Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Ravi Chivukula
​ Basicaly, in eastern philosophy enlightenment is an one way trip. You discover who you are and that's it. ​ ​ One way trip to where? What is this you discover you are and that's it? On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jason jedi_sp...@yahoo.com wrote: ** --- emilymae.reyn

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Ravi Chivukula
What is this stubbornness emptybill? You are saying you will use the experiences of someone, the context, the narrative of someone from thousands of years ago as the yardstick for someone who has mystical experiences now - in this modern age? Do you think Advaita Vedanta is an actual insight

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@... wrote: { cue voice of Combo (deceased tweeker and dealer of life threatening addictive drugs but righteous in his own way and forever remembered as providing the cook RV for the chump change remains of Mr. White's life savings

[FairfieldLife] Graham Green and Russian roulette?

2013-08-23 Thread cardemaister

[FairfieldLife] RE: Graham Green and Russian roulette?

2013-08-23 Thread cardemaister

[FairfieldLife] Re: Graham Green and Russian roulette?

2013-08-23 Thread salyavin808
Hmm, I couldn't watch that video because I'm in England, apparently channel 4 don't mind copyright breaches outside the UK? Another thing, when I hit the reply button the text of the message didn't appear in the reply box as it usual does, which could make conversations difficult round

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: I am afraid one of my worst plot point fears is about to be reified. I just love how you managed to sneak the word reified into a discussion group that's

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Robin could have been in Unity consciousness, where similarity predominates, over differences. But that SOC is still relative to one's singular identity. The identity must shift to a less localized state to grow

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Robin could have been in Unity consciousness, where similarity predominates, over differences. But that SOC is still relative to one's singular

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Robin claims enlightenment *in the past*, decades ago. Enlightenment is always *in the present*, never in the past.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
iranitea, I would say that this is a description of the movement from CC to GC where fullness of fullness, the Absolute moves into the fullness of emptiness, the relative. The Self in CC has recognized that there is something else and the heartfelt inquiry into what that something else is,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pfc. Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
Answer to your serious question: we shall see. As to your other comments; on a more mundane level, it's clear that we all have masculine and feminine aspects. For example, we all have estrogen and testosterone flowing around in our bodies. Given the ever expanding nature of the universe, it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
Xeno, reading Sam Harris is like drinking cool, clean water from a pristine, gurgling mountain stream. Thanks for posting. From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:52 PM Subject:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
PS to Xeno: but of course I can't help but wonder what Sam Harris would say about my earlier post this morning on the topic of fullness of fullness and fullness of emptiness! From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Jason
--- Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@... wrote: Basicaly, in eastern philosophy enlightenment is an one way trip. You discover who you are and that's it. One way trip to where? What is this you discover you are and that's it? Sorry for the late reply, Ravi. It's a one-way trip to

[FairfieldLife] Sal, What have you been eating?

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Jackson
England: Queen’s Swan Is Barbecued and Eaten By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: August 21, 2013 The charred carcass of one of Queen Elizabeth’s own swans was found on a riverbank near Windsor Castle after having been barbecued and eaten, according to the police and a charity called Swan Lifeline.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Robin claims enlightenment *in the past*, decades ago. Enlightenment is always *in the present*, never in the past. Robin does not claim to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip One wonders what the belief they all share IS that causes them to color their own perceptions and shape them such that the Barry Is Bad meme has basically taken over their lives. One wonders what the belief of Barry's

[FairfieldLife] RE: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread cardemaister

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Jason
--- authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Robin claims enlightenment *in the past*, decades ago. --- iranitea no_reply@ wrote: Enlightenment is always *in the present*, never in the past. --- authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Robin does not claim to be enlightened in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Graham Green and Russian roulette?

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: (replying to cardemaister): snip Another thing, when I hit the reply button the text of the message didn't appear in the reply box as it usual does, which could make conversations difficult round here... This seems

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Yeah the whole deal with Unity SOC, is that it is still in terms of me. *I* see the world in terms of myself. *I* see and experience oneness in the world. But it is an intermediate step, and was never meant to seem permanent. By associating in Unity with everything experienced, eventually that

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
cardemaister wrote: As per yoga-suutras, when one reaches enlightenment (kaivalya), the guNa-s become puruSaartha-shuunya. AFAIK, there's no force or power in the universe that could reverse that process... That's the standard belief, yes. Maybe it's not correct? --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I am sorry, but this is incorrect, Share. The movement from CC to GC is one of perceiving the finest relative. This gives the mind the entire spectrum of perceived reality to consider, but is not the movement from UC, onward. Both the me of CC, and the me of GC are the same. There can also be

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
To your last point, yes, these concepts are torture, if they are not realized. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I am sorry, but this is incorrect, Share. The movement from CC to GC is one of perceiving the finest relative. This gives the mind the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sal, What have you been eating?

