[FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what little my opinion will be worth, and I'm mainly a lurker, I have really enjoyed reading FF Life again since the 5 post limit came into being. It is much more manageable, the tone is much more civil, and there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pity the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. This is potentially a time bomb...and the key word here is indentured. Because indentured servitude is close to if not on a par with slavery, which is illegal in most parts of the world (in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush is obviously responsible!

2007-04-30 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, handsonmaui handsonmaui@ wrote: This is why I have not gotten my panties in a bunch over global warming. There is only one verifiable reason for temperature change of any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pity the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It boils down to the same thing over and over again; to be a follower of Maharishi is not for the fainthearted idealists but for those who are seriously wanting to make sacrifises for growth on a difficult and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush is obviously responsible!

2007-04-30 Thread gullible fool
What about the will of God... maybe the Age of Enlightenment has an average temperature similar to Maui year around??? I'd take that. That's right! Charlie Lutes said the age of emlightenment would bring sub-tropical weather to the US! This tidbit I heard him say personally, in a talk in

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush is obviously responsible!

2007-04-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, handsonmaui handsonmaui@ wrote: This is why I have not gotten my panties in a bunch over global

[FairfieldLife] The Bottom Line on the Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread TurquoiseB
When considering modifying the five-post-per-day limit, might I pose a question to the group? In the *entire* time you have been on FFL, have you *ever* known *anyone* to have more than five interesting things to say per day? I certainly haven't. That includes myself, and some of the best, most

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread martyboi
IMHO, this site has been vastly improved by the five-post limit. It is now more readable, individual's ideas are easier to follow, and it has eliminated much of the annoying bickering. The only improvement I could suggest is a one-post-per-day limit. In this way, a person would really, really,

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The joys of walking

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rory Goff Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 12:26 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The joys of walking --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Bottom Line on the Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Duveyoung
I like the five post rule. In the past, some days I just didn't have the heart to scroll through 100 posts to find if any of my favorite posters had written. If I went away for the weekend, I'd come back to hundreds of posts, and these I mostly wouldn't even comb through, because there were so

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Bottom Line on the Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What I *have* noticed is that sometimes people (including myself) get carried away with them- selves and their own self importance to the point that they *think* they have more than five interesting things to say

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pity the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The other side to this story, of course, is that the Pundits shouldn't expect to be treated any better than the American and European

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Bottom Line on the Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When considering modifying the five-post-per-day limit, might I pose a question to the group? In the *entire* time you have been on FFL, have you *ever* known *anyone* to have more than five interesting things to say

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Bottom Line on the Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, just to be real, when I post something, DAMMIT I WANT TO SEE ITS TITLE FOR AT LEAST A FEW HOURS on the first page of the message board. When someone posts obsessively, all the other posts are pushed lower on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush is obviously responsible!

2007-04-30 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, handsonmaui handsonmaui@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pity the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 4/29/07 7:52:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other side to this story, of course, is that the Pundits shouldn't expect to be treated any better than the American and European TMers have been treated for the past 30 years in the TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pity the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 4/29/07 10:56:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not only is this a potential scandal with bad publicity; it is also, IMO a great sin. are not these pandit boys all of the highest brahmin cast, and doing gods work (ie, nature support)? they if

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pity the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 4/30/07 5:37:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who paid for their airfare, the room and board, their clothing and education ? If they are let free to roam around they'll soon disappear, smitten by the markedforces, with the result that

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush is obviously responsible!

2007-04-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip If you should by any chance be interested in actually informing yourself about the significance of Mars warming vis-a-vis warming here on

[FairfieldLife] A Thousand names for Joy

2007-04-30 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Byron Katies newest book as titled above. It is her commentary on the Tao Te CHing all 81 sutras with a chapter for each sutra some short some long.given in an off hand contemporary manner. Excerpt from Chapter 21 The master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao. Page 59 chapter 2 para 2. If

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Jonathan Chadwick
I propose modifying the requirement to a permanent final 7-post limit. Cosmically speaking, 7 is a much better number than 5 (I'm serious). Musically speaking, as progfreaks in general (and fans of King Crimson in particular) already know: if it ain't in seven then ya ain't in heaven. And

