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Canada appears to still love the British monarchy. The cars were lined up all up and down my little rural street which is across the street from a great view of the airport where the "Royal's" jet was landing. What a to-do! I was amazed at the fan base there is for Kate and William and their two children. http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/prince-william-hopes-to-see-how-canada-tackles-world-s-biggest-challenges-1.3087355?hootPostID=99ae5716207099346a1c661e1f202027 http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/prince-william-hopes-to-see-how-canada-tackles-world-s-biggest-challenges-1.3087355?hootPostID=99ae5716207099346a1c661e1f202027
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) I took it and scored 130 while at work between helping customers and answering the phone. I found the first half of the questions ridiculously easy and the second half a bit more challenging. Not sure I believe the results though or that it is a proper IQ test. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 image https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
The IQ is a very selective measurement of a person's ability, mostly, for logic, pattern matching, and number crunching. It has no bearing at all, on a person's emotional intelligence, or ability to be successful in life. Because it was one of the first widely available ways to measure specific elements of intelligence, it has taken on this mythological status - as if it means anything, in and of itself. It is a game to play, measuring one's IQ, and possibly a diagnostic tool in a shrink's toolkit, but nothing to take seriously. As for claiming enlightenment, same thing, same game. Game on. :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
It may be splitting hairs on semantics but awaken suggests one is experiencing enlightenment whereas saying that one is enlightened suggests that the process has completed. If you tell someone you are enlightened then they will have unrealistic expectations of behavior from you. Same if you brag about a high IQ. On 08/06/2014 09:30 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 image https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
Probably not very good form. There are no reliable ways to determine if someone is 'enlightened'; the criterion is completely subjective which means only the person who is enlightened could probably tell, and it is possible to mistake various kinds of experiences for 'enlightenment'. The 'awakening' experience, a sudden flash of insight, is fairly common and it can have various depths of clarity and they leave you changed, but its effect can fade away unless it is very clear, and even then the experience is not sustained, its ramifications might be sustained on the level of knowledge. After years of meditation and awakening experiences one can sort of settle in to a perspective in life that I suppose could be called 'enlightenment', but the problem with this is what you experience in a clear awakening is that world is no different at awakening than it was before the experience happened, so there is a paradoxical bind that awakening did not achieve anything at all. It is the realisation you were seeking something you already had in full measure. In that sense enlightenment does not really exist. That knowledge is what sets you free, it changes nothing, gives you nothing, you just stop pursuing the dream called 'enlightenment' and you can stop categorising people as unenlightened because they have nothing less than you do. The whole spiritual trip is really like looking for your eyeglasses while you are wearing them. So what I would say is you naturally stop looking for it at some point, and get used to the idea that there is nothing to seek, and eventually the infatuation with it fades, and you gradually become less of a pompous asshole about it and hopefully become just a regular person again without putting on airs. You do not get to wear a badge that sets you apart from others. Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, and I suppose most do not do a very respectable job of it. When such 'assistance' fails really miserably you end up with a religion. Probably the secret of the 'best teachers', if there is such a thing, is people will gravitate to them naturally, and they are honest about what you expect to find — nothing. But then people also seem to gravitate naturally to crafty con artists as well. It is a crap shoot. I think it is not possible to not be conned if you think enlightenment is real, because the con is built into the universe, a most mysterious situation. As Stephen Hawking said (in opposition to Einstein's view), 'God not only throws dice, he throws them where they cannot be seen'. The universe is a certain way always, but the mind is an interpreter of that universe, it creates coarse representations of the universe and how it works. How much you get out of the enlightenment business depends on how much and in what way the mind changes its perspective during the pursuit phase. Some people have really great experiences along the way and others do not. But eventually the pursuit fizzles out one way or another, by realisation or quitting, unless you have made your search into a religion, in which case you have got yourself on an endless treadmill taking you nowhere, that is, the mind's search for resolution of this matter has become stagnant. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, A few people?!??! Have you ever taken a look at BATGAP? Most of those jaybirds are selling their particular brand of hang out with me and get awakened From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) Probably not very good form. There are no reliable ways to determine if someone is 'enlightened'; the criterion is completely subjective which means only the person who is enlightened could probably tell, and it is possible to mistake various kinds of experiences for 'enlightenment'. The 'awakening' experience, a sudden flash of insight, is fairly common and it can have various depths of clarity and they leave you changed, but its effect can fade away unless it is very clear, and even then the experience is not sustained, its ramifications might be sustained on the level of knowledge. After years of meditation and awakening experiences one can sort of settle in to a perspective in life that I suppose could be called 'enlightenment', but the problem with this is what you experience in a clear awakening is that world is no different at awakening than it was before the experience happened, so there is a paradoxical bind that awakening did not achieve anything at all. It is the realisation you were seeking something you already had in full measure. In that sense enlightenment does not really exist. That knowledge is what sets you free, it changes nothing, gives you nothing, you just stop pursuing the dream called 'enlightenment' and you can stop categorising people as unenlightened because they have nothing less than you do. The whole spiritual trip is really like looking for your eyeglasses while you are wearing them. So what I would say is you naturally stop looking for it at some point, and get used to the idea that there is nothing to seek, and eventually the infatuation with it fades, and you gradually become less of a pompous asshole about it and hopefully become just a regular person again without putting on airs. You do not get to wear a badge that sets you apart from others. Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, and I suppose most do not do a very respectable job of it. When such 'assistance' fails really miserably you end up with a religion. Probably the secret of the 'best teachers', if there is such a thing, is people will gravitate to them naturally, and they are honest about what you expect to find — nothing. But then people also seem to gravitate naturally to crafty con artists as well. It is a crap shoot. I think it is not possible to not be conned if you think enlightenment is real, because the con is built into the universe, a most mysterious situation. As Stephen Hawking said (in opposition to Einstein's view), 'God not only throws dice, he throws them where they cannot be seen'. The universe is a certain way always, but the mind is an interpreter of that universe, it creates coarse representations of the universe and how it works. How much you get out of the enlightenment business depends on how much and in what way the mind changes its perspective during the pursuit phase. Some people have really great experiences along the way and others do not. But eventually the pursuit fizzles out one way or another, by realisation or quitting, unless you have made your search into a religion, in which case you have got yourself on an endless treadmill taking you nowhere, that is, the mind's search for resolution of this matter has become stagnant. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
How many people in the enlightenment business divided by the Earth's human population? BatGap comes out to be 0.0342% [244 ÷ 7,130,000,000] Muslims are 19% of the Earth's human population and a respectable number of those would like to send us back to a nice mediaeval way of thinking and living that is even more retarded and cruel than the TMO's mediaeval outlook. I was once in the (then) MIU library and on the Internet and found an article on MIU in the New York Times that said if you wanted a mediaeval education you should come to MIU. I bet they never reprinted that one! Proportion Michael, proportion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, A few people?!??! Have you ever taken a look at BATGAP? Most of those jaybirds are selling their particular brand of hang out with me and get awakened From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) Probably not very good form. There are no reliable ways to determine if someone is 'enlightened'; the criterion is completely subjective which means only the person who is enlightened could probably tell, and it is possible to mistake various kinds of experiences for 'enlightenment'. The 'awakening' experience, a sudden flash of insight, is fairly common and it can have various depths of clarity and they leave you changed, but its effect can fade away unless it is very clear, and even then the experience is not sustained, its ramifications might be sustained on the level of knowledge. After years of meditation and awakening experiences one can sort of settle in to a perspective in life that I suppose could be called 'enlightenment', but the problem with this is what you experience in a clear awakening is that world is no different at awakening than it was before the experience happened, so there is a paradoxical bind that awakening did not achieve anything at all. It is the realisation you were seeking something you already had in full measure. In that sense enlightenment does not really exist. That knowledge is what sets you free, it changes nothing, gives you nothing, you just stop pursuing the dream called 'enlightenment' and you can stop categorising people as unenlightened because they have nothing less than you do. The whole spiritual trip is really like looking for your eyeglasses while you are wearing them. So what I would say is you naturally stop looking for it at some point, and get used to the idea that there is nothing to seek, and eventually the infatuation with it fades, and you gradually become less of a pompous asshole about it and hopefully become just a regular person again without putting on airs. You do not get to wear a badge that sets you apart from others. Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, and I suppose most do not do a very respectable job of it. When such 'assistance' fails really miserably you end up with a religion. Probably the secret of the 'best teachers', if there is such a thing, is people will gravitate to them naturally, and they are honest about what you expect to find — nothing. But then people also seem to gravitate naturally to crafty con artists as well. It is a crap shoot. I think it is not possible to not be conned if you think enlightenment is real, because the con is built into the universe, a most mysterious situation. As Stephen Hawking said (in opposition to Einstein's view), 'God not only throws dice, he throws them where they cannot be seen'. The universe is a certain way always, but the mind is an interpreter of that universe, it creates coarse representations of the universe and how it works. How much you get out of the enlightenment business depends on how much and in what way the mind changes its perspective during the pursuit phase. Some people have really great experiences along the way and others do not. But eventually the pursuit fizzles out one way or another, by realisation or quitting, unless you have made your search into a religion, in which case you have got yourself on an endless treadmill taking you nowhere, that is, the mind's search for resolution of this matter has become stagnant. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
On 8/6/2014 11:30 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? It's only poor form to claim you're enlightened, when you're not. But, compared to you, almost everyone on the entire planet is enlightened. Go figure. Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. Correction: You HAD a friend. When he reads on the internet that you mentioned his name and that you're a known informant, he probably won't even admit that he ever knew you. Since you're obviously one of the lurking reporters Barry was talking about. Go figure. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 image https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
On 8/6/2014 12:37 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, A few people?!??! Have you ever taken a look at BATGAP? Most of those jaybirds are selling their particular brand of hang out with me and get awakened You forgot to tell us how much you are getting paid by Knapp to publish your reports on TM-Free. Everyone knows that Knapp makes a living from the advertising on his web site and from his cult exit counseling. The question is, how much is your cut? If you are doing this for free you're probably still in a trance-induction state and disassociated from reality. You seem to be highly prone to suggestion - how much did Knapp say he would pay you for planting false-flag messages on FFL and to inform on your friends? Just be honest. *From:* anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 1:24 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) Probably not very good form. There are no reliable ways to determine if someone is 'enlightened'; the criterion is completely subjective which means only the person who is enlightened could probably tell, and it is possible to mistake various kinds of experiences for 'enlightenment'. The 'awakening' experience, a sudden flash of insight, is fairly common and it can have various depths of clarity and they leave you changed, but its effect can fade away unless it is very clear, and even then the experience is not sustained, its ramifications might be sustained on the level of knowledge. After years of meditation and awakening experiences one can sort of settle in to a perspective in life that I suppose could be called 'enlightenment', but the problem with this is what you experience in a clear awakening is that world is no different at awakening than it was before the experience happened, so there is a paradoxical bind that awakening did not achieve anything at all. It is the realisation you were seeking something you already had in full measure. In that sense enlightenment does not really exist. That knowledge is what sets you free, it changes nothing, gives you nothing, you just stop pursuing the dream called 'enlightenment' and you can stop categorising people as unenlightened because they have nothing less than you do. The whole spiritual trip is really like looking for your eyeglasses while you are wearing them. So what I would say is you naturally stop looking for it at some point, and get used to the idea that there is nothing to seek, and eventually the infatuation with it fades, and you gradually become less of a pompous asshole about it and hopefully become just a regular person again without putting on airs. You do not get to wear a badge that sets you apart from others. Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, and I suppose most do not do a very respectable job of it. When such 'assistance' fails really miserably you end up with a religion. Probably the secret of the 'best teachers', if there is such a thing, is people will gravitate to them naturally, and they are honest about what you expect to find — nothing. But then people also seem to gravitate naturally to crafty con artists as well. It is a crap shoot. I think it is not possible to not be conned if you think enlightenment is real, because the con is built into the universe, a most mysterious situation. As Stephen Hawking said (in opposition to Einstein's view), 'God not only throws dice, he throws them where they cannot be seen'. The universe is a certain way always, but the mind is an interpreter of that universe, it creates coarse representations of the universe and how it works. How much you get out of the enlightenment business depends on how much and in what way the mind changes its perspective during the pursuit phase. Some people have really great experiences along the way and others do not. But eventually the pursuit fizzles out one way or another, by realisation or quitting, unless you have made your search into a religion, in which case you have got yourself on an endless treadmill taking you nowhere, that is, the mind's search for resolution of this matter has become stagnant. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. *From:* Bhairitu noozguru