2013-08-23 Thread salyavin808
Mmmm, . You don't know what you're missing, barbecued with a few boiled potatoes and some mustard with a fried egg on top. A quality bit of foraging. There's too many of the bloody things anyway, we need a bit of predation to keep the numbers down, and if it annoys her majesty all the

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Jason
--- cardemaister@... wrote: As per yoga-suutras, when one reaches enlightenment (kaivalya), the guNa-s become puruSaartha-shuunya. AFAIK, there's no force or power in the universe that could reverse that process... I think you nailed it Cardeboy. It's like asking a man to go back

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: I am afraid one of my worst plot point fears is about to be reified. I just love

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: One wonders what the belief they all share IS that causes them to color their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Actually it is true, or at least I have verified it for myself, that pure awareness cannot be destroyed (muddied?) after it is established - Believe me, I have tried, diligently!! The very curious thing, though, is that someone can have a lot of pure awareness established, and yet, until they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sal, What have you been eating?

2013-08-23 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: Mmmm, . You don't know what you're missing, barbecued with a few boiled potatoes and some mustard with a fried egg on top. A quality bit of foraging. There's too many of the bloody things anyway, we need

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: One wonders what the belief they all share IS that causes them to color their own perceptions and shape them such that the Barry Is Bad meme has basically taken

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread Jason
--- turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: snip One wonders what the belief they all share IS that causes them to color their own perceptions and shape them such that the Barry Is Bad meme has basically taken over their lives. --- authfriend authfriend@... wrote: One wonders what the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chilling

2013-08-23 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: One wonders what the belief they all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sal, What have you been eating?

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I recall my father-in-law talking about duck hunting in San Francisco Bay, years ago, and how when he got the ducks home and cooked one, it had a very fishy flavor, couldn't eat it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
Doc, I think we're saying the same thing, simply using different language. I agree that the Me Self of CC and the Me Self of GC are the same, infinite, absolute, fullness of fullness NON CHANGING. But in CC the relative is seen as separate and different, ever changing. Actually Maharishi calls

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Jason
That's allright Emily. Robin is really a warm, friendly, kind, compasssionate person. The point is I was making an assessment objectively as possible. This dosen't make him any less of a human being. He too is a seeker like the rest of us. --- emilymae.reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
I'd say this is why Maharishi came out with the sidhas: so that these concepts do not have to be torture but can be simply yet fully lived. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Sounds good - please pass this along to those practicing the sidhi techniques! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I'd say this is why Maharishi came out with the sidhas: so that these concepts do not have to be torture but can be simply yet fully

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I think we're saying the same thing, simply using different language. I agree that the Me Self of CC and the Me Self of GC are the same, infinite, absolute, fullness of fullness NON CHANGING. **Although the Jiva

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
Over the years I've been on this forum, I have gradually ceased to believe that there is a universally applicable scheme for the development of enlightenment, such that if someone doesn't have *this* experience or does have *that* experience, it means they are (or are not) enlightened. Some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
I think they know it already. And like the rest of us, doing their best to live this knowing in life (-: From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:24 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I agree. If a person schemes to become enlightened, the very best that they can do is exhaust themselves, which oddly enough is how awakening happens. So, yes, there never has and never will be a process followed that results in liberation. The wraiths on the MUM campus prove that. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I agree. If a person schemes to become enlightened Not what I meant by scheme. I meant something like Maharishi's Seven States of Consciousness--an outline, a format, a schedule, a list of symptoms. , the very best

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: That's allright Emily. Robin is really a warm, friendly, kind, compasssionate person. Yes. Thank you for making that point, Jason. One would never know this from the way some here go after him, though. The point is I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
excuses, excuses! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I think they know it already. And like the rest of us, doing their best to live this knowing in life (-: From: doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
Doc, I agree that there is more to go after UC. I'd say we disagree on what the nature of that more is. Maybe it's like this: I am That CC Thou art That GC All this is That UC That alone is Brahman --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I wasn't aware that we disagreed on what the nature of that more is? Can you explain, please? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I agree that there is more to go after UC. I'd say we disagree on what the nature of that more is. Maybe it's like

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Does Judy go to the Dome? I am confused. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@... wrote: I've never seen anyone in the Dome with a map out! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant too. It makes perfect sense

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
I've never seen anyone in the Dome with a map out! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant too. It makes perfect sense after the fact, but as a map, it sucks, big time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
I don't think the more in UC has to do with identity. I think in CC the identity is already infinite. But not perception, and there is duality between that and the finest relative in GC. In UC the duality drops away. In Brahman it drops away not only in terms of the first object of perception

