[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect/suggested reading

2006-09-17 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoga Vasistha is very good -- the book is Vasistha's Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda, State university of New York Press. Can order through 21st Century books, (at MUM), or Amazon.com. (don't bother with the abridged version

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect (refined)

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Gimbel
(snip) The intellect is the discriminator, which makes it possible for us to make decisions -- buddhi (intellect) throws light on the mind to make decisions possible (and thank God, it enables Prez Bush to say I am the decider). My experience is different: For me the 'mind' is everything

[FairfieldLife] Re: Orono Maine course

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first week long residence course was in Orono, 74 or 75 or maybe both. Charlie D was very intense but I really enjoyed his lectures. Where is he now, Amherst Mass? Did you give any general lectures Rick?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi supports the Republicans (give peace a chance)

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in the early 70¹s, when Nixon was going through the Watergate ordeal, I heard that Maharishi supported him, and was generally in favor of conservative Republican policies. Charlie Donahue hopped on this

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of the third world people, we can force the rest into submission and servitude. It isn't working, nor will it. Is this really how

[FairfieldLife] Am I like Einstein? ; )

2006-09-17 Thread cardemaister
I just learned that the composer/performer(?) of the Swedish megahit Boten Anna suffers from Tourette's. Trying to find information about that I found that I most probably suffer from Asperger's syndrome. That might be the reason why TM seems not to be very effective in my case, although it's

[FairfieldLife] Cool! (Oldies but goldies?)

2006-09-17 Thread cardemaister
http://www.cheniere.org/references/maxwell.htm This is just one dramatic example among many, of how the present terribly inadequate model of electrodynamics (used in electrical engineering) inhibits and has long inhibited our scientific progress. That model and the continual use of it is also

[FairfieldLife] Re: Am I like Einstein? ; )

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just learned that the composer/performer(?) of the Swedish megahit Boten Anna suffers from Tourette's. Trying to find information about that I found that I most probably suffer from Asperger's syndrome. That

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cool! (Oldies but goldies?)

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cheniere.org/references/maxwell.htm This is just one dramatic example among many, of how the present terribly inadequate model of electrodynamics (used in electrical engineering) inhibits and has long

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of the third world people, we can force the rest into submission and servitude.

[FairfieldLife] Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread t3rinity
http://tinyurl.com/fehwp To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of

[FairfieldLife] Mediating the TM community problem to peace, AFSC

2006-09-17 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: Announcement in the Dome Maharishi desires to know the intention of ALL his Governors, Sidhas Doug writing: That is fine, except that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live or die. That's why they elect leaders who don't care whether these people live or die and who design and implement their global strategies

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pope's comments

2006-09-17 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/17/06 12:01:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I know I shouldn't feel this way but I am snickering with delight at all the hot water the Pope is getting into with the Islamists.I also find it hugely entertaining that his comments

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 7:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: Now I'm interested in reading it too. Know where I can find it? Here:http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/ september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university- regensburg_en.html Thanks! Sal To subscribe,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pope's comments

2006-09-17 Thread Peter
--- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I know I shouldn't feel this way but I am snickering with delight at all the hot water the Pope is getting into with the Islamists. I also find it hugely entertaining that his comments about Muslims and violence are being met with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
Irmeli, I'm with you on the Pope having done nothing really wrong in this scenario, and that in fact he was trying to spread peace, not conflict. I think that one of the things that many people are missing is how *medieval* this whole tempest in a pisspot is. That is, they're missing the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Orono Maine course

2006-09-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
Now I remember, Tom Duffy. Very entertaining lecturer. I knew his ex Suzy years later. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first week long residence course was in Orono, 74 or 75 or maybe both. Charlie D was very intense but I really enjoyed

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live or die. That's why they elect leaders who don't care whether these

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In my opinion the pope addresses this issue in the speech relatively tactfully by a quotation of the issue that he sees to be at the core of the problem. Just so we know what we're talking about here, this is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab world, in my opinion, is not *just* religious fundamentalism, but a sense of rage at having been treated like the niggers of the world for almost seven hundred years. They WON back then, and they've been being

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of the third world people, we can force the rest into

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 7:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live or die. That's why they elect leaders who don't care whether these people live or die and who design and implement their global strategies accordingly. The emotional reactions (and overreactions) we're seeing in the Arab

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/17/06 7:36:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: they cared anything about these people in Third Worldcountries, Americans wouldn't have allowed their leadersto have treated them the way they have, for decades now. But they clearly *didn't*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Gotta agree. I currently live in France, which has MORE than its share of problems. They're *also* a remarkably Self Important culture. But one of the things they are NOT is apathetic. Any culture which invented the croissant, cappucino, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab world, in my opinion, is not *just* religious fundamentalism, but a sense of rage at having been treated like the niggers of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:57 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab world, in my opinion, is not *just* religious fundamentalism, but a sense of rage at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Pope's comments

2006-09-17 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/17/06 8:17:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find it hugely entertaining that his comments about Muslims and violence are being met with some protests that end up declaring violence against the West.Playing with the monkeys at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 9/17/06 7:59:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live or die. That's why they elect leaders who don't care whether these people live or die and who design and implement their

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Gotta agree. I currently live in France, which has MORE than its share of problems. They're *also* a remarkably Self Important culture. But one of the things they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:13 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: At least in the major cities, many if not most of the people you speak to *can* understand and speak English. It's just that unless their income is completely dependent on tips -- and sometimes even when it is -- they WON'T converse with you in

[FairfieldLife] Feudal Mindset the TMorg.