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
On 8/6/2014 12:02 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: It may be splitting hairs on semantics but awaken suggests one is experiencing enlightenment whereas saying that one is enlightened suggests that the process has completed. If you tell someone you are enlightened then they will have unrealistic expectations of behavior from you. Same if you brag about a high IQ. Maybe being enlightened has nothing to do with one's behavior. And, maybe having a high IQ has nothing to do with being enlightened. Maybe claiming to have a high IQ after taking an online IQ test has nothing to do with being intelligent. It could be that there's no connection, but according to what I've read, the Buddha's first student to reach nirvana was a retired barber. Apparently the Buddha himself was illiterate and wrote nothing - we don't eve know what language he spoke. Back then, you were considered to be smarter than average if you employed just plain old common sense: everything happens for a reason. When you can do that, you've already realized the ultimate awakening. Go figure. On 08/06/2014 09:30 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: How is it poor form to claim enlightenment? Jim has been doing it for years and most of those yahoos on BATGAP claim to be, tho many use the term awakened. One of my closest friends had a 2 hour lunch with on of them, Francis Bennet last Sunday. I spent an hour on the phone getting filled in on his impressions. Interesting. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) It's considered poor form do discuss one's IQ as much as it is to claim one is enlightened. I had no idea I was tested for IQ as a kid and only told that in the 1980s by my mother and what IQ was measured. Sure drugs, sex and age probably take it's toll. :-D On 08/06/2014 03:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Did anyone else try this? Just curious. I thought that the questions were pretty challenging, for an online IQ Test, especially because I was trying to figure them out after having ingested a couple of 9.5% beers. :-) I was genuinely surprised to have done as well as I did. Still, my results on this test put me according to the website in the upper 2% of all respondents to the quiz so far, and *that* puzzles me. When I took the actual Mensa tests back in college, I scored much higher than 132, and *expected* after a life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to score lower than I did back then...and I did. But at the same time I *know* that there are people out there MUCH smarter than I am, so did they just not take this test, or what? Surely there have to be a few people out there who scored in the 140s or 150s, right? I'm pondering all of this while sitting -- appropriately enough -- at the Einstein Cafe in Leiden. :-) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:13 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 image https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
On 08/06/2014 12:23 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: How many people in the enlightenment business divided by the Earth's human population? BatGap comes out to be 0.0342% [244 ÷ 7,130,000,000] Muslims are 19% of the Earth's human population and a respectable number of those would like to send us back to a nice mediaeval way of thinking and living that is even more retarded and cruel than the TMO's mediaeval outlook. I was once in the (then) MIU library and on the Internet and found an article on MIU in the New York Times that said if you wanted a mediaeval education you should come to MIU. I bet they never reprinted that one! If they really wanted to send us back to a medieval way of thinking then they'll truly have a fight on their hands. They don't, only a tiny faction does. The rest or about 85% just like Christianity pay lip service. The zealots are undoubtedly far less than 15%. The tiny faction is used to scare people into giving up their freedom for security so the rich can control the populace. When they can't find the tiny faction they create one. I notice the ISIS kid used a bit too much American slang to be truly from the Middle East. As Andy Kaufman would say you're being had.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
You have to determine the effect of the BATGAP interviews according to who watches it. Francis Bennet told my friend Bill last Sunday that he got a few emails a week inquiring about personal sessions - after his first BATGAP interview he now gets 90 a day. From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) How many people in the enlightenment business divided by the Earth's human population? BatGap comes out to be 0.0342% [244 ÷ 7,130,000,000] Muslims are 19% of the Earth's human population and a respectable number of those would like to send us back to a nice mediaeval way of thinking and living that is even more retarded and cruel than the TMO's mediaeval outlook. I was once in the (then) MIU library and on the Internet and found an article on MIU in the New York Times that said if you wanted a mediaeval education you should come to MIU. I bet they never reprinted that one! Proportion Michael, proportion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, A few people?!??! Have you ever taken a look at BATGAP? Most of those jaybirds are selling their particular brand of hang out with me and get awakened From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) Probably not very good form. There are no reliable ways to determine if someone is 'enlightened'; the criterion is completely subjective which means only the person who is enlightened could probably tell, and it is possible to mistake various kinds of experiences for 'enlightenment'. The 'awakening' experience, a sudden flash of insight, is fairly common and it can have various depths of clarity and they leave you changed, but its effect can fade away unless it is very clear, and even then the experience is not sustained, its ramifications might be sustained on the level of knowledge. After years of meditation and awakening experiences one can sort of settle in to a perspective in life that I suppose could be called 'enlightenment', but the problem with this is what you experience in a clear awakening is that world is no different at awakening than it was before the experience happened, so there is a paradoxical bind that awakening did not achieve anything at all. It is the realisation you were seeking something you already had in full measure. In that sense enlightenment does not really exist. That knowledge is what sets you free, it changes nothing, gives you nothing, you just stop pursuing the dream called 'enlightenment' and you can stop categorising people as unenlightened because they have nothing less than you do. The whole spiritual trip is really like looking for your eyeglasses while you are wearing them. So what I would say is you naturally stop looking for it at some point, and get used to the idea that there is nothing to seek, and eventually the infatuation with it fades, and you gradually become less of a pompous asshole about it and hopefully become just a regular person again without putting on airs. You do not get to wear a badge that sets you apart from others. Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, and I suppose most do not do a very respectable job of it. When such 'assistance' fails really miserably you end up with a religion. Probably the secret of the 'best teachers', if there is such a thing, is people will gravitate to them naturally, and they are honest about what you expect to find — nothing. But then people also seem to gravitate naturally to crafty con artists as well. It is a crap shoot. I think it is not possible to not be conned if you think enlightenment is real, because the con is built into the universe, a most mysterious situation. As Stephen Hawking said (in opposition to Einstein's view), 'God not only throws dice, he throws them where they cannot be seen'. The universe is a certain way always, but the mind is an interpreter of that universe, it creates coarse representations of the universe and how it works. How much you get out of the enlightenment business depends on how much and in what way the mind changes its perspective during the pursuit phase. Some people have really great experiences along the way and others do not. But eventually the pursuit fizzles out one way or another, by realisation or quitting, unless you have made your search into a religion, in which case you have got yourself on an endless treadmill taking you nowhere, that is, the mind's search
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
On 8/6/2014 4:20 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You have to determine the effect of the BATGAP interviews according to who watches it. Francis Bennet told my friend Bill last Sunday that he got a few emails a week inquiring about personal sessions - after his first BATGAP interview he now gets 90 a day. How is this possible when the BATGAP site only got ten views? Go figure. *From:* anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 3:23 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) How many people in the enlightenment business divided by the Earth's human population? BatGap comes out to be 0.0342% [244 ÷ 7,130,000,000] Muslims are 19% of the Earth's human population and a respectable number of those would like to send us back to a nice mediaeval way of thinking and living that is even more retarded and cruel than the TMO's mediaeval outlook. I was once in the (then) MIU library and on the Internet and found an article on MIU in the New York Times that said if you wanted a mediaeval education you should come to MIU. I bet they never reprinted that one! Proportion Michael, proportion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, A few people?!??! Have you ever taken a look at BATGAP? Most of those jaybirds are selling their particular brand of hang out with me and get awakened *From:* anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 6, 2014 1:24 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife) Probably not very good form. There are no reliable ways to determine if someone is 'enlightened'; the criterion is completely subjective which means only the person who is enlightened could probably tell, and it is possible to mistake various kinds of experiences for 'enlightenment'. The 'awakening' experience, a sudden flash of insight, is fairly common and it can have various depths of clarity and they leave you changed, but its effect can fade away unless it is very clear, and even then the experience is not sustained, its ramifications might be sustained on the level of knowledge. After years of meditation and awakening experiences one can sort of settle in to a perspective in life that I suppose could be called 'enlightenment', but the problem with this is what you experience in a clear awakening is that world is no different at awakening than it was before the experience happened, so there is a paradoxical bind that awakening did not achieve anything at all. It is the realisation you were seeking something you already had in full measure. In that sense enlightenment does not really exist. That knowledge is what sets you free, it changes nothing, gives you nothing, you just stop pursuing the dream called 'enlightenment' and you can stop categorising people as unenlightened because they have nothing less than you do. The whole spiritual trip is really like looking for your eyeglasses while you are wearing them. So what I would say is you naturally stop looking for it at some point, and get used to the idea that there is nothing to seek, and eventually the infatuation with it fades, and you gradually become less of a pompous asshole about it and hopefully become just a regular person again without putting on airs. You do not get to wear a badge that sets you apart from others. Now a few people might be inclined to assist others in getting to this sort of realisation, and I suppose most do not do a very respectable job of it. When such 'assistance' fails really miserably you end up with a religion. Probably the secret of the 'best teachers', if there is such a thing, is people will gravitate to them naturally, and they are honest about what you expect to find — nothing. But then people also seem to gravitate naturally to crafty con artists as well. It is a crap shoot. I think it is not possible to not be conned if you think enlightenment is real, because the con is built into the universe, a most mysterious situation. As Stephen Hawking said (in opposition to Einstein's view), 'God not only throws dice, he throws them where they cannot be seen'. The universe is a certain way always, but the mind is an interpreter of that universe, it creates coarse representations of the universe and how it works. How much you get out of the enlightenment business depends on how much and in what way the mind changes its perspective during the pursuit phase. Some people have really great experiences along the way and others do
[FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun With IQs (was Re: Tony Nader wife)
On 8/5/2014 11:13 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com But FYI, if I had designed BarryWorld only to be navigable by those with an IQ over 120, I wouldn't have bothered to post it to Fairfield Life. :-) Just as a fun followup, Just as a followup, TB's favorite musician was probably an informant planting false flags all over the planet. It's just amazing how many of these players came from families with military connections: Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, John Phillips, Mike Nesmith, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Mama Cass, Jim Morrison, David Crosby, Frank Zappa - the list just goes on and on, to the point where it's news when you find a singer whose family did NOT work for the U.S. military. Some of these musicians were probably knocked off early because they knew too much. Go figure. It's no secret that almost the whole music and film business is controlled by the federal government as a propaganda tool and that the TB is one of their biggest customers. There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills after jokingly posting this earlier today, just now in this cafe I stumbled upon a web IQ test. Natch, I had to take it. I didn't expect to do very well, having just finished drinking two Westmalle Tripels, and didn't -- only 132. My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 image https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 My quick IQ is 132! What's yours? https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Only 1 in 50 is as smart as I am! View on memorado.com https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=132 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life?
