[FairfieldLife] How to deal with films critical of religion? Try to ban or censor them.

2010-03-13 Thread TurquoiseB
How the Church Of Scientology is choosing to deal with this German film critical of its organization is interesting, because we don't know yet how the TM organization is going to deal with the German film David Wants To Fly. Both organizations have a history of trying to legally suppress critical

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Dixon
You mean like the photo of Ralph Reid that appeared on News Week? From: off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 4:50:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama     --- In FairfieldLife@

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It is his rejection of that cruel ideology that makes his thinking so attractive to me. He is saying something that is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Dixon
Corection: Ralph Reed on the cover of Time MAgazine, May 15th 1995. From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 4:28:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama You mean like the photo of

[FairfieldLife] Today, a Yagya for wisdom and balance.

2010-03-13 Thread Buck
FW; Dear friends and devotees, At 1:30 pm Saturday, March 13),at Shri Devi Mandir in FF Pundit Sarathi performs a special Yagya (Puja and Homa) for the Grahas Sukra (Venus) and Budha (Mercury). Both of these planets will be in extreme conditions: Sukra will be exalted, and Budha will be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck

2010-03-13 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/christians-urged-to-boycott-gl enn-beck/?hp This is great news for TM initiations! If everyone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lakshmanju and Maharishi

2010-03-13 Thread Vaj
On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:18 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: She stole that from Buzz Lightyear, To infinity and beyond! Actually while it's common for Hindu gurus to laud empty praise upon one another (even if they are pedophiles), if you look into this, the source doesn't pan out. It's

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Personally I don't have a clue How It All Works. The idea of karma still feels intuitively right to me, but I know that it could be a crock. Equally intui- tively, the concept of God feels like a crock to me. For all I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Goddamn Barry! You just handed me at least an hour of my life back today responding to Judy. Thanks man. Now I can get back to this Blind Boy Fuller song I'm working one with nothing to add here.

[FairfieldLife] Re: MGF Chat Summary - Raja Luis and Dr. Robert Roth

2010-03-13 Thread guyfawkes91
Two countries have requested implementation in their police forces, which are highly militarized. Birds of a feather flock together. The TMO always did well when mixing with dictators. Promises of invincibility go down well with people who have good reason to be scared of their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Goddamn Barry! You just handed me at least an hour of my life back today responding to Judy. Thanks man. De nada. Call me a codependent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Goddamn Barry! You just handed me at least an hour of my life back today responding to Judy. Narrow escape, eh, Curtis? Just adopt Barry's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Corection: Ralph Reed on the cover of Time MAgazine, May 15th 1995. From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 4:28:29 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Goddamn Barry! You just handed me at least an hour of my life back

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: The reason it is wrong to persecute gay people has nothing to do with the scripture. The reason people practice hospitality and charity has nothing to do with the scripture. These are values we hold as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
Curtis, fair warning, you DO NOT WANT TO READ THIS. You want to keep your head firmly buried in the sand so you can work on your music. Trust me on this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: ---

[FairfieldLife] Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks

2010-03-13 Thread do.rflex
Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks [thomas-jefferson-big copy] The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/11/texas-fox-news-education/ to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread Joe
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Goddamn Barry! You just handed me at least an hour of my life

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to deal with films critical of religion? Try to ban or censor them.

2010-03-13 Thread ShempMcGurk
This attempt by the Church of Scientology to get this film blocked lessens my opinion of them. Simply because if you want less people to see a negative film about you, the last thing you do is try and get it banned. Haven't they heard of the concept of banned in Boston? A sure way to make

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to deal with films critical of religion? Try to ban or censor them.

