A question occurred to me recently that I had never considered in all my years
of being a student and teacher of TM: How can we tell whether TM's benefits
result from an experience of pure consciousness or from some vibrational
quality of the mantra?
This message was at the top of an email announcing a Columbus Day residence
course and World Peace Assembly:
This facility is on the market and may soon be sold. This is likely the last
chance for a course in this special location.
Another property bites the dust!
Anyone interested in
On 08/14/2012 11:52 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
I think the whole
country is pretty much a write-off, so I'm planning on writing off the
election commentary here.
Except for the occasional funny insight, such as that provided by this
photo:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@... wrote:
from The Riverfront Times
http://tinyurl.com/ejsah
Peace and Punishment
St. Louis judges turn to Transcendental Meditation to rehab convicted felons
By Kristen Hinman
Published Mar 8, 2006
Keith Mason
I was saddened to hear from a St. Louis friend that
Farrokh Anklesaria, the director of the Enlightened
Sentencing Project, passed away in a hospital recently.
No details yet.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@... wrote:
from The Riverfront Times
http
likely.
The log files should indicate which IP is doing the downloading.
Routers tend to give the same IPs to the same computers over a
short period of time.
Hope that helps...
From: jpgillam jpgillam@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Maybe some of the geeks here can provide information that Google hasn't
delivered.
My modem's web activity log is listing all manner of torrents and tracker
sites. My daughter says she is not downloading anything. An ISP rep told me
torrents install software that operates in the background all
The Elmore Leonard recipe for good entertainment:
- A strong protagonist (male or female)
- A few good-looking women
- A charming but crazy criminal
- A few very stupid criminals
- Clever dialogue
- One or two double-crosses
- The unexpected
- The inevitable
Stir.
Thanks for the movie
a couple of friends that were with the Seattle DA office
and that was their bar tales. And I also had a friend who was an ex
police detective and he had a bunch of tales too.
On 03/14/2012 12:14 PM, jpgillam wrote:
The Elmore Leonard recipe for good entertainment:
- A strong protagonist
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 03/01/2012 10:32 AM, jpgillam wrote:
I would argue that the most compelling storytelling these days is coming
from television series. That format better allows for character
development. People watch TV series because viewers
Michael Lewis, of Moneyball and The Big Short fame,
wrote a good piece about the California Crisis in a recent
Vanity Fair.
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-20
'What all the polls show,' says ]mark] Paul, 'is that people want services
and not to pay for
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
See youse all Friday or Saturday.
I've wrestled with the spelling of youse. I tend to go
with yooz, seeing as its a regionalism that won't make
sense to lots of people, so I spell it how it sounds.
English needs a plural second-person
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
See youse all Friday or Saturday.
I've wrestled with the spelling of youse. I tend to go
with yooz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 03/01/2012 06:22 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
I had this one on my personal watch list long before it started
showing up in the trades. The reason is an actor named Jason Issacs.
Most Americans know him only as Lucius Malfoy from the Harry
Have you seen his Twitter feed? I think it's authored by Andy Borowitz:
https://twitter.com/#!/KimJongNumberUn
One of my faves:
Facebook is worth $100B because it has everyone's private info? That bastard
Zuckerberg totally stole that idea from us.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John
should use above email saying how many will
be coming..it will be easier to save email. I apologize
to those who have already commented here...but one
more time please :)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam wrote:
Looks like some alums are organizing a
reunion in Fairfield for MIU
That Louis CK bit is hilarious!
As for anal sex, more heteros than homos engage
in anal sex, for the same reason that you'll find
more English speakers in China than in the United States.
I've tried to write a few lines objecting to wgm4u's
moral imbecility, but I just end up deleting them.
The bikini babes in the stands are delightful if
predictable, but the thumbs up from the lumberjack
at work on the giant submarine sandwich? That's genius.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
Looks like some alums are organizing a
reunion in Fairfield for MIU alumni, faculty,
staff and volunteers who were on campus
between 1977-1982.
