[FairfieldLife] Re: Green ‘drivel’ exposed

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Green `drivel' exposedThe godfather of global warming lowers the boom on climate change hysteria Two months ago, James Lovelock, the godfather of global warming, gave a startling interview to msnbc.com in which he

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: [...] We differ in our understanding of terms. Hinduism is a religion

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Jun 23, 2012, at 2:51 PM, John wrote: Aside from a long jail sentence, he better watch his back while in prison. He will be open season for many of the inmates.

[FairfieldLife] Pre-demonization by the media of a show critical of the media

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
As a fan of TV series, and as *not* a fan of the barfbots who tend to be talking heads on TV or propagandabots on the written media, I've been watching the bad reviews roll in on a new TV series. The fascinating thing is that the TV series has not aired. No one has been able to see it *except*

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Jun 23, 2012, at 2:51 PM, John wrote: Aside from a long jail sentence, he better watch his back while in prison. He will be open season for

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: [...] Actully, there is evidence that reading/hearing/performing poetry and music (what are classical Vedic texts except poetry and music?) have

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
LOTR was part of a huge literary project that Tolkien undertook to give the English language a mythos comparable to the Norse sagas, while keeping true to his Christian beliefs. In his eyes, the First through 3rd ages were meant to fill in the blanks between the Fall from the Garden of Eden,

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Modest Proposal For The Coming FFL Posting Week

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 06/21/2012 08:31 PM, awoelflebater wrote: snip I think you are the guy who has some trouble with that Judy Stein. At least from a couple of the posts

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: [...] Thanks for this, Raunchydog. And maybe you and Maharishi are right. But that would make me right once and wrong now.:-) An interesting thought, that. Or maybe slightly wrong then and slightly wrong now...

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: LOTR was part of a huge literary project that Tolkien undertook to give the English language a mythos comparable to the Norse sagas, while keeping true to his Christian beliefs. Ahem. While I agree with the first part of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Robert
'Firstly, Let Us Provide a Context for this Discussion'... What are you talking about, when you say, 'Personal God' and 'Impersonal God'... My experience is that of the Atma, being 'All That There Is'... When you finally transcend the 'Intellect' and the 'Ego' there becomes the possibility of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread Share Long
Yikes!  It seems like you're suggesting that US would be a better beacon if more women were raped/year.  Are you? From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread Share Long
I think an MSAE girls team just placed 7th in the world Destination Imagination competition in Knoxville.  Plus the school wins lots of athletic awards and drama awards.  All in all, these kids are amazing.  And I bet they score very high in field independence. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pre-demonization by the media of a show critical of the media

2012-06-24 Thread Share Long
I LOVE West Wing.  Intelligent TV isn't always an oxymoron (-: I think Sorkin also did The American President.  Anyway, I'm not sure if Jeff Daniels has the star power to carry it.  Maybe they need someone a little edgier?  We'll see. I sense I'm not too worried about squelching because with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread Share Long
Well the elves seemed a bit divine ish to me.  Weren't they presented as immortal, kind of the sine qua non of divinity?  And didn't they have super powers?  Or at least they glowed all the time (-: I don't know as much about Tolkien as you do, but perhaps they're meant to represent that

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Yikes!  It seems like you're suggesting that US would be a better beacon if more women were raped/year.  Are you? It that how it seems? Yikes indeed. From: salyavin808

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Too bad Robin, how gullible you could be. Maharishi wanted both the markets, the 'personal god market' and the 'impersonal God market'. He did this basicaly to draw in the typical westerner who has a 'protestant

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I think an MSAE girls team just placed 7th in the world Destination Imagination competition in Knoxville.  Plus the school wins lots of athletic awards and drama awards.  All in all, these kids are amazing.  And I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pre-demonization by the media of a show critical of the media

2012-06-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip The show is called The Newsroom, and as I understand it, it debuts tonight on HBO. I've not seen it. Neither has anyone else, except *the very people the show is criticizing*. Are you sure the people who are reviewing it

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Well the elves seemed a bit divine ish to me. Weren't they presented as immortal, kind of the sine qua non of divinity? Immortal, yes. Divine, never. Your association of immortality with divinity is your own, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
Well, I suggest you google a fundamentally religious and Catholic work which is how Tolkien described LOTR: unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion’, to cults or

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
The swords that Gandalf and Bilbo carry glow when orcs approach. Gandalf himself wields fire against the Balrog and defeat it. Just who do you think sends Gandalf back to Middle Earth? And while the elves' immortality doesn't make them divine, they knowingly associate with angels in the First

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pre-demonization by the media of a show critical of the media

