[FairfieldLife] Re: Just curious...

2007-09-12 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the standard grey, black, white and putty colors. I have the same model phone as pictured, without the bling, but with a red case instead.:-) Are you serious (despite the smiley)? I don't believe Twig Discovery

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention Dr. PETE

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Each too much sattvic foods and you will probably wind up with a vata imbalance and be a space case. Oh please. If that were actually the case,

[FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you're trying to do is impose political correctness here and instead you will wind up killing off this this group. No one will come here. Who wants to read the posts of a bunch of pansies. :D Other pansies? :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention Dr. PETE

2007-09-12 Thread george_deforest
Bob Brigante wrote: I believe mushrooms also used to be on the tamasic list -- I wonder why they don't list them here? Maybe because one type of mushroom (Cordyceps) is now being recommended? Alex Stanley wrote: It's interesting that the mushroom they recommend is one that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just curious...

2007-09-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...would you buy this? http://www.presentec.de/fileadmin/img/twig_edel/twig_edel_1280x960.jpg I'm on the record saying I think this things is beautiful. As nice as a Faberge Egg. lurk

[FairfieldLife] FFL Awaken - Rick, Erwache!! this is a nightmare not a movie.

2007-09-12 Thread billy jim
I hate it when reality mocks my prescience with such utter contempt: Rick, remember Message #148634, September 9th, 2007 - Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furher ... Welcome to the world of Stazi informants. Need help to make it all work? Just go offline and turn it over to your

RE: [FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:41 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines) Edg, Willytex is quoting old posts

[FairfieldLife] Is he better than Ringo?

2007-09-12 Thread cardemaister
Perhaps Ringo was a bit more accurate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uKt0yhibU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Nicol

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just curious...

2007-09-12 Thread Peter
--- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...would you buy this? http://www.presentec.de/fileadmin/img/twig_edel/twig_edel_1280x960.jpg I'm on the record saying I think this things is beautiful. As

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread new . morning
Bronte, Thanks for your thoughtful response. The holocaust question and similar ones has been a bit of a mind stretch. For me, a probability framework resolves the question. I give the holocaust as happening a 99.5% probable. Which seems shocking -- What you actually have any doubt that it

[FairfieldLife] Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Bronte posts snipped: When another person's belief is so out of line with our own opinions and assumptions, it's almost impossible to bend the mind to form an opening large enough to consider the radical possibility. I try to bend mine as much as possible. It's let me find a lot of interesting

[FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread Duveyoung
authfriend wrote: Edg, I think you're going way overboard about all this (not just Willytex's post but the whole thing). Edg: Yes, I am going way over the top in tender feeling level sensitivity, and, for me, it is a tiring and a tedious labor to lay out in words why the use of one

[FairfieldLife] World's wealthiest poor

2007-09-12 Thread shempmcgurk
This is what I've been telling you chumps for several years now. The World's Wealthiest Poor By Bill Steigerwald FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation is a national authority on poverty and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bronte posts snipped: When another person's belief is so out of line with our own opinions and assumptions, it's almost impossible to bend the mind to form an opening large enough to consider

[FairfieldLife] Today is Vaj's Birthday

2007-09-12 Thread Rick Archer
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Today is Vaj's Birthday

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
Happy Birthday, Vaj. I hope it's a good day for you up in Maine or wherever you are. Here's the song I always play for myself on my birthdays. I probably will continue to do so till they drop the big curtain: I love the pounding of hooves I love engines that roar I love the wild music of

[FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread Duveyoung
Bhairitu wrote: All you're trying to do is impose political correctness here and instead you will wind up killing off this this group. No one will come here. Who wants to read the posts of a bunch of pansies. :D FFL R.I.P. 2001-2007 Edg: I believe I understand your concept. We all want

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today is Vaj's Birthday

2007-09-12 Thread Vaj
Actually the particles of my Self transcended mundane time years ago, but thanks for the reminder. ;-) Thanks, a fav of mine to play! On Sep 12, 2007, at 11:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Happy Birthday, Vaj. I hope it's a good day for you up in Maine or wherever you are. Here's the song I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Today is Vaj's Birthday

2007-09-12 Thread Duveyoung
Vaj -- thanks for being here and in the world. I read and learn. You're wearing a white hat when I see you with my mind's eye. Sorry to insinuate that you're a person. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually the particles of my Self transcended

[FairfieldLife] Bhojadeva: 2.5, Vyaasa: 22+

2007-09-12 Thread cardemaister
Bhojadeva's comment on YS III 26 (Sun) has two and a half lines of devanaagarii text; Vyaasa's comment on the same suutra has 22+ lines. Seems like Bhoja doesn't believe all the weird stuff in Vyaasa's comment (mahaatala, rasaatala, atala, vitala, sutala, talaatala, paataala, and stuff).

