[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
question: does the knowledge/realization of do nothing and accomplish everything affect the content of one's choices? (apart from intellectualizing about the topic); for example - say - in the event that your next door neighbor's house is being being invaded by would-be robbers. Or, protecting yourself or others from muggers. Or, going to a doctor when necessary. Thx ... The apparent dream people are performing apparent acts in the apparent dream world; which - unfortunately, leads to no edifying conclusions as to cause and effect, whatsoever; and may bring us back to square one in terms of which actions to perform, or not. If a dream person is being attacked by a mugger, do something about it, dream or not. The real question is one of importance to the apparent dreamers: if in that world, there is some value in performing certain actions as opposed to others. Game theory addresses the riddles without necessarily answering them, or the Paradoxes. In game theory, various values or weights are attached to choices; and the story bascially ends there; then basically wait for the outcome. The Self is equally uninvolved in both the E. and un-E'd people; as well as for rocks, the sky, radioactive babies, whatever. E. doesn't necessarily change the content of choices. http://www.fantasygallery.net/demoray/art_3_the-deadly-departed.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: question: does the knowledge/realization of do nothing and accomplish everything affect the content of one's choices? (apart from intellectualizing about the topic); for example - say - in the event that your next door neighbor's house is being being invaded by would-be robbers. Or, protecting yourself or others from muggers. Or, going to a doctor when necessary. Thx * * It's an interesting question, Yifu, but I'm not sure how to answer it, as you appear at times to be asking me to consider hypotheticals as if they really exist. Action continues, if that's what you mean. My neighbor's house has never been invaded by would-be robbers. I am not as a rule aware of any muggers to protect myself or others from. My world is generally harmonious and loving. On the one occasion about 27 years ago when I felt that potential muggers were considering my wife and me and another woman as targets, I simply became very very large and they left us alone. I do go to the doctor or the dentist when necessary. I suppose were violence actually required of me for some reason, I would be whole-heartedly and lovingly violent. I have no problem being angry when anger is required, or having another be angry at me; anger is love too. Sometimes a good storm is just what is needed to clear the air. The apparent dream people are performing apparent acts in the apparent dream world; which - unfortunately, leads to no edifying conclusions as to cause and effect, whatsoever; and may bring us back to square one in terms of which actions to perform, or not. * * Generally speaking, you know what to do in any given moment, don't you? Or if you don't, your body does :-) If a dream person is being attacked by a mugger, do something about it, dream or not. The real question is one of importance to the apparent dreamers: if in that world, there is some value in performing certain actions as opposed to others. * * Of course we do something about it, dream or not. Action continues. And if we do the best we can, that is all that we can do, and all that Wholeness asks of us. And in any given moment, we all of us are indeed doing the very best we can as it appears to us in that moment, all things considered. So we are actually all of us performing, moment by moment, the very best action possible for us to do. It is not fair to second-guess ourselves or others harshly after the fact for having made a mistake. We all learn by trial and error, in a kind of cybernetic feedback. Everything, even our rebellions and mistakes, are actually perfectly helping Wholeness to expand to where it was not, and we all are always, consciously or not, perfectly serving the will of Wholeness, doing right action. Game theory addresses the riddles without necessarily answering them, or the Paradoxes. In game theory, various values or weights are attached to choices; and the story bascially ends there; then basically wait for the outcome. The Self is equally uninvolved in both the E. and un-E'd people; as well as for rocks, the sky, radioactive babies, whatever. E. doesn't necessarily change the content of choices. * * On the one hand nothing has changed; on the other hand Awakening has radically shifted everything, in that I am fearless and whole and loving and act as I must in each moment, regardless of hypothetical consequences. Now, being in a sense dead, I live entirely for others, as it were. I delight in ushering my hungry-ghost children or I-particles back Home into their perfect Paradises. But it is still an entirely selfish act for me to do so, as in helping enlighten others I am actually only refining my own bodily enlightenment. There is really only one body here: Ours.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: question: does the knowledge/realization of do nothing and accomplish everything affect the content of one's choices? (apart from intellectualizing about the topic); Good question. I don't see how it could fail to affect one's choices. The intellectualizing you speak of in this case amounts to maintaining a deep, fundamental, core belief that someone or something *else* other than self does everything. If one truly believes this, how much effort -- however half-hearted it may be -- are they really going to put into doing themselves? for example - say - in the event that your next door neighbor's house is being being invaded by would-be robbers. Or, protecting yourself or others from muggers. Or, going to a doctor when necessary. Thx As I suspect you're suggesting, I've seen True Believers in the I am not the doer theory do absolutely nothing in such circumstances. And then -- the capper as far as I'm concerned in terms of intellectual dishonesty -- whine and moan about the unfairness of it all, and how what was done by the God or Laws Of Nature they claim to believe in was off this time, and treated them unfairly. I suspect you've seen the same thing. The apparent dream people are performing apparent acts in the apparent dream world; which - unfortunately, leads to no edifying conclusions as to cause and effect, whatsoever; and may bring us back to square one in terms of which actions to perform, or not. This has never concerned me because personally I have never bought into the the world is an illusion meme. For whatever reason, I always gravitated -- even in my TB TM days -- to MMY's Knowledge [and reality] is different in different states of consciousness meme. For me, the relative world very *much* exists. And so does the absolute. The latter does not invalidate the existence of the former, and does not in any way mean that the relative world doesn't really exist. They are just separate realities defined to some extent by the predominant states of consciousness associated with them and perceiving them. Therefore, if I find myself in a relative world situation, confronted by the need to make a decision, at the back of my mind there is NOT the nagging thought that says, This does not really exist. And even if it did, I'm not the person making the decision. That's something that the TB I am not the doer types might be subconsciously thinking. My subconscious, on the other hand, would be thinking, This appears to be a very real situation in a very real world that requires me to make a very real decision. Ain't no one or nothing going to make that decision for me, and I wouldn't want them to if they/it could. I am content with making my own decisions, thank you. If a dream person is being attacked by a mugger, do something about it, dream or not. Exactly. Kick the dream mugger's ass. How much force you choose to use when doing so depends on the particular reality of the dream. If it's a sleep dream, you can cut the mugger up into small bits and feed him to your dream pets. Try this in a waking dream and you're gonna do more time in prison than the mugger would. One of the corollaries of believing in separate realities as I do is that one has to keep track of which one one is operating in, and the rules and regs associated with that level of reality. :-) The real question is one of importance to the apparent dreamers: if in that world, there is some value in performing certain actions as opposed to others. This is the bottom line of what I see as the essentially intellectually dishonest stance of the I am not the doer types. Many of them, if forced to declare what they really believe, believe that nothing they do is really done by them. On the other hand, would they ever miss doing one of the things that they believe helps them achieve enlighten- ment more quickly? No way. They would not skip a meditation or a dome session. They wouldn't eat meat, even if it *was* God or the Laws Of Nature that put it on the plate in front of them when dining at a friend's house. *While* claiming that they are not the doers, they do all the time -- 24/7 every day. They even do while performing the meditations they wouldn't skip on a bet, *choosing* to come back to the mantra when they find that they are not thinking it. In other words, they live (as I see it) in a 24/7 form of cognitive dissonance -- believing that the world works one way, but living in a manner that implies it works exactly the opposite. I never have to deal with that cognitive dissonance, because my internal view of how the world works -- both relative and absolute -- is consistent when dealing with either. Since I believe that the relative world abso- lutely exists, and that my actions there are not only in my control and matter, I do when acting in that world. In meditation, if I choose to let go and allow my mind to settle into a
[FairfieldLife] webOs on iPad!
FWIW, webOS on iPad: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/19/hp-tested-webos-on-an-ipad-it-ran-over-twice-as-fast/ HP's WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company's new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple's dominance in the tablet market, as the company's webOS operating system was running over twice as fast on its rival's iPad 2 tablet, a source close to the subject revealed to The Next Web.
[FairfieldLife] Is I am not the doer just another brain fart?
Not having read the Eagleman book Curtis has been talking about recently, but relating it to the concept of the I am not the doer meme being discussed in other threads, I find myself wondering. I'm wondering whether the subjective experience one can have ( and I know that this is true because I've had this experience myself...or lack of myself :-) of I am not the doer is nothing more than becoming *aware* of the disconnect between how our brains perceive the world vs. how they really perceive it. Most of the time our brains fill in and construct fan- tasies about how the world works, based on the data our brains perceive. But what if witnessing were nothing more than a brain fart that interferes with with construc- tion of those fantasies? What if it isn't a higher state of consciousness at all, merely a different mode of brain functioning, and no more related to reality than the ordinary modes of brain functioning? If, as Eagleman's research suggests, our subjective sense of self is an illusion constructed by the brain based on data it can't really handle, what makes anyone believe that the subjective sense of Self is any different? What makes them believe that this subjective experience of Self is any higher or more real than the experience of self? I suggest that the answer is found in belief, and in a lifetime's worth of indoctrination. Those who believe that a period of no-thought in meditation is proof of the existence of an Absolute or an experience of the Self HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS. The belief did *not* spring up automatically in them; they were told that it was true. Then, when they experienced the promised periods of no-thought, they interpreted them THE WAY THEY HAD BEEN TOLD TO. Same with witnessing. Personally I see no reason to believe that ANY subjective state of awareness or mode of perception is the highest or ultimate state of consciousness. They're *all* brain farts in my opinion. It's just that some are less smelly than others. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Stein, the Author's Friend
No, this isn't the rag-on-Judy rap you're expecting. :-) Au contraire, Pierre. Instead it's an appreciation of what a good editor can do for aspiring writers when they do it right. I really think Judy might enjoy Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris, if for no other reason than to see Kathy Bates' performance in the film as Gertrude Stein. As several film critics have noted, she really captures the magic of this formidable woman, remarkably the same magic Hemingway saw in her in A Moveable Feast. She was more than editor and critic; she was mentor. Her genius was in recognizing talent, and then generously and compassionately nurturing it, rather than squashing it. Try to imagine, watching the film, what hearing raw, uncaring criticism from Gertrude Stein would have done to poor Gil. It could have sent him running back to the safe mediocrity of writing safe mediocre scripts for Hollywood. Instead she found a way to appreciate his good qualities as a writer and gently push them in a direction that might be more acceptable to an audience outside his own head. I really gained an appreciation of what a good editor could be watching this performance, and interestingly that it's congruent with what a good spiritual teacher (as opposed to the bad ones we talk about often) could be. The magic seems to lie in spotting talent and encouraging it. While there is room in this process for tough love, and telling an aspiring writer (or an aspiring spiritual seeker) that they haven't quite got everything nailed yet, there is a way of saying this that builds them up as opposed to tearing them down. I wish more editors were like Gertrude Stein, as portrayed in this film. For that matter, I wish more spiritual teachers were like her.
[FairfieldLife] Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
You can thank Curtis for this post. I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelstein’s technique of putting her at ease with an off colour joke. 6. Win her over by telling her I know Curtis. 7. Pretend I’m enlightened. 8. Tell her I used to know Robin Carson. 9. Tell her I have a connection in Amsterdam. 10. Quit the engagement because the wife is obviously trying to set me up. Any technique suggestions you feel like sharing would be appreciated. PS: For the new hire, I recommended to the wife that she hire the gay woman she interviewed. She’s by far the best candidate. When I welcomed her to the company she gave me firm handshake and the pain from my tennis elbow that shot up my arm almost put me in Samadhi. Obviously tennis elbow is no reason to give up FFL.
[FairfieldLife] Re: St. Gemma Galgani
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: St. Gemma Galgani, The Gem of Christ - (another levitator)... http://www.stgemmagalgani.com/ Can one say that as long as no TMer levitates, Christianity is leading, say, 6 - 0 (in soccer, that is)?
[FairfieldLife] Re: St. Gemma Galgani
Edit ('as' added)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote:
St. Gemma Galgani, The Gem of Christ - (another levitator)...
http://www.stgemmagalgani.com/
Can one say that as long as no TMer levitates, Christianity is
leading, say, 6 - 0 (as in soccer, that is)?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Bob, while I understand the predilection that might make this situation such a quandary for you, I can offer no techniques that can help you. The reason is that I'm just not overshadowed by big breasts. Unless they are so large that they're casting an actual shadow on me, that is. I'm just SO not a breast man. The biggest I can handle aesthetically are on Deborah Ann Woll, who plays the delightful Jessica on True Blood, and that's because they just go so well with the rest of her. Everything is in pretty much perfect proportion. So unlike the Jason character in the series, who, when asked while having a panic attack to focus on something comforting, gazed at her chest, I would not immediately focus on Jessica's -- or any woman's -- breasts. However, I have had some experience trying to maintain professionalism while addressing women whose beauty (or lack thereof) might be a distraction, so I pass along some wisdom from the Holy Tradition. Ask yourself, What would Shankara do? and view the women as bags of feces and urine. That's taking the holy high road. Besides, what woman wouldn't be complimented by being considered a bag of shit? Just as an aside, Bob, what editor do you use when com- posing your posts? I ask because below I have had to go through and remove all the instances of  mysterious left all over the place, and the â symbols used instead of single quotes. And that still leaves lots of others. This leads me to believe that you might be writing in Microsoft Word or some other editor with its defaults still left on. I'd consider treating those autoconvert options as funbags of shit if I were you. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I'm still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it's to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I'm describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams save me. Not to digress, but I've often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid wolves but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can't imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn't imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it. With a desire to be more effective, I've considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenberg's uncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelstein's
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantra Meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Om hraang hring hraung saha http://vempaimia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/lyijykyna-saha.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO Interesting to see how sheltered some TB's still are. It's been known for decades that ME research is BS. Sounds like someone needs to get outside their own mindset a little more often, like at least every decade or two. It's sad how the sidha mindset restricts consciousness, but not surprising. As Patanjali tells us, siddhis are obstacles to samadhi and locks one into the outward stroke te samaadhaav upasargaa vyutthaane siddhayaH. So, you think you or your sour grapes Patañjali guru-s know better than e.g. Vyaasa and Bhojadeva, what is the antecedent of the pronoun 'te'? LoL! Vyutthana-samskaras will cause your consciousness to behave in a certain way. That this pattern would not be conducive to samadhi is not that surprising to me. YMMV. Well, I think vyutthaana-saMskaara_s are a natural and necessary part of meditation: vyutthaana-nirodha-saMskaarayor abhibhava-praadurbhaavau *nirodha- kSaNa*-cittaanvayo nirodha-pariNaamaH. Taimni: Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha which intervenes *momentarily* [kSaNa-ically - card] between an impression which is disappearing [out-going: vyutthaana -- card] and the impression which is taking its place. (YS III 9; emph. add.)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Taimni: Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha which intervenes *momentarily* [kSaNa-ically - card] between an impression which is disappearing [out-going: vyutthaana -- card] and the impression which is taking its place. (YS III 9; emph. add.) FWIW, here's Patañjali's definition for/of samaadhi-pariNaama: sarvaarthataikaagratayoH kSayodayau cittasya samaadhi-pariNaamaH. (sarva-arthataa-eka-gratayoH kSaya-udayau...) Taimni: samaadhi transformation is the (gradual) setting of the distractions and simultaneous rising of one-pointedness. Note the use of dvandva compounds (first one consisting of two karmadhaaraya compounds, I believe: sarva-arthataa - eka-gratayoH, with genitive(aka possessive)/locative dual ending -yoH; second one, kSaya-udayau, with nominative dual ending -u). Translating (approximately) word-for-word would render that suutra quite odd: Many-pointedness[es] [and] one-pointednesses[?*] decay [and] rise [is] mind's samaadhi-transformation (or stuff). *How does one write the possessives of words ending in double-s correctly??
