Having spent some time in Human Resources interviewing people, this one
has always tickled me. I would have hired him. :-)
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Hey Bhairitu, the first thing that needs to be done is to
de-link the 'political-system' from the economic-system.
Of course, you can't ban private donations. That would go
against the very spirit of democracy and freedom.
However, you can create a situation in which there is no
incentive for
Just sayin'. :-)
http://foodbeast.com/2013/12/05/starbucks-unveils-450-rose-metal-gift-ca\
rds/
http://foodbeast.com/2013/12/05/starbucks-unveils-450-rose-metal-gift-c\
ards/
But isn't this an interesting sign of the times. People will be
waiting online to hit the Send button and wait to see if
Read the thread? I started it - tell Bill to start his own thread if he
wants to dialog about human sacrifice, if he knows how, and stop trying
to wreck this one, which is about MMY's seven states of consciousness.
Any intelligent seeker coming here to read would think he's an idiot
with ADD
My reply post to this has been deleted. The album cover was simply too
traumatizing and gross even for me. I had a nightmare and am up at 4:30. My
apologies to you all who get email. Please forgive me. It's Sunday - I will
pray and do penance today.
We don't attend many big stadium performances or many touring shows
anymore either - bad sound, hard to find a parking spot, and expensive.
The last big event we saw was The River Walk Blues Festival in 2006. We
much prefer smaller clubs where we can really get into the music and
have some fun
These sold out in the first 30 minutes. It was on the nightly news.
After a year of messy contemplation, I just purchased a used 32' RV, using my
sense of smell - Self-contained (you can save about $80,000 by buying used,
with lo miles). Phase two is purchasing ~5 to 10 acres of land in the Sierra
foothills, or south of here. Phase three is to buy, and
Jimmy Vaughan
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The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff, live on Austin City Limits
http://youtu.be/gqc3jWtE2CY
Jimmie Vaughan, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, has played with Eric
Clapton, Robert Cray, and BB King, and many others during the 2010
Crossroads Guitar Festival.
If you are using Yahoo Mail, it's been down for days. Go figure. Thanks
for the link to the punk band. LoL!
On 12/8/2013 6:52 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote:
My reply post to this has been deleted. The album cover was simply
too traumatizing and gross even for me. I had a nightmare and
But why the nuke subs and naval cruisers anyway?
Is there a reason they started all this taunt around the anniversary day of
infamy? Pearl Harbor?
authfriend@... wrote:
You do know the Chinese aren't going to bomb us, right?
The chinese central committee secured a really
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
After a year of messy contemplation, I just purchased a used 32' RV, using my
sense of smell - Self-contained (you can save about $80,000 by buying used,
with lo miles). Phase two is purchasing ~5 to 10 acres of land in
What can any of us individually do to avert this danger?
Meditate and act with discipline together.
That is what any of us can do to avert this danger;
Bolster our collective forces in defense,
including more meditation.
-Buck
But why the nuke subs and naval cruisers anyway?
Is
Much of this letter could easily apply to the Big M.
excerpts from
Letter From a Former Swami
by Stan Trout
I’d like to add this letter, if possible, as an appendix to the article on
Muktananda by William Rodarmor. It is a statement of my thoughts and opinions
of Muktananda after two years
My Yahoo Mail hasn't been down at all.
Richard wrote:
If you are using Yahoo Mail, it's been down for days. Go figure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SibyiIAbKf4feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SibyiIAbKf4feature=youtu.be
We don''t know the intention of these communists. Get some Chinese generals,
some high rank party tru-believer communists, throw in a couple of red
narcissists and a megalomaniac all together in the war room of the old Palace
playing with the controls of nuke subs and cruisers, and we got
Ah, turq, thanks, you gave me a good laugh this snowy morning. Plus my internet
at home is still down. I'm actually in Argiro Student Center on MUM campus.
Hey, I figure I'm an alumni! And there are no students queuing up for the
computer.
Anyway, hopefully I will return...
