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[FairfieldLife] New Crop Circle at Waylands Smithy, Oxfordshire. Reported 29th May.
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[FairfieldLife] The mosquitos of Sitges / The mosquitos of FFL
It's now summer here in Sitges, even if the rest of you have to wait until the Solstice for it to be official in your part of the world. The skies are blue, the sun is out, and it's starting to get not just comfortably warm, but occasionally uncomfortably hot. The tourists are starting to arrive in droves. Unfortunately, so are the mosquitoes. Comes with having a big garden and liking to keep my patio doors open during the day to feel the breeze. The little bastards sneak in during the day and like to try to torment me during the night. I'll be in bed, just about to drop off into sleep, and I'll hear this BZZZ as one of them dive-bombs my head. I spent some time in defend myself mode, cruis- ing the house with a flyswatter before going to sleep, but it never helped. They just hid; they're that smart. So I wound up taking the opposite approach with them. I started dropping garlic tablets before bedtime and spraying myself with an herbal mosquito repellent. Works like a charm; I haven't been bitten since. The mosquitoes understand that they can no longer actually land on me and feed, and it makes them CRAZY. They persist in dive-bombing my head while I'm sleeping, trying to disturb my peace of mind. But they don't. I've learned to ignore them as the petty pissants they are. There is a similar situation here on Fairfield Life. A number of posters on this forum -- like mosquitoes -- seem to feed off of the other posters. Whereas the mosquitoes are *needy* and must suck blood to live, the mosquito-posters on FFL are equally needy, but suck attention. They live to force their way into other posters' attention and get them to focus on them. These mosquito-posters don't seem to care what the nature of the attention is; be it positive or negative, it doesn't matter as long as they're getting attention. Ignore them, and they keep buzz- ing past your head, hoping that you'll get up and chase them with a verbal flyswatter again. No more. I've started taking my metaphorical garlic pills, and hopefully they'll work as well on these vampires as they do on the mosquitoes. And yes, I *know* that they'll keep buzzing me, trying to get my attention. But I don't have to give it to them. I've been taking this approach with Willytex for some time, and it's seemed to work. He rarely even tries to get my attention any more. It's worked to some extent on ed11; he/she rarely bothers to buzz me any more, except to play pile on to others' attempts at buzzing. A good start. Now comes the real experiment. If I consign Judy and Edg to the same genus of bothersome insectae and ignore their needy asses and desire to suck attention, what will happen? My bet is that they'll react just like the Sitges mosquitoes. They'll redouble their efforts at buzz- ing me, trying to get me to get up and try to chase them with a flyswatter. But if I don't, what will they do then? Will they *still* keep buzzing me? Will they continue to act so needy even when it becomes apparent to everyone on this forum *that* all that's being played out is their own neediness? We'll see. A new experiment. Gulp...down the FFL garlic tablets. Spritz...spray on the herbal mosquito repellent. Now kick back and wait for the buzzing to begin. And ignore it if I can. They can't bite me and feed on the attention they need to survive unless I allow them to. That I know. But like the mosquitoes they'll try their best to make my life miserable *because* they can no longer feed. My only recourse at this point seems to be to do what I did with the mosquitoes and ignore their needy asses. P.S. I might still swat at them from time to time, just for the fun of it, but on my own terms, not on theirs. It's weak of me I know, but I do the same thing with the mosquitoes. A big fat one lands on the wall while I'm sitting on the sofa, and lured into a sense of complacency since I don't get up and chase them at night, just sits there thinking it's safe. Swat. Big bloody smear on the wall, Yes, I have to get up and clean the wall afterwards, but it's worth it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who is Rush Limbaugh?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sparaig Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:18 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who is Rush Limbaugh?' --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of shempmcgurk Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:41 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who is Rush Limbaugh?' He says in this transcript that he doesn't meditate, but that he knows about it because friends do it, but I got a call from a friend this morning, who read this thread, who said he meditated with Rush just recently. So who you going to believe, the Great Rush Limbaugh, or your anonymous friend? My friend is reliable. In fact, before posting my comment, I showed him what I was going to post, and it included an additional sentence which reflected my opinion, but might have been misconstrued as factual. My friend suggested I delete it, and only post what he knew from his experience to be factual, e.g., that he had meditated with Limbaugh last month. April 17, to be precise. 'twas a joke, Rick, a joke. I generally don't call Rush great and you know who your friend is so he/she is not anonymous. L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywoods Fastest Growing Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttspli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Stu wrote: I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Good to hear that. I've been hearing about cutbacks in productions due to the economy. Must be hitting Hollywood hard. I'm hoping that leaner budgets may put more of an emphasis on writing to carry a show. Lower budget projects like Burn Notice are very entertaining. I also liked the pilot for Mental which is lean more in a BBC way. I wish I could be so positive about the budget cuts. Generally it means they are less likely to hire writers to come up with fresh ideas, instead the suits look to remake old shows or hope star power will carry a series. They cut back on writing staffs. Stu, is there anything general you can say about the percentages in a show's budget? Like how much is spent on star power, how much on writers, and how much on actual production? One of the reasons I ask is that I can only imagine that on the loathsome US version of life On Mars they spent their entire budget on Harvey Keitel and had nothing left over to hire writers with, so they made do with an infinite number of monkeys chained to typewriters. :-) The corporate world hates taking chances in the best of times. Now innovation and surprise are dead. As shown by the fate so far of Kings. One of the most interesting shows I've seen come from mainstream television in years, and it's toast. Then again, no one seems to have watched it, which shows the if the audience prefers to eat shit, few are going to try to serve them more nourishing meals. On the other hand, Dollhouse survived. That's encour- aging. I liked it. For the upcoming summer season I really don't know if there is anything I look forward to except True Blood and Californication. The HBO series Into The Storm looks good, mainly because it's the great Brendan Gleeson playing Churchill.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
On May 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) -- Vasudevananda told Coplin that it was the Jyotir Math Peeth, itself, that bestowed the title Maharishi. Interesting, nothing I've read by Coplin recently includes that, nor does it appear to be mentioned in any official movement history. Being a hardcore TB, I consider Coplin a questionable source. It also seems questionable for a low caste person in the Shankaracharya. It also goes against the fact that some Shankaracharyas refused to call him Maharishi, instead referring to him simply as Mahesh. I suspect this probably came from one of the bought Shankaracharyas. Given that the people I've met at the Shankaracharya considered MMY some sort of demon who was destined for hell, I have to question the utter disparity. With no independent source to verify this, I'd have to consider the assertion TB tinkering or just tinkering from the broken and embattled lineage of the north. Certainly the most reputable remaining Math, Srinigiri, doesn't recognize him. In fact the Shankaracharya of the south didn't even know who he was and commented that his mind seemed like a supermarket. None of the silence and bliss he loved to brag about. It would be interesting to see this manuscript. I've notice a number of questionable claims from Coplin on the web. It's curious that the manuscript can be found nowhere. Perhaps someone could post it to the files section?
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stu Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:42 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Cool. My wife and I love that show and watch it regularly. What was your job? Writing?
[FairfieldLife] Obama makes a compelling case for Judge Sotomayor
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYi6nM_Wx0
[FairfieldLife] Re: When propaganda and trying to spin your image backfires
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip It would be interesting to see if we could get the same Wikipedia supreme court ruling against the TMO and TM cultists who tirelessly edit and remove any controversial or fact-finding entries regarding the Maharishi and Transcendental Meditation. It would be nice to see more factual entries for both of these, without interference from TM-biased revisionists, Neo-Vedic fundamentalists and mythologists. snicker If we got the same Wikipedia court ruling as that with regard to Scientology, it wouldn't be just the TMO folks who'd be banned. It would also be the TM-haters like Vaj and Knapp and Skolnick (see below). But interestingly, as I posted Friday, the people working on the TM-related sites don't seem to require that sort of drastic action. Contrary to Vaj's claim above, and unlike the Scientology situation, the TM pro and con factions have been able to forge a working arrangement to settle disputes and forestall hit-and- run editing by either side. Note the third paragraph below: Wikipedia blocks Scientology from altering entries by Glenn Chapman Fri May 29, 2009 6:21PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Wikipedia has blocked the Church of Scientology from editing entries at the communally- crafted online encyclopedia due to an unrelenting battle over the group's image. A longstanding struggle between admirers of Scientology and critics of the group prompted Wikipedia on Thursday to bar online edits from computer addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. * An array of editors believed to have taken sides in a Scientology public-image war at Wikipedia have also been barred from tinkering with topics related to the church. * Each side wishes the articles within this topic to reflect their point of view and have resorted to battlefield editing tactics, senior Wikipedia editors said in arbitration committee findings backing the decision. The worst casualties have been biographies of living people, where attempts have been repeatedly made to slant the article either towards or against the subject, depending on the point of view of the contributing editor. A church spokeswoman downplayed the development, saying the Wikipedia arbitration committee is part of a routine process for handling conflicts at the website. Do Scientologists care what has been posted on Wikipedia? Of course, said Karin Pouw. Some of it has been very hateful and erroneous. We hope all this will result in more accurate and useful articles on Wikipedia.
