[FairfieldLife] When is Off Off? (Re: Michelle Obama in Fairfiled, IA)

2007-12-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 23, 2007, at 4:06 PM, new.morning wrote: Rick, When exactly does this week-long hiatus for Off start? -- as a reward for his highest achievement in posting

[FairfieldLife] The Solstice Sun

2007-12-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Neat photo montage: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html

[FairfieldLife] Off outed

2007-12-24 Thread TurquoiseB
I have discovered the real identity of off_world_beings, who is conducting a hate campaign here on FFL and claim- ing to be one Tom Barlow, from Vermont. In reality, off_world_beings is a well-known alias for a member of the Bush administration and close advisor to President George W. Bush named

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth

2007-12-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: [snip] Maybe that's because what you said about Charlie actually does apply to Maharishi: Give me

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is NewMornings real name please?

2007-12-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is NewMornings real name please? Please tell me. I will find out through court order if necessay. Tom Barlow, Vermont. You may as well sue me too. I think you're a crackpot who has serious mental

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. From Rick: I've been involved in work, cross-country skiing, Christmas preparations, meditation, walking with my wife and our dogs, in other words, life. Seems like things have been getting pretty heated on FFL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Off outed

2007-12-24 Thread t3rinity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have discovered the real identity of off_world_beings, who is conducting a hate campaign here on FFL and claim- ing to be one Tom Barlow, from Vermont. In reality, off_world_beings is a well-known alias for a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth

2007-12-24 Thread cardemaister
In my view, MMY changed radically at some point. I think it was after he had surgery in England. Sometimes, as a result of such extreme trauma, a personality changes completely. What kind of proof is there that Maharishi's had surgery in England?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth

2007-12-24 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of proof is there that Maharishi's had surgery in England? Proof ??? You want proof and truth ? You are on the wrong place man !

[FairfieldLife] Little Brown Jesus - a traditional Christmas Story

2007-12-24 Thread do.rflex
Long-time readers have heard the story about the birth of my step-son, Jesus H. Christian, but it's been a long time since I last told it, and I thought it would be nice to turn its telling into a Jesus' General Christmas Season tradition. It was a little over nine and a half years ago when my

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Off-World v. Tom Barlow, court transcripts

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You forgot to mention the newspaper reports, radio reports, internet reports, and TV reports that will be broadcast about this case around the world. And that is all I care about, the court case outcome is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sperm donations very popular in China - see why [photos]

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How they take sperm donations at clinics in China [photos below] ...The below pictures are from an email I receive regarding sperm donation in China. Hear me… It is in China, not Malaysia. This is what they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth

2007-12-24 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: [snip] Maybe that's because what you

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: P.S. From Rick: I've been involved in work, cross-country skiing, Christmas preparations, meditation, walking with my wife and our dogs, in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my view, MMY changed radically at some point. I think it was after he had surgery in England. Sometimes, as a result of such extreme trauma, a personality changes completely. What kind of proof is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sperm donations very popular in China - see why [photos]

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: How they take sperm donations at clinics in China [photos below]

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread lurkernomore20002000
There is NO problem. Just enforce the rules. When the guy goes over 50 posts, he is off for a week. What is so fricken difficult about it. He was way over last week. Probably close to the limit this week. Why in Jesus's name can't you, or someone just enforce the agreement. Over 50,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sperm donations very popular in China - see why [photos]

2007-12-24 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Okay, should have been TOM Barlow. My bad. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TOM BARLOW FROM VERMONT. TAKE YOUR RIGHTFUL PLACE AMONG THE FFL LUMINARIES IN THE FFL FIRMAMENT. THE SPAIRAIGS WHO HAS (at least up to this point), SET A ONE

[FairfieldLife] Re: So, what do you score?

