[FairfieldLife] RE: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-27 Thread awoelflebater
(snip) Woo certainly can be fun. I just do not think it is real. The reason I think enlightenment is real is it is the realisation that there is nothing more to life than what one has already experienced all one's life. The search for something beyond does not discover something beyond (tho

[FairfieldLife] Re: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > > > Re "Woo seems to rejoice in them, and it often seems as if something as mundane as evidence is not necessary to determine truth.": > > Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you're saying. The only thing I don't rule out is that there may be

[FairfieldLife] RE: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-26 Thread raunchydog
Judy & Emily, thanks for watching. I got video images are from Google. The music is "Adagio for Strings," one of JFK's favorite pieces, broadcast on the radio at the announcement of FDR's death and on TV at the announcement of JFK's death. It's also on the soundtrack for the movie "Platoon." Jac

[FairfieldLife] RE: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-26 Thread s3raphita
Re "Woo seems to rejoice in them, and it often seems as if something as mundane as evidence is not necessary to determine truth.": Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you're saying. The only thing I don't rule out is that there may be some woo stuff going on (*just* possibly telepathy?

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-25 Thread Richard J. Williams
Apparently everything on earth came from outer space, including the carbon that makes life possible. Everything came from somewhere - you can't create something out of nothing. If everything came from outer space, it's not a stretch to think that these same elements could create life elsewhere.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > The brain seems to have a model of the body stored somewhere, somehow. Meditators sometimes experience this as seeing the body with eyes closed during meditation, which is interesting because the image of the body never includes the head, only the w

[FairfieldLife] RE: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-25 Thread s3raphita
Re "I will prefer a non-woo explanation over a woo explanation because it is more logically connected to well-established physics . . . ": I prefer a non-woo theory also. And Occam's razor suggests we should always go for the simplest explanation. But there's a lot of woo in physics: quantum th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-24 Thread TurquoiseB
I think what she's trying to say is that the scientists left out The Woo Factor. Cultists always need The Woo Factor. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > This seems like it may explain out-of-my-body-into-somebody-else's-body experiences, but not just plain old out-of-body experience

[FairfieldLife] RE: Going out of my mind?

2013-11-24 Thread authfriend
This seems like it may explain out-of-my-body-into-somebody-else's-body experiences, but not just plain old out-of-body experiences. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: http://www.livescience.com/41128-out-of-body-experiences-explained.html http://www.livescience.com/41128-out-of-b