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Puritanism: Thou shalt not suffer a critic to be thought well of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip I propose, given the evidence of the TMO's long history and this discussion group, that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's and the TM movement's variant of this tried and still untrue piece of shit...uh, sorry... dogma is Thou shalt not suffer a TM critic to be thought well of. Completely unlike the dogma of some TM critics here with regard to TM supporters, right? guffaw Is this not the recurring theme we see over and over in the TMO? Is it not the recurring theme we see on this group? So if you weren't a TM critic, no TMer would ever accuse you of being a vicious, dishonest, shallow, fraudulent, contemptible creep, a thoroughly crappy human being with no redeeming social value, right? No TMer would ever complain about your being a particularly foul sexist pig, right? The only thing really wrong with you, from the TMers' perspective, is that you're a TM critic. Right? Wait. boo_lives, may he rest in peace, was a very sharp critic of TM. But I can't seem to recall any attempts to make folks think badly of him. Gosh, now how could that possibly be, I wonder?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry Judy
Barry engages in extended self-defense of his sexism, but his agitation, as is so frequently the case, keeps him from making any sense: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: [snip] Lawson, Politicians define themselves ideologically by their words and deeds on a political spectrum ranging from left to right. Left is the big Mommy government, I'll share mine with you. Right is the small Daddy government, I've got mine, too bad about you. What a contentious way to set the scene! Surely not right=daddy=male=selfish=bad? And if you're gonna think of it as Mommy v Daddy values, don't we probably need BOTH? We could do with the strengths of each without the weaknesses of each (value)? It's why most of us ignore Raunchy and Judy when they get like this. They're both old school feminists, in that their schtick is all about BLAME. Of course, what Raunchy was saying in the quote has to do with left vs. right, Democrats vs. Republicans, not male vs. female. The Daddy vs. Mommy party distinction isn't something she dreamed up, as Barry would know if he had any knowledge of U.S. politics. In fact, it's a cliche by now; it was first used back in 1994 by a political economist and has been embraced by both Democrats and Republicans. Me, I've worked with and been friends with for several decades now *real* feminists. None of them would waste any time or energy whining about sexism or pointing fingers at the people they BLAME for it. They're too busy doing something with their lives, and proving that sexism is no barrier to anyone except those who allow it to be. Of course, with regard to Hillary, neither of us is saying sexism was why she lost. That doesn't mean the appalling sexism with which she and her supporters were treated during the campaign somehow doesn't matter. But Barry doesn't want it mentioned or discussed, because he was part of it, and he knows how bad it made him look. snip If either of them *really* wanted to change things, they'd have developed by this time some awareness of how they are *perceived* when they get like this, and that it has the effect of turning people OFF to the issue, not increasing their awareness of it. Well, it certainly turns *Barry* off. But as usual, he assumes that whatever emotions he's feeling must be what everyone else is feeling as well. Unfortunately for him, the sexism of the primary campaign made strong feminists of many *men*--men who, unlike Barry, aren't threatened by powerful women. Barry thinks his distaste for feminism means feminists should just shut up. The only feminists who are acceptable to him are those who obligingly remain silent about sexism, because that lets him off the hook and leaves him free to indulge in it whenever he feels like it. Now he goes off into *another* ridiculous non sequitur that is not only wildly inaccurate on its own terms but has zero to do with what Raunchy and I have been talking about: snip I see the pragmatic elimination of sexism in the workplace every time I see women in confer- ence rooms being just one of the guys. NOT meaning that they're acting like guys, just meaning that they're not trying to either stand out or be submissive. These successful women do not perceive themselves as being *any different* than the guys, and as a result the guys don't treat them any differently. Some- times I think that the women who still cling to BLAME and the tenets of radical feminism just don't get out much, and haven't worked in offices for years. If they had, they would have seen how real women have found a way to deal with sexism without it being a big issue for them. It's only the shut-ins who only think *about* succeeding instead of doing it, and who seem to still be stuck in this mindset of men are keeping us down. Um, trouble is, Barry has never seen either Raunchy or me say Men are keeping us down. Raunchy can speak for herself, but I certainly consider myself successful, having supported myself by running my own business since 1976. Sexism is *not* a big issue for me personally. In fact, the only place I've encountered it directed at me in decades has been on this forum, in connection with my support for Hillary, the bulk of it from Barry. They are keeping themselves down. Nope, neither of us is down, sorry. By desperately clinging to wrongs done in the past and dwelling on them, they keep themselves locked firmly in the victim mindset. By spend- ing all their time assigning BLAME and seeking some kind of revenge, they piss all that time and all that energy away on being angry instead of being successful. Er, no. I don't consider myself a victim, nor do I seek revenge, even on Hillary's behalf. Barry is so frantic in his self-defense
[FairfieldLife] Re: The mosquitos of Sitges / The mosquitos of FFL
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip Now comes the real experiment. If I consign Judy and Edg to the same genus of bothersome insectae and ignore their needy asses and desire to suck attention, what will happen? My bet is that they'll react just like the Sitges mosquitoes. They'll redouble their efforts at buzz- ing me, trying to get me to get up and try to chase them with a flyswatter. But if I don't, what will they do then? Will they *still* keep buzzing me? Will they continue to act so needy even when it becomes apparent to everyone on this forum *that* all that's being played out is their own neediness? Barry, you're not getting it. You've tried this before with me any number of times, and it's never worked. That's because what I post about you has nothing to do with getting your attention. As we all know, you don't consider yourself accountable for anything you say, so there'd be no point. What I post has to do with putting on the record what a scumbag you are. The way to stop me from doing that, as I've explained to you many times, is to *stop being a scumbag*. Why don't you give it a shot?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't heard about the use of maharishi as a pathfinder title, but I agree that it's appropriate should that be so. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) -- Vasudevananda told Coplin that it was the Jyotir Math Peeth, itself, that bestowed the title Maharishi. Whether that happened before or after Maharishi began teaching in southern India wasn't written. It may have been an after-the-fact recognition by the Jyotir Math organization, or it may have actually been given shortly after Guru Dev died when Shantanand first ascended the seat. Ramana Maharishi's elevation to maharishi-hood was based on one person's insistence that it was the appropriate appellation for him, Ganapati Muni. All this stuff is made up anyway. According to the chap who edited the book Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi--not sure if this is the same person you're talking about--the title Maharishi is traditionally bestowed by followers on those who are perceived to have inaugurated a new path. But it's a sort of courtesy title rather than some official indication of spiritual rank, as I understand it. If that's all true, it would seem to have been an entirely appropriate appellation for MMY. It was an indication that he was a freelancer, so to speak. Marek, is Coplin's dissertation available in full anywhere, do you know? There are a few chapters from it on the Web, but I'd love to read the rest of it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
Vaj, I've got no idea whether Coplin's comment is true, but it's the only thing I've ever read that explained the origin of the title for Maharishi. And it's not inconceivable that the honorific was given, in part at least, to reward Maharishi for his support (political and monetary) of the Shankaracharya lineage of Shantanand. The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) -- Vasudevananda told Coplin that it was the Jyotir Math Peeth, itself, that bestowed the title Maharishi. Interesting, nothing I've read by Coplin recently includes that, nor does it appear to be mentioned in any official movement history. Being a hardcore TB, I consider Coplin a questionable source. It also seems questionable for a low caste person in the Shankaracharya. It also goes against the fact that some Shankaracharyas refused to call him Maharishi, instead referring to him simply as Mahesh. I suspect this probably came from one of the bought Shankaracharyas. Given that the people I've met at the Shankaracharya considered MMY some sort of demon who was destined for hell, I have to question the utter disparity. With no independent source to verify this, I'd have to consider the assertion TB tinkering or just tinkering from the broken and embattled lineage of the north. Certainly the most reputable remaining Math, Srinigiri, doesn't recognize him. In fact the Shankaracharya of the south didn't even know who he was and commented that his mind seemed like a supermarket. None of the silence and bliss he loved to brag about. It would be interesting to see this manuscript. I've notice a number of questionable claims from Coplin on the web. It's curious that the manuscript can be found nowhere. Perhaps someone could post it to the files section?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't heard about the use of maharishi as a pathfinder title, but I agree that it's appropriate should that be so. The flip side may be that, as I suggested, it would indicate he wasn't claiming either an official spiritual rank or to be the successor in a *lineage* per se. I'd bet such subtleties would be fairly obvious to Indians familiar with the spiritual-title game.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The mosquitos of Sitges / The mosquitos of FFL
Turq, um, seems to me you just promised to remain the same fucked up, conniving, shit-for-heart, bastard. You reserved the right to do whatever you want whenever to whomever, so your new year's resolution comes off as the Turq-smarn we've all come to know. If you can be silent about Judy or myself, I'll be VERY VERY impressed. Consider this the last time I ever post anything about you until you once again mention me by name or indirectly by your usual someone here who's name I shall not mention but you all know who I'm trying to piss off tactic. The contest is on, and I'll win it easily. Mention me again, and you lose, got it? Don't bother replying to this post -- either you shut the fuck up or you don't. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: It's now summer here in Sitges, even if the rest of you have to wait until the Solstice for it to be official in your part of the world. The skies are blue, the sun is out, and it's starting to get not just comfortably warm, but occasionally uncomfortably hot. The tourists are starting to arrive in droves. Unfortunately, so are the mosquitoes. Comes with having a big garden and liking to keep my patio doors open during the day to feel the breeze. The little bastards sneak in during the day and like to try to torment me during the night. I'll be in bed, just about to drop off into sleep, and I'll hear this BZZZ as one of them dive-bombs my head. I spent some time in defend myself mode, cruis- ing the house with a flyswatter before going to sleep, but it never helped. They just hid; they're that smart. So I wound up taking the opposite approach with them. I started dropping garlic tablets before bedtime and spraying myself with an herbal mosquito repellent. Works like a charm; I haven't been bitten since. The mosquitoes understand that they can no longer actually land on me and feed, and it makes them CRAZY. They persist in dive-bombing my head while I'm sleeping, trying to disturb my peace of mind. But they don't. I've learned to ignore them as the petty pissants they are. There is a similar situation here on Fairfield Life. A number of posters on this forum -- like mosquitoes -- seem to feed off of the other posters. Whereas the mosquitoes are *needy* and must suck blood to live, the mosquito-posters on FFL are equally needy, but suck attention. They live to force their way into other posters' attention and get them to focus on them. These mosquito-posters don't seem to care what the nature of the attention is; be it positive or negative, it doesn't matter as long as they're getting attention. Ignore them, and they keep buzz- ing past your head, hoping that you'll get up and chase them with a verbal flyswatter again. No more. I've started taking my metaphorical garlic pills, and hopefully they'll work as well on these vampires as they do on the mosquitoes. And yes, I *know* that they'll keep buzzing me, trying to get my attention. But I don't have to give it to them. I've been taking this approach with Willytex for some time, and it's seemed to work. He rarely even tries to get my attention any more. It's worked to some extent on ed11; he/she rarely bothers to buzz me any more, except to play pile on to others' attempts at buzzing. A good start. Now comes the real experiment. If I consign Judy and Edg to the same genus of bothersome insectae and ignore their needy asses and desire to suck attention, what will happen? My bet is that they'll react just like the Sitges mosquitoes. They'll redouble their efforts at buzz- ing me, trying to get me to get up and try to chase them with a flyswatter. But if I don't, what will they do then? Will they *still* keep buzzing me? Will they continue to act so needy even when it becomes apparent to everyone on this forum *that* all that's being played out is their own neediness? We'll see. A new experiment. Gulp...down the FFL garlic tablets. Spritz...spray on the herbal mosquito repellent. Now kick back and wait for the buzzing to begin. And ignore it if I can. They can't bite me and feed on the attention they need to survive unless I allow them to. That I know. But like the mosquitoes they'll try their best to make my life miserable *because* they can no longer feed. My only recourse at this point seems to be to do what I did with the mosquitoes and ignore their needy asses. P.S. I might still swat at them from time to time, just for the fun of it, but on my own terms, not on theirs. It's weak of me I know, but I do the same thing with the mosquitoes. A big fat one lands on the wall while I'm sitting on the sofa, and lured into a sense of complacency since I don't get up and chase them at night, just sits there thinking it's safe. Swat. Big bloody smear on the wall, Yes, I have to get up and clean the wall afterwards, but