[FairfieldLife] Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?
Curtis' musings about Eagleman's musings about the nature of perception vs. reality for some reason reminded me of this line from the last Harry Potter movie. (I think at this point I can indulge in spoilers, since everyone interested in the HP 'verse has either seen the movie or read the book or both by now.) It's a line spoken in the Bardo. Harry is dead. Voldemort has smoked his ass REAL good. While dead, however, Harry's consciousness continues on, and he finds himself in an astral train station talking to Dumbledore. Who is also...uh...dead. Ignoring their own deadnessitude, the two of them manage to have a great conversation anyway, at the end of which Harry, about to have to make a decision whether to remain dead or go back to his life, asks that question: Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head? Dumbledore replies, Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? One of the problems I have with the When the brain dies I die theory is that I'm not convinced that it's true. I've had experiences that convince me that it's not. True, I haven't died in a flatline, pushing-up-daisies fashion. But I sure can remember having died. And what came afterwards. One could say that these memories may be false. But, might I ask, what leads you to believe that *any* of your memories are true? If the brain's ability to lie to itself is so strong, enabling it to distort any data coming in to it, aren't *any* of your memories as likely to be false as they are to be fact? For me Dumbledore just nails it. Why can't the answer to Harry's question be Both?
[FairfieldLife] 'A Sense of Doership'..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e59TVdjI3Qfeature=player_embedded
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: snip Many-pointedness[es] [and] one-pointednesses[?*] decay [and] rise [is] mind's samaadhi-transformation (or stuff). *How does one write the possessives of words ending in double-s correctly?? Apostrophe-s: one-pointedness's decay. Some people prefer just the apostrophe: one pointedness' decay, but this is less common these days. One exception is words ending in double-s followed by sake: for goodness' sake.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stein, the Author's Friend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip She was more than editor and critic; she was mentor. Her genius was in recognizing talent, and then generously and compassionately nurturing it, rather than squashing it. Don't know how she's portrayed in the film, but while she was a mentor, she actually wasn't either an editor or a literary critic in any formal sense, just on an ad hoc basis. She was, of course, herself a writer; that's what she's primarily known for. snip While there is room in this process for tough love, and telling an aspiring writer (or an aspiring spiritual seeker) that they haven't quite got everything nailed yet, there is a way of saying this that builds them up as opposed to tearing them down. Duh. If you want the writer to keep writing, you damn well better build them up. Knowing how to deliver critiques to help writers develop their skills without discouraging them is essential for an editor. (See my post #277649 for a small example.)
[FairfieldLife] The trouble with reality is capitalizing it
One of the things I find myself noticing in Curtis' descriptions of David Eagleman's findings and opinions is that Eagleman seems to make the same assumption that religious people make. That is, that there is something called Reality. For him, as a scientist (not having read this book), Reality might be defined as that which can be observed repeatedly by objective viewers or using instruments invented by them (and thus sharing their human assumptions about what can be perceived and measured and what cannot). This objective Reality trumps any subjective notion of reality. Meanwhile, the religionists or spiritual folks might argue that their subjective experience of reality, especially if they're enlightened, trumps any objective view of reality. Some of these folks believe that the real world doesn't even exist, and all that does IS a subjective presence. They call *that* Reality. Or God. Or Self. Whatever. Me, I'm noticing that both sets of people seem to be thinking hierarchically, as if reality were a pyramid of realities, at the top of which was one big one called Reality, which supercedes any of the lower realities. I'm not sure I buy this. I'm still enough of a Castaneda fan to be able to swing behind the idea of separate realities. They're all real. And because I don't view the world hierarchically, I don't assume that any of these separate realities are higher than others or trump them. For me the separate realities coexist relationally, not hierarchically. None of them is Reality. Does any of this strike a resonance with anyone else here, or did the delivery guy put funny mushrooms on my pizza again? You never can tell here in the Netherlands.
[FairfieldLife] Re: -Golden Domes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wiki Editors, Om no, no. I have one complaint with this 'Golden Dome' Wiki entry. That second paragraph. As meditators we don't just believe this, we know that. Know it by experience. You're cheapening the overall Meissner Effect of spirituality going on here by declaring it as just some doctrine of belief that we believe in. It's what we know by virtue of meditating. It's Not just some 'belief'. There is a difference. Knowingness. I know. We know. It is. The science is even showing it. It is known. It's our experience. Please fix your 'Golden_Domes' entry to better represent the Truth. Yours in the M.E. of Fairfield, Iowa -Buck a meditator FFL lurker finishes very informative page on the domes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect Couple weeks ago I was at a State-wide meeting attended by mostly urban educated Iowa folks who when they saw Fairfield along with my name on my name-tag would ask about Fairfield. What I found really interesting now was how many folks living in Iowa really know nothing or extremely little about TM or what is going on here in Fairfield. If they knew anything most of people were not aware that Maharishi had passed away. Fairfield just was not in their consciousness. This wiki 'Golden-Dome' piece will work great for folks who are more than casually interested. I can think of quite a few regular people out in the State who would appreciate the article. I love the line that says it smells like feet inside! Incredible research. This serves as a great condensed narrative. I like the voice in it. I'd share this with anyone wondering about the utopian story here in Fairfield. Wow. Awesome project. Seems balanced, evidently well referenced and fact checked. FFL lurker finishes very informative page on the domes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes
[FairfieldLife] 13-year-old makes solar energy breakthrough
This is one of those Why didn't anyone else think of this? and Why did it take someone who hasn't even hit high school to think it up? kinda articles. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/13-year-old-looks-trees-makes-solar-power-breakthrough/41486/ This guy figured out how to make solar panels 30 to 50 percent more efficient.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 13-year-old makes solar energy breakthrough
Amazing! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: This is one of those Why didn't anyone else think of this? and Why did it take someone who hasn't even hit high school to think it up? kinda articles. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/13-year-old-looks-trees-makes-solar-power-breakthrough/41486/ This guy figured out how to make solar panels 30 to 50 percent more efficient.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I forgot what the ocean feels like, always there, a liquid fabric of infinite connections to play in, and interact with. Everything I do is so intrinsically a part of that which surrounds me, so that the bodily entity of me reduces down to virtually nothing, except the same pure expression as that which surrounds me. Nothing becomes everything, not by virtue of expanding nothing, but rather, by bringing it into sync with everything else; the self does nothing, and the Self accomplishes everything. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Field of Dashed Dreams by Maureen Dowd NYT
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: No. No, you don't. Spending isn't out of control, and the worst *possible* time to cut back on spending is in a recession. Plus which, comparisons to Greece or Italy or Portugal are specious; those countries don't have the fiscal tools and flexibility and resources the U.S. does. I understand, but I thought we spent many tens of billions on the stimulus package, and don't have much to show for it. Reducing the deficit by cutting spending is only going to do more harm to the economy, and it isn't necessary in the short term. We need to get the economy back on its feet before trying to tackle the deficit. When people say the the economy back on its feet, I think that means create more jobs. How do you do that when manufacuring and even professional jobs such as accounting jobs have been outsourced, and continue to be outsourced? So, I don't even know if that would not have been the best way to go, as painful and dysfunctional as it would have been. But I feel he has done the best he could under the circumstances. The people on this forum seem to fault him for not pushing the liberal agenda hard enough. How sure are you that he *wants* to pursue a liberal agenda? Well, the health care reform was his number priority. He was not able to get the reform that he wanted. People argue that he traded away the most important parts of that. Legislation is often like that, especially with the powerful interests that intensely lobbied it to keep or remove certain parts of the legislation. I think it was recommended by some of his advisors, namely Rahm Emmanuel that he go for a less sweeping reform - one that had a better chance of passage in the way he envisioned it. But whether you can say he really wanted the reforms in the first place, I don't know, but I don't think that was the case. I think he very much wanted the reforms. I don't know if they reckoned the extent to which the oppostion would go in stopping this agenda. I dare you to read this article by Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com: I read it, although briefly. I think I understand his points. But the political climate does change. Seems to me you didn't have the tea partiers back then. Some big differences between then and now. I didn't feel that the article made the stongest case for why the President is ineffectual or seems ineffecual. Maybe the idea proffered by Maharishi that national leaders can only give the people what they deserve is as good a theory as any other. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/18/obama_v_bus\ h/index.html http://tinyurl.com/42w2hme We tend to forget that Bush did quite well with his *conservative* agenda even when he had a Democratic Congress. I'm part of the 39% that approves of his performance. Not an unconditional approval by any means. But given the environment he has to work in, I give him my support. If he can't get anything done because of the Republicans, why is it important to reelect him? If the presidency is so weak in comparison to Congress, what does it matter who's in the White House? Why is anybody worried about a conservative winning the election if the president doesn't have the power to get Congress to pass his agenda? Something doesn't compute here.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: 13-year-old makes solar energy breakthrough
You hear pundits say, America needs to take the lead in green energy solutions- that's the next frontier. Green energy technology is what's going to create the jobs. And yet I just read that the biggest domestic producers of solar panels in the US just went bankrupt, and is moving their operations to China. Federal and State grants totalled $450,000,000* to get their plant in operation, but because of the lower price of an chemical, they lost their pricing edge. (their product used less of the chemical, hence they had an edge). *Going from memory, but I believe this is the correct amount, as high as it seems. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: This is one of those Why didn't anyone else think of this? and Why did it take someone who hasn't even hit high school to think it up? kinda articles. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/13-year-old-looks-tree\ s-makes-solar-power-breakthrough/41486/ This guy figured out how to make solar panels 30 to 50 percent more efficient.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Field of Dashed Dreams by Maureen Dowd NYT
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: No. No, you don't. Spending isn't out of control, and the worst *possible* time to cut back on spending is in a recession. Plus which, comparisons to Greece or Italy or Portugal are specious; those countries don't have the fiscal tools and flexibility and resources the U.S. does. I understand, but I thought we spent many tens of billions on the stimulus package, and don't have much to show for it. The stimulus did help quite a bit; it stopped the hemmorhaging. But it wasn't big enough to turn things around. We'd have been much worse off without the stimulus, but we'd have been a lot better off with a bigger one. The stimulus didn't work is a right- wing talking point. Reducing the deficit by cutting spending is only going to do more harm to the economy, and it isn't necessary in the short term. We need to get the economy back on its feet before trying to tackle the deficit. When people say the the economy back on its feet, I think that means create more jobs. How do you do that when manufacuring and even professional jobs such as accounting jobs have been outsourced, and continue to be outsourced? You begin by creating jobs that can't be outsourced (like fixing deteriorating infrastructure). Once you start putting people back to work, they will have some money to spend, which will create more demand, which will trigger more hiring (including of acountants) to fulfill the demand. You find ways to incentivize domestic hiring (or disincentivize outsourcing). So, I don't even know if that would not have been the best way to go, as painful and dysfunctional as it would have been. But I feel he has done the best he could under the circumstances. The people on this forum seem to fault him for not pushing the liberal agenda hard enough. How sure are you that he *wants* to pursue a liberal agenda? Well, the health care reform was his number priority. He was not able to get the reform that he wanted. People argue that he traded away the most important parts of that. Legislation is often like that, especially with the powerful interests that intensely lobbied it to keep or remove certain parts of the legislation. I think it was recommended by some of his advisors, namely Rahm Emmanuel that he go for a less sweeping reform - one that had a better chance of passage in the way he envisioned it. But whether you can say he really wanted the reforms in the first place, I don't know, but I don't think that was the case. I think he very much wanted the reforms. He wanted some of them, certainly. The question is whether he really wanted the reforms the healthcare industry and the GOP opposed, or whether he was happy to let them go (e.g., the public option). He sure didn't fight for them very hard, if at all. I don't know if they reckoned the extent to which the oppostion would go in stopping this agenda. I dare you to read this article by Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com: I read it, although briefly. I think I understand his points. But the political climate does change. Seems to me you didn't have the tea partiers back then. You had Democrats who were very strongly opposed to many of Bush's agenda items, but he got most of them through anyway. Some big differences between then and now. I didn't feel that the article made the stongest case for why the President is ineffectual or seems ineffecual. Greenwald's point is that Obama seems ineffectual only if one assumes he wanted different goals. Once you realize he's center-right rather than center-left (let alone liberal), his behavior makes a lot more sense. Maybe the idea proffered by Maharishi that national leaders can only give the people what they deserve is as good a theory as any other. That's fine as a theory, but we have to deal with the reality. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/18/obama_v_bus\ h/index.html http://tinyurl.com/42w2hme We tend to forget that Bush did quite well with his *conservative* agenda even when he had a Democratic Congress. I'm part of the 39% that approves of his performance. Not an unconditional approval by any means. But given the environment he has to work in, I give him my support. If he can't get anything done because of the Republicans, why is it important to reelect him? If the presidency is so weak in comparison to Congress, what does it matter who's in the White House? Why is anybody worried about a conservative winning the election if the president doesn't have the power to get Congress to pass his agenda? Something doesn't compute here.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Wasn't challenging anybody's perception, BTW, just wanted to point out how the guy who coined the phrase meant it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I forgot what the ocean feels like, always there, a liquid fabric of infinite connections to play in, and interact with. Everything I do is so intrinsically a part of that which surrounds me, so that the bodily entity of me reduces down to virtually nothing, except the same pure expression as that which surrounds me. Nothing becomes everything, not by virtue of expanding nothing, but rather, by bringing it into sync with everything else; the self does nothing, and the Self accomplishes everything. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
So, you think you or your sour grapes Patañjali guru-s know better than e.g. Vyaasa and Bhojadeva, what is the antecedent of the pronoun 'te'? LoL! Vaj: Vyutthana-samskaras will cause your consciousness to behave in a certain way. Says who? LoL! It is clearly stated in the scriptures that the Purusha is entirley seperate from the Prakriti. All the Upanishad teachers were transcendentalists and they all agreed with this, with the exception of the materialist Charvaka. There is Purusha, which stands alone, eternal and unchanghing, and there is Prakriti, governed by three gunas, and thirty-two consituents. Comprising the whole in one easily comprehended matrix of change. The two are totally separate - one being an object of knowledge and the other being the witnessing subject, the Transcendental Person.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Field of Dashed Dreams by Maureen Dowd NYT
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip I dare you to read this article by Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com: I read it, although briefly. I think I understand his points. But the political climate does change. Seems to me you didn't have the tea partiers back then. You had Democrats who were very strongly opposed to many of Bush's agenda items, but he got most of them through anyway. Some big differences between then and now. Another big difference, BTW, was that Obama came into office with a huge mandate and all kinds of goodwill, including a Democratic House and (for a month or so anyway) a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate. Bush didn't have a mandate (Gore won the popular vote, remember), and he had a great deal of ill will because of how he won. I didn't feel that the article made the stongest case for why the President is ineffectual or seems ineffecual. Greenwald's point is that Obama seems ineffectual only if one assumes he wanted different goals. Once you realize he's center-right rather than center-left (let alone liberal), his behavior makes a lot more sense. Maybe the idea proffered by Maharishi that national leaders can only give the people what they deserve is as good a theory as any other. That's fine as a theory, but we have to deal with the reality. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/18/obama_v_bus\ h/index.html http://tinyurl.com/42w2hme We tend to forget that Bush did quite well with his *conservative* agenda even when he had a Democratic Congress. I'm part of the 39% that approves of his performance. Not an unconditional approval by any means. But given the environment he has to work in, I give him my support. If he can't get anything done because of the Republicans, why is it important to reelect him? If the presidency is so weak in comparison to Congress, what does it matter who's in the White House? Why is anybody worried about a conservative winning the election if the president doesn't have the power to get Congress to pass his agenda? Something doesn't compute here.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:50:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Bob, while I understand the predilection that might make this situation such a quandary for you, I can offer no techniques that can help you. The reason is that I'm just not overshadowed by big breasts. Unless they are so large that they're casting an actual shadow on me, that is. Nor do I unless the owner is young, attractive and in distress. With my taste running from a young Audrey Hepburn (i also see dead people) to Selma Hayek I think, as with most men, its the distress that makes my perceptual uncertainty less manageable. I'm just SO not a breast man. The biggest I can handle aesthetically are on Deborah Ann Woll, who plays the delightful Jessica on True Blood, and that's because they just go so well with the rest of her. Everything is in pretty much perfect proportion. So unlike the Jason character in the series, who, when asked while having a panic attack to focus on something comforting, gazed at her chest, I would not immediately focus on Jessica's -- or any woman's -- breasts. I’ve never watched “True Blood”, but now plan to change that. I’m pleased your endorphins ramp with many of the other forms of feminine beauty. That said---you’ll know this from your study of the advertising industry---large breasts in an attractive young women and excessive disposable income---in this culture, are not dissimilar in their impact on perceptual uncertainty techniques (PUTS). However, I have had some experience trying to maintain professionalism while addressing women whose beauty (or lack thereof) might be a distraction, so I pass along some wisdom from the Holy Tradition. Ask yourself, What would Shankara do? and view the women as bags of feces and urine. That's taking the holy high road. Besides, what woman wouldn't be complimented by being considered a bag of shit? Thank you, if this isn’t a PUT I’m not sure what is. Another technique I employ is imagining that I’m re-reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-readiing the old FFL threats of posters I dislike. Just as an aside, Bob, what editor do you use when com- posing your posts? I ask because below I have had to go through and remove all the instances of  mysterious left all over the place, and the ’ symbols used instead of single quotes. And that still leaves lots of others. This leads me to believe that you might be writing in Microsoft Word or some other editor with its defaults still left on. I'd consider treating those autoconvert options as funbags of shit if I were you. :-) Turq, thank you for this. Other than the wife there is nothing that returns me to a state of humility as promptly as IT issues. Any help anyone can extend me in this regard is more than appreciated. I’m not sure whats causing it. I use web based yahoo mail (newest version) my Mac OS X is v. 10.6.7 and I use Safari. I will use my personal higher power (google) and the words you shared to describe the issue too try and figure out the problem. Since I’m not a pro like youself I sometimes save a post to draft---when the elbows are acting up---rather than finish it in one sitting. I stopped buying anything MSFT (including deep out of the money calls) when the Shrub Justice department refused to break them up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I'm still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it's to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I'm describing---voice becomes childlike and body language
