[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread merudanda
[O:)] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: Ben Collins first attributed it to the 2 week window between the lunar eclipse and the solar eclipse. I said no, that's not it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: If Wishes Were Fishes -a pebble in my hand

2010-07-04 Thread merudanda
I don't need any of the Thalmud we don't see the world as it is but as we are. There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL as Tabloid: The joy of the lowest common denominator

2010-07-04 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Paramatman is supremely independent. Those who think He is the unmanifest and is not manifest, or He is manifest, not unmanifest, have not

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
Ah. Finally someone willing to deal with idea as IDEA. Sorta. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: Now Turq;you know this isn't true. No, I really do not. I'm answering this by reading as I go, so I don't know in advance what you're going to say lower

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
Just to follow up again, rereading what you wrote here you seem to be trying to make the case that believing that enlightenment exists and thus practicing techniques that promise it can have incremental benefits. Even if folks don't get enlightened, they gain some subjec- tive benefit from

[FairfieldLife] Database theory and its relationship to the universe

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
The fellow I studied with for a while, Rama - Frederick Lenz -- had some curious theories and insights into things. Some of them I consider Looney Tunes, and did even back when I was studying with him. Others I thought might have had more of a clue. A few I still think have a clue. One of his

[FairfieldLife] The Last Airbender: the reviews

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
Haven't seen it, and won't. But it's fascinating to see what those who have seen it think of it. Last night, because I'm meeting today with the ex-girlfriend who forced me to watch all of the Sex And The City episodes on TV, I watched Sex And The City 2. If these critics are saying that The Last

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Last Airbender: the reviews

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
Correction. The first line below (Haven't seen it, and won't.) was written hastily, and without having fully thought it through. Rereading it as it appeared some minutes after I clicked the Send button, I realized that it wasn't even true. I've now got The Last Airbender downloading in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Database theory and its relationship to the universe

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
This is the *fourth time around* for this particular rap of Barry's. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip I like the relational model. It feels more intuitively correct to me than the hierarchical model. Nothing and no one in the universe strikes me as

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Ah. Finally someone willing to deal with idea as IDEA. Sorta. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: snip 2. Next, you say that you relish physical embodiment on this planet and would not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread shukra69
mars has been under transit influence of Rahu, that could be uncomfortable for certain people and make for testiness, you can map it easily with Brian Conrads free program Junior Jyotish , do a current prasna and use the ephemeris function and back up the start date by a week to see what just

[FairfieldLife] A non-sequitur post, related to nothing

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
Although I don't think that it's been hurled here recently, because I just encountered it on two other forums I just spent a few moments thinking about the common epithet Non-sequitur!, which is hurled with some frequency on the Internet. It strikes me as another example of In theory there is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread pod127b
Just to kick in my two bits from Mexico. A week and a half ago more or less I felt an unusual tension in collective consciousness. I only saw it reflected in local people a little. I suspect that most humans of the modern rational mind have defense mechanisims against energy waves in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread pod127b
Yes, perhaps the issue could be taken as a controlled folly, an action that one takes on whole-heartedly... it appears..., but in reality is not motivated by fundimental desire (prehaps as a result of having had a more expanded percetion of the general scheme of things.) Furthermore I would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genius like this is not a matter of repeating a mantra.

2010-07-04 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG_dQC-cnkfeature=player_embedded This must be how the child, Mozart, played. As wonderfully as she begins, her finish is powerful, and her composure and mastery of the intellectual feat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genius like this is not a matter of repeating a mantra.

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG_dQC-cnkfeature=player_embedded This must be how the child, Mozart, played. As wonderfully as she begins, her finish is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genius like this is not a matter of repeating a mantra.

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG_dQC-cnkfeature=player_embedded This must be how the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A non-sequitur post, related to nothing

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip In theory, non-sequitur means That which does not follow. In practice, especially on the Internet, it seems to mean, I was unable to follow you, therefore you are bad and everything you say is false. More likely, it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pod127b pod1...@... wrote: Just to kick in my two bits from Mexico. A week and a half ago more or less I felt an unusual tension in collective consciousness. I only saw it reflected in local people a little. I suspect that most humans of the modern

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread pranamoocher
But it was just my imagination, runnin' away with me... It was just my imagination, runnin' away... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: Ben Collins first attributed it to the 2 week window between the lunar eclipse and the solar eclipse. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genius like this is not a matter of repeating a mantra.