Re: [FairfieldLife] Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread Bronte Baxter
I remember that joke the way my dad used to tell it. When the little optimist woke up on his birthday and found a cartload of manure, what did he say? Answer: 'There's GOT to be a pony here somewhere!' I think that joke was the 1950's version of When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just curious...

2007-09-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.presentec.de/fileadmin/img/twig_edel/twig_edel_1280x960.j pg I'm on the record saying I think this things is beautiful. As nice as a Faberge Egg. lurk You on drugs, dude? There is so much conspicuous

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The knowldege, TMO imminent success, MMY's infallibility, or other such, were held as absolutely true, 100% probability, at least one time in our lives, for many of us. Still is for many. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread Bhairitu
Where I'm from pansy isn't considered a homosexual slur but a synonym for wuss or someone who is weak. But I'm not against weak people either. I know that some got my point though. Duveyoung wrote: And I don't think you meant to slur homosexuals, er, did you? See? I have to ask you this,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Today is Vaj's Birthday

2007-09-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
You're only as old as the last time you REALLY changed your mind. Shri Tim Leary Happy Birthday Vaj! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually the particles of my Self transcended mundane time years ago, but thanks for the reminder. ;-) Thanks, a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Today is Vaj's Birthday

2007-09-12 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually the particles of my Self transcended mundane time years ago, but thanks for the reminder. ;-) Thanks, a fav of mine to play! On Sep 12, 2007, at 11:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Happy Birthday, Vaj. I hope

[FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turq comes off as non-pansyish in his forthright shootings-from-the-hip, but I'll bet he likes his inner babe as much as he likes his outer bubba. To quote (I think) Robin Williams, if I had an inner babe I'd probably

[FairfieldLife] Rick: ANOTHER FLAMING POST (Re: New Policy and updated guidelines)

2007-09-12 Thread Duveyoung
TurquoiseB wrote: To quote (I think) Robin Williams, if I had an inner babe I'd probably never get anything done because I'd be playing with her breasts all day. Edg: Turq, sorry, but I think I see your inner babe pretty clearly -- meaning you listen to your heart. I have yet to see if your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread Bronte Baxter
TurqB wrote: One of the values of working with a teacher who can blast you out of your socks with shakti is that when he does, there is nothing left. No beliefs, no opinions, no you to even *have* beliefs and opinions. You're washed clean, for a short time, and then the beliefs and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread Duveyoung
Bronte, Do you see a difference between having a desire and being attached to a desire? To me, attachment is identification -- thinking one is something small instead of unbounded. If this identification is removed, the desires can stay and be considered God's will. Edg --- In

[FairfieldLife] What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread BillyG.
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurqB wrote: One of the values of working with a teacher who can blast you out of your socks with shakti is that when he does, there is nothing left. No beliefs, no opinions, no you to even *have* beliefs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bronte, Do you see a difference between having a desire and being attached to a desire? To me, attachment is identification -- thinking one is something small instead of unbounded. If this identification is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurqB wrote: One of the values of working with a teacher who can blast you out of your socks with shakti is that when he does, there is nothing left. No beliefs, no opinions, no you to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bhojadeva: 2.5, Vyaasa: 22+

2007-09-12 Thread billy jim
All the weird stuff is straight out of various Puranas - which means from traditionally transmitted oral histories and mythologies later written down and expanded. The Buddhist Abhidharma cosmologies of Sumeru use similar or same sourcing. The confounding part for Westerners is that the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread Bhairitu
Bronte Baxter wrote: Bronte: This is one problem I have with gurus in general: their ability to blast people clean of their opinions, desires and other aspects of their individuality. I find that scary. Let me rephrase -- I find that counterproductive to personal evolution. I no