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Hey Vaj, I would like to respond to your comment in this post about the bought shankaracharyas. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am assumming that you mean that the Shantinand-VishnuDevand-Vasudevananda line has been somehow manipulated by Maharishi by money he has given them. I can not speak for Shantinand or Vishnu Devanand but I do know that Vasudevanand was not bought by Maharishi. Deepak Chopra did a course in India back in 1998 or so and Vasudevanad was invited and attended. Deepak told me that Maharishi did not want Vasudevanand to attend, but he went away, saying to Maharishi, You are a good yogi, but I do what I want!. Deepak also told me that Maharishi does give Vasudevanand some money, but it is very little. I have no idea about the finacial arrangements now. I am sure you will have your own spin on this story based on your knowledge and experience of the Shankaracharyas, but I thought I would just put this out there for you and everyone else. On May 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) -- Vasudevananda told Coplin that it was the Jyotir Math Peeth, itself, that bestowed the title Maharishi. Interesting, nothing I've read by Coplin recently includes that, nor does it appear to be mentioned in any official movement history. Being a hardcore TB, I consider Coplin a questionable source. It also seems questionable for a low caste person in the Shankaracharya. It also goes against the fact that some Shankaracharyas refused to call him Maharishi, instead referring to him simply as Mahesh. I suspect this probably came from one of the bought Shankaracharyas. Given that the people I've met at the Shankaracharya considered MMY some sort of demon who was destined for hell, I have to question the utter disparity. With no independent source to verify this, I'd have to consider the assertion TB tinkering or just tinkering from the broken and embattled lineage of the north. Certainly the most reputable remaining Math, Srinigiri, doesn't recognize him. In fact the Shankaracharya of the south didn't even know who he was and commented that his mind seemed like a supermarket. None of the silence and bliss he loved to brag about. It would be interesting to see this manuscript. I've notice a number of questionable claims from Coplin on the web. It's curious that the manuscript can be found nowhere. Perhaps someone could post it to the files section?
[FairfieldLife] Crop Circle: Peaks Down, nr Swindon, Wiltshire. Reported 9th May.
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[FairfieldLife] Barbury Castle, nr Wroughton, Wiltshire. Reported 24th May.
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[FairfieldLife] Yet another Circle made by dr.pete's friends from the Pub. Reported 25. May 2009
Images Jack Turner Copyright 2009 SENSE OF PEACE ON WINDMILL There are very few occasions when you can experience a Crop Circle without any wind around in England. The sense of peace and tranquillity on Windmill Hill was tangible, as none of the wonderful light Barley was flowing in waves as would be the case on a normal windy day. Just complete stillness, with the added impact of the ancient Windmill Hill settlement. These types of events close to such powerful ancient places, are what makes the County of Wiltshire so unique. There is no doubt that the design itself was creating an atmosphere all of its own. One curious feature of its positioning within the field, was a mysterious track that can be viewed on the aerial images and pole shots. The track appears to be made by some type of vehicle, however the formation's axis is directly on the track itself. The question we have to ask is, was this track already in the field before the formation was made? If so, then this is another example of how the Circle makers use natural reference points to create their designs. See new Crop Circle Connector documentary. CROP CIRCLES: HIDDEN MYSTERIES http://www.cccvault.com/cccvideos/trailer09c.html http://www.cccvault.com/cccvideos/trailer09c.html CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD http://www.cccvault.com/cccvideos/trailer09c.html Image Steve Alexander Copyright 2009 http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk/ http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/ Make a donation to keep the web site alive... Thank you Image Olivier Morel (WCCSG) Copyright 2009 http://www.wccsg.com/
[FairfieldLife] A film resource for age-inappropriate sex
Continuing in my ongoing role here as Satan, I thought I'd provide a list of instructional films on the fine art of older men seducing younger women. Only for those who are interested in such things, of course... http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-woman/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-woman/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-woman-relationship/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-woman-relationship/ And for those dirty old women and aspiring cougars in the FFL reading audience who don't want to miss out on all the fun: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-man/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-man/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-man-relationship/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-man-relationship/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-teenage-boy/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-teenage-boy/ Not to leave out our gay or bi-curious friends: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-man/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-man/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-man-relationship/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-man-relationship/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-woman/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-woman/ That should keep you all busy for a while. Signed, Satan http://www.imdb.com/keyword/satan/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/satan/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Hey Vaj, I would like to respond to your comment in this post about the bought shankaracharyas. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am assumming that you mean that the Shantinand-VishnuDevand-Vasudevananda line has been somehow manipulated by Maharishi by money he has given them. I can not speak for Shantinand or Vishnu Devanand but I do know that Vasudevanand was not bought by Maharishi. Deepak Chopra did a course in India back in 1998 or so and Vasudevanad was invited and attended. Deepak told me that Maharishi did not want Vasudevanand to attend, but he went away, saying to Maharishi, You are a good yogi, but I do what I want!. Deepak also told me that Maharishi does give Vasudevanand some money, but it is very little. I have no idea about the finacial arrangements now. I am sure you will have your own spin on this story based on your knowledge and experience of the Shankaracharyas, but I thought I would just put this out there for you and everyone else. Good idea indeed. But why on earth do you believe that this trickster Vaj knows anything about the Shankaracharya traditions beyond what he has Googeled ? He never learned TM and does not even understand the basic dynamics of that technique. He is a simple Buddhist. And a Maharishi/Shankara hater on a mission. That's all.
[FairfieldLife] A film resource for spiritual topics
Just to show you that even Satan isn't above watching a good flick about the ways that people try to avoid my evil clutches, here are sets of films about: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/meditation/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/meditation/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/enlightenment/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/enlightenment/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/spirituality/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/spirituality/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/religion/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/religion/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/guru/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/guru/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fake-guru/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fake-guru/ And, just so that I can have *some* fun posting this: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/celibacy/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/celibacy/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fraud/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fraud/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/religious-cult/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/religious-cult/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fundamentalism/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fundamentalism/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/religious-fundamentalism/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/religious-fundamentalism/ And the obligatory plug for myself: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/satanic-cult/ http://www.imdb.com/keyword/satanic-cult/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
Marek wrote: Vaj, I've got no idea whether Coplin's comment is true, but it's the only thing I've ever read that explained the origin of the title for Maharishi. And it's not inconceivable that the honorific was given, in part at least, to reward Maharishi for his support (political and monetary) of the Shankaracharya lineage of Shantanand... According to Jay Randolph Coplin, the name Mahesh indicated that the Maharishi came from a Hindu family that worshipped Shiva. Cynthia Ann Humes writes that his family was of the Kayastha (scribal) caste. Contrary to some reports, caste rules allow the honorific terms yogi or maharishi to be applied to those of the Kayastha caste... - Wikepedia Read more: 'Gurus In America' by Cynthia Ann Humes and Thomas A. Forsthoefel State University of New York Press, 2005
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh
Robert, I would suggest to you that you are investing too much energy into hate in order to appear Holy. Hatred is a fiber in the cloth of humanity that makes it week and human, not devine. I was told, and I'm not absolutely sure, that one of the original sutras M taught was Indifference. Indifference allows one to reject or not embrace something unhealthy or unwise without the emotional intangelment of hating it. If someone is going to invest their Soul with hatred, they should be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that they KNOW exactly what they are hating and why and still, at best, that only makes them human. Just my humble opinion though.:)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
Vaj wrote: In fact the Shankaracharya of the south didn't even know who he was... You are incorrect, Vaj. According to Paul van Owen, the Shankaracharya of Sringeri knew exactly who the Marshy was: He also emphatically confirmed that in his opinion - and in the opinion of Shringeri Matha - Shrî Shantânanda Sarasvatî had been the lawful and respected Pîthapati of Jyotirmath. In their view Shrî Shantânanda Sarasvatî had been a disciple of Shrî Shantânanda Sarasvatî, maybe even a rather disobedient and naughty disciple... Read more: From: Willytex Subject: Report of a visit to the Shankaracharya Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: June 8 2005 http://tinyurl.com/2usju3 I've notice a number of questionable claims from Coplin on the web... The questionable claims come from your own Shankaracharya Guru, Vaj; 'Sri Jayendra Saraswati cannot be regarded as a Sankaracharya at all, because the Kanchi math is not one of the four peethas constituted by Adi Sankaracharya. It is only a shakha (branch) of the Sringeri peetham.' Read more: From: Willytex Subject: A South Indian Bigman Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: March 17, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/nkq9fn
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Dixon Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:18 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh Robert, I would suggest to you that you are investing too much energy into hate in order to appear Holy. Hatred is a fiber in the cloth of humanity that makes it week and human, not devine. I was told, and I'm not absolutely sure, that one of the original sutras M taught was Indifference. Indifference allows one to reject or not embrace something unhealthy or unwise without the emotional intangelment of hating it. If someone is going to invest their Soul with hatred, they should be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that they KNOW exactly what they are hating and why and still, at best, that only makes them human. Just my humble opinion though.:) Cultivating the attitudes of friendliness to all, compassion for the suffering, sharing in the gladness of the happy, indifference towards the wicked and equanimity towards virtue and vice and the vicissitudes of life purifies the mind of its obstacles to liberation. 1:30-33. - Patanjali
[FairfieldLife] New Rules - Bill Maher: ' Greed is Good '
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFvtQjUE2kY
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't heard about the use of maharishi as a pathfinder title, but I agree that it's appropriate should that be so. The flip side may be that, as I suggested, it would indicate he wasn't claiming either an official spiritual rank or to be the successor in a *lineage* per se. I'd bet such subtleties would be fairly obvious to Indians familiar with the spiritual-title game. I seem to recall that in MMY's explanation for why MIU had an M in it, that he referred to a rishi as someone who was enlightened, and a maharishi as someone who could teach others to be enlightened, and that therefore, the name was to refer to the goal of the school (and maybe as an hommage to all [other?] maharishis throughout the ages). Lawson
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywoods Fastest Growing Religion
TurquoiseB wrote: For the upcoming summer season I really don't know if there is anything I look forward to except True Blood and Californication. The HBO series Into The Storm looks good, mainly because it's the great Brendan Gleeson playing Churchill. Try Showtime's Nurse Jackie with Edie Falco (The Sopranos). I watched the first episode OnDemand last night. Great show with some good writing. Then the second half season of Burn Notice plays with your favorite Bruce Campbell.
