[FairfieldLife] In praise of Barry (Re: Coup de foudre)

2012-10-25 Thread Robin Carlsen
ver entered into a single poem of his. Nagel and Stevens: two beautiful extremes for me. See you, Emily. Robin > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrot

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Spiritual Question For Wednesday

2012-10-25 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yaho

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Spiritual Question For Wednesday

2012-10-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > Speaking as a lifelong Guitar Freak, to compare Jimi > > > Hendrix with Stevie Ray Vaughn i

[FairfieldLife] Wallace Stevens writes to his daughter, a nun, & a poet

2012-10-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
To His Daughter Hartford, Conn. Oct. 7, 1941 Dear Holly: I cannot well dictate this. Yr. mother has written to you and I do not now what she has said. For my own part, I think you already have the independence you desire. No parents could be less authoritarian than we have been. You have alwa

[FairfieldLife] Letters Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide

2012-10-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
Paul Claudel to Andre Gide Tientsin, 10th May 1909 I have just received the third number of the *N.R.F.* [French Review], in which I find the last part of *La Porte Etroite*[*Narrow is The Gate*]. I am still suffering from the emotional shock (and the great perplexity) which its perusal provo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Birds of Paradise Trailer

2012-10-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "marekreavis" wrote: > > A five-and-a-half minute video to promote a coffee-table book published by > the Cornell Lab of Orinthology. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTR21os8gTA&sns=em > > Pretty spectacular. Wonderful experience seeing this. Almost a

[FairfieldLife] The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part IV

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE by Thomas Nagel On a purely materialist understanding of biology, consciousness would have to be regarded as a tremendous and inexplicable extra brute fact about the world. If it is to be explained

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel's Mind & Cosmos

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: ROBIN1: If you don't have the hair stand up on your back of your head after reading the book, I will personally refund the cost of the book. ;-) PALIGAP1:I'm beginning to get the impression you like this book Robin. OK already - I'm buy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trampoline Routine Level 7

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > Juliette got her membership card for USA Gymnastics in the mail yesterday. > Membership allows her to compete in USGA meets anywhere in the country. USAG > keeps track of scores for meets and ranks skill levels. Her first official

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
Since we are evidently the products of evolution, and ultimately of a cosmic process that led to the developments first of unicellular organisms and then of conscious agents before eventually producing intelligent beings capable of value judgments, the conception of the natural order that made t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" > > wrote: > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
SALYAVIN TO ROBIN: I didn't read it* actually, and I call it like I see it, if your > friends want to carry on like whooping teenagers on facebook > (was that it?) it's up to them. If it irritates me I'll say so, > just like anyone else would. > > Don't worry old chap you'll hear from me, ever

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" > > wrote: > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jason" wrote: > > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jason" wrote: > > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robbie Robbie (The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III)

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jason" wrote: > > > > --- "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS > > ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE by Thomas Nagel > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Getting Goop To Beget (was The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin)

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" > wrote: > > > All life on this planet is descended from one cell, a > > hybrid between two types of bacteria - which is all there > > was for billions of years - there would b

[FairfieldLife] The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part III

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE by Thomas Nagel Modern evolutionary theory offers a general picture of how the existence and development of life could be just another consequence of the equations of particle physics. Even if no

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
not flat, and has motions not covered by the > > > flat Earth theory, but if you take a walk in the early morning, the sun > > > rises is a perfectly satisfactory explanation. > > > > > > Darwin's theory, and its revisions provides an explanation for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
nce of existing as a human being inside the universe--that makes of your book a kind of philosophical miracle. Very sincerely yours, Robin Carlsen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > FWIW, Nagel is the chap who wrote that famous essay, > &quo

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
n > > > one discovers the Earth is not flat, and has motions not covered by the > > > flat Earth theory, but if you take a walk in the early morning, the sun > > > rises is a perfectly satisfactory explanation. > > > > > > Darwin's theory,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Carlsen
ng, the sun rises is a > perfectly satisfactory explanation. > > Darwin's theory, and its revisions provides an explanation for the morphology > of living systems and the appearance of order and complexity in such systems. > It does not deal with consciousness at all, alth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater wrote: > > Dear Judy, I think you and I were the only ones that knew where that line > really came from. Jack, when he shouted that, conveyed the best of who > Nicholson is as an actor. I really liked that second sentence. > --- In Fairfi

[FairfieldLife] The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin Part II