On Sunday,
Richard, could it be yahoo and not my server?! I got a service call into my
Internet provider, fiber optic Lisco, very fast. Anyway, keep up the good work
(-:
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 8:30 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you are using Yahoo Mail, it's been down
I've been using my Chromebook laptop with the Chromecast USB device and it
works well. The Chrome Browser provided the interface I always wanted to
manage my streaming media from Amazon, Netflix and Hulu using a Wi-Fi home
connection. I've also been using Google Mail for several years and you
I think they should have a different color for guys (-:
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 4:36 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Just sayin'. :-)
http://foodbeast.com/2013/12/05/starbucks-unveils-450-rose-metal-gift-cards/
But isn't this an interesting sign of the times. People will
emptybill, what is the ESSSENCE of being a tantrika? IMO it's being at home
with good and bad. I think turq has that. Of course I could be wrong about
that. And everything else! So what?!
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:02 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com
emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Since when
This could happen as more people are moving out of rural areas of the states to
bigger cities. Will the new state of Jefferson be created in northern
California?
http://news.yahoo.com/rural-america-secessionist-sentiment-stirs-050913017.html
This is ominous as hell. I apologize for the strong language here but we should
sit up in meditation around this. This is a call to mediation in meditation.
This is a call to surround the situation with deep transcending meditation.
This is now our wake-up call to meditation to neutralize and
Ok, emptybill, all I'm saying is that men have also been involved in killing,
maybe not ritual killing, but killing nonetheless. And what about the
Inquisition? Wasn't that pretty male dominated?! Anyway, we've all been
victims, perps and rescuers down through our various lives. Good time to
Neither Muktananda nor MMY has anything to do with your spiritual
practice or your progress on a spiritual path. It's all up to you,
whether or not you have a spiritual practice or not. You make your own
decisions in life - it's not a solution just to blame others for your
own failures. This
Advaitist Francis Lucille. student of Jean Klein, says that it doesn't matter
how corrupt a teacher is. If the student is sincere, he or she will get benefit
from the teacher. As for mechanics of consciousness, and in this context, I'd
say what we unconsciously believe will affect what
Er, Buck, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, not the Chinese.
Look, we know you like to hype threats to scare folks into the Domes, but this
one is so absurd it seriously damages any credibility you had.
Buck wrote:
But why the nuke subs and naval cruisers anyway?
Is there a
Maybe YOUR Yahoo Mail hasn't been down at all. Go figure.
It's probably a problem with my Internet Explorer 11. So, I seem to be able
to get Yahoo Mail using the Google Chrome. At any rate, YAHOO SUCKS!
This graph displays status activity for the selected service over the past
24 hours. For
No. No, it's not. Sorry. We have plenty of things to worry about, but China
taking out the West Coast with nuclear bombs isn't one of them.
Buck wrote:
This is ominous as hell.
snip nonsense
There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html
http://http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html?hpwamp;rref=magazine
China would probably not instigate a nuclear attack on the U.S. - that
would be suicidal on their part. The U.S. could hit them real hard from
all sides and close off all their resources by air and sea in a matter
of hours. Without fuel imports they would probably all starve in a
matter of
Maybe. I can read my Yahoo Mail, what little there is, using the Google
Chrome Browser, but not with Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer11. Go
figure.
On 12/8/2013 9:26 AM, Share Long wrote:
Richard, could it be yahoo and not my server?! I got a service call
into my Internet provider, fiber
OK meister professor ... tell us the where MMY got the teachings about the
seven states of consciousness.
You wanna lecture us? Here's your chance.
Cite the specific, traditional sources for MMY's schema.
However, no speculation!
MMY asserted that his teachings were the
Don't you realize that the Inquisition still exists?
It is now called The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Yep, it was always male-dominated, church-appointed accusers but the civil
authorities enacted the torture and punishment.
Sorta like the current inquisitions into the
Don't you realize that the Inquisition still exists?
It is now called The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Yep, it was always male-dominated, church-appointed accusers but the civil
authorities enacted the torture and punishment.
Sorta like the current inquisitions into the
Nope, Richard, it's the battery of the connector gizmo for the fiber optic. My
wonderful neighbor gave me the password to their wifi and here I am! Hopefully
Lisco will fix or replace battery tomorrow. I had well over 100 posts this
morning. You all keep up the good work!