Re: [FairfieldLife] A film resource for age-inappropriate sex
On May 30, 2009, at 9:45 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Continuing in my ongoing role here as Satan, I thought I'd provide a list of instructional films on the fine art of older men seducing younger women. Only for those who are interested in such things, of course... http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-woman/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-man-younger-woman-relationship/ I can't believe they left out one of the best! Roman Holiday And for those dirty old women and aspiring cougars in the FFL reading audience who don't want to miss out on all the fun: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-man/ and http://www.imdb.com/keyword/older-woman-younger-man-relationship/ Lilies Of The Field would have gone nicely in here.. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] A film resource for spiritual topics
On May 30, 2009, at 10:03 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/fake-guru/ They missed the boat again! Leap Of Faith was one of the best movies about phony gurus/preachers ever made...and one of the funniest, too. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stu Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:42 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Cool. My wife and I love that show and watch it regularly. What was your job? Writing? Editing. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060111/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone must be lying.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Dixon Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:18 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh Robert, I would suggest to you that you are investing too much energy into hate in order to appear Holy. Hatred is a fiber in the cloth of humanity that makes it week and human, not devine. I was told, and I'm not absolutely sure, that one of the original sutras M taught was Indifference. Indifference allows one to reject or not embrace something unhealthy or unwise without the emotional intangelment of hating it. If someone is going to invest their Soul with hatred, they should be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that they KNOW exactly what they are hating and why and still, at best, that only makes them human. Just my humble opinion though.:) Cultivating the attitudes of friendliness to all, compassion for the suffering, sharing in the gladness of the happy, indifference towards the wicked and equanimity towards virtue and vice and the vicissitudes of life purifies the mind of its obstacles to liberation. 1:30-33. - Patanjali Thanks for the Information...I intuitively felt that... I'm still working out Karma, on this issue, of political manipulation, from a past time... But, it's good to know, that this reaction only spikes more karma, on the same issue... I will contemplate the values of indifference in this case... One thing about indifference during the 'Nazi Era',though, It contributed to the catastrophe... R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A film resource for spiritual topics
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Just to show you that even Satan isn't above watching a good flick about the ways that people try to avoid my evil clutches, here are sets of films about: (snip) Satan, Lucifer and Beelzebub...these are lower vibrations of unconsciousness... Satan is associated with the 'Temptations of the World' Lucifer is associated with 'Dictatorship and Murder' Beelzebub is associated with 'Drunkenness and Suicide' These form the vibrations, in the earth sphere, that have caused the havoc and disharmony, since the beginning There are 'pockets' of this energy created when people are confused, scared, drunk, starving and all the things that lead people down the path away from the Divine... Simply put, these lower vibrations, are being wiped from the planet now, as the vibration of light increases, and there is no place for these feeling to reside R.G.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
On May 30, 2009, at 12:01 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't heard about the use of maharishi as a pathfinder title, but I agree that it's appropriate should that be so. The flip side may be that, as I suggested, it would indicate he wasn't claiming either an official spiritual rank or to be the successor in a *lineage* per se. I'd bet such subtleties would be fairly obvious to Indians familiar with the spiritual-title game. I seem to recall that in MMY's explanation for why MIU had an M in it, that he referred to a rishi as someone who was enlightened, and a maharishi as someone who could teach others to be enlightened, and that therefore, the name was to refer to the goal of the school (and maybe as an hommage to all [other?] maharishis throughout the ages). I think you're missing the point. Is it a self-serving title, coming from the ego, or one given by the guru or some institution? Unfortunately, without any official announcement in the historical record we're forced to assume the former. And certainly for someone without any spiritual accomplishment prior, it seems even more suspect, esp. say when compared to a spiritual giant like Ramana Maharishi who had a long history of spiritual accomplishment prior. Since we know the other aliases, Yogi and His Holiness were self- assumed, it's further support for a self-aggrandizing person taking lofty titles. A more honest one might read Mahesh Varma, meditation teacher, philosopher, businessman and former secretary of Swami Brahamananda Saraswati. It also raises the question of all the other titles like The world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. Are appellations like these from Mahesh or from his disciples? I would assume his disciples, but ones does start to wonder. At a certain point, a person would start sounding like any number of whacky dictators the world has seen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 12:01 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't heard about the use of maharishi as a pathfinder title, but I agree that it's appropriate should that be so. The flip side may be that, as I suggested, it would indicate he wasn't claiming either an official spiritual rank or to be the successor in a *lineage* per se. I'd bet such subtleties would be fairly obvious to Indians familiar with the spiritual-title game. I seem to recall that in MMY's explanation for why MIU had an M in it, that he referred to a rishi as someone who was enlightened, and a maharishi as someone who could teach others to be enlightened, and that therefore, the name was to refer to the goal of the school (and maybe as an hommage to all [other?] maharishis throughout the ages). I think you're missing the point. Is it a self-serving title, coming from the ego, or one given by the guru or some institution? Unfortunately, without any official announcement in the historical record we're forced to assume the former. And certainly for someone without any spiritual accomplishment prior, it seems even more suspect, esp. say when compared to a spiritual giant like Ramana Maharishi who had a long history of spiritual accomplishment prior. Since we know the other aliases, Yogi and His Holiness were self- assumed, it's further support for a self-aggrandizing person taking lofty titles. A more honest one might read Mahesh Varma, meditation teacher, philosopher, businessman and former secretary of Swami Brahamananda Saraswati. It also raises the question of all the other titles like The world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. Are appellations like these from Mahesh or from his disciples? I would assume his disciples, but ones does start to wonder. At a certain point, a person would start sounding like any number of whacky dictators the world has seen. This sounds like the conversation Pontious Pilot had with Jesus... So, who gave you this title: 'King of the Jews'... 'Could you prove to me that you are the 'King'... Obviously not! So, we have to crucify you now, sorry! Maharishi is known as Maharishi, around the globe... However you think he got the name, that is what he is known by... The name means what he was, a great sage. There is nothing dubious about the name. He is Maharishi and Maharishi is him. Why do you put so much faith in institutions... Just because an institution puts a title on someone, what does it mean? Hitler had the title of Der Fuhrer. Bush had the title of President... See the point... What do titles really mean, anyway... Aren't they all just name of things...inventions... Who cares about titles anyway... I certainly don't. It's what's behind the title that counts... R.g.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip I think you're missing the point. Is it a self-serving title, coming from the ego, or one given by the guru or some institution? Unfortunately, without any official announcement in the historical record we're forced to assume the former. Actually, no, we're not forced to assume any such thing. What we're forced to assume is that we don't know for sure. If we're honest, we're forced to assume that one possibility is that Jyotir Math started referring to him as Maharishi, as per Coplin's account; or that his followers did, and it caught on; or that Jyotir Math decided to go along with what his followers were calling him. It doesn't appear that Maharishi is a title that is ever conferred by the guru or an institution, so one of the two possibilities Vaj is willing to acknowledge is invalid anyway. And that there are no official records of a title that wouldn't have been officially bestowed certainly doesn't constitute a basis for the assumption that it must have been ego.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
(snip) It also raises the question of all the other titles like The world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. (snip) These titles have more to do with Bevan and John...they are so into titles it's not even funny... Bevan especially likes titles... For some reason, Beaver, I mean Bevan put Maharishi under a hypnotic spell, some time after Maharishi's heart attack... He made Maharishi completely dependent on him for everything, in Maharishi weakened state... I am not sure, how or why this happened, except to say, that there's always a bug in the system somewhere... I think in Australia they call it 'Gremlins!'... R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama makes a compelling case for Judge Sotomayor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYi6nM_Wx0 What are the odds her income tax is current?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
babajii wrote: ...they are so into titles it's not even funny... You mean titles like 'babajii'? LOL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: babajii wrote: ...they are so into titles it's not even funny... You mean titles like 'babajii'? LOL! Yes, exactly... I chose the name, not that I made it up...I heard it before... But, after a while, if I really start believing I'm Babajii, then others around me, will start calling me Babajii, and then, if I start performing some miracles, the word will get out, that I am 'The Babajii'... See how it works.. It's all in the mind! Last time around, I think I chose the name: Hanussen. Look it up! R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
It also raises the question of all the other titles like The world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. Are appellations like these from Mahesh or from his disciples? I would assume his disciples, but ones does start to wonder. At a certain point, a person would start sounding like any number of whacky dictators the world has seen. Robert wrote: This sounds like the conversation Pontious Pilot had with Jesus... It sure does, Robert. Are you related to that other guy, 'Robert the Bruce'? Now that's a real title, but what does it mean? I once had a long dialog with a TMer scientist named 'Steve Ralph' - he had two first names, and one of them was his last name. Go figure. So, who gave you this title: 'King of the Jews'... 'Could you prove to me that you are the 'King'...Obviously not! So, we have to crucify you now, sorry! Maharishi is known as Maharishi, around the globe...However you think he got the name, that is what he is known by... The name means what he was, a great sage. There is nothing dubious about the name. He is Maharishi and Maharishi is him. Why do you put so much faith in institutions... Just because an institution puts a title on someone, what does it mean? Hitler had the title of Der Fuhrer. Bush had the title of President... See the point... What do titles really mean, anyway... Aren't they all just name of things... inventions... Who cares about titles anyway... I certainly don't. It's what's behind the title that counts...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone must be lying.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
