your name attached to 1 of 8 posts - 50 out of 412 of last week's total FFL posts; as opposed to seeing your name attached to only 1 of 10+ posts - 482 out of 5,152 of Oct., '06's total FFL posts, the last month FFL went without posting limits. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Let's see if this analysis of posting frequency holds up under examination. After Barry had made his first post, one (or more) of his pals got to him quickly to let him know the arithmetic he wanted us to let him do for us (because we weren't smart enough to do it ourselves, you see) wasn't quite on the up-and-up. He hastily got out in front of that embarrassing situation, so there's no need for me to go over it again. A narrow escape, that! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Just in case anyone is incapable of doing the math and realizing what the result would be of getting rid of the posting limits, I'll do the math for you. Ooopsie. :-) Even though it would be fun to see THE CORRECTOR waste five posts correcting my math, I'll do it myself. Actually one would have been more than sufficient. Would've been fun, but there's plenty to correct besides Barry's arithmetic. This week one of the people *for whom the post- ing limits were originally created* got her panties in a bunch over Curtis and managed to make 50 posts in slightly less than 75 hours. Only 10 of them in the brawl with Curtis. Note what Barry doesn't mention--and what Curtis won't tell you either: the brawl erupted because Curtis got *his* panties in a bunch over an 11-word one-liner of mine. He also made 10 posts in that brawl over the same period. That's basically 1.5 posts per hour, average. Really . posts per hour. Assuming that she slept at least 24 of those 75 hours, that's an average of 1 post per waking hour. If she were free to do what she used to do, that means she would be making an estimated 252 posts per week. More like 112 posts per week. Mea culpa. Even this, of course, isn't right. Only if I'd continued posting at the same rate would I have been making 112 posts that week. In the case of the fight with Curtis, as he has noted (to Barry, so Barry is aware of this), Curtis pursued the fight so assiduously because was snowed in over the weekend and had time on his hands; and I usually make most of my posts on the weekend. It's highly unlikely the fight would have continued at the same rate into the rest of the week. Which, interestingly, is pretty much on the money given actual past history. During the month of October 2006 (the pre-posting limits Bad Old Days), FFL's top 3 posters (accounting for almost a third of all posts) were: 1. shempmcgurk -- 541 (11.6%) 2. sparaig -- 533 (11.4%) 3. authfriend -- 482 (10.3%) From Barry's earlier post: I would remind people WHY the posting limits were created in the first place. Three posters -- two still present, one now gone -- were essentially Out Of Control and using their ability to post as much as they wanted to drown out others here. This is just silly. Nobody makes posts to drown out other posters. It's impossible on the face of it, not to mention undesirable (fewer posts to respond to). To the extent other posters were drowned out, we'd be left talking to ourselves. And unlike some other posters here, the three of us don't often initiate threads or spam the group with reams of copy-and-paste material. We're interested in *conversation*. And the numbers themselves squash Barry's drown out theory. Just for example, in October 2006 there was a total of 5,152 posts in the group. If the three of us made 30 percent of them, it means there were around 3,606 posts made by others--so they were hardly drowned out. And my 50 posts from Friday through Monday this past week were out of a total of 410 posts for that period. Again, nobody got drowned out. The number of posts an individual makes has to do with their interest, energy, and time, not with how many posts anybody else makes--except that if others are posting a lot, the individual has more posts to respond to and might well therefore make *more posts than s/he would otherwise*. In other words, it works exactly the opposite from what Barry claims. It was not uncommon for them to make hundreds of posts per week. False (unless Barry is speaking of the three of us collectively). I often made more than 100 posts per week, but never more than 150 or so and usually many fewer. I doubt Shemp or Willytex ever went over 150 a week either. When asked to voluntarily
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count -- do the math
The 50 post/week limit wonderfully frustrates the sixth grader in the body of a senior citizen and minimizes her opportunity to suck on the oxygen of our attention to feed her juvenile neuroses. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: The 50 post / week limit has the potential to improve post quality and thereby maximize the utilization of one's attention. I disagree, but that isn't what I was discussing. I was simply pointing out that Barry's notion of prolific posters trying to drown out other posters was nonsense (among several other nitwit things he said). I far prefer seeing your name attached to 1 of 8 posts - 50 out of 412 of last week's total FFL posts; as opposed to seeing your name attached to only 1 of 10+ posts - 482 out of 5,152 of Oct., '06's total FFL posts, the last month FFL went without posting limits. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Let's see if this analysis of posting frequency holds up under examination. After Barry had made his first post, one (or more) of his pals got to him quickly to let him know the arithmetic he wanted us to let him do for us (because we weren't smart enough to do it ourselves, you see) wasn't quite on the up-and-up. He hastily got out in front of that embarrassing situation, so there's no need for me to go over it again. A narrow escape, that! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Just in case anyone is incapable of doing the math and realizing what the result would be of getting rid of the posting limits, I'll do the math for you. Ooopsie. :-) Even though it would be fun to see THE CORRECTOR waste five posts correcting my math, I'll do it myself. Actually one would have been more than sufficient. Would've been fun, but there's plenty to correct besides Barry's arithmetic. This week one of the people *for whom the post- ing limits were originally created* got her panties in a bunch over Curtis and managed to make 50 posts in slightly less than 75 hours. Only 10 of them in the brawl with Curtis. Note what Barry doesn't mention--and what Curtis won't tell you either: the brawl erupted because Curtis got *his* panties in a bunch over an 11-word one-liner of mine. He also made 10 posts in that brawl over the same period. That's basically 1.5 posts per hour, average. Really . posts per hour. Assuming that she slept at least 24 of those 75 hours, that's an average of 1 post per waking hour. If she were free to do what she used to do, that means she would be making an estimated 252 posts per week. More like 112 posts per week. Mea culpa. Even this, of course, isn't right. Only if I'd continued posting at the same rate would I have been making 112 posts that week. In the case of the fight with Curtis, as he has noted (to Barry, so Barry is aware of this), Curtis pursued the fight so assiduously because was snowed in over the weekend and had time on his hands; and I usually make most of my posts on the weekend. It's highly unlikely the fight would have continued at the same rate into the rest of the week. Which, interestingly, is pretty much on the money given actual past history. During the month of October 2006 (the pre-posting limits Bad Old Days), FFL's top 3 posters (accounting for almost a third of all posts) were: 1. shempmcgurk -- 541 (11.6%) 2. sparaig -- 533 (11.4%) 3. authfriend -- 482 (10.3%) From Barry's earlier post: I would remind people WHY the posting limits were created in the first place. Three posters -- two still present, one now gone -- were essentially Out Of Control and using their ability to post as much as they wanted to drown out others here. This is just silly. Nobody makes posts to drown out other posters. It's impossible on the face of it, not to mention undesirable (fewer posts to respond to). To the extent other posters were drowned out, we'd be left talking to ourselves. And unlike some other posters here, the three of us don't often initiate threads or spam the group with reams of copy-and-paste material. We're interested in *conversation*. And the numbers themselves squash Barry's drown out theory. Just for example, in October 2006 there was a total of 5,152 posts in the group. If the three of us made 30 percent of them, it means there were around 3,606 posts made by others--so they were hardly drowned out. And my 50 posts from Friday through Monday