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Bhairitu
new.morning wrote: Someone jokingly suggested we should make it an average of 5 posts a day -- thus 35 a week or something. Hard to track and administer. However, I find I barely have time to read a few posts during the week, much less write many. However on the weekends, FFL and / or other

[FairfieldLife] Good Writing

2007-04-30 Thread Duveyoung
Turq, Your joke about cutting down the report triggered some memories for me. I wrote about a dozen infomercials, years ago now, and during the shoots, I'd be up at 3am rewriting some scene, and then the next morning I'd drag my ass into the meeting with the new material, and the bosses would

[FairfieldLife] Global Warming bias

2007-04-30 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You think I should accept viewpoints that are, from everything I've read and heard, simply incorrect?? [snip] http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28061

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush is obviously responsible!

2007-04-30 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip If you should by any chance be interested in actually informing

[FairfieldLife] central university - germany

2007-04-30 Thread claudiouk
just heard they are hoping to buy the land used previously for US base, in Berlin. But Berlin is not central Germany, surely... I suppose there would be no point having a Central University in Siberia somewhere, for Russia either. But then the whole concept of centrality is somehow flawed

RE: [FairfieldLife] A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:53 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit This 5 post thing is the result of a few folks who apparently have

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:53 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit This 5 post thing is the result of a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narada, a cup of tea and, please, don't spill a drop

2007-04-30 Thread Marek Reavis
The Yoga Vashishta has the story that sounds similar to the Narada tea story, and maybe that's what you're thinking of. In the YV Vyasa sends Shukadev to King Janaka for instruction. Shukadev is kind of contemptuous of Janaka because he's the epitome of householder life and Shukadev is sky

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Five Post LimitGREAt AS IT IS.LETS LEARN TO b SUCCENT

2007-04-30 Thread WLeed3
EXCELLENT AS IT IS THE VERBOSE LEARN TO BE CONCISE IN ONE POST 4 ALL OUR ENJOYMENT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 7:50 PM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit The trouble with this

[FairfieldLife] Global Country photo album

2007-04-30 Thread bob_brigante
http://pictures.globalgoodnews.com/index.html

[FairfieldLife] This guy Girish is creepy

2007-04-30 Thread shempmcgurk
Is this ... http://tinyurl.com/2pgkuf http://tinyurl.com/2pgkuf ... the same guy as this: http://tinyurl.com/2l72eu http://tinyurl.com/2l72eu If so, he's one creepy bastard! I think he fashions himself a Maharishi and can't wait for his uncle to die so that he can take a shot at sitting on

[FairfieldLife] Immortality

2007-04-30 Thread bob_brigante
Perfect health and immortality conference summarized by Dr Bevan Morris - Part II Global Good News 30 April 2007 Dr Bevan Morris, Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, continued his summary of the beautiful address by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi during the recent global Press

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Kenny H
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like it or not, the posting limit works, and praise of it is almost unanimous. The 7-post limit is kind of an interesting idea. Any feedback on that? Yah, if the praise of the 5-post limit is nearly unanimous why

[FairfieldLife] Just say no to meat

2007-04-30 Thread bob_brigante
...the average meat eater causes a ton and a half more carbon dioxide emissions for food production than the average vegetarian http://www.slate.com/id/2164086/

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like it or not, the posting limit works, and praise of it is almost unanimous. The 7-post limit is kind of an interesting idea. Any feedback on that? Ken Hassman writes: Yah, if the praise of the 5-post limit is

[FairfieldLife] The joys of walking

2007-04-30 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Both Cindy and I love to do the square in the evening after a lite meal. When we are here for the weekends we head out to walk around Walden Lake. I also do my daytime walks to attempt to control the battle of the bulge in the same place. An injured knee likes the level walking on the blacktop

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-04-30 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this ... http://tinyurl.com/2pgkuf http://tinyurl.com/2pgkuf ... the same guy as this: http://tinyurl.com/2l72eu http://tinyurl.com/2l72eu If so, he's one creepy bastard! I think he fashions himself a

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: new.morning wrote: Someone jokingly suggested we should make it an average of 5 posts a day -- thus 35 a week or something. Hard to track and administer. However, I find I barely have time to read a few posts during

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Narada, a cup of tea and, please, don't spill a drop