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE by Thomas Nagel On the other side there are doubts about whether the reality of such features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, purpose, thought, and value can be accommodated

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
inscrutable. Faulconer thinks this > materialism cashes out in at least two ways. First, he sees it as explaining > why Utah "produces a disproportionate number of scientists," and why his own > university supports scientific inquiry so enthusiastically. Second he thinks > i

[FairfieldLife] The Most Dangerous Idea Since Darwin

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE by Thomas Nagel The argument from the failure of psychophysical reductionism is a philosophical one, but I believe there are independent empirical reasons to be skeptical about the truth of reducti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
te: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (Sorry, couldn't resist.) > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
ell me what the > > > > > > > 'truth' is for whatever it's worth. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
27;truth' is for whatever it's worth. > > > > > > > > --- "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!! > > > > > > > > > > > > (Sorry, couldn't resist.) > > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jason" wrote: > > > > > > > --- "Jason" wrote: > > > > > Am I oblivious to the truth? Atleast tell me what the > > > 'truth' is for whatever it's worth. > > > > --- "authfriend" wrote: > > > > YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!! > > > > > > (Sorry, coul

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
; > > > If Maharishi is a fraud and he still loves this fraud and > > > has fond memories of this fraud? > > > > > > That means Robin is in the same boat as Barry who has fond > > > memories of this 'Cheater cunt Rama' and brags over and over &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jason" wrote: > > > > --- "authfriend" wrote: > > > > His philosophy is his own, not "borrowed," first of all, as > > Barry would know if he'd been reading Robin's posts. Second, > > given that he has concluded Maharishi was fundamentally a > > fraud--

[FairfieldLife] Re: Imagining Relationships That Never Existed

2012-10-20 Thread Robin Carlsen
JASON: Could it be that the "relationship" with Maharishi mattered > more to Robin than Unity state or 'seeking enlightenment'? > > Deepak Chopra and few others did walk away without too much > emotional hangups about this "relationship". Why can't > Robin? BARRY: An excellent question, one that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhakti As A Learned Experience

2012-10-20 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Replying to the only part I saw flash past in Message View: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Objective Is Your Subjectivity? A Quiz to Xeno

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, khazana108 wrote: KHAZANA2: I forgot something, your praise of my video about dome restrictions. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > ROBIN2: You see, Khazana, you have to take a particular post of mine an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhakti As A Learned Experience

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: BARRY1: For some reason, I find myself still tripping on a phrase used on FFL yesterday. *Not* on the person who wrote it, but on the content, the idea expressed. The phrase was "Now my love for Maharishi was of course the highest love I h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Carlsen
e analyst? I would suggest that was a sign of improvement in my condition--and I am going to celebrate by doing some cruising tonight. > If others are impressed by your stories, that is their business. I just > thought it might be interesting for you to hear from someone who isn't.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Carlsen
> lifelong Narcissistic Personality Disorder. None of this is a "lie" on > my part, or in any way intended as an attempt to "get" you. This is how > I really see you. Live with it. > > If others are impressed by your stories, that is their business. I just >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Carlsen
ch > falls completely within the diagnosis of someone struggling with > lifelong Narcissistic Personality Disorder. None of this is a "lie" on > my part, or in any way intended as an attempt to "get" you. This is how > I really see you. Live with it. > > If othe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Carlsen
onality Disorder. None of this is a "lie" on > my part, or in any way intended as an attempt to "get" you. This is how > I really see you. Live with it. > > If others are impressed by your stories, that is their business. I just > thought it might be interesting f

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-18 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saniel Bonder in Fairfield visits

2012-10-17 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "marekreavis" wrote: > > > > I think a lot of us had this same experience with Maharishi. That's why his > > own recounting of his first exposure to Guru Dev had such resonance; we > > co

[FairfieldLife] Re: American Veda

2012-10-17 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote: > > > > > > I thought it was a terrific read. Since I'm 58 and have been meditating > > > since 1975 I have read / study / visited many of the visionaries and > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating FFL

2012-10-15 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Buck, I began posting on FFL in order to learn something more about the world and about myself. So one of my motives in writing is to figure things out. I would like you to make me less stupid about something than I am right now: I think I can understand theoretically what you are doing he

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Objective Is Your Subjectivity? A Quiz to Xeno