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I LOVE West Wing. Intelligent TV isn't always an oxymoron (-: I think Sorkin also did The American President. Anyway, I'm not sure if Jeff Daniels has the star power to carry it. Maybe they need someone a little

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: At no time does Eru take a direct hand in the affairs of men, or dwarves or even elves. This is because the stories told in the Old Testament had not yet taken place, and Man was at least somewhat ignorant of the details of

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: At no time does Eru take a direct hand in the affairs of men, or dwarves or even elves. This is because the stories told in the Old Testament had not

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Modest Proposal For The Coming FFL Posting Week

2012-06-24 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 06/21/2012 08:31 PM, awoelflebater wrote: snip I think you are the guy who

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky? to salyavin

2012-06-24 Thread Share Long
Because I have a human brain and studied both Philosophy and Advanced Grammar at Univ of MD in late sixties (and logic via Atlas Shrugged :-) I got your idea primarily from sentence sequence but also from word choice, syntax and sentence structure. However I also recognize the limitations of

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: snip The LOTR is merely a tiny story in a history that spans thousands of years. Tolkien very deliberately left any overtly religious aspect out of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pre-demonization by the media of a show critical of the media

2012-06-24 Thread Share Long
The critics seem to universally home in on Sorkin's speechifying. IMO, this speaks to the strident anti intellectualism in the US.  Well, as I said, maybe someone a little edgier than Daniels.  Or with a little more drawing power.  And not as edgy as the Network guy.  I've always thought

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: Aah America, the only country on earth where more men are raped every year than women. What a beacon of civilisation you are! Funny how resentments carry over from events over 200 years ago. Oh well.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: In Love and God Maharishi beautifully expresses how he

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: People who seemingly just can't wait to see Sandusky gang-raped, don't seem to realize who is paying for that spectacle. They are. Eliminating Prison Rape Would Save Society $50 Billion Per Year: Report

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@ wrote: Sorry, everyone: You will need headphones to hear that

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread feste37
I think the point is that MSAE produces well-rounded students who excel in many areas, both academic and nonacademic. There are plenty of schools that would love to have a record of achievement to match MSAE's. As for teaching them nonsense, I prefer to think that they are being presented with

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Well the elves seemed a bit divine ish to me. Weren't they presented as immortal, kind of the sine qua non of divinity? Immortal, yes. Divine,

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Aah America, the only country on earth where more men are raped every year than women. What a beacon of civilisation you are! Funny how

[FairfieldLife] Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death. By the divine paradox, that which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
Did you miss the quotation marks at the end of the passage? Some people look for details like that. Otherwise it can detract a little from the authenticity. Jusy sayin. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: Out of the darkness of my life, so much

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Aah America, the only country on earth where more men are raped every

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: I think the point is that MSAE produces well-rounded students who excel in many areas, both academic and nonacademic. There are plenty of schools that would love to have a record of achievement to match MSAE's. As for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Steve, The quotation marks should be there; they aren't. I guess Raunchydog was right: For here is the touch of the Impersonal God—erasing those quotation marks. Creating the sense of the zero-ness at the end of the sentence we call life. The Absolute strikes again! But I will defy the

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: At no time does Eru take a direct hand in the affairs of men, or dwarves or even elves. This is because the stories told in the Old Testament had not

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
I am not quoted anywhere in this post... L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Aah America, the only country on earth where more men are raped

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: You weren't Blue over the Kings' deserved triumph, right? In the overall series, the better the Kings did, the better the Blues looked. We were all a bit mystified at a straight four game loss. Could it have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread feste37
Fortunately, I do not have any kids. I do not share your belief that what these students are taught is nonsense. Of course, some reject it later, when they go on to other things. That's to be expected, just like sometimes people reject Catholicism, or whatever they were brought up with. As far

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
WTF? Saly, did you delete your reply about the USofA? I thought it was a pretty good reply. Why so? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I think the point is that MSAE produces

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: At no time does Eru take a direct hand in the affairs of men, or dwarves or even

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
as to what Tolkien explicitly meant, here is how google translate translates the Greek word Tolkien used to describe Gandalf: http://translate.google.com/#el|en|%20␣γγελος angel. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: There are naturally no precise

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Dixon
I know! And we don't even serve tea and crumpets after a good prison gang rape! Totally uncivilized! From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 1:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for

[FairfieldLife] Re: LOTR vs. The Bhagavad-Gita: the mythic smackdown match

2012-06-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip I closed before with my feelings on the matter. You may have missed it, so I repeat it. You are welcome to your opinion. Translation: An opinion based on facts is no better than an opinion that is contrary to the facts,