- Thursday, May 3, 2012, at 10:00 a.m.
until Sunday, May 6, 2012, at 6:00 p.m.
- Fairfield, Iowa, USA
- All are welcome, even if no longer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 02/21/2012 09:11 PM, seventhray1 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kiamotorsamerica/featured?v=lHZbXvts0LEcid=semppc=y
Only in Corprica (formerly the USA).
I like this! Corprica. Trademark it, dude.
Comments interleaved below...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
I also have
persistent recurring dreams set in a movement facility,
specifically a residence course facility: [snip]
neither the setting nor the plot ever has anything
explicitly to do with TM.
Yeah,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
Xeno, was 1980(below) when Maharishi started using the 'invincibility'
language-ing?
Maharishi said 1977 was to be the Year of Invincibility.
http://www.globalcountry.org.uk/viewnewsletter.php?ID=20090723142634
He said 2008 would the Year of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote:
According to my computer, today is the day. Have a good one Patrick!
Happy birthday, Patrick. I always smile when I see your
name in the From: line, because
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 wrote:
I've been watching these a lot since Emily first turned me on to them.
I'm thinking this may be my favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqj68woTwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqj68woTwA
Hey, that *is* funny. Thanks!
should have food,
clothing, shelter and other basics, but when it comes to
higher levels of functioning, there's little agreement on
what to call those levels, let alone recognition that they
even exist.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John wrote:
She said it. But that doesn't mean she won't get involved with the
Democratic political machine.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/hillary-clinton-says-she-done-high-wire-american-175721782.html
It would be probably a good idea to just
I concur with your review of Season One. That pilot
was the best pilot of any I've seen. Finally, the
characters made sense.
I'm looking forward to the second season. My wife
has been watching online, but I'm waiting for the
legal viewings I can do on TV.
--- In
Let's make a list! I'll start:
Aunt Jemima - pancake syrup
Benjamin Franklin - US $100 bills
Colonel Sanders - fried chicken
George Foreman - grills
Green Giant - vegetables
Maharishi - all things vedic
Mr. Clean - cleaning supplies
Orville Redenbacher - popcorn
Uncle Ben - rice
I'm omitting all
How to bring up contextual menus - to right click - on a Macintosh:
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/mac_support/mac_help/pages/0024-right_click.html
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote:
Sorry Judy, was experimenting with putting photos on the web. FYI
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater wrote:
Can you post a school picture since I don't know how to get onto the MIU
yearbook site?
Here is where to find MIU yearbooks.
They are large files, so they take time to load.
Change the date in the URL to see different years.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote:
I attended MIU from the Fall of 1975 until graduation in 1980.
We were at MIU at the same time, Ann, although we
did not hang out together. I had to open a yearbook
to place you. Welcome to Fairfield Life, the slogan
of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@...
wrote:
A blog entry headline on a US Newspaper's website:
Santorum surges from behind in Iowa
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/136347948.html
Part of me suspects it was a very mischievous copy editor
Served with a tossed salad, of course.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jan 13, 2012, at 5:23 PM, jpgillam wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@
wrote:
A blog entry headline on a US Newspaper's website
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
Today I got to see a not-terribly-good
copy of David Fincher's remake of The
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
As for Rooney Mara vs. Noomi Rapace, in
the role of a lifetime as one
of the most interesting female characters
ever to
So, finally, we're here. The year when, by year's end, the transition to a new
era is supposed to be - well, what? Apparent? On its way despite appearances?
The Mayan calendar gets a lot of attention for setting this date, but the
Oneness Blessing people have cited it also, and I believe some
FWIW.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
So, finally, we're here. The year when, by year's end, the transition
to a new era is supposed to be - well, what? Apparent? On its way
despite appearances?
The Mayan calendar gets a lot of attention for setting
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
I feel that all recent information relating to the TMO's dark side would be
relevant, esp. material that relates to the traditional problems meditation
can cause - and the hope for relief for people suffering.