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count -- do the math
A 50 post limit frustrates the sixth grader in the body of a senior citizen, and minimizes her sucking the oxygen of our attention to feed her juvenile neuroses. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: The 50 post / week limit has the potential to improve post quality and thereby maximize the utilization of one's attention. I disagree, but that isn't what I was discussing. I was simply pointing out that Barry's notion of prolific posters trying to drown out other posters was nonsense (among several other nitwit things he said). I far prefer seeing your name attached to 1 of 8 posts - 50 out of 412 of last week's total FFL posts; as opposed to seeing your name attached to only 1 of 10+ posts - 482 out of 5,152 of Oct., '06's total FFL posts, the last month FFL went without posting limits. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Let's see if this analysis of posting frequency holds up under examination. After Barry had made his first post, one (or more) of his pals got to him quickly to let him know the arithmetic he wanted us to let him do for us (because we weren't smart enough to do it ourselves, you see) wasn't quite on the up-and-up. He hastily got out in front of that embarrassing situation, so there's no need for me to go over it again. A narrow escape, that! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Just in case anyone is incapable of doing the math and realizing what the result would be of getting rid of the posting limits, I'll do the math for you. Ooopsie. :-) Even though it would be fun to see THE CORRECTOR waste five posts correcting my math, I'll do it myself. Actually one would have been more than sufficient. Would've been fun, but there's plenty to correct besides Barry's arithmetic. This week one of the people *for whom the post- ing limits were originally created* got her panties in a bunch over Curtis and managed to make 50 posts in slightly less than 75 hours. Only 10 of them in the brawl with Curtis. Note what Barry doesn't mention--and what Curtis won't tell you either: the brawl erupted because Curtis got *his* panties in a bunch over an 11-word one-liner of mine. He also made 10 posts in that brawl over the same period. That's basically 1.5 posts per hour, average. Really . posts per hour. Assuming that she slept at least 24 of those 75 hours, that's an average of 1 post per waking hour. If she were free to do what she used to do, that means she would be making an estimated 252 posts per week. More like 112 posts per week. Mea culpa. Even this, of course, isn't right. Only if I'd continued posting at the same rate would I have been making 112 posts that week. In the case of the fight with Curtis, as he has noted (to Barry, so Barry is aware of this), Curtis pursued the fight so assiduously because was snowed in over the weekend and had time on his hands; and I usually make most of my posts on the weekend. It's highly unlikely the fight would have continued at the same rate into the rest of the week. Which, interestingly, is pretty much on the money given actual past history. During the month of October 2006 (the pre-posting limits Bad Old Days), FFL's top 3 posters (accounting for almost a third of all posts) were: 1. shempmcgurk -- 541 (11.6%) 2. sparaig -- 533 (11.4%) 3. authfriend -- 482 (10.3%) From Barry's earlier post: I would remind people WHY the posting limits were created in the first place. Three posters -- two still present, one now gone -- were essentially Out Of Control and using their ability to post as much as they wanted to drown out others here. This is just silly. Nobody makes posts to drown out other posters. It's impossible on the face of it, not to mention undesirable (fewer posts to respond to). To the extent other posters were drowned out, we'd be left talking to ourselves. And unlike some other posters here, the three of us don't often initiate threads or spam the group with reams of copy-and-paste material. We're interested in *conversation*. And the numbers themselves squash Barry's drown out theory. Just for example, in October 2006 there was a total of 5,152 posts in the group. If the three of us made 30 percent of them, it means there were around 3,606 posts made by others--so they were hardly drowned out. And my 50 posts from Friday through Monday this past week were out
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo! News Photo - U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iori
I suppose you'd recommend to Obama that he not bow occasionally, but yet bend completely forward repeatedly, as you do for Bush and Cheney. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Mike Dixon (mdixon.6...@...) has sent you a news photo. (Email address has not been verified.) Personal message: Obama bows again, LOL! U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at ... - Yahoo! News Photos http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/President-Barack-Obama/photo//100128/480/b07861589f354ce698c3bf88b741d692/ Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
There is a God. Only more 8 posts, and peace for 10 days --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jan 30 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Feb 06 00:00:00 2010 291 messages as of (UTC) Tue Feb 02 00:10:06 2010 43 authfriend jst...@... 28 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... 25 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 Rick Archer r...@... 17 WillyTex willy...@... 13 ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... 13 Hugo richardhughes...@... 12 Vaj vajradh...@... 12 do.rflex do.rf...@... 11 Joe geezerfr...@... 10 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 10 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... 10 Irmeli irmeli.matts...@... 10 Bhairitu noozg...@... 8 wayback71 waybac...@... 8 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... 6 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 6 John jr_...@... 5 raunchydog raunchy...@... 4 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com 4 Doug dhamiltony...@... 3 mainstream20016 mainstream20...@... 3 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... 3 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... 2 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... 2 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 BillyG wg...@... 1 shukra69 shukr...@... 1 guyfawkes91 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Posters: 30 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Our nostalgia for Bush and Cheney