On Sunday,
Uh, yes, that's what I said.
Richard wrote:
Maybe YOUR Yahoo Mail hasn't been down at all. Go figure.
It's probably a problem with my Internet Explorer 11. So, I seem to be able to
get Yahoo Mail using the Google Chrome. At any rate, YAHOO SUCKS!
This graph displays status
turq, maybe it's your older, wiser self saying: If your older, wiser self had
thought there was anything it just *had* to
offer you advice on, doncha think it might have done it by now?
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 4:45 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- In
noozguru, I could be wrong about some of this, but isn't electricity out west
generated from dams?! And aren't the dams part of the reason there's a water
shortage?!
On Friday, December 6, 2013 11:07 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
My electric bill through the summer and up
emptybill, I think we all have a little Inquisition judge in us. Anyway, what
are earth hugging nuns?
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:36 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com
emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Don't you realize that the Inquisition still exists?
It is now called The Congregation for the
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
emptybill, what is the ESSSENCE of being a tantrika? IMO it's being at home
with good and bad. I think turq has that. Of course I could be wrong about
that. And everything else! So what?!
Oh dear, let me count the ways...
I already have their Gold Card so I often get a free drink or food.
Except the card is on the app on my phone. They sneak in the deals
sometimes so I have to check before I pay to see if I have a reward
coming. You have to tell them you want to use it as they start to ring
you up and then
I don't find what you are talking about, as being confined to here. It is more
apparent in the US, because, one, we have very few traditions to slow us down,
and two, the development of our technology has outpaced the development of our
consciousness.
I recall Maharishi referring to the US as
I think we all have a little Inquisition judge in us...
What is his shoe size?
I am perfectly OK with making spur of the moment judgments about everything
from how far away the door is, to my opinions on someone's hat, or politics, or
religion, etc.
But to imply that we are all somehow
are you willing to apply this same bullshit mentality to the way our
politicians work the country?
On Sun, 12/8/13, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Swami Muktananda
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
It didn't work out so well when South Carolina did it in 1861.
On Sun, 12/8/13, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Secessionists Grow in Rural States
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, December 8, 2013,
And no possible chance of over-arching conflict with the North Koreans.
Everyone knows they are really just bluffing so they can get more Gucci belts
for their consorts.
Nuns who set up earthen altars to the great mother ... which happened here
(back in the late '70) at a retreat center. That was before the the U.S
Conference of Catholic Bishops was pacified by changing the center name from
Sanskrit to English and instituting a strictly Catholic prayer and
And lots of snow if you select the Sierra foothills. Friends who live
near Grass Valley sent me pictures of all the snow they got yesterday
morning. I thought about moving there myself in 2000 and went to Grass
Valley on business with these friends along. We stopped at a real
estate office
California has only two senators to represent a state with an economy
that is among the top 10 in the world. We also don't get back as much
in federal funds as some of the red states do. So there is a good
argument for splitting it up. Or wait until the US collapses. Then
we'll just become
Well emptybill, I for one salute the nuns who built altars to the Great Mother.
She seems more human to me than Mary does!
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 12:12 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com
emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Nuns who set up earthen altars to the great mother ... which happened here
emptybill, are you saying that it's really all about women?!
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 12:04 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com
emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
And no possible chance of over-arching conflict with the North Koreans.
Everyone knows they are really just bluffing so they can get more
A single EMP detonation along the upper West coast will turn Chanukastan into a
dark hole after the fourth day. The hoards will roam looking for food because
of the barren shelves and inoperable gas stations.
Think North Korean balloon launch from a submarine in prelude to an invasion
of
Thank you for the info. Good intuition - I had been looking in that area, only
a little further down the hill. I am trying to stay around 1,000 feet, to avoid
a lot of snow. I am not to the point of visiting sites, except through G Earth,
since I want to get used to what I have, so far, and
It was dark and disturbing, although the tune wasn't bad. I was channeling
S3raphita's seeming interest with the deviant psyche (sorry S3raphita).