What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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Dracula here as well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote : I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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If you can still find it in your browsers -- Michael or Anartaxius -- what's the quiz author's description of Dracula in your results? It would be interesting to me to find out, because he was the one programming the results of each choice in the quiz and mapping them to a possible life novel. But at the same time, *his* view or or interpretation of the novels in question might be a factor. I certainly wouldn't necessarily describe LOTR the way he did it in my results. From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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For the record, the person who told me about this quiz got To Kill A Mockingbird, so there *are* other choices. From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Dracula here as well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote : I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : If you can still find it in your browsers -- Michael or Anartaxius -- what's the quiz author's description of Dracula in your results? It would be interesting to me to find out, because he was the one programming the results of each choice in the quiz and mapping them to a possible life novel. But at the same time, *his* view or or interpretation of the novels in question might be a factor. I certainly wouldn't necessarily describe LOTR the way he did it in my results. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know
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Many thanks, Xeno. As I suspected, the quiz author's take on the novels in question gives us insight into how he programmed the expert system that generated the results. This would seem to be a classic example, his take on Dracula not really being what many other people's take would be. From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : If you can still find it in your browsers -- Michael or Anartaxius -- what's the quiz author's description of Dracula in your results? It would be interesting to me to find out, because he was the one programming the results of each choice in the quiz and mapping them to a possible life novel. But at the same time, *his* view or or interpretation of the novels in question might be a factor. I certainly wouldn't necessarily describe LOTR the way he did it in my results. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from
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At the bottom of the main page, Facebook posts are listed and many have pasted in the book description associated with the book the quiz picked for them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Many thanks, Xeno. As I suspected, the quiz author's take on the novels in question gives us insight into how he programmed the expert system that generated the results. This would seem to be a classic example, his take on Dracula not really being what many other people's take would be. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : If you can still find it in your browsers -- Michael or Anartaxius -- what's the quiz author's description of Dracula in your results? It would be interesting to me to find out, because he was the one programming the results of each choice in the quiz and mapping them to a possible life novel. But at the same time, *his* view or or interpretation of the novels in question might be a factor. I certainly wouldn't necessarily describe LOTR the way he did it in my results. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? I got Dracula too. Ah. Eternal youth from sucking the life out of others. Hey meditators, forget TM and Ayurveda, come to my clinic! I had trouble with some of the selections in the quiz, because they did not have any significance for me. I seem to recall I read Dracula once while I was on a residence course. Good ol' Bram: The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : That's hilarious, Michael. I was kinda hoping for something dark and Gothic like Dracula, but was fairly pleased with LOTR. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Goddamn! I got Dracula. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone
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And interestingly, there seem to be only six of them. And yet, many if not most of the respondents managed to agree so strongly with one of the canned, vaguely-worded descriptions below that they felt as if the quiz had mysteriously nailed them and selected the perfect novel to describe their lives. I would suggest that this quiz thus stands as an example of how easy it is to suck people into believing predictions, whether they are generated as the result of asking a few questions on the Net, or astrology/Jyotish, or tarot cards, or just claimed seeing. THE NOVELS LORD OF THE RINGS: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! DRACULA: Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Selfless and Morally Sound, your story unfolds within the heartbreakingly honest pages of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Tride, true, and honest - yours is a life of helping others. Intolerance and bigotry infuriate you, and you have a very hard time understanding how anyone could think in such a manner. You are driven to do good by others, not only because it's right - but because that's simply who you are. CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Empathetic and Family Oriented, E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB does a lovely job of describing your homey life. Kind and understanding, you are the epitome of empathy and have a true gift for confiding in others. You tend to be an optimist, or try to be anyway, but have had your fair share of grievances. You are a rare individual in your ability to recognize that no one would be able to appreciate the good times without having first experienced the bad. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Independent and Brash, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE could have been written about your life! Your intelligence and stubborn nature has brought you to where you stand today, and to say you surprise others on a daily basis would be an understatement. In your mind, nothing is impossible - And if anyone chooses to stand in your way they simply become another obstacle. You believe you were meant to do great things, regardless of race, sex, or religion - and nothing of the sort will ever stand in your way. THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby: Romantic and driven by passion, your ups and downs are told within the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic THE GREAT GATSBY! If one thing is true about you, it's that your entire life has been a search for true love and the passion that true love brings. This, however, has led you down a bumpy road. You're capable of making massive sacrifices for love, and are willing to do whatever it takes - no matter how crazy - to win the one you love. From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? At the bottom of the main page, Facebook posts are listed and many have pasted in the book description associated with the book the quiz picked for them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Many thanks, Xeno. As I suspected, the quiz author's take on the novels in question gives us insight into how he programmed the expert system that generated the results. This would seem to be a classic example, his take on Dracula not really being what many other people's take would be. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun
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This fits in perfectly with those first year pyschology course demonstrations where everyone is given the same horoscope and 50% of the class responds it is a good fit to their personality, and the other 50% say it is an excellent fit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : And interestingly, there seem to be only six of them. And yet, many if not most of the respondents managed to agree so strongly with one of the canned, vaguely-worded descriptions below that they felt as if the quiz had mysteriously nailed them and selected the perfect novel to describe their lives. I would suggest that this quiz thus stands as an example of how easy it is to suck people into believing predictions, whether they are generated as the result of asking a few questions on the Net, or astrology/Jyotish, or tarot cards, or just claimed seeing. THE NOVELS LORD OF THE RINGS: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! DRACULA: Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Selfless and Morally Sound, your story unfolds within the heartbreakingly honest pages of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Tride, true, and honest - yours is a life of helping others. Intolerance and bigotry infuriate you, and you have a very hard time understanding how anyone could think in such a manner. You are driven to do good by others, not only because it's right - but because that's simply who you are. CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Empathetic and Family Oriented, E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB does a lovely job of describing your homey life. Kind and understanding, you are the epitome of empathy and have a true gift for confiding in others. You tend to be an optimist, or try to be anyway, but have had your fair share of grievances. You are a rare individual in your ability to recognize that no one would be able to appreciate the good times without having first experienced the bad. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Independent and Brash, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE could have been written about your life! Your intelligence and stubborn nature has brought you to where you stand today, and to say you surprise others on a daily basis would be an understatement. In your mind, nothing is impossible - And if anyone chooses to stand in your way they simply become another obstacle. You believe you were meant to do great things, regardless of race, sex, or religion - and nothing of the sort will ever stand in your way. THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby: Romantic and driven by passion, your ups and downs are told within the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic THE GREAT GATSBY! If one thing is true about you, it's that your entire life has been a search for true love and the passion that true love brings. This, however, has led you down a bumpy road. You're capable of making massive sacrifices for love, and are willing to do whatever it takes - no matter how crazy - to win the one you love. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? At the bottom of the main page, Facebook posts are listed and many have pasted in the book description associated with the book the quiz picked for them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Many thanks, Xeno. As I suspected, the quiz author's take on the novels in question gives us insight into how he programmed the expert system that generated the results. This would seem to be a classic example, his take on Dracula not really being what many other people's take would be. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement
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Exactly. Each of the novel descriptions below is written to a template, one that is *designed* to make the person reading it feel important and special, so of course they do. Unless they got Dracula, that is. Drac carries a lot of baggage. :-) :-) :-) From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? This fits in perfectly with those first year pyschology course demonstrations where everyone is given the same horoscope and 50% of the class responds it is a good fit to their personality, and the other 50% say it is an excellent fit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : And interestingly, there seem to be only six of them. And yet, many if not most of the respondents managed to agree so strongly with one of the canned, vaguely-worded descriptions below that they felt as if the quiz had mysteriously nailed them and selected the perfect novel to describe their lives. I would suggest that this quiz thus stands as an example of how easy it is to suck people into believing predictions, whether they are generated as the result of asking a few questions on the Net, or astrology/Jyotish, or tarot cards, or just claimed seeing. THE NOVELS LORD OF THE RINGS: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! DRACULA: Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Selfless and Morally Sound, your story unfolds within the heartbreakingly honest pages of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Tride, true, and honest - yours is a life of helping others. Intolerance and bigotry infuriate you, and you have a very hard time understanding how anyone could think in such a manner. You are driven to do good by others, not only because it's right - but because that's simply who you are. CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Empathetic and Family Oriented, E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB does a lovely job of describing your homey life. Kind and understanding, you are the epitome of empathy and have a true gift for confiding in others. You tend to be an optimist, or try to be anyway, but have had your fair share of grievances. You are a rare individual in your ability to recognize that no one would be able to appreciate the good times without having first experienced the bad. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Independent and Brash, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE could have been written about your life! Your intelligence and stubborn nature has brought you to where you stand today, and to say you surprise others on a daily basis would be an understatement. In your mind, nothing is impossible - And if anyone chooses to stand in your way they simply become another obstacle. You believe you were meant to do great things, regardless of race, sex, or religion - and nothing of the sort will ever stand in your way. THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby: Romantic and driven by passion, your ups and downs are told within the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic THE GREAT GATSBY! If one thing is true about you, it's that your entire life has been a search for true love and the passion that true love brings. This, however, has led you down a bumpy road. You're capable of making massive sacrifices for love, and are willing to do whatever it takes - no matter how crazy - to win the one you love. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? At the bottom of the main page, Facebook posts are listed and many have pasted in the book description associated with the book the quiz picked for them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Many thanks, Xeno. As I suspected
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Exactly. Each of the novel descriptions below is written to a template, one that is *designed* to make the person reading it feel important and special, so of course they do. Unless they got Dracula, that is. Drac carries a lot of baggage. :-) :-) :-) There are so many of these on FB these days. You can find out what kind of tree you are, what kind of dog you are, what kind of car you are and on and on. But look how many of us actually took the quiz here; I normally pass them by and LOTR does not accurately describe me or make me feel self important. Now if I were I dog I'd be a mutt... From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? This fits in perfectly with those first year pyschology course demonstrations where everyone is given the same horoscope and 50% of the class responds it is a good fit to their personality, and the other 50% say it is an excellent fit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : And interestingly, there seem to be only six of them. And yet, many if not most of the respondents managed to agree so strongly with one of the canned, vaguely-worded descriptions below that they felt as if the quiz had mysteriously nailed them and selected the perfect novel to describe their lives. I would suggest that this quiz thus stands as an example of how easy it is to suck people into believing predictions, whether they are generated as the result of asking a few questions on the Net, or astrology/Jyotish, or tarot cards, or just claimed seeing. THE NOVELS LORD OF THE RINGS: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! DRACULA: Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Selfless and Morally Sound, your story unfolds within the heartbreakingly honest pages of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Tride, true, and honest - yours is a life of helping others. Intolerance and bigotry infuriate you, and you have a very hard time understanding how anyone could think in such a manner. You are driven to do good by others, not only because it's right - but because that's simply who you are. CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Empathetic and Family Oriented, E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB does a lovely job of describing your homey life. Kind and understanding, you are the epitome of empathy and have a true gift for confiding in others. You tend to be an optimist, or try to be anyway, but have had your fair share of grievances. You are a rare individual in your ability to recognize that no one would be able to appreciate the good times without having first experienced the bad. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Independent and Brash, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE could have been written about your life! Your intelligence and stubborn nature has brought you to where you stand today, and to say you surprise others on a daily basis would be an understatement. In your mind, nothing is impossible - And if anyone chooses to stand in your way they simply become another obstacle. You believe you were meant to do great things, regardless of race, sex, or religion - and nothing of the sort will ever stand in your way. THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby: Romantic and driven by passion, your ups and downs are told within the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic THE GREAT GATSBY! If one thing is true about you, it's that your entire life has been a search for true love and the passion that true love brings. This, however, has led you down a bumpy road. You're capable of making massive sacrifices for love, and are willing to do whatever it takes - no matter how crazy - to win the one you love.
[FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz: Which Chakra Are You Guided By?
Fun link, Barry! Here's another one: Which Chakra Are You Guided By? http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Which Chakra Are You Guided By? http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Chakras are your body split into 7 different sections. Each section has a very special and important role in making you the best you can be. Find out which chakra g... View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Preview by Yahoo Mine was Heart.
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Crown On Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:51 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Fun link, Barry! Here's another one: Which Chakra Are You Guided By? Which Chakra Are You Guided By? Chakras are your body split into 7 different sections. Each section has a very special and important role in making you the best you can be. Find out which chakra g... View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo Mine was Heart.
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Crown, India, Pride and Prejudice On Sunday, August 3, 2014 9:30 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Crown On Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:51 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Fun link, Barry! Here's another one: Which Chakra Are You Guided By? Which Chakra Are You Guided By? Chakras are your body split into 7 different sections. Each section has a very special and important role in making you the best you can be. Find out which chakra g... View on www.playbuzz.com Preview by Yahoo Mine was Heart.
