[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcano info
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Oh, man, you gotta see this hot lava action! Extraordinary video. http://vimeo.com/channels/hd#10638288 Usually all you can hear in such videos is the helicopter's motor, but in this one somehow they've managed to block most of it out and capture the growling, whooshing, rustling, crackling, slurping sounds the volcano is making. The sound the lava makes at one point as it drips down from the crater is--I can't think of another word for it--delicious. I get a shiver down my spine looking at volcanoes, it must be that the earth usually seems so solid and predictable we forget about the sort of power that lies beneath our feet. Shame no-one was around to film some of the really big eruptions like Yellowstone park or the Deccan traps which erupted for about 30,000 years and covered an area half the size of India with lava, possibly helping finish off the dinosaurs. Now *that* is a volcano! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Boston's Big Picture does it's usual wonderfulness. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html Wow, some amazing pics there, I feel humbled just looking at it. Imagine living there, it must help you develop a healthy sense of perspective. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Excellent source for on-the-spot updates from the Eruption in Iceland section of the Icelandic Met Office Web site: http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/1884 Lots of links to detailed info on the ash cloud, seismic activity, etc. Says there's *nothing* currently going on at either Hekla or Katla. Best video (Windows Media Player) yet, IMO, of the eruption: http://http.ruv.straumar.is/static.ruv.is/vefur/20042010_myndir_omar.wmv This was taken from a helicopter around 5 this morning Iceland time. It's high-res, looking down into the crater. Not spectacular in terms of huge fountains of lava and lightning, but what's fascinating is how you can see the *mechanics* of the eruption. When an explosion takes place lower down in the crater, you can see pressure waves from it radiating up into the billows of ash. A split-second later, you see bits and pieces of incandescent lava thrown up by the explosion. Unlike a wave in water, the pressure waves don't change the shape or direction of the ash billows; apparently the fact that the waves are visible at all is a phenomenon having to do with the refractive index of the air, which is made denser by the wave. Or something along those lines!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: If Tm is in straits now, It's not, and Judith's book rings true, Who cares ? it may take a toll on the TMO as people get really upset or at least filled with doubts. They won't and why should they ? Only small fish, and non-meditators like I understand you are get upset by small things. Nabby, 1. I am a long-time meditator, a teacher of TM in fact I Did'nt know that. 2. I have suspected for many many many years that the stuff purportedly in Judith's book is true - even way before the topic was brought up here on FFL And ? What's your point ? 3. Yet I still think TM is powerful and do it and am eternally grateful to Maharishi for so much Nice. He saved this this planet from self-destruction ofcourse. 4. So, it has been a struggle to integrate, or maybe not at times, the conflicting viewpoints Where is the conflict ? Some people enjoy each others company mentally, physically or both, nothing wrong with that. 5. The big question remains: who really is the true believer, the devotee, in all this - the person who denies things they don't want to know or refuses to consider anything negative? Why is sex negative ? or the person who tries to deal with the information they find difficult to accept? I don't have the answer to this, but I do wonder just how true believers will respond to some info that is not so light. I still don't understand your problem.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: One can only hope that it is not like the things that Doug/Buck expresses here. His elitism and his disdain for non-meditators is as loathsome in its way as the TMO's obvious disdain for non-TBs. Also, as Joe points out, I think Doug would not only say that the goal of any such initiative would not only be to encourage as many people to meditate as possible, but to use any means necessary to *force* them to meditate. whether they want to or not. Turq, thanks for noticing the distinction. However you're asserting a mighty large assumption about the supposed elitism. Naah, anyone who can think can be spiritual. Whether pure or impure. It's the science which says that everyone ought to meditate. Should meditate. As effective spiritual practice. That's the science. Doug, with all due respect, Curtis recently put you in your place re the use of the word science. You shame the word by even uttering it, and clearly have no earthly idea what it means. To you science means finding some plausible (to idiots) way of describing me believing claptrap that doesn't make it sound like claptrap. There IS no real science behind TM. Not yet, anyway. You just like to pretend there is because that makes it look less like you are just believing fairy stories told to you by a charlatan, fairy stories you have used to guide your lifestyle since the day you first heard them, without ever questioning whether they