2010-07-04 Thread Duveyoung
Maybe she made a pact with God along the lines of My next life must support my musical interest no matter the trade off. Just so, does every parent in FF loved the idea that their kids incarnated into their family that's ever so special to be born into cuz it's a yogi family donchaknow. If

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: You may find this entertaining also: http://www.aaskolnick.com/junkyarddog/ Some shadow creature trolls have long and well documented histories.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread pod127b
It was something I felt clearly, that's all. Furthermore I identified the source as not centered on people whom I knew. On the road to work after noting the energy in the morning and the previous afternoon and a little the day before too. I noticed the muted effect on the behavior of people,

[FairfieldLife] Skolnick on MAV

2010-07-04 Thread Hugo
This is worth a read for many reasons: it shows what happens when the happy dream-world of the TMO collides with reality and it's got a quote from our old pal Curtis at the bottom. http://www.aaskolnick.com/mav.htm http://www.aaskolnick.com/mav.htm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Last Airbender: the reviews

2010-07-04 Thread Bhairitu
I can think of worse films than Plan 9 from Outer Space which I have along with a collection of Ed Wood films on laserdisc. Terrible to think what I used to pay for laserdiscs. The Last Airbender is based on a kids show that was on between 2004 and 2008. This fact was elicited by the Michael

[FairfieldLife] Re: Skolnick on MAV

2010-07-04 Thread pod127b
If you are looking to find an easy job it is good to look in the direction of organizations that have a whole lot of money and which need to work very little to generate that money. They are likely to have a whole lot of internal waste, creative waste and otherwise. However any bubble can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread pod127b
Have some respect for your imagination. That's your spirit. Most people want to box in their imagination even when it is not necessary. Let it run, don't go doing anything too crazy, and see where you end up. Most likely somewhere more interesting than before. Do the Fairfield townies ever

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genius like this is not a matter of repeating a mantra.

2010-07-04 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG_dQC-cnkfeature=player_embedded This must be how the child, Mozart, played. As wonderfully as she begins, her finish

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genius like this is not a matter of repeating a mantra.

2010-07-04 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG_dQC-cnkfeature=player_embedded This

Re: [FairfieldLife] Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread Bhairitu
It's just a ride wrote: Ben Collins first attributed it to the 2 week window between the lunar eclipse and the solar eclipse. I said no, that's not it. He agreed. There's something happening at the level of consciousness that is putting people at dis-ease. I have emails from many countries

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: snip Can someone who knows where these alleged lies are please post me a link as I just had a search and couldn't find anything other than the usual he said - she said stuff. Just about any thread Andrew posted to involves

[FairfieldLife] Re: It's July 4th and ...

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: snip Well the articles I read show the shit is hitting the fan. People are finding out that they are being denied health insurance for the screwiest of reasons. Here's one such article:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: Can someone who knows where these alleged lies are please post me a link as I just had a search and couldn't find anything other than the usual he said - she said stuff. Where did this start, is it just about his JAMA

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's July 4th and ...

2010-07-04 Thread Bhairitu
authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: snip Well the articles I read show the shit is hitting the fan. People are finding out that they are being denied health insurance for the screwiest of reasons. Here's one such article:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread WillyTex
The junkyard dog site was put together by a highly respected and award winning Science and Medical Journalist/Editor... Who just happens to be the worst teller of falsehoods I've ever encountered--worse than Barry, even. If you want to see a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool shadow

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL as Tabloid: The joy of the lowest common denominator

2010-07-04 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Paramatman is supremely independent. Those who think He is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread WillyTex
TurquoiseB: I've often wondered what it's like to be a person who has spent 16 to 17 YEARS trying, in dozens of Internet posts a week, to get other people to hate someone as much as they do... You'd be the one answering that question, since your earliest post to Usenet was fifteen years

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread mahavid3h
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pod127b pod1...@... wrote: More to the point, at times when your back is really up to the wall and you need to live life in the very moment, you find a liberation of belief structures necessary, the more the better, leaving personal safety or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread mahavid3h
Deal with the original question. WHY is enlightenment the highest goal in life? Because one chooses to have it? A goal is always something subjective, there is nothing objective about it. Try to have a discussion of WHAT enlightenment actually means, and you get a hundred different