The perpetual war constituency stokes fears repeatedly to justify the highly profitable military excursions throughout the world. Obama placates these interests knowing JFK paid the highest price for trying to dismantle the CIA post Bay of Pigs. Even Eisenhower probably couldn't envision the military / industrial complex of the Cheney /Bush/and now Obama era and the greatly expanded the role of private contractors who supplant the traditional armed services in all things military. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: From Glenn Greenwald today: ...There is clearly a bipartisan and institutional craving for a revival...of the core premise of Bush/Cheney radicalism: that because we're at war with Terrorists, our standard precepts of justice and due process do not apply and, indeed, must be violated We collectively pretended for a little while to regret the excesses of the Bush/Cheney approach to such matters. But it's now crystal clear that the country, especially its ruling elite, is either too petrified of Terrorism and/or too enamored of the powers which that fear enables to accept any real changes from the policies that were supposedly such a profound violation of our values. ...What was once the most basic and defining American principle -- the State must charge someone with a crime and give them a fair trial in order to imprison them -- has been magically transformed into Leftist extremismRead the official policy of the Reagan Administration...: Another important measure we have developed in our overall strategy is applying the rule of law to terrorists. Terrorists are criminals. They commit criminal actions like murder, kidnapping, and arson, and countries have laws to punish criminals. So a major element of our strategy has been to delegitimize terrorists, to get society to see them for what they are -- criminals -- and to use democracy's most potent tool, the rule of law against them How much clearer evidence can there be of how warped and extremist we've become on these matters? The express policies of the right-wing Ronald Reagan...are now considered...the exclusive province of civil liberties extremists. In those rare cases when Obama does what Reagan's policy demanded...he is attacked as being Soft on Terror by Democrats and Republicans alike. And the mere notion that we should prosecute torturers (as Reagan bound the U.S. to do) -- or even hold them accountable in ways short of criminal proceedings -- is now the hallmark of a Far Leftist Purist. That's how far we've fallen, how extremist our political consensus has become. Read more: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/31/nostalgia/index.html http://tinyurl.com/ybnxfyu
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogastah Kuru Karmani
John jr_esq@ wrote: Your ideas in this discussion are well intentioned. But there must be a reason why MMY insisted on practicing these siddhi techniques. No one in this forum has even entertained the possibility that MMY himself has experienced all of the Patanjali siddhis, including levitation. Perhaps, he has shared this secret to only a few of his closest disciples. They could come out in the future to attest this fact about MMY. Nablusoss wrote: It will happen, perhaps. For example the tape from Seelisberg where the videoguy in the bus outside Kulm who had the tape running and was waiting for Maharishi to come. He did, slowly from the celing above and settled on the couch. Sooner or later it will be shown, I suppose. :-) Nabby, The story was most likely a spicy ingredient of the hype program that surrounded the introduction of the Sidhis, and nothing more. I'm surprised the story has not yet faded from your memory. Have you, Nabby, seen this tape, or have you only heard of it? Would you mind sharing more of your understanding about this occasion ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Vote for Consciousness-Based Education at Change.org
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: Don't get me started. I think yagyas are a criminal rip-off. I know so many people who have spent so much on thses prayers to the gods. I wouldn't mind if they'd admit that's what they were but no, it's a technology of natural law. Bullshit. The TMO Yagya program, highest profit margin product of the TMO ( the number and scale of yagyas recommended determined much more by the financial resources of the applicant than his birth chart ) is the antithesis of the idea of personal evolution through personal experience. It seems that the long-term plan of the TMO at the time of MMY's passing was to maximize the yagya program as opposed to maximizing the teaching of the TM technique to individuals. The TMO's continued commitment to the development of the Brahmasthan of India's vast landscape of thousands of partially completed buildings necessarily limits the TMO's meager effort to teach the TM technique. The Brahmasthan of India's present and future drain of resources will send the TMO into obscurity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Hear
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I've read the first few chapters of the book so far and all I can say is they had the same kind of fathead conservatives back in the 1930's as we do today who didn't want the rich taxed.And of course many these so called conservatives aren't rich but just useful idiots for the rich. Worth a read and you even should be able to find a copy at a used book store (I had to ask as they put it in the classics section). Bhairitu, Thanks for your recommendation of Sinclair Lewis's 1930's book, and your take on the rich then and now. The dismantling of the progressive taxation system over the past 45 years is destroying the Middle Class in America, which is dimming the hopes of the 3rd world for America as a model to emulate. Last May, as hearings were planned on Health Care Reform, I called the office of Senator Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, to object to the concept of paying for health reform through revenue generated from taxes on existing Cadillac health plans. I was referred to a Senate Finance Committee staffer who kindly spent considerable time hearing my opinion (this was well before the subject hit a fever-pitch level of the late Summer). At one point in the conversation, I inquired of the Senate Finance Committee staffer's knowledge of America's 20th century personal income rates. Although the Finance committee staffer know of the concept of a Progressive Tax system, he was surprised to learn of the Progressive Taxation rates on personal income from the 1930s to the 1960s. Progressive Taxation is so far removed from the awareness of even our best and brightest. This must change, and the Progressive Tax system must return fully to prevent America's descent back into the historical norm of either extreme wealth or extreme poverty, and a scant few middle class.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Hear
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: mainstream wrote: The dismantling of the progressive taxation system over the past 45 years is destroying the Middle Class in America... So, you're in favor of a progressive tax, a tax by which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount of income increases. And, you're not in favor of a regressive tax, where the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases. Then, you're not in favor of individual rights and equality under the law. And, you're not in favor of a flat tax where a fixed amount of tax is paid per individual in accordance with the census. But, where in the U.S. Constitution does it say anything about Americans paying a federal income tax? Ron Paul on Tax Reform: http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Ron_Paul_Tax_Reform.htm W.T.'s well-informed knowledge base is unfortunately encased in a mortal coil afflicted by oppressive Lone Star State heat suffocating any capacity for his or anyone else's contentment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting MUM Developments