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Crown, India, Pride and Prejudice P and P would have been a much better description of me as a book as well. On Sunday, August 3, 2014 9:30 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Crown On Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:51 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Fun link, Barry! Here's another one: Which Chakra Are You Guided By? http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Which Chakra Are You Guided By? http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Chakras are your body split into 7 different sections. Each section has a very special and important role in making you the best you can be. Find out which chakra g... View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Preview by Yahoo Mine was Heart.
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The ninth. On 08/03/2014 06:51 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Fun link, Barry! Here's another one: Which Chakra Are You Guided By? http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by image http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Which Chakra Are You Guided By? http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Chakras are your body split into 7 different sections. Each section has a very special and important role in making you the best you can be. Find out which chakra g... View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/katelynw11/which-chakra-are-you-guided-by Preview by Yahoo Mine was Heart.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life?
The one that hasn't been written yet. :-D On 08/03/2014 03:59 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life image http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Come take a voyage into classic literature to find out which enduring novel's plot line describes your fantastical life! View on www.playbuzz.com http://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/what-classic-novel-describes-your-life Preview by Yahoo I usually don't fall for or pass along these Internet bot quizzes, but someone I know raved about this one, so I dived into it and answered all the questions honestly, without trying to in any way affect the outcome. So I'm fairly pleased to have been told that the novel that describes my life is this one: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! But it's a little scary when even Internet bots know things about you like that you've got a penchant for the surreal. :-)
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Maybe it was cuz I am more like Van Helsing - but then again it could be a passing similarity to Renfield. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? Exactly. Each of the novel descriptions below is written to a template, one that is *designed* to make the person reading it feel important and special, so of course they do. Unless they got Dracula, that is. Drac carries a lot of baggage. :-) :-) :-) From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz - What Classic Novel Describes Your Life? This fits in perfectly with those first year pyschology course demonstrations where everyone is given the same horoscope and 50% of the class responds it is a good fit to their personality, and the other 50% say it is an excellent fit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : And interestingly, there seem to be only six of them. And yet, many if not most of the respondents managed to agree so strongly with one of the canned, vaguely-worded descriptions below that they felt as if the quiz had mysteriously nailed them and selected the perfect novel to describe their lives. I would suggest that this quiz thus stands as an example of how easy it is to suck people into believing predictions, whether they are generated as the result of asking a few questions on the Net, or astrology/Jyotish, or tarot cards, or just claimed seeing. THE NOVELS LORD OF THE RINGS: An underdog in every sense of the word, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS does a masterful job of playing out your struggles. Though you may not be the most intimidating of individuals, you are not weak - far from it. People are constantly trying to put you down in life, and you always manage to prove them wrong; Sometime even finding yourself on top. Life has taken you some very strange places, and you've developed a taste for the fantastic in the process. You're determined, driven, and have a penchant for the surreal! DRACULA: Pensive and brooding with a penchant for solitary confinement, your fantastic story unfolded within the pages of Bram Stoker's gothic classic, DRACULA. Others mistake you for 'unhappy' on a regular basis, but simply do not understand that you are different - and that is completely okay. You tend to shun everything else around you as you immerse yourself with whatever captivates your mind - which leads to sacrifices but ultimately ends in incredible results. Your inner workings are as fascinating as your outer layers, a true rarity. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Selfless and Morally Sound, your story unfolds within the heartbreakingly honest pages of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Tride, true, and honest - yours is a life of helping others. Intolerance and bigotry infuriate you, and you have a very hard time understanding how anyone could think in such a manner. You are driven to do good by others, not only because it's right - but because that's simply who you are. CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Empathetic and Family Oriented, E. B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB does a lovely job of describing your homey life. Kind and understanding, you are the epitome of empathy and have a true gift for confiding in others. You tend to be an optimist, or try to be anyway, but have had your fair share of grievances. You are a rare individual in your ability to recognize that no one would be able to appreciate the good times without having first experienced the bad. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Independent and Brash, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE could have been written about your life! Your intelligence and stubborn nature has brought you to where you stand today, and to say you surprise others on a daily basis would be an understatement. In your mind, nothing is impossible - And if anyone chooses to stand in your way they simply become another obstacle. You believe you were meant to do great things, regardless of race, sex, or religion - and nothing of the sort will ever stand in your way. THE GREAT GATSBY: The Great Gatsby: Romantic and driven by passion, your ups and downs are told within the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic THE GREAT GATSBY! If one thing is true about you, it's that your entire life has been a search for true love and the passion that true love brings. This, however, has led you down a bumpy road. You're capable of making massive sacrifices for love, and are willing to do whatever it takes - no matter how crazy - to win the one you love. From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife
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So this is the spin. And it will WORK for those who have the will to believe rather than the wish to find out. The fascinating thing from my cult-watcher point of view is that a great number of TM TBs will pay no attention to this revelation of what the young men behind the curtain are, no more than they paid any attention to revelations that Maharishi was diddling his own students. A well-known fact of neuroscience is that most people will do almost *anything* to keep from abandoning a long-standing belief or belief system. Lying to themselves and continuing to believe in fantasies is perceived by them as far less painful than actually changing or modifying one's beliefs, and thus having to admit I was w...w...w...wrong. I would expect that all over the world TM TBs will hear about the Fairfield pundit riot, find some way to blame outside forces for it, and continue to write their monthly checks to support the pundits and continue writing even bigger checks to have the rioters chant to Hindu gods for them in yagyas. The thing I wish would happen in this scenario unfortunately probably never will. That is, that we'll get to find out the real story. There is a way to do this, and a very simple one, but I would bet that it'll never happen, because Girish Co. will keep it from happening. That is, have a good reporter sit down and do an exit interview with the pundit leader who was disciplined and whose exit prompted all of this acting out. Give him the chance to tell *his* story. What was he supposedly disciplined for? Does he agree with the charges leveled against him? What's the story on the indentured servitude aspect of the Maharishi pundits -- is it really true that the pundits' parents aren't paid a penny if the pundit doesn't complete his three years of service? Now that he's been sent home, will *his* parents not receive a penny that was promised to them when they sold their son into slavery, to Girish Co.? What's the daily life of a Maharishi pundit really like? Wouldn't you like to learn the answers to such questions? To find out what *prompted* this uprising and rock-throwing and rioting among boys who have been presented to the world as not only the personification of peace, but the creators of it? You won't. The TMO will keep spinning and spinning, and the rubes will keep falling for it. From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news
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Or, said another way: From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits So this is the spin. And it will WORK for those who have the will to believe rather than the wish to find out. The fascinating thing from my cult-watcher point of view is that a great number of TM TBs will pay no attention to this revelation of what the young men behind the curtain are, no more than they paid any attention to revelations that Maharishi was diddling his own students. A well-known fact of neuroscience is that most people will do almost *anything* to keep from abandoning a long-standing belief or belief system. Lying to themselves and continuing to believe in fantasies is perceived by them as far less painful than actually changing or modifying one's beliefs, and thus having to admit I was w...w...w...wrong. I would expect that all over the world TM TBs will hear about the Fairfield pundit riot, find some way to blame outside forces for it, and continue to write their monthly checks to support the pundits and continue writing even bigger checks to have the rioters chant to Hindu gods for them in yagyas. The thing I wish would happen in this scenario unfortunately probably never will. That is, that we'll get to find out the real story. There is a way to do this, and a very simple one, but I would bet that it'll never happen, because Girish Co. will keep it from happening. That is, have a good reporter sit down and do an exit interview with the pundit leader who was disciplined and whose exit prompted all of this acting out. Give him the chance to tell *his* story. What was he supposedly disciplined for? Does he agree with the charges leveled against him? What's the story on the indentured servitude aspect of the Maharishi pundits -- is it really true that the pundits' parents aren't paid a penny if the pundit doesn't complete his three years of service? Now that he's been sent home, will *his* parents not receive a penny that was promised to them when they sold their son into slavery, to Girish Co.? What's the daily life of a Maharishi pundit really like? Wouldn't you like to learn the answers to such questions? To find out what *prompted* this uprising and rock-throwing and rioting among boys who have been presented to the world as not only the personification of peace, but the creators of it? You won't. The TMO will keep spinning and spinning, and the rubes will keep falling for it. From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news
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And not a WORD about Robin Carlsen, OR Judy - Bravo! Seriously, you are so woefully ignorant of your own emotional needs, and trauma, it is both sad, and funny, to watch you instantly transfer your inner rage, to the subject du jour. I doubt, at this point in your life, you will ever face yourself, and whatever you have been through. You continuously rant against bad things and bad people, to distract yourself. You are convinced that if the TMO did not exist, and all of those who support it, and Maharishi's teaching, you would finally be happy. Your holy grail. But, happiness comes from within. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : So this is the spin. And it will WORK for those who have the will to believe rather than the wish to find out. The fascinating thing from my cult-watcher point of view is that a great number of TM TBs will pay no attention to this revelation of what the young men behind the curtain are, no more than they paid any attention to revelations that Maharishi was diddling his own students. A well-known fact of neuroscience is that most people will do almost *anything* to keep from abandoning a long-standing belief or belief system. Lying to themselves and continuing to believe in fantasies is perceived by them as far less painful than actually changing or modifying one's beliefs, and thus having to admit I was w...w...w...wrong. I would expect that all over the world TM TBs will hear about the Fairfield pundit riot, find some way to blame outside forces for it, and continue to write their monthly checks to support the pundits and continue writing even bigger checks to have the rioters chant to Hindu gods for them in yagyas. The thing I wish would happen in this scenario unfortunately probably never will. That is, that we'll get to find out the real story. There is a way to do this, and a very simple one, but I would bet that it'll never happen, because Girish Co. will keep it from happening. That is, have a good reporter sit down and do an exit interview with the pundit leader who was disciplined and whose exit prompted all of this acting out. Give him the chance to tell *his* story. What was he supposedly disciplined for? Does he agree with the charges leveled against him? What's the story on the indentured servitude aspect of the Maharishi pundits -- is it really true that the pundits' parents aren't paid a penny if the pundit doesn't complete his three years of service? Now that he's been sent home, will *his* parents not receive a penny that was promised to them when they sold their son into slavery, to Girish Co.? What's the daily life of a Maharishi pundit really like? Wouldn't you like to learn the answers to such questions? To find out what *prompted* this uprising and rock-throwing and rioting among boys who have been presented to the world as not only the personification of peace, but the creators of it? You won't. The TMO will keep spinning and spinning, and the rubes will keep falling for it. From: anartaxius@... anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news
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Leaders had planned to send the man home to India, but decided not to after what witnesses described as an 'uprising' on the campus http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vkZxuoOz http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vkZxuoOz Opsie. Now that he's been sent home, will *his* parents not receive a penny that was promised to them when they sold their son into slavery, to Girish Co.?