2006-09-17 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that the reason the Arab countries are the way that they are (corruption and all, imbalance of rich and poor and all) is because the people of those countries allow it to take place. However, it's a little

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Unfortunately, there are many who say they aren't evolved enough to handle democracy and need a Saddam Who has said that? Can you give us *just one* name and quote? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:57 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: snip So I don't think apathy is the right word to describe the acceptance of the status quo we see in many Arab countries. It's more that many of the people really

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/17/06 7:59:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live or die. That's why they elect leaders who don't care

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:13 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: At least in the major cities, many if not most of the people you speak to *can* understand and speak English. It's just that unless their income is completely

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
I just learned to say hi and thank you in the languages of the different Asian communities I live with. It totally transforms my relationships like a cultural open seseme. (sometimes I have needed the phrase does your brother carry a gun.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just learned to say hi and thank you in the languages of the different Asian communities I live with. I always had good luck with the phrase, We've come for your daughters, Chuck. When properly translated,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fehwp It looks like the Corleone Family compound on Long Island. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I just learned to say hi and thank you in the languages of the different Asian communities I live with. I always had good luck

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope's comments

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I know I shouldn't feel this way but I am snickering with delight at all the hot water the Pope is getting into with the Islamists. I also find it hugely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fehwp It looks like the Corleone Family compound on Long Island. And whats with that huge Northwest facing set of buildings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fehwp It looks like the Corleone Family compound on Long Island. You do know that the Corleone compound on Lake Tahoe, the one

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab world, in my opinion, is not *just* religious fundamentalism, but a sense of rage at having been treated like the niggers of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Gotta agree. I currently live in France, which has MORE than its share of problems. They're *also* a remarkably Self Important culture. But one of the things they are NOT is apathetic. If a president of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 10:19 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab world, in my opinion, is not *just* religious fundamentalism, but a sense of rage at

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: snip Unfortunately, there are many who say they aren't evolved enough to handle democracy and need a Saddam Who has said that? Can you give us *just one*

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a 25 hour work week (or whatever the maximum hours the French unions have negotiated for themselves) is NOT a basic human right, Barry. 35 hours, Shemp. But you have the origin of this shorter work week

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
It totally transforms my relationships like a cultural open seseme... I'll have to look into this. That's the effect I was going for with my phrase... :-) Can I pour you another? can work. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fehwp It looks like the Corleone Family compound on

[FairfieldLife] That Religion of 'Peace' again

2006-09-17 Thread larry.potter
Somalia: Italian nun's murder may be linked to Pope, official says Published: 09.17.06, 15:06 The killing of an Italian Catholic nun in Mogadishu on Sunday may well be linked to anger among Muslims about Pope Benedict's recent remarks on Islam, a senior source among Somalia's Islamists

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fehwp It looks like the Corleone Family compound on

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 10:19 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
your argument appears to be that those who can glob onto more power over others, relative to their population, will do so. No huge insight there. The question is whether a democracy of one-person one vote is more reflective of the will of the people than systems where some peoples vote count 10x,

[FairfieldLife] YF and COP 1.0?

2006-09-17 Thread cardemaister
http://tinyurl.com/m9uph 1.0 Introduction to the Problem: Considerable confusion appears to exist with respect to the definition of the efficiency (å) of an energy system or energy process versus the definition of its coefficient of performance (COP). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Am I like Einstein? ; )

2006-09-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the deepest point of rest during TM i s a state where you don't notice *ANYTHING* at all, Iwouldn't worry about not noticing your hands getting warmer... Well, earlier my hands tended to be cold, nowadays they

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of the third world people, we can force the rest into

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your argument appears to be that those who can glob onto more power over others, relative to their population, will do so. It's not so much a globbing on to power as it is a protection against the misuse of power

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of the

[FairfieldLife] Flying on a trampoline?

2006-09-17 Thread cardemaister
When I suggested on a Finnish Usenet physics group that the original asymmetric Maxwellian EM equations -- of which I don't of course understand nuttin, mathematicswise -- might explain yogic flying, someone proposed that the YFfers try to fly on a loose trampoline or somesuch, to rule out the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your argument appears to be that those who can glob onto more power over others, relative to their population, will do so. No huge insight there. The question is whether a democracy of one-person one vote is more

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: your argument appears to be that those who can glob onto more power over others, relative to their population, will do so. It's not so

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Gotta agree. I currently live in France, which has MORE than its share of problems. They're *also* a remarkably Self Important culture. But one of the things they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Flying on a trampoline?

2006-09-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I suggested on a Finnish Usenet physics group that the original asymmetric Maxwellian EM equations -- of which I don't of course understand nuttin, mathematicswise -- might explain yogic flying, someone

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: snip Unfortunately, there are many who say they aren't evolved enough to handle

[FairfieldLife] Re: Flying on a trampoline?