2010-03-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: This attempt by the Church of Scientology to get this film blocked lessens my opinion of them. ... I wasn't aware that TM did this, contrary to what Barry writes below. Certainly, the TMO will do this vis a vis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread WillyTex
TurquoiseB: I'm about to head out on a Road Trip, and I figure me chiming in again will make her so mad she'll have posted out before I even get where I'm going... Joe: Look at her go! You sound really scared, Joe. With Barry going on a road trip to Houston, he will probably miss

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to deal with films critical of religion? Try to ban or censor them.

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: This attempt by the Church of Scientology to get this film blocked lessens my opinion of them. Simply because if you want less people to see a negative film about you, the last thing you do is try and get it banned.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to deal with films critical of religion? Try to ban or censor them.

2010-03-13 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: This attempt by the Church of Scientology to get this film blocked lessens my opinion of them. ... I wasn't aware that TM did this, contrary to

[FairfieldLife] Re: How to deal with films critical of religion? Try to ban or censor them.

2010-03-13 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: This attempt by the Church of Scientology to get this film blocked lessens my opinion of them. Simply because if you want less people to see a

[FairfieldLife] Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson U.S. Army (ret.): Rove, Cheney are cowards

2010-03-13 Thread do.rflex
Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson U.S. Army (ret.) calls Rove, Cheney cowards. Accuses Cheney of leaking classified information to Rove in violation of law, in scathing interview with Lawrence O'Donnell. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/35845599#35845599

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: snip Plus, its my observation, that people are far less likely to change their minds, is sustained and deeps ways, if you simple challenge their beliefs. They may indeed dig in deeper not that their egos are involved. It is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
Joe wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Goddamn Barry! You just handed me at least an hour of

[FairfieldLife] Why I Meditate Russell Simmons in the huffingtonpost

2010-03-13 Thread merlin
Russell Simmons Founder of GlobalGrind.com   Why I Meditate     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-simmons/why-i-meditate_b_474689.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: Again. It's hard to believe that they can get away with this, without being castagated across the board, but maybe I'm just that naive about it. They *did* get castigated for the Steinberg and Reddcliffe photo

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It is his rejection of that cruel ideology that makes his thinking so attractive to me. He is saying something that is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: snip Plus, its my observation, that people are far less likely to change their minds, is sustained and deeps ways, if you simple challenge their beliefs.

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: snip I am sure catcalls will follow this post -- but there is a value judgement in all of this that assumes that wealth is superior to poverty. I have learned some great things when I was flat broke over sustained periods as

[FairfieldLife] The Political Case for Health Care Reform

2010-03-13 Thread do.rflex
White House pollster Joel Benenson writes in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR20100\ 31203719.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 that there's no question that a majority of Americans oppose a government-run health system. But there is no government-run

Re: [FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: snip I am sure catcalls will follow this post -- but there is a value judgement in all of this that assumes that wealth is superior to poverty. I have learned some great things when I was flat broke

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: Again. It's hard to believe that they can get away with this, without being castagated across the board, but maybe I'm just that naive about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread Joe
Well I'll be damned..here's ANOTHER one! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: But the questions as to why that 8 year old girl was born into poverty and a girl across town was born into a life of privilege is far less clear. I too find reincarnation is a plausible, but highly difficult to prove,

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: snip I am sure catcalls will follow this post -- but there is a value judgement in all of this that assumes that wealth is superior to poverty. I have

[FairfieldLife] WillyTex: Proud to Live in the Great State of Texas!

2010-03-13 Thread Joe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/13/texas-textbook-massacre-u_n_498003.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Funny or mean? You decide.

2010-03-13 Thread Joe
...and I'm a member of the CIA. You've got it nailed Tex. I'm scared shitless of Judy. Her debating prowess has me shaking in my boots and losing sleep. I repeat: how did you get so dad-gummed SMART Tex? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: TurquoiseB:

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: But the questions as to why that 8 year old girl was born into poverty and a girl across town was born into a life of privilege is far

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: Again. It's hard to believe that they can get away with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 13, 2010, at 5:04 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: There are many instances of detailed past lives memories, even in lives of ordinary people. Of course there are--there's also many instances of people flying and turning invisible too. The problem is, this never seems to happen when

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000

[FairfieldLife] Re: India 'issues' zero rupee banknotes

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@...wrote: I find it amusing that the man who royally fucked up India's economy for 50 years -- Mahatma Gandhi -- graces the zero rupee note.