2007-12-24 Thread Duveyoung
In Dune, I remember being aghast that the Fremen women would use their own children as projectiles/shields when fighting the Imperial Forces -- the Sardaukar. It made sense, given the harsh world where spitting was a sacred sign, and the Fremen race was on the precipice of doom. It was an Arjuna

[FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Judy

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Sal, for posting this. I don’t know why I can’t access posts through the website, but I can’t. I’ll ask Rick next time I see him what the scoop is. Below I'll respond to Judy's comments point

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the more interesting question, Nablus, is: if this forum is such a horrible place seeped in discord, hatred, lies, and rumours what are you doing here, too? 1. To watch fools like you make fools of themselves

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: But the more interesting question, Nablus, is: if this forum is such a horrible place seeped in discord, hatred, lies, and rumours what

[FairfieldLife] Ar you Still Beating YOur Wife -- A

2007-12-24 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Response to Judy

2007-12-24 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Plus which, you might have said a word or two acknowledging you were mistaken to keep accusing me of not having supported my objection to your misreading of taint not thy mind.) Ladies, puhleeze! Don't confuse my

[FairfieldLife] LIBEL ON THE INTERNET

2007-12-24 Thread off_world_beings
According to this legal site, some of the people here are in trouble for calling other people 'wife beaters' and 'pedophiles'. It is a serious offence. Rick should have banned those people when they did that. LIBEL ON THE INTERNET WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BEING ACCUSED OF

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: But the more interesting question, Nablus, is: if this forum is

[FairfieldLife] Re: LIBEL ON THE INTERNET

2007-12-24 Thread feste37
Off, the question, Have you stopped beating your wife? as New Morning explained, is not meant literally. He wasn't referring to your personal life. It's a well-known expression and is used as a smart response when someone is asked a question that is designed to incriminate him whatever he replies.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: A YET EVEN MORE ACCOMPLISHED DEBATER, AND WORLD TRAVERLER. SHAGGER OF WOMEN, QUAFFER OF LIBATIONS. RON BARLOW FROM VERMONT. LET THIS NAME RING THROUHOUT THE LAND! Lurk, you and Shemp are really on a roll today--great posts. :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: LIBEL ON THE INTERNET

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to this legal site, ...found here: http://www.wave.net/immigration/lawyer/libel.html some of the people here are in trouble for calling other people 'wife beaters' and 'pedophiles'. It is a

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@

[FairfieldLife] Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread new . morning
Off, I am sorry we had a communications gap. I did not know that you did not know that Are You Still Beating Your Wife? is an common phrase in America. It has nothing to do with wives or beating them. It is an American idiom. An Idiom being an expression, that is a term or phrase whose

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: A YET EVEN MORE ACCOMPLISHED DEBATER, AND WORLD TRAVERLER. SHAGGER OF WOMEN, QUAFFER OF LIBATIONS. RON BARLOW FROM VERMONT. LET THIS NAME RING

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: You're ALWAYS commenting upon and adding to the negativity here on FairFieldLife. You wallow in it, like a pig in shit. Constantly. ...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off, I am sorry we had a communications gap. I did not know that you did not know that Are You Still Beating Your Wife? is an common phrase in America. It has nothing to do with wives or beating them. It is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 10:31 AM, do.rflex wrote: But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. How do you know I'm mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here. ~~ Lewis

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
I'm wondering whether OffWorld may be unaware that Have you stopped beating your wife? is *the* classic example used to illustrate the fallacy of the complex or loaded question. NewMorning used it not to suggest that OffWorld beats his wife, but to point out that the way OffWorld had framed his

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: A YET EVEN MORE ACCOMPLISHED DEBATER, AND WORLD TRAVERLER. SHAGGER OF WOMEN,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 10:29 AM, new.morning wrote: I am sorry we had a communications gap. I did not know that you did not know that Are You Still Beating Your Wife? is an common phrase in America. Beautiful apology, New. But I was also wondering...how long has Mr. Barlow been in this

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread mrfishey2001
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering whether OffWorld may be unaware that Have you stopped beating your wife? - He beats his wife?!! What on earth --

[FairfieldLife] One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
From an article in the Times today about the One Laptop per Child project-- http://laptopgiving.org/en/index.php --in which individuals can donate a laptop to a child in a developing nation for $200 (the Times article focuses on the project being implemented in a dirt- poor village in Peru):

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread Peter
Okay, I'll admit it. I beat my wife on a regular basis. There, I said it. Its good for her. Gives her discipline and focus. Now, she also beats me back too to return the favor. --- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread Peter
--- Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 10:29 AM, new.morning wrote: I am sorry we had a communications gap. I did not know that you did not know that Are You Still Beating Your Wife? is an common phrase in America. Beautiful apology, New. But I was also

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What is NewMornings real name please?