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
On Aug 20, 2011, at 5:12 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, cardemaister wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, obbajeeba wrote: This is the most stupidest thing I have ever read on FFL. IMHO Interesting to see how sheltered some TB's still are. It's been known for decades that ME research is BS. Sounds like someone needs to get outside their own mindset a little more often, like at least every decade or two. It's sad how the sidha mindset restricts consciousness, but not surprising. As Patanjali tells us, siddhis are obstacles to samadhi and locks one into the outward stroke te samaadhaav upasargaa vyutthaane siddhayaH. So, you think you or your sour grapes Patañjali guru-s know better than e.g. Vyaasa and Bhojadeva, what is the antecedent of the pronoun 'te'? LoL! Vyutthana-samskaras will cause your consciousness to behave in a certain way. That this pattern would not be conducive to samadhi is not that surprising to me. YMMV. Well, I think vyutthaana-saMskaara_s are a natural and necessary part of meditation: vyutthaana-nirodha-saMskaarayor abhibhava-praadurbhaavau *nirodha- kSaNa*-cittaanvayo nirodha-pariNaamaH. Taimni: Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha which intervenes *momentarily* [kSaNa-ically - card] between an impression which is disappearing [out-going: vyutthaana -- card] and the impression which is taking its place. (YS III 9; emph. add.) It's the natural result of the failure to maintain samadhi. Rinse-repeat-rinse-repeat… If you establish the grooves in the mind to NOT maintain samadhi, you'll get nowhere. That's Patanjali's point. In introspective samadhis you want to extend the amount of time you can be in samadhi until it becomes permanent, you do not want to create the habitual circumstance that keeps you popping back out!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Karl Marx was Right
Why don't you explain to us how you're going to feed yourself if the U.S. economy collapses? Bhairitu: I can walk to the local grocery store(s). You'll be doing a lot of walking after you fail to pay your mortage, if the U.S. economy collapses. But, you can forget finding much on store shelves if that happens! With a collapsed U.S. economy, you will be homeless in about a month. That is, unless you try to arm yourself to fight for your property. Good luck with that. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Zombie in My Gas Tank-Interview 8 (was Paultards: Ron Paul is a Racist)
thomas.p...@gmail.com snip One of the many reasons Maharishi pulled everyone except the people who believe they are one of them (like a guitarist?) out of DC. So true. Take a look at any of them. Children they are not. Addled, yes. Comes from fetal alcohol or crack syndromes. Indeed. It used to be that it was legal to mention someone's race in a newspaper. We had to guess, but not very hard, who was rioting in England. Racism is defined for the current time as calling a spade a spade. We’re pleased to have Roberta Costa (former Homeland Security agent) as our visiting interviewer of today’s awakened guest: Cracker JR McBain. AGENT COSTA Welcome Mr. McBain, its a real pleasure to have you here today, may I call you Cracker? JR “Most people call me JR. AGENT COSTA “Sorry JR, please tell us a little about yourself.” JR My name is JR. My fathers name was Cracker. I was born over a junk yard in a small town called A HOPE A PRAYER in the Illinois Ozarks. My earliest childhood memories are of my Arkansas cousins making fun of my family because we weren’t from the real Hope---or the real Ozarks for that matter. Both my parents had rage management problems which they blamed on Walmart for wiping out my Dad’s oil change business when they opened a new store across the street from where we lived. Sam was alive then and my mother used to hide in the bushes and throw rocks at his old red pick when he visited his store from time to time. The only taboo subjects in our home were Walmart, my parents drinking and what a piss poor shot my mother was. The arguing about Walmart got so bad that I eventually ran away and joined the circus where I got a job cleaning up after elephants. I was eventually fired when an elephant named “Crackers” crushed the ring master after I stuffed some fire crackers up his butt. My take away from all this was that either God loved crackers or he had a better sense of humour than my parents---or the Walton family for that matter. By this time old Sam had gone to the big discount in the sky and his family would visit the store across the street from my parents home in their big black stretch limo. The first time she tried, my mom put a rock through the chauffeurs window and killed him which caused an ugly crash and put my Mom in the hoosegow for pretty much the rest of her life. Her defence lawyer was a lady named Hilary who couldn’t organize a bl** job in a brothel although that could never be said about her husband. After the circus I discovered aluminium siding. The first time I sold someone more of something than they could possibly afford I knew I had found my calling. It was about this time that Cracker Sr. showed up. Mom was gone by then and he wanted to see how I was making so much money. Then two things happened. First, he was a terrible salesman with none my qualifying skills and couldn’t understand that letting the lady of house know you’re packing was not the way to get them to sign on the line that is dotted. The second thing was far worse. For some reason everywhere Cracker went a Walmart seemed to open a new location within days. It was such an phenomena that NOVA did a program on it. Since only San Francisco fruits and uppity women watch PBS you never catch me tuning in but since it was about Cracker I relented. My passion is history particularly the civil war although I won’t give you spit for that fag documentary from Keener Burnbutt. Shortly after Cracker arrived Walmart showed up and that was the end of my aluminum siding business. AGENT COSTA “Wow and can you tell us a little about your awaking?” JR “My first Unity experience came when I merged with the floor after I big honk of finger nail polish remover. The last thing I remember was wondering what my friends had been bragging about and the next thing I knew I was considering myself part of the line of sight of a worn out pattern on the linoleum of my floor that appeared to be emerging from my nose.” AGENT COSTA ‘Thats quite a beginning JR, was there anything else you might consider a little more permanent to your awaking. JR “I would say when I lost my right leg in a head on with a logging truck was pretty permanent. AGENT COSTA “OK JR, its been a great to hear about your awaking and thanks for dropping by.” JR Wait a minute, I’ve got a lot more to share...” AGENT COSTA Thanks again listeners and please tune in next week for our interview with WhyNotMakeItUp. JR “Listen you wet back piece of.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha... Vaj: It's the natural result of the failure to maintain samadhi. Rinse-repeat-rinse-repeat Cut out the monkish bull-shit. Nirodha just means thought-activty cessation - TM practice. In introspective samadhis you want to extend the amount of time you can be in samadhi until it becomes permanent, you do not want to create the habitual circumstance that keeps you popping back out! In fact, it's the poping back out that IS the enlighted state. Normal folks just need is to dip into samadhi for a few minutes a day. If you can't maintain that, and raise a family, you'll probably wind up in a divorce, or an insane asylum.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:53 AM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: Nirodha pariNaama is that transformation of the mind in which it becomes *progressively* permeated by the condition of nirodha... Vaj: It's the natural result of the failure to maintain samadhi. Rinse-repeat-rinse-repeat… Cut out the monkish bull-shit. Nirodha just means thought-activty cessation - TM practice. Saguna-mantras only take you so far Willy. Saguna-mantras stop at samprajnata-samadhi.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com Just as an aside, Bob, what editor do you use when com- posing your posts? I ask because below I have had to go through and remove all the instances of à mysterious left all over the place, and the ââ¬â¢ symbols used instead of single quotes. And that still leaves lots of others. This leads me to believe that you might be writing in Microsoft Word or some other editor with its defaults still left on. I'd consider treating those autoconvert options as funbags of shit if I were you. :-) Turq, thank you for this. Other than the wife there is nothing that returns me to a state of humility as promptly as IT issues. Any help anyone can extend me in this regard is more than appreciated. Iâm not sure whats causing it. I use web based yahoo mail (newest version) my Mac OS X is v. 10.6.7 and I use Safari. I will use my personal higher power (google) and the words you shared to describe the issue too try and figure out the problem. Since Iâm not a pro like youself I sometimes save a post to draft---when the elbows are acting up---rather than finish it in one sitting. I may not be able to help, since I rarely use the Yahoo mail client, and can't be sure that I have the latest version. However in mine, under Options (top right) Mail Options General there is a Mode option that allows the choice between Compose messages and graphics and Compose messages as plain text. Mine is set to the latter and no one has ever told me that it's leaving odd characters in what I send...other than my own, that is. You might try that to see if it fixes the problem. The scrambled single and double quotes I understand; your editor is creating pretty curved versions of them that something along the way to the Yahoo FFL server can't interpret as the upper ASCII characters they are, and literalize as â and the like. But I really have no idea what is causing the occasional (and seemingly random) insertion of the  characters. No clue. Sorry.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The trouble with reality is capitalizing it
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 5:25:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The trouble with reality is capitalizing it One of the things I find myself noticing in Curtis' descriptions of David Eagleman's findings and opinions is that Eagleman seems to make the same assumption that religious people make. That is, that there is something called Reality. This is my take away as well. I find so called scientists easily as dogmatic as fundamentalists and rarely as unencumbered with forgone conclusions as they might want their constituencies to believe. For him, as a scientist (not having read this book), Reality might be defined as that which can be observed repeatedly by objective viewers or using instruments invented by them (and thus sharing their human assumptions about what can be perceived and measured and what cannot). This objective Reality trumps any subjective notion of reality. An obvious tell in one of Curtis’s early posts in this series (promise I have not re-read it) which described agreeing with someone who “believes” (may have been someone who sees dead people) on their shared experience of the “Sunset”. As a confirmed doubter, I’m wondering if its any more accurate for a scientist to refer to the earth revolving around the sun than it is for a red meat bible thumper to do it? Meanwhile, the religionists or spiritual folks might argue that their subjective experience of reality, especially if they're enlightened, trumps any objective view of reality. Some of these folks believe that the real world doesn't even exist, and all that does IS a subjective presence. They call *that* Reality. Or God. Or Self. Whatever. If you are saying that since both these dogmas are human they have equal value, I agree. Me, I'm noticing that both sets of people seem to be thinking hierarchically, as if reality were a pyramid of realities, at the top of which was one big one called Reality, which supercedes any of the lower realities. I agree: “Knowledge is Structured in What I Believe. I'm not sure I buy this. I'm still enough of a Castaneda fan to be able to swing behind the idea of separate realities. They're all real. And because I don't view the world hierarchically, I don't assume that any of these separate realities are higher than others or trump them. For me the separate realities coexist relationally, not hierarchically. None of them is Reality. Does any of this strike a resonance with anyone else here, or did the delivery guy put funny mushrooms on my pizza again? You never can tell here in the Netherlands. I certainly agree and for me it begs the question: “Why is it so human to insist on hierarchy with something that appears so relational?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?
* * Works for me :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Curtis' musings about Eagleman's musings about the nature of perception vs. reality for some reason reminded me of this line from the last Harry Potter movie. (I think at this point I can indulge in spoilers, since everyone interested in the HP 'verse has either seen the movie or read the book or both by now.) It's a line spoken in the Bardo. Harry is dead. Voldemort has smoked his ass REAL good. While dead, however, Harry's consciousness continues on, and he finds himself in an astral train station talking to Dumbledore. Who is also...uh...dead. Ignoring their own deadnessitude, the two of them manage to have a great conversation anyway, at the end of which Harry, about to have to make a decision whether to remain dead or go back to his life, asks that question: Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head? Dumbledore replies, Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? One of the problems I have with the When the brain dies I die theory is that I'm not convinced that it's true. I've had experiences that convince me that it's not. True, I haven't died in a flatline, pushing-up-daisies fashion. But I sure can remember having died. And what came afterwards. One could say that these memories may be false. But, might I ask, what leads you to believe that *any* of your memories are true? If the brain's ability to lie to itself is so strong, enabling it to distort any data coming in to it, aren't *any* of your memories as likely to be false as they are to be fact? For me Dumbledore just nails it. Why can't the answer to Harry's question be Both?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Hi, Jim! Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to express below, only you did it better :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I forgot what the ocean feels like, always there, a liquid fabric of infinite connections to play in, and interact with. Everything I do is so intrinsically a part of that which surrounds me, so that the bodily entity of me reduces down to virtually nothing, except the same pure expression as that which surrounds me. Nothing becomes everything, not by virtue of expanding nothing, but rather, by bringing it into sync with everything else; the self does nothing, and the Self accomplishes everything. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
* * Hi, Lawson. I believe I see where you're coming from here, but it appears Jim is speaking of something else. From the POV of a small self lost/found in Brahman we could say small self surrendered into Big Self is virtually nothing and does nothing of itself -- of myself I do nothing; not I but the Father which is in me. And Brahman is not a particular experience you can have, whether of UC or anything else. You don't have Brahman; Brahman has you! Yum! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Thanks Turq, I think I have it figured. On the new Yahoo version the plain text option has been moved from “options” to below right of the subject line. After Alex suggested it, I was using this option if I wanted to send a hot link. To eliminate the garbled quote symbols I’ll switch to using it all the time. Not sure about the other symbols you mentioned, maybe Tom can help. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 8:14:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com Just as an aside, Bob, what editor do you use when com- posing your posts? I ask because below I have had to go through and remove all the instances of  mysterious left all over the place, and the ’ symbols used instead of single quotes. And that still leaves lots of others. This leads me to believe that you might be writing in Microsoft Word or some other editor with its defaults still left on. I'd consider treating those autoconvert options as funbags of shit if I were you. :-) Turq, thank you for this. Other than the wife there is nothing that returns me to a state of humility as promptly as IT issues. Any help anyone can extend me in this regard is more than appreciated. I’m not sure whats causing it. I use web based yahoo mail (newest version) my Mac OS X is v. 10.6.7 and I use Safari. I will use my personal higher power (google) and the words you shared to describe the issue too try and figure out the problem. Since I’m not a pro like youself I sometimes save a post to draft---when the elbows are acting up---rather than finish it in one sitting. I may not be able to help, since I rarely use the Yahoo mail client, and can't be sure that I have the latest version. However in mine, under Options (top right) Mail Options General there is a Mode option that allows the choice between Compose messages and graphics and Compose messages as plain text. Mine is set to the latter and no one has ever told me that it's leaving odd characters in what I send...other than my own, that is. You might try that to see if it fixes the problem. The scrambled single and double quotes I understand; your editor is creating pretty curved versions of them that something along the way to the Yahoo FFL server can't interpret as the upper ASCII characters they are, and literalize as ’ and the like. But I really have no idea what is causing the occasional (and seemingly random) insertion of the  characters. No clue. Sorry.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Karl Marx was Right
On 08/20/2011 07:40 AM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: Why don't you explain to us how you're going to feed yourself if the U.S. economy collapses? Bhairitu: I can walk to the local grocery store(s). You'll be doing a lot of walking after you fail to pay your mortage, if the U.S. economy collapses. But, you can forget finding much on store shelves if that happens! With a collapsed U.S. economy, you will be homeless in about a month. That is, unless you try to arm yourself to fight for your property. Good luck with that. LoL! Explain to me how I will be homeless if the bank I pay my mortgage to no longer exists?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. Perhaps it's Mother Nature/aka the Gunas, that rally to support your every desire because they are in tune with natural law. It's MMY's explanation of the support of nature.
[FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart
There was a time before Walmart. I remember that time, going through jerk water towns around the US and places not along the railroad and therefore never capable of being jerk water towns.Fairfield, Iowa was a jerk water town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_stop I am now pretty much guaranteed almost wherever I go that there will be groceries, batteries, coffee mugs, mats for the car, all sorts of goodies, all under one roof. One day I arrived in FF and my luggage did not. It had gone to Korea. So I was able to pick up crappy but acceptable toiletries, flying clothes, some shirts, pants, socks to tide me over until my luggage arrived a few days later. Having to go into the little shops on the square with SALE emblazoned painted on the windows was something I didn't relish. Choose from a dozen shirts, none of which was my size, from a dozen pair of trousers, no flying clothes except the stuff at the MIU bookstore, well it was one stop shopping. I like that I can go to Walmart and stock up on certain things like big bottles of mouthwash, batteries, staples, get a prescription filled, even get my oil changed in my car, all at the same time. Is it Trader Joe's? Well, perhaps. I have a freshly picked, organic, right off the vine tomato from TJs sitting on my kitchen counter. Still pristine. And it's been there for 6 weeks. Heck, I grew up in the Garden State and tomatoes where something you bought or picked and ate pronto. I can buy the same organic tomato at Walmart. Morningstar Farms? Yes, most of the offerings are available at Walmart, even the no hormone, free range, organic eggs. And I don't have to run all over town. Now Walmart is not the World Market, which I shop at next or TJ's or some specialty shop. I feel sorry that Walmart employees slave labor. But just how well was my grandmother who worked in the sweatshop which made the trousers and shirts that went to that shop on the square in FF paid? Just how much and what kind of benefits were the employees of that shop on the square in FF paid? I find the grossest, most ill-mannered people at the Walmart I go to in South Carolina, a few miles south of where I am. But guess what? Some of them are oriental geeks who are walking like drunks through the isles checking their grocery list on their idiot phone. I've also met some of the nicest people in other Walmarts throughout the country. Yes, there are crackers. There are also the salt of the Earth. The people who build things. Who work with their hands. People here on FFL would consider the great unwashed. Little do they realize that if it weren't for the great unwashed who build the roads, the houses, drive the trucks, they'd starve. They do the World's work.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
It is so intriguing and difficult to capture that space between us and everything else, where no clear lines of division exist, and yet in order to function in the world such divisions create unfathomable beauty and questions and challenges, an utterly chaotic, perfect orderliness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: Hi, Jim! Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to express below, only you did it better :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I forgot what the ocean feels like, always there, a liquid fabric of infinite connections to play in, and interact with. Everything I do is so intrinsically a part of that which surrounds me, so that the bodily entity of me reduces down to virtually nothing, except the same pure expression as that which surrounds me. Nothing becomes everything, not by virtue of expanding nothing, but rather, by bringing it into sync with everything else; the self does nothing, and the Self accomplishes everything. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Yep, its all about the music.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. Perhaps it's Mother Nature/aka the Gunas, that rally to support your every desire because they are in tune with natural law. It's MMY's explanation of the support of nature.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
Great to know that the Upanishad Rishi-s had tri-kala-drishti, a clear view of the past/present/future. They were able to read Ralph Waldo Emerson and understand him (although written in English) and were suitably inspired to compose their consequent insights. Great job, Ralph. Willy Sez: All the Upanishad teachers were transcendentalists and they all agreed with this, with the exception of the materialist Charvaka. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: It is clearly stated in the scriptures that the Purusha is entirley seperate from the Prakriti. All the Upanishad teachers were transcendentalists and they all agreed with this, with the exception of the materialist Charvaka. There is Purusha, which stands alone, eternal and unchanghing, and there is Prakriti, governed by three gunas, and thirty-two consituents. Comprising the whole in one easily comprehended matrix of change. The two are totally separate - one being an object of knowledge and the other being the witnessing subject, the Transcendental Person.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
turquoiseb: Ask yourself, What would Shankara do?... This is nothing more than prejudice against Hindus. Turq knows there was no Shankara, and he knows that not all Hindu women have large breasts. In fact, Turq probably knows nothing about the Hindus, or Hindu women. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Taste
I’m wondering if its possible to ever understand audience taste. Is it better to write from the headlines or find a voice and nurture it? Can the popularity of writing from the headlines ever be considered an art form? Certainty satire and some other forms of comedy about headlines might be artistic but can expressing an opinion about current events be any more than gossip? Of course most of us know politics or plane crashes are oh so much more sophisticated to write about that say celebrity divorces. Reminds me a bit of the alcoholic that insists on “Russian Standard” rather than “Smirnoff”, I don’t gossip because I care about the politics I write about. I really care about my opinions so how could it be gossip. I understand what drives someone to find their voice. IMO, when successful, finding a voice, appears to have a god like or immortal quality. On the other hand I find writing about the headlines a little harder to understand. Have we all become mini me Walter Winchell’s without any of his talent to create drama from human weakness. And also wonder how we got here. Since I read it the first time as a kid in the Sixties I’ve aften wondered what “Soma” in “Brave New World” is. For a time I was sure it was television which---with the consolidation of all the important media outlets---I then expanded to all media. Currently “Social Media” looks like an excellent candidate, but then how do we fit “Itunes and ipads and i as the most overused f**king letter in the alphabet. In many ways it seems just that the Internet will be for us what that meteor was for the dinosaurs because isn’t it our consciousness not our physicality (we seem to fear so much for) that makes us different? I just wonder if finding a voice could save us from ourselves.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. Yeah, blame the blues guy! Nice. It is not just the fun bags giving you trouble. It is the specific hip to waist ratio that plugs into our genetic preferences. That is what says fertility. The bad news for men is that chicks have a pre-programmed shoulder to waist ratio that is highly unforgiving of an over fondness for La Querche Prosciutto. When you lose that wedge look you don't get that automatic head snap from the ladies anymore. This is why I perform sitting down! I have discovered another formula that seems to be in play. If a man's stomach protrusion is equalled by how far his wallet extends behind him, he can still pull the hotties. This ratio seems to have been instilled later in our evolution as a species. When this chick smiles check out if it reachers her eyes and if they crinkle devilishly. If they don't she is all show and no go in the sack anyway and not worth the trouble. Just file her in the rolodex you use for chicks to think about while banging your wife. (Yeah, I know about that.) Iâm still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post.  The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims itâs to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated.  Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona Iâm describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams âsave meâ. Not to digress, but Iâve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid âwolvesâ but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I canât imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane.  In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in  her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasnât imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour.  I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an  MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ânot taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: âeveryone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.â With a desire to be more effective, Iâve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenbergâs âuncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelsteinâs technique of putting her at ease with an off colour joke. 6. Win her over by telling her I know Curtis. 7. Pretend Iâm enlightened. 8. Tell her I used to know Robin Carson. 9. Tell her I have a connection in Amsterdam. 10. Quit the engagement because the wife is obviously trying to set me up. Any technique suggestions you feel like sharing would be appreciated. PS: For the new hire, I recommended to the wife that she hire the gay woman she interviewed. Sheâs by far the best
[FairfieldLife] Re: Why I love Walmart
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: There was a time before Walmart. I remember that time, going through jerk water towns around the US and places not along the railroad and therefore never capable of being jerk water towns. Fairfield, Iowa was a jerk water town. And, before Walmart, Fairfield had a Ben Franklin and a Pamida. It's very popular to hate Walmart, but I find Walmart vastly more pleasant than the old Ben Franklin and Pamida stores, which IMO, were dingy and depressing. I have no objection to FF's Walmart, and I look forward to the new SuperWalmart that they just started building a few weeks ago. But, if a Target were to open up in FF, Walmart would lose most of my business.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with reality is capitalizing it
turquoiseb: ...as a scientist (not having read this book), Reality might be defined as that which can be observed repeatedly by objective viewers In reality, we only know anything based on the three valid means of knowledge: the senses, inference, and verbal testimony. Most of what we know we were told it, and the rest of our knowledge came from our senses, mainly our eyes and our ears. There are very few people on the planet that know anything aprori, that is, a transcendental knowledge. Obviously you read about an Ultimate Reality in a book, or you were told it by Zen Master Rama. Not from an un-reality would you have learned this term! So, what did your guru, Zen Master Rama, say about the Ultimate Reality? If you forgot what Rama said, I'll post it here. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter in today's Ledger
emptybill: Great to know that the Upanishad Rishi-s had tri-kala-drishti, a clear view of the past/present/future. They were able to read Ralph Waldo Emerson and understand him (although written in English) and were suitably inspired to compose their consequent insights. Great job, Ralph. Willy Sez: All the Upanishad teachers were transcendentalists and they all agreed with this, with the exception of the materialist Charvaka. Of course, all the teachers of the Upanishads were transcendentalists. Why do you think they all made reference to Brahman, the Transcendental Person? LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:43:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. Yeah, blame the blues guy! Nice. ***you are definitely one of my favourite posters to be found guilty with. It is not just the fun bags giving you trouble. It is the specific hip to waist ratio that plugs into our genetic preferences. That is what says fertility. The bad news for men is that chicks have a pre-programmed shoulder to waist ratio that is highly unforgiving of an over fondness for La Querche Prosciutto. When you lose that wedge look you don't get that automatic head snap from the ladies anymore. This is why I perform sitting down! I have discovered another formula that seems to be in play. If a man's stomach protrusion is equalled by how far his wallet extends behind him, he can still pull the hotties. This ratio seems to have been instilled later in our evolution as a species. When this chick smiles check out if it reachers her eyes and if they crinkle devilishly. If they don't she is all show and no go in the sack anyway and not worth the trouble. Just file her in the rolodex you use for chicks to think about while banging your wife. (Yeah, I know about that.) ***What you and Turq describe as beauty makes a lot of sense to me, I’ve been trying to find the short why to describe it. Could it be called the “Golden Ratio?” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34482178/ns/health-skin_and_beauty/t/ideal-beauty-matter-millimeters-study-says/#.Tk_lKs3hWIA Its been my cognition that the wallet to waist offset could be described as a hyper ratio of 1” of wallet plastic can offset 20” of male waist line. Making 2” of plastic in wallet good for 40” of waist? I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes
[FairfieldLife] The Conspirator was okay
Robert Redford's The Conspirator was worth a look. But there are a few problems I would point out. Poor Justin Long, in the opening scene when James McAvoy tells his joke I expected Long to sit up and say I'm a Mac and McAvoy to retort and I'm a PC for the punchline. Long will probably be most remember for the rest of his life for those ads. But it touches on a problem that Hollywood has when they do historical films: famous actors take you out of the story. Well maybe except for Robin Wright who can change her looks enough and get into the part enough you forget who she is. There are a few actors like like that but often it's hey, that's so and so playing so and so. Problem two: despite his work with Sundance Redford still seems to be stuck in old production ways. I'm probably a bit sensitive here but the dialog scenes between two actors in the film seemed a little stilted. Why? Because undoubtedly Redford used only one camera to shoot them. These days directors like to take advantage of technology and use two cameras: an A and B camera to shoot dialog scenes. It's more natural, efficient as the actors play out the scene at the same time. Redford seems to like film and film is too expensive to do that. Problem three: despite the nice depiction of the era it seemed a little dusty to me. More like I was visiting a museum of that era which I have, many times taking relatives to visit the museum near my hometown. It should have looked a little more like Deadwood which didn't look so dusty. Back then that stuff would have looked shiny and new though dated by our standards. The story is important though because it is about the prosecution of Mary Surratt which though she was a civilian was done by a military tribunal. A few years later the Supreme Court declared that in war civilians still should have a jury trial. The Bluray is loaded with extras and much more than I could watch in an evening. However the 67 minute documentary kept beating me over the head that the Civil War was about slavery when it was more to do with state's rights (and of course at issue was slavery and states rights). It also doesn't touch at all about the British supporting the South. It was still to much of a whitewash grade school approach instead of a Howard Zinn one. I would also recommend Scorcese's Gangs of New York to get a better sense of the era and particularly listen to his commentary. Also on the disc was an interesting trailer for Margin Call, a thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2DqFRsPrns Looks like it might be good.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with reality is capitalizing it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: One of the things I find myself noticing in Curtis' descriptions of David Eagleman's findings and opinions is that Eagleman seems to make the same assumption that religious people make. That is, that there is something called Reality. I don't think that doing science requires more assumption than needed to fix breakfast and sit down at the computer. Both religious assumptions and the kind of high level philosophical skepticism about the nature or reality are on another level and don't intersect. He hasn't tipped his hand about your perspective and could easily have it and still do science. He has tipped his hand about his skepticism that the assumptions of religious beliefs are coming from a place that he takes seriously. For him, as a scientist (not having read this book), Reality might be defined as that which can be observed repeatedly by objective viewers or using instruments invented by them (and thus sharing their human assumptions about what can be perceived and measured and what cannot). This objective Reality trumps any subjective notion of reality. Meanwhile, the religionists or spiritual folks might argue that their subjective experience of reality, especially if they're enlightened, trumps any objective view of reality. Some of these folks believe that the real world doesn't even exist, and all that does IS a subjective presence. They call *that* Reality. Or God. Or Self. Whatever. Me, I'm noticing that both sets of people seem to be thinking hierarchically, as if reality were a pyramid of realities, at the top of which was one big one called Reality, which supercedes any of the lower realities. I'm not sure I buy this. I'm still enough of a Castaneda fan to be able to swing behind the idea of separate realities. They're all real. And because I don't view the world hierarchically, I don't assume that any of these separate realities are higher than others or trump them. For me the separate realities coexist relationally, not hierarchically. None of them is Reality. Does any of this strike a resonance with anyone else here, or did the delivery guy put funny mushrooms on my pizza again? You never can tell here in the Netherlands.
