[FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers

2011-05-18 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Would JFK have been a Truther? You mean, because he was a cold warrior and saw the USSR as a threat, and 9/11 was obviously a communist plot? No,

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Just read that and realized what a supreme teacher Maharishi was. He could explain extremely abstract stuff so that most people had at least a chance to understand what he was talking about! ;D I'm going to have to

[FairfieldLife] Cool light art in Portugal

2011-05-18 Thread turquoiseb
More of the wonderful artform of painting buildings with light. All of the artists involved with this one are under 25. http://sorisomail.com/partilha/74120.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Vaj
On May 17, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Learning about TM and Maharishi from the ironically named TM-Free Blog is like attempting to learn about black people from the KKK. Not quite logical.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Vaj
On May 17, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: This appears to be correct. However, many who practice TM, many who practice other methods, do have very strong and seemingly unshakable beliefs related to the practises, so the question arises, because these beliefs did not

[FairfieldLife] BitCoin Currency: The most dangerous project ever seen

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Pall
http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Just read that and realized what a supreme teacher Maharishi was. He could explain extremely abstract stuff so that most people had at least a chance

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread WillyTex
This appears to be correct. However, many who practice TM, many who practice other methods, do have very strong and seemingly unshakable beliefs related to the practises, so the question arises, because these beliefs did not exist prior to learning, how does this come about?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 17, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: This appears to be correct. However, many who practice TM, many who practice other methods, do have very strong and seemingly unshakable beliefs related to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread WillyTex
There are no belief systems required in the TM introductory lectures. Religious beliefs are not a prerequisite to learning TM. Xenophaneros Anartaxius: This appears to be correct. However, many who practice TM, many who practice other methods, do have very strong and seemingly

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: snip *Vaj's* life within TM circles (if he in fact was ever a TMer) may have revolved around memorizing blips of info and reheashing them endlessly, but, again like Barry, he assumes incorrectly that this must have been the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 17, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: snip When there are polarised viewpoints, as in politics, religion, in lawsuits, how can we determine where the truth lies? Maybe it is somewhere in between, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread whynotnow7
OK, I'll try again: Learning about TM and Maharishi from the ironically named TM-Free Blog is like attempting to learn about God from atheists. Yes, I have been on there a handful of times and it appeared most of the regulars are disgruntled former TM teachers. So attempting to pit their left

[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch shares cover space with androgynous model

2011-05-18 Thread WillyTex
whynotnow7: Are you saying Barry finds David Lynch HOT?? Maybe Barry finds Andre HOT.

[FairfieldLife] Abbottabad Neighbor Claims Bin Laden Raid Was Botched

2011-05-18 Thread raunchydog
A Pakistan news agency reports that the bin Laden raid on Abbottabad was aborted because of a helicopter crash which killed several passengers. Eyewitness interview: Bashir: We were awake, not asleep, a helicopter came, some men came down from that, into that house, then that helicopter went

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-18 Thread WillyTex
whynotnow7: I find it bizarre too that he goes after TM so much when his later teacher, the doofus/rapist called Rama exploited his students far more than the TMO ever has... It is bizarre that the two biggest pie holes on this forum, always dissing MMY, were followers of two of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-18 Thread whynotnow7
When Maharishi first met us, he said we must be friends. His big project was to form a friendship between God and humanity. Well said. It worked! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-18 Thread whynotnow7
Hilarious! Barry is one of those people who probably wanted to challenge some of what Maharishi said at the time but was too chickenshit, so now decades later he attempts to compensate by producing reams of aggressive BS on an internet forum to counter that missed opportunity. I find it

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-18 Thread whynotnow7
The more Barry and Vaj try to shift their issues onto Maharishi's shoulders, the more obvious it is that everything they say in this regard has nothing to do with Maharishi. All this stuff has been hashed over to death. Perhaps Rick could create a forum just for them, FFL Annex, Where Barry

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers

2011-05-18 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/17/2011 11:16 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriendjstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydograunchydog@ wrote: Would JFK have been a Truther? You mean, because he was a cold warrior and saw the USSR as a threat, and 9/11 was

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: FW: : How close to a train track can you set up a vegetable market?

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[FairfieldLife] The new Robin Hood society is here!

2011-05-18 Thread Bhairitu
Time to make the banksters lives miserable because they sure are making a lot of other people's lives that way! http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/robin-hoods-attempt-to-raid-jpmorgan-chase-shareholder-meeting/

[FairfieldLife] Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011-05-18 Thread turquoiseb
So, work being light today, I decided to walk over to my local multiplex and see my first of the modern generation of 3D movies. I didn't expect all that much of it -- except for the remote possibility of seeing Penelope Cruz's breasts in 3D -- and it was great fun but didn't even deliver much of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dirty Linen in Colorado

2011-05-18 Thread emptybill
One correction is worth establishing. His first wife was not Konchok Palden for the simple reason that she was a Tibetan Nun at the time that she got pregnant. She gave birth to his first son, now the Sakyong. His first real wife was the upper class English girl, Diana Judith Pybus. She was only

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: FW: : How close to a train track can you set up a vegetable market?

