[FairfieldLife] Krishna Thru the Eyes of George Harrison

2010-08-26 Thread martin.quickman
I never knew that beetle George Harrison visited many ashrams during his 'India' years, but this old video sure looks like him to me. What do you think ? http://sathyasaimemories.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/krishna-through-the-eyes-of-george-harrison-child-of-light/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: authfriend: Not surprsingly, this is yet another falsehood designed to smear Rauf and his project: Now obviously, these are Muslim historians

[FairfieldLife] What to get the geek who has everything...

2010-08-26 Thread PaliGap
Undead Commodore 64 comes back for Christmas All-in-one zombie attacks children of the 80s http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/commodore_name_bounces_again/

[FairfieldLife] The Bhairtu Solution

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
Crony or Casino Capitalism   BY AMIT VARMA In his fine book, India After Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha cites the Bombay Plan as an example of the support Nehru's Fabian Socialism got from industrialists of the day, and writes, One wonders what free-market pundits would make of it now. At a

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Obamas Depleting U.S. Lobster Supply I do so as well enjoy it

2010-08-26 Thread WLeed3
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[FairfieldLife] Insects share food advice

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
  Cockroaches may share food advice June 6, 2010 Courtesy of Queen Mary, University of London and World Science staff Ev­er won­dered how cock­roaches seem to know the best place to grab a meal? A new Brit­ish study sug­gests that, much like hu­mans, they share their lo­cal knowl­edge of the

[FairfieldLife] Israeli airline security check dehumanising

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
News » Cities » Bangalore ‘Israeli airline security check dehumanising' Staff Reporter Frequent fliers may have become accustomed to intense security checks at airports. Baggage screening has extended to footwear, banned products now include toothpaste, and it may not be long before

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Imam Feisal says he chose 'Cordoba' in recollection of a time when the rest of Europe had sunk into the Dark Ages but Muslims, Jews and Christians

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
So, why are most New Yorkers opposed? Joe: Just for you Tex: So, why are most New Yorkers opposed, Joe? Glenn Beck calling Imam Rauf a good muslim on Good Morning America: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008230004

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
Now obviously, these are Muslim historians writing two-to-three-hundred years after the events they describe... authfriend: I did not write the last three lines above, as you know. So, you don't agree that obviously, these are Muslim historians writing two-to-three-hundred

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: So, why are most New Yorkers opposed? Because they've been misled and misinformed by the right-wing bigots such as yourself. That's a statewide poll, BTW. A majority of Manhattan residents are in favor of it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Now obviously, these are Muslim historians writing two-to-three-hundred years after the events they describe... authfriend: I did not write the last three lines above, as you know. So, you don't agree

[FairfieldLife] Yahoo! News Story - Saudi couple quot;hammer 24 nailsquot; into Sri Lankan maid - Yahoo! News

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Dixon
Mike Dixon (mdixon.6...@yahoo.com) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) Personal message: Saudi couple must be fans of Peter,Paul and Mary Saudi couple quot;hammer 24 nailsquot; into Sri Lankan maid -

[FairfieldLife] The microbes strike back

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
Opinion - Op-Ed The microbes strike back N. Gopal Raj Without new antibiotics, the outlook looks grim.    DANGEROUS COME BACK: Bacteria are fighting back. Are we at the end of the penicillin story? There was a happy period in the last century when it appeared that humanity was at long

[FairfieldLife] Nosty and LHC?

2010-08-26 Thread cardemaister
Nostradamus and Large Hadron Collider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctj7JAwghANR=1feature=fvwp The original French quatrain: Migres migre de Genesve trestous Saturne d'or en fer se changers Le contre RAYPOZ exterminera tous, Avant l'a ruent de ciel signes fera.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: Most New Yorkers are for it Tex. Again, you lie. It's what you do. Actually, he's correct, for NYC and NY State as a whole. It's Manhattanites--who haven't been deceived by the lies-- who are for it. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: physicist Lawrence Krauss on Chopra and TM -- Humility amongst Knowingness