2012-10-14 Thread Robin Carlsen
A thing whose existing is other than its essence has its existence caused by another. God is the first efficient cause, and therefore his essence cannot be distinct from his existence. Existence is the actuality of every form and nature. Goodness and humanity do not signify actual things unless

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Objective Is Your Subjectivity? A Quiz to Xeno

2012-10-14 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, khazana108 wrote: > > > > Look, you are annoying. Don't you realize that. > > They're trying to be. Don't you realize that? :-) > > The Judy-Robin-raunchy-oxcart game yesterday was to > KEEP YO

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Objective Is Your Subjectivity? A Quiz

2012-10-12 Thread Robin Carlsen
> Directions: Answer True or False or Can't Decide (CD). 1 point for T; -1 point for F; 0 for CD > RAUNCHY: O.K. Robin, enough lazy screwing around for RD. Out of respect for your deep reflection in writing this post, I'll answer as best I can. I'll admit a lot of my thinking is founded on a "Mah

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Objective Is Your Subjectivity? A Quiz

2012-10-11 Thread Robin Carlsen
An extraordinary experience reading this. Some subjectivities don't need to be objectified. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > Directions: Answer True

[FairfieldLife] Re: Testing Your Irony IQ: A Quiz

2012-10-11 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > Read each statement. Answer True (T), False (F), or Can't Answer (CA) > > 1. I always get where David Letterman is coming from in his monologues. > > 2. The best tweets in the world are usu

[FairfieldLife] Testing Your Irony IQ: A Quiz

2012-10-11 Thread Robin Carlsen
Read each statement. Answer True (T), False (F), or Can't Answer (CA) 1. I always get where David Letterman is coming from in his monologues. 2. The best tweets in the world are usually ironic. 3. I understand appreciation for irony to be somewhat involuntary and almost automatic. It can ambush

[FairfieldLife] How Objective Is Your Subjectivity? A Quiz

2012-10-11 Thread Robin Carlsen
Directions: Answer True or False or Can't Decide (CD). 1 point for T; -1 point for F; 0 for CD 1. I seek a truth beyond merely my own subjective comfort. I . I like to know what is right, not just that I am right. 3. I force myself to look at different points of view other than my own, in orde

[FairfieldLife] An empathy test you can take (was Re: An Open Letter to...)

2012-10-11 Thread Robin Carlsen
32 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > For those interested in empathy and whether they are or > not, here's an easy test you can take to find out: > > http://glennrowe.net/baroncohen/faces/eyestest.aspx > > This test, developed by Cambridge psychologist Simon > Baron-C

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to Robin Carlsen

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
t; You know if this was not a sincere endeavor for you from the beginning, you > > really could have saved me a lot of fucking time upfront Robin. > > > > Message received loud and clear. Over and out. > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carl

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to Robin Carlsen

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgfdTm7c1I > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > An Open Letter to Robin Carlsen > > > > Dear Robin, > > > > Why are you so afraid of being criticized, that when you are, you just &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin's Reality [to Curtis]

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > Thank for weighing in on this discussion Xeno. I think you are adding a > > much needed perspective. There seems to be an attempt to water down

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin's Reality [to Curtis]

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
Poem: A Baby is Born, Anonymous, 15th century A baby is born us bliss to bring; A maiden I heard lullay sing: `Dear son, now leave thy weeping, Thy father is the king of bliss.' `Nay, dear mother, for you weep I not, But for the things that shall be wrought Or that I have mankind i-bought: Was th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin's Reality [to Curtis]

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill; And that in autumn, when the grapes Made sharp air sharper by their smell These had a being, breathing frost; And least will guess that with our bones We left much

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Open Letter to Robin Carlsen

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
think your letter coming right after mine will tend to have the salutary effect we both would pray for when it comes to Robin. This was much needed, Ravi. Thank you. Most sincerely yours, Louis > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Robin Carlsen wrote: > > > ** > > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] An Open Letter to Robin Carlsen

2012-10-09 Thread Robin Carlsen
An Open Letter to Robin Carlsen Dear Robin, Why are you so afraid of being criticized, that when you are, you just attack your critic? In this case Curtis. If you really believed in your ideas, Robin, you wouldn't feel so insecure in your first person ontology to have to attack reality

[FairfieldLife] Re: Party Down Time in Leiden

2012-10-03 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEiGS2dBbxg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CawVaHxWvnA --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Do you know the difference between the video I posted and the one you > did in reply? > > On 10/03/2012 04:40 PM, Robin Carlsen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Party Down Time in Leiden

2012-10-03 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mg8SyAJfaw --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cAD68ISy6k > > On 10/03/2012 11:44 AM, Robin Carlsen wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU98KwL_pQ8&feature=related > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Party Down Time in Leiden

2012-10-03 Thread Robin Carlsen
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU98KwL_pQ8&feature=related --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > > > So you missed my "Looper" micro review? I won't try to guess > > if you'll like it but you might like it better th

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Judy Raunchy Xeno

2012-10-03 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Share:> > AND disagreeing with Robin does not equal being compliant > > > > with Curtis.