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Or, said another way: Another gold mine find by Bawwy via FB, indicative of his intellectual depth of investigation once again. And this to, once again, take an opportunity to gloat. Remember Bawwy condensed is, I hate you all, so there. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits So this is the spin. And it will WORK for those who have the will to believe rather than the wish to find out. The fascinating thing from my cult-watcher point of view is that a great number of TM TBs will pay no attention to this revelation of what the young men behind the curtain are, no more than they paid any attention to revelations that Maharishi was diddling his own students. A well-known fact of neuroscience is that most people will do almost *anything* to keep from abandoning a long-standing belief or belief system. Lying to themselves and continuing to believe in fantasies is perceived by them as far less painful than actually changing or modifying one's beliefs, and thus having to admit I was w...w...w...wrong. I would expect that all over the world TM TBs will hear about the Fairfield pundit riot, find some way to blame outside forces for it, and continue to write their monthly checks to support the pundits and continue writing even bigger checks to have the rioters chant to Hindu gods for them in yagyas. The thing I wish would happen in this scenario unfortunately probably never will. That is, that we'll get to find out the real story. There is a way to do this, and a very simple one, but I would bet that it'll never happen, because Girish Co. will keep it from happening. That is, have a good reporter sit down and do an exit interview with the pundit leader who was disciplined and whose exit prompted all of this acting out. Give him the chance to tell *his* story. What was he supposedly disciplined for? Does he agree with the charges leveled against him? What's the story on the indentured servitude aspect of the Maharishi pundits -- is it really true that the pundits' parents aren't paid a penny if the pundit doesn't complete his three years of service? Now that he's been sent home, will *his* parents not receive a penny that was promised to them when they sold their son into slavery, to Girish Co.? What's the daily life of a Maharishi pundit really like? Wouldn't you like to learn the answers to such questions? To find out what *prompted* this uprising and rock-throwing and rioting among boys who have been presented to the world as not only the personification of peace, but the creators of it? You won't. The TMO will keep spinning and spinning, and the rubes will keep falling for it. From: anartaxius@... anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news
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Reckon the Jefferson County Sheriffs Dept. will submit a bill to MUM for the repair of the sheriff's vehicle? Or the other responders who were called in to quell the uprising? I wonder how many native Iowans would be not in jail after such an event. On Wed, 3/12/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 7:40 AM So this is the spin. And it will WORK for those who have the will to believe rather than the wish to find out. The fascinating thing from my cult-watcher point of view is that a great number of TM TBs will pay no attention to this revelation of what the young men behind the curtain are, no more than they paid any attention to revelations that Maharishi was diddling his own students. A well-known fact of neuroscience is that most people will do almost *anything* to keep from abandoning a long-standing belief or belief system. Lying to themselves and continuing to believe in fantasies is perceived by them as far less painful than actually changing or modifying one's beliefs, and thus having to admit I was w...w...w...wrong. I would expect that all over the world TM TBs will hear about the Fairfield pundit riot, find some way to blame outside forces for it, and continue to write their monthly checks to support the pundits and continue writing even bigger checks to have the rioters chant to Hindu gods for them in yagyas. The thing I wish would happen in this scenario unfortunately probably never will. That is, that we'll get to find out the real story. There is a way to do this, and a very simple one, but I would bet that it'll never happen, because Girish Co. will keep it from happening. That is, have a good reporter sit down and do an exit interview with the pundit leader who was disciplined and whose exit prompted all of this acting out. Give him the chance to tell *his* story. What was he supposedly disciplined for? Does he agree with the charges leveled against him? What's the story on the indentured servitude aspect of the Maharishi pundits -- is it really true that the pundits' parents aren't paid a penny if the pundit doesn't complete his three years of service? Now that he's been sent home, will *his* parents not receive a penny that was promised to them when they sold their son into slavery, to Girish Co.? What's the daily life of a Maharishi pundit really like? Wouldn't you like to learn the answers to such questions? To find out what *prompted* this uprising and rock-throwing and rioting among boys who have been presented to the world as not only the personification of peace, but the creators of it? You won't. The TMO will keep spinning and spinning, and the rubes will keep falling for it. From: anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news
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On 3/12/2014 2:40 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Lying to themselves and continuing to believe in fantasies is perceived by them as far less painful than actually changing or modifying one's beliefs, and thus having to admit I was w...w...w...wrong. This is probably true, but I still would like to know how you were brought under so much mind control by Rama that you actually believe you saw him levitate up into the air and hover in front of a large crowd of people. This event isn't mentioned in any reports I've read about Rama and his cult. It's not mentioned in Mark Laxer's book or anywhere on the Rama Cult blog. You'd think this would be an earth shattering event! Go figure. Speaking of having fun with pundits, it looks like you don't want to talk about the Rama levitation event, but you keep bringing the subject up about other people believing in fantasies and lying to themselves. I'm beginning to think you're just trying to push our buttons for fun and amusement - maybe we should just call in the shrinks. Where is Dr.Pete when we need him? Take Me For A Ride, by Mark Laxer: http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Rama/
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(3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under Control On March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group then surrounded the marked patrol vehicle and threw rocks at the driver, threw rocks at the back window breaking the window, they attempted to break off the mirrors, kicked out a back light and were rocking the vehicle. There were approximately 70-80 pandits surrounding the vehicle. The sheriff’s vehicle was able to back away from the crowd and call for assistance. The large group then continued east on 170th street picking up rocks and debris and continued to throw these at the sheriff’s vehicle. After some time, pandit personnel were able to stop the group about ¼ to ½ of a mile from the property and after some time were able to walk them back to the pandit property. Law enforcement agencies staged close to the entrance of the property on 170th street to contain the group if they did come back onto the roadway. All units were able to go back into service at around 1000 hrs. Assistance was provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. No personnel were injured during this incident. From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from Rick Archer included below] See attached.
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This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group then surrounded the marked patrol vehicle and threw rocks at the driver, threw rocks at the back window breaking the window, they attempted to break off the mirrors, kicked out a back light and were rocking the vehicle. There were approximately 70-80 pandits surrounding the vehicle. The sheriff’s vehicle was able to back away from the crowd and call for assistance. The large group then continued east on 170th street picking up rocks and debris and continued to throw these at the sheriff’s vehicle. After some time, pandit personnel were able to stop the group about ¼ to ½ of a mile from the property and after some time were able to walk them back to the pandit property. Law enforcement agencies staged close to the entrance of the property on 170th street to contain the group if they did come back onto the roadway. All units were able to go back into service at around 1000 hrs. Assistance was provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. No personnel were injured during this incident. From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from Rick Archer included below] See attached.
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This report is a disaster for the pundit program. I think the program should be shut down as it has obviously failed. To my knowledge, there has never been a riot like this in Fairfield. It's an acute embarrassment for the movement and terrible for town-university relations. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group then surrounded the marked patrol vehicle and threw rocks at the driver, threw rocks at the back window breaking the window, they attempted to break off the mirrors, kicked out a back light and were rocking the vehicle. There were approximately 70-80 pandits surrounding the vehicle. The sheriff’s vehicle was able to back away from the crowd and call for assistance. The large group then continued east on 170th street picking up rocks and debris and continued to throw these at the sheriff’s vehicle. After some time, pandit personnel were able to stop the group about ¼ to ½ of a mile from the property and after some time were able to walk them back to the pandit property. Law enforcement agencies staged close to the entrance of the property on 170th street to contain the group if they did come back onto the roadway. All units were able to go back into service at around 1000 hrs. Assistance was provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. No personnel were injured during this incident. From: Rick Archer rick@... mailto:rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from Rick Archer included below] See attached.
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http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news http://www.ottumwaeveningpost.com/9470/s/local-news
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No worries - nothing like a harmonious meeting to clear the air. Only in Fairfield. Thanks to our public servants for stepping up to help with the harmony: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, the Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : This report is a disaster for the pundit program. I think the program should be shut down as it has obviously failed. To my knowledge, there has never been a riot like this in Fairfield. It's an acute embarrassment for the movement and terrible for town-university relations. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group then surrounded the marked patrol vehicle and threw rocks at the driver, threw rocks at the back window breaking the window, they attempted to break off the mirrors, kicked out a back light and were rocking the vehicle. There were approximately 70-80 pandits surrounding the vehicle. The sheriff’s vehicle was able to back away from the crowd and call for assistance. The large group then continued east on 170th street picking up rocks and debris and continued to throw these at the sheriff’s vehicle. After some time, pandit personnel were able to stop the group about ¼ to ½ of a mile from the property and after some time were able to walk them back to the pandit property. Law enforcement agencies staged close to the entrance of the property on 170th street to contain the group if they did come back onto the roadway. All units were able to go back into service at around 1000 hrs. Assistance was provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. No personnel were injured during this incident. From: Rick Archer rick@... mailto:rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from Rick Archer included below] See attached.
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but they're supposed to be dedicated to creating world peace - now doesn't this give you pause to reflect on the lack of efficacy of TM, TMSP in groups and yagya chanting for them to behave this way? Of course since the Movement screws up everything it touches one might explain it that-a-way. On a more serious note, the Movement will NEVER end the pundit program because the make way too much money off of it from gullible people who believe their donations are helping to create world peace - its a cash cow for Bevan, Hagelin, Girish and all the rest. World peace - they have the pundits rioting and throwing rocks at law enforcement and they are gonna create world peace? On Tue, 3/11/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 9:33 PM This report is a disaster for the pundit program. I think the program should be shut down as it has obviously failed. To my knowledge, there has never been a riot like this in Fairfield. It's an acute embarrassment for the movement and terrible for town-university relations. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group then surrounded the marked patrol vehicle and threw rocks at the driver, threw rocks at the back window breaking the window, they attempted to break off the mirrors, kicked out a back light and were rocking the vehicle. There were approximately 70-80 pandits surrounding the vehicle. The sheriff’s vehicle was able to back away from the crowd and call for assistance. The large group then continued east on 170th street picking up rocks and debris and continued to throw these at the sheriff’s vehicle. After some time, pandit personnel were able to stop the group about ¼ to ½ of a mile from the property and after some time were able to walk them back to the pandit property. Law enforcement agencies staged close to the entrance of the property on 170th street to contain the group if they did come back onto the roadway. All units were able to go back into service at around 1000 hrs. Assistance was provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. No personnel were injured during this incident. From: Rick Archer rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from Rick Archer included below] See attached.
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From the Fairfield Ledger - I can't get the whole article without registering or paying which I am not gonna do but I bet its a grand article: Group of pandits attacks sheriff By ANDY HALLMAN A group of pandits at the pandit campus near Vedic City attacked Jefferson County Sheriff Gregg Morton this morning by throwing rocks through the windows in his vehicle and rocking the vehicle back and forth. According to a press release from the .. On Tue, 3/11/14, emilymae...@yahoo.com emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 10:42 P No worries - nothing like a harmonious meeting to clear the air. Only in Fairfield. Thanks to our public servants for stepping up to help with the harmony: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, the Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : This report is a disaster for the pundit program. I think the program should be shut down as it has obviously failed. To my knowledge, there has never been a riot like this in Fairfield. It's an acute embarrassment for the movement and terrible for town-university relations. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group then surrounded the marked patrol vehicle and threw rocks at the driver, threw rocks at the back window breaking the window, they attempted to break off the mirrors, kicked out a back light and were rocking the vehicle. There were approximately 70-80 pandits surrounding the vehicle. The sheriff’s vehicle was able to back away from the crowd and call for assistance. The large group then continued east on 170th street picking up rocks and debris and continued to throw these at the sheriff’s vehicle. After some time, pandit personnel were able to stop the group about ¼ to ½ of a mile from the property and after some time were able to walk them back to the pandit property. Law enforcement agencies staged close to the entrance of the property on 170th street to contain the group if they did come back onto the roadway. All units were able to go back into service at around 1000 hrs. Assistance was provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. No personnel were injured during this incident. From: Rick Archer rick@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits [1 Attachment
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This is nice too from the KCRG tv station that is in Cedar Rapids It looked like a Christmas tree, all lit up with lights, one witness said in describing the line of law enforcement on the road leading to the campus, which is just north of Fairfield. Hundreds of pandits live and practice peace on the grounds. It's a project that's been in the area for nearly a decade. By mid-morning, law enforcement pulled out of the area and pandit leaders escorted the group back to their property. Leaders say it's the first time anything like it has happened on campus. No one was hurt in the incident. It's not clear what will happen to the pandit whose removal caused the outcry. Read more: http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo On Tue, 3/11/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 10:50 PM From the Fairfield Ledger - I can't get the whole article without registering or paying which I am not gonna do but I bet its a grand article: Group of pandits attacks sheriff By ANDY HALLMAN A group of pandits at the pandit campus near Vedic City attacked Jefferson County Sheriff Gregg Morton this morning by throwing rocks through the windows in his vehicle and rocking the vehicle back and forth. According to a press release from the .. On Tue, 3/11/14, emilymae...@yahoo.com emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 10:42 P No worries - nothing like a harmonious meeting to clear the air. Only in Fairfield. Thanks to our public servants for stepping up to help with the harmony: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, the Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : This report is a disaster for the pundit program. I think the program should be shut down as it has obviously failed. To my knowledge, there has never been a riot like this in Fairfield. It's an acute embarrassment for the movement and terrible for town-university relations. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader that was being escorted off the property and they were worried that there would be problems. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was there only to ensure the safety of all involved. Prior to the pandit entering the van to leave the property, there were approximately 60 to 70 other pandits that had congregated in the area. These pandits became increasingly agitated and resorted to throwing rocks at security and sheriff personnel. The pandit was loaded in the van and as the van was leaving the area, a larger group of pandits ran towards the front gate area. The van did exit the area and was not stopped by the large group. The large group then knocked down a gate that adjoins 170th street and started walking east on 170th Street blocking the whole street. The sheriff’s personnel attempted to divert the large group back onto the pandit complex but were unable to do so. The group
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This is nice too from the KCRG tv station that is in Cedar Rapids It looked like a Christmas tree, all lit up with lights, one witness said in describing the line of law enforcement on the road leading to the campus, which is just north of Fairfield. Hundreds of pandits live and practice peace on the grounds. It's a project that's been in the area for nearly a decade. By mid-morning, law enforcement pulled out of the area and pandit leaders escorted the group back to their property. Leaders say it's the first time anything like it has happened on campus. No one was hurt in the incident. It's not clear what will happen to the pandit whose removal caused the outcry. Read more: http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo Finally something has occurred that appears more exciting than the infamous Robin Carlsen helicopter drop. It only took 30 years.