I don't think one need worry
Bob's wife wrote:
I recommend you get a female initiator
I understand that it's TM organization policy these days for men
to teach men and for women to teach women (or ladies,
as the TMO likes to call females).
but heading out. This is tragic loss of capital every time
this happens. It's been a long slide and obviously the numbers stop
with the TM-Rajas and that Prime Minister.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
Buck, you've reported on people leaving
A meditating roommate had this album, Keith
Jarrett's Koln Concert. We listened to it quite
a bit. This and the music of Return to Forever
are two soundtracks I associate with my TM
days in Iowa City the '70s.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote:
Buck, you've reported on people leaving Fairfield
on various occasions, but I don't recall your saying
why they're leaving. Are they seeking better jobs?
Better weather?
I saw on Facebook that a friend is moving to Boulder.
She did not say why, which I can understand in that
public forum.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of jpgillam
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 12:35 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fairfield exodus (was Re: Occupy
I enjoy end-of-the-world movies. I believe it's
healthy to face one's fears, and that all the end-
of-the-world movies gracing the cinema these
days are ultimately salubrious.
I also enjoy attractive, naked women, so this
movie sounds like a twofer for me.
But wait, there's more. Another
Responses interleaved below...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
If you think back on it, what could possibly BE more
of an exercise in moodmaking than the way we were
taught to perform the puja? It (at least as taught
on my TTC) was *not* about the mere power of the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 wrote:
It is simply bizarre to me why someone who has not done these things for so
many years would even care to comment on them. What is the motivation to try
and appear an expert, after so many years of not practicing what you preach
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:58 PM, johnt wrote:
You never will in a TM context, but if you study some of Milton Erickson,
Bandler and Grinder and other related sources you will find that each part
of a TM initiation has a well studied
On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:17 AM, jpgillam wrote:
I've been getting
results from the TM puja for 34 years. It
stills my mind. I recite it often, for
that purpose.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
The way we know the TM puja and initiation process acts like
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams wrote:
if inequality had really exploded during the past
30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously
move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market
capitalism?
It was clearly not because free-market
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
On Nov 5, 2011, at 1:30 AM, seventhray1 wrote:
Thanks for the link. Just saw it for the first time. Very well done.
What I'd like to see is an extra which includes the entire interview with
the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math. It has
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@... wrote:
the moment one knows consciousness, it is no longer consciousness. Â
Therefore, again, it is impossible for the human brain to truly grasp or
understand what consciousness is.
Is this ^ the experience people here
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
make a
rational case, based on real, accepted science, for how it could be
actually *true* that a few people ... could produce world peace.
I don't think anyone can explain the notion of
collective consciousness *based on accepted
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote:
One, a person, generally only knows consciousness
when it is shining on something tangible.
I can understand this ^ statement coming from an
Ordinary Joe, but it seems to me that the point of
most meditation practices is get the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
your little beer-drowned consciousness
Insult of the Week? It gets my nomination.
Will you marry me?
My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150406513325240set=a.206280035239.169488.21977955239type=1ref=nf
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
snip
There are only a few short clips of Maharishi being
interviewed by David Frost (interestingly in one of
them, when Frost asks him how many TM mantras there
are,
Buck, wasn't your father a scientist or academic who questioned the TM
research? Or was it simply that he felt the siddhis were unfounded? What did
his opinion come to be?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
When Tony speaks I am struck but what an unnatural,
unspontaneous, dim bulb he appears to be. At least
Maharishi had some game!
I just watched David Wants to Fly. One of the more powerful, poignant scenes
is when Raja Emanuel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend
As I recall,
the German word he used for invincible was the same word
Hitler had used--unbesiegbar, I think. That Schiffgens,
himself a German, *didn't know this* is appalling.
I had a friend who wanted to call his weight-management program
A colonoscopy is the only cancer screening procedure that can actually prevent
the disease. During the procedure, the surgeon snips off any polyps that may be
present. It's those polyps that can grow and become malignant. My insurance
paid 100 percent of the cost.