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: I separate the God hypothesis and the Reincarnation hypothesis. Why would one have to exist with the other? (I ask myself, not challenging your direction.) Populations continue through patterns and forces of biology and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do the enlightened benefit the world? - A Call For Opinions

2010-03-13 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: TurquoiseB: Do you personally believe that someone who is enlightened intrinsically has any more positive effect on the world around them than someone who is not enlightened?... It is impossible to answer this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Today, a Yagya for wisdom and balance.

2010-03-13 Thread Joe
Hey Buck, is TM a religion? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: FW; Dear friends and devotees, At 1:30 pm Saturday, March 13),at Shri Devi Mandir in FF Pundit Sarathi performs a special Yagya (Puja and Homa) for the Grahas Sukra (Venus) and Budha

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-03-13 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Mar 13 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Mar 20 00:00:00 2010 67 messages as of (UTC) Sun Mar 14 00:14:36 2010 16 authfriend jst...@panix.com 9 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 7 tartbrain

[FairfieldLife] Canadians Win Gold in Synchronized Peeing

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
http://deadspin.com/5488435/canadians-also-win-gold-for-synchronized-peeing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread Joe
Is that really accurate Judy? 3 million? I had no idea.fascinating. (And kind of a relief!) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Is TM a religion (?)

2010-03-13 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: Hey Buck, is TM a religion? Proly not as it is taught by the David Lynch Foundation. Evidently yes as it is taught by the TMorg Global Country. Take a look at these for religious test: The U.S. Supreme Court has stated, in at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do the enlightened benefit the world? - A Call For Opinions

2010-03-13 Thread yifuxero
Pure Consciousness is only an indirect cause, not In-Itself. What changes the world is Shakti. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: TurquoiseB: Do you personally believe that someone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a religion (?)

2010-03-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@ wrote: Hey Buck, is TM a religion? Proly not as it is taught by the David Lynch Foundation. Evidently yes as it is taught by the TMorg Global Country.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Canadians Win Gold in Synchronized Peeing

2010-03-13 Thread It's just a ride
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:21 PM, tartbrain no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: http://deadspin.com/5488435/canadians-also-win-gold-for-synchronized-peeing This is a well known phenomena. Water companies, cell phone companies, electric companies prepare for this sort of thing. Cell phone

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: Odd example perhaps, but one I was thinking of earlier. Japan has suffered a 20 year deflation and their economy has gone sideways over those years. Did their aggression during the 30's and 40's set up chains of events that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farakahn or Obama

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: The one saving grace of Fox News is that only a tiny percentage of people watch it, 3-something million at most. Of course, that's more than the other cable news channels, but it's still not all that significant overall.

[FairfieldLife] Re: India 'issues' zero rupee banknotes

2010-03-13 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@wrote: I find it amusing that the man who royally fucked up India's

[FairfieldLife] Revisting- Re: Did you have this experience in India ?

2010-03-13 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Ok Sal, I'm going to give it right back to you. I remember when the John Edwards mistress, love child story broke. You totally ridiculed me for buying into it, because the story was broken by, OMG, The National Enquirer. As a courtesy to you, because you seemed to be so undone by it, I conceded

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a religion (?)

2010-03-13 Thread guyfawkes91
Thus, if the first two answers are yes it is a religion, yes? Then string theory is a religion. The practice address fundamental and ultimate questions having to do with deep and imponderable matters. And it is comprehensive in nature. The real difference isn't the holidays, funny

[FairfieldLife] Is the country of Columbia Dangerous?

2010-03-13 Thread John
Here's the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gmk58rvqO0feature=related