[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to be so negative here, but I'm still reeling from Bob Brigante blaming the floods on wrongdoers in the affected communities. That's as insane as Christians blaming 9/11 on gays and lesbians and liberals, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading many thousands of posts first at alt.tm then here I have the idea of writing a book about what I think of as The Other Side of Spiritual Growth. With the new wave of Oprah-Eckhart Tolle, every magazine in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread nablusoss1008
I find the Self to be a bit of a silly term too, but I do not clain to be enlightened either. I do know that the purifying bliss-fire that physically changes the body feels alien to me in some ways, and yet it is so powerful no being in the universe can possibly avoid being

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Racism of Indians toward African Americans is INSANE but true

2008-06-15 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis: I'm curious to know what you feel about Maharishi's attitude towards African-Americans and Black Africans in general (I use the term Black Africans to differentiate them from White Africans, such as

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps no one would be interested in reading stories from people who were in a spiritual group or a religious group then left but then again they might for the same reason people go to AA meetings (for example) and derive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'm sorry to be so negative here, but I'm still reeling from Bob Brigante blaming the floods on wrongdoers in the affected communities. That's as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True. Emotions can be exacerbated by bliss. A lot of people in the world never experience the purifying power of the white-hot fire of the bliss fire-iron, and they bury emotions deep down in a prison, then

[FairfieldLife] 'W. Regrets? Nope...

2008-06-15 Thread Robert
W. Regrets Almost Nothing By MAUREEN DOWD Published: June 15, 2008 PARIS nbsp; In the French imagination, Barack Obama is already the president. To the French, the Democratic primary was the general election. The word “elite” is not a pejorative here; it’s a compliment. It does not occur to

[FairfieldLife] Sage-ism vs. Cluefulness

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
In a conversation with Bob Brigante this morning, I may have hit upon a buzzword for the philosophical chasm that seems to divide some on this forum from others. Some of us believe that sages of the past were seers of The Truth, and that what they said or wrote in the past is basically

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread R.G.
(snip) If you can gradually learn to appreciate equally the light and dark aspects of life in yourself keeping them present simultaneously, the whole picture changes. There will be less alternation with periods of bliss and heavy ppurification, the so called `dark nights of the soul'.

[FairfieldLife] Great Sunday reading from the magazines

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
A cool review of two new superlight laptops, and a call for combining them into a perfect computer he calls -- no shit -- The Barry, from Esquire's gadget guru Barry Sonnenfeld: http://www.esquire.com/features/the-digital-man/laptops-0608 A review of master adman Shepherd Fairey's new book

[FairfieldLife] Privatization of the Internet?

2008-06-15 Thread Rick Archer
I hope (and think) you'll see fit to post the following link on the FFL site. Check it out and see what you think of it first, then write something to go with it if you want to support the cause. This is about the plans in store for the Internet, and its scheduled privatization in a few short

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dave Mallett

2008-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Kenny H wrote: Wow, I am very envious you went to see A Prairie Home Companion. Where did you go? I have a lot of frequent flyer miles and have thought of going to Minneapolis. Is it hard to get tickets? He comes to Maine every couple of years, so we saw him in

[FairfieldLife] Pith advice on Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread Vaj
pith advice from Lama Yeshe from _The Bliss of Inner Fire_ fr. the section Discovering Totality ch. 18 Good things and Bad Things Can Happen This is very helpful in it explanation of how to use bliss to discover and experience the non-dual state and also as a warning on experiences such as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You'll notice that there are no busloads of butt-bouncers heading off with their foam to fly beside the affected rivers and entice them to settle down. Why? Possibly because it's not that the rivers are misbehaving,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
If there's anything to be repented, it's the notion that building cities on the banks of rivers is a good idea. Bob wrote: Cedar Rapids had the hubris to put its city hall, courthouse and jail on a small island in the center of the river: Should have been built according on Vastu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sage-ism vs. Cluefulness

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: In a conversation with Bob Brigante this morning, I may have hit upon a buzzword for the philosophical chasm that seems to divide some on this forum from others. Some of us believe that sages of the past were seers of The Truth, and that what they said or wrote in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dave Mallett and Folkalley.com

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
Vaj Did you ever listen to FolkAlley.com? It's a great source of free and great music as in 24/7 at http://folkalley.com. It's where I was introduced to Dave Mallett a couple of years ago. Thanks for the free Dave Mallett tunes, too and the itunes tip. I'm reluctant to get involved with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
I do not deny you your belief that the sages of old whom you revere had everything sussed out. It's just that I prefer to believe that they were ordinary human beings trying to figure things out, just as we are. Their scribblings are no more definitive than our own. Mystery remains intact.