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This one has video - let the first minute play, then the news report begins - note the bullshit where the reporter says the pundits have no affiliation with MUM http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=1017547#.Ux-X-oVRHKc On Tue, 3/11/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 10:59 PM This is nice too from the KCRG tv station that is in Cedar Rapids It looked like a Christmas tree, all lit up with lights, one witness said in describing the line of law enforcement on the road leading to the campus, which is just north of Fairfield. Hundreds of pandits live and practice peace on the grounds. It's a project that's been in the area for nearly a decade. By mid-morning, law enforcement pulled out of the area and pandit leaders escorted the group back to their property. Leaders say it's the first time anything like it has happened on campus. No one was hurt in the incident. It's not clear what will happen to the pandit whose removal caused the outcry. Read more: http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo On Tue, 3/11/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 10:50 PM From the Fairfield Ledger - I can't get the whole article without registering or paying which I am not gonna do but I bet its a grand article: Group of pandits attacks sheriff By ANDY HALLMAN A group of pandits at the pandit campus near Vedic City attacked Jefferson County Sheriff Gregg Morton this morning by throwing rocks through the windows in his vehicle and rocking the vehicle back and forth. According to a press release from the .. On Tue, 3/11/14, emilymae...@yahoo.com emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 10:42 P No worries - nothing like a harmonious meeting to clear the air. Only in Fairfield. Thanks to our public servants for stepping up to help with the harmony: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Reserve, the Fairfield Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation Vehicle Enforcement, Iowa DNR law enforcement, Wapello County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield Fire Department. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : This report is a disaster for the pundit program. I think the program should be shut down as it has obviously failed. To my knowledge, there has never been a riot like this in Fairfield. It's an acute embarrassment for the movement and terrible for town-university relations. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This seems like unusually violent behavior for a group of men who spend their days reciting the vedic texts and doing yagyas for world peace. Usually when bad behavior manifests amongst the TM ranks, the official Movement position is that the people were not on the program not doing the program correctly - wonder what type of training in yagya these boys had. On Tue, 3/11/14, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:38 PM (3/11) UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS Pundit Campus Under ControlOn March 11, 2014 at 0600 hrs, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by personnel of the pandit project on Invincible America Drive to assist the security personnel as there was a pandit leader
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On 3/11/2014 5:42 PM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: No worries - nothing like a harmonious meeting to clear the air. According to my sources, there is a meeting tonight in Vedic City with the Mayor.
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On 3/11/2014 5:40 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: World peace - they have the pundits rioting and throwing rocks at law enforcement and they are gonna create world peace? Maybe it's not a good idea for you to worry about world peace. You just get to work and worry about your ex-wife stopping by unannounced. You gonna fix that computer or yak about pundit boys all day and all night? Go figure.
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LOL - It was probably staged for just that reason, trying to boost Iowa's image as edgy. If this hadn't worked, I heard Bevan, upon strict orders from King Tony, was going to streak the Dome. Lucky that didn't happen, as fatalities would certainly have occurred. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This is nice too from the KCRG tv station that is in Cedar Rapids It looked like a Christmas tree, all lit up with lights, one witness said in describing the line of law enforcement on the road leading to the campus, which is just north of Fairfield. Hundreds of pandits live and practice peace on the grounds. It's a project that's been in the area for nearly a decade. By mid-morning, law enforcement pulled out of the area and pandit leaders escorted the group back to their property. Leaders say it's the first time anything like it has happened on campus. No one was hurt in the incident. It's not clear what will happen to the pandit whose removal caused the outcry. Read more: http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo Finally something has occurred that appears more exciting than the infamous Robin Carlsen helicopter drop. It only took 30 years.
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : LOL - It was probably staged for just that reason, trying to boost Iowa's image as edgy. If this hadn't worked, I heard Bevan, upon strict orders from King Tony, was going to streak the Dome. Lucky that didn't happen, as fatalities would certainly have occurred. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This is nice too from the KCRG tv station that is in Cedar Rapids It looked like a Christmas tree, all lit up with lights, one witness said in describing the line of law enforcement on the road leading to the campus, which is just north of Fairfield. Hundreds of pandits live and practice peace on the grounds. It's a project that's been in the area for nearly a decade. By mid-morning, law enforcement pulled out of the area and pandit leaders escorted the group back to their property. Leaders say it's the first time anything like it has happened on campus. No one was hurt in the incident. It's not clear what will happen to the pandit whose removal caused the outcry. Read more: http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo Finally something has occurred that appears more exciting than the infamous Robin Carlsen helicopter drop. It only took 30 years.
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A-W-E-S-O-M-E. I see the tanning bed is helping. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : LOL - It was probably staged for just that reason, trying to boost Iowa's image as edgy. If this hadn't worked, I heard Bevan, upon strict orders from King Tony, was going to streak the Dome. Lucky that didn't happen, as fatalities would certainly have occurred. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : This is nice too from the KCRG tv station that is in Cedar Rapids It looked like a Christmas tree, all lit up with lights, one witness said in describing the line of law enforcement on the road leading to the campus, which is just north of Fairfield. Hundreds of pandits live and practice peace on the grounds. It's a project that's been in the area for nearly a decade. By mid-morning, law enforcement pulled out of the area and pandit leaders escorted the group back to their property. Leaders say it's the first time anything like it has happened on campus. No one was hurt in the incident. It's not clear what will happen to the pandit whose removal caused the outcry. Read more: http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/Peace-Restored-On-Pandit-Campus-Near-Vedic-City-After-Morning-Incident-249577271.html#ixzz2vhKSHKBo Finally something has occurred that appears more exciting than the infamous Robin Carlsen helicopter drop. It only took 30 years.
[FairfieldLife] Fun and games in the Golden State
Jerry is now asking us to ration water. Remember we are the nation's bread basket so what happens in California doesn't stay in California. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jerry-Brown-declares-drought-emergency-asks-5152625.php I may be on a business trip next month to Brazil. Maybe I'll check out real estate while there. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun and games in the Golden State
noozguru, counties in 11 states were declared disaster areas because of drought conditions. Most were in the west, a few in the midwest. On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:40 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Jerry is now asking us to ration water. Remember we are the nation's bread basket so what happens in California doesn't stay in California. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jerry-Brown-declares-drought-emergency-asks-5152625.php I may be on a business trip next month to Brazil. Maybe I'll check out real estate while there. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs!
Well Mike I'm hoping to hug all my family members in a few weeks and they do live just across the Bay from Perdue chicken country: it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. Maybe I should use one of those painters masks, esp on the 4 plane trips? From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Share... no way was I just *kidding around*. Of course bird flu could be passed via a hug. Your face is right in someone else's face. I think Love Birds do a lot of hugging and ahem... other things as well.;) From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Mike, are you kidding around? Can bird flu be passed on via a hug? Last but not least, do birds hug each other?! From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! But.. but... what if they had bird flu? From: Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Heart-warming 4-minute video! Click below to watch this video made in Sondrio , Italy . If you're not smiling by the end, tell me where to send the flowers. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE Enjoy! Music is marvelous!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs!
Mike, are you kidding around? Can bird flu be passed on via a hug? Last but not least, do birds hug each other?! From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! But.. but... what if they had bird flu? From: Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Heart-warming 4-minute video! Click below to watch this video made in Sondrio , Italy . If you're not smiling by the end, tell me where to send the flowers. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE Enjoy! Music is marvelous!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs!
Share... no way was I just *kidding around*. Of course bird flu could be passed via a hug. Your face is right in someone else's face. I think Love Birds do a lot of hugging and ahem... other things as well.;) From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Mike, are you kidding around? Can bird flu be passed on via a hug? Last but not least, do birds hug each other?! From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! But.. but... what if they had bird flu? From: Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Heart-warming 4-minute video! Click below to watch this video made in Sondrio , Italy . If you're not smiling by the end, tell me where to send the flowers. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE Enjoy! Music is marvelous!
[FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs!
Heart-warming 4-minute video! Click below to watch this video made in Sondrio , Italy . If you're not smiling by the end, tell me where to send the flowers. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE Enjoy!Music is marvelous!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs!
for you and for Dr. Kirchner too. I was wondering about him recently. From: Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Heart-warming 4-minute video! Click below to watch this video made in Sondrio , Italy . If you're not smiling by the end, tell me where to send the flowers. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE Enjoy! Music is marvelous!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs!
But.. but... what if they had bird flu? From: Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:38 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun: Italian Hugs! Heart-warming 4-minute video! Click below to watch this video made in Sondrio , Italy . If you're not smiling by the end, tell me where to send the flowers. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE Enjoy! Music is marvelous!