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I suggested on a Finnish Usenet physics group that the original asymmetric Maxwellian EM equations -- of which I don't of course understand nuttin, mathematicswise -- might explain yogic flying, someone

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: your argument appears to be that those who can glob onto more power

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread new . morning
If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, corrupt campaign finance and lobbying, out-of-distric funding of local elections) etc, helps any minorities in the US in substantive and sustained ways, I would give your arguments more credence

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:05 PM, new.morning wrote: If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, corrupt campaign finance and lobbying, out-of-distric funding of local elections) etc, helps any minorities in the US in substantive and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Flying on a trampoline?

2006-09-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
...even in floating, the muscles will be involved. Thighs flapping like wings perhaps? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: When I suggested on a Finnish Usenet physics group that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:05 PM, new.morning wrote: If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, corrupt campaign finance and lobbying, out-of-distric

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, corrupt campaign finance and lobbying, out-of-distric funding of local elections) etc, helps any minorities in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, Again, I'm not a supporter of jerrymandering, but one of the most prevalent uses of jerrymandering of the past 40

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Orono Maine course

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Orono Maine course on 9/17/06 8:24 AM, curtisdeltablues at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I remember, Tom Duffy. Very entertaining lecturer. I knew his ex Suzy years later. I see Tom twice a year. Hes doing great. Hes a real estate agent in New Hampshire. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop on 9/17/06 10:17 AM, new.morning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/17/06 10:17 AM, new.morning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Question for Rick

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
why can't your involvement with Amma be considered a religion? If it was, wouldn't that be the same as, say, being a Catholic...which would mean that the TMO couldn't have any objection to it? Where is the dividing line between a TMer giving another saint their business and practising a

[FairfieldLife] Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
Used to be that margarine was touted by science as the solution to cholesteral-packing heart-attack-creating butter. That was about 40 years ago. Today, it's the complete opposite: scientists tell us that margarine is one of the most unhealthy things to put in our bodies and to go back to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:05 PM, new.morning wrote: If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, corrupt campaign finance and lobbying, out-of-distric

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Pope's recent speech the Muslims feel so agitated about is really very good. It is about the old historical connection Christianity in its essence has to reason due to strong Hellenistic influences from the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson Irmeli.Mattsson@ wrote: snip In my opinion the pope addresses this issue in the speech relatively tactfully by a quotation of the issue that he sees to be at the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just cannot see the speech as offensive. The quotation becomes offensive only, when it is taken out of the context of the whole speech. The pope is quoting a Christian Byzantine Emperor, who is trying to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Used to be that margarine was touted by science as the solution to cholesteral-packing heart-attack-creating butter. That was about 40 years ago. Today, it's the complete opposite: scientists tell us that

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Imagine the wrath of Christians if a non- Christian were to say the only new things Jesus brought were evil and inhuman, citing, say, Jesus'

[FairfieldLife] Rtam bhara pragya

2006-09-17 Thread Michael Dean Goodman
Someone asked: What is the TM/MMY-approved sanskrit word for intellect? In response, choices were offered: buddhi and pragya. Buddhi = intellect Pragya = sprouting (pra) of knowledge (gya - as in 'gyan') Rtam bhara pragya = that most subtle level where knowledge sprouts (1st appears) in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi supports the Republicans

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- MDixon wrote: In a message dated 9/16/06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I heard on the radio yesterday that public support for George W. Bush and the Republican Party is trending up, thanks in part to falling gasoline prices. When I heard that, I thought of all those rosy Age of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-17 Thread Michael Dean Goodman
peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, where does mind stop and intellect start? Any hard criteria? The mechanics of perception and discrimination that our intellect would LIKE us to believe in goes like this: sensory input comes in from the objective world, is registered by the mind and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-17 Thread uns_tressor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Used to be that margarine was touted by science as the solution to cholesteral-packing heart-attack-creating butter. That was about 40 years ago. Today, it's the complete opposite: scientists tell us that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-17 Thread Bhairitu
shempmcgurk wrote: Used to be that margarine was touted by science as the solution to cholesteral-packing heart-attack-creating butter. That was about 40 years ago. Today, it's the complete opposite: scientists tell us that margarine is one of the most unhealthy things to put in our bodies

[FairfieldLife] Re: Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Used to be that margarine was touted by science as the solution to cholesteral-packing heart-attack-creating butter. That was about 40

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop on 9/17/06 1:55 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And am out of line drawing a parallel between what the Taliban did and what the TMO desires to do with the monastery? Not too far. There was a huge outcry in FF when MUM tore

Re: [FairfieldLife] Question for Rick

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Question for Rick on 9/17/06 1:53 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why can't your involvement with Amma be considered a religion? If it was, wouldn't that be the same as, say, being a Catholic...which would mean that the TMO couldn't have any objection

[FairfieldLife] Re: Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-17 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shempmcgurk wrote: Used to be that margarine was touted by science as the solution to cholesteral-packing heart-attack-creating butter. That was about 40 years ago. Today, it's the complete opposite: scientists

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