[FairfieldLife] I was wuh...wuh...wuh...

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams Doesn't anyone ever admit that they are wrong around here? ;) That is the best condensed phrase of the biggest stumbling block to real communication

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
I do not deny you your belief that the sages of old whom you revere had everything sussed out. It's just that I prefer to believe that they were ordinary human beings trying to figure things out, just as we are. Their scribblings are no more definitive than our own. Mystery remains

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: I do not deny you your belief that the sages of old whom you revere had everything sussed out. It's just that I prefer to believe that they were ordinary human beings trying to figure things out, just as we are. So, Bary believes that ordinary human beings were trying to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread hermandan0
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bet is that life will continue to operate in the same mysterious way it has operated for eternity, and that no one -- neither the sages of the past nor those who follow their holy words in the present -- has ever

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Racism of Indians toward African Americans is INSANE but true

2008-06-15 Thread Louis McKenzie
I dont think Maharishi was a racist.nbsp;nbsp; Most people prefer to look at it as there was/is definitely racism in the movement.nbsp;nbsp; Maharishi put his show on for whoever was paying and who would be able to contribute most to his objective.nbsp;nbsp; For Maharishi it was not about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Racism of Indians toward African Americans is INSANE but true

2008-06-15 Thread Louis McKenzie
I dont think Maharishi was a racist.nbsp;nbsp; Most people prefer to look at it as there was/is definitely racism in the movement.nbsp;nbsp; Maharishi put his show on for whoever was paying and who would be able to contribute most to his objective.nbsp;nbsp; For Maharishi it was not about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not deny you your belief that the sages of old whom you revere had everything sussed out. It's just that I prefer to believe that they were ordinary human beings trying to figure things out, just

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dave Mallett and Folkalley.com

2008-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Kenny H wrote: Vaj Did you ever listen to FolkAlley.com? It's a great source of free and great music as in 24/7 at http://folkalley.com. It's where I was introduced to Dave Mallett a couple of years ago. No I hadn't, but I will now, thanks! You can also get the

[FairfieldLife] Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
What are the super radiance numbers these days? I've read posts from people supporting or lambasting the Maharishi Effect, but no one has correlated dome numbers with Iowa's spring weather. Here, the New York Times remarks on the larger ramifications of Iowa's weather:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect hits Iowa with floods?

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
TurquoiseB wrote: Yeah, that's the ticket. That'll enable you to believe that you and other butt-bouncers are SO powerful that you're influencing the weather. So says Uncle Tantra the 'butt-bouncer'! Notice also that Barry appears to be refusing to amend his false earlier assertion that he

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
Barry I like your take and I will get back to you later on about what you said. Thanks very much for such clear expression. Ken --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H kenhassman@ wrote: After reading many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip You'll notice that there are no busloads of butt-bouncers heading off with their foam to fly beside the affected rivers and entice them to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
I do not deny you your belief that the sages of old whom you revere had everything sussed out. It's just that I prefer to believe that they were ordinary human beings trying to figure things out, just as we are. Their scribblings are no more definitive than our own.

[FairfieldLife] A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
if Des Moines is still there. Iowa State Fair Grandstand Des Moines, Iowa Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 8:00 pm Sponsored by Iowa Public Radio All tickets $25 Tickets on sale beginning April 19, and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets. To buy tickets online, and for venue information, go

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread hermandan0
The numbers are posted daily here: http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html For 23 days out of the past month the number for the US has been achieved in at least the evening--and continuously for the past 17 days. And of course, the super radiance number for the state of Iowa has been

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
Kenny wrote: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines Thanks for the invite, Kenny, but somehow I just don't see myself driving up I-35 to Des Moines, Iowa this weekend. Besides, I can't stand that liberal Garrison Keelor. Some, possibly misguided fools, think he is funny, but to drive into a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread feste37
Last week's totals 1843, 2039, 2016, 2006, 1971, 1937, 1891. I drawn no conclusions from this, but my impression is that in Fairfield and Jefferson County as a whole, rainfall in May and June has been about average. I have no actual stats on this, so it's possible I could be proved wrong. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip You'll notice that there are no busloads of butt-bouncers heading off with