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Judy Raunchy Xeno

2012-10-03 Thread Robin Carlsen
The Sick Rose O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroup

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Judy Raunchy Xeno

2012-10-03 Thread Robin Carlsen
TO HIS CONSCIENCE. by Robert Herrick CAN I not sin, but thou wilt be My private protonotary ? Can I not woo thee to pass by A short and sweet iniquity ? I'll cast a mist and cloud upon My delicate transgression So utter dark as that no eye Shall see the hugg'd impiety ; Gifts blind the wi

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Robin

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lordknows888" wrote: > > YES! YES! YES! > I know from my experience of being in Robin's cult that what Share and > Curtis found objectionable in Robin's post to Share carried the > unmistakeable feel and energy of just the very beginning of what in the > da

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Robin

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKDKAKNH-k&feature=related --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lordknows888" wrote: > > YES! YES! YES! > I know from my experience of being in Robin's cult that what Share and > Curtis found objectionable in Robin's post to Share carried the > unmistakeable feel

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Robin

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjMVpK_utU&feature=related --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > > > Share1 for this post and other posts below that. > > . . . > > In a earlier post to Curtis you mention my pastor

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Robin

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftOwxJWdRc&feature=related --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lordknows888" wrote: > > YES! YES! YES! > I know from my experience of being in Robin's cult that what Share and > Curtis found objectionable in Robin's post to Share carried the > unmistakeable fee

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS to Robin

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjMVpK_utU&feature=related --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > > > Share1 for this post and other posts below that. > > . . . > > In a earlier post to Curtis you mention my pastoral

[FairfieldLife] Re: The difference between charisma and narcissism

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kMyom2sHyA --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > I'm posting this because, as I suggested in my last post, I enjoy > talking more about ideas than people. And I've noticed that many people > on this forum -- supposedly composed of seasoned spi

[FairfieldLife] Re: The difference between charisma and narcissism

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
'Marriage' by Gregory Corso Should I get married? Should I be good? Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood? Don't take her to movies but to cemeteries tell all about werewolf bathtubs and forked clarinets then desire her and kiss her and all the preliminaries and she going

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-02 Thread Robin Carlsen
LINES FROM "SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER" by WALLACE STEVENS ... He must say nothing of the fruit that is Not true, nor think it, less. He must defy The metaphor that murders metaphor. He seeks as image a second of the self. Made subtle by truth's most jealous subtlety. Like the true light

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
ost.  Being psychologically raped didn't feel > good then just as it doesn't feel good now.       > > > > ____ > From: curtisdeltablues > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 5:09 PM > Subject: [Fair

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ahh, I should probably leave well enough alone...

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
This is a unverified assertion Maharishi has made. And Rick's final sentence says it all. The good vibrations in a house--anywhere--do not materially influence, much less determine, behaviour--or what happens to one in one's life. Even on Teacher-Training, Advanced Teacher Residence, and Six Mon

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
ut of your own subjectivity. Ann has written you a post that, taken in context, presents you with everything you need to know. That is, in what she is asking you to think about. > ________ > From: Robin Carlsen > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > I dare you to TRY to understand the post, Share. Show it to your pastoral > > counsellor. > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
rfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qle1OrunKnE&feature=player_embedded > > > > Robin, why did you post this vid

[FairfieldLife] Re: Microsoft's last Window of hope

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 10/01/2012 05:43 AM, Jason wrote: > > > > > > S & T » Technology > > > > Microsoft's last Window of hope > > > > Deepa Kurup > > > > The past decade saw Microsoft Corporation, the company that > > two decades ago gave us the propri

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qle1OrunKnE&feature=player_embedded --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > No and you shouldn't but it is amusing to watch a bunch of "supposedly > evolved" folks bicker on redundantly like teenagers as they have for > years. :-D > > How was yo