However, I'm too sensitive; I don't see horror movies either. It all affects
me for the worse. I'm *still* feeling the affects of my own post, so
MJ,
Just remember that Lee's surrender to Grant may be invalid. Technically, the
south still has a Confederacy.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
One-act play by Samuel Beckett, performed by Harold Pinter
In five parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKteoIGbF0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrfzhOaMkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY4ibYIWSss
The country needs to be about 90% socialist and 10% capitalist (actually
free enterprise). The latter would take care of the folks who want to
work for themselves and the former the majority who don't want to worry
about running a company. You would need to limit the size of companies
I have a feeling the young North Korean dictator may be trying to figure
out how to transition the country from a totalitarian state to a
democracy without spinning out of control. Schooled abroad he might
like to see his country join the world community rather than be the
spoiled brat in the
Just call up jeezus on yur cell phone and say hey jeezus ... I'm making you a
little manger in my heart. Jus' say ... 'I' am throwing down 'my' 'I' an'
puttin' 'You on 'my' throne. Jeezus yur my CEO, etc.
The sages of ancient India apparently all agreed on certain fundamental
assumptions. It might be fruitful to understand just what it was that
they they were all agreeing on, rather than to explore their
differences. There is a standard philosophy used by the ancient Indian
sages to describe
Just got back from chilly downtown where I skipped my walk on the
waterfront. Checking my Starbucks app I noticed I had a free drink
coming. Yesterday it was a breakfast sandwich BOGO. Starbucks also is
selling their own kups machine called the Verismo and for a decent price.
On 12/08/2013
Bhairitu,
In January, 1993, my car died out near Redding, CA on my way back to the
Northwest. Then, the snow fell at the Siskiyou Mountain pass. So, I gave up
my car at the gas station and flew back on an airplane to Seattle. Other than
that, Redding is supposedly considered one of the
Indeed, in the Bay Area we have folks who are really nothing more than
would-be sex therapists claiming to be tantrics. I have a feeling that
Turq would probably like to be of that order. :-D
On 12/07/2013 04:02 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Since when is Turq an actual, real Tantrika?
I saw a fascinating interview on France 24, recently -- the equivalent of BBC
world service. It was with President Goodluck Jonathan, of Nigeria.
He was explaining how Nelson Mandela changed African politics, by having a
broader vision for South Africa, and the ability to carry it out, than
Buck, off the top of your head (without looking at the Internet) please
define communism.
On 12/08/2013 12:57 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
*We don''t know the intention of these communists. Get some Chinese
generals, some high rank party tru-believer communists, throw in a
couple of
On 12/8/2013 10:14 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Cite the specific, traditional sources for MMY's schema.
It has already been established that MMY's first four states of
consciousness are drawn directly from Mandukya Upanishad, which was
commented on by Gaudapadacharya, the first exponent of
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Yesterday, we went to this place - San Antonio Public Library:
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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:
Today, I went to this place to see Manny, Moe, and Jack about an oil
change for one of my cars.
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We went to a friend's wedding yesterday and I wore a suit from Botany,
black; a Van Heusen dress shirt, white; a Penny's tie, red and blue
stripes; and Nunn Bush shoes, black. Val wore a velvet pants suit from
SAKS, black; and boots from Sketchers, black.
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Share
Let me re-phrase what I said: YAHOO MAIL SUCKS!
On 12/8/2013 10:59 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
Uh, yes, that's what I said.
Richard wrote:
Maybe YOUR Yahoo Mail hasn't been down at all. Go figure.
It's probably a problem with my Internet Explorer 11. So, I seem to be
able to get
Shankaracharya's guru had told Shankaracharya that Patanjali was reincarnated
as Govinda Bhagavatpada and was meditating in a cave somewhere in the state of
samadhi.[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali#cite_note-12
Typical hindoo apocrypha
Re It was dark and disturbing, although the tune wasn't bad. I was channeling
S3raphita's seeming interest with the deviant psyche (sorry S3raphita).