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenny wrote: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines Thanks for the invite, Kenny, but somehow I just don't see myself driving up I-35 to Des Moines, Iowa this weekend. Besides, I can't stand that liberal

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenny wrote: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines Thanks for the invite, Kenny, but somehow I just don't see myself driving up I-35 to Des Moines, Iowa this weekend. Besides, I can't stand that liberal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip You'll notice that there are no busloads of butt-bouncers heading off with their foam to fly beside the affected rivers and entice them to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last week's totals 1843, 2039, 2016, 2006, 1971, 1937, 1891. I drawn no conclusions from this, but my impression is that in Fairfield and Jefferson County as a whole, rainfall in May and June has been about average. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, R.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon me, Sir, Madame: Could you spare me some Bliss? I hold out my cup, with sad eyes. No, that's ok. Where do I go, what do I do? I scared, I'm all alone. Where am I? I'm watching everything go by, fast. I'm in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread feste37
As I said, I draw no conclusions. I was just saying that my impression is that we haven't had as much rainfall as other places in Iowa. Questions for Raja John should be directed to him, not me. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry I like your take and I will get back to you later on about what you said. Thanks very much for such clear expression. Ken I like Turq's comments a lot. A few thoughts -- to me its not a been there, moved on.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The numbers are posted daily here: http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html For 23 days out of the past month the number for the US has been achieved in at least the evening--and continuously for the past 17

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 no_reply@ wrote: The numbers are posted daily here: http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html For 23 days out of the past month the number for the US has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The numbers are posted daily here: http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html For 23 days out of the past month the number for the US has been achieved in at least

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread hermandan0
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 no_reply@ wrote: The numbers are posted daily here: http://www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html For 23 days out of the past month the number for the US has

[FairfieldLife] Flood pictures from Iowa City ( U od I )

2008-06-15 Thread Rick Archer
Pictures of University of Iowa campus flooding taken on Saturday, 6/14. Classes are canceled for all of next week. http://picasaweb.google.com/jonhath/IowaCityFloodOf2008

[FairfieldLife] Reailty disconnect (was Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather)

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, if you accept the ME as Truth, then whatever happens is good by definition, no matter how bad it seems and how much it contradicts your predictions. This is the loop of thinking that I still struggle with after

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Racism of Indians toward African Americans is INSANE but true

2008-06-15 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all the world dark skin is thought of as less than except in central and west Africa. In South Africa during Aparthied there was whites Asians Colored and Blacks Asians and Colored were thought to be equal they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Privatization of the Internet?

2008-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
Of course we can figure the suits want to ruin the Internet due to their greed. ATT, Comcast and a number of other companies have been fighting Net Neutrality. The power of the Internet is the freedom of speech it gives the people. The cowards and pigs (a VERY fitting term) that run these

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tim Russert

2008-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
There's no such thing as one diet for everybody. We're all different with different metabolic rates, different imbalances, weak and strong organs. There is not that much clear information on Fuhrman's site. You say the diet deals with individual needs. What is meant by that? It doesn't

[FairfieldLife] In Bruges

2008-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
For Bhairitu and Stu and the other film freaks on this forum, I have to pass along word of one of the best films I have seen in quite some time. It's by the best Oscar-winning director you've never heard of, Martin McDonagh. He won for a short film called Six Shooter, which is already

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Bruges

2008-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
Yes, the film has gotten good reviews. It was playing at the local arthouse but will be released in the US on DVD on the 24th. TurquoiseB wrote: For Bhairitu and Stu and the other film freaks on this forum, I have to pass along word of one of the best films I have seen in quite some time.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread amarnath
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . What I think would be more valuable, and less whiny, is a book full of stories of Those Who Walked Away, but focusing on the fact that they were all walking towards something new, not merely walking away from

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Racism of Indians toward African Americans is INSANE but true

2008-06-15 Thread Louis McKenzie
I dont know.nbsp;nbsp; The day that things got out of hand In Rwanda I was at a wedding for a Rwandan woman who was marrying a white guy.nbsp;nbsp; The wedding went well and we were waiting for the reception to begin.nbsp;nbsp; Things got quiet people began crying and getting very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tim Russert

2008-06-15 Thread amarnath
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say the diet deals with individual needs. What is meant by that? It doesn't look like I'm going to find that out very easily from his site. .. just a clarification; I didn't say the diet, deals with your

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: . But if you want to create a work of lasting value in the world of spiritual books, don't focus on what those who walked away were walking away *from*, but instead on the act of walking away, and how that enabled

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bet is that life will continue to operate in the same mysterious way it has operated for eternity, * Your reply is way too talky to bother with, but as far as the notion that the universe is too mysterious to

[FairfieldLife] Learning to read, fluently?

