[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread aryavazhi
Actually this was tongue-in-cheek as well. The_Abyss was just an ironic mocking of The_Peak. If I understand correctly, it was founded by two guys, who left, because they were scared, because they had heard that somebody had registered a file with their names at the dutch police. Now some of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Much better reply. I'm not going to argue with any of it, because I'm really NOT into arguing, especially about subjects that are purely a matter of opinion/belief and can never be resolved. The only reason I replied earlier was my surprise at you characterizing my posting of Valerie's article

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I can't say that this held my attention long enough to finish it, but I did like his insight that the nature of desire -- especially in the context of desiring enlightenment -- was to perpetuate desire itself. From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Speaking of Religion!

2014-12-24 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
‘Reconversion’ of Religious Minorities Roils India’s Politics |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | ‘Reconversion’ of Religious Minorities Roils India’s Pol...Hindu nationalists here claim that Muslims and Christians have been forcing Hindus to convert to their religions for centuries. So there

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread aryavazhi
It's more like a fun thing, but it does contain some good insights. The part about the surprise egg, starts at min 3, and here the point is an extension of what he said earlier, here his point is that the actual consumer good is the chocolate at the surface, the surface, while the plastic toy

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yup. The TMO was selling access to something that *is going on at all times, for everyone*, and marketing it as if it were something new. To me, transcendence simply means looking past the distractions that we have invented to convince ourselves that total silence is NOT present at every

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread aryavazhi
Right, absolutely right.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This subject (transcendence hiding in plain sight) reminds me of a rap I used to use back when I was still teaching meditation to explain how I viewed the phenomenon of transcendence. Interestingly enough, in the incident I describe in my true teaching story, the trigger event that reminded

[FairfieldLife] Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Many people marvel at all the tenses there are in other languages, but in fact, medieval scholars revised English to ensure that every Latin tense could be translated properly to English. You may or may not use them in your daily language, but they're all there, by design: How to

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread aryavazhi
Great rap, I just read it, I might actually have read it before. Also the other posts in this thread are really good. To ramble on a bit: Even the Maharishi, in one particular lecture, made it clear, that socalled TC or PC is NOT the source of thought. So he actually lied! But he, admitting

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread aryavazhi
And also, one more thing here: You remember this guy channeling Maharishi, and this 30 November event with Jerry Jarvis? I know you all discussed it, and there is really nothing to all the stuff you already said, except, I found one particular analysis, or point he makes (or MMY makes through

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Regarding 'transcendence', at various stages in the development of experience, it seems that consciousness or awareness is a separate something, but eventually that character of experience evaporates and everything becomes integrated and there is no longer a separate accounting for awareness as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-24 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think tenses could be reduced for present-centred people. She is/isn't singing. Because there is memory and in dealing with life there is the need to anticipate sometimes, there are two variants: In memory she is/isn't singing. In imagination she is/isn't singing hence. All

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   I think tenses could be reduced for present-centred people. She is/isn't singing. Because there is memory and in dealing with life there is the need to anticipate sometimes, there are two variants: In memory she

[FairfieldLife] from Fairfield's police report today

2014-12-24 Thread feste37
5:43pm James (Jim) Johnson called the law center to report that the bell ringer at HyVee had his music too loud. 8:33pm Trent McKinney was arrested for mittimus

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I just stumbled upon this article about virgin births, and figured I just had to post it, given the thread so far. It contains at least one shocking statistic: The virgin birth, despite its impossible paradoxes, is still very much with us. According to a recent longitudinal study published in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
aryavazhi My other comment to this topic was directly taken from Surah Yaseen from the most Holy Koran: Can you be more specific? I watched the video you posted. (as I have also been viewing other videos of recitations of the Qur'an this week along with recitations of sacred texts

Re: [FairfieldLife] from Fairfield's police report today

2014-12-24 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wonder what that means? Did he have a boom box with him blasting out Christmas tunes, or was he ringing the hell out of that bell? From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
(1) Fears of rulers of infants born to slay them (2) Divine conception (3) Harkening of the birth by heavenly hosts (4) Saviors being born in very humble surroundings (5) Births on darkest night of month or year (6) A bright shining light harkening the arrival of the saint (7) Savior

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ragnorak

2014-12-24 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ragnorak Ummm. Cicely Tyson?   Speaking of old tales, the Scandinavian film Ragnorak is available on

[FairfieldLife] recitations of the Qur'an

2014-12-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes I recognize the passages from what Aryavazhi gave us before. It should be interesting by comparison to see the EEG signatures of those who would recite this material in this stylized cultural form as a spiritual practice. The child though, the boy though seems like way too young a child to