However, I'm too sensitive; I don't see horror movies either.:
Horror is one of my favourite genres. However, it's the atmospheric stuff I
Re Off the top of your head (without looking at the Internet) please define
communism:
You keep posting this challenge. We all know what Communist states were like -
and we all know we sure as hell wouldn't want to live there. If you mean cuddly
communism with a small c it boils down to
Thank you S3raphita; balance is always achieved one way or another. I am stuck
in the psychology of my illusionary self in the moment and the sensitivity of
my feeling self, so do plan to retreat for awhile and allow my mind to quiet
and my heart to heal; my reactivity is paining me. No advice
I post the challenge because most people throw the word around applying
it to things like totalitarian and authoritarian states. Those can also
be right wing. They also confuse communism and socialism.
Most of the arguments I hear are emotional and not intellectual. IOW,
just knew jerk
When I say Wayne County was disturbing I should have added he was also
hilarious. It's the darkest of black humour but his performances in the punk
venues in London were always packed out.
Communalism? Son, you got a mental picture of the Standing Committee of the
Chinese Communist Politburo. They are the ones who bought out Smithfield hogs,
lock, stock and all for cash. You know it (Red chinese commune-ism in this
case) when you see it. Communism. Communists. That picture is
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Concise and thoughtful. Helpful too as a checking to read it.RJ, Thanks for
posting this short scholarly piece here on FFL. It was a pleasure to read it
and then go in to meditate.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
On 12/8/2013 10:14 AM, emptybill@...
The Chinese Communist Politburo bought Smithfield? Maybe you better let
NBC News know because they say it was bought by Shuanghui, a Chinese
company based in Hong Kong and not by the Chinese government.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/chinese-get-ok-buy-american-pork-producer-4B11243408
On
Follow the money.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
The Chinese Communist Politburo bought Smithfield? Maybe you better let NBC
News know because they say it was bought by Shuanghui, a Chinese company based
in Hong Kong and not by the Chinese government.
Every country that has nukes has 'em pointed at every other country that has
nukes. You sound as though it would be news to you to learn that we have nukes
pointed at China.
I'm beginning to think you're having us on.
Buck wrote:
Communalism? Son, you got a mental picture of the Standing
Actually there is a remarkable similarity with the TM movement in these
business things. Like the Chinese there is a small group at the top and then a
flow-chart that gets really wide right away and then real deep under that with
individuals and a flow of committees. Yes, you won't be able to
Try...Thinking...Less. It is not denial - it is peace, and it transcends any
violence. :-)
Do less. Think less. Understand less. Be less.
Don't worry - be happy. Smoke another one.
Hmmm ...
Wind-Up
When I was young and they packed me off to school
and taught me how not to play the game,
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success,
or if they said that I was a fool.
So I left there in the morning
with their God tucked underneath my arm --
their half-assed smiles and the
Although I don't believe a Beckett play can
ever be reduced to a single interpretation,
Spoiler Alert.
Judy,
Thank you for posting this, I found it
compelling to watch.
It's not easy to admit that we're all Krapp
(smile), and, in the end, alone.
I must confess my
Yep, from the outside, it may look like, do less, is part of the equation.
No worries, nearly empty bill, and doobie bro'; necessary thought always
survives
(as the only mechanism available, for fulfillment of desires).
When I was in Watkins booksellers today (which specialises in new age, occult
and eastern religions) an old geezer walked in, took one look around, and
announced loudly to we customers: Too many words! Far too many words! and
then took his leave.
Paying my respects to this awakened one I
David Simon (The Wire, Treme) with a rap on capitalism:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/08/david-simon-there-are-now-two-americas-my-country-is-a-horror-show/
On 12/08/2013 03:20 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re Off the top of your head (without looking at the Internet) please
define
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
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I love the fact that you post photos of yourself. Did you know that your hands
appear younger than your
“Mediation in Meditation” It worked before with the Soviets to drop the Iron
Curtain and bring down the Wall.
What worked was that the USSR became bankrupt trying to compete with US
military muscle. Their ballistic submarines were the biggest drain on the
public purse.
If you want
I followed the link.
Re It is that everybody feels that if the society succeeds, I succeed, I
don’t get left behind.:
I second that. But in itself that wouldn't be communism - small-c. I'm in
favour of small-c communism in small communities like artists' colonies where
people have come
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomach_acid
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