2010-08-26 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: Very well put.I did not mean to put Krauss down, no doubt he is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
Most New Yorkers are for it Tex. Again, you lie. Most New Yorkers are against it, Joe, like in the article from the New York Times that I posted. You are supposed to read the messages BEFORE you call people liars. authfriend: Actually, he's correct, for NYC and NY State as a whole.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo! News Story - Saudi couple quot;hammer 24 nailsquot; into Sri Lankan maid - Yahoo! News

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
Post a Comment Comments 11 - 20 of 703   Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights.’ When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ‘the reasonable’ Muslim demands for their ‘religious rights,’ they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
So, why are most New Yorkers opposed? authfriend: Because they've been misled and misinformed The entire 68% of Americans have been misled and misinformed - I don't think so. by the right-wing bigots such as yourself. This is just another obvious example of prejudice against

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
If any of you had legitimate complaints against building the center, you wouldn't have to keep lying about it. Joe: Indeed. Willy has had no coherent comebacks to any of the truth regarding this matter that has been thrown at him. Therefore he does what he does he lies...

[FairfieldLife] Re: physicist Lawrence Krauss on Chopra and TM -- Humility amongst Knowingness

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
  Actually, before the industrial revolution people were a bit of jack of all trades.  Memes began to accumulate very fast after the industrial revolution and expansion of knowledge led to specialisation. --- On Thu, 8/26/10, tartbrain no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
I have no opinion. authfriend: Bullshit. You wouldn't be pushing lies about it if you didn't. Have you ever had anybody spit at you? Please consider yourself virtually spat upon. Stop the lying, Judy, you know that I didn't post an opinion of wheteher or not the Islamic Center in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread tartbrain
It seems we are not yet in the full sun of the AoE. I envision such a time where the impulse would be, amongst most if not all -- Wow, great idea. A community center focused on cross-cultural understanding and brother/sisterhood. And a place to show gratitude too (for which formal worship is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Most New Yorkers are for it Tex. Again, you lie. Most New Yorkers are against it, Joe, like in the article from the New York Times that I posted. You are supposed to read the messages BEFORE you call people

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
  In semitic religions, killing the infidel is an imperative. Kidnapping his wife and keeping her as a concubine is also a religious imperative. 1. Islam permits taking enemy women captured in Jihad as war booty: a. It is not lawful for you (to marry other) women after this, nor to change

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: I have no opinion. authfriend: Bullshit. You wouldn't be pushing lies about it if you didn't. Have you ever had anybody spit at you? Please consider yourself virtually spat upon. Stop the lying, Judy, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
Manhattan residents are what I was speaking of Judybut I see where New Yorkers is too broad a phrase (even though it's the one most often used to describe Manhattanites.) I suspect that's what Tex had in mind as well, but he'll surely grab on to the life raft offered. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
Still smarting from the waxing Judy gave you, eh Tex? Relax and try to calm down fella. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Most New Yorkers are for it Tex. Again, you lie. Most New Yorkers are against it, Joe, like in the article from the New York

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: Manhattan residents are what I was speaking of Judybut I see where New Yorkers is too broad a phrase (even though it's the one most often used to describe Manhattanites.) Not really, Joe. Everyone who lives in any of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
Most New Yorkers are for it Tex. Again, you lie. It's what you do. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: So, why are most New Yorkers opposed? Joe: Just for you Tex: So, why are most New Yorkers opposed, Joe? Glenn Beck calling Imam Rauf a good

[FairfieldLife] Re: Desperation to fill the Domes

2010-08-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: As someone who knows him said recently, Bevan in disposition for instance is scared to death that he might have a spiritual experience from somewhere else. Hence his strong faith in the straight and narrow doctrine. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_sp...@... wrote:   In semitic religions, killing the infidel is an imperative. Kidnapping his wife and keeping her as a concubine is also a religious imperative. 1. Islam permits taking enemy women captured in Jihad as war booty:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Israeli airline security check dehumanising