were true or not. You use the word science as a way of saying, See...look at these pretty charts...the fairy stories told to me *must* have been true...look at the pretty charts...so I don't ever *have* to look into the fairy stories to see if they are true. Would simply be good for everyone's benefit to facilitate human brain development that way. There is simply no evidence that this is true. The most that can be said scientifically is that some -- very, very few given the general population -- seem to have found some benefit in meditation. That simply cannot be expanded to Everyone should meditate except by wannabe tyrants. However, I am comfortable now with Keith, Jerry, Hagelin, David Lynch, Roth and them capable types figuring it out for a teaching TM movement. I notice that you don't include *yourself* in that list of people responsible to figure this out. I assume that you wouldn't be one of the people on the front lines doing the teaching, possibly at your own expense, either. Put up or shut up. If you think TM should be taught more, GO OUT AND TEACH IT. You don't need no rehabilitated TM movement to allow you to do that. You're just hiding behind the demonization of people you blame for the TMO's demise and the oh-so-hopeful idealization of the people you hope will save it, SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. I'm being tough on your because of your act here on FFL, Doug. I'm pretty sure that some if not all of it *IS* an act. But it's a *pussy* act, a *lazy-assed* act, and at times an *insultingly* elitist act. I'm really tired of it. Certainly NOT everyone needs to be at the table, especially not old has-been meditation quitters who did not go the whole way nor just necessarily a bunch of god-damned mood-making pencil-neck TM-TB'ers without merit neither. Please explain to us why YOU are not one of these quitters, Doug. When was the last time YOU taught TM to anyone? When was the last time YOU did any of the things you say the TMO should be doing? I'm thinking that the hypocrite factor around here just went up a notch or two. This is large work to be done that needs some delegating. Godspeed to them fighting the good fight in the middle for us all. While I sit here in front of a computer writing elitist bullshit to a forum of maybe 2000 people worldwide, doing NOTHING myself. Yeah, right. Jai Adi Shankara, Jai Bullshit.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: I am interested to understand why people find it difficult to accept. Perhaps a bit jaw dropping at first. But after the first really!?, why is it particularly odd or difficult to digest? And I suppose, its a relevant questions: should a teacher be entitled to a private life? Entitled to some parts of life that are of no business to students or anyone else. I never heard MMY say he was celibate. Why should he? Other than when he was Bal Bramachari Mahesh. And then he changed his name. Which is a pretty big clue in itself. A practice useful for a student is not necessarily still useful for an adult. BINGO ! Like many of us, he may have not have gone out of his way to correct some peoples misperceptions. Actually he spent all day doing that -- misperceptions about the path. But it could have been an infinite job to try to straighten people out in every area of his and their lives. He did not work at that level. His magnanimity was boundless. If someone close to Him, even a Purusha, would run away with a girl for a few days He would not comment.
[FairfieldLife] Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing-the $200 Hamburger
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[FairfieldLife] The TM Science Cycle
Here's the way it looks to me: * In my impressionable youth, an Indian guy wearing a dress tells me that mediation is the highest path in the universe, and that learning and practicing it every day will make me not only a better person, but really, really, really SPECIAL. * I am so naive and so wanting to be SPECIAL that I choose to believe him. * Later, to sell this same idea to more people, the Indian guy wearing a dress talks some of his students (who have no bias or interest in proving themselves SPECIAL, of course) into doing shoddy research to prove his claims that meditation will make everyone a better person and really, really, really SPECIAL. * I read this research, look at all the pretty charts that I don't understand, and renew my belief in what the Indian guy wearing a dress told me. I call this process Science. * Later, the same Indian guy wearing a dress tells me that not only am *I* a better person and really, really, really SPECIAL because *I* practice this meditation that he sells, I am *SO* SPECIAL that me sitting on my butt practicing it (or bouncing on that same butt) affects the *whole world*. I am, in fact *SO* SPECIAL that I control the weather, whether there are wars or peace, and the future of the entire planet. * I am so naive and so wanting to be SPECIAL that I choose to believe him, again. * Later, pretty much the same completely unbiased students of the Indian guy wearing a dress are coerced into doing *more* shoddy research to prove this second set of claims true. * No one in the entire field of science believes this, but I do, because *again* I don't have to change the beliefs I formed in my impressionable youth. Again, I call this process Science. Am I wrong about this, Doug? This is what your use of the word Science looks like to me...
