On 1/13/2014 12:04 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*You responded to Ann and me /before/ Barry instructed you to ignore
us. If you intend to ignore that instruction and continue to make your
own decisions about what to respond to, that's good, I approve.*
Maybe we should add this admonition
s3; The uni-sex dress-code, which uni-sex dress-code could you favor for us?
Which one? The bib-overall long has been a great equalizer. Liberating and very
fitting in so many ways.
-Buck
s3raphita wrote:
I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
Re Tolstoy gave the right
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re Tolstoy gave the right advice.:
Possibly. But, as I said, it's the hypocrisy of Tolstoy that grates with me.
Om s3, which hypocrisy bothers you more? Tolstoy doing the serf girls?
Maharishi and college girls? Mao
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
Buck, what about the woman who walks around FF in shapeless bibs, with her
long blond hair streaming...down to her ankles?! You gonna make her cut her
very feminine hair? Have everybody shave their heads?!
Are there really
The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was copied over (by
Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't advocate any dress codes. Jason
can defend that view if he wishes.
My input was about the hypocrisy of Muggeridge and Tolstoy - both men who were
enthusiastic
Well, this is a bit odd. The only person on FFL who has recommended uniforms
for TMers is Buck, and he's most definitely a member of the organization. Did
Barry miswrite?
One thing I think you'll find if you look into it is that those on this forum
recommending uniforms for monks, nuns, and
Do the bibs always go with long hair down to the ankles, or just in the case of
this one woman?
Ann, bibs is farmer shortcut language for shapeless pale peach colored or
coloured bib overalls and yes, they go down to the ankles. I think they wear
them for warmth. Go figure!
Buck, what
Translation: Barry's afraid Share will mess up again if she responds to
questions posed to her.
Share, don't let Barry tell you what to post and what not to post.
Still, that's often enough. Some people you instantly recognize as friends,
and others...uh...not so much. Speaking of the
My admonition made perfect sense. You responded to Ann and me before Barry
instructed you to ignore us. If you intend to ignore that instruction and
continue to make your own decisions about what to respond to, that's good, I
approve.
Judy, your admonition doesn't make any sense. I've
BTW, when's the last time anyone saw Barry have as extended and wide-ranging a
discussion with someone on FFL as I've been having with Bob Price?
Ignore them, and it'll become more obvious that they don't have anything to
say *except* ragging on someone else.
Re In public spaces, some degree of conservative uni-dress-code will enable
women to break glass ceilings.:
Is this dress code to be enforced by the authorities then? Sounds like Maoist
China to me.
Aside from the discussion of uni-sex dress-code, Asymmetric dress-code
certainly are used to help generate group cohesion and employed too as fealty
tests in hazing to winnow group memberships. The TM movement wore suits and
ties or schoolmarm when most everybody else was in bell-bottom jean
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
Well, this is a bit odd. The only person on FFL who has recommended uniforms
for TMers is Buck, and he's most definitely a member of the organization. Did
Barry miswrite?
It's just another hair-brained Barry theory based on a
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
Judy, I've only seen one woman in FF with hair down to her ankles but lots of
women in the Dome with hair down to their waist, etc. I like that older women
feel free enough to let their grey or greying hair grow long.
I
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
Judy, your admonition doesn't make any sense. I've already replied to both you
and Ann!
Yes and thank you. I really didn't have a clue what bibs were other than what
babies wear and the image of someone in an ankle length bib
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
BTW, when's the last time anyone saw Barry have as extended and wide-ranging a
discussion with someone on FFL as I've been having with Bob Price?
First, Barry is not capable of having a discussion like the one you and Bob
are
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason wrote:
--- s3raphita wrote:
The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was
copied over (by Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't
advocate any dress
Now that's better!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote:
Something like this might be better?
--- Jason wrote:
An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and
has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes
prejudice and bias on
Re Tolstoy gave the right advice.:
Possibly. But, as I said, it's the hypocrisy of Tolstoy that grates with me.