2007-12-24 Thread Peter
Akasha108 --- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is NewMornings real name please? Please tell me. I will find out through court order if necessay. Tom Barlow, Vermont. You may as well sue

[FairfieldLife] Personal Insults are Toxic

2007-12-24 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ paraphrasing in brackets: I will be very mad and hurt] if you are not banned for one month, or voluntarily ban yourself for one month. = I have long held, over some years, that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Peter wrote: Hey Sal, why weren't you insulted when I called you the Whore of Babylon? What are you, a chicken...brak brak...a chicken? (I'm channeling Off right now). I figured it was just more of your lunatic raving, Peter, and if you don't watch out, I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: So, what do you score?

2007-12-24 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/ You guys are tough. I am stuck here at nine. :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: So, what do you score?

2007-12-24 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity ruthsimplicity@ wrote: http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/ You guys are tough. I am stuck here at nine. :) I simply regarded the

[FairfieldLife] Worst Gift

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
The NYTimes today asked its readers, What's the worst holiday gift you've received? (The title of the piece is, Oh, You Shouldn't Have.) Lots of responses, some funny, some angry, some poignant, some downright sad. A selection: - Many Christmases could be considered disappointing in the gift

[FairfieldLife] That Crazy Darwin

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
On the lefty blog Daily Kos, poster DarkSyde quotes a fundamentalist nutcase: It's a crazy world we live in. Crazier every day. But one of the craziest notions that ever came down the pike is evolution. Who in his right mind would ever believe that the complicated homo sapien derived from a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal Insults are Toxic

2007-12-24 Thread Marek Reavis
New.M., please take whatever time off from posting here that you want but not based on OffWorld's comments and complaints. His complaints have no merit whatsoever, either real or imagined, and the lack of substance, hateful tone and emotional imbalance his posts convey (IMO) are pretty

[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal Insults are Toxic

2007-12-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
Just my 2 cents. You are a valued contributor here and it would be a shame to be denied your insights. Marek I second that. New may have his own reasons to take some time out and I can appreciate that. But I agree that shutting you down by raving is uncool and I hope it doesn't keep

[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal Insults are Toxic

2007-12-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New.M., please take whatever time off from posting here that you want but not based on OffWorld's comments and complaints. His complaints have no merit whatsoever, either real or imagined, and the lack of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Homicide and bad karma?

2007-12-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis, I don't think you've given me your best thinking on this issue. On cosmic topics like this there my best thinking is gunna fall way short! snip Again, you atheists out there, I'm not asking how you can live

[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal Insults are Toxic

2007-12-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my 2 cents. You are a valued contributor here and it would be a shame to be denied your insights. I second that. New may have his own reasons to take some time out and I can appreciate that. But I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Homicide and bad karma?

2007-12-24 Thread Angela Mailander
Here is another perspective on the God problem. This is a poem by Tukaram of the East Indian poet-saint tradition, which I have translated from the Marathi. The last stanza is the traditional signature line in which poet's of that tradition refer to themselves in the third person; in this

[FairfieldLife] Lberal Fascism

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
From the new book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by right- winger Jonah Goldberg(*): Or consider the explosion of health and New Age crusades in recent years, from the war on smoking, to the obsession with animal rights, to

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: A YET

[FairfieldLife] Re: One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
I think this is an absolutely wonderful project. With one reservation. Each one of those laptops should have a nice, big Complements of the USA decal affixed to it so that the user knows from where the largesse is coming each and every time he uses it. Why? Because, chances are, each and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lberal Fascism

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the new book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by right- winger Jonah Goldberg(*): Or consider the explosion of health and New Age crusades in

RE: [FairfieldLife] [EMAIL PROTECTED] FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Archer
I haven’t been following this tempest in a teapot. Off, can you show me the post where New Morning allegedly insulted you? BTW, you overposted last week. That, and the language you’ve been using obligates me to shut you down for a week. But first I’ll give you the opportunity to respond to my