[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Science Cycle
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: * In my impressionable youth, an Indian guy wearing a dress tells me that mediation is the highest path Classical case of mixing identities, you meant this politician, no ? [Dalai lama] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/mar/18/tibet.china?picture\ =333160110 [Dalai lama] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/mar/18/tibet.china?picture\ =333160119 6 [Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama greets supporters in Washington] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/mar/18/tibet.china?picture\ =360242307 [Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama at Nova Southeastern University] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/mar/18/tibet.china?picture\ =360242323 [Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama delivers his annual address from exile in India] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/mar/18/tibet.china?picture\ =333160104
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: One can only hope that it is not like the things that Doug/Buck expresses here. His elitism and his disdain for non-meditators is as loathsome in its way as the TMO's obvious disdain for non-TBs. Also, as Joe points out, I think Doug would not only say that the goal of any such initiative would not only be to encourage as many people to meditate as possible, but to use any means necessary to *force* them to meditate. whether they want to or not. Turq, thanks for noticing the distinction. However you're asserting a mighty large assumption about the supposed elitism. Naah, anyone who can think can be spiritual. Whether pure or impure. It's the science which says that everyone ought to meditate. Should meditate. As effective spiritual practice. That's the science. Doug, with all due respect, Curtis recently put you in your place re the use of the word science. You shame the word by even uttering it, and clearly have no earthly idea what it means. To you science means finding some plausible (to idiots) way of describing me believing claptrap that doesn't make it sound like claptrap. There IS no real science behind TM. Not yet, anyway. You just like to pretend there is because that makes it look less like you are just believing fairy stories told to you by a charlatan, fairy stories you have used to guide your lifestyle since the day you first heard them, without ever questioning whether they were true or not. You use the word science as a way of saying, See...look at these pretty charts...the fairy stories told to me *must* have been true...look at the pretty charts...so I don't ever *have* to look into the fairy stories to see if they are true. Om dear Turq, so you're arguing two large assumptions. That all the science is bad and denying people's experience. Two large assumptions. You REALLY don't know when to STFU, do you, Doug? :-) First, I do *not* assume that *all* of the TM science is bad or so fatally flawed as to be meaningless. Just 95% of it. Second, I do not for a moment consider people's exper- ience to fall into the realm of science. You obviously do. That just underscores your complete misunderstanding of the word science. Too bad you and Curtis left so early. Here's the classic Doug/Buck elitism again. What a load of self-serving, I-am-important-and-you-are-not crap. I'll add your names to the sankulp anyway. Peace be with you. Oh, you mean the sankulp that you probably consider scientific? Piss be on you, too.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating! --- On Wed, 4/21/10, gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com wrote: From: gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 AM Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says. Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, the acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran, said women should stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves. Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes, he explained. Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade. Mr Sediqi was delivering a televised sermon at the Tehran University campus mosque last Friday on the need for a general repentance by Iranians when he warned of a prevalence of degeneracy. What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes, he said. 'Disappoint God' Correspondents say many young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight-fitting clothes. Mr Sediqi also described the violence following last year's disputed presidential election - the result of which prompted thousands of people to hold mass protests - as a political earthquake. Now if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. So lets not disappoint God. More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient city of Bam in 2003. Seismologists have warned that the capital, Tehran, is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating earthquake soon. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million inhabitants should relocate. There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom. http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8631775. stm Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: I started to watch the 4 videos on you tube -- an then sampled the audios on the blog -- listening to segments of about 10 contributors. While all nice people, there was not much compelling material in the hour of so I listened. Certainly there could be great gems hidden in the material I passed over. But I got bored with most. Well, along with this new 'blues' subject heading this might read like you're stuck in some spiritual impatience that way. Yep sitting with BATGAP takes some discipline to do it. BATGAP evidently is not media entertainment the way you're wanting it. Your reaction here also reads like a classic spiritual depression as reaction, along with the Gas Pump Blues heading you choose. Also known spiritually as Acedia. Now there is certainly some of that (acedia) around too as a different parallel spiritual conversation. Rick was pretty clear about the project for what it is though. from the batgap page, About, This show will attempt to dispel skepticism and misconceptions by week after week, allowing otherwise ordinary people to relate their experience of spiritual awakening. The terminology is tricky, because there are no universally agreed upon definitions to describe this experience. Also, enlightenment is not something that an individual person gets. It's not even something that the mind can grasp. It's an awakening to that which contains the mind and all other things. So it's not surprising that language is inadequate to convey it. http://batgap.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Science Cycle