2010-08-26 Thread sgrayatlarge
Is this the only passenger that has been subjected to this kind of treatment or have there been others? We wouldn't know because the The Hindu article didn't say. So is this an isolated incident? Perhaps some investigative journalism would help here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Israeli airline security check dehumanising

2010-08-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: Is this the only passenger that has been subjected to this kind of treatment or have there been others? We wouldn't know because the The Hindu article didn't say. So is this an isolated incident? Perhaps some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
I'm sure that's true and it's why most of the country commonly uses New York to refer to Manhatten. They say New York State or name a borough (I use a studio in Brooklyn) to get more literal about other-than-Manhatten places. Sloppy language use, but certainly quite common. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Dixon
Why would anybody spend one hundred million dollars to build a community center and mosque in an area that doesn't have an Islamic community?   How do those that support this effort feel about Carmelite nuns wanting to build a convent next to Auschwitz to pray for the souls of those murder

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Peter L Sutphen
Legally, no problems. But Muslims of all stripes have huge P. R. problem in this country because of the radical element of Islam. Moderates Muslims need to speak up more. If they build there you can almost guarantee that it will be damaged on a regular basis. Peter On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:02

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Why would anybody spend one hundred million dollars to build a community center and mosque in an area that doesn't have an Islamic community? It does have an Islamic community, plus many Muslims who work in the area. (And

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Jason
  All semitic religions are inherently fundamentalistic in the core of their teachings.  It's because they evolved in pre-industrial first-wave civilisation.  Their archaic anachronistic worldview don't fit in a modern global civilisation.  It leads to the clash of memes. --- On Thu,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Dixon
Exactly, creating more and more resentment on each side. It's just not a wise move and will not create more tolerance and understanding. I'm afraid Muslims are becoming too *Americanized* by demanding their *rights* at the expense of sensitivity, only to be hurting themselves more in the long

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Dixon
My understanding is that the area doesn't have an Islamic community, at least of significant number, certainly not worthy of one hundred million dollars that could hold up to a thousand worshipers. Yes, I'm aware there are other mosques in the general area that nobody seems to care about. So

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: My understanding is that the area doesn't have an Islamic community, at least of significant number Several thousand Muslims live and/or work in the area. Not sure how you're defining community. Have you ever been to New

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Exactly, creating more and more resentment on each side. It's just not a wise move and will not create more tolerance and understanding. I'm afraid Muslims are becoming too *Americanized* by demanding their *rights* at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
Don't confuse Mike with facts Judy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Why would anybody spend one hundred million dollars to build a community center and mosque in an area that doesn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
Mike, please state specifically why you believe this area of NYC doesn't have a Muslim community. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: My understanding is that the area doesn't have an Islamic community, at least of significant number, certainly not

[FairfieldLife] Republicans Recycle Discredited 1993 Talking Points on Taxes

2010-08-26 Thread do.rflex
With Democrats proposing http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001955.htm to set the top two income tax rates at 36% and 39.6% respectively, Republican leaders waged a ferocious battle http://www.andrewtobias.com/bkoldcolumns/090325.html on behalf of the wealthiest American

[FairfieldLife] What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread Tom Pall
The Uvalde, Texas SSRS ranch relented and agreed to give me my own room so I will not have to reveal to the world the fact that I can't fly. So I'm about to sign up for the Art of Silence course over the Labor Day weekend. Could someone tell me what I might be signing up for? I was told by my

[FairfieldLife] Will WMD's be stored in the Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
Let's look at the facts: 1. The Mosque is called Cordoba, and El Cid's Sword Tizona was supposedly made there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizona So, we extract the key word SWORD. 2. Charleton Heston played El Cid in the 1961 movie, and he was the NRA President. So we extract the word

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
Bullshit. You wouldn't be pushing lies about it if you didn't. Have you ever had anybody spit at you? Please consider yourself virtually spat upon. Stop the lying, Judy, you know that I didn't post an opinion of wheteher or not the Islamic Center in New York should be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread WillyTex
Joe: Still smarting from the waxing Judy gave you, eh Tex? You mean the waxing Judy gave you for not realizing that most New Yorkers are opposed to the Islamic Center? Or the waxing Judy gave you for lying about what 'Tex' wrote? Joe: Most New Yorkers are for it Tex. Again, you lie.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Israeli airline security check dehumanising

2010-08-26 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:44 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: f it was a Saudi airline employee sticking a flashlight up your ass, I didn't realize the Saudis even had airlines. you wouldn't be making noises about how one incident doesn't necessarily make the whole airline bad. But when it's El Al, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque?