2008-06-15 Thread cardemaister
British kids: three years in average. Finnish kids: three months in average. (According to Masha Bell, in The Observer.) I guess it's not hard to know, why... ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Flood pictures from Iowa City ( U od I )

2008-06-15 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pictures of University of Iowa campus flooding taken on Saturday, 6/14. Classes are canceled for all of next week. http://picasaweb.google.com/jonhath/IowaCityFloodOf2008 ** On the up side, the 1993 floods

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Floods Iowa City

2008-06-15 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 15, 2008, at 5:59 PM, bob_brigante wrote: Your reply is way too talky to bother with, but as far as the notion that the universe is too mysterious to understand, that is just the inevitable anthem of ignorance of limited awareness (like the child's awe at the workings of a watch). The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Privatization of the Internet?

2008-06-15 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] We used to have a tax rate on the very wealthy of 91%. It is now down to 35% the same as the middle class. Progressive taxation is NOT a way to fund government but a disincentive to accumulate too [snip]

[FairfieldLife] More Rain Forecast for Flood Weary Iowa

2008-06-15 Thread do.rflex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gpl2pJqRks The 'Maharishi Effect' Doctrine I know that most men, including those who are at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tim Russert

2008-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
amarnath wrote: just a clarification; I didn't say the diet, deals with your individual needs I said start with the ETL core diet and YOU deal with your individual needs. we all have cholesterol build up and 80% or more Americans are overweight and about 30% obese as I understand it,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Privatization of the Internet?

2008-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
shempmcgurk wrote: Most accumulation of wealth does not happen via taxable or earned income, Bhairitu, but from capital gains which are taxed differently than the income tax rates which you cite. High tax rates don't hurt the rich as they already have their money. By and large they don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In my case I discovered the value of just working hard at something and finding that the harder I work the more successful I am. This is in direct contrast to the do nothing accomplish more (or however that goes)

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines

2008-06-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
Kenny wrote: A Prairie Home Companion in Des Moines Thanks for the invite, Kenny, but somehow I just don't see myself driving up I-35 to Des Moines, Iowa this weekend. Besides, I can't stand that liberal Garrison Keelor. Some, possibly misguided fools, think he is funny,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand those aphorisms, they refer to (1) increasing support of nature, so that one is more successful at whatever one is doing; and (2) the experience that one is not the author of one's actions (I'm not

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Dear Ken, I suspect your project will be, very enlightening. You have a pretty good editor's eye I look forward to reading it when it is published. It will be relavent to a bunch of people. But also, stick 'Chicken-Soup' in the title and you'll sell some millions. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
Everyone seems to be doing better at controlling those obsessive-compulsive posts. Yahoo Groups Post Counter = Start Date (UTC): Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 2008 End Date (UTC): Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 2008 -- Searching... 225 messages as of (UTC) Mon Jun 16 00:12:13 2008 Member

[FairfieldLife] Re: Privatization of the Internet?

2008-06-15 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shempmcgurk wrote: Most accumulation of wealth does not happen via taxable or earned income, Bhairitu, but from capital gains which are taxed differently than the income tax rates which you cite. High tax rates

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: As I understand those aphorisms, they refer to (1) increasing support of nature, so that one is more successful at whatever one is doing; and (2)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone seems to be doing better at controlling those obsessive-compulsive posts. The whole compulsive posting mantra is a crock. People post more when there are more conversations going on that they find of interest,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread Kenny H
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H kenhassman@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Yeah, I personally don't think support of nature is a useful concept on a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread yifuxero
-... You're (anatol - below) placing a wide variety of Gurus into the same package, but then making contradictory conclusions on the basis of two different subsets. To clarify by way of example: Some Neo-Advaitins include people such as Eckart Tolle, Byron Katie, Ramesh Balsekar, Wayne

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread Louis McKenzie
One thing about the TM way of life is that people become like Robots.nbsp;nbsp; Maharishi never said people have to become robots to have success with TM.nbsp;nbsp; The ones who chose to become robots made life easier because there was not need to sell courses products or anything just give

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H kenhassman@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Yeah, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Bruges

2008-06-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
Ditto that - offbeat, dark, funny, sexy. It does that thing that art does so often, which is to make the reprehensible actually rather charming. Metaphor for celestial perception, what? I get to see these films despite living in a quasi-rural area because we have a little art theater in our

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread bob_brigante
Maharishi on support of Nature: Transcendental Meditation makes the active mind fully silent, spontaneously, and that silence remains when one comes out of meditation, then the mind remains silent and remains active—silent and active. Just like a businessman goes to the bank and he comes out,

[FairfieldLife] 'What Would Barack Do?'