2007-04-30 Thread Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really -- It's A No-Brainer.
Hello Marek, Thank you for offering this story. While it is similar to the one I've heard and read about Narada, it's not the one I'm searching for. Instead of rewriting it from what little I remember, I'm searching for an extant well-said version of it to share with others in driving a point.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narada, a cup of tea and, please, don't spill a drop

2007-04-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Thank you, DharmaMitra, for reminding me of it, though if the truth be told, I think I kind of forgot what the actual teaching point was, as it appeared in the Yoga Vasishta. But what I said seemed to work, too, just perhaps not as elegantly. And I like the Narada story you told. After reading

[FairfieldLife] Amos Ananda

2007-04-30 Thread pranamoocher
Any old school initiators remember this underground audio recording TM take off on Amos and Andy? My understanding is it was definitely kept under wraps but I heard tiny bits back in the 70's and hoped someone might still have access to it now.

[FairfieldLife] The Continuing Case for AN AVERAGE of Five Posts per Day

2007-04-30 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm tempted to try New's 35 post-per-week suggestion (or was it mine?), but opposition to that is almost unanimous. Really? I have seen few if any post specifically oppose an AVERAGE of five posts per day. The common

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Thousand names for Joy

2007-04-30 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Katies newest book as titled above. It is her commentary on the Tao Te CHing all 81 sutras with a chapter for each sutra some short some long.given in an off hand contemporary manner.

[FairfieldLife] Suzanne Segal

2007-04-30 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Find her book Collision with the Infinite and read it. It may be available here at Revelations at half price. Used copies surface from time to time. Very interesting story. She was indoctrinated by her parents to believe if Fear was present then there was someting to be afraid of. Both of her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amos Ananda

2007-04-30 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pranamoocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any old school initiators remember this underground audio recording TM take off on Amos and Andy? My understanding is it was definitely kept under wraps but I heard tiny bits back in the 70's and hoped someone might

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amos Ananda

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wayback71 Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:11 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amos Ananda --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , pranamoocher

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narada, a cup of tea and, please, don't spill a drop

2007-04-30 Thread new . morning
If Marek and DharmaMitra want to go on all night telling nice puranic stories, 10-20 posts each, they have my vote. Sometimes the grahas grab you, the sun shines in your heart a certain way, one is in the zone with a particular idea. I say when that happens -- go for it. Pursue the thought and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-04-30 Thread Peter
--- geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this ... http://tinyurl.com/2pgkuf http://tinyurl.com/2pgkuf ... the same guy as this: http://tinyurl.com/2l72eu http://tinyurl.com/2l72eu If so,

[FairfieldLife] 'We Are In A Spiritual Emergency'

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Gimbel
My feeling and intuition at present; Is that we are in a phase on earth of a spiritual emergency... So many things happening at once, and dark forces Vs. Light. The pain anguish- in Iraq is becoming so horrendous, it cannot be described... Therefore, whatever means necessary, that

[FairfieldLife] Pity, the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread dhamiltony2k5
This is interesting: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip: The pundits are indentured to the TMO for at least 20 years. They were all obligated to take out loans to help build some SV structure. It's not clear to me what the structure is.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amos Ananda

2007-04-30 Thread Duveyoung
I'm a preacher of the Church of the Blinding Light of Presumptuous Assumption myself. Andy, this be yo lucky day. Racist skit to the max, but funny cuz of it being amateur YM insiders doing it, but if it had gotten to the Media it might have been a very hard to erase black mark. Edg --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NewMorn you autocrat you, need to see some scientific chart or peer- review publication before can believe your claim of coup here. Rick, watch out for this guy as a moderator. what is his interest anyway, in

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:40 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy Creepy? Very. Cross him at your peril. The core of the movement mafia. A chip

RE: [FairfieldLife] Pity, the Poor Pundits

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhamiltony2k5 Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:46 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Pity, the Poor Pundits Rick, what you share here, this reads too much like the story of Earl Kaplan, I

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhamiltony2k5 Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:17 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Case for Modifying The Five Post Limit NewMorn you autocrat you, need to see some scientific chart or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Bottom Line on the Five Post Limit

2007-04-30 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The five-post limit has been a similar kind of writing lesson for me. I just try to eliminate all those annoying iterations... I come to FFL to find things of interest about FFl. Not got much time to read much of