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
you to TRY to understand the post, Share. Show it to your pastoral counsellor. She'll get it. And she might even have the courage to make you understand it. Of course, it is beside the point that it comes from my own bitter heart. Robin > ____ > From

[FairfieldLife] Re: today PS

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > I see myself as someone who recognizes that everybody is a mix of developed > and developing aspects; and that as such everybody makes mistakes; and that a > way to have worthwhile relationships is to proceed on that basis with a > w

[FairfieldLife] Re: to Rauncy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-30 Thread Robin Carlsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3vRfw_1qE --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > > wrote: > >> > >> This thread about comments f

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-30 Thread Robin Carlsen
ently. You embodied yourself in what got into that word. It was pure Barry. 357 ain't bad. And you hate those knuckleballs, right, Barry? They move around pretty good, right? Robin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > BARRY: Might I suggest,

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-30 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > > You come across like a completely u

[FairfieldLife] How to Know Reality's Point of View

2012-09-30 Thread Robin Carlsen
How to Know Reality's Point of View There is a notion of life that many posters on FFL have never considered once they are engaged in argument, insult, and acrimony. And what is that notion of life? Well, for me, it seems very empirical and experimental. It is this: truth is an objective thing

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-30 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > Yes, of course. "I also get that his connections can have > an edge to them, or be rough." My take is that he is often > being intentionally up front about the things and people >

[FairfieldLife] Re: to All -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Carlsen
. Robin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: > > > No, Curtis, you feel my sincerity--it is a passion in me. It is the > > sincerity that you abhor. > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: to All -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" maskedzebra@ > wrote: > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: to All -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > From what I'm told,> the new hip club drink is Red Bull and absinthe. > > M: Nice catch. And it makes sense I guess. Instead of doing the more > pretentious but

[FairfieldLife] Re: to All -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Carlsen
ere. > > > > > > > > You can't really feel safe, if you are on shaky ground here. Kind of > > > > like > > > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITBwnlbO6s > > > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITBwnlbO6s

[FairfieldLife] Re: to All -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: RAUNCHY: Women who stand up to Barry, especially anyone who contradicts his belief that Sal is *good* and raunchydog, Judy and those who support us are *bad* causes Barry to fly into a rage about cunts. BARRY: Ahem. Is there anyone here

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-28 Thread Robin Carlsen
he pure energy of truth in your > argument. So how does it feel on this day when I guess you might say > your being faithful to the truth has helped bring about your public > reconciliation with Ann. > > Lord Knows > > PS. I just had to comment on this event, but don'

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-28 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" wrote: ROBIN1: What I find remarkable here--besides the fact that Steve chooses to ignore a datum like this one--is the utter and complete f

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-28 Thread Robin Carlsen
RESPONSE: What I find remarkable here--besides the fact that Steve chooses to ignore a datum like this one--is the utter and complete failure of either Curtis or Barry to demonstrate that AWB's responses to Curtis are anything but entirely reasonable, commonsensical, and appropriate. If you d

[FairfieldLife] Re: to All -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-28 Thread Robin Carlsen
Robin: No, Steve. Your question is rhetorical, but I would like to answer it. First of all, I agree in *this* particular instance, Curtis scored a bull's eye. Everyone knows that. Even me, and I admit that I am green with jealousy. But the question remains: "Jesus Christ, how do you pull this of

[FairfieldLife] Re: An open letter to Steve (Seventhray1)

2012-09-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" > wrote: Dear Steve, ROBIN1:No worries. I think you right in all that you say here. I always fear that whirring of the arrow that Curtis

[FairfieldLife] Re:to Raunchy -- writing for the Church of $cientology

2012-09-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" > > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > > > I can

[FairfieldLife] Re: An open letter to Steve (Seventhray1)

2012-09-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
e, Steve (and Curtis): "Perfect enjoyment demands intelligence." It's harder than I thought knowing I was wrong. But I still love it. :-) Robin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > Hey Robin, > I'm not really getting it this time

[FairfieldLife] An open letter to Steve (Seventhray1)

2012-09-24 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Steve, Let us say that I hate Raunchy and authfriend (Judy). I think Share very brave and true and strong. You are my best friend. I read through the correspondence among you, Raunchy, and Judy. Now recollect: I am much more disposed to take your part* in all this, given the biasses of m

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