2008-06-15 Thread Robert
Same as Jesus, only more political...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Learning to read, fluently?

2008-06-15 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: British kids: three years in average. Finnish kids: three months in average. (According to Masha Bell, in The Observer.) I guess it's not hard to know, why... ;-) ...Finland has perhaps the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread mainstream20016
Over the past recent weeks, had no posting limits been in place, the incessant battle of wits might have compelled as many as 300 - 350 FFL posts in a week from a single poster, as 50 posts from a single poster were submitted in the first 24 hours of the first day of the 'week' for several

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 15, 2008, at 8:34 PM, bob_brigante wrote: The principle of Transcendental Meditation is: no hardness in life. This great principle is—do less and accomplish more. In the principle of shooting an arrow with great force, we just pull the arrow back and release—it will go very far and hit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past recent weeks, had no posting limits been in place, the incessant battle of wits might have compelled as many as 300 - 350 FFL posts in a week from a single poster, as 50 posts from a single poster

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: True. Emotions can be exacerbated by bliss. A lot of people in the world never experience the purifying power of the white-hot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bliss

2008-06-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find the Self to be a bit of a silly term too, but I do not clain to be enlightened either. I do know that the purifying bliss-fire that physically changes the body feels alien to me in some ways, and

[FairfieldLife] Bill Clinton= Don't ask, don't tell...'

2008-06-15 Thread Robert
The Clinton's made being a liar an artform...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread Tom
Pharmaceuticals mainstream. Pharmaceuticals. Some people just get all nasty, rude and obsessive- compulsive without them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past recent weeks, had no posting limits been in place, the incessant battle of

[FairfieldLife] I'm Voting Republican

2008-06-15 Thread Rick Archer
http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Side of Spiritual Growth

2008-06-15 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kenny H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: As I understand those aphorisms, they refer to (1) increasing support of nature, so that one is more successful at whatever one is doing; and (2)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield super radiance and Iowa weather

2008-06-15 Thread lurkernomore20002000
I figured it was a forgone conclusion that they would play the purification angle. Can you imagine being the one who has to trot that out? As Ken says, we bought into that 20 years ago, but now? Every Feste, who you can tell wants something to grip onto for an explanation, seems

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread mainstream20016
It's time for a new DSM IV classification: Diminished intellect d/t insatiable cravings for attention and dominance in mundane milieu --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating: Volunteers Needed in Iowa

2008-06-15 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is such great satire that if it weren't so blatantly contradicted by the fact that FF/Vedic City has had the numbers for the whole frigging country, let alone Iowa alone, for a while now I'd think the guy was

[FairfieldLife] Re: mars and venus align.

2008-06-15 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Same alignment as the earth quake, of the 8th. Also same alignment as of 911. 7:30 tomorrow night. Flooding in southern China kills at least 55 people and forces more than a million to flee their homes -BBC

[FairfieldLife] Barack smokes cigarettes, McCain gambles

2008-06-15 Thread shempmcgurk
Barack can't quit smoking and McCain loves to play the dice in casinos. Does this influence anyone to any degree about their choice?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2008-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's time for a new DSM IV classification: Diminished intellect d/t insatiable cravings for attention and dominance in mundane milieu Yeah, I think Tom's right. You and he *both* need a good dose of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barack smokes cigarettes, McCain gambles

2008-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barack can't quit smoking and McCain loves to play the dice in casinos. Does this influence anyone to any degree about their choice? No man, cigarettes are great, the problem is they kill you. So everyone who has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barack smokes cigarettes, McCain gambles

2008-06-15 Thread Louis McKenzie
I thought he quit --- On Mon, 6/16/08, shempmcgurk lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: From: shempmcgurk lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; Subject: [FairfieldLife] Barack smokes cigarettes, McCain gambles To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 12:59 AM Barack can't quit smoking and

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