[FairfieldLife] Yes, But the Rich Are Different
Yes, But the Rich Are Different http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/08/20/yes-but-the-rich-are-different/\ by Anne Laurie Earlier this week, the Guardian reprinted a piece by Naomi Shock Doctrine http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/031242\ 7999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1313830442sr=8-1 Klein on Looting with the Lights On http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/17/looing-with-lights-\ off : ... Argentina, circa 2001. The economy was in freefall and thousands of people living in rough neighbourhoods (which had been thriving manufacturing zones before the neoliberal era) stormed foreign-owned superstores. They came out pushing shopping carts overflowing with the goods they could no longer afford clothes, electronics, meat. The government called a state of siege to restore order; the people didn't like that and overthrew the government. Argentina's mass looting was called el saqueo the sacking. That was politically significant because it was the very same word used to describe what that country's elites had done by selling off the country's national assets in flagrantly corrupt privatisation deals, hiding their money offshore, then passing on the bill to the people with a brutal austerity package. Argentines understood that the saqueo of the shopping centres would not have happened without the bigger saqueo of the country, and that the real gangsters were the ones in charge. But England is not Latin America, and its riots are not political, or so we keep hearing. They are just about lawless kids taking advantage of a situation to take what isn't theirs. And British society, Cameron tells us, abhors that kind of behaviour. This is said in all seriousness. As if the massive bank bailouts never happened, followed by the defiant record bonuses. Followed by the emergency G8 and G20 meetings, when the leaders decided, collectively, not to do anything to punish the bankers for any of this, nor to do anything serious to prevent a similar crisis from happening again. Instead they would all go home to their respective countries and force sacrifices on the most vulnerable. They would do this by firing public sector workers, scapegoating teachers, closing libraries, upping tuition fees, rolling back union contracts, creating rush privatisations of public assets and decreasing pensions mix the cocktail for where you live. And who is on television lecturing about the need to give up these entitlements? The bankers and hedge-fund managers, of course. This is the global saqueo, a time of great taking. Fuelled by a pathological sense of entitlement, this looting has all been done with the lights on, as if there was nothing at all to hide. There are some nagging fears, however. In early July, the Wall Street Journal, citing a new poll, reported that 94% of millionaires were afraid of violence in the streets. This, it turns out, was a reasonable fear Until I skimmed the Guardian comments, I hadn't realized that the Bullingdon Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club was still in existence or that Prime Minister Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson had been BC members during their youth. They were careless people http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby ... http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/08/20/yes-but-the-rich-are-different/ http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/08/20/yes-but-the-rich-are-different/\
Re: [FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart
I also love Walmart because its truly American. Costco on the other hand looks like what the communists promised but failed to deliver. And I love Target because it helps us pretend we still have a middle class. I also agree that Walmart has proven that “Unionization” was an aberration in the American dream and its time for some rapper (say Python head) to do a remake of 16 TONS” “Saint Peter don’t you call me---cause I can’t goI owe my soul to the company store.” One of the many other things I love about Walmart is that i love variety and Walmart is the first thing I’ve seen Tom and Alex agree on. And of course how could we owe the Chinese trillions without Walmart functioning as a conduit from those Chinese sweatshops to my garage. With Walmart’s help American is now in that position of strength that states: “When I owe my banker a million I’m in trouble, when I owe him a trillion he’s in trouble.” I’m looking forward to Walmart turning the airports into Super Stores because when the wife gets molested by airport security I would much prefer the double wide inspector is wearing a smily faces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0 From: Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:28:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart There was a time before Walmart. I remember that time, going through jerk water towns around the US and places not along the railroad and therefore never capable of being jerk water towns. Fairfield, Iowa was a jerk water town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_stop I am now pretty much guaranteed almost wherever I go that there will be groceries, batteries, coffee mugs, mats for the car, all sorts of goodies, all under one roof. One day I arrived in FF and my luggage did not. It had gone to Korea. So I was able to pick up crappy but acceptable toiletries, flying clothes, some shirts, pants, socks to tide me over until my luggage arrived a few days later. Having to go into the little shops on the square with SALE emblazoned painted on the windows was something I didn't relish. Choose from a dozen shirts, none of which was my size, from a dozen pair of trousers, no flying clothes except the stuff at the MIU bookstore, well it was one stop shopping. I like that I can go to Walmart and stock up on certain things like big bottles of mouthwash, batteries, staples, get a prescription filled, even get my oil changed in my car, all at the same time. Is it Trader Joe's? Well, perhaps. I have a freshly picked, organic, right off the vine tomato from TJs sitting on my kitchen counter. Still pristine. And it's been there for 6 weeks. Heck, I grew up in the Garden State and tomatoes where something you bought or picked and ate pronto. I can buy the same organic tomato at Walmart. Morningstar Farms? Yes, most of the offerings are available at Walmart, even the no hormone, free range, organic eggs. And I don't have to run all over town. Now Walmart is not the World Market, which I shop at next or TJ's or some specialty shop. I feel sorry that Walmart employees slave labor. But just how well was my grandmother who worked in the sweatshop which made the trousers and shirts that went to that shop on the square in FF paid? Just how much and what kind of benefits were the employees of that shop on the square in FF paid? I find the grossest, most ill-mannered people at the Walmart I go to in South Carolina, a few miles south of where I am. But guess what? Some of them are oriental geeks who are walking like drunks through the isles checking their grocery list on their idiot phone. I've also met some of the nicest people in other Walmarts throughout the country. Yes, there are crackers. There are also the salt of the Earth. The people who build things. Who work with their hands. People here on FFL would consider the great unwashed. Little do they realize that if it weren't for the great unwashed who build the roads, the houses, drive the trucks, they'd starve. They do the World's work.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Yes, But the Rich Are Different…
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: Read a little history. Read about the entitlement the trade unions felt after the war in England. How there was class hatred, basically from the trade unionists who felt they were being ripped off. Actually, they were being made redundant because what they produced, like coal, didn't count that much anymore. So the trade unions got what they wanted. England went socialist.And depressed. Very depressed. As state before, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of people to rob to support the self-proclaimed entitled class. It was only until the Iron Lady started to set things right did some these people on the virtual dole start to realize that being productive leads to a successful, prosperous life. Now we're back to the dole. Generations since WWII on the dole. No hope except to be badasses. You want to talk trash? There's no cracker in America as trashy in outlook and being self-defeating as these badasses, male and female. Why is England the state under the most surveillance?Go visit and find out quickly enough. It's not the G20, the G10, the G8. It's lack of opportunity and an a whole lot of people so long on the dole they can't envision a better life for themselves, not even by the joys of holding down even a part time job. So it's the rich, the bankers, eh? Yeah, there's ever a reason why it's his fault and not mine. We're seeing West Side Story recast as North End Story.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: -Golden Domes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Group practice of the TM-Sidhi program in the domes is said to create the Maharishi Effect, which is believed to be a coherence-producing field whose extent depends on the number of people practicing in one place. Perhaps it should saywhich is a belief that practitioners experience and know as a coherence-producing field.. If it is one's experience, than one knows it..hard to argue with individual knowingness. I have not experienced it and do not know it. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: -Golden Domes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 5:30 AM Dear Wiki Editors, Om no, no. I have one complaint with this 'Golden Dome' Wiki entry. That second paragraph. As meditators we don't just believe this, we know that. Know it by experience. You're cheapening the overall Meissner Effect of spirituality going on here by declaring it as just some doctrine of belief that we believe in. It's what we know by virtue of meditating. It's Not just some 'belief'. There is a difference. Knowingness. I know. We know. It is. The science is even showing it. It is known. It's our experience. Please fix your 'Golden_Domes' entry to better represent the Truth. Yours in the M.E. of Fairfield, Iowa -Buck a meditator FFL lurker finishes very informative page on the domes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect Couple weeks ago I was at a State-wide meeting attended by mostly urban educated Iowa folks who when they saw Fairfield along with my name on my name-tag would ask about Fairfield. What I found really interesting now was how many folks living in Iowa really know nothing or extremely little about TM or what is going on here in Fairfield. If they knew anything most of people were not aware that Maharishi had passed away. Fairfield just was not in their consciousness. This wiki 'Golden-Dome' piece will work great for folks who are more than casually interested. I can think of quite a few regular people out in the State who would appreciate the article. I love the line that says it smells like feet inside! Incredible research. This serves as a great condensed narrative. I like the voice in it. I'd share this with anyone wondering about the utopian story here in Fairfield. Wow. Awesome project. Seems balanced, evidently well referenced and fact checked. FFL lurker finishes very informative page on the domes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes
[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with reality is capitalizing it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: One of the things I find myself noticing in Curtis' descriptions of David Eagleman's findings and opinions is that Eagleman seems to make the same assumption that religious people make. That is, that there is something called Reality. I don't think that doing science requires more assumption than needed to fix breakfast and sit down at the computer. Both religious assumptions and the kind of high level philosophical skepticism about the nature or reality are on another level and don't intersect. It's not high-level philosophical skepticism but a truism to note that, even assuming there is a reality, we can never know it directly; it's always only through subjective perception. And that includes science. When we do science, we're comparing subjective perceptions. If they agree, we say that what we've mutually perceived is objective reality-- but we don't and cannot know that there's anything out there that actually corresponds to it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with reality is capitalizing it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: One of the things I find myself noticing in Curtis' descriptions of David Eagleman's findings and opinions is that Eagleman seems to make the same assumption that religious people make. That is, that there is something called Reality. I don't think that doing science requires more assumption than needed to fix breakfast and sit down at the computer. Both religious assumptions and the kind of high level philosophical skepticism about the nature or reality are on another level and don't intersect. It's not high-level philosophical skepticism but a truism to note that, even assuming there is a reality, we can never know it directly; it's always only through subjective perception. And that includes science. When we do science, we're comparing subjective perceptions. If they agree, we say that what we've mutually perceived is objective reality-- but we don't and cannot know that there's anything out there that actually corresponds to it. Only YOU can prove reality to yourself, NEVER to anyone else. Since it is a subjective experience it rests upon the individual to seize it. Any objective analysis will always fall short of the experience, as you may well know
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Chant the mahamantra while you're with her. She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. Iâm still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post.  The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims itâs to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated.  Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona Iâm describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams âsave meâ. Not to digress, but Iâve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid âwolvesâ but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I canât imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane.  In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in  her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasnât imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour.  I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an  MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ânot taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: âeveryone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.â With a desire to be more effective, Iâve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenbergâs âuncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelsteinâs technique of putting her at ease with an off colour joke. 6. Win her over by telling her I know Curtis. 7. Pretend Iâm enlightened. 8. Tell her I used to know Robin Carson. 9. Tell her I have a connection in Amsterdam. 10. Quit the engagement because the wife is obviously trying to set me up. Any technique suggestions you feel like sharing would be appreciated. PS: For the new hire, I recommended to the wife that she hire the gay woman she interviewed. Sheâs by far the best candidate. When I welcomed her to the company she gave me firm handshake and the pain from my tennis elbow that shot up my arm almost put me in Samadhi. Obviously tennis elbow is no reason to give up FFL.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: Thanks Turq, I think I have it figured. Nope, at least not as viewed on the Web site: On the new Yahoo version the plain text option has been moved from âoptionsâ --and-- garbled quote symbols Iâll And here's how a paragraph from another of your posts appeared on the Web site: - Of course most of us know politics or plane crashes are oh so much more sophisticated to write about that say celebrity divorces. Reminds me a bit of the alcoholic that insists on âRussian Standardâ rather than âSmirnoffâ, I donât gossip because I care about the politics I write about. I really care about my opinions so how could it be gossip. - Here's how a paragraph from yet another of your posts looks on the Web site--you're quoting Curtis: - It is not just the fun bags giving you trouble.  It is the specific hip to waist ratio that plugs into our genetic preferences.  That is what says fertility.  The bad news for men is that chicks have a pre-programmed shoulder to waist ratio that is highly unforgiving of an over fondness for La Querche Prosciutto.  When you lose that wedge look you don't  get that automatic head snap from the ladies anymore.  This is why I perform sitting down!  I have discovered another formula that seems to be in play.  If a man's stomach protrusion is equalled by how far his wallet extends behind him, he can still pull the hotties.  This ratio seems to have been instilled later in our evolution as a species. - Another annoyance is the header information that gets put into many people's posts (including this one from you): From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:43:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts The annoyance is that it takes up the entire Message View snippet of text from the post. Also, posts that have this header don't have quote prefixes except (sometimes) one at the beginning of the paragraph instead of one in front of every line. The workarounds (e.g., Response:) that these posters insert manually to distinguish what they've written from what they're quoting become a pain in the neck in exchanges that continue for several rounds. Combine that with broken lines when folks use word wrap, and these conversations can be almost impossible to read. When I want to contribute something, I may end up spending more time reformatting what I'm responding to so it's readable than actually writing. One good thing about your new approach, Bob, is that the type size is large enough that I don't have to squint. But the garbage characters are really maddening. Not only is it hard to read past them, they disrupt the continuity of the writing.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Hitopadesha: can women ever be won over?
And men are?
--- On Mon, 8/15/11, cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
From: cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Hitopadesha: can women ever be won over?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 15, 2011, 11:53 PM
na daanena, na maanena,
naarjavena (na + aarjavena), na sevayaa,
na shastrena, na shaastrena --
sarvathaa viSamaaH striyaH.
Neither with gifts (daanena) nor with respect (maanena),
neither with sincerity (aarjavena) nor with flattery (sevayaa),
neither with weapons (shastrena) nor
with knowledge (shaastrena) can women (striyaH)
ever be won over [seems like a bit eupheministic translation...]
Women are viSama-s:
viSama mf(%{A})n. (fr. %{vi} + %{sama}) uneven , rugged , rough MBh. Hariv.
Ka1v. c. ; unequal , irregular , dissimilar , different , inconstant Br.
S3a1n3khGr2. Mn. c. ; odd , not even (in numbers c.) Var. Ka1vya7d. ; that
which cannot be equally divided (as a living sheep among three or four persons)
Mn. ix , 119 ; hard to traverse , difficult , inconvenient , painful ,
dangerous , adverse , vexatious , disagreeable , terrible , bad , wicked (ibc.