2011-05-18 Thread Mike Dixon
No big deal as long as nobody flushes the toilet! But really, the train tracks near the food,mitigates the effects of Saturn on our diets and the rumbling of the train stimulates the prana in the veggies. From: wle...@aol.com wle...@aol.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011-05-18 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/18/2011 09:47 AM, turquoiseb wrote: So, work being light today, I decided to walk over to my local multiplex and see my first of the modern generation of 3D movies. I didn't expect all that much of it -- except for the remote possibility of seeing Penelope Cruz's breasts in 3D -- and it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: FW: : How close to a train track can you set up a vegetable market?

2011-05-18 Thread Bhairitu
Nah, just makes you more kapha. On 05/18/2011 11:21 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: No big deal as long as nobody flushes the toilet! But really, the train tracks near the food,mitigates the effects of Saturn on our diets and the rumbling of the train stimulates the prana in the veggies. _

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: To respond to Xeno: No, it isn't always easy, but we don't want to fall into the current media habit of assuming there are two sides to every story: GOP Says Sun Revolves Around Earth; Democrats Disagree. Sometimes people

[FairfieldLife] WELCOME to the Brahmasthan of India

2011-05-18 Thread merlin
    http://vedicpandits.org/newsletter/2011_05_02.html      J a i   G u r u   D e v

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: To respond to Xeno: No, it isn't always easy, but we don't want to fall into the current media habit of assuming there are two sides to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011-05-18 Thread Mike Dixon
whatever happened to the days when people would speak out of sync with their lips and getting it all synchronized was a special effect? From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 12:01:29 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/17/2011 04:19 AM, Vaj wrote: Unhooking From Maharishi's Teachings: Laurie Interviews Sudarsha about the Puja (Ceremony) Posted by Laurie at 5/14/2011 06:17:00 PM I (Laurie) left TM 30 years ago, after 10 years in the TM movement, and I have been deprogramming myself ever since. I now

[FairfieldLife] California health care bill would initiate single-payer reform

2011-05-18 Thread do.rflex
McClatchy - The national debate over health care can be summed up in a bill being debated in Sacramento. Supporters of Senate Bill 810 say the legislation would be the only way to provide medical coverage for every Californian. Opponents deride the measure as socialized medicine. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread whynotnow7
Yep. It doesn't really matter what the science of the mantra is. It works. Why some people involved with the Movement for a relatively short time need to continue to heal themselves after 30 years(!) seems very strange indeed. Its like the defining moment in their lives; when they got f*cked

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread emptybill
This written piece is laughable. It shows just how slack-jawed and even infantile in approach people can be. It is even more absurd that Vaj proffers it as evidence that everyone was tricked. Even back in 1970, when I was initiated, Sir John Woodroof's works on Tantra were easily obtainable

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread whynotnow7
Dik heads - Good one! LOL --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: This written piece is laughable. It shows just how slack-jawed and even infantile in approach people can be. It is even more absurd that Vaj proffers it as evidence that everyone was

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-05-18 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat May 14 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat May 21 00:00:00 2011 341 messages as of (UTC) Wed May 18 23:29:51 2011 44 authfriend jst...@panix.com 29 Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com 24 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 23

[FairfieldLife] Hi! In three days you will all be dead - OR - It's 'Rapture Saturday'

2011-05-18 Thread do.rflex
Hi! In three days you will all be dead - OR - It's 'Rapture Saturday' By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist mailto:m...@markmorford.com - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 SFGate May 18, 2011 04:00 AM Copyright SFGate. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten

Re: [FairfieldLife] California health care bill would initiate single-payer reform

2011-05-18 Thread Bhairitu
I'm sorta outside the system on this. For one thing I still have health insurance which I think has an outrageous premium. For what I pay for one month would buy me health care in many foreign countries as an expatriate. And then use alternative care which isn't even covered by my insurance

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: I was not implying there are only two sides to this issue, --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... replied: No, I meant two as in more than one, not as in fewer than three (or more)! IOW,

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Peter
--- On Wed, 5/18/11, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Magical Puja Placebo To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 6:03 PM On 05/17/2011 04:19 AM, Vaj wrote: Unhooking From Maharishi's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread Yifu
thx...10 years - that's about how long I was a real Catholic; but now I'm a lapsed-Catholic and proud of it! Paul Bettany (in the movie Priest) was asked in an interview re: his being typecast as a Priest. The interviewer asked him if he were a lapsed Catholic and he said very very lapsed.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Osama's porn collection [1 Attachment]

2011-05-18 Thread Tom Pall
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com wrote: I was just wondering what 72 virgins look like. If they couldn't lose it on earth, what make anyone think they could lose it in heaven. They look like this.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Osama's porn collection

2011-05-18 Thread Yifu
http://www.fantasygallery.net/demoray/art_7_the-turning.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: I was just wondering what 72 virgins look like. If they couldn't lose it on earth, what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hi! In three days you will all be dead - OR - It's 'Rapture Saturday'

2011-05-18 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@... wrote: Armageddon is on a Saturday. Were you thinking Sunday? As if. Sunday is when God rests, barbecues some wild salmon, watches Idol. Just saw Jacob's farewell song yesterday. He was IMO by far the best singer, at least from a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-18 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Dik heads - Good one! LOL diz [nom. sing: dik? -- card] 2 f. point, esp. cardinal point, quarter of the sky (4--10), region, place, (foreign) country, space (opp. {kAla}); direction, precept, rule; manner, way. --{dizi