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: (snip) Seeking benefits is stupid. Meditate and enjoy, that is Maharishi's advice. No need to seek, but it's good to be aware. When one become aware, that the 'Outside World' is delusionary, then one becomes a 'Seeker of the Spiritual Realm'... Until that happens, one will be 'Looking for Results'...in the 'Material World'... It is obvious that the students, which inhabit the campus, have nothing to do with the 'Original M.I.U. M.I.U. was started by a group of 'Spiritual Seekers' who in coordination with Maharishi, decided to start a school, which would integerate the knowledge of the 'West' with the Vedic knowledge of the 'East', with 'Like Minded People'...gathered together... This generation, has been so brain-washed by the 'International Corporate Take-over'... That it is hard for them, to imagine, anything, not related to the 'Corporate Material World of Illusion'... These students have a different intention, than the original students...that of spiritual seekers... These students are seeking the kind of material success that can be found at any various schools throughout the country... They are wasting time and resources, being in Fairfield, and should be expelled immediately... Don't expect Bevan Morris to come to the rescue, anytime soon, or later, either... He sucked all the energy from Maharishi, that he could, and chased away any fun, and free-spiritedness, that would have kept the 'Movement of Seeking' alive... Bevan contributed to the death of this college, and now that his work is done, he is off, who knows where? R.J.G. When an institution formerly based on Subjective Inner Experience has long-since abandoned its uniqueness through diversifying its product line by creating excessively high-profit-margin products marketed to every field of the Objective Outer world, are you surprised that the idealistic young might poke a stick into the eye of said institution ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: My Radio Show
May you have much good fortune via your radio program, Rick. I initially was tempted to paraphrase a saying regarding the suspect validity of a public statement implying one's own state of full realization. While trying to locate an exact quote, I found this instead: (From 'Be Here Now', page 96, The Course of Sadhana) - Doing sadhana can be as much of a trap as any other melodrama. It is useful to have some perspective about the path in order to keep yourself from getting too caught up in the stage in which you are working. These pointers might help: 1. Each stage that one can label must pass away. Even the labeling will ultimately pass. A person who says, I'm enlightened probably isn't. endquote --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: OK Gang. It's getting rather dull around here. Time to stir things up. I'm starting a radio show. I've taped the pilot. If it gets approved, which it should it will be broadcast on the local radio station - http://www.kruufm.com/ - and streamed on the web. It will be a live call-in show. It will also be videoed and broadcast on the local public access TV station. I started a YouTube channel where I'll post all the videos. I'll post the first one this afternoon and post a link here. Stay tuned. Show Script: Music: 30 seconds. Intro: Hi, my name is Rick Archer and you're listening to AWAKENINGS, right here on KRUU-LP 100.1 FM, 'The Voice of Fairfield, Iowa... and Beyond,' independent, open source, listener-supported, solar-powered, grassroots community radio, broadcasting from the cultural district in Fairfield, Iowa. Many of us here in Fairfield feel that we live in a special community. If you ask us what makes it special, we'll probably recite a list of events and accomplishments, such as concerts, the Art Walk, MUM and its activities, the Arts and Convention Center, the Roosevelt Recreation Center, the Loop Trail, KRUU-FM, ecological initiatives, various awards, and so on. This show is about something just as wonderful as all those things, but less obvious: dozens, if not hundreds, of people in this town are undergoing a shift to a radically different state of consciousness which is transforming their understanding of themselves and the world. For some, this shift has been abrupt and dramatic. For others, it has been so gradual that they may not have realized it has occurred. The purpose of this show will be to enable these people to tell their stories. Such shifts, or Awakenings, are not new: Christ spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven within, Buddhists speak of Nirvana, Zen masters of Satori, Hindus of Moksha, psychologist Abraham Maslow coined the phrase self-actualization, and millions of people around the world, including many without religious or spiritual inclinations, report having experienced peak or mystical experiences. So we're talking about something timeless and universal. Something which hopefully will interest a broad spectrum of our listeners, rather than just the local meditating community. Those of us who did learn to meditate two, three, or four decades ago were told that after 5-8 years we could expect to reach a state called Cosmic Consciousness. Most people feel that prediction didn't pan out. They think maybe Maharishi was overly optimistic, giving us a sales pitch, or trying not to discourage us. In fact, I once heard Maharishi say, speaking metaphorically, that if you meet a man in a desert, you should tell him that water is just a mile away, even though you know it's 10 miles away, because if you tell him the truth, he'll be too discouraged to go on. Some people in Fairfield have become discouraged, and have abandoned spiritual aspirations. Others still meditate for various reasons, but are skeptical of claims of higher states of consciousness. When I started telling friends about my intention to do this show, many were enthusiastic, but some said, (sarcastically) Right. You're going to interview people who think they're enlightened. I guess some people find it hard to believe that apparently ordinary friends and neighbors might be experiencing something extraordinary. Maybe they expect Enlightenment to look as remarkable on the outside as it is reputed to be on the inside. As Christ put it, A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household. This is not to imply that the guests on this show will be prophets, or that they should be honored, but I think the point is apt. This show will attempt to dispel skepticism and misconceptions by week after week, allowing otherwise ordinary people in our community and elsewhere to relate their experience of spiritual awakening. The terminology is tricky, because there are no universally agreed upon definitions to describe this experience. So please forgive us if we use some unfamiliar terms. We'll try to clarify our definitions as we go along. I hope that after a
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gallup: Hillary Clinton Now More Popular Than Barack Obama
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of raunchydog Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 8:57 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gallup: Hillary Clinton Now More Popular Than Barack Obama --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of raunchydog Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:13 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Gallup: Hillary Clinton Now More Popular Than Barack Obama Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, but in one respect she now ranks ahead of Obama. The president's current favorable rating of 56% is down 22 percentage points since January. Over the same time span, Clinton's favorable rating has changed little, and now, at 62%, it exceeds Obama's. Probably because Obama has been on the firing line and Hillary has been more in the background. If she had become President and Obama had become Secretary of State, her popularity would have tanked and his would be much higher. Don't be so sure. Perhaps it's comforting for Obots to think Hillary's approval would have tanked had she been president, because they can't believe anyone could possibly like her. But, we'll never know. The other day Hillary said that had she won the presidency she would have asked Obama to serve in her cabinet. I doubt she would have chosen him for Secretary of State. Such a position requires work not window dressing. Let's face it, the reason Hillary has a higher favorability rating compared to Obama is that people see her as the workhorse and Obama as the show pony. In your dreams. Hillary has always attracted criticism like a lightening rod, and she would be getting ripped to shreds as president. She's just not in a position now to attract much criticism. She's not making controversial decisions and is largely out of the public eye. Your comment above implies that Obama is not working hard. I'll bet you would take a week to recover from having to live through one of his days. Rick, raunchy is advocating HIllary's abilities, not her own. Contrasting HIllary's approval ratings with Obama's is an irrelevant exercise, except to salve the perpetually open-wounds of Hillary supporters. The idea that Hillary is still publicly commenting on how she would have dealt with Obama had she won says so much about Hillary's continuing sense of entitlement. Hillary's performance and high approval ratings as Obama's Sec. of State is aided by Obama's outstanding level of support internationally. Obama's handling of Hillary has been, and continues to be masterful.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gallup: Hillary Clinton Now More Popular Than Barack Obama