Re: [FairfieldLife] from Fairfield's police report today

2014-12-24 Thread feste37
I think It's just a bell, unless they've added something since I was last there. Talk about wasting police time. Also, hilariously, you cannot get arrested for mittimus, which is something I never heard of but apparently is a written document. It can command a jailer to safely keep a felon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There is in fact a lot going on in Fairfield, Iowa spiritually but those more substantial things get shared and said elsewhere. This forum should either be taken back or else have its ruins more appropriately labeled and renamed to The_Abyss. Bhairitu writes, Why don't you share what's

[FairfieldLife] Now we know why NEO is so bad

2014-12-24 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
It was designed by a bunch of college grads: http://www.salon.com/2014/12/23/gwyneth_paltrow_reportedly_not_educated_enough_for_marissa_mayer/ A college degree or education won't make you a great programmer any more than a college degree in music will make you a great musician. I know many a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Now we know why NEO is so bad

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Although I am a college grad (B.A. in English), your post made me think back to a time at ILOG in France in which some HR geek from the company pointed out to me at a large convention (with some derision) that I was the only person in the company without a Ph.D. I got a chance to remind him

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2014-12-24 Thread wgm4u

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eenie, meenie, miney, moe; enjoy and Merry Christmas.

2014-12-24 Thread wgm4u

Re: [FairfieldLife] Now we know why NEO is so bad

2014-12-24 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I'm not surprised. Software design is *not* science but more an art form. Most of the programmers I hired *with* degrees did *not* have them in computer science. I even had one who came from Microsoft whose field was Theology. He was a good programmer too. I heard about this story

Re: [FairfieldLife] from Fairfield's police report today

2014-12-24 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Thanks, I was beginning to wonder if mittimus had something to do with festivus. :-D On 12/24/2014 09:45 AM, feste37 wrote: I think It's just a bell, unless they've added something since I was last there. Talk about wasting police time. Also, hilariously, you cannot get arrested for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Orangutan Wins Freedom from Zoo

2014-12-24 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
S3Raphita: Well she (Sandra) is doubtless conscious but is for sure *not* a person. After all, if the bitch were to assault me or steal my banana could I sue her in court for damages? Thought not. Yet (in US, via 14th Amendment and its case law interpretations) a corporation is deemed a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
S3: What you (B..) miss is that the story of the Virgin Birth is simply one of a series of miraculous births that crop up in other myths across cultures. Including, among many, King Janaka (of Upanishadic and Ashtavakara Gita fame), when conducting a yagya in a field hears a voice

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
S3: What you (B..) miss is that the story of the Virgin Birth is simply one of a series of miraculous births that crop up in other myths across cultures. Including, among many, King Janaka (of Upanishads and Ashtavakara Gita), conducting a yagya in a field hears a divine voice in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
The tenses of French, being a romance language, came from the original Latin. Are there new French tenses not present in Latin (not knowing, just asking)? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
In Japanese, there are only two tesnes: past and not-past. The complications in Japanese verb forms arise from the politeness forms. Technically, there are only 3, but there are so many other things that go into the mix that even asking for a favor is a sentence structure reserved

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Blah, blah, blah. The fact remains that there exists a school where 9 shootings a month happen in the neighborhood, and a little girl has been known to run to school covered in fresh blood splattered on her when her uncle was shot, that has gone from being the worst school on virtually

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dear Rick, How about 12 Days of a Holiday Silence starting Christmas Day going in sync with Christendom up to the Epiphany, Jan 6th as a re-starter for FFL? In so many ways this is the season of renewal, let FFL spiritually re-set itself in its own ephiphanaic time of inner silence,-Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
But as you said, of course, transcendence has nothing to do with either having a thought, or having no thought. It is not a physiological signature, as some keep telling here, a physiological signature, can only relate to a particular experience, and any experience is by the mind.

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Thu 25-Dec-14 00:15:09 UTC

2014-12-24 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 12/20/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 12/27/14 00:00:00 231 messages as of (UTC) 12/24/14 23:38:56 30 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 30 Bhairitu noozguru 18 dhamiltony2k5 18 Michael Jackson mjackson74 17 seerdope 17 aryavazhi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Rick's not even answering the private email I sent him about this, so good luck getting him to address this here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : Dear Rick, How about 12 Days of a Holiday Silence starting Christmas Day going in sync with Christendom up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And so from this principle of man's being silent, and not acting in the things of God of himself, until thus actuated by God's light and grace in the heart, did naturally spring that manner of sitting silent together and waiting together upon God. As every one is thus gathered, and so met

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dear Rick, As an old friend I really feel that you should not just yield FairfieldLife [FFL] over to the culture of unkindness that has come to overrunning and now overtaken the FairfieldLife [FFL] community on Yahoo-groups. Yep, a substantial disciplined period of silence should be good for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
He's implementing the advice on a personal level... L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote : Rick's not even answering the private email I sent him about this, so good luck getting him to address this here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Crimbo!

2014-12-24 Thread salyavin808
Merry Christmas y'all!