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Here's the way it looks to me: * In my impressionable youth, an Indian guy wearing a dress And here's the way it looks to me: The phrase wearing a dress and its insistent repetition is a dead giveaway that there's at least as much bias and elitism in this account as in what it's criticizing, at least as much disregard for even a pretense of objectivity, at least as much of a desire to be seen as SPECIAL and a better person than the dude to whom it's directed. tells me that mediation is the highest path in the universe, and that learning and practicing it every day will make me not only a better person, but really, really, really SPECIAL. * I am so naive and so wanting to be SPECIAL that I choose to believe him. * Later, to sell this same idea to more people, the Indian guy wearing a dress talks some of his students (who have no bias or interest in proving themselves SPECIAL, of course) into doing shoddy research to prove his claims that meditation will make everyone a better person and really, really, really SPECIAL. * I read this research, look at all the pretty charts that I don't understand, and renew my belief in what the Indian guy wearing a dress told me. I call this process Science. * Later, the same Indian guy wearing a dress tells me that not only am *I* a better person and really, really, really SPECIAL because *I* practice this meditation that he sells, I am *SO* SPECIAL that me sitting on my butt practicing it (or bouncing on that same butt) affects the *whole world*. I am, in fact *SO* SPECIAL that I control the weather, whether there are wars or peace, and the future of the entire planet. * I am so naive and so wanting to be SPECIAL that I choose to believe him, again. * Later, pretty much the same completely unbiased students of the Indian guy wearing a dress are coerced into doing *more* shoddy research to prove this second set of claims true. * No one in the entire field of science believes this, but I do, because *again* I don't have to change the beliefs I formed in my impressionable youth. Again, I call this process Science. Am I wrong about this, Doug? This is what your use of the word Science looks like to me...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: If Tm is in straits now, It's not, and Judith's book rings true, Who cares ? it may take a toll on the TMO as people get really upset or at least filled with doubts. They won't and why should they ? Only small fish, and non-meditators like I understand you are get upset by small things. Nabby, 1. I am a long-time meditator, a teacher of TM in fact I Did'nt know that. 2. I have suspected for many many many years that the stuff purportedly in Judith's book is true - even way before the topic was brought up here on FFL And ? What's your point ? 3. Yet I still think TM is powerful and do it and am eternally grateful to Maharishi for so much Nice. He saved this this planet from self-destruction ofcourse. 4. So, it has been a struggle to integrate, or maybe not at times, the conflicting viewpoints Where is the conflict ? Some people enjoy each others company mentally, physically or both, nothing wrong with that. 5. The big question remains: who really is the true believer, the devotee, in all this - the person who denies things they don't want to know or refuses to consider anything negative? Why is sex negative ? or the person who tries to deal with the information they find difficult to accept? I don't have the answer to this, but I do wonder just how true believers will respond to some info that is not so light. I still don't understand your problem. It's not really a problem that I have - at least not anymore. Now I get it - MMY seemed to be a monk but was not able to be a celibate monk. When I first heard of the affairs in the 70's, I actually got dizzy and sick to my stomach - kind of the way a person would if they heard that their revered and trusted and beloved father actually had another family than yours somewhere and had had another secret life with another wife and children for some years.That's what it felt like. It is not the sex that is wrong, or having children that is wrong or having a family that is wrong. It is the sense of being lied to, even if only by omission of information. But MMY was living one monkish life on the outside (could only wear silk, had to sit on a deerskin, could not touch anyone for fear of energy contamination), and apparently not that life in private. He was not what most of us thought he was - a celibate monk. He said he was a monk and we all assumed celibate went with that. So, it takes some time to adjust to this kind of information when you first hear of it. It can leave a lingering sense of cynicism about things spiritual, which is a shame. We were young, naive, devoted, and new to this whole world of eastern gurus. For those soon to be hearing about this for the first time from Judith's book, things could be really rocky for a while. That is my point. Hopefully, being adults with lots of life experience by now will ease the blow.
[FairfieldLife] Inexpensive Progress
Inexpensive Progress Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And all the elmy billows That through your valleys roll. Let's say goodbye to hedges And roads with grassy edges And winding country lanes; Let all things travel faster Where motor car is master Till only Speed remains. Destroy the ancient inn-signs But strew the roads with tin signs 'Keep Left,' 'M4,' 'Keep Out!' Command, instruction, warning, Repetitive adorning The rockeried roundabout; For every raw obscenity Must have its small 'amenity,' Its patch of shaven green, And hoardings look a wonder In banks of floribunda With floodlights in between. Leave no old village standing Which could provide a landing For aeroplanes to roar, But spare such cheap defacements As huts with shattered casements Unlived-in since the war. Let no provincial High Street Which might be your or my street Look as it used to do, But let the chain stores place here Their miles of black glass facia And traffic thunder through. And if there is some scenery, Some unpretentious greenery, Surviving anywhere, It does not need protecting For soon we'll be erecting A Power Station there. When all our roads are lighted By concrete monsters sited Like gallows overhead, Bathed in the yellow vomit Each monster belches from it, We'll know that we are dead. John Betjeman (1966) From: http://www.johnbetjeman.com/inexpensive.html http://www.johnbetjeman.com/inexpensive.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: snip I also think an important consideration is how the women he was with felt about it all. If they were willing and eager and felt ok about, then that goes a long way to making it ok. I'd guess most were willing and eager to start with, but with these kinds of relationships it's usually the development and especially the denouement that causes pain, at the time and sometimes for many years afterward. When you're young, you tend not to think too much about how what you see as a big adventure is all going to turn out. For that matter, someone who's been sheltered from normal social relationships with the opposite sex for as long as MMY was isn't likely to think about it either. It's a mug's game to try to figure out how MMY felt about anything, but I'm really curious. From what I've read, it seems the dilly-dallying took place during a specific period--I have the impression it was a decade or less--and then stopped. Your typical philanderer *doesn't* stop. So why did MMY? Conscience? The pragmatic aspects? The difference in authority and power between MMY and the women, however, is another issue That's the biggie, IMHO. It really changes the consensuality equation. It would with any powerful man who holds a lot of authority over a younger woman, but *especially* with a supposedly enlightened spiritual teacher and a disciple. One thing I *haven't* encountered, that I can recall-- somebody correct me if I'm wrong--in any of the stories that *is* a feature of many similar stories about other gurus is the promotion by the guru of the idea that having sex with him is going to further the woman's spiritual evolution. (Of course, that's an assumption the women may have adopted on their own.) The sense I get of the overall picture is that MMY was just pathetically *naive* about the whole business. He knew it had to be kept quiet, but other than that, he really didn't know what he was doing, especially emotionally, or have any idea of the possible psychological repercussions, on the women or himself. (why not a woman saint more his own age?). That would have been tremendously difficult to arrange, given the box he'd put himself in. And it would probably have been even harder to keep quiet than fooling around with selected disciples. I look forward to reading what Judith has to say about how she felt about it, how it affected her then and as the years passed. Me too. But based on her Web site, I have to wonder about conflicts of interest skewing the tale.