[FairfieldLife] Fun For Astrologers
Here's a fun thing passed along from another forum, where there are equal numbers of astrology skeptics and astrology TBs. The former have begun uploading charts for group analysis, bearing no names or identifying criteria, not even whether the person whose chart is uploaded is male or female, alive or dead, or whatever. The challenge is to analyze the chart and say some things you feel would apply to this person if astrology is valid. Those up to the challenge, have fun with this Western style chart, selected at random and provided without any identifying information except that it's the chart of a person about whom real-life information is readily available, and can be used to validate any analyses: [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8457/8073665540_3aa4fde527.jpg]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun For Astrologers
dear Barry you nincompoop! FFL astrologers are into jyotish not Western. Which you would know if you read EVERY SINGLE LINE of EVERY SINGLE POST! What's that? You can't because you've got a life outside of FFL? Barry, as someone who cares about you I don't suggest you present this flimsy excuse to that Great Poster In the Sky at the moment of your demise. S/He might not be as understanding as we are and might give you a really horrendous jyotish chart next time around. Then what would your FPO do?! The other reason you should read EVERY SINGLE LINE of EVERY SINGLE POST is because it's the nice thing to do. And where oh where is our dear merudanda to supply that fun Latin definition of nice when we really need it? And Barry, the birth time! What about the birth time?! Western astrologers IMHO are way too lax about this point. Not to mention the doctors and nurses who write down birth times on birth certificates whenever they feel like it. Not to mention clocks in birthing rooms not being accurate. Jyotish takes all this Western laxness into account, Barry. Just FWIW. PS I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you. Which I'm only writing for the 2nd time this week because some people love it so. But mainly because it's the one week anniversary of Marek's wonderful idea and I'm feeling overwrought with guilt. No no don't bother to write back and thank me. Or even to absolve me. I know you do both in your heart of hearts and I don't want you to waste another post on poor little ole me (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 6:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fun For Astrologers Here's a fun thing passed along from another forum, where there are equal numbers of astrology skeptics and astrology TBs. The former have begun uploading charts for group analysis, bearing no names or identifying criteria, not even whether the person whose chart is uploaded is male or female, alive or dead, or whatever. The challenge is to analyze the chart and say some things you feel would apply to this person if astrology is valid. Those up to the challenge, have fun with this Western style chart, selected at random and provided without any identifying information except that it's the chart of a person about whom real-life information is readily available, and can be used to validate any analyses:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun For Astrologers
On 10/10/2012 04:54 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Here's a fun thing passed along from another forum, where there are equal numbers of astrology skeptics and astrology TBs. The former have begun uploading charts for group analysis, bearing no names or identifying criteria, not even whether the person whose chart is uploaded is male or female, alive or dead, or whatever. The challenge is to analyze the chart and say some things you feel would apply to this person if astrology is valid. Those up to the challenge, have fun with this Western style chart, selected at random and provided without any identifying information except that it's the chart of a person about whom real-life information is readily available, and can be used to validate any analyses: [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8457/8073665540_3aa4fde527.jpg] The problem with astrology skeptics is they don't know enough about astrology to be skeptics. IOW, like someone once said, they're reviewing the movie without having seen it. :-D As if we were both sitting at a table and without looking it up on the Internet and being honest can you tell me the difference between Western or Tropical astrology and Jyotish? A while back I ventured out to Mike Malloy's chat room while his show was on. I mentioned that I sometimes hang out on Thom Hartmann's chat room and someone made the crack about Thom being a guy who believed in Mercury retrogrades. So I thought they wanted to discuss astrology. No they wanted to debate it and I wound up bruising their fragile egos by uncovering how little they knew about astrology. The moderator put me in a time out because I was upsetting people. But all I was doing was answering their questions. They just didn't like the answers. I told the moderator she was behaving like a Fascist (should have said Stalinist) and she kicked me out. Funny thing is Mike Malloy used to have an astrologer on regularly and she was.. a Vedic astrologer. Mike would also rip those listeners who were criticizing him for having her on. Some of the arguments I hear from astrology debunkers are about as lame as someone saying that there are little horses under the hood of a car because it has horsepower. :-D Also many debunkers do their studies with newspaper horoscopes which anyone who knows astrology aren't really representative of it. Western astrology is popular because it is easier to learn than Jyotish but it is about 700 years out of date. Astrology most likely gave birth to astronomy not the other way around. Kepler made his living drawing charts for astrologers. Astrology arose as early civilizations used phases of the Sun and Moon to determine planting seasons and eventually figure out when eclipses and droughts were going to occur. They discovered the planets and used them to track cycles too. Jupiter with it's 12 year cycle correlates to solar storm periods which cause problems here on earth. There are other cycles too which roughly correlate to planetary positions. And eerily the 120 year Vimshottari Dasha cycle will often repeat similar events in the same country. Just think about the corruption the US was going through 120 years ago.
[FairfieldLife] fun example of distributed computing
http://constantin.glez.de/mandelbrot This is written in the lingua franca of the Internet, Javascript. It apparently divides the processing time between several computers around the world, so that it goes much faster than the same program would run if you ran it on your own computer. Very cool. L.
[FairfieldLife] Fun Jerry sighting
I have it on good authority that an attendee at a recent recording session for ZZ Top in L.A. was Jerry Jarvis. Good for Jerry. Just the image of him sitting there groovin' on Billy Gibbons' guitar licks made me smile.
[FairfieldLife] Fun Zombie Comedy
Aaah! Zombies is a dark comedy about zombies from the zombie point of view. I laughed my ass off! Finally, a film emerges with the courage to tell a zombie story from the perspective of the undead themselves. Wasting Away focuses sympathetically on a group of zombies just beginning to grasp the implications of their horrific new existence. Writer-director Matthew Kohnen's comedic nightmare combines wit and absurdity in its novel approach to the zombie genre, revealing the suffering of a neglected monster minority. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Aaah_Zombies/70124963 Also known as Wasting Away http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027762/
[FairfieldLife] Fun with computers
After dragging my feet I finally ran over to Fry's yesterday after noon and emerged with a shopping cart full of computer components. I now have a new Ubuntu 64-bit machine running 3 cores, with 4 GB of memory and a 1 TB drive. Total cost: $357 including tax. Given that it's been about a year since I bought an Acer 64-bit Windows 7 machine the AMD CPU cores are even faster (over 3 Ghz). The fun part was moving the old home directory over. Ubuntu runs very fast this way.
[FairfieldLife] Fun Beatle film for Netflixers
We discussed this film a while back when it was about to be released and now it is available on Netflix WI. I watched it last night and found it quite entertaining. There are some clips of Maharishi in the film plus and real interesting notion of why they really went to Rishikesh. It's the film about this production company getting two cassette supposedly from George Harrison exposing the fact that Paul really is dead. Quite a conspiracy film with lots of clues about what their songs were really about. Take it as entertainment. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Paul_McCartney_Really_is_Dead_The_Last_Testament_of_George_Harrison/70144861 Still no date yet for David Wants to Fly.
[FairfieldLife] Fun 'n gun at truck driving school
Today I got an email from a long time friend. He used to be a narc working for locals and the Feds. A bunch of his close law-enforcement buddies have been in Afghanistan for a few years teaching law enforcement techniques to the Afghans. Iâm not sure how relevant such things can be for a society that lives mostly by Sharia Law. Now he works CSI and no longer wears three guns, I think just one or two. He says itâs so much more peaceful interrogating corpses. When I asked him if everything was okay he said: I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, the dissolution of Social Security, my precarious retirement funds ⦠all of it. After my wife went to bed, I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Lahore, Pakistan and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck. I suggested he just go down to the fun ân gun range and take it out on the silhouettes.
[FairfieldLife] Fun wuth Dick and Jane
Prop. 113: The whole number of the gods has the character of unity. For if the divine series (theios arithmos) has for antecedent cause the One (to hen), as the intellective (noeros) series has intelligence and the psychical series has Soul, and if at every level the manifold (plethos) is analogous to its cause, it is plain that the divine series has the character of unity, if the One is god. Now that the One is god follows from its identity with the Good: for the Good is identical with god, god being that which is beyond all things and to which all things aspire, and the Good being the `whence and whether' of all things. Thus if a plurality of gods exist they must have the character of unity. But it is evident that such a plurality in fact exists, inasmuch as every originative cause introduces its proper manifold, which resembles it and is akin to it.
[FairfieldLife] Fun Indian Movie for Netflixers
I watched the first hour of What's Your Rashee? last night on Netflix Watch Instantly. This is a 3 hour plus comedy about a young Indian guy who parents call him back from the US to get married because if he does he will get a windfall from his grandfather. This is all predicted in the beginning of the film by an astrologer. So the young guy finds a book on astrology and decides to meet a woman from each sign. It's a goofy film but India has always had fine comedic actors and they carry the film. Would Hollywood jump on is for a remake? I couldn't imagine the story working at all in the US. The notion of the plot would seem ridiculous to US audiences as it does to Indians too but they get a kick out of it whereas US audiences would feel insulted. For the jyotishis it's mostly sun sign astrology and the women don't match up that well to the characteristics of the sign. The producers of the film have a disclaimer at the beginning that they don't embrace nor recommend astrology and claim no knowledge in it (though the astrologer is using an Eastern style chart in his software program). This in spite the fact that the Indian government just recently declared astrology a science.
[FairfieldLife] Fun Break -- videos from FunnyOrDie.com
Designed to make normal, happy, well-adjusted people laugh, and uptight people more uptight. You'll know which you are by how you react: The Gaythering Storm -- hilarious sendup of the real Gathering Storm anti gay marriage TV ads: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6eddb255b2/a-gaythering-storm Denise Richards' Funbags -- liven up your next party with a pair of these: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/75aab08738/denise-richards-funbags Enjoy. Or not, depending...
[FairfieldLife] Fun Quiz!
How do you score on supernatural belief? Listed are 13 statements designed to measure paranormal beliefs. For each opinion, indicate: 1 = strong disagreement 2 = moderate disagreement 3 = mild disagreement 4 = mild agreement 5 = moderate agreement 6 = strong agreement a) It is probably true that certain people can predict the future quite accurately. b) For the most part, people who claim to be psychics are in reality very good actors. c) It is quite possible for planetary forces to control personality traits. d) Contrary to scientific opinion, there is some validity to fortune-telling. e) In spite of the laws of science, some people can use their psychic powers to make objects move. f) As a general rule, a fortune-teller's predictions that come true are a result of coincidence. g) Regardless of what you might read in the magazines, people who actually believe in magical ritual ceremonies are just wasting their time. h) As a general rule, UFO sightings can best be explained as overreactions by people to naturally occurring events. i) For the most part, most fortune-tellers' predictions are general and vague. It is just the situation that makes them believable. j) In spite of what people think, card reading - for example, tarot cards - can tell a lot about a person and their future. k) Cosmic forces (such as astrology) can still influence people's lives even though they don't believe in them. l) Although some people still believe there are people who can actually put a hex on or cast a love spell on someone, such belief is only superstition. m) Contrary to scientific belief, some people can make contact with the dead. Take your score for items b), f), g), h), i) and l), then reverse the value so that 1=6, 2=5, 3=4, 4=3, 5=2 and 6=1. Now add together all your scores. What is your total? The higher your score, the more supernatural your beliefs. Research among students using this scale showed an average score of 38 in the US and 32 in the UK. (I got 13, unluckily for me. Not) From interesting article in todays Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/09/superstitions
[FairfieldLife] fun guy retired farmer
hi to everyone/have a great christmas/dont worry about the world just enjoy it
[FairfieldLife] Fun With Reincarnation
As I said in a reply to Stu earlier, I don't really much give a shit whether reincarnation is a fact or not. Sure seems like it to me, given my personal experiences, but I won't know until I die. Neither will anyone else, no matter how much they claim to know. But that doesn't keep me from trippin' on the idea of reincarnation, just for fun. Here's one such trip that I find interesting, and it is slightly reincarnation-themed. I have a collection of photos that I sometimes show to people as a kind of conversation starter. They are all photos of buildings set in the mountains, and all of the buildings and all of the mountains are similar in appearance. But the photos come from three different locations: the South of France (Cathar ruins), the U.S. Southwest (Anasazi ruins), and Tibet (ruins of ancient monasteries there). I dare them to tell me which photos are from which locations. Most often, they can't. So what do these three places have in common, other than the countryside itself and the style of architecture used to construct buildings? Well, one of the things that they all have in common is that the people who built the build- ings all believed in reincarnation. For the Tibetans, that was a given. They had whole sciences and disciplines related to the transit between one life and the next. In the American Southwest, some of the latest research into the Anasazi indicates that they probably believed in not only an afterlife (like many Native American tribes) but in reincarnation as well (unlike other Native American tribes). And in the South of France, the Cathars differed from the other religions predominant in Europe at that time by having a very strong belief in reincarnation. There are actually legends in Tibet that link the Anasazi to Tibet. Padmasambhava is said to have banished the Bon shamans who were giving him shit about spreading Buddhism from Tibet forever, and having sent them magically across the great water. This was about the same time that the Anasazi stopped being nomadic and started creating buildings that cannot be easily differentiated from similar structures in Tibet. The Anasazi themselves, as best as can be determined, had creation myths that said that they had reincarnated *as a group* to that area, and that when the time was right, they would leave and reincarnate *as a group* in another place. As it turns out, the Anasazi did disappear, as a group, in what is considered the greatest archeological mystery of N. America. As far as I know there are no legends linking the Anasazi or the Tibetans with the Cathars. :-) But I still think it's fun that these three cultures, so far away from one another physically, left artifacts that resemble each other phys- ically, and shared similar beliefs in reincarnation.