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: Rick, raunchy is advocating HIllary's abilities, not her own. Contrasting HIllary's approval ratings with Obama's is an irrelevant exercise, except to salve the perpetually open-wounds of Hillary supporters. Apparently the folks at Gallup think contrasting Hillary's approval with Obama's IS relevant or they would not have taken the poll. It's interesting how agitated the Obots on FFLife become whenever I post ANYTHING that puts Hillary in a favorable light. Their knee-jerk need to smack her down at every turn boarders on a clinical phobia of all things Hillary. Why is it so difficult to admit that people actually like her? Because the favorable-to-Hillary posts sound like we're listening to the Jaimini Sutras: On the Other Hand. followed by a put-down of Obama. Got it ??? The idea that Hillary is still publicly commenting on how she would have dealt with Obama had she won says so much about Hillary's continuing sense of entitlement. In ABC News' Cynthia McFadden's interview with Hillary in Moscow, Oct. 14, 2009 Cynthia ASKED if Hillary would have picked Obama to serve as a member of her cabinet. Sorry, to break the news to you but your Hillary's entitlement meme falls apart. Here's the transcript: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/International/transcript-hillary-clinton-interview/story?id=8826956 Hillary's performance and high approval ratings as Obama's Sec. of State is aided by Obama's outstanding level of support internationally. Obama's handling of Hillary has been, and continues to be masterful. Hillary's approval rating was based on polling Americans and has nothing to do with Obama's support internationally. What do you mean by handling Hillary? Is she so wild, powerful and deceptive that she must be controlled by Obama? What the hell are you talking about? from FFL #158920 (and YouTube): See the most memorable one-liner of the campaign. Barak Obama put Hillary in his rear-view mirror with this one. Hillary got what she had coming. This is from the Dec. 13th (2007)debate in Des Moines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhPxSm9Es0wfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Elizabeth Clare Prophet Dies
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: I googled Michael Weinless about a year ago and got a hit on this successor group, or at least the group claiming to carry the mantle of the Saint Germain teaching. I sent them an e-mail and they responded in a very friendly way letting me know that Michael was basically their IT person. They suggested I contact him via e-mail to say hello. I did not, but I was glad to see that he found someplace to settle. I of course was fascinated by him and thought he was a genius. Looking back I don't know if that was an accurate assesment, or just part of the idealistic way I tended to view movement people at that time. I'd enjoy hearing about any other comments people had about Michael Weinless. He was a huge St. Louis fan : he would go on and on about very large Cardinals. ;) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT LEADER DIES AP October 16, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itY7UfJtKYgsCaDxnWyocfTcfg LQD9BCD1U01 BOZEMAN, MONTANA - Church Universal and Triumphant leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet has died in Bozeman. She was 70. Prophet's legal guardian, Murray Steinman, says she suffered from advanced Alzheimer's disease and died at her apartment Thursday night. Prophet was the spiritual leader for a church that at one time boasted 50,000 members. In the late 1980s, assault rifles and armored vehicles were amassed in preparation for a nuclear missile strike that Prophet predicted was on the way. The sect combined icons from the world's major religions, mixing western philosophy and mysticism. Wikipedia On Elizabeth Clare Prophet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet Official Church Universal Triumphant Website: http://www.tsl.org/ NHNE Wavemaker News List: Send Some Green Love To NHNE: http://www.nhne.org/DONATE/tabid/398/Default.aspx To subscribe, send a message to: nhnenews-subscr...@yahoogroups.com mailto:nhnenews-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe, send a message to: nhnenews-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com mailto:nhnenews-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com To review current posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/messages http://www.nhne.org/tabid/1044/Default.aspx NHNE's Mother Ship: http://www.nhne.org/ NHNE Pulse: http://nhne-pulse.org/ Sunfellow NHNE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sunfellow Integral NHNE: http://integralnhne.ning.com/ Published by David Sunfellow NewHeavenNewEarth (NHNE) eMail: nhne@ mailto:nhne%40nhne.org Phone: (928) 257-3200 Fax: (815) 642-0117 P.O. Box 2242 Sedona, AZ 86339
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Posting Limit Get Out Of Jail Free Card (Was: Post Count)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Bhairitu wrote: Just say the free week expires with the six-month period. No rollover... Screw you and your silly TMO rules. I can go to Usenet and post anything I want to as many times as I want to. snip Please, would you mind posting non-stop on Usenet ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Baucus Plan is Bullshit
Baucus Bullshit - that's right. Baucus is a Dem in name only - he represents the status quo. His Baucus Bullshit Senate Finance Committee healthcare reform bill deserves to be IGNORED. There are No Amendments that can put lipstick on that pig of a bill- the Baucus Bullshit bill is the creation of the insurance industry. Baucus ignored Single Payer advocates. As early as July, the Finance Committee threw the public option overboard. Baucus's legacy rides on the outcome of the Baucus Bullshit Senate Finance Committee bill. The Senate shouldn't waste time amending the Baucus Bullshit bill. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Last week at the AFL-CIO convention, it was reported that AFSCME President Gerald McEntee led the crowd in a derogatory chant about Max Baucus's Senate Finance Committee bill. But the video was nowhere to be found. We found it: The Senate Finance Committee is getting ready to debate a health care bill. That bill does not meet the test of this resolution. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even come close. And it does not meet President Obma's standards either. There is no employer mandate, no public option, no help for retirees. The finance committee bill imposes substantial costs on the states, weakens state insurance regulation and taxes our health plan. (audience starts to boo) That's right here...boo, boo come on. It's all bullshit. Come on, what's the word? It's bullshit! The speed with which all the videos were yanked from YouTube etc. indicates that there was unhappiness with Mr. McEntee's speech in some sectors. But the AFSCME page inviting you to tell the Senate Finance Committee how you feel about the bill is still up. Fuckin' AFSCME. Firedoglake Jane Hamsher http://snipurl.com/s0x6k
[FairfieldLife] Re: Glenn Beck's ideas are really not that original
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: John wrote: Which one actually got murdered, Shremp? What was the name of that radical left-winger that married a Russian woman,and then murdered the President? Patsy
[FairfieldLife] was:Mike Love-Iowa Public Radio now: how was BB Fairfield show ?