On May 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. Sorry to be a stickler but you're assuming it's honorific without any evidence to support that. All we truly know is that it's an alias (esp. since it's not the actual name on his passport). What would be helpful is to see a transcript of the alleged Cochlin interview or to hear an MP3 of a recording!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywoods Fastest Growing Religion
Stu wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Stu wrote: I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Good to hear that. I've been hearing about cutbacks in productions due to the economy. Must be hitting Hollywood hard. I'm hoping that leaner budgets may put more of an emphasis on writing to carry a show. Lower budget projects like Burn Notice are very entertaining. I also liked the pilot for Mental which is lean more in a BBC way. I wish I could be so positive about the budget cuts. Generally it means they are less likely to hire writers to come up with fresh ideas, instead the suits look to remake old shows or hope star power will carry a series. They cut back on writing staffs. The corporate world hates taking chances in the best of times. Now innovation and surprise are dead. Here's the NBC suit on the issue: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10251116-56.html It will also be interesting to see what happens two weeks from today when the analog TV channels go completely off the air (in some areas they're already off). It will be interesting to see how much longer shows are shot still in 4:3 safe frame appease the black bar haters who will want to zoom in on their analog converter boxes. Of course there is a new version of pan-and-scan to hate and that is the cropping of 2:35:1 aspect films to 1:77:1 to fill 16:9 HD screens. They squeeze production to shoot more shows in less days, so it all looks like crap. They tighten post schedules so we don't have time to finesse the shows. The stories suffer. But then as I mentioned before BBC productions seem to work well on restricted budgets. I am enjoying some of the productions like Breaking Bad which is shot in Albuquerque. Of course that is an outstandingly produced series with great writing, actors, directing and overall excellent production. Of course New Mexico offered tax breaks to lure productions there as did Louisiana, Florida (Burn Notice) and even Massachusetts (Fringe) though it has had to cut back on those breaks or tax credits making Fringe get shifted to Canada. Reality is cheaper so we will see more of it. So far I have not seen any good come of this new economy. And I never watch reality which is often not because it is somewhat scripted too. But then if everyone were like me advertising as a business model to sponsor shows would have failed a lot time ago. Love that 30 second skip button (I always DVR never watch live). They take that away and I won't watch period. It will be just Blu-Rays and DVDs only. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A film resource for spiritual topics
Robert wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Just to show you that even Satan isn't above watching a good flick about the ways that people try to avoid my evil clutches, here are sets of films about: (snip) Satan, Lucifer and Beelzebub...these are lower vibrations of unconsciousness... Satan is associated with the 'Temptations of the World' Lucifer is associated with 'Dictatorship and Murder' Beelzebub is associated with 'Drunkenness and Suicide' These form the vibrations, in the earth sphere, that have caused the havoc and disharmony, since the beginning There are 'pockets' of this energy created when people are confused, scared, drunk, starving and all the things that lead people down the path away from the Divine... Simply put, these lower vibrations, are being wiped from the planet now, as the vibration of light increases, and there is no place for these feeling to reside R.G. Aren't they really just forms of the ego?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywoods Fastest Growing Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Stu wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Stu wrote: I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Good to hear that. I've been hearing about cutbacks in productions due to the economy. Must be hitting Hollywood hard. I'm hoping that leaner budgets may put more of an emphasis on writing to carry a show. Lower budget projects like Burn Notice are very entertaining. I also liked the pilot for Mental which is lean more in a BBC way. I wish I could be so positive about the budget cuts. Generally it means they are less likely to hire writers to come up with fresh ideas, instead the suits look to remake old shows or hope star power will carry a series. They cut back on writing staffs. The corporate world hates taking chances in the best of times. Now innovation and surprise are dead. Here's the NBC suit on the issue: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10251116-56.html It will also be interesting to see what happens two weeks from today when the analog TV channels go completely off the air (in some areas they're already off). It will be interesting to see how much longer shows are shot still in 4:3 safe frame appease the black bar haters who will want to zoom in on their analog converter boxes. Of course there is a new version of pan-and-scan to hate and that is the cropping of 2:35:1 aspect films to 1:77:1 to fill 16:9 HD screens. They squeeze production to shoot more shows in less days, so it all looks like crap. They tighten post schedules so we don't have time to finesse the shows. The stories suffer. But then as I mentioned before BBC productions seem to work well on restricted budgets. I am enjoying some of the productions like Breaking Bad which is shot in Albuquerque. Of course that is an outstandingly produced series with great writing, actors, directing and overall excellent production. Of course New Mexico offered tax breaks to lure productions there as did Louisiana, Florida (Burn Notice) and even Massachusetts (Fringe) though it has had to cut back on those breaks or tax credits making Fringe get shifted to Canada. Reality is cheaper so we will see more of it. So far I have not seen any good come of this new economy. And I never watch reality which is often not because it is somewhat scripted too. But then if everyone were like me advertising as a business model to sponsor shows would have failed a lot time ago. Love that 30 second skip button (I always DVR never watch live). They take that away and I won't watch period. It will be just Blu-Rays and DVDs only. :-) Same here - never see any adverts any more! That business model's certainly going to have to change.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone must be lying. Has it ever occurred to you that you have substituted one Fundamentalist World View for another? L
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
On May 30, 2009, at 5:31 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone must be lying. Has it ever occurred to you that you have substituted one Fundamentalist World View for another? Has it occurred to you I'm laughing or smiling my ass off as I'm writing! I actually find the psychological and psycho-sexual ramifications of spiritual leaders who take grandiose titles themselves, have numerous product lines named after them, absurd titles lauded on them by their students (in the absence of any major outside recognition or objective validity) and huge phallic buildings built/planned in 'their honor' (yet control freashishly designed by them) to be really just SO interesting in a weird Kim Jong-Il sorta way. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Robert, I would suggest to you that you are investing too much energy into hate in order to appear Holy. Hatred is a fiber in the cloth of humanity that makes it week and human, not devine. I was told, and I'm not absolutely sure, that one of the original sutras M taught was Indifference. Indifference allows one to reject or not embrace something unhealthy or unwise without the emotional intangelment of hating it. If someone is going to invest their Soul with hatred, they should be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that they KNOW exactly what they are hating and why and still, at best, that only makes them human. Just my humble opinion though.:) I do remember seeing a scene in a war movie, one time, Where the soldiers were overrunning a village, in Viet Nam... and, They were wiping out every life form they ran by... And, this guy was sitting there, in meditation, and it was as if he were invisible, Because they did not see him, and he just continued on meditating as though nothing was going on around him! It even looked as if his pulse rate was lowered, as well as his breath rate... He was maintaining his centered, peaceful composure, in the midst of chaos, war and death... Thanks for reminding me, of that extraordinary... R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
I just uploaded the Coplin dissertation material to the Files section. It's under Miscellaneous Writings. I can't figure out how to make the system send an announcement to the group, so perhaps someone could tell Vaj, as he claims not to read my posts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) -- Vasudevananda told Coplin that it was the Jyotir Math Peeth, itself, that bestowed the title Maharishi. Interesting, nothing I've read by Coplin recently includes that And your recent reading of Coplin was what, exactly? Because it seems he's never actually published anything, you see. Obviously you never bothered to read the chapters from his dissertation on the Web. Note 49, chapter 3: This is given by the titles Maharishi Bala Brahmachari Mahesh Yogi Maharaj by which he was addressed at the Spiritual Development Conference in Cochin (1955). When asked about the sources of Maharishi's status designations, the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math replied, From his sadhana(discipline for spiritual growth). Given by the society. He followed the teachings, sadhana, devoted completely to Guru Dev's teachings. He became equal in sorrow and pain and happiness. Thus the people realized him, that he has achieved the qualities of a Maharishi. It is an honor by the pitha(matha), and by the society. (Interview of June 11, 1983, at Joshimath) , nor does it appear to be mentioned in any official movement history. Being a hardcore TB, I consider Coplin a questionable source. Naturally! It also seems questionable for a low caste person in the Shankaracharya. According to the New York Times, the titles Maharishi and Yogi are indeed given to persons of Maharishi's caste. snip It would be interesting to see this manuscript. I've notice a number of questionable claims from Coplin on the web. Really? What claims were these, Vaj, that you notice on the Web? It's curious that the manuscript can be found nowhere. Ah, but it can. Just, apparently, not by you. Perhaps someone could post it to the files section? It's under Miscellaneous Writings.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
You're right, I am assuming that someone other than Maharishi himself actually called him that first, and not that he introduced himself as a maharishi. That being said, I'm not arguing that it was some authority or math that first honored him with that. Like Judy pointed out, it's totally common for Indian devotees to extol assumed enlightened saints and gurus with over the top honorifics, and the idea that one of Maharishi's early followers gave him that designation out of their own reverence and pride. But you may be correct, too, and that Maharishi assumed that appelation entirely on his own initiative. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. Sorry to be a stickler but you're assuming it's honorific without any evidence to support that. All we truly know is that it's an alias (esp. since it's not the actual name on his passport). What would be helpful is to see a transcript of the alleged Cochlin interview or to hear an MP3 of a recording!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. Sorry to be a stickler but you're assuming it's honorific without any evidence to support that. An honorific as opposed to *what*? What else could it be? All we truly know is that it's an alias It's obviously not something MMY made up (Ramana Maharshi, Maharishi Patanjali, etc.). (esp. since it's not the actual name on his passport). What would be helpful is to see a transcript of the alleged Cochlin interview or to hear an MP3 of a recording! Unbelievable. (And it's Coplin, not Cochlin. I guess you just forgot his name after having read all that recent Coplin material on the Web.) The note I posted from his dissertation contains a transcript of Vasudevanda's response to Coplin's question about how MMY got the title Maharishi.