[FairfieldLife] Study shows Brain Training not all it's cracked up to be....
but still useful as you get older. UK research casts doubt on brain training By Ashley Hall [All in the mind: the study found no general benefit from brain training] http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201004/r552550_3279079.jpg All in the mind: the study found no general benefit from brain training (Flickr) In recent years people have been urged to treat their brain like a muscle, and train it regularly to keep it in top condition. In other words, use it or lose it. But now British researchers have scuttled the theory, with a study finding no general benefit from brain training. The researchers recruited about 11,500 people and asked them to log on to a website and practice brain training tasks for 10 minutes a day, three times a week. After six weeks, they compared the participants' scores from the beginning and end of the exercise. The results were pretty surprising. There was really no change at all, said Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist with Britain's Medical Resource Council and an author of the study, which was published this morning in Nature magazine. That's not to say they didn't improve at anything at all, the stuff that they practised at, they obviously got better at. The actual training test they improved, but that's not terribly surprising. What's really surprising is that there was no transfer effects. No general change in cognitive function. Dr Owen says the number of participants they recruited is a huge number and gives them a lot of statistical power and the ability to detect even tiny differences. We had 12 different brain training tests because we really wanted to cover all of our bases, he said. These tests are very sensitive to small changes in general cognitive function. So I'm quite confident that if there had been a difference, we would have detected it. Dr Owen says the brain training techniques are not necessarily a waste of time and money, though. It depends why you're doing them. I mean, if you enjoy doing them, then that's absolutely fine, he said. But something our results really demonstrate is that there are other things that are just as good. Importantly, Dr Owen points out the participants in his study were all healthy people aged between 18 and 60. Dr Michael Valenzuela from the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales says the findings would likely have been different if the study had focussed on older people at risk for dementia. We've done a few systematic reviews or formal analysis of the results from a number of different trials and those results indicate that brain training in that context can be effective, he said. It can slow the rate of cognitive decline in older people and also slow the rate of decline in people at risk for dementia. So, I think, in that context plus other clinical areas like schizophrenia and brain injury, there is good evidence that it is effective and that it can generalise. And Dr Valenzuela says there is strong evidence that people who keep working their brains and are more socially and physically active have a lower risk of developing dementia. From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/21/2878428.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/21/2878428.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: If Tm is in straits now, It's not, and Judith's book rings true, Who cares ? it may take a toll on the TMO as people get really upset or at least filled with doubts. They won't and why should they ? Only small fish, and non-meditators like I understand you are get upset by small things. Nabby, 1. I am a long-time meditator, a teacher of TM in fact I Did'nt know that. 2. I have suspected for many many many years that the stuff purportedly in Judith's book is true - even way before the topic was brought up here on FFL And ? What's your point ? 3. Yet I still think TM is powerful and do it and am eternally grateful to Maharishi for so much Nice. He saved this this planet from self-destruction ofcourse. 4. So, it has been a struggle to integrate, or maybe not at times, the conflicting viewpoints Where is the conflict ? Some people enjoy each others company mentally, physically or both, nothing wrong with that. 5. The big question remains: who really is the true believer, the devotee, in all this - the person who denies things they don't want to know or refuses to consider anything negative? Why is sex negative ? or the person who tries to deal with the information they find difficult to accept? I don't have the answer to this, but I do wonder just how true believers will respond to some info that is not so light. I still don't understand your problem. snip He was not what most of us thought he was - a celibate monk. He said he was a monk and we all assumed celibate went with that. Good old projection. Nothing wrong with that, happens all the time. snip
[FairfieldLife] New facilities to offer opportunity to spend time at Brahmasthan, India
New facilities to offer opportunity to spend time at Brahmasthan (geographical centre) of India by Global Good News staff writer Global Good NewsTranslate This Article http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=127179664369288965\ #translate 20 April 2010 A new initiative has begun which will offer guests from around the world the opportunity to enjoy courses at the Global Capital of World Peace http://www.vedicpandits.org/technology-of-peace.html in the Brahmasthan (geographical centre) of India. The Brahmasthan was established as the Global Capital of Raam Raj http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=12002448346255188 * by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/achievements/Maharishi.h\ tml , Founder of the Global Country of World Peace http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative-administration.html , in January 2008. Raja Harris Kaplan, Raja http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=10780790421191976 of Invincible India for the Global Country, recently discussed plans to quickly achieve this goal.** 'We are now completing a beautiful new residential facility for guests and course participants at the centre, the Brahmasthan of India,' he said. Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation Programme http://www.tm.org/ and Yogic Flying http://www.permanentpeace.org/technology/yogic_flying.html are invited 'to come [next] winter, and enjoy the profound experience of doing your programme there, and listening live every day to Maharishi Vedic Pandits http://www.vedicpandits.org/ ,' he continued. 'There is a very rare, very special quality at the Brahmasthan of India. . . . it is highly inspirational, highly transformational.' Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/achievements/Maharishi.h\ tml wanted to create a beautiful facility for guests to 'come and bathe in that sublime, soft, peacefulness, that lively silence', Raja Harris commented. Several new buildings will be completed for this project. Among planned construction projects are three residential buildings that 'will have 30 two-room suitesall finished to a good western standard, including high-speed internet. Each suite will have a front sitting room, a bedroom, and a western-style bathroom,' said Raja Harris. 'The facilities will be open to course participants from around the world in the cooler months, from September through the end of March.' In the coming days Global Good News will feature the continuation of Raja Harris's talk, in which he describes the beautiful courses guests will be able to enjoy during their stay. * Raam Raj: The full awakening of total Natural Law in the consciousness of every individual, and in the collective consciousness of every nation and the entire world, through Maharishi's programmes http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/ , creating a state of invincible http://www.invincibility.org/ permanent global peace, happiness, and prosperityHeaven on Earth. ** Raja Harris's report was featured on the 14 April 2010 Maharishi Global Family Chat http://maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc-2010.html , broadcast daily via Internet webcast on the Maharishi Channel http://www.maharishichannel.in/ , Channel 3. Podcasts of the daily Global Family Chat (audio track) are also now available for automatic download, via an RSS feed http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=125220651513709056 .
[FairfieldLife] IGlobal Country of World Peace leaders attend Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar
India: Global Country of World Peace leaders attend Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar by Global Good News staff writer Global Good NewsTranslate This Article http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=127170474866542366\ #translate 20 April 2010 At the request of Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative-administration.html , First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative-gcwp.html , several Global Country leaders recently attended the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India. Speaking on Maharishi Global Family Chat,* Dr Bevan Morris, Prime Minister, reported that he; Raja http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=10780790421191976 Jose Luis Alvarez, Raja of Invincible Latin America; Dr Neil Paterson; and several members of the Maharishi Purusha Programme http://www.purusha.org/index.html attended the event in Haridwar. Please also see Global Good News article on the delegation's visit to the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=127160733463764618 during the Kumbh Mela. Dr Morris went on to explain that the Kumbh Mela takes place in four different locations in India: Allahabad or Prayag, Haridwar, Nashik in Maharashtra, and Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. 'Although there is a Kumbh Mela held every year at each of these locations, only every 12 years is there a big one, attended by millions of people,' he said. 'This year, knowing that a large Kumbh celebration was taking place in Haridwar, Maharaja wished that a delegation of the Global Country of World Peace would attend.' Dr Morris noted that in 2013, a Kumbh Mela will take place in Allahabad, India, where the Maharishi Samadhi Smarak http://maharishisamadhi.org/ , the Memorial of Total Knowledge celebrating the eternal Vedic wisdom of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/achievements/Maharishi.h\ tml , is being built. 'We hope that many Global Country of World Peace members will be able to attend this celebration,' he said. Reflecting on Maharishi's long historical connection with the Kumbh Mela, Dr Morris said that many years ago, Maharishi organized for the participation of his Master, Guru Dev,** in the ceremonies, as well as organizing for groups to attend. Dr Morris recalled that the second Training Course for Teachers of the Transcendental Meditation Programme http://www.mum.edu/tm.html held by Maharishi in India, in 1966, began at a Kumbh Mela celebration. Also, in 1989, several Global Country of World Peace leaders attended the event with Maharishi in Allahabad. In 2001, Maharishi sent Global Country of World Peace leaders, including Dr Morris, to attend the next large Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. 'This was a beautiful experience,' said Dr Morris, 'with a total of 24 million people attending the event.' Maharaja took this illustrious history into account when deciding to form a group to attend the Kumbh Mela this year, said Dr Morris. * Dr Morris's report was featured on the 17 April 2010 Maharishi Global Family Chat http://maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc-2010.html , broadcast daily via Internet webcast on the Maharishi Channel http://www.maharishichannel.in/ , Channel 3. Podcasts of the daily Global Family Chat (audio track) are also now available for automatic download, via an RSS feed http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=125220651513709056 . ** Guru Dev: His Divinity Brahmanand Saraswati, Jagatguru Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Himalayas, and Maharishi's spiritual teacher. Guru Dev is honoured as the embodiment of Vedic wisdom closest to Maharishi in the illustrious tradition of Vedic Masters who have passed down the eternal wisdom of life from teacher to student since time immemorial. © Copyright 2010 Global Good News®
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