Re: [FairfieldLife] World's wealthiest poor

2007-09-12 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/12/07 9:58:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I've been telling you chumps for several years now. you, you just don't undestand! :) ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread Peter
Bronte, who are the gurus that you have had direct personal experience with? --- Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bronte Baxter wrote: Bronte: This is one problem I have with gurus in general: their ability to blast people clean of their opinions, desires and other aspects of

Re: [FairfieldLife] What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/12/07 12:31:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years. It would most likely be

[FairfieldLife] Nukes in the middle east

2007-09-12 Thread MDixon6569
_FOXNews.com - U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Polit_ (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296450,00.html) _Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria - Israel News, Ynetnews_

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/12/07 12:31:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter brontebaxter8@ wrote: TurqB wrote: One of the values of working with a teacher who can blast you out of your socks with shakti is that when he

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 9/12/07 12:31:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, wgm4u@ writes: If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread mainstream20016
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/12/07 12:31:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say

[FairfieldLife] Re: Synthetic life skeptics...

2007-09-12 Thread Jeffrey N Cook
John, Yes, grants; that's the plan. But I'm not going to go that one alone. More on that soon. In the meantime, what is natural law? And yes, I believe some species could exist well in the natural order--others not. Depends on what they are designed to do. Jeff --- In

[FairfieldLife] Top Scientists Being Sought for Research on Cook�s Synthetic Species

2007-09-12 Thread Jeffrey Cook
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Top Scientists Being Sought for Research on Cook’s Synthetic Species Study Should Help Clarify for the Scientific Community, Public Whether His Discovery of Synthetic Life is Valid Inventor, Independent Researcher has Announced Willingness to Allow for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/12/07 4:42:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How accountable is President Bush in your mind, MDixon, for the 'illegal invasion' of which you lament? He should be held very accountable for not doing more to stop the illegal invasion, just

[FairfieldLife] Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Marek writes snipped: And he wasn't talking about giving up your individuality or slavishly following a guru; only that some have experienced that blasting away of the individual and the realization that I/It -- *Is* -- not even One but beyond the concepts of 'One' and 'other'. And, if I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Opinions and Truth

2007-09-12 Thread tertonzeno
---Right, but then after the false identifications have been blasted away, one (the holographic entity as a body/mind...but without the false identification), can resume or continue being a real individual. (Carrying water and chopping wood). Some people get stuck in the Neo-Advaitin trap,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Synthetic life skeptics...

2007-09-12 Thread John
Jeff, Natural law is the apparent rule of phenomenal existence which keeps the universe in order. Natural law includes the principles of physics, such as gravity and various theories relating to atomic and sub-atomic structures. In essence, natural law can be derived through reasoning and

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 9/12/07 12:31:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, wgm4u@ writes:

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a

[FairfieldLife] The Guru Might Be Like A Rose

2007-09-12 Thread jim_flanegin
It seems there's two ways to do This, to accomplish This; one is by myself, all by myself. No society. One recluse. Or in society, drawn to someone who presents a larger view of reality than I presently have; studying them; what they say, what they do, how they think, where they are, what they

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you vote for democrats....

2007-09-12 Thread jim_flanegin
jim_flanegin wrote: Of course both Repubs and Dems are in favor of a large illegal (spelled c-h-e-a-p) workforce, and just pretend with the dumb public that they are oh so concerned-- if there was truly a will on either side, they could stop so called illegal immigration in a

[FairfieldLife] 80% of MUM students are foreign nationals

2007-09-12 Thread bob_brigante
MUM Review: The tally of students enrolled at the University stood at 945 as of the beginning of September, a figure that includes 366 in Fairfield, 441 in U.S. distance education, and 138 in China. The students enrolled in distance education have completed 6-10 months on campus in the

[FairfieldLife] What the guru does

2007-09-12 Thread bob_brigante
'What does the teacher do? What does the Guru [spiritual teacher] do? He gives the technique. And what is the technique? It's like putting the powder or ointment in the eye so that you begin to see little clearly from there. So putting the order, putting the powder or ointment in the eye, is