[FairfieldLife] Coplin dissertation material
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: I just uploaded the Coplin dissertation material to the Files section. It's under Miscellaneous Writings. I can't figure out how to make the system send an announcement to the group, so perhaps someone could tell Vaj, as he claims not to read my posts. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/files/Miscellaneous%20Writings/Coplin%20dissertation/ http://tinyurl.com/lgayzz
[FairfieldLife] Re: Coplin dissertation material
Thanks, Alex! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I just uploaded the Coplin dissertation material to the Files section. It's under Miscellaneous Writings. I can't figure out how to make the system send an announcement to the group, so perhaps someone could tell Vaj, as he claims not to read my posts. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/files/Miscellaneous%20Writings/Coplin%20dissertation/ http://tinyurl.com/lgayzz
[FairfieldLife] Palast des Okkulten (was Marshy: All Hat, No cattle)
Herr Babaji said: Last time around, I think I chose the name: Hanussen. Look it up! I think is a weak way to propose that something is actual. What could be your basis other than sheer wishfulness? Although you call yourself babaji you don't stage yourself like a 20th Century Magician. So the Palast des Okkulten is in your back bedroom?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh
Robert, I think we all get carried away to some degree or another when it comes to politics. Political rhetoric is very divisive and cutting whether it is from the left or right and we as meditators need to try to rise above that and be able to disagree politically without unsheathing knives and daggers. Right now, most of the people on FFL should be elated at their new found government power. Enjoy it while you can. The resistance is organizing and will take it back. Jai Guru Dev. --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Robert babajii...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Robert babajii...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 10:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ ... wrote: Robert, I would suggest to you that you are investing too much energy into hate in order to appear Holy. Hatred is a fiber in the cloth of humanity that makes it week and human, not devine. I was told, and I'm not absolutely sure, that one of the original sutras M taught was Indifference . Indifference allows one to reject or not embrace something unhealthy or unwise without the emotional intangelment of hating it. If someone is going to invest their Soul with hatred, they should be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that they KNOW exactly what they are hating and why and still, at best, that only makes them human. Just my humble opinion though.:) I do remember seeing a scene in a war movie, one time, Where the soldiers were overrunning a village, in Viet Nam... and, They were wiping out every life form they ran by... And, this guy was sitting there, in meditation, and it was as if he were invisible, Because they did not see him, and he just continued on meditating as though nothing was going on around him! It even looked as if his pulse rate was lowered, as well as his breath rate He was maintaining his centered, peaceful composure, in the midst of chaos, war and death... Thanks for reminding me, of that extraordinary. .. R.G.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh
-My Dear Sir: Mr. Dixon, ...I am so glad you took the time to advise me on these: ...Most serious of matters... As my karmic political instincts, sometimes get me all too 'Over-shadowed... As The Maharishi would say R.G. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Robert, I think we all get carried away to some degree or another when it comes to politics. Political rhetoric is very divisive and cutting whether it is from the left or right and we as meditators need to try to rise above that and be able to disagree politically without unsheathing knives and daggers. Right now, most of the people on FFL should be elated at their new found government power. Enjoy it while you can. The resistance is organizing and will take it back. Jai Guru Dev. --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Robert babajii...@... wrote: From: Robert babajii...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Rush Limbaugh To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 10:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ ... wrote: Robert, I would suggest to you that you are investing too much energy into hate in order to appear Holy. Hatred is a fiber in the cloth of humanity that makes it week and human, not devine. I was told, and I'm not absolutely sure, that one of the original sutras M taught was Indifference . Indifference allows one to reject or not embrace something unhealthy or unwise without the emotional intangelment of hating it. If someone is going to invest their Soul with hatred, they should be absolutely sure beyond a reasonable doubt that they KNOW exactly what they are hating and why and still, at best, that only makes them human. Just my humble opinion though.:) I do remember seeing a scene in a war movie, one time, Where the soldiers were overrunning a village, in Viet Nam... and, They were wiping out every life form they ran by... And, this guy was sitting there, in meditation, and it was as if he were invisible, Because they did not see him, and he just continued on meditating as though nothing was going on around him! It even looked as if his pulse rate was lowered, as well as his breath rate He was maintaining his centered, peaceful composure, in the midst of chaos, war and death... Thanks for reminding me, of that extraordinary. .. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What were the lawsuits against MMY?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: My own pet theory is that MMY knew the feds were a-comin' for him, so he made himself sick unto death using his yogic control over his body, and had himself flown to ENgland to get away from the Indian legal system. Whereupon he had a miraculous full recovery Hey, perfectly logical. L Good one, Lawson. But I think I would pass on giving myself pancreatitis. Hurts too damn bad.
[FairfieldLife] 'Breaking News: Mercury Just Went Direct!'
Hi Everyone, At 6:22pm PDST on May 30th, Mercury turns back to its direct motion at 22 degrees of Taurus. The few days before and after this date can often feel like we are intensely focused on certain issues or thoughts that have us captivated. What's happening is that Mercury is barely moving or completely stationary, which is akin to the needle of a turntable being stuck in groove. There can be a tendency to react strongly to whatever we are thinking, and approach these with an all-or-nothing attitude. Also, our thoughts may be intense because they are actually revealing an aspect of our unconscious, inner world struggling to see the light of day. Usually, it is best to try to work out our own thoughts by ourselves before expressing them as they could come out quite strongly. And yet, it is simultaneously important to recognize that whatever is coming up really could be quite important. It's just a matter of separating 'what' you are dealing with from the 'way' you decide to deal with it. If necessary allow a process to take place within yourself before expressing it outwardly, unless, of course, it simply cannot be done. The truth is that life often doesn't allow us to take time out and we have to do the best we can to deal with whatever is coming out into the open. Things should smooth out and feel like we can move forward by early Monday or Tuesday. Jupiter Aligns with Neptune (and Chiron too) This major transit has officially begun. Jupiter conjuncted Neptune for the first time on May 27th (Wednesday) at 1:12pm PDST, and will do so two more times before Jupiter moves on into Pisces. This transit will last until early January and is already having a very significant effect on how we are perceiving the world. There are some wonderful characteristics of this transit but first let's look at the more negative ones. Neptune can create illusion, fog, uncertainty, and idealism and alongside Jupiter's optimism we can feel that things are much better than they really are. Perception is important, but in a case like this, it can also lead to a severe letting down or bubble bursting later. Let's give a specific example. Right now, the price of gas is going up and people are wondering how this can be. The common view is that it's the coming of summer. But take a look at this article. http://www.realclearmarkets.com/news/ap/finance_business/2009/May/29/oil__gas_prices_defy_recession__crude_hits__66.html The view presented in this article is that the rise in prices is not due to increasing demand, but to the BELIEF that demand will increase. This is because it has become common to think that the recession will be over by the end of the year. So production is being ramped up and the prices rise as we get ready for things to return to normal. Things are going to return to normal?? Huh!! To astrologers this is to be expected and has nothing to do with what is actually going on but with the Jupiter/Neptune lens through which the society is looking. If we examine the actual data, we see that unemployment is rising, large business credit card companies are going bankrupt, more layoffs are expected in many industries and our car companies are declaring bankruptcy with no one knowing what the future landscape for this area of our economy will look like. The list of unresolved problems is huge. So, why are we so optimistic? Well, part of it is that we want to be. We are tired of feeling negative, so we decide to feel better, even if there's no evidence for it. But the 'environment' astrologically encourages us to do just this. Have faith and it'll all be fine. Even blind faith is OK, at least for now. The real problem with this, as I see it, is that the fundamental issues that got us into this mess have not been addressed, both economically and in the larger societal context. The needed reforms are not being made and will not be made as long as people believe that things will turn around without these changes. The transits that follow this Jupiter alignment with Neptune are far more serious than any we've seen so far, so unless the proper steps are taken to deal with the causes of the problems that got us here, we are still open to a major falling apart of our economic and governmental systems. Just look at what's happening in California and you'll see how serious things are becoming. No one can know what would happen if things got even worse. On a personal level however, things are very different. This transit is a beautiful one for the development of compassion and sympathetic understanding. We may find that we are engaged in the emergence of a new faith and understanding towards Life itself and our connection to something higher, whatever terminology we use for that. This is a time for healing of old wounds (Chiron) by forgiveness and the adoption of a greater understanding of others that is impersonal and universal. There is a chance that our health
[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Meditation: Mechanics of the technique
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: http://tinyurl.com/kl8q8y Good footage. He certainly was persistant, one poionted. Jai Guru Dev. Fun to see those earlier times with him again. Now juxtapose this 1967 video agin that recent video of Girish '-ji'. from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/220138
[FairfieldLife] Upgrade your FFL Meditator Status