No, actually was was looking how to promote TM, found a guy named Don Draper of Sterling Cooper Advertising. And Don quickly brought him up to speed about life in america. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: yes he wanted to get married like any regular Maharishi and have 3.5 kids and a Kamadhenu in the Vaastu but he had to keep putting it off and putting it off --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: snip I am interested to understand why people find it difficult to accept. Perhaps a bit jaw dropping at first. But after the first really!?, why is it particularly odd or difficult to digest? And I suppose, its a relevant questions: should a teacher be entitled to a private life? Entitled to some parts of life that are of no business to students or anyone else. I never heard MMY say he was celibate. Why should he? Other than when he was Bal Bramachari Mahesh. And then he changed his name. Which is a pretty big clue in itself. A practice useful for a student is not necessarily still useful for an adult. Like many of us, he may have not have gone out of his way to correct some peoples misperceptions. Actually he spent all day doing that -- misperceptions about the path. But it could have been an infinite job to try to straighten people out in every area of his and their lives. You're leaving one aspect of it out, that he allegedly had these affairs with female followers. That really isn't OK, because of the power differential; it's exploitative at best, predatory at worst, even if it was nominally consensual. And the age difference was substantial, by all accounts. Not arguing, but the women may have been -- I think were in many cases -- leveraging the situation. A lot of the woman around him may have had nice doe eyes, but they were hardly naive or unworldly. Some were downright manipulative, Some quite sophisticated temptresses. Some were quite the man eaters. And you didn't usually get to be around maharishi without some street smarts. There were a lot of people edging in. Lots of elbowing. Girls just off the turnip truck were not among them. I sense that once the word got around among an inner circle of women, some were bending over backwards to be the It girl -- and made it clear to him. And some men and women leaders were bonking their brains out with underlings. Down to checkers or asana demonstrators scoring with their students. And there was a lot of sex going on at courses among participants. Particularly beginnings and endings. MIU had professors and staff were dating much younger students. His actions were not outside the norm of the TMO or the times. As far as age difference, no one bats an eye at George Clooney or others when the age difference between he and his dates is 20-30 years. George Burns was iconic in this regard. Or any number of celebrities. I saw the other day Mr Big (Chris Noth) was dating someone 25-30 years younger. About the same age difference in the case of discussion. As far as other avenues, i suppose he could have gone down to the local bar in Mallorca or Suisse -- do a few shots, talk up some women. (hey, you into unity?) But that would seem more unseemly. Professional women I suppose were an option. But frankly, it seems a lot more wholesome to be with women that loved him and he loved them. I don't have any problem in the abstract with him getting his rocks off, but this was a rotten way to go about it. He didn't have a lot of options given the way he had things set up; he didn't have access to mature women who weren't his followers. But if he had sexual needs, he ought to have figured out some way to manage them that didn't involve dewy-eyed devotees. Or just accept that it was something he was going to have to deny himself. If it weren't for his choice of sexual outlets, I'd agree with what you say 100 percent.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcano info
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Oh, man, you gotta see this hot lava action! Extraordinary video. http://vimeo.com/channels/hd#10638288 Usually all you can hear in such videos is the helicopter's motor, but in this one somehow they've managed to block most of it out (I sent this video to my sister, and she pointed out that it wasn't shot from a helicopter. Duh!) and capture the growling, whooshing, rustling, crackling, slurping sounds the volcano is making. The sound the lava makes at one point as it drips down from the crater is--I can't think of another word for it--delicious. I get a shiver down my spine looking at volcanoes, it must be that the earth usually seems so solid and predictable we forget about the sort of power that lies beneath our feet. I have a similar sense just about thunderstorms. Imagine if you were an extraterrestrial visitor from a sedate planet that didn't have 'em, how awed you would be! And yet, unlike with volcanoes and earthquakes and massive floods and tornadoes, we take the incredible power of thunderstorms-- what might be seen as cataclysms by the extraterrestrial-- for granted (at least, as long as we're safe inside). Shame no-one was around to film some of the really big eruptions like Yellowstone park or the Deccan traps which erupted for about 30,000 years and covered an area half the size of India with lava, possibly helping finish off the dinosaurs. Now *that* is a volcano! Or the cometary bombardment that created the Carolina Bays. That wasn't the earth's fault, of course. But I'm thinking somebody ought to be able to put together a pretty good CGI version of these massive disasters.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: snip And yet, and yet ... of course I understand why so many people want to believe in heaven, even now, even in the face of all the evidence, and all reason. It is a way however futilely of trying to escape the awful emptiness of death. As Philip Larkin put it: Not to be here/Not to be anywhere/And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true. To die. To rot. To be nothing. We wouldn't be sane if we didn't seek a way to leap off this conveyor-belt heading towards a cliff. I guess I must not be sane, then, because I see the horror at the awful emptiness of death as a cognitive problem, a peculiar inability to recognize that if Nothing Comes Next, *you won't know it*. Or anything else. People seem to think they're going to *be* there, looking around at the emptiness and thinking how awful it is, being nothing and finding it excruciating, even experiencing their bodies rotting. *That* seems insane to me.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcano info