Well, how was the Fairfield Beach Boys concert yesterday ? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Mike Love of the Beach Boys will be interviewed on Iowa Public Radio, WSUI 910 AM, Wednesday 10:36-10:565 a.m., CT. Listeners will be able to call in and ask Mike questions at 866-780-9100. The Beach Boys will wind up their Endless Summer Fun Tour at the Fairfield Middle School grounds this Labor Day, with The Nadas opening up the show at 12:30 - 1:30 pm. For tickets, directions, and parking information, call (641) 472-2787. Read this great article, Beach Boys bringing green concert to tiny Fairfield, http://tinyurl.com/llrswq. *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@... Encourage your friends to sign up for DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS. Send an e-mail message to dome-l-requ...@..., and put the word subscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message. To stop receiving DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS, send an e-mail message to: dome-l-requ...@..., and type the word unsubscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pressure Builds Up For Cheney Probe.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I hope Eric Holder goes for it. Nothing I would love to see better than Cheney to get his just due. However there is the meme being circulated that we need to move on and that the country has to many problems to spend time on this. I disagree and indeed it is possible that the CIA itself could be circulating that meme. Definitely the Republicans would be suspect too. I think we can have an investigation and work on the nations problems at the same time. But there are those who fear that it will dig up the buried bodies and they'll be indicted. I say good and time for their karma to catch up. I suspect Obama encouraged Holder to proceed. The administration must demand accountability, and prosecution of Cheney and his cohorts will bring great benefit to resolving the injustice of the past and as a caution to future arrogant U.S. leaders.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Questions and answers about the Star
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Hey Nabs, On a scale of 1-10, how sure are you that all these predictions are going to come true? 10 Heaven will walk on earth, in this generation - Maharishi According to Benjamin Creme, Maitreya arrived in London in 1977 after having created a Mahavirupta-body in the Himalayas, two years after Maharishi made His historic proclamation on Lake Lucerne; The Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. The arrival of Maitreya in a physical body, for the first time in 100.000 years on this planet is perhaps the most far-reaching effects of the work of Maharishi; the most remarkable Master of Masters mankind has seen since Brahmananda Saraswathi. Since the early 80s, Benjamin Creme has been singing Any Day Now (Maitreya will be reveal himself very publicly). I will make a prediction - Benjamin Creme will die before Maitreya appears in the flesh. Maitreya are in flesh already since 1977. The first interview has simply not happened yet. And it won't before mankind is ready. Benjamin Creme will die before mankind is Ready; as will you, Nabby. IOW, it won't happen. I hope you have a Plan B, Nabby - Life without Maitreya as the revealed and physically present Master. May you adjust to that reality well. Peace.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adiraja Rajaram speaks about religion and teaching etc
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukra69@ wrote: He speaks very directly about the kind of issues that some people are concerned about here, is TM a religion, what is the relationship with Hinduism, does a TM teacher have to represent the tradition all the time 24/7 etc. currently repeating often on the Maharishi Channel and you can find your time on the schedule. www.maharishichannel.in The schedule doesn't say which of the five channels any particular program is on. I'd watch it only if it were on Channel 3, because I have no intention of installing the plug-in. But I'd really be interested in hearing what he has to say. Any clues what channel it's being shown on? A replay of the talk was on Maharishi Global Chat, Channel 3, last week; the event was April 3rd, in Fairfield, ( the day before DLF benefit concert with Sir Paul and Ringo ).
[FairfieldLife] Re: Questions and answers about the Star
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Hey Nabs, On a scale of 1-10, how sure are you that all these predictions are going to come true? 10 Heaven will walk on earth, in this generation - Maharishi According to Benjamin Creme, Maitreya arrived in London in 1977 after having created a Mahavirupta-body in the Himalayas, two years after Maharishi made His historic proclamation on Lake Lucerne; The Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. The arrival of Maitreya in a physical body, for the first time in 100.000 years on this planet is perhaps the most far-reaching effects of the work of Maharishi; the most remarkable Master of Masters mankind has seen since Brahmananda Saraswathi. Since the early 80s, Benjamin Creme has been singing Any Day Now (Maitreya will be reveal himself very publicly). I will make a prediction - Benjamin Creme will die before Maitreya appears in the flesh.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adiraja Rajaram speaks about religion and teaching etc
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukra69@ wrote: He speaks very directly about the kind of issues that some people are concerned about here, is TM a religion, what is the relationship with Hinduism, does a TM teacher have to represent the tradition all the time 24/7 etc. currently repeating often on the Maharishi Channel and you can find your time on the schedule. www.maharishichannel.in The schedule doesn't say which of the five channels any particular program is on. I'd watch it only if it were on Channel 3, because I have no intention of installing the plug-in. But I'd really be interested in hearing what he has to say. Any clues what channel it's being shown on? It will be shown again - Channel 3 Tuesday, April 21 6:55 PM U.S. Central Time ( 7:55 PM U.S. Eastern Time ) Maharaja Adhiraj Raja Raam's address at Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome on April 3, 2009 (1 hr).