Move over to `yes'=meditator Anybody writing here would like their non-meditation status reviewed or upgraded for the FFL posting list? Posters: 98 `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status: 50 authfriend jstein@ `Yes' 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 45 Vaj vajradhatu@ `Yes' 44 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 32 grate.swan no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 31 Bhairitu noozguru@ 29 sparaig LEnglish5@ 27 ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com 27 Richard J. Williams willytex@ `yes' 24 Robert babajii...@... 22 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 22 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ 21 enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 20 Rick Archer rick@ `Yes' 20 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 do.rflex do.rflex@ 17 bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ `Yes' 15 BillyG. wgm4u@ 13 Richard M compost1uk@ `Yes' 12 shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ 'Yes' 10 satvadude108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 10 raunchydog raunchydog@ 10 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ 9 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 8 WLeed3@ 8 Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ 7 geezerfreak geezerfreak@ 3 drpetersutphen drpetersutphen@ 3 William108 william108wm@ 3 Dick Richardson somerset_2@ `Yes' 3 Dick Mays dickmays@ 3 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ 2 sgrayatlarge no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 beno beno mynameisbeno@ 2 Tom azgrey@ 2 Marek Reavis reavismarek@ 2 Hugo richardhughes103@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 tkrystofiak krysto@ 1 pranamoocher bhrma@ 1 nelson lafrancis nelsonriddle2001@ 1 metoostill metoostill@ 1 Peter drpetersutphen@ 1 Paul Mason premanandpaul@ 1 Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ 1 Mike Doughney mike@ 1 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ 1 Joe Smith msilver1951@ 1 Barbara Thomas barbara_thomas73@ 1 min.pige min.pige@ 1 wayback71 waybac...@... 1 jyouells2000 john_youe...@... 1 shukra69 shukra69@ 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ 1 John jr_esq@ `Yes' 1 enpai en...@... 2 Jason jedi_sp...@... 2 tomwalsh23 tomwals...@... 2 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... 3 kaladevi93 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Stu buttspli...@... 6 Ben brbenjaminass...@... 1 kuldip jhala kulls2...@... 1 ve...@... 1 ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2...@... 1 horashastra ve...@... 1 feste37 fest...@... 1 emptybill emptyb...@... 1 wle...@... yes' 1 Dick Mays dickm...@... 1 Devanath Saraswati devna...@... 1 uns_tressor uns_tres...@... 1 jimjim5886 jimjim5...@... 1 Darrylle darryst...@... 1 Thomas Walsh tomwals...@... 1 ffl...@... `yes' 1 bhawani_shank2000 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 jim_falkenstern jimfalkenst...@... 1 at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brah...@... 1 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... 4 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... 4 I am the eternal l.shad...@... 1 gullible fool ffl...@... 1 vedamer...@... 3 metoostill metoost...@... 1 alex52556 alex.at.52...@... 1 Randy Meltzer rm...@... Posters: 98 Don't meditate? Not close. Sorry. FFL Meditators Are these writers, all meditators? Of some kind? Like, current practicing meditators? Yes, some of these folks evidently are, in FFL public admissions of recent times. Any others than these? `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: babajii wrote: ...they are so into titles it's not even funny... You mean titles like 'babajii'? LOL! Yeah, Babaji's a good one...heck anyone can claim he's Babaji... One I really like though, is the Marque of De Sade! R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upgrade your FFL Meditator Status
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Move over to `yes'=meditator Anybody writing here would like their non-meditation status reviewed or upgraded for the FFL posting list? Posters: 98 `Yes' = meditators (snip) Do I need to reboot? Is this TM 2.0? Which TM is it? R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palast des Okkulten (was Marshy: All Hat, No cattle)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim emptyb...@... wrote: Herr Babaji said: Last time around, I think I chose the name: Hanussen. Look it up! I think is a weak way to propose that something is actual. What could be your basis other than sheer wishfulness? Although you call yourself babaji you don't stage yourself like a 20th Century Magician. So the Palast des Okkulten is in your back bedroom? Hey Billy, What the heck is a Palast des Okkulten? I have no idea what kind of person you think I am... We have never met, as far as I can remember... I had a horrible death last time around, so I had to heal up a lot. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palast des Okkulten (was Marshy: All Hat, No cattle)
(snip) Although you call yourself babaji you don't stage yourself like a 20th Century Magician. (snip) Hey Billy, Last time I looked, it is the 21st. Century... Did you miss the last 100 years, Mr. Empty? or What? R.g.
[FairfieldLife] 'The Maharishi of Carson Nebraska'
The Magnificent Carnac Great 20th Century Magician
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Breaking News: Mercury Just Went Direct!'
'Breaking News: Mercury Just Went Direct! ' I'm feelin' it bigtime. Mercury's my homeboy ! OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upgrade your FFL Meditator Status
Ha ha, this list is funny ! Only the anti-TM crowd feel the need to shout out that they are still meditators. What a silly bunch of needy, attention-desperate, ego-attached children. This really gets to the crux of the fundamentalist trait that the born-again christian, muslim fanatics, and anti-TM OCD mental cases are all about. Pathetic. OffWorld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Move over to `yes'=meditator Anybody writing here would like their non-meditation status reviewed or upgraded for the FFL posting list? Posters: 98 `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status: 50 authfriend jstein@ `Yes' 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 45 Vaj vajradhatu@ `Yes' 44 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 32 grate.swan no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 31 Bhairitu noozguru@ 29 sparaig LEnglish5@ 27 ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 27 Richard J. Williams willytex@ `yes' 24 Robert babajii_99@ 22 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 22 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ 21 enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 20 Rick Archer rick@ `Yes' 20 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 do.rflex do.rflex@ 17 bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ `Yes' 15 BillyG. wgm4u@ 13 Richard M compost1uk@ `Yes' 12 shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ 'Yes' 10 satvadude108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 10 raunchydog raunchydog@ 10 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ 9 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 8 WLeed3@ 8 Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ 7 geezerfreak geezerfreak@ 3 drpetersutphen drpetersutphen@ 3 William108 william108wm@ 3 Dick Richardson somerset_2@ `Yes' 3 Dick Mays dickmays@ 3 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ 2 sgrayatlarge no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 beno beno mynameisbeno@ 2 Tom azgrey@ 2 Marek Reavis reavismarek@ 2 Hugo richardhughes103@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 tkrystofiak krysto@ 1 pranamoocher bhrma@ 1 nelson lafrancis nelsonriddle2001@ 1 metoostill metoostill@ 1 Peter drpetersutphen@ 1 Paul Mason premanandpaul@ 1 Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ 1 Mike Doughney mike@ 1 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ 1 Joe Smith msilver1951@ 1 Barbara Thomas barbara_thomas73@ 1 min.pige min.pige@ 1 wayback71 wayback71@ 1 jyouells2000 john_youells@ 1 shukra69 shukra69@ 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ 1 John jr_esq@ `Yes' 1 enpai enpai@ 2 Jason jedi_spock@ 2 tomwalsh23 tomwalsh23@ 2 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 3 kaladevi93 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Stu buttsplicer@ 6 Ben brbenjaminassisi@ 1 kuldip jhala kulls2005@ 1 ve-da@ 1 ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 horashastra ve-da@ 1 feste37 feste37@ 1 emptybill emptybill@ 1 WLeed3@ yes' 1 Dick Mays dickmays@ 1 Devanath Saraswati devnath9@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 jimjim5886 jimjim5886@ 1 Darrylle darrystaff@ 1 Thomas Walsh tomwalsh23@ 1 fflmod@ `yes' 1 bhawani_shank2000 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 jim_falkenstern jimfalkenstern@ 1 at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@ 1 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ 4 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 4 I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ 1 gullible fool fflmod@ 1 vedamerlin@ 3 metoostill metoostill@ 1 alex52556 alex.at.52556@ 1 Randy Meltzer rm108@ Posters: 98 Don't meditate? Not close. Sorry. FFL Meditators Are these writers, all meditators? Of some kind? Like, current practicing meditators? Yes, some of these folks evidently are, in FFL public admissions of recent times. Any others than these? `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upgrade your FFL Meditator Status
I'm a yes, since 1976. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Move over to `yes'=meditator Anybody writing here would like their non-meditation status reviewed or upgraded for the FFL posting list? Posters: 98 `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status: 50 authfriend jstein@ `Yes' 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 45 Vaj vajradhatu@ `Yes' 44 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 32 grate.swan no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 31 Bhairitu noozguru@ 29 sparaig LEnglish5@ 27 ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com 27 Richard J. Williams willytex@ `yes' 24 Robert babajii_99@ 22 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 22 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ 21 enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 20 Rick Archer rick@ `Yes' 20 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 do.rflex do.rflex@ 17 bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ `Yes' 15 BillyG. wgm4u@ 13 Richard M compost1uk@ `Yes' 12 shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ 'Yes' 10 satvadude108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 10 raunchydog raunchydog@ 10 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ 9 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 8 WLeed3@ 8 Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ 7 geezerfreak geezerfreak@ 3 drpetersutphen drpetersutphen@ 3 William108 william108wm@ 3 Dick Richardson somerset_2@ `Yes' 3 Dick Mays dickmays@ 3 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ 2 sgrayatlarge no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 beno beno mynameisbeno@ 2 Tom azgrey@ 2 Marek Reavis reavismarek@ 2 Hugo richardhughes103@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 tkrystofiak krysto@ 1 pranamoocher bhrma@ 1 nelson lafrancis nelsonriddle2001@ 1 metoostill metoostill@ 1 Peter drpetersutphen@ 1 Paul Mason premanandpaul@ 1 Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ 1 Mike Doughney mike@ 1 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ 1 Joe Smith msilver1951@ 1 Barbara Thomas barbara_thomas73@ 1 min.pige min.pige@ 1 wayback71 wayback71@ 1 jyouells2000 john_youells@ 1 shukra69 shukra69@ 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ 1 John jr_esq@ `Yes' 1 enpai enpai@ 2 Jason jedi_spock@ 2 tomwalsh23 tomwalsh23@ 2 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 3 kaladevi93 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Stu buttsplicer@ 6 Ben brbenjaminassisi@ 1 kuldip jhala kulls2005@ 1 ve-da@ 1 ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 horashastra ve-da@ 1 feste37 feste37@ 1 emptybill emptybill@ 1 WLeed3@ yes' 1 Dick Mays dickmays@ 1 Devanath Saraswati devnath9@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 jimjim5886 jimjim5886@ 1 Darrylle darrystaff@ 1 Thomas Walsh tomwalsh23@ 1 fflmod@ `yes' 1 bhawani_shank2000 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 jim_falkenstern jimfalkenstern@ 1 at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@ 1 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ 4 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 4 I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ 1 gullible fool fflmod@ 1 vedamerlin@ 3 metoostill metoostill@ 1 alex52556 alex.at.52556@ 1 Randy Meltzer rm108@ Posters: 98 Don't meditate? Not close. Sorry. FFL Meditators Are these writers, all meditators? Of some kind? Like, current practicing meditators? Yes, some of these folks evidently are, in FFL public admissions of recent times. Any others than these? `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upgrade your FFL Meditator Status
