[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/30/06 1:47:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'That was a song from the sixties, if anyone's old enough to remember... War is really very disfunctional behavior; Sure it's been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 5/31/06 8:19:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enlightened leadership is the only way out. But if the leadership is only a reflection of the collective consciousness, then you've got a real problem. In order to have enlightened leadership,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/31/06 8:19:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enlightened leadership is the only way out. But if the leadership is only a reflection of the collective consciousness, then

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 5/31/06 8:19:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, babajii_99@ writes: Enlightened leadership is the only way out. But if the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 5/31/06 8:19:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: the TMO concepts of enlightened leadership, on the one hand, and leadership that reflects the consciousness of the people, on the other hand, don't seem to mesh very well. In other words, they can't both be true. I feel a little foolish to admit I'd never noticed

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip I don't think I said self-evident. I think I said obvious. I never said, or meant to imply that you did. Sorry if you inferred

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: the TMO concepts of enlightened leadership, on the one hand, and leadership that reflects the consciousness of the people, on the other hand, don't seem to mesh very well. In other

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: the TMO concepts of enlightened leadership, on the one hand, and leadership that reflects the consciousness of the people, on the other hand, don't seem to mesh very well. In other

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: In any case, all the above (including responding to the original post whenever possible) is just generally good netiquette, since it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread new_morning_blank_slate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: Before assuming a poster is responding to your comments, perhaps pause before posting your new response, and consider if there are

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread claudiouk
Maybe it's another chicken or egg connundrum... but I think if we go down a scale I'm sure we can find variousa historical cases of an unenlightened population experiencing a political shift from oppressive rule to a more benign one, without much change happening inbetween in the collective

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jyouells2000 wrote: --- Gillam wrote: an enlightened leader might say, Let's forgive the terrorists, but the people would say, Screw that, I want blood. And the enlightened leader would have a problem. Or they could do what Krishna advised Arjuna to do. Forgive them, then

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jyouells2000 wrote: --- Gillam wrote: an enlightened leader might say, Let's forgive the terrorists, but the people would say, Screw that, I want blood. And the enlightened leader would have a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/31/06 8:19:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enlightened leadership is the only way out. But if the leadership is only a reflection of the collective consciousness,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 5/31/06 8:19:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, babajii_99@ writes: Enlightened leadership is the only way out. But if the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new_morning_blank_slate no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 5/31/06 4:46:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless you can enlighten the leadership directly, fast enough that they don't get thrown out of office before they can have an enlightening effect on everyone else by virtue of their mundane

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'War- What Is It Good For?'

2006-05-31 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 5/31/06 4:47:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes, if a single leaf of a plant is important enough, addressing that single leaf WILL have an important enough influence on the rest of the plant that a wise gardener will attend to it