` terribly ' S3is3.) Mn. MBh. c. ; hard to be understood Gol. Ka1v. ;
unsuitable , wrong Sus3r. Sarvad. ; unfair , dishonest , partial Mn. MBh. ;
rough , coarse , rude , cross MW. ; odd , unusual , unequalled
[FairfieldLife] The Tea Partys March of Folly: Idiocracy, Here We Come
The Tea Party's March of Folly: Idiocracy, Here We Come Jon Ponder | Aug. 19, 2011 And it was no accident that Republican fatcat operatives recognized these dumbasses as suckers whom they could easily dupe into believing that it was the government, not big business, that caused the financial collapse in 2008; that tax cuts create jobs; that corporations are people; and on and on or that a mild-mannered DLC centrist Democratic president who happens to be black is actually a terrifying Kenyan anti-colonialist Marxist Muslim Nazi fascist illegal alien Maybe it's naive to think that ideological opponents can be brought together by a common fear of mass stupidity: Call it idiocraphobia. -- In her Los Angeles Times column on Thursday, Meghan Daum made note of the rise references in political commentary to the movie Idiocracy, a 2006 burp-and-fart, sci-fi political comedy set 500 years in the future, written and directed by Mike Judge, the creator of the animated series Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill: References to the film seem to be everywhere, and not just in op-eds penned by cranky columnists... The latest issue of the Economist has an article about the business-sabotaging effects of the battles in Washington, headlined American Idiocracy. A recent blog post on the Psychology Today website was headlined Idiocracy: Can We Reverse It? Meanwhile, it's popping up in causal conversations, Internet comments and, most notably, on Twitter, where it often appears as a hashtagged topic Daum suggests that the movie has been given a second life... Watch 'Idiocracy' Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=clYwX8Z43zg http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=clYwX8Z43zg Daum's hope is that interest in Idiocracy and the shock of recognition of that society is being driven toward the future it predicts will give pause to partisans on both sides and bring them to their senses. Maybe it's naive, she writes, to think that ideological opponents can be brought together by a common fear of mass stupidity: Call it idiocraphobia. But, see, the problem here is not naivete. The problem with this analysis is a reflexive reliance among media types on the equivalency meme: both sides are equally guilty, equally bad. A pox on both your houses... It wasn't Congress that behaved like stubborn toddlers. It wasn't Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their caucuses who seized control of the debt-ceiling debate and drove the United States' full faith and credit toward the brink of default. Objectively, this stubborn behavior was only found among one discrete faction: The radical know-nothing tea partyists. There is no equivalency between any group on the left or in the middle and the tea party. No one else is so pliably dim-witted, so unmoored from reality that they take it as faith that Jesus rode dinosaurs and the earth is just 7,000 years old. Based on the flimsiest tissues of obvious bogus-ness, they convinced themselves that Pres. Obama, a mild-mannered DLC centrist Democrat is in reality a terrifying Kenyan anti- colonialist Marxist Muslim Nazi fascist illegal alien. It is not surprising that Republican fatcat operatives have had no trouble duping the tea partyists into believing that, for example, it was the government, not big business, that caused the financial collapse in 2008. That tax cuts create jobs, and corporations are people. It is these people, the tea partyists not Democrats, liberals, independents or even moderate Republicans who are the idiocrats among us... Continue reading here: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/19/tea-partys-march-of-folly-idiocr\ acy-here-we-come/ http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/19/tea-partys-march-of-folly-idioc\ racy-here-we-come/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Perhaps you can satiate your brain by boning up on some of Yifu's latest posts of mermaids. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John jr_...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 11:15 AM Chant the mahamantra while you're with her. She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelstein’s technique of putting her at ease with an off colour joke. 6. Win her over by telling her I know Curtis. 7. Pretend I’m enlightened. 8. Tell her I used to know Robin Carson. 9. Tell her I have a connection in Amsterdam. 10. Quit the engagement because the wife is obviously trying to set me up. Any technique suggestions you feel like sharing would be appreciated. PS: For the new hire, I recommended to the wife that she hire the gay woman she interviewed. She’s by far the best candidate. When I welcomed her to the company she gave me firm handshake and the pain from my tennis elbow that shot up my arm almost put me in Samadhi. Obviously tennis elbow is no reason to give up FFL.
[FairfieldLife] Teabaggers more disliked than Muslims, atheists
Teabaggers more disliked than Muslims, atheists by John Aravosis (DC) on 8/17/2011 10:45:00 AM http://www.americablog.com/2011/08/teabaggers-more-disliked-than-muslim\ s.html In America, it takes a lot to be more disliked than a Muslim, or even, God forbid, an atheist. From the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html?_\ r=2 : [I]n data we have recently collected, the Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23 other groups we asked about lower than both Republicans and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned groups like atheists and Muslims. Interestingly, one group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian Right.And here's a surprise - the Tea Party is actually conservative Republicans. Our analysis casts doubt on the Tea Party's origin story. Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party's supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today. And the other factor that defines Teabaggers is the desire to see religion (their religion) play a prominent role in the politics. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. Interestingly, and surprisingly I'd argue, the public has swung against mixing religion with politics. While over the last five years Americans have become slightly more conservative economically, they have swung even further in opposition to mingling religion and politics. It thus makes sense that the Tea Party ranks alongside the Christian Right in unpopularity.This is quite interesting. We'd need more details as to what's motivating people to be less interested in religion in the public square, but it might provide a nice line of attack for Democrats, if they have the courage to take on religion, even batty religions like Bachmann's and Perry's http://www.americablog.com/2011/08/do-bachmann-and-perry-think-non.html\ . More on Perry's fringe religious beliefs here http://www.americablog.com/2011/08/rick-perry-and-new-apostolic.html . http://www.americablog.com/2011/08/teabaggers-more-disliked-than-muslims\ .html
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Field of Dashed Dreams by Maureen Dowd NYT
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: I understand, but I thought we spent many tens of billions on the stimulus package, and don't have much to show for it. This is like saying that the Y2K bug was a myth because people spent billions of dollars on it and it didn't happen. In fact, the governmental agency that did NOT spend money to address the Y2K issue, lost about a month of processing time because of it. It is impossible to prove that stimulus money worked because you don't know what would have happened without it, but economists can make educated guesses and last I heard was that most economists believe the stimulus package helped, but not enough. Whether this means more money would have made a difference is subject to debate, but few believe it didn't help at all. L.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: Yo. Us rappers need to be surrounded by bitches. Have her email me with a picture and I'll decide if this mama's big breasted and beautiful enough to be in my presence.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Tea Partys March of Folly: Idiocracy, Here We Come
Once again the do.rk has helpfully called out for us at the top of his post the parts of the article he's cut-and-pasted that he believes are the most important. And that's a Good Thing, you see, because we just aren't smart enough to read the article and decide for ourselves what the most important parts are. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@... wrote: The Tea Party's March of Folly: Idiocracy, Here We Come Jon Ponder | Aug. 19, 2011 And it was no accident that Republican fatcat operatives recognized these dumbasses as suckers whom they could easily dupe into believing that it was the government, not big business, that caused the financial collapse in 2008; that tax cuts create jobs; that corporations are people; and on and on or that a mild-mannered DLC centrist Democratic president who happens to be black is actually a terrifying Kenyan anti-colonialist Marxist Muslim Nazi fascist illegal alien Maybe it's naive to think that ideological opponents can be brought together by a common fear of mass stupidity: Call it idiocraphobia. -- In her Los Angeles Times column on Thursday, Meghan Daum made note of the rise references in political commentary to the movie Idiocracy, a 2006 burp-and-fart, sci-fi political comedy set 500 years in the future, written and directed by Mike Judge, the creator of the animated series Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill: References to the film seem to be everywhere, and not just in op-eds penned by cranky columnists... The latest issue of the Economist has an article about the business-sabotaging effects of the battles in Washington, headlined American Idiocracy. A recent blog post on the Psychology Today website was headlined Idiocracy: Can We Reverse It? Meanwhile, it's popping up in causal conversations, Internet comments and, most notably, on Twitter, where it often appears as a hashtagged topic Daum suggests that the movie has been given a second life... Watch 'Idiocracy' Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=clYwX8Z43zg http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=clYwX8Z43zg Daum's hope is that interest in Idiocracy and the shock of recognition of that society is being driven toward the future it predicts will give pause to partisans on both sides and bring them to their senses. Maybe it's naive, she writes, to think that ideological opponents can be brought together by a common fear of mass stupidity: Call it idiocraphobia. But, see, the problem here is not naivete. The problem with this analysis is a reflexive reliance among media types on the equivalency meme: both sides are equally guilty, equally bad. A pox on both your houses... It wasn't Congress that behaved like stubborn toddlers. It wasn't Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their caucuses who seized control of the debt-ceiling debate and drove the United States' full faith and credit toward the brink of default. Objectively, this stubborn behavior was only found among one discrete faction: The radical know-nothing tea partyists. There is no equivalency between any group on the left or in the middle and the tea party. No one else is so pliably dim-witted, so unmoored from reality that they take it as faith that Jesus rode dinosaurs and the earth is just 7,000 years old. Based on the flimsiest tissues of obvious bogus-ness, they convinced themselves that Pres. Obama, a mild-mannered DLC centrist Democrat is in reality a terrifying Kenyan anti- colonialist Marxist Muslim Nazi fascist illegal alien. It is not surprising that Republican fatcat operatives have had no trouble duping the tea partyists into believing that, for example, it was the government, not big business, that caused the financial collapse in 2008. That tax cuts create jobs, and corporations are people. It is these people, the tea partyists not Democrats, liberals, independents or even moderate Republicans who are the idiocrats among us... Continue reading here: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/19/tea-partys-march-of-folly-idiocr\ acy-here-we-come/ http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/19/tea-partys-march-of-folly-idioc\ racy-here-we-come/
[FairfieldLife] Tak the $5 Challenge
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yes, But the Rich Are Different…
On 08/20/2011 10:37 AM, Tom Pall wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, do.rflexdo.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: Read a little history. Read about the entitlement the trade unions felt after the war in England. How there was class hatred, basically from the trade unionists who felt they were being ripped off. Actually, they were being made redundant because what they produced, like coal, didn't count that much anymore. So the trade unions got what they wanted. England went socialist.And depressed. Very depressed. As state before, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of people to rob to support the self-proclaimed entitled class. It was only until the Iron Lady started to set things right did some these people on the virtual dole start to realize that being productive leads to a successful, prosperous life. Now we're back to the dole. Generations since WWII on the dole. No hope except to be badasses. You want to talk trash? There's no cracker in America as trashy in outlook and being self-defeating as these badasses, male and female. Why is England the state under the most surveillance?Go visit and find out quickly enough. It's not the G20, the G10, the G8. It's lack of opportunity and an a whole lot of people so long on the dole they can't envision a better life for themselves, not even by the joys of holding down even a part time job. So it's the rich, the bankers, eh? Yeah, there's ever a reason why it's his fault and not mine. We're seeing West Side Story recast as North End Story. There's nothing wrong with socialism, just the poor implementation of it that some countries did. The Scandinavian countries did a much better job. India's state of Kerala even has a communist government but you wouldn't know it as it seemed to have some of the most prosperous communities of the states that I visited. Socialism is a helluva lot more fair than capitalism. The latter is for money crazies, materialistic souls and not for the spiritual folk. Capitalism is sink or swim and a high entropy system. It is primed for gangsters to take it over which they have many times and have again. Most people probably think that the US had only one depression era. In fact it has had many. Your school textbooks whitewashed that fact. Anyone studying the economic history of the US would conclude that capitalism is a piss poor system. It might be okay in a limited format. Socialism and capitalism can co-exist side by side but you have to limit the capitalistic aspect of it. What we have in this country is a bunch of rednecks and teabaggers who are too ignorant to really understand economics and really don't know history. They deserve the kind of government they're going to get but I just want to move it and them to Antarctica. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Karl Marx was Right
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 08/20/2011 07:40 AM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: Why don't you explain to us how you're going to feed yourself if the U.S. economy collapses? Bhairitu: I can walk to the local grocery store(s). You'll be doing a lot of walking after you fail to pay your mortage, if the U.S. economy collapses. But, you can forget finding much on store shelves if that happens! With a collapsed U.S. economy, you will be homeless in about a month. That is, unless you try to arm yourself to fight for your property. Good luck with that. LoL! Explain to me how I will be homeless if the bank I pay my mortgage to no longer exists? If no banks at all exist and all the credit collectors are scrounging for food as well, you are correct. But it would take years for the USA systems to degrade to that point unless some world-wide EMP event happens or something equally sci-fi. L.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Thanks John, The image I get when I use the Mahamantra is a rather curvaceous naked women with an excellent tan dancing in front of of two guys in a wagon wearing cheap armour. One of them seems to be turning blue from holding his breath and the other has a bow and arrow in his hand. Am I using the correct mantra? From: John jr_...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:15:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Chant the mahamantra while you're with her. She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelstein’s technique of putting her at ease with an off colour joke. 6. Win her over by telling her I know Curtis. 7. Pretend I’m enlightened. 8. Tell her I used to know Robin Carson. 9. Tell her I have a connection in Amsterdam. 10. Quit the engagement because the wife is obviously trying to set me up. Any technique suggestions you feel like sharing would be appreciated. PS: For the new hire, I recommended to the wife that she hire the gay woman she interviewed. She’s by far the best candidate. When I welcomed her to the company she gave me firm handshake and the pain from my tennis elbow that shot up my arm almost put me in Samadhi. Obviously tennis elbow is no reason to give up FFL.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Denise, Great to hear from you. Not sure how helpful digital TA or images of Ticker Bell naked might be but I would like an update on your search for male genitalia. Would you agree that Tom is by far the most original voice on FFL? I’ve decided to suspend the “Weeks Best” as I think it would make him unbearable to have a string of awards to go with the string of shrunken progressive heads he wears so proudly. From: Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:27:55 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Perhaps you can satiate your brain by boning up on some of Yifu's latest posts of mermaids. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John jr_...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 11:15 AM Chant the mahamantra while you're with her. She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of her naked with only her shoes on). 3. Asking her to look at my shoes during the meeting. (God know the legal consequences of this option) 4. Putting her at ease by talking about Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principal. (I believe she has a science degree) 5. Employ Herr Edelstein’s technique of putting her at ease with an off colour joke. 6. Win her over by telling her I know Curtis. 7. Pretend I’m enlightened. 8. Tell her I used to know Robin Carson. 9. Tell her I have a connection in Amsterdam. 10. Quit the engagement because the wife is obviously trying to set me up. Any technique suggestions you feel like sharing would be appreciated. PS: For the new hire, I recommended to the wife that she hire the gay woman she interviewed. She’s by far the best candidate. When I welcomed her to the company she gave me firm