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adiraja Rajaram speaks about religion and teaching etc
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Doughney m...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukra69@ wrote: He speaks very directly about the kind of issues that some people are concerned about here, is TM a religion, what is the relationship with Hinduism, does a TM teacher have to represent the tradition all the time 24/7 etc. currently repeating often on the Maharishi Channel and you can find your time on the schedule. www.maharishichannel.in * King Tony spoke very well, saying TM is not Hinduism, because religion is a belief system, and we work from experience only, no belief required -- truly Vedic Science. Sounds like His Highness Tony would be quite at home in an American Pentecostal church - 'cause they claim pretty much the same thing, saying it's not a religion it's a relationship or somesuch bunk. It's really easy to engage in misdirection like this if you're not afraid to defy both common sense and ethical behavior by completely redefining your terms into meaningless mush as you go along. It appears that King Tony's latest spiel is in the Maharishi Channel archive, look under Global Family Chats for April 8, 10 and 11 - though I haven't yet downloaded and viewed these files to check for sure. Be careful not to trip over that completely irreligious Full Moon Celebration! Thanks to Mike D, Judy won't have to wait until Tuesday. Here's a link: http://212.178.154.22/gfc-archive.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: The restoration of the world, Share International Magazine, April 2009
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Anyone got the info about who would be doing all this teaching and for what salary? I mean, really, how many re-certs are there out there, and what percentage of them can be put to this task? I'm thinking they'll use mass initiation tactics (phone technique) and the TMO will make the initiators pay for their own travel, food and motel for the privilege of getting all those pujas under one's belt. If they don't make that offer, then I'll be surprised. Maybe they'll give a small per diem and put out a distress call to the local meditating community to put up a teacher when he's visiting that local. If they do it one student at a time, that's maybe 20 students per day tops per teacher, but that's for only one teaching day...how can 20/day be maintained if three days checking must be done by the same teacher? -- (who must be there to at least be available to check mantras now and then on the first day.) A teacher should be compensated, say, $3500 a month plus a per diem if he's away from home. If a teacher teaches, say, 50 students a week, that's 600 x 50 = 30,000 x 4 weeks = $120,000 bucks for Lynch to pay out and Girish gets it all minus the teacher's salary. But, even though the salary cost is so insignificant, I look to the teachers being screwed out of anything like a windfall profit situation for them. They'll be coming home in the same rust buckets they're driving today. Does Lynch get it that the $600 will be mostly going directly to Girish? Edg Quality instruction is the key to a sustainable demand for TM. The earliest DLF-sponsored whole-school TM instruction was apparently superb: it included first instructing willing administrators and teachers, followed by the remaining faculty and staff, well prior to instructing the students. Apparently lots of TM-teacher on-site follow-up to all. David Lynch negotiated heavily to reduce the fee to $600 per student for whole-school TM instruction. I believe that fee amount is necessary to sustain quality instruction. My heavy woe befall anyone who advocates mass-initiation bum's rush treatment shortcuts to meet a surge in demand. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 2:45 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Dream on brother. But thanks for posting those links to the youtube clips from the David Lynch Foundation Conscert for teaching 1 million children Transcendental Meditation. Speaking of dream on, Nabby, you DO realize that as well-intentioned as this fund-raising concert was, it only raised enough money to teach 5,000 kids to meditate, right? $3,000,000 / $600 = 5,000 Wouldn't it be a magnanimous gesture for the TM organization, if it believes so strongly in this project and its stated goal, to lower the price to what other introductory meditation courses cost in the United States? $3,000,000 / $60 = 50,000 OR if they're REALLY interested in getting a million kids cogitating mantras: $3,000,000 / $3 = 1,000,000 Problem solved!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The restoration of the world, Share International Magazine, April 2009
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Anyone got the info about who would be doing all this teaching and for what salary? I mean, really, how many re-certs are there out there, and what percentage of them can be put to this task? I'm thinking they'll use mass initiation tactics (phone technique) and the TMO will make the initiators pay for their own travel, food and motel for the privilege of getting all those pujas under one's belt. If they don't make that offer, then I'll be surprised. Maybe they'll give a small per diem and put out a distress call to the local meditating community to put up a teacher when he's visiting that local. If they do it one student at a time, that's maybe 20 students per day tops per teacher, but that's for only one teaching day...how can 20/day be maintained if three days checking must be done by the same teacher? -- (who must be there to at least be available to check mantras now and then on the first day.) A teacher should be compensated, say, $3500 a month plus a per diem if he's away from home. If a teacher teaches, say, 50 students a week, that's 600 x 50 = 30,000 x 4 weeks = $120,000 bucks for Lynch to pay out and Girish gets it all minus the teacher's salary. But, even though the salary cost is so insignificant, I look to the teachers being screwed out of anything like a windfall profit situation for them. They'll be coming home in the same rust buckets they're driving today. Does Lynch get it that the $600 will be mostly going directly to Girish? Edg Quality instruction is the key to a sustainable demand for TM. The earliest DLF-sponsored whole-school TM instruction was apparently superb: it included first instructing willing administrators and teachers, followed by the remaining faculty and staff, well prior to instructing the students. Apparently lots of TM-teacher on-site follow-up to all. David Lynch negotiated heavily to reduce the fee to $600 per student for whole-school TM instruction. I believe that fee amount is necessary to sustain quality instruction. May heavy woe befall anyone who advocates mass-initiation bum's rush treatment shortcuts to meet a surge in demand --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 2:45 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Dream on brother. But thanks for posting those links to the youtube clips from the David Lynch Foundation Conscert for teaching 1 million children Transcendental Meditation. Speaking of dream on, Nabby, you DO realize that as well-intentioned as this fund-raising concert was, it only raised enough money to teach 5,000 kids to meditate, right? $3,000,000 / $600 = 5,000 Wouldn't it be a magnanimous gesture for the TM organization, if it believes so strongly in this project and its stated goal, to lower the price to what other introductory meditation courses cost in the United States? $3,000,000 / $60 = 50,000 OR if they're REALLY interested in getting a million kids cogitating mantras: $3,000,000 / $3 = 1,000,000 Problem solved!
