[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Curtis, I am making the point that AT LEAST no one here on FFL came anywhere > near any direct evidence of what is being alleged, book or not.> Like any topic discussed, other than ourdirect experience. And of course due to the pri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > "If the mind does not need transcendence, is it not a good thing for the > > body ?" Each is a product of the other. Yes, transcendence is always a good > > t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > "If the mind does not need transcendence, is it not a good thing for the body > ?" Each is a product of the other. Yes, transcendence is always a good thing. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread whynotnow7
"If the mind does not need transcendence, is it not a good thing for the body ?" Each is a product of the other. Yes, transcendence is always a good thing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > I en

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > I enjoy that expression attributed to the Buddha, "Believe nothing that you > hear and only half of what you see". Books fall into the first category. > Entertaining perhaps and definitely distracting, but at BEST a rough pointer >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread whynotnow7
I enjoy that expression attributed to the Buddha, "Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see". Books fall into the first category. Entertaining perhaps and definitely distracting, but at BEST a rough pointer to truth, after crawling somewhat laboriously through the viewpoint of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread whynotnow7
Curtis, I am making the point that AT LEAST no one here on FFL came anywhere near any direct evidence of what is being alleged, book or not. I have an opinion on all of this, though I didn't want to lead with it, because that is all it is, just like everyone else's, an opinion (damn I sound like

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > > > Funny that the anti-Maharishi, anti-TMO, anti-"enlightenmentudeness" > > > cliqu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > > > Funny that the anti-Maharishi, anti-TMO, anti-"enlightenmentudeness" > > > cliqu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > > >Using logic and reason to "confirm" an inner feeling. > > > > Confirmation bias (CB) may include

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > Funny that the anti-Maharishi, anti-TMO, anti-"enlightenmentudeness" > > clique here continuously claims that those who make positive claims about > > Mahari

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > >Using logic and reason to "confirm" an inner feeling. > > Confirmation bias (CB) may include this but in itself much broader - > A series of experiments in the 1960s sug

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Funny that the anti-Maharishi, anti-TMO, anti-"enlightenmentudeness" clique > here continuously claims that those who make positive claims about Maharishi, > the TMO and enlightenment are doing so to garner attention and feel special

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Funny that the anti-Maharishi, anti-TMO, anti-"enlightenmentudeness" clique > here continuously claims that those who make positive claims about Maharishi, > the TMO and enlightenment are doing so to garner attention and feel speci

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread whynotnow7
Yes, an amazing transformation, right between our eyes. "The world is as you are". Using logic and reason to "confirm" an inner feeling. We have all done it, but to pretend it is objective and leads to The Truth is baloney on white bread. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confirmation bias [was:Speculating about CC instead of doing the work]

2011-06-18 Thread Ravi Yogi
Spot on Jim, it's total rejection of anything positive, post after post, question after question and total acceptance of everything negative, no questions asked. If someone talks positive it's all subjective experience, opinion, mind control, lacking any benefit to the world, trying to feel specia