--- In
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans wrote:
I have friends who sit their whole family down to watch it.
That's how I was introduced to the show. I joined my brother's family on their
couch, where we watched an episode on the computer screen held in the lap of
the family's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans wrote:
I have friends who sit their whole family down to watch it.
That's how I was introduced
Buck, are there any books or websites about American utopian communities that
stand out? I've often thought that would be an interesting subject. It's cool
that you're pursuing it.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
Jesus I'm glad to be back in spiritual
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
I'm not wild about everything on the White Album, but some
of the songs on it are just on a different level, IMHO, as
if they came from a new place.
I like that sunny perspective. The White Album sounds different to me in that
it no
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
I'm not wild about everything on the White Album, but some
of the songs on it are just
Robin, I edited your letter. These are your words in the order you wrote them.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote:
An Open Letter to Bevan Morris
Dear Bevan,
I knew you on my Six Month Course in Arosa in 1976. You had a special status
as a course
Serious, offbeat question: I once went through three months when I realized the
essential pointlessness of life. I saw clearly that life had no meaning
whatsoever, and that nothing anybody did made any difference. I recently had
occasion to ask a few classrooms of high school juniors how many
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
Serious, offbeat question: I once went through three months when I realized
the essential pointlessness of life. I saw clearly that life had no meaning
whatsoever, and that nothing anybody did made any difference. I recently
Thanks for that link. I needed something like that today.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
If you don't watch another minute of the 10th anniversary
coverage, you gotta watch this. It's a beautifully done
12-minute documentary about the volunteer evacuation
Am I supposed to be indignant over senior executives earning a few hundred
thousand dollars a year? Is that the point of this post?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WilliamG wgm4u@... wrote:
[56] Meet the Union Bosses
The two presidential administrations faced or are facing two different economic
problems. Reagan was president when the Federal Reserve squeezed inflation
away. The economy suffered for a bit, then bounded back - probably spurred by
the spending derided below.
Obama became president when the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
This is us?
Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the
imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt
existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven
Watching it was fun! Thanks for the link.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
I have been trying, but I really haven't been able to find
out the genesis of this wonderful short video. I
Did you see Jon Stewart make fun of the fact that the media are treating Ron
Paul like the 13th floor in a hotel?
http://bit.ly/ovhmDI
As a Ron Paul detractor, I enjoy the fact that he's being marginalized, but
still...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
The free market thing doesn't work. I applaud Paul for speaking out
against the war spending and questioning the existence of the Federal
Reserve but not Austrian economics. It just sounds good to people who
don't understand economics.
Ron Paul contributed to an interesting reading experience recently that
dovetails with a phenomenon that Fairfield Lifers may appreciate. A profile in
The Week magazine covered his belief that free markets would have been
sufficient to eliminate racism in businesses such as restaurants. Paul's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnt johnlasher20002000@... wrote:
making light or trivializing a potential genocide is what I object to.
Do not read this article, then:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nigeria-chosen-to-host-2008-genocides,1261/
Nigeria Chosen To Host 2008 Genocides
Bill, the information you cite differs from what
I learned on my TM teacher training course.
I suggest you have this conversation with your
TM teacher. You've seen what a runaround you
get here.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson ameradian2@... wrote:
Â
I found this
, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote:
I think it's a pity that the movement continues to sabotage
its own interests by behaving like a blinking cult.
Many of us think the TM organization's prime interest is to
teach TM, but that's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote:
I think it's a pity that the movement continues to sabotage
its own interests by behaving like a blinking cult.
Many of us think the TM organization's prime interest is to
teach TM, but that's a mistake on our part. The TM
mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer wrote:
I think it's a pity that the movement continues to sabotage
its own interests by behaving like a blinking cult.