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Judy, Always a joy to hear from you and I sincerely apologize for any interruption my Shanghaing of subject lines may have caused to your life in the the archives”. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:18:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: Thanks Turq, I think I have it figured. Nope, at least not as viewed on the Web site: On the new Yahoo version the plain text option has been moved from “optionsâ€� --and-- garbled quote symbols I’ll And here's how a paragraph from another of your posts appeared on the Web site: - Of course most of us know politics or plane crashes are oh so much more sophisticated to write about that say celebrity divorces. Reminds me a bit of the alcoholic that insists on “Russian Standardâ€� rather than “Smirnoffâ€�, I don’t gossip because I care about the politics I write about. I really care about my opinions so how could it be gossip. - Here's how a paragraph from yet another of your posts looks on the Web site--you're quoting Curtis: - It is not just the fun bags giving you trouble.  It is the specific hip to waist ratio that plugs into our genetic preferences.  That is what says fertility.  The bad news for men is that chicks have a pre-programmed shoulder to waist ratio that is highly unforgiving of an over fondness for La Querche Prosciutto.  When you lose that wedge look you don't  get that automatic head snap from the ladies anymore.  This is why I perform sitting down!  I have discovered another formula that seems to be in play.  If a man's stomach protrusion is equalled by how far his wallet extends behind him, he can still pull the hotties.  This ratio seems to have been instilled later in our evolution as a species. - Another annoyance is the header information that gets put into many people's posts (including this one from you): From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:43:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts The annoyance is that it takes up the entire Message View snippet of text from the post. Also, posts that have this header don't have quote prefixes except (sometimes) one at the beginning of the paragraph instead of one in front of every line. The workarounds (e.g., Response:) that these posters insert manually to distinguish what they've written from what they're quoting become a pain in the neck in exchanges that continue for several rounds. Combine that with broken lines when folks use word wrap, and these conversations can be almost impossible to read. When I want to contribute something, I may end up spending more time reformatting what I'm responding to so it's readable than actually writing. One good thing about your new approach, Bob, is that the type size is large enough that I don't have to squint. But the garbage characters are really maddening. Not only is it hard to read past them, they disrupt the continuity of the writing.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
The thing that bugs me about rappers is that they’re always trying to “skate” on management fees. I guess thats the street creds Ronny was splaining. From: Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:49:21 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: Yo. Us rappers need to be surrounded by bitches. Have her email me with a picture and I'll decide if this mama's big breasted and beautiful enough to be in my presence.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart
I have watched some movies from the former Soviet Block. They now have big box stores that look like a mix between Walmart and Costco. There was a hilarious comedy involving a bunch of employees of such a store. It's probably on NF but I don't recall the title (rented it at Hollywood Video when they were around). The closest big box store to me is Walmart which is a little over a mile away. It was the local Costco but the city wouldn't let them build a bigger store so they built a bigger store in the adjacent city. Fry's Electronics wanted the building too but the city fathers decided they wanted Walmart instead. That was a slap in the face to the Fry's family because they are from this town. Being a tech geek I would probably already be broke having such a candy store that nearby. Fry's took over an abandoned Levitz about 7 miles away. Don't hold your breathe too much on Walmart expansion. They are already feeling the pinch from the economy. If you want business you need customers with money. And right now that customer total is diminishing as people lose their source of income. And that is the banksters fault. Walmart is now getting into smaller stores these days. I don't shop at Walmart that much but I'm not about to drive the extra 3 miles to Target which is the same game different outfit (sorry Alex). I often just walk through Walmart to see what is up. And if I do buy things there they often are US made products. For instance Walgreen's had been selling Old Wisconsin Turkey Bites. Compared to the other turkey snacks out there Old Wisconsin has all natural snacks, no MSG. Walmart began selling the Turkey Bite packages at $2.50 a pack. They were $2.50 a pack at Walgreen's if you bought two. Walgreen's now only carries the Beef Bites and Turkey Sticks. The other day when I picked up a pack of the Turkey Bites at Walmart the clerk remarked these are really popular and when I told her they were all natural and had no MSG her eyes lit up. Now they will have another customer. Walmart still gets some of my money without going there. They bought the Vudu HD streaming video company last year and I often rent films still in theaters there or foreign and indie films that may take forever to come to NF. On 08/20/2011 10:24 AM, Bob Price wrote: I also love Walmart because its truly American. Costco on the other hand looks like what the communists promised but failed to deliver. And I love Target because it helps us pretend we still have a middle class. I also agree that Walmart has proven that “Unionization” was an aberration in the American dream and its time for some rapper (say Python head) to do a remake of 16 TONS” “Saint Peter don’t you call me---cause I can’t goI owe my soul to the company store.” One of the many other things I love about Walmart is that i love variety and Walmart is the first thing I’ve seen Tom and Alex agree on. And of course how could we owe the Chinese trillions without Walmart functioning as a conduit from those Chinese sweatshops to my garage. With Walmart’s help American is now in that position of strength that states: “When I owe my banker a million I’m in trouble, when I owe him a trillion he’s in trouble.” I’m looking forward to Walmart turning the airports into Super Stores because when the wife gets molested by airport security I would much prefer the double wide inspector is wearing a smily faces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0 From: Tom Pallthomas.p...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.comfairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:28:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart There was a time before Walmart. I remember that time, going through jerk water towns around the US and places not along the railroad and therefore never capable of being jerk water towns.Fairfield, Iowa was a jerk water town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_stop I am now pretty much guaranteed almost wherever I go that there will be groceries, batteries, coffee mugs, mats for the car, all sorts of goodies, all under one roof. One day I arrived in FF and my luggage did not. It had gone to Korea. So I was able to pick up crappy but acceptable toiletries, flying clothes, some shirts, pants, socks to tide me over until my luggage arrived a few days later. Having to go into the little shops on the square with SALE emblazoned painted on the windows was something I didn't relish. Choose from a dozen shirts, none of which was my size, from a dozen pair of trousers, no flying clothes except the stuff at the MIU bookstore, well it was one stop shopping. I like that I can go to Walmart and stock up on certain things like big bottles of mouthwash, batteries, staples, get a prescription filled, even get my oil changed in my car, all at the same time. Is it Trader Joe's? Well,
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Free School, UK
Maharishi Free School, UK Maharishi School has been accepted as a Free School by the UK Government, which means it will receive full support, including 100% funding, from now on. Raja Peter announced that the UK Government has granted “Free School” status to the Maharishi School in Skelmersdale, whereby the School joins other state maintained schools in England. From now on all expenses of the School will be fully covered by the state, including tuition fees, teachers' salaries, and building costs. Construction has already started to create additional classrooms, and within a few years a new Vastu facility is being proposed by the School. This also gives the opportunity for further Maharishi Schools to be opened in England in coming years with government funding. At the same time, it will be an inspiration for other schools to adopt Consciousness-Based Education. This achievement comes out of 25 years of success of the school, during which it has been consistently ranked amongst the highest achieving schools in the country.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Karl Marx was Right
On 08/20/2011 11:57 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 08/20/2011 07:40 AM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: Why don't you explain to us how you're going to feed yourself if the U.S. economy collapses? Bhairitu: I can walk to the local grocery store(s). You'll be doing a lot of walking after you fail to pay your mortage, if the U.S. economy collapses. But, you can forget finding much on store shelves if that happens! With a collapsed U.S. economy, you will be homeless in about a month. That is, unless you try to arm yourself to fight for your property. Good luck with that. LoL! Explain to me how I will be homeless if the bank I pay my mortgage to no longer exists? If no banks at all exist and all the credit collectors are scrounging for food as well, you are correct. But it would take years for the USA systems to degrade to that point unless some world-wide EMP event happens or something equally sci-fi. L. B of A is on it's deathbed. They have just announced more layoffs. So is Chase, so is Wells Fargo. They are in BIG TROUBLE. They will probably be asking for another bailout and people should take to the streets and riot if the fuckers in Washington give it to them. That would truly be the LAST STRAW. If you understand derivatives, default credit swaps and all the other gambling devices the banks engaged in, most all them deserve to go away. If the shits in DC hadn't given the bailout in '08 we probably would have been rid of them. When you go to a bank nowadays you are being robbed. What would probably happen is the local owned banks would remain and people would shift to those. Many are already particularly moving their money to credit unions which are largely non-profit. This movie looks like it is going to be a good one on the financial crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2DqFRsPrns I love the line there are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter or cheat. Many chose the latter. They deserve to lose.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Krishnas Birthday
Thank you for posting! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@... wrote: The Muhurta for Krishna Janmashtami this Sunday the 21st is:Â 3:34 PM to 3:43 PM MERU time. Rashtra Geeta will begin at 3:15 PM. Krishna Janmashtami day is expressive of total analysis of unity. What is the total analysis of unity? Ashtamiâthe Eight. The eight Prakritis are divided nature of Prakriti (Prakriti means the nature). Shri Krishna, Total Knowledge incarnate, total silence incarnate, total dynamism potential incarnate, total Kriya Shakti, Gyan Shakti, Samanvayat, Purnah Brahm - Unity in Diversity.
[FairfieldLife] 'KRiSHNa'
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Don't hold your breathe too much on Walmart expansion. They are already feeling the pinch from the economy. If you want business you need customers with money. And right now that customer total is diminishing as people lose their source of income. And that is the banksters fault. Walmart is now getting into smaller stores these days. Walmart made a very big mistake and though it vows to correct it, it's not doing it fast enough, IMO. I used to love to go to Walmart Superstores because of the great variety and at times, even quality. But the Walmart I go to for the time being is even more depressing than the the Walmart I was going to Flugerville, Texas. Walmart decided they'd be sort of like TJ, with a single brand and limited merchandise. So every time I went to Walmart, some favorite food I wanted, say Mexican Rice Pudding, had disappeared. The Walmart a bit south of me in South Carolina sells perhaps 50 different varieties of canned beans. All Bush's beans. I've looked and looked and even accidentally taken home Bush's Meatless beans only to find when I got home that there was beef tallow in the beans. No other brand. I needed a wine glass. I could buy any size, shape and quantity of wine glass or water glass or tumbler or whatever, as long as it was made out of plastic, with a great big seam down the side. When I told the store manager a couple years ago at the Walmart in Flugerville and also called up Corporate to remind them that there are also affluent shoppers who don't want to go to a big box store then go do their real shopping, they flipped me off. About a year ago they found Jesus and are re-introducing brands they had d/c'ed. Appears there were more upscale shoppers than they had imagined. The Krogers in the 120% Hispanic section of Austin I go to decided it was going to be a value store. That concept failed miserably. It turns out that Mexicans want more than cheese imported from Mexico. They also make spaghetti and wanted Romano cheese to put on top just as I do. Walmart and Krogers discovered that there weren't as many shoppers they had thought wanted to shop former Soviet Union style where there was bread or eggs or butter but never all three. Another problem with Walmart. The Flugerville and other Texas stores had massive inventory problems. Say I wanted swiss cheese. None in the deli case. No slabs of Swiss cheese, no prepackaged Swiss cheese. Not even Swiss cheese flavored crackers or any Swiss cheese spread. People who wanted to buy Swiss cheese something picked the place clean. Perhaps there were not even plastic swiss cheese wedges left in the toy department. Now this would go on for months. Finally, they got in Swiss cheese. Then no Pom anything for months. The convenience of one stop shopping was gone and IMO might never come back. Of course I'd rather shop at Target or in one of those upscale non-mall malls they have in Overland Park, KS or in parts of ?greater? Austin. But Target is heavy on glasses but light on anything to pour into them. Dishes, knives and forks but little except Vienna sausage to place on those dishes.Mens underwear? No variety. And I've never seen a Target, even in Mexico, which had a Santaria section. Now how on Earth are you going to keep evil spirits away or cast spells on people without proper Santaria? Barry, how's your back been lately? Even the Dollar store carries Santaria merchandise in many towns. Why not Target? Walmart sells Santaria merchandise even in Fargo, North Dakota.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Ahhh, yes...I'll put that right at the top of my priority list. It is true, there is a marked absence in pictures of naked men on the FFL show - clearly an important missing feature. But, luckily, the lack of direct visuals is remedied adequately by the descriptive text of the script writers. I am also finding that Hindu terminology and language has a sensuality to it best experienced from a state of ignorance. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 12:03 PM Denise, Great to hear from you. Not sure how helpful digital TA or images of Ticker Bell naked might be but I would like an updateon your search for male genitalia. Would you agree that Tom is by far the most original voice on FFL? I’ve decided to suspend the “Weeks Best” as I think it would make him unbearable to have a string of awards to go with the string of shrunken progressive heads he wears so proudly.From: Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:27:55 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Perhaps you can satiate your brain by boning up on some of Yifu's latest posts of mermaids. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John jr_...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 11:15 AM Chant the mahamantra while you're with her. She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might help this type of uncertain perception become more manageable: 1. Looking at my shoes during the meeting. 2. Looking at her shoes during the meeting (the problem with this option was that it triggered thoughts of
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts [4 Attachments]
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com wrote: Ahhh, yes...I'll put that right at the top of my priority list. It is true, there is a marked absence in pictures of naked men on the FFL show - clearly an important missing feature. But, luckily, the lack of direct visuals is remedied adequately by the descriptive text of the script writers. I am also finding that Hindu terminology and language has a sensuality to it best experienced from a state of ignorance. Just whom are you calling ignorant, young lady? You want male genitalis, here ya go. http://www.globalcountry.org.uk/assets/image200727.jpg And, for the record, depictions and descriptions of nubile females is a very proper thing here.
Re: [FairfieldLife] webOs on iPad!