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread Bhairitu
No it should say compliments of Shemp McGurk and probably would unless you told them to say anonymous. This isn't paid by your tax dollars but by individuals buying the machine. Interesting though count me in the dubious crowd who thinks though well intended it isn't quite necessary to get

[FairfieldLife] Re: One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread Duveyoung
Yeah, put a USA decal on them, cuz, after being carefully peeled off it will make a good scotch tape. In third world countries, living on a dollar or less per day, everything about eke is understood. I think that the countries that are trying to control their citizens' access to the Internet are

[FairfieldLife] Re: One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it should say compliments of Shemp McGurk and probably would unless you told them to say anonymous. This isn't paid by your tax dollars but by individuals buying the machine. Uh, incorrect. These donations are

Re: [FairfieldLife] CBS Special: In God's Name tonight Sunday 12/23 Including Amma

2007-12-24 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote: The two hour showing is tonight, December 23rd (9:00pm - 11:00pm, ET/PT). Recorded it, haven't watched it yet. I got a BluRay player yesterday so was watching a movie on it. Now I'm format neutral and I actually like my BluRay player better than my Toshiba HD-DVD player.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:04 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: Lurk: Careful guys, (and gals) Right now Off is feeding off all this attention, so he's been pretty quiet. But once a change in topic - that sucker will be right back in our face. I think Rick pulled the plug, so he's gone for a week.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread Bhairitu
shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it should say compliments of Shemp McGurk and probably would unless you told them to say anonymous. This isn't paid by your tax dollars but by individuals buying the

[FairfieldLife] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL

2007-12-24 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been following this tempest in a teapot. Off, can you show me the post where New Morning allegedly insulted you? BTW, you overposted last week. That, and the language you've been using obligates me to shut you

RE: [FairfieldLife] CBS Special: In God's Name tonight Sunday 12/23 Including Amma

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Archer
Rick Archer wrote: The two hour showing is tonight, December 23rd (9:00pm - 11:00pm, ET/PT). Recorded it, haven't watched it yet. I got a BluRay player yesterday so was watching a movie on it. Now I'm format neutral and I actually like my BluRay player better than my Toshiba HD-DVD

[FairfieldLife] Re: One Laptop per Child

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: No it should say compliments of Shemp McGurk and probably would unless you told them to say anonymous. This

[FairfieldLife] Stumbleupon vs TM

2007-12-24 Thread Duveyoung
http://www.suggestibility.org/surprise.php Stumbleupon.com finally sent me to the above site -- that's the first anti-TM anything from Stumbleupon for me -- after a couple hundred clicks, but still, who's clicking on this page often enough to have it move up the list until the likes of me are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stumbleupon vs TM

2007-12-24 Thread hyperbolicgeometry
---Interesting anti-TM diatribe. Who wrote that, Manning? -ro-flex? OK, what's his (Manning, if you're reading this...) solution to life's problems. Do nothing? In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.suggestibility.org/surprise.php Stumbleupon.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stumbleupon vs TM

2007-12-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Interesting anti-TM diatribe. Who wrote that, Manning? -ro-flex? OK, what's his (Manning, if you're reading this...) solution to life's problems. Do nothing? The author's name is at the very bottom of the

[FairfieldLife] Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Rick Archer
Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in Vedic City. I promised not to say who gave me the information, but it is a totally reliable person. This person saw the enclosed area from a short distance away. Several pundits were entering and leaving the spot. It looked as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stumbleupon vs TM

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Interesting anti-TM diatribe. Who wrote that, Manning? -ro- flex? OK, what's his (Manning, if you're reading this...) solution to life's problems. Do nothing? Of course it isn't do.rflex. Boy, have you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: So, what do you score?