[FairfieldLife] Re: Database theory and its relationship to the universe

2010-07-04 Thread WillyTex
I like the relational model. It feels more intuitively correct to me than the hierarchical model. Nothing and no one in the universe strikes me as inherently higher or better than anything or anyone else. authfriend: Except for the the relational model being better than the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Can someone who knows where these alleged lies are please post me a link as I just had a search and couldn't find anything other than the usual he said

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip His stalker didn't like that much, because at the time she was completely into knee-jerk defense of Anything TM or Maharishi. Oh, this isn't true either, not surprisingly. I've always been a very sharp critic of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mahavid3h uz...@... wrote: Deal with the original question. WHY is enlightenment the highest goal in life? Because one chooses to have it? A goal is always something subjective, there is nothing objective about it. Yes, but why *that* goal?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: snip Skolnick made JAMA a laughing stock - rumor has it that he was asked to resign from his position, or else he had to pay Deepak Chopra some big bucks. As far as I'm aware, none of this is true. I could be wrong about why

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip I could be wrong about why Andrew eventually left JAMA, but I'm under the impression he resigned in protest in 1999 when the then-editor, George Lundberg, was fired for having published a 1991 study that was perceived by

[FairfieldLife] 'Be yourself and follow your bliss'

2010-07-04 Thread merlin
Maharishi University of Management Salutatorian: 'Be yourself and follow your bliss' by Global Good News staff writer Global Good News   3 July 2010 Graduates of the Class of 2010 at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA offered the University a gift of a garden of roses

[FairfieldLife] How to End the War in Afghanistan

2010-07-04 Thread John
Set up achievable goals within the time frame designated by President Obama. After the goals are met, declare a victory in Afghanistan and get out of there. Any questions?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread sgrayatlarge
I grew up in Seattle, which greasy spoon were you referring at the U District? Do you remember the Great Green Society Pizza? Courageous Outrageous Burrito? Herfy's? Good times --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: It's just a ride wrote: Ben Collins first

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread pod127b
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mahavid3h uz...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pod127b pod127b@ wrote: More to the point, at times when your back is really up to the wall and you need to live life in the very moment, you find a liberation of belief structures

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread yifuxero
right, I agree: the usage of the term highest is inappropriate supported only by the scantiest of hearsay evidence. Even when not making an explicit statement, more often than not the Batgappers imply it, or say it in between the lines. They haven't demonstrated it, or logically revealed it.

[FairfieldLife] BuddhaAtTheGasPump deep-sea over spill:Rick success is our success.

2010-07-04 Thread merudanda
Congratulation Rick Archer got his dream mark of over 1000 votes from initial symbolic meager 96 Rick's Audition Fairfield, IA Traditional Talk Show 938 views 1,090 votes http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_detailsrespons\ e_id=6818promo_id=1 http://tinyurl.com/35hfeyt

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-07-04 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 03 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Jul 10 00:00:00 2010 114 messages as of (UTC) Mon Jul 05 00:07:18 2010 22 authfriend jst...@panix.com 14 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 11 yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com 8

[FairfieldLife] Re: BuddhaAtTheGasPump deep-sea over spill:Rick success is our success.

2010-07-04 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: Congratulation Rick Archer got his dream mark of over 1000 votes from initial symbolic meager 96 Rick's Audition Fairfield, IA Traditional Talk Show 938 views 1,090 votes Keep going Rick , go go for it That's

[FairfieldLife] Re: BuddhaAtTheGasPump deep-sea over spill:Rick success is our success.

2010-07-04 Thread yifuxero
right,but if movie screenplays are any indication at all as reflections of humanity's deepest desires; then sidhis, not Being represent the best hope for a Utopian world. You don't see movies about people sitting in silence, unless that's a prelude to some spectacular types of heroic

[FairfieldLife] Re: The highest goal in life as IDEA

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
Gonna take another hit at this one because it's so utterly despicable. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip I lit into Andrew Skolnick some myself, but he responded well, and with something

[FairfieldLife] Re: BuddhaAtTheGasPump deep-sea over spill:Rick success is our success.

2010-07-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: right,but if movie screenplays are any indication at all as reflections of humanity's deepest desires; then sidhis, not Being represent the best hope for a Utopian world. You don't see movies about people sitting in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone else feel it?

2010-07-04 Thread Bhairitu
The Hasty Tasty was the greasy spoon. It was several blocks north of 50th on University. We also frequented Herfy's which had better burgers than Dick's. I don't recall those other two though. sgrayatlarge wrote: I grew up in Seattle, which greasy spoon were you referring at the U