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Move over to `yes'=meditator Anybody writing here would like their non-meditation status reviewed or upgraded for the FFL posting list? Yes, I want a review of my status. I do not know what your meaning is for meditator. Edg Posters: 98 `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status: 50 authfriend jstein@ `Yes' 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 45 Vaj vajradhatu@ `Yes' 44 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 32 grate.swan no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 31 Bhairitu noozguru@ 29 sparaig LEnglish5@ 27 ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com 27 Richard J. Williams willytex@ `yes' 24 Robert babajii_99@ 22 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 22 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ 21 enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 20 Rick Archer rick@ `Yes' 20 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 do.rflex do.rflex@ 17 bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ `Yes' 15 BillyG. wgm4u@ 13 Richard M compost1uk@ `Yes' 12 shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ 'Yes' 10 satvadude108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 10 raunchydog raunchydog@ 10 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ 9 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 8 WLeed3@ 8 Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ 7 geezerfreak geezerfreak@ 3 drpetersutphen drpetersutphen@ 3 William108 william108wm@ 3 Dick Richardson somerset_2@ `Yes' 3 Dick Mays dickmays@ 3 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ 2 sgrayatlarge no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 beno beno mynameisbeno@ 2 Tom azgrey@ 2 Marek Reavis reavismarek@ 2 Hugo richardhughes103@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 tkrystofiak krysto@ 1 pranamoocher bhrma@ 1 nelson lafrancis nelsonriddle2001@ 1 metoostill metoostill@ 1 Peter drpetersutphen@ 1 Paul Mason premanandpaul@ 1 Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ 1 Mike Doughney mike@ 1 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ 1 Joe Smith msilver1951@ 1 Barbara Thomas barbara_thomas73@ 1 min.pige min.pige@ 1 wayback71 wayback71@ 1 jyouells2000 john_youells@ 1 shukra69 shukra69@ 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ 1 John jr_esq@ `Yes' 1 enpai enpai@ 2 Jason jedi_spock@ 2 tomwalsh23 tomwalsh23@ 2 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 3 kaladevi93 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Stu buttsplicer@ 6 Ben brbenjaminassisi@ 1 kuldip jhala kulls2005@ 1 ve-da@ 1 ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 horashastra ve-da@ 1 feste37 feste37@ 1 emptybill emptybill@ 1 WLeed3@ yes' 1 Dick Mays dickmays@ 1 Devanath Saraswati devnath9@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 jimjim5886 jimjim5886@ 1 Darrylle darrystaff@ 1 Thomas Walsh tomwalsh23@ 1 fflmod@ `yes' 1 bhawani_shank2000 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 jim_falkenstern jimfalkenstern@ 1 at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@ 1 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ 4 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 4 I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ 1 gullible fool fflmod@ 1 vedamerlin@ 3 metoostill metoostill@ 1 alex52556 alex.at.52556@ 1 Randy Meltzer rm108@ Posters: 98 Don't meditate? Not close. Sorry. FFL Meditators Are these writers, all meditators? Of some kind? Like, current practicing meditators? Yes, some of these folks evidently are, in FFL public admissions of recent times. Any others than these? `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upgrade your FFL Meditator Status
How does this help me look down my nose at those who practise some form of meditation other than the TM technique, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Do you think we could have all the participants make that distinction? I really need to feel better about myself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brah...@... wrote: I'm a yes, since 1976. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Move over to `yes'=meditator Anybody writing here would like their non-meditation status reviewed or upgraded for the FFL posting list? Posters: 98 `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status: 50 authfriend jstein@ `Yes' 50 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 45 Vaj vajradhatu@ `Yes' 44 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 32 grate.swan no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 31 Bhairitu noozguru@ 29 sparaig LEnglish5@ 27 ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com 27 Richard J. Williams willytex@ `yes' 24 Robert babajii_99@ 22 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 22 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ 21 enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 20 Rick Archer rick@ `Yes' 20 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 18 do.rflex do.rflex@ 17 bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ `Yes' 15 BillyG. wgm4u@ 13 Richard M compost1uk@ `Yes' 12 shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ 'Yes' 10 satvadude108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com `Yes' 10 raunchydog raunchydog@ 10 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ 9 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 8 WLeed3@ 8 Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ 7 geezerfreak geezerfreak@ 3 drpetersutphen drpetersutphen@ 3 William108 william108wm@ 3 Dick Richardson somerset_2@ `Yes' 3 Dick Mays dickmays@ 3 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ 2 sgrayatlarge no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 beno beno mynameisbeno@ 2 Tom azgrey@ 2 Marek Reavis reavismarek@ 2 Hugo richardhughes103@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 tkrystofiak krysto@ 1 pranamoocher bhrma@ 1 nelson lafrancis nelsonriddle2001@ 1 metoostill metoostill@ 1 Peter drpetersutphen@ 1 Paul Mason premanandpaul@ 1 Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ 1 Mike Doughney mike@ 1 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ 1 Joe Smith msilver1951@ 1 Barbara Thomas barbara_thomas73@ 1 min.pige min.pige@ 1 wayback71 wayback71@ 1 jyouells2000 john_youells@ 1 shukra69 shukra69@ 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ 1 John jr_esq@ `Yes' 1 enpai enpai@ 2 Jason jedi_spock@ 2 tomwalsh23 tomwalsh23@ 2 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 3 kaladevi93 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Stu buttsplicer@ 6 Ben brbenjaminassisi@ 1 kuldip jhala kulls2005@ 1 ve-da@ 1 ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 sanosh2002 sanosh2002@ 1 horashastra ve-da@ 1 feste37 feste37@ 1 emptybill emptybill@ 1 WLeed3@ yes' 1 Dick Mays dickmays@ 1 Devanath Saraswati devnath9@ 1 uns_tressor uns_tressor@ 1 jimjim5886 jimjim5886@ 1 Darrylle darrystaff@ 1 Thomas Walsh tomwalsh23@ 1 fflmod@ `yes' 1 bhawani_shank2000 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 jim_falkenstern jimfalkenstern@ 1 at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@ 1 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ 4 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ 4 I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ 1 gullible fool fflmod@ 1 vedamerlin@ 3 metoostill metoostill@ 1 alex52556 alex.at.52556@ 1 Randy Meltzer rm108@ Posters: 98 Don't meditate? Not close. Sorry. FFL Meditators Are these writers, all meditators? Of some kind? Like, current practicing meditators? Yes, some of these folks evidently are, in FFL public admissions of recent times. Any others than these? `Yes' = meditators Fairfield Life Post Counter, Meditator Status:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stu Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:42 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywood's Fastest Growing Religion I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Cool. My wife and I love that show and watch it regularly. What was your job? Writing? Film editor. On a show like The Office it is practically like being one of the writers. I working on the first 6 back in 2005 and came back this year. Its a a lot of fun but the hours are very intense.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hollywoods Fastest Growing Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Stu wrote: I have been working on The Office. Just finished the season. Been taking it easy for the last month or so, have a few irons in the fire. All in all I am living the dream in the 'wood. Good to hear that. I've been hearing about cutbacks in productions due to the economy. Must be hitting Hollywood hard. I'm hoping that leaner budgets may put more of an emphasis on writing to carry a show. Lower budget projects like Burn Notice are very entertaining. I also liked the pilot for Mental which is lean more in a BBC way. I wish I could be so positive about the budget cuts. Generally it means they are less likely to hire writers to come up with fresh ideas, instead the suits look to remake old shows or hope star power will carry a series. They cut back on writing staffs. Stu, is there anything general you can say about the percentages in a show's budget? Like how much is spent on star power, how much on writers, and how much on actual production? A film budget is broken into two parts. Above the line and Below the line. The Above the line group are the producers, actors, director, and writers. The Below the line are the crew and production costs like camera rentals, stages, location fees, and so on. Generally in Hollywood the Above the line costs are slightly more than 50% of total. For the most part the writers get screwed and much more money will go to big a name actors because a high paid actor can bring a project more money and publicity. There are a few good books on this subject. Adventures in the Screen Trade: William Goldman http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Screen-Trade-William-Goldman/dp/044639\ 1174 is a pretty good one. One of the reasons British remakes are the fashion these days is that they don't have to pay a writer development fees to come up with something new. Much easier to license a British show and a pay a writer a few weeks work to adapt it. One of the reasons I ask is that I can only imagine that on the loathsome US version of life On Mars they spent their entire budget on Harvey Keitel and had nothing left over to hire writers with, so they made do with an infinite number of monkeys chained to typewriters. :-) Yes. And also there are only so many talents like David Kelly and Joss Whedon around. Most of them would rather work on something original so they can have profit participation in the project. Also I often see talented showrunners who don't have the budget to pay for an A team writing staff and have to make do with new writers and limited schedules to develop scripts. When a good show is made these days its success is in spite of the best efforts of the media conglomerates to foil it. The corporate world hates taking chances in the best of times. Now innovation and surprise are dead. As shown by the fate so far of Kings. One of the most interesting shows I've seen come from mainstream television in years, and it's toast. Then again, no one seems to have watched it, which shows the if the audience prefers to eat shit, few are going to try to serve them more nourishing meals. I tried watching Kings and lost interest quickly. Seemed very Bush era once we moved passed it. On the other hand, Dollhouse survived. That's encour- aging. I liked it. I didn't like the premise of Dollhouse. The situation was sort of a high tech whore house. For the upcoming summer season I really don't know if there is anything I look forward to except True Blood and Californication. The HBO series Into The Storm looks good, mainly because it's the great Brendan Gleeson playing Churchill. Watched Into The Storm last night and enjoyed it. It was a little dry, but a very interesting look at the War through British eyes. Saw The Soloist yesterday and really enjoyed it. I liked Joe Wrights other movies like Atonement and Pride and Prejudice, this film had some really nice musical moments that got abstract. The story of the reporter and the homeless guy had a lot of heart. It takes you into a world one rarely gets a glimpse at. Robert Downey and Jamie Fox were really good. I had been following Steve Lopez's colomns about Nathaniel Ayers when it was happening. I had the opportunity of meeting Steve Lopez at a fund raising event so I was quite familiar with the story.