[FairfieldLife] Fun stuff from the Net for your Sunday morning reading
Sarah Palin finally debates someone on her level: http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/11-12-08/JBaker.jpg Obama with the Dalai Lama (for Nabby): http://www.mayasmuse.com/myspace/dalai.lama.obama-4.jpg The world's best Have you seen this cat? poster http://b.imagehost.org/view/0864/3091.jpg Atomic water http://www.papeldeparedegratis.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/atomicwater.jpg Gorgeous volcano http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/tungurahua_taschler_big.jpg The girl in the bar, Dublin Airport http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/90/29145890.html Rocker Marketing Line of Sex Toys Dave Stewart showed the world that he knew a thing or two about beats per minute during his stint in Eurythmics, but he's taking that concept to a decidedly new level in his latest venture --marketing a high-end line of vibrators. The grizzled rocker has joined forces with sex toy manufacturer JimmyJane to market a pair of the gadgets, which will be in the hands of consumers in time for the holidays.Proving that, despite the hippie veneer, he's not exactly a proponent of free love, Stewart is asking fans to unzip their wallets and come up with 200 bucks for the basic chrome version of the vibrator, while the really fab phallus -- featuring a base encircled with an eternity band of 28 round-cut black diamonds -- will cost a cold, hard two grand. Stewart has even unsheathed his pen to write a promotional tune called 'Let's Do It Again' -- a title that's inscribed on the devices themselves -- and will make it available at jimmyjane.com starting on November 18th. We have to give Stewart credit for being secure enough to link his name to the company's 'Little Somethings' line -- an association most trouser-stuffing musos would never make.
[FairfieldLife] Fun with genealogy
My brother is a genealogy freak, and has long been obsessed with tracking down our ancestors. This has been complicated by the fact that our father was adopted. He was literally found on a doorstep in 1918, the year that the flu pandemic that killed an estimated 100 million people worldwide started, so we have assumed for some time that his parents died in that pandemic. He was adopted by a Quaker family, but grew up fairly irreligious, and passed that along to me. So did my mother, who was a Presbyterian in name only. She tried to send me to Sunday School, but I was literally kicked out after a few weeks for asking the Sunday School teacher where the woman who supposedly married Cain in the Land of Nod came from. Anyway, my brother just got back from a field trip to Philadelphia, where he tracked down adop- tion and census records that hint that my father was the son of US-born citizens (which spoils our hopes of getting a grandfather clause EU nation passport), but that *their* parents were most likely from Russia, and spoke Yiddish. So cool...I'm Jewish. Oy veh. Not really, of course, since as I understand it Jewish lineage is valid only if passed down matri- linearly, but it's fun to play with a whole new concept -- being at least partly descended from Russian Jews. Mix that in with the established Scot-Irish heritage on my mother's side, and my gene pool is kinda like the result of an unlikely ménage à trois between Sean Connery and Maureen O'Hara and Golda Meir. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Fun Comedy on DVD about India
If you've traveled to India as I have or want to this movie which recently released on DVD is a must see. Outsourced is about a manager of a call center at a US based novelty company that moves its call center to India. He is sent to India to train his replacement. Unlike Bollywood films which stay away from certain taboo subjects like showing you the typical hole in the floor Indian bathroom this one is for westerners to learn about India in a context of a comedy. The director, John Jeffcoat, when he was in college went to Nepal to for a cultural studies program where the differences between western and eastern cultures were observed. Later he spent time in India. The result is a fun look at the Indian culture which I think many here would enjoy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425326/
[FairfieldLife] Fun with levees
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/us/22midwest.html
[FairfieldLife] fun Beliefnet Quiz: what kind of Hindu are you?
Quiz: What Type of Hindu Are You? http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=10003surveyID\ =88 http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=10003surveyI\ D=88 You [george d.] scored 44, on a scale of 0 to 125 = Philosopher Here's how to interpret your score: 0 - 30 Bhakta 31 - 60 Philosopher 61 - 80 Traditionalist 81 - 100 Cultural Hindu 101 - 125 World traveler Results of Beliefnet's Hindu identity quiz explained in depth: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/35/story_3567_1.html http://www.beliefnet.com/story/35/story_3567_1.html
[FairfieldLife] Fun with Amazon
If you have absolutely nothing better to do, as I did this afternoon, there's a section on Amazon containing a list, with links, of Amazon products that users have identified as oddities: http://www.amazon.com/tag/amazon%20oddities/ref=tag_dpp_cust_itdp_t Among them: Pierced Attachable Nipples Magic Answer Me Jesus Wolf Urine Lure Trichogramma Pretiosum: 12,000 eggs (currently unavailable, alas) Gorilla Snot (developed by and for professionals) Rechargable Horse Trimmer (in case your horse is too big) Stink-Free Stink-Finder Ultra-Violet Light and Flashlight Inflatable Party Sheep Heinz Spotted Dick Pudding Chicken Poop Lip Balm Olives in Pain Pet Tornado And so forth. In some cases, users have left very funny reviews of these products. Other products cry out for such reviews. The classic collection of Amazon user reviews--good for wasting another perfectly good several hours--is found for the product Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz (currently unavailable). There are currently 962 reviews. Examples (many are much longer; some are actually short stories): You glutenous Americans take the nourishment from starving calves' mouths just so you can live the Britney Spears high life. I rate this product one star with the hope that it will deter just one person from buying it. That will be one more extra gallon available for a deserving, helpless calf. In summary, please, think of the calves and do not buy this product. And: I conducted some research on this product, and I am sad to report that no user manual is included, customer support is nonexistent at best, there is no warranty, and you have to buy the most basic accessories such as a fridge and the cookies. And don't get me started on the battery... And: U.S. media continues to focus on the price of gas to distract us all from the REAL issue: rising prices of MILK! A gallon of milk (from our own country) continues to be more expensive than a gallon of gas from the Middle East. Coincidence? I think not. And: This stuff is amazing! I ordered some the other day and selected express shipping so the total was like $35.00 for a gallon of milk, but it has changed my life. My once bald head is now covered in thick, Fabio-like hair, my impotence is cured, I no longer have vertigo, dementia, incontinence, ringing ears, depression, psychosis, post-nasal drip, explosive diarrhea, herpes, or the plague. Thank you Tuscan Milk!! I am totally getting this for my wife for Christmas. http://tinyurl.com/25mzu8
[FairfieldLife] Fun with Yiddish
Someone asked me off line to give a reference for the Yiddish post. This is the site I used: http://www.sbjf.org/sbjco/schmaltz/yiddish_phrases.htm What a fantastic language! Now, for those who care, you can translate the Jewish mother rant I laid on Rory. Sorry in advance to anyone who cares how much I butchered the language with my paint-by-the-numbers approach. All in fun, I hope it makes someone smile: or to lie to you to make you feel better, if that's what you want That's all I ever wanted from you Rory. You don't call you don't write, and is it too much to ask for a box of chocolates once in a while? You can keep the flowers I got allergies, now pull up a chair and eat, you look like a skeleton, what they don't have any kugel or borscht where you live? Eat and stop with all the fercockt meshuggina and stop acting like a zhlub or you'll never find a shadkhen to introduce you to a nice zaftig shiksa to shtup with yer shvantz, ya nudnik! I don't mean to kvetch. Enough with the schmaltz Bubbala, I'm getting ver clempt. Now gay ga zinta hate, stop being such a fershtinkiner, just tone down the chutzpah bissel. Fershtay? I hope that makes my position a bit clearer.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun with Yiddish
I told you before you were a gifted writer. Yiddish is easy for someone who speaks German. Superb Yiddish rant. I love the word verklempt especially. It comes from the German, beklemmt. which means fearful, or anxious, but the literal image or metaphor that it houses is clamped down. And yes, your position is crystal clear. a curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone asked me off line to give a reference for the Yiddish post. This is the site I used: http://www.sbjf.org/sbjco/schmaltz/yiddish_phrases.htm What a fantastic language! Now, for those who care, you can translate the Jewish mother rant I laid on Rory. Sorry in advance to anyone who cares how much I butchered the language with my paint-by-the-numbers approach. All in fun, I hope it makes someone smile: or to lie to you to make you feel better, if that's what you want That's all I ever wanted from you Rory. You don't call you don't write, and is it too much to ask for a box of chocolates once in a while? You can keep the flowers I got allergies, now pull up a chair and eat, you look like a skeleton, what they don't have any kugel or borscht where you live? Eat and stop with all the fercockt meshuggina and stop acting like a zhlub or you'll never find a shadkhen to introduce you to a nice zaftig shiksa to shtup with yer shvantz, ya nudnik! I don't mean to kvetch. Enough with the schmaltz Bubbala, I'm getting ver clempt. Now gay ga zinta hate, stop being such a fershtinkiner, just tone down the chutzpah bissel. Fershtay? I hope that makes my position a bit clearer. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Fun
See http://static.scribd.com/docs/3q9ijytgerdp2.swf go to page 8 cartoon top right. One quote on this page: I was an atheist until I found out I was God. spotted on a T-shirt in Auroville.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fun home movie
On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:59 PM, sparaig wrote: It took longer to figure out how to make this, then it took to make it. This movie was done using Quartz Composer, a programming tool that allows you to create video/photo filters using a point and click programming interface. The second around, it took about 1 minute to make. Pretty slick, eh? http://web.mac.com/lawsonenglish/iWeb/Site/Movie.html I really like the new Quartz Composer filters in iMovie, especially the one which makes video look like a cartoon. I remember when such filters were so *slow*. Now, you click on the filter and the preview begins immediately playing. Pretty amazing.
[FairfieldLife] Fun home movie
It took longer to figure out how to make this, then it took to make it. This movie was done using Quartz Composer, a programming tool that allows you to create video/photo filters using a point and click programming interface. The second around, it took about 1 minute to make. Pretty slick, eh? http://web.mac.com/lawsonenglish/iWeb/Site/Movie.html
[FairfieldLife] Fun Bill Maher Show
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher last night was a real hoot broadcast from Washington DC. It featured John Kerry, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, panel members Richard Clarke, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Robin Williams, and special guest Chris Matthews. Maher and Clarke barely got a word in edgewise between talky Ileana and quipping Robin. Well worth a watch and be sure to catch the ending credits section. Those without HBO may be able to download the episode as a podcast on the HBO website ( www.hbo.com ). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Fun with Dick and Jane
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[FairfieldLife] FUN WITH STATISTICS: Ides of March Attachment Test Results
FUN WITH STATISTICS: Ides of March Attachment Test Results (Cutting my test short a couple of days to tie in with the trend towards analyzing FFL statistics...) * Percentage of Judy's last 200 posts that were directly replying to a post by Barry or that mentioned him by name or innuendo: 50% * The number of posts since March 14, 2006 (the date I challenged Judy to see if she could stop compulsively attacking me) in which she has gone out of her way to post personal insults aimed at me (as oppposed to legitimate discussions of ideas I might have posted): 18 * Average personal attacks against Barry per day:1.3 * Number of times Barry has replied to Judy, has responded to any of her insults, or has even mentioned her since March 14, 2006:0 (zero) I thus suggest that the term CYBERSTALKER is completely appropriate to describe her mindstate, and her behavior. From my side, it's been so pleasant to *not* interface with her that I'm going to continue with this little experiment and continue to ignore her. But I just thought that since statistics were in vogue right now, you guys might be interested in the stats on her posts since I suggested a couple of weeks ago that she was *incapable* of not attacking me, even for a short test period. The response was simple. She refused to participate, and continued to attack me. An average of 1.3 times a day. I rest my case. I don't know about you, but to me this behavior just screams CYBERSTALKER. And it seems obvious at this point that there is no way it's going to end. Judy's obsession with me is a real, Class-A samskara (if not an actual psychosis), and will probably continue until the day she dies. Some advertisement for the 30-year benefits of TM, eh? :-) But it's her attachment and her problem, not mine, so I leave her to it. If attacking me is what she needs to get herself off, so be it. But just as she has been doing for the last two weeks, she will be doing it in the future without my participation. I hope that this will make the mastur- batory nature of her obsession even more apparent. :-) Over and out... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] FUN WITH STATISTICS: Ides of March Attachment Test Results
on 3/28/06 2:32 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUN WITH STATISTICS: Ides of March Attachment Test Results (Cutting my test short a couple of days to tie in with the trend towards analyzing FFL statistics...) * Percentage of Judy's last 200 posts that were directly replying to a post by Barry or that mentioned him by name or innuendo: 50% You are her Shiva. She is your most ardent devotee. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