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Oh, man, you gotta see this hot lava action! Extraordinary video. http://vimeo.com/channels/hd#10638288 Usually all you can hear in such videos is the helicopter's motor, but in this one somehow they've managed to block most of it out (I sent this video to my sister, and she pointed out that it wasn't shot from a helicopter. Duh!) and capture the growling, whooshing, rustling, crackling, slurping sounds the volcano is making. The sound the lava makes at one point as it drips down from the crater is--I can't think of another word for it--delicious. I get a shiver down my spine looking at volcanoes, it must be that the earth usually seems so solid and predictable we forget about the sort of power that lies beneath our feet. I have a similar sense just about thunderstorms. Imagine if you were an extraterrestrial visitor from a sedate planet that didn't have 'em, how awed you would be! And yet, unlike with volcanoes and earthquakes and massive floods and tornadoes, we take the incredible power of thunderstorms-- what might be seen as cataclysms by the extraterrestrial-- for granted (at least, as long as we're safe inside). I'm with you on this. I always sit in my garden during a thunderstorm, these days anyway. I've deliberately gone for walks in the woods during heavy storms before, being right under some serious lightning - *that's* frightening. after five minutes I ran for my life, probably literally. It certainly makes you aware of your own mortality, being struck by lightning must hurt like nothing else, I can't believe people survive it. Weirdly, the person who was struck the most times and survived, 7 times, ended up killing himself! I don't know if I'd feel blessed or cursed either. Shame no-one was around to film some of the really big eruptions like Yellowstone park or the Deccan traps which erupted for about 30,000 years and covered an area half the size of India with lava, possibly helping finish off the dinosaurs. Now *that* is a volcano! Or the cometary bombardment that created the Carolina Bays. That wasn't the earth's fault, of course. But I'm thinking somebody ought to be able to put together a pretty good CGI version of these massive disasters. Roland Emmerich - He of 2012 fame - is probably working on it. Trouble is his movies need survivors so the human interest angle doesn't get too depressing and we can all feel good about ourselves. I don't suppose many of us would get through an extinction event with our hairstyles intact. The Deccan traps event might even have been triggered by the asteroid that hit Mexico wiping out most of the dinosaurs. Scientists are actually starting research into whether climate change will mean more volcanoes due to sea level rises putting pressure on weak tectonic areas. That'd be fun! And the best thing about these extinction events is that we wouldn't be here without a regular wiping clean of the evolutionary pathway. Ultimately the creatures that survive longest on a planet like ours must be doing so because of the ability to cope with the extended winters that eruptions bring, warm blooded things like us. Nature was working in our favour all along.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: snip And yet, and yet ... of course I understand why so many people want to believe in heaven, even now, even in the face of all the evidence, and all reason. It is a way however futilely of trying to escape the awful emptiness of death. As Philip Larkin put it: Not to be here/Not to be anywhere/And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true. To die. To rot. To be nothing. We wouldn't be sane if we didn't seek a way to leap off this conveyor-belt heading towards a cliff. I guess I must not be sane, then, because I see the horror at the awful emptiness of death as a cognitive problem, a peculiar inability to recognize that if Nothing Comes Next, *you won't know it*. Or anything else. People seem to think they're going to *be* there, looking around at the emptiness and thinking how awful it is, being nothing and finding it excruciating, even experiencing their bodies rotting. *That* seems insane to me. The nothingness is easily understood too. Dying is most probably like going under anaesthetic, nothing you can do except disappear. Along with awareness goes the part of you that thinks there must be something else that survives.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: snip I also think an important consideration is how the women he was with felt about it all. If they were willing and eager and felt ok about, then that goes a long way to making it ok. I'd guess most were willing and eager to start with, but with these kinds of relationships it's usually the development and especially the denouement that causes pain, at the time and sometimes for many years afterward. When you're young, you tend not to think too much about how what you see as a big adventure is all going to turn out. Yes the young have it hard. Even some in their 40's don't think too much about how its going to turn out -- and get sucked into the adventure, the falling down the rabbit hole, the magical mystery tour -- thats a big part of relations. For that matter, someone who's been sheltered from normal social relationships with the opposite sex for as long as MMY was isn't likely to think about it either. Large assumption perhaps. Did he start his activity in the 70's? or the 50's? Or, as nabulous said, he did not comment even if Purusha took a getaway weekend. Maybe he could relate. It's a mug's game to try to figure out how MMY felt about anything, but I'm really curious. From what I've read, it seems the dilly-dallying took place during a specific period--I have the impression it was a decade or less--and then stopped. Your typical philanderer *doesn't* stop. So why did MMY? Conscience? The pragmatic aspects? Why the philanderer image? Its surprising to me that many here seem to have this rogue image of the man -- it was all exploitive -- little red riding hood and the big bad wolf. Perhaps. But