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
As you know Tex, I was referring to this one, Judy to Tex: Bullshit. You wouldn't be pushing lies about it if you didn't. Have you ever had anybody spit at you? Please consider yourself virtually spat upon. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Joe:

[FairfieldLife] Open Letter to the Dalai Lama

2010-08-26 Thread eustace10679
An Open Letter to the Dalai Lama by Norm Phelps, written June 15, 2007 The Dalai Lama Thekchen Choeling P.O. McLeod Ganj Dharamsala H.P. 176219 India By mail and email to: oh...@gov.tibet.net Dear Sir: I am writing to you with great sadness. By way of introduction, or actually re-introduction,

[FairfieldLife] Ground Xero

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
http://www.nucleardarkness.org/hiroshima/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Open Letter to the Dalai Lama

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
http://davepear.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/gene_marie_antoinette.png --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eustace10679 no_re...@... wrote: An Open Letter to the Dalai Lama by Norm Phelps, written June 15, 2007 The Dalai Lama Thekchen Choeling P.O. McLeod Ganj Dharamsala H.P.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread vajradhatu108
Sounds like a great time, please keep us posted! I'm sure there are a number of people who could share stories and I hope they do so here. The nice thing about having a lineage is 'there's always more than one person you can hang with.' We have the popular SSRS ashram nearby in Montreal, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Unless the program has changed, you'll be doing various intro techniques and then you'll do a group, long Kriya (at least at the beginning). Afterward, you'll get introduced to Hollow and Empty practice - a guided but direct-experience practice involving the subtle nadi-chakras. As far as losing

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: snip As far as losing the mantra, it sounds like you could use a dose of instruction in SSRS's Sahaj Samadhi meditation. TM, as now taught and practiced, is not the same as what I received in 19'70. If losing the mantra is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:44 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: As far as losing the mantra, it sounds like you could use a dose of instruction in SSRS's Sahaj Samadhi meditation. TM, as now taught and practiced, is not the same as what I received in 19'70. This has been observed by a

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-08-26 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Aug 21 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Aug 28 00:00:00 2010 358 messages as of (UTC) Thu Aug 26 23:54:47 2010 32 authfriend jst...@panix.com 22 yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com 22 Joe geezerfr...@yahoo.com 21 TurquoiseB

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Just stay with your commitment to try the course. Talk with the Sahaj teacher if you want. However, it sounds like you're looking for a parachute because you want to bail before the course even starts. Elated one minute, anxious the next ... wtf. Just give it a chance and take it like it is. ---

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Dixon
If 56,000 people need to pray 5 times a day, Park51 ain't gonna be big enough, but I know a place about 2 blocks away that I'm sure the Saudis would love to buy and build a Mosque/community center complete with swimming pool, racket ball courts and Camel race track, all facing Mecca.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: snip Wherever Muslims live in the West is either Dar-al-Dawa or Dar-al-Kufr. Jihad is not optional – it is one of the five pillars of their faith and is part of their vocation in the West. Saying that Muslim ideas and

[FairfieldLife] Does Israel have a demagnetized moral compass?