Gillam wrote:
Many of us think the TM organization's prime interest is to
teach TM, but that's a mistake on
, the nation,
and the world.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@ wrote:
I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I
learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the
mission statement is different from the strategies
I'd say Craig Pearson needs to edit that mission statement. As I
learned when a student at Maharishi International University, the
mission statement is different from the strategies employed to
pursue that mission, and the strategies are different from the
tactics followed to implement the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
with the horse puppets, I was reminded of the
Uncanny Valley theory, that the more lifelike a
humanoid robot is, the more uncomfortable it makes
people feel, so that there's a point of diminishing
returns in terms of realism.
These
That's disturbing. When I lived in Iowa in the 1980s, there
was a movement to retain the topsoil and prevent erosion.
I never saw gullies like those you show in you pictures.
I wonder if another reason farmers are less concerned
about erosion is because the black topsoil is gone, and
what's
Thanks for the follow-up. A few responses interleaved below.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote:
Mori's hypothesis states that as a robot is made more
humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional
response from a human being to the robot will become
increasingly
A few years ago I saw a few shows by a marionette
troupe that performed on tabletops. The puppet
operators stood behind the table, operating the
marionettes and speaking the roles. Yet despite the
fact that these humans were clearly moving their
puppets and speaking their puppets' parts, I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
I found [witnessing] incredibly liberating, a
sense of having dropped all the baggage I had been
lugging around, a huge feeling of relief, most
definitely something
, at 4:38 PM, jpgillam wrote:
I ask because it relates to a previous conversation in which
I elicited terms for being with it or on. Barry had suggested
openness. And the term presence is gaining currency; I
saw it in a New Yorker cartoon recently and thought that may
be the default
Apparently it was a Grindhouse trailer, as was Machete. I saw Grindhouse
but don't recall any of these trailers. Here's the trailer for Hobo with a
Shotgun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKd0JRCZi9I
Also among the coming attractions was Nuns with Guns.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Watch out: This babbling baby video will become as ubiquitous as the Hitler
tantrum scene in The Downfall as a visual track for funny dialogs.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:53 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote:
The tagline is, Reality is a prison. Your mind can
set you free.
Mind is the prison, accepting reality can set you free.
Where's the Like button?
Just learned today that Richard Chorley passed away April 2010. Maybe a few of
you old-timers knew Richard.
I met Richard when I was an undergrad at Maharishi International University and
Richard was on the Council of Executive Governors, a graduate program in
educational administration. A few
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
It's also why we have prisons. To keep the rest of
us safe. It's what civil societies do, separate the
asocial from the social
Here's a scenario to entertain: The people who were defending their property
from an intruder get convicted of
I skim over 95 percent of Fairfield Life content, but I
always pause to read Peter's explanations of why there's
no self in cosmic consciousness, despite having read
many of them in the past. Funny how I'm always willing
to read another one.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
Alshaibi said he used bad judgment entering the
residence but he'd grown up in a college town where
such party hopping isn't uncommon.
'I like to meet people and I kind of wanted to meet my
neighbors. I had the sense that it was OK, that it was
open,' he said. 'So, yeah, after getting beaten,
I like the way state governments can fail to adequately
fund their workers' pensions, and when the problem
becomes critical, it's not the problem of the states, but
of the workers. (I use the word like in the sense that
it's reprehensible.)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote:
Oh, how I miss the burgers and fries at White Castle. No White Castle
outlets in these here parts.
There're my daughter's favorite late night snack. But to call
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote:
raucous chili
I tend to turn my nose up at adjectives, seeing as they
so rarely earn their keep, but raucous as a modifier for
chili is the best use of an adjective I'm going to see this quarter.
Mom used to open up a can of peas and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@ wrote:
Apparently with Kriya Yoga one learns to consciously' and 'at will'
control the heart and lungs, according the the great Saint Paramahansa
Yogananda who walked among us like
Great story about your dojo, and I don't doubt that some men use gender roles
as a cover. But in the case of Joel Northrup, I think he believes his story.
Check out the Des Moines Register's article:
http://bit.ly/hZLqEy
Here's the opening:
There's this great quote by the pastor E.H. Chapin,
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