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread feste37
I guess our English friend realized that it doesn't pay to mess with the USA! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: WTF? Saly, did you delete your reply about the USofA? I thought it was a pretty good reply. Why so? --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
Hinduism is a generic term... Jason: Well, it's not exactly 'Indus valley' practices. The traditional view of the spread of the Indo-European languages holds that an Ur-language, ancestor of all others, was spoken by nomadic horsemen who lived in southern Russia near the beginning of

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread feste37
Good luck against Italy tonight, mate. A chance for glory! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: If I'm butter then he's a hot knife

2012-06-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Jun 22, 2012, at 11:42 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I'm working on my third CD and have most of the songs written and am not comparing them to Fiona's at all, so I am happy with them. Well I look forward to it. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Lawson, I am sorry for the mistaken attribution. It was nabluesoss1006, not you, who made this comment about that last line to Raunchydog. I recognize in retrospect, having received this information from you that it, after all (what was said by nablusoss1006), didn't quite have the feel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@ wrote: You weren't Blue over the Kings' deserved triumph, right? In the overall series, the better the Kings did, the better the Blues looked.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pre-demonization by the media of a show critical of the media

2012-06-24 Thread Bhairitu
On 06/24/2012 01:59 AM, turquoiseb wrote: As a fan of TV series, and as *not* a fan of the barfbots who tend to be talking heads on TV or propagandabots on the written media, I've been watching the bad reviews roll in on a new TV series. The fascinating thing is that the TV series has not

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: WTF? Saly, did you delete your reply about the USofA? I thought it was a pretty good reply. Why so? Posted it too soon. Was going to add more about the death of England (as I see it) but got sidetracked. I love

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
Barry, This economic angle fascinates me, thanks for posting this. Prison rape and the wink wink, nudge nudge, tacit approval for it in our justice system is one of the most barbaric aspects of our culture. I am ashamed that it is not only permitted, but now I realize financed by WE THE

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Jason
--- Jason jedi_spock@ wrote: Too bad Robin, how gullible you could be. Maharishi wanted both the markets, the 'personal god market' and the 'impersonal God market'. He did this basicaly to draw in the typical westerner who has a 'protestant background'.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Good luck against Italy tonight, mate. A chance for glory! Football isn't my specialised subject but history seems to repeat itself. We'll win tonight and come up against Germany who'll kick our pasty behinds, as usual. But we

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Modest Proposal For The Coming FFL Posting Week

2012-06-24 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 06/21/2012 08:31 PM, awoelflebater wrote: snip I think you are the guy who

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Fortunately, I do not have any kids. I do not share your belief that what these students are taught is nonsense. Of course, some reject it later, when they go on to other things. That's to be expected, just like sometimes

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Modest Proposal For The Coming FFL Posting Week

2012-06-24 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 06/21/2012 08:31 PM, awoelflebater wrote: snip I think you are the guy who

[FairfieldLife] Re: If I'm butter then he's a hot knife

2012-06-24 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Jun 22, 2012, at 11:42 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I'm working on my third CD and have most of the songs written and am not

[FairfieldLife] Re: If I'm butter then he's a hot knife

2012-06-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
Hi Ann, I love the guy, he is Dr. John's musical guru. He used to kick this uprights at the bottom for percussion. He created the New Orleans two line rhythm by combining the simple axe song beat of Delta blues with a Rumba beat. Musical gumbo thickened with file powder (made out of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Jason
So, the allied bombing of Monte Cassino was a cosmic event in which God withdraws himself from the church and the ontological nature of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE changed.?!! Give me a break. Robin please face this, You were never enlightened in the first place. You are a notch better than

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: Philosophy is also a science, or should be. That's quite some statement salyavin808! Could you elaborate on that? What do you mean? Consequently I've never even considered that there is even such a thing as

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Jason, Just so you don't misunderstand me: The Allied Bombing of Monte Cassino did not CAUSE anything to happen; it is just the event which marks off for me—chronologically and approximately—when the universe was no longer the same. I have no idea whatsoever the precise moment when the

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Barry, This economic angle fascinates me, thanks for posting this. Prison rape and the wink wink, nudge nudge, tacit approval for it in our justice system is one of the most barbaric aspects of our culture. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread Jason
Robin, the last supper ritual (eucharist) of breaking bread and wine is an ancient ritual that pre-dates christianity. Many ancient middle-eastern religions like Mitraism had this ritual and Christianity borrowed it from them and continued the practice as it's own. By the way, I wonder

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Modest Proposal For The Coming FFL Posting Week

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
Hail, Berry! L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: [...] You just don't giggle enough when you bat your eyes seductively, Judy... L. Judy bats her eyes and men get the hots:

[FairfieldLife] 'Yeshua bin Joseph;'....my Lord, My Sweet Lord'...