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
From the Gates of Vienna blogspot, by Dymphna ... Dymphna: Israel works: just look at the number of venture capitalists who want to start businesses there. Foreign Capital Investment is not the sole measure of a nation's functionality. Yes, it can be a good yardstick but it must be accompanied

[FairfieldLife] Jan Sobieski and the Siege of Vienna, 1683

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/EastEurope/ViennaSiege.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: If 56,000 people need to pray 5 times a day, Park51 ain't gonna be big enough 56,000 people?? Only the Muslims need to pray five times a day. but I know a place about 2 blocks away that I'm sure the Saudis would love to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Just stay with your commitment to try the course. Talk with the Sahaj teacher if you want. However, it sounds like you're looking for a parachute because you want to bail before the course even starts. Elated one minute,

[FairfieldLife] King Abdullah Economic City

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
On the Red Sea coast, city to be built from scratch with 80 Billion: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/business/worldbusiness/20saudi.html?_r=1

[FairfieldLife] Re: What to expect at Art of Silence?

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Tom, Don't think too much about. I don't do Sahaj either although I sat in with my daughters class.There are differences although the consensus among former TM teachers is that most people continuing with the original TM are already abiding spontaneously in that more subtle instruction (really

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread emptybill
Judy, In spite of my stridence, my point is simple. Become educated about Islam. I do not mean the Islam of academics and apologists but rather how Islam is actually understood and actually practiced in Muslim culture. There is no such thing as religion in Islam; this is a Western notion. For

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
Water buffalo crossing a river in Pune. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/08/26/business/engineering.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Judy, In spite of my stridence, my point is simple. Become educated about Islam. I do not mean the Islam of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Judy, In spite of my stridence, my point is simple. Become educated about Islam. I do not mean the Islam of academics and apologists but rather how Islam is actually understood and actually practiced in Muslim culture.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread yifuxero
that's for sure! (threat of Christian Fundamentalism). Though Huckabee seems to be a nice fellow, I would have difficulty accepting a person as President who believes that humans walked the earth at the same time as the dinosaurs. The world - particularly the US - needs a major paradigm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: snip In my estimation, this is the only way to understand the threat of Islam to Western culture and more specifically to America. Whether we can ever come to peaceful resolution, I don't know. I personally doubt it. No

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip Just for kicks, here's part of Zakaria's recent Time column on the community center: Yeesh, sorry, that's Newsweek, not Time: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/06/the-real-ground-zero.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque -- Let a 1000 Blossoms Bloom

2010-08-26 Thread Joe
My god yes. All we need is for one of these loony-tunes (think Sarah Palin) who say that God/Jesus is speaking directly to them to get in to the White House. Wait, we already did! W. Bush said that he took advice from his real father, not his biological father. That worked out really well

[FairfieldLife] Re: Desperation to fill the Domes

2010-08-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, James Peterson enjoyhumanbe...@... wrote: Initiator #11,362 Vittel, France. January 20, 1977 11,362 TM teachers by 1977. What did the number of teachers max out at? 29K TM-Governors? 90K Sidhas?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Why would anybody spend one hundred million dollars to build a community center and mosque in an area that doesn't have an Islamic community? How do those that support this effort feel about Carmelite nuns wanting to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread seventhray1
They open the thing, people will go about their business, and if they mind their own business, this whole affair just goes away. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: My understanding is that the area doesn't have an Islamic community, at least of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 26, 2010, at 10:37 PM, seventhray1 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Why would anybody spend one hundred million dollars to build a community center and mosque in an area that doesn't have an Islamic community? How do those

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ground Zero Mosque

2010-08-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@... wrote: snip And if the reports I've heard are true, no one seemed opposed to project until a blogger brought it out into the open. It was out in the open from the get-go, articles in the NY Times (back in *December*), TV

[FairfieldLife] Carter Wins Freedom for American Held in N. Korea

2010-08-26 Thread John
The former president did an excellent job in brokering the release of this American. How come some Americans don't appear to understand that N. Korea is no place to visit or stage a protest? Carter or Bill Clinton may not be able to rescue the next batch of captives.

[FairfieldLife] Bernanke Should Learn How to Jawbone the Economy

2010-08-26 Thread John
Aside from the technical aspect of managing the economy, Bernanke should learn from Greenspan in what to say to the media about money matters. Nonetheless, it appears that the economy should turn around by the end of August, despite the apparent downturn of the Dow Jones average in the past