2007-12-24 Thread Peter
--- ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/ You guys are tough. I am stuck here at nine. :) Nine? Dudette, you better start working out or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread Peter
--- Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Peter wrote: Hey Sal, why weren't you insulted when I called you the Whore of Babylon? What are you, a chicken...brak brak...a chicken? (I'm channeling Off right now). I figured it was just more of your lunatic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in Vedic City. I promised not to say who gave me the information, but it is a totally reliable person. This person saw the enclosed area from a short distance away. Several pundits were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in Vedic City. I promised not to say who gave me the information, but it is a totally reliable

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 4:21 PM, authfriend wrote: Are these guys obsessed, or what? Something tells me they need to get out more, a lot more. Seems to me some folks here are at least as obsessed with it. At least the pundits are actually going to see it in the flesh, as it were. LOL. Y'all

[FairfieldLife] Subpoenas are being prepared

2007-12-24 Thread off_world_beings
. . . . . . .Ha Ha, made you look ! Merry Christmas to all my fellow humans here who hold the view that the Savior of Man is the Holy Spirit that manifests as research published in respected idependent peer-reviewed journals, replicted 2 or 3 times. To the others, well, good luck with the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread off_world_beings
Thanks for that apology. I honestly did not know that. I really thought you were using an attack. I have never heard that term before. I took some philosophy courses, and I even taught logic as part of geometry classes to high school kids for a while, and I never came across anything like

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread tertonzeno
---This online source says that there are 5 Shiva Lingams in India (associated with the 5 elements) but that the Arunachala Hill represents the fire element and extends 8 light years into the Heavens,...thus, being the biggest Limgam!: as a vast spiritual organism, Shiva-Sirius would be your

[FairfieldLife] Ron Paul wins over Fairfield’s deep thinkers

2007-12-24 Thread bob_brigante
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/416439.html So where to look to figure out which candidate has caught the eye of Iowa's deep thinkers? Fairfield, of course. It's home to Maharishi International University and perhaps 3,000 admirers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his teachings on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Michelle Obama in Fairfiled, IA

2007-12-24 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willytex@ wrote: Ron Paul voted for the 'Authorization for Use of

[FairfieldLife] Yet another GOP candidate rejects modern biology

2007-12-24 Thread bob_brigante
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14021.html ... As it turns out, though, there was one more evolution-denier on the stage who, for whatever reason, didn't raise his hand at the time. Ron Chusid directed me to this Ron Paul video, posted to YouTube last week. Here's the key

[FairfieldLife] Barak Obama's memorable one-liner - this one will become famous

2007-12-24 Thread mainstream20016
See the most memorable one-liner of the campaign. Barak Obama put Hillary in his rear- view mirror with this one. Hillary got what she had coming. This is from the Dec. 13th debate in Des Moines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhPxSm9Es0wfeature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread george_deforest
Rick Archer posted: Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in Vedic City. I promised not to say who gave me the information, but it is a totally reliable person. This person saw the enclosed area from a short distance away. Several pundits were entering and leaving

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:26 PM, george_deforest wrote: Sal, the current stories of an ice lingam in iowa are a replay of a similar event at maharishi's house in holland 2 yrs ago dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Auspicious happenings in Maharishi Vedic City; A deity in the form of an ice sculpture has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stumbleupon vs TM

2007-12-24 Thread aztjbailey
If you do a phrase search in google (click advanced search on the main google page)insisting that the word meditation be next to transcendental, this site you are looking at will be about the fifth one down. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] For those who Believe

2007-12-24 Thread John
To All Members: Here's a post from another forum that might tickle your fancy: A 45 year old woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table, she had a near death experience. Seeing God she asked, Is my time up? God replied, No, you have another 43

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barak Obama's memorable one-liner - this one will become famous

2007-12-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the most memorable one-liner of the campaign. Barak Obama put Hillary in his rear- view mirror with this one. Hillary got what she had coming. This is from the Dec. 13th debate in Des Moines.

[FairfieldLife] The Shamatha Project preliminary comments

2007-12-24 Thread Vaj
Merry Christmas! On Dec. 19th B. Alan Wallace gave a lecture on the Shamatha Project along with some preliminary findings in Santa Barbara, CA. It sounds like it was a great success. A number of retreat members were and are now able to go into absorptions of 7 or even 9 hours--yet emerge

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Still Beating Your Wife? And American Idiom

2007-12-24 Thread Peter
I second Curtis, Off. I'm glad you're back and you ain't goin' postal!! Merry Christmas --- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad you are back brother. Felis Navidad man. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barak Obama's memorable one-liner - this one will become famous

2007-12-24 Thread mainstream20016
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20016@ wrote: See the most memorable one-liner of the campaign. Barak Obama put Hillary in his rear- view mirror with this one. Hillary got what