2012-06-24 Thread Robert
It means that he 'Holds a Special Place' in the 'History of Man and Woman, son, daughter, mother, father... 'The Good, the bad, and the ugly... During Roman times, the Jews had been 'Conquered by the Romans'...The Roman 'Belief in the Father God in Heaven' was mocked, as the 'Inferior Jews'

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia

2012-06-24 Thread Bhairitu
On 06/23/2012 10:22 PM, raunchydog wrote: How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape by Matt Taibbi The defendants in the case – Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg and Peter Grimm – worked for GE Capital, the finance arm of

[FairfieldLife] Re: My TM mantra dilemna--- help requested...

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Philosophy is also a science, or should be. That's quite some statement salyavin808! Not really. Could you elaborate on that? What do

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: If you want to bum yourself out about this whole subject by seeing what the reality of America has sunk to, Google recent articles about the Louisiana state prison system. The taxpayers pay the corporations that run the

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: If you want to bum yourself out about this whole subject by seeing what the reality of America has sunk to, Google recent articles about the

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: If you want to bum yourself out about this whole subject by seeing what

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: If you want to bum yourself out about this whole subject by seeing what

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] The Origins of Continuum

2012-06-24 Thread Bhairitu
Episode 5 plays tonight on Canada's Showcase network. Here's an interview with the show creator Simon Barry who says he was originally pitching it to US networks. Though not mentioned in the article, according to the IMDB message board for the series he tweeted earlier this week that the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread Vaj
On Jun 24, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Robin Carlsen wrote: Dear Steve, The quotation marks should be there; they aren't. I guess Raunchydog was right: For here is the touch of the Impersonal God—erasing those quotation marks. Creating the sense of the zero-ness at the end of the sentence we call

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread emptybill
Jason As you seem to have learned in your inquiries, you can't take Robin's solipsistic hermeneutics too seriously. His framework for comparing Yoga/Vedanta/Eastern spirituality against some sort of quasi-neo-Thomism is myopic at best - although in actuality it is simply uninformed. I think

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tolkien on the Eucharist (pre ABMC)

2012-06-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Jun 24, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Robin Carlsen wrote: Dear Steve, The quotation marks should be there; they aren't. I guess Raunchydog was right: For here is the touch of the Impersonal God—erasing those quotation

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
Seems to me that the US has always been a pretty violent place. Maybe that comes with the greater amount of freedom that's always been a part of the country, including the liberal gun laws. And, I might mention that you may be one of the biggest consumers here of American culture in the form of

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Modest Proposal For The Coming FFL Posting Week

2012-06-24 Thread authfriend
Ann and raunchy, your checks are in the mail. But you're overdoing it *just* a bit, don't you think? Better to undersell than oversell. I'd really rather not have to undergo plastic surgery in order to avoid making liars of you both. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-06-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Jason As you seem to have learned in your inquiries, you can't take Robin's solipsistic hermeneutics too seriously. His framework for comparing Yoga/Vedanta/Eastern spirituality against some sort of quasi-neo-Thomism is

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Barry, This economic angle fascinates me, thanks for posting this. Prison rape and the wink wink, nudge nudge, tacit approval for it in our justice system is one of the most barbaric aspects of our culture. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: If I'm butter then he's a hot knife

2012-06-24 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Hi Ann, I love the guy, he is Dr. John's musical guru. He used to kick this uprights at the bottom for percussion. He created the New Orleans two line rhythm by combining the simple axe song beat of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Dixon
A good subject for a David Lynch film! From: seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 4:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Next for Jerry Sandusky?   Seems to me that the US has

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2012-06-24 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jun 23 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Jun 30 00:00:00 2012 163 messages as of (UTC) Mon Jun 25 00:01:37 2012 21 salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com 16 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 14 sparaig lengli...@cox.net

[FairfieldLife] Nyaya sutras: what up?

2012-06-24 Thread ultrarishi
Since I took the Sidhis many moons ago, I have not followed too closely some of the knowledge that has been coming out about other Vedic texts. I was scanning the MUM Press online booksstore and came across several Sanskrit books listed I am not familiar with. I was particular intrigued by the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nyaya sutras: what up?

2012-06-24 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi no_reply@... wrote: Since I took the Sidhis many moons ago, I have not followed too closely some of the knowledge that has been coming out about other Vedic texts. I was scanning the MUM Press online booksstore and came across several

[FairfieldLife] Scorpions doing a neat cover of Across The Universe

2012-06-24 Thread Seraphita
http://tinyurl.com/7t7r74d