The English conservative journalist Malcolm Muggeridge (a true British
eccentric but a first-rate broadcaster) was a big fan of Tolstoy. One time in
the 1960s he gave a talk
Meeting for Worship, 17th Century. Entering into this form of worship.
“… the first that enters into the place of your meeting, be not careless, nor
wander up and down either in body or mind, but innocently sit down in some
place and turn in thy mind to the Light, and wait upon God [The
Quaker Meeting for Worship, 17th Century. Entering into this form of worship.
“… the first that enters into the place of your meeting, be not careless, nor
wander up and down either in body or mind, but innocently sit down in some
place and turn in thy mind to the Light, and wait upon God
Tolstoy could well be the greatest writer in world literature. Bearing in mind
I've only read him in English translation, his novels and stories are
perfection. But - and it's a very big but indeed - he suffered from old-man
syndrome. When he was a young nobleman the serfs on his estates
Jeesus,
T M I.
Too Damned Much Information.
If you don't have nothing nice to say don't say it at all.
What kind of upbringing you have anyway?
Do not let the details git in the way of a good story. .
-Will Rogers or Samuel Clemens
Besides, you are in the wrong subject
Re What kind of upbringing you have anyway?:
I learned never to be a hypocrite. (Jesus taught the same thing, remember?)
I have no time for people who take a don't do as I did, do as I say attitude.
Just ignore him. He's a poseur.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re What kind of upbringing you have anyway?:
I learned never to be a hypocrite. (Jesus taught the same thing, remember?)
I have no time for people who take a don't do as I did, do as I say
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
Just ignore him. He's a poseur.
Hee, hee. You managed to come up with a name for it, I'm still searching...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re What kind of upbringing you have anyway?:
I
20th Century Quakers coming to Fairfield, Iowa in a form of spiritual
direct-action peace-activism as re-enforcement joining with the large group
meditations facilitated by Transcendental Meditation(TM) in Fairfield held a
natural affinity to Quakers. To come as re-enforcement to the enterprise
No brag just fact.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Turqb, my people are old Quaker and I too am Quaker and by experience I take
that very seriously and even deadly seriously, which is why I am in
Fairfield,
For sometime, the transcending meditation group practices of Quakers as the
Society of Friends was a dominant spiritual practice in the settlement and
cultivation of America and as so often has happened with Knowledge in sequence
of time the now ancient silent transcendental Quaker practice
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
No brag just fact.
I'm pointing out that the fact you're so proud of is something that most
people worth knowing got over a long time ago -- being deadly serious about
something
Gee, sometimes it's really tough to figure out where Barry stands.
For example, yesterday:
Chatting is what equals do. Truth telling is what people who claim to be
UNEQUAL, and SUPERIOR, and the knowers of truth do to the people they look
down on.
Today:
I'm pointing out that the
Corrections below:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
No brag just fact.
I'm pointing out that the fact you're so proud of is something that most
Brilliant and insightful, Ann, *and* funny as hell! Yes, spiritual ennui and
laziness is no one's business, except the owner's. As a homey little pillow I
have in the den, says, Just deal with it. :-)
A nice thing about the Quaker group practice as the Friends Meeting itself is
that it is stripped of religious forms, of alters, brahmasthans, steeples, no
stages, no ostentatious hats or robes such like some clergy and TM-Rajas and
other climbers would wear above others. The nice thing about
The Fairfield, Iowa group meditation then became the largest group to Be with
as the group of transcending meditators like Quakers gathered in Iowa from the
late 1970's. Quite a number of old-style Quakers like me joined on with the
large group meditation in Fairfield, Iowa from the beginning
Turqb, my people are old Quaker and I too am Quaker and by experience I take
that very seriously and even deadly seriously, which is why I am in Fairfield,
Iowa as an attender of the large group meditations in the Golden Domes of the
Fairfield meditating community. George Fox and early Quakers
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