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Yeah, that's what I meant too. It makes perfect sense after the fact, but as a map, it sucks, big time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I agree. If a person schemes to become

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, I agree that there is more to go after UC. I'd say we disagree on what the nature of that more is. Maybe it's like this: I am That CC Thou art That GC All this is That UC That alone is Brahman One of my

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread obbajeeba
Dom, dom, I think he meant, nap out. Typo, I guess. ;) One sees lots of napping in the domes. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@... wrote: I've never seen anyone in the Dome with a map out! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Buck
Dear Rick, the post-count experiment as a noble hope is clearly failing. The lowest form of writing and argument evidently dominates FFL with their diluting flood of the post-count of FFL. As an elder of the FFL community here I implore you Rick, please save our FFL from the lowest form of

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: Dom, dom, I think he meant, nap out. Typo, I guess. ;) One sees lots of napping in the domes. Ayuh. And brain-farts, too, IIRC, at least in the men's dome. I hear the women are too lady-like for that.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sal, What have you been eating?

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Depends on the kind of duck - the ones I have had in Chinese restaurants have all been mighty tasty. From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:01 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: --- authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Robin claims enlightenment *in the past*, decades ago. --- iranitea no_reply@ wrote: Enlightenment is always *in the present*, never in the past. (Just for the record,

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
Well as Shrek would say, better out than in! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@ wrote: Dom, dom, I think he meant, nap out. Typo, I guess. ;) One sees lots of napping in the domes. Ayuh.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread obbajeeba
Dear Buck, Welcome back, Cowboy! Y Haw The only ads I am getting from all this great enlightening conversation on this FFL Yahoo Group Forum with key words such as, mean girls, below; vvv A real Yahoo email side bar ad (and it ain't about homos or anything added to em.)

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant too. It makes perfect sense after the fact, but as a map, it sucks, big time. That isn't what I'm saying either. Never mind. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
In the Veda is written Brahman says: my indestructible maya Maybe the world is simply God's self deluded brain fart! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: My (admittedly dim) recollection of the whole emptiness vs. fullness dialectic is it was simply two ways of

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread RoryGoff
My (admittedly dim) recollection of the whole emptiness vs. fullness dialectic is it was simply two ways of seeing Brahman or Wholeness -- the Nirguna, essentially Wholeness perceived through the mind as No-thing, the unchanging Void, which may take over all of the relative in a kind of Dark

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
Actually Obbajee, I think Buck suggested such a nipping once before! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: Dear Buck, Welcome back, Cowboy! Y Haw The only ads I am getting from all this great enlightening conversation on this FFL Yahoo Group Forum

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Susan
Agreed that a huge percentage of posts here are ad hominum, and usually made by the same people over and over and over. I think they enjoy that type of interaction, thrive on it even. Not my style, though. And not at all the way things used to be here, as you know. One solution is not to

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread obbajeeba
Thanks, Share, Brain farts made me think of combustion. Does belief make this happen, or is it just a spontaneous en-lighting experience? http://in.screen.yahoo.com/baby-catches-fire-own-173000572.html http://in.screen.yahoo.com/baby-catches-fire-own-173000572.html --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread Share Long
Doc, if Arjuna had been in UC at the beginning of the Gita, then Krishna would not have needed to tell him to be without the three gunas! From: doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August

[FairfieldLife] Re: Graham Green and Russian roulette?

2013-08-23 Thread Seraphita
Same for me when I replied to feste. Is FFL under a Stuxnet computer-worm attack? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: This seems to be a new wrinkle for certain posts. Same happened when I replied to feste.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sal, What have you been eating?

2013-08-23 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Mmmm, . You don't know what you're missing, barbecued with a few boiled potatoes and some mustard with a fried egg on top. A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Rick, the post-count experiment as a noble hope is clearly failing. The lowest form of writing and argument evidently dominates FFL with their diluting flood of the post-count of FFL. As an elder of the FFL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
salyavin, in order for there to be ANY posting limit, someone would have to volunteer to be its enforcer. BTW I vote for 70 per week. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Rick,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Bhairitu
Yup, I find a lot of the chatter here boring. Like Rick, I have a filter that copies any message that addresses me to a sub folder on Thunderbird. On 08/23/2013 08:29 AM, Susan wrote: Agreed that a huge percentage of posts here are ad hominum, and usually made by the same people over

Re: [FairfieldLife] Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Jackson
Buck, how is the lambing and calving and plowing and so forth going? From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:06 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.   Dear

[FairfieldLife] HAPPINESS: hedonic and higher purpose types and our genes

2013-08-23 Thread Susan
Interesting article on the biology of how different types of happiness affect us physically. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/what-our-genes-reveal-about-true-happiness/?ref=health

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of salyavin808 Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:53 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Google? There is an alternative . . .