On Aug 20, 2011, at 3:49 AM, cardemaister wrote: FWIW, webOS on iPad: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/19/hp-tested-webos-on-an-ipad-it-ran-over-twice-as-fast/ HP's WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company's new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple's dominance in the tablet market, as the company's webOS operating system was running over twice as fast on its rival's iPad 2 tablet, a source close to the subject revealed to The Next Web. http://www.macworld.com/article/161775/2011/08/why_cant_windows_pcs_catch_up_to_the_macbook_air_.html#lsrc.nl_mwnws_h_crawl LINK
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
authfriend wins the line of the day! LMAO! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Sorry to have bothered you. You seemed to have some interest in how to make your posts more readable. My mistake. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: Judy, Always a joy to hear from you and I sincerely apologize for any interruption my Shanghaing of subject lines may have caused to your life in the the archivesâ. From: authfriend jstein@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:18:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: Thanks Turq, I think I have it figured. Nope, at least not as viewed on the Web site: On the new Yahoo version the plain text option has been moved from ââ¬Åoptionsââ¬ï¿½ --and-- garbled quote symbols Iââ¬â¢ll And here's how a paragraph from another of your posts appeared on the Web site: - Of course most of us know politics or plane crashes are oh so much more sophisticated to writeà about that say celebrity divorces. Remindsà me a bit of the alcoholic that insists on ââ¬ÅRussian Standardââ¬ï¿½ rather than ââ¬ÅSmirnoffââ¬ï¿½, I donââ¬â¢t gossip because I care about the politics I write about. I really care about my opinions so how could it be gossip. - Here's how a paragraph from yet another of your posts looks on the Web site--you're quoting Curtis: - It is not just the fun bags giving you trouble.à à It is the specific hip to waist ratio that plugs into our genetic preferences.à à That is what says fertility.à à The bad news for men is that chicks have a pre-programmed shoulder to waist ratio that is highly unforgiving of an over fondness for La Querche Prosciutto.à à When you lose that wedge look you don'tà à get that automatic head snap from the ladies anymore.à à This is why I perform sitting down!à à I have discovered another formula that seems to be in play.à à If a man's stomach protrusion is equalled by how far his wallet extends behind him, he can still pull the hotties.à à This ratio seems to have been instilled later in our evolution as a species. - Another annoyance is the header information that gets put into many people's posts (including this one from you): From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:43:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts The annoyance is that it takes up the entire Message View snippet of text from the post. Also, posts that have this header don't have quote prefixes except (sometimes) one at the beginning of the paragraph instead of one in front of every line. The workarounds (e.g., Response:) that these posters insert manually to distinguish what they've written from what they're quoting become a pain in the neck in exchanges that continue for several rounds. Combine that with broken lines when folks use word wrap, and these conversations can be almost impossible to read. When I want to contribute something, I may end up spending more time reformatting what I'm responding to so it's readable than actually writing. One good thing about your new approach, Bob, is that the type size is large enough that I don't have to squint. But the garbage characters are really maddening. Not only is it hard to read past them, they disrupt the continuity of the writing.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS-ts5_nuF8 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Denise Evans dmevans365@... wrote: Ahhh, yes...I'll put that right at the top of my priority list. It is true, there is a marked absence in pictures of naked men on the FFL show - clearly an important missing feature. But, luckily, the lack of direct visuals is remedied adequately by the descriptive text of the script writers. I am also finding that Hindu terminology and language has a sensuality to it best experienced from a state of ignorance. Just whom are you calling ignorant, young lady? You want male genitalis, here ya go. http://www.globalcountry.org.uk/assets/image200727.jpg And, for the record, depictions and descriptions of nubile females is a very proper thing here.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Why I love Walmart
On 08/20/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Pall wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Bhairitunoozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Don't hold your breathe too much on Walmart expansion. They are already feeling the pinch from the economy. If you want business you need customers with money. And right now that customer total is diminishing as people lose their source of income. And that is the banksters fault. Walmart is now getting into smaller stores these days. Walmart made a very big mistake and though it vows to correct it, it's not doing it fast enough, IMO. I used to love to go to Walmart Superstores because of the great variety and at times, even quality. But the Walmart I go to for the time being is even more depressing than the the Walmart I was going to Flugerville, Texas. Walmart decided they'd be sort of like TJ, with a single brand and limited merchandise. So every time I went to Walmart, some favorite food I wanted, say Mexican Rice Pudding, had disappeared. The Walmart a bit south of me in South Carolina sells perhaps 50 different varieties of canned beans. All Bush's beans. I've looked and looked and even accidentally taken home Bush's Meatless beans only to find when I got home that there was beef tallow in the beans. No other brand. I needed a wine glass. I could buy any size, shape and quantity of wine glass or water glass or tumbler or whatever, as long as it was made out of plastic, with a great big seam down the side. When I told the store manager a couple years ago at the Walmart in Flugerville and also called up Corporate to remind them that there are also affluent shoppers who don't want to go to a big box store then go do their real shopping, they flipped me off. About a year ago they found Jesus and are re-introducing brands they had d/c'ed. Appears there were more upscale shoppers than they had imagined. The Krogers in the 120% Hispanic section of Austin I go to decided it was going to be a value store. That concept failed miserably. It turns out that Mexicans want more than cheese imported from Mexico. They also make spaghetti and wanted Romano cheese to put on top just as I do. Walmart and Krogers discovered that there weren't as many shoppers they had thought wanted to shop former Soviet Union style where there was bread or eggs or butter but never all three. Another problem with Walmart. The Flugerville and other Texas stores had massive inventory problems. Say I wanted swiss cheese. None in the deli case. No slabs of Swiss cheese, no prepackaged Swiss cheese. Not even Swiss cheese flavored crackers or any Swiss cheese spread. People who wanted to buy Swiss cheese something picked the place clean. Perhaps there were not even plastic swiss cheese wedges left in the toy department. Now this would go on for months. Finally, they got in Swiss cheese. Then no Pom anything for months. The convenience of one stop shopping was gone and IMO might never come back. Of course I'd rather shop at Target or in one of those upscale non-mall malls they have in Overland Park, KS or in parts of ?greater? Austin. But Target is heavy on glasses but light on anything to pour into them. Dishes, knives and forks but little except Vienna sausage to place on those dishes.Mens underwear? No variety. And I've never seen a Target, even in Mexico, which had a Santaria section. Now how on Earth are you going to keep evil spirits away or cast spells on people without proper Santaria? Barry, how's your back been lately? Even the Dollar store carries Santaria merchandise in many towns. Why not Target? Walmart sells Santaria merchandise even in Fargo, North Dakota. I think Bush's does make a vegetarian line. They are at my local regional (California) chain (Raley's). I do most of my grocery shopping there. I have to watch for their specials of which there are plenty. Second choice is Lucky's which is a larger store 2 mile away. The local Raley's which is their Nob Hill variant is a small store and may not have everything that is on special though they just remodeled and made it big enough to handle most things. What they didn't add was their Sizzlin' Wok Chinese take out in the deli. They have a sushi chef but not the Chinese nor fried chicken specials. One of the managers told me the town wouldn't let them put in a deep fryer as the place wasn't zoned for it. I said what! there is a Chinese restaurant next door with a deep fryer. He replied, they probably bribed the officials. I shop TJ's at least twice a month. They have some great stuff. Their turkey muffins are killer. Their turkey meatloaf not some much though. I note they don't have shrimp at the moment and they didn't seem to know why so I suggested bet you were getting them from the Gulf and corporate probably doesn't want to run a risk on current Gulf shrimp because of the dispersants. If they would make a small pizza sized
[FairfieldLife] 'Why Obama will be Pres. again'...(Power Temptation)
From my understanding of 'Why' Barack Obama is and will be President again: Is Because: He is a 'moderatiing force' in the time of 'great turmoil' , that we are experiencing on all levels with the coming of the year: 2012, and the end of the Mayan Calender, signifying the end of an old time, and the beginning of a 'New Time'... In the new time, time will begin to be experienced as proposed in 'Einstein's Theory of Relativity'...that of being 'Flexible'... The inner field of the light of consciousness will be more readily available to the 'World dPopulation'... This means as 'Time' is experienced in it's relativity, more and more people will be encouraged to 'Follow their Heart' , or 'Follow their Bliss' as we see more of the younger generation, fulfilling their hearts and souls this way, around the world, and further, the younger ones are establishing, in their hearts: Less prejudice in general to people different from them, but rather a curiousity about people from different cultures, backrounds and eithnic values... As more and more of the 'Old Way' is being exhibited for it's 'Egoic Prejudiced Values'...only striving to preserve the 'Hoarded Wealth of the Rich'... We begin to see the 'Temptation of Power' and how it is used to as it were, Keep societies stuck, while only the most wealthy, proper... This way is coming to an end soon, and because President Obama is the one with the most love for his family and his nation, and because he is the one who(partly because he grew up in Hawaii), that has the 'Balanced Temperment' and intelligence...will be elected again... He has avoided most of the temptations which come with the gaining of 'Worldly Power'... So, in conclusion, we can see why the Republicans are having so much trouble finding someone to face off with President Obama... J.G.D.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@... wrote: I am also finding that Hindu terminology and language has a sensuality to it best experienced from a state of ignorance. Now *that* is the line of the week. I'm with ya, sista. Nothing on earth can be as prudish while pretending to be sensual as Hindu porn.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Dear L - why this fascination with dead guys and their dead words, me prefers alive people and words, would rather listen to a St. Goff than a St. Thomas :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: Small self surrounded by Big Self is not anything of value. CC precedes GC precedes UC. If you think you're having some kind of UC experience when not already in CC (no small self), then you're not having UC. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do nothing and accomplish everything.
Beautiful Jim - this and your previous post, you have articulated the indescribable in words quite well. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: It is so intriguing and difficult to capture that space between us and everything else, where no clear lines of division exist, and yet in order to function in the world such divisions create unfathomable beauty and questions and challenges, an utterly chaotic, perfect orderliness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: Hi, Jim! Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to express below, only you did it better :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Hi Judy and Rory, Its a perception thing - I exist as an individual entity with all my wondrous gifts and challenges, surrounded by a seamless fabric of invisible dynamism, of tangible pregnancy, potential and love, like being able to easily breathe underwater again. After so many lifetimes I forgot what the ocean feels like, always there, a liquid fabric of infinite connections to play in, and interact with. Everything I do is so intrinsically a part of that which surrounds me, so that the bodily entity of me reduces down to virtually nothing, except the same pure expression as that which surrounds me. Nothing becomes everything, not by virtue of expanding nothing, but rather, by bringing it into sync with everything else; the self does nothing, and the Self accomplishes everything. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: I interpret this as meaning do nothing as the self, and everything will be accomplished by the Self. In waking state it makes no sense at all. FWIW, that's the exact opposite of what MMY meant by it, with reference to the Gita. For the enlightened person, it's the Self that is the nondoer, and the self that acts according to the dictates of the gunas. * * That was my first thought too, Judy. But then I saw what Jim meant -- when we (small selves) are surrendered to Wholeness (big Self), it appears that Wholeness is running the whole show, and we do nothing. But from the other point of view, as the Gita says, We as wholeness do nothing, and the I-particles, the small selves, do it all. I suspect that no-one actually does anything, big-S or small-s, but it all just gets done (or appears to get done) anyhow. Who does a dream, anyway? The dreamer isn't doing anything but watching it unfold, and the dream-characters don't really exist as separate entities, so they aren't really doing anything, either, though when we are identified with one of the characters, we sure think we are doing something!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
This will be a twofer as I didn’t receive Judy’s post directly. 1. To hell with spelling your name right obeegeeba, I’m not sure sucking up to Judy is a good career move. 2. Judy, I didn’t get this post from you directly but any advice from you is always appreciated although it appears not all web sites are receiving my posts as you described. My posts come back to me in Yahoo mail without the changes you’ve found and other posters using the latest version of Yahoo mail at the Yahoo web site have confirmed they are receiving my posts without anything garbled. To quote Cliff, go figure. From: obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:34:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts authfriend wins the line of the day! LMAO! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Sorry to have bothered you. You seemed to have some interest in how to make your posts more readable. My mistake. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: Judy, Always a joy to hear from you and I sincerely apologize for any interruption my Shanghaing of subject lines may have caused to your life in the the archivesâ€�. From: authfriend jstein@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:18:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@ wrote: Thanks Turq, I think I have it figured. Nope, at least not as viewed on the Web site: On the new Yahoo version the plain text option has been moved from â€Åoptions� --and-- garbled quote symbols I’ll And here's how a paragraph from another of your posts appeared on the Web site: - Of course most of us know politics or plane crashes are oh so much more sophisticated to write about that say celebrity divorces. Reminds me a bit of the alcoholic that insists on â€ÅRussian Standard� rather than â€ÅSmirnoff�, I don’t gossip because I care about the politics I write about. I really care about my opinions so how could it be gossip. - Here's how a paragraph from yet another of your posts looks on the Web site--you're quoting Curtis: - It is not just the fun bags giving you trouble.  It is the specific hip to waist ratio that plugs into our genetic preferences.  That is what says fertility.  The bad news for men is that chicks have a pre-programmed shoulder to waist ratio that is highly unforgiving of an over fondness for La Querche Prosciutto.  When you lose that wedge look you don't  get that automatic head snap from the ladies anymore.  This is why I perform sitting down!  I have discovered another formula that seems to be in play.  If a man's stomach protrusion is equalled by how far his wallet extends behind him, he can still pull the hotties.  This ratio seems to have been instilled later in our evolution as a species. - Another annoyance is the header information that gets put into many people's posts (including this one from you): From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:43:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts The annoyance is that it takes up the entire Message View snippet of text from the post. Also, posts that have this header don't have quote prefixes except (sometimes) one at the beginning of the paragraph instead of one in front of every line. The workarounds (e.g., Response:) that these posters insert manually to distinguish what they've written from what they're quoting become a pain in the neck in exchanges that continue for several rounds. Combine that with broken lines when folks use word wrap, and these conversations can be almost impossible to read. When I want to contribute something, I may end up spending more time reformatting what I'm responding to so it's readable than actually writing. One good thing about your new approach, Bob, is that the type size is large enough that I don't have to squint. But the garbage characters are really maddening. Not only is it hard to read past them, they disrupt the continuity of the writing.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
Don’t change the subject, thats whatsnips are for, I believe we were discussing embracing transgenderness. From: Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:49:25 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Ahhh, yes...I'll put that right at the top of my priority list. It is true, there is a marked absence in pictures of naked men on the FFL show - clearly an important missing feature. But, luckily, the lack of direct visuals is remedied adequately by the descriptive text of the script writers. I am also finding that Hindu terminology and language has a sensuality to it best experienced from a state of ignorance. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 12:03 PM Denise, Great to hear from you. Not sure how helpful digital TA or images of Ticker Bell naked might be but I would like an update on your search for male genitalia. Would you agree that Tom is by far the most original voice on FFL? I’ve decided to suspend the “Weeks Best” as I think it would make him unbearable to have a string of awards to go with the string of shrunken progressive heads he wears so proudly. From: Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:27:55 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts Perhaps you can satiate your brain by boning up on some of Yifu's latest posts of mermaids. --- On Sat, 8/20/11, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John jr_...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011, 11:15 AM Chant the mahamantra while you're with her. She'll stay away from you for sure. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote: You can thank Curtis for this post. I’m still interested in techniques that can be employed to better manage the uncertainties of perception. The following describes; a situation that recently put me in great perceptual uncertainty---some of the techniques I might have employed to manage the uncertainty, and a request for other posters to share any technique suggestions they might want to post. The wife owns her own company and summons me to her office from time to time to consult for her on various commercial activities. Although I know she does this because of my vast experience and overall brilliance, she claims it’s to get me away from FFL posting which appears to be causing me tennis elbow (in both arms). My latest engagement was related to human resource considerations for a new hire and an existing staff member. Specifically, one staff member I was asked to help is an attractive young woman with noticeably large breasts. For background, this woman graduated with honours from Stanford and about 70% of the time she exceeds her managers expectations when executing tasks she has been delegated. Unfortunately, for the other 30% of her time she reverts to a Marilyn persona to distract colleagues from noticing her significant screw ups. Some may know the persona I’m describing---voice becomes childlike and body language screams “save me”. Not to digress, but I’ve often wondered why great Moms teach their daughters to avoid “wolves” but say nothing to their sons about catching the next plane out of town when you run into a damsel in distress. I can’t imagine what I could have saved being on time for that plane. In the case of the attractive young woman with large breasts---when I sat down across from her in her cubicle---I believe this in not uncommon with guys in this situation, I employed an uncertainty management technique by pretending I wasn’t imagining her naked while she pretended that my thinking was as professional as my behaviour. I would describe my performance as not unlike being on an MDA drip and pretending its not making me that happy. The end result was not only the normal unreliability of perception, but a mutual non verbal agreement to lie about what was obviously occurring at the time. The results are not only a type of ‘not taking the reality of my perceptions too seriously---what I believe is the essence of uncertainty in perceptions, but also the two of us performing what Brando described to Larry King as: “everyone is an actor its just that some of us get paid better than others for doing it.” With a desire to be more effective, I’ve considered various techniques that might
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts
i take back everything i said about your pithiness. From: Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:18:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Managing an attractive young woman with large breasts [4 Attachments] [Attachment(s) from Tom Pall included below] On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Denise Evans dmevans...@yahoo.com wrote: Ahhh, yes...I'll put that right at the top of my priority list. It is true, there is a marked absence in pictures of naked men on the FFL show - clearly an important missing feature. But, luckily, the lack of direct visuals is remedied adequately by the descriptive text of the script writers. I am also finding that Hindu terminology and language has a sensuality to it best experienced from a state of ignorance. Just whom are you calling ignorant, young lady? You want male genitalis, here ya go. http://www.globalcountry.org.uk/assets/image200727.jpg And, for the record, depictions and descriptions of nubile females is a very proper thing here.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Why Obama will be Pres. again'...(Power Temptation) [1 Attachment]
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Robert babajii...@yahoo.com wrote: From my understanding of 'Why' Barack Obama is and will be President again: Is Because: He is a 'moderatiing force' in the time of 'great turmoil' , that we are experiencing on all levels with the coming of the year: 2012, and the end of the Mayan Calender, signifying the end of an old time, and the beginning of a 'New Time'... In the new time, time will begin to be experienced as proposed in 'Einstein's Theory of Relativity'...that of being 'Flexible'... The inner field of the light of consciousness will be more readily available to the 'World dPopulation'... This means as 'Time' is experienced in it's relativity, more and more people will be encouraged to 'Follow their Heart' , or 'Follow their Bliss' as we see more of the younger generation, fulfilling their hearts and souls this way, around the world, and further, the younger ones are establishing, in their hearts: Less prejudice in general to people different from them, but rather a curiousity about people from different cultures, backrounds and eithnic values... As more and more of the 'Old Way' is being exhibited for it's 'Egoic Prejudiced Values'...only striving to preserve the 'Hoarded Wealth of the Rich'... We begin to see the 'Temptation of Power' and how it is used to as it were, Keep societies stuck, while only the most wealthy, proper... This way is coming to an end soon, and because President Obama is the one with the most love for his family and his nation, and because he is the one who(partly because he grew up in Hawaii), that has the 'Balanced Temperment' and intelligence...will be elected again... He has avoided most of the temptations which come with the gaining of 'Worldly Power'... So, in conclusion, we can see why the Republicans are having so much trouble finding someone to face off with President Obama... J.G.D. Stand up against Obama? Why bother? My people will have him arrested w/o a writ.And Jai Guru Duck to you, too.