[FairfieldLife] N Y Times' glowing review of DLF Concert
Congrats to all for great publicity surrounding the remaining Beatles' support for TM in the schools. Here's the Times report on the concert : http://tiny.cc/LNCXC
[FairfieldLife] Re: N Y Times' glowing review of DLF Concert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20...@... wrote: Congrats to all for great publicity surrounding the remaining Beatles' support for TM in the schools. Here's the Times report on the concert : http://tiny.cc/LNCXC and this glowing review could have been written by Bobby Roth himself: http://tiny.cc/AAMZe
[FairfieldLife] Re: N Y Times' glowing review of DLF Concert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: Congrats to all for great publicity surrounding the remaining Beatles' support for TM in the schools. Here's the Times report on the concert : http://tiny.cc/LNCXC and this glowing review could have been written by Bobby Roth himself: http://tiny.cc/AAMZe ...and Reuter's - McCartney and Starr reunite in NYC for meditation http://tiny.cc/SDn9Z
[FairfieldLife] Re: N Y Times' glowing review of DLF Concert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: Congrats to all for great publicity surrounding the remaining Beatles' support for TM in the schools. Here's the Times report on the concert : http://tiny.cc/LNCXC and this glowing review could have been written by Bobby Roth himself: http://tiny.cc/AAMZe Both news reports emphasized the line-up for the performance and said very little about TM or teaching kids to meditate. It is not true and pure snark that this glowing review could have been written by Bobby Roth himself. The concert sounded like a lot of fun and they raised $3 million for DLF. It was a huge success. Sour grapes, much? Stop picking a fight, raunchy. ...could have been written by B. Roth himself is a compliment to Bobby Roth and the DLF.
[FairfieldLife] was: Times' glowing review; now: DLF Concert highlights
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: Congrats to all for great publicity surrounding the remaining Beatles' support for TM in the schools. Here's the Times report on the concert : http://tiny.cc/LNCXC and this glowing review could have been written by Bobby Roth himself: http://tiny.cc/AAMZe ...and Reuter's - McCartney and Starr reunite in NYC for meditation http://tiny.cc/SDn9Z Thanks to 'Music Fan ', here are songs from last night, via the NY Times - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRWfMfN5U0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXVSbIVZrYM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr87zHjBeKM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08AQY_0cAcc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziLU-PPDR8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wd57k-HqCU
[FairfieldLife] Re: Public Webcast of the Press Conference for the David Lynch Foundation Benefi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: I wonder: if all these celebrities came together to do a charity-entertainment for, say, raising public awareness of 3rd world travail, don't we all know that they could fill a stadium with folks who paid serious bucks for the tickets? Lots of baby boomers out there. Instead, all we get is 6,000 seats filled? Ringo and Paul play together for charity and this is the number? WTF? Sir Paul has yet to wear a cream-colored suit. McCartney wears dark-colored suits. At today's press conference, Hagelin sported a SIMS-like Navy-colored suit, as did nearly everyone who strutted onto the stage. To me, knowing the history of the TMO, it is a sore thumb flagging us to note that they were so lacking in confidence that they could get even 6,000 warm bodies to fill the space that they couldn't imagine renting a larger venue. If they thought they could get more response, we all know they would have rented the Orange Bowl (most satvic fruit) and glorified to the world that they had so many followers. And don't give me the argument that the TV showings of this event will be reaching a larger audiencecuz, if it were held in the Orange Bowl, there'd be an even larger audience tuning into it on TV. Nope, these are the latter day saints of the TMO gathering for one last hit of personal satisfaction that they done the world such a solid. And the fun part is: they're messing with a money milking machine that's a tar baby they know not of -- these rich folks think the TMO is getting the word out to the world by riding their celebrity coattails, but the truth is that the TMO is getting the word INTO the minds of these easy marks, and soon enough they'll be fully prepped to be shamed into a large donation for some TM cause (Girish is hungry.) Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, michael vedamerlin@ wrote: On Friday, April 3, 2009 there will be a press conference at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City regarding the program to teach one million students the Transcendental Meditation technique. David Lynch, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will make statements as to why they are supporting this initiative. All of the other performing musicians will also make statements of support. http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/press-conference.html To register to watch the webcast of the press conference for the David Lynch Foundation Benefit Concert, please visit http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/new-york-press-conference-registration.html. Here some more interesting points: David Lynch recently edited a two-minute video showing the Beatles in India with Maharishi. When he showed it to Paul McCartney there were tears in his eyes. People in Paul's office said they haven't seen him this happy in 20 years. After the concert, Paul is going to auction a signed guitar, Ringo will auction signed drum skins, and Donovan a guitar that he said was George Harrison's favorite. During the concert Jerry Seinfeld is also going to speak for 3 minutes; he has been meditating since the age of 19. Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio is paying for 130 people to attend the concert. He is encouraging all his guests to donate generously. He will speak at the end of the concert, indicating that TM has been instrumental to his success.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Public Webcast of the Press Conference for the David Lynch Foundation Benefi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: I wonder: if all these celebrities came together to do a charity-entertainment for, say, raising public awareness of 3rd world travail, don't we all know that they could fill a stadium with folks who paid serious bucks for the tickets? Lots of baby boomers out there. Instead, all we get is 6,000 seats filled? Ringo and Paul play together for charity and this is the number? WTF? Er at $500-$1000 per ticket, not counting the $100 grand packages for donors at the afterparty. I don't know what it is like in your city but when Paul comes to DC alone, people pay these prices and higher for the good seats without the charity angle. And two Beatles together? I think the public smells something. Ticket prices for him at the Hard Rock in Vegas this month: http://www.coasttocoasttickets.com/buy/paulmccartney_tickets.htm?pid=1013066 http://tinyurl.com/d3yxe2 Don't forget that we are saying that out of the millions initiated,this is how many still believe in TM's value in schools this much. Eh, the goal is to raise $600 million.. Shrugs. L. The goal is to pretend the TMO is SIMS, which assured that TM 20 X 2 is all you do for full effectiveness of the technique. Until a Western-style SIMS organization arises, one independent of confiscatory constraints of the Indian TMO, success will be very limited.