2013-08-23 Thread Bhairitu
The BIG problem with Google is lack of senior management. Their credo is to turn a bunch of young people loose on projects and see what they come up with. So some young engineer thinks that maybe capturing the wifi SSIDs of home networks when driving a Google Maps car through a neighborhood

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Susan
Also, how is the weather out there this summer? Las Was this summer more typical weather, hotter than normal, what? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Buck, how is the lambing and calving and plowing and so forth going?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
Susan, this summer has definitely been milder than previous summers. We even had a cool spell back in July which is really amazing, but very welcome. Another hot spell is on its way, with temps in high 80s, low 90s, and I'm hoping it will be the last of the season. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I thought Alex said, essentially, find someone else to replace him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of salyavin808 Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:53 AM To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: If the general consensus is to do so, we'll do so after Alex has had his month's reprieve. Perhaps, you missed it, Rick, but I made it clear in an earlier post that if you restore the posting limits, you will need to appoint

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
You can take that up with Krishna. PS The Gita has a lot of Chapters, doesn't it? - 18 or something. Yeah, the space between CC and UC is almost insignificant, given that both are ego trips. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, if Arjuna had been in UC

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
A Tattoo?? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@ wrote: Doc, I agree that there is more to go after UC. I'd say we disagree on what the nature of that more is. Maybe it's like this: I am

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
OK. I personally greatly enjoyed the story of the seven states of consciousness - Kept me occupied for years, as I continued TM, etc. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Yeah, that's

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
What? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: My (admittedly dim) recollection of the whole emptiness vs. fullness dialectic is it was simply two ways of seeing Brahman or Wholeness -- the Nirguna, essentially Wholeness perceived through the mind as No-thing,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google? There is an alternative . . .

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I knew the guy that developed Google maps before it was sold to Google, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the funding came from the govt. The CIA very openly started an incubator fund in Silicon Valley in the 90's. I remember reading about it, though haven't heard anything since - big

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Rick, the post-count experiment as a noble hope is clearly failing. The lowest form of writing and argument evidently dominates FFL with their diluting flood of the post-count of FFL. As an elder of the FFL community

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
ooops...:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@... wrote: Yeah, a lot of chapters. But I think that thing about being without the three gunas is in chapter 2. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: You can take that up with

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread sharelong60
Yeah, a lot of chapters. But I think that thing about being without the three gunas is in chapter 2. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: You can take that up with Krishna. PS The Gita has a lot of Chapters, doesn't it? - 18 or something. Yeah, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread obbajeeba
Grand Pappi Xeno, I love you! Hug hug hug. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Dear Rick, the post-count experiment as a noble hope is clearly failing. The lowest form of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear Rick, the post-count experiment as a noble hope is clearly failing. The lowest form of writing and argument evidently dominates FFL with their diluting flood of the post-count of FFL. As an elder of the FFL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: Something radical, something different needs to be done to save FFL as a spiritual and free place I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. - Ripley, Aliens

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Yep, I can agree that the ego trip of CC, IS, as you imply, *significantly different* than the ego trip of UC, especially from the EGO's POV - LOL. So, please enjoy your UC ego trip, Share, and I mean that sincerely! I love you too!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread RoryGoff
Maybe one of those temporary ones... 'cause, you know, we might change our minds someday :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: A Tattoo?? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread RoryGoff
Yes, me tattoo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: OK. I personally greatly enjoyed the story of the seven states of consciousness - Kept me occupied for years, as I continued TM, etc. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
I like it! Sort of the FFL version of the Pandits. Every few months, Rick could plead for us all to contribute, to bring more Enforcers to FFL, citing glowing statistics of how the on-line environment has improved, as a result of busting some heads. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
My point ed-zackerly, no pfun intended. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: Maybe one of those temporary ones... 'cause, you know, we might change our minds someday :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: A Tattoo?? :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread RoryGoff
OH, I get it now -- Tattoo am asi; Om Tattoo Sat! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: A Tattoo?? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60 sharelong60@ wrote:

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:50 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminating the Ad hominem Post-count on FFL.

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
cluck, cluck, cluck...nuthin' but us chickens here, Rick. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:50 AM To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: How the deluded see the world....

2013-08-23 Thread doctordumbass
Boss Boss de plane de plane!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: Yes, me tattoo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: OK. I personally greatly enjoyed the story of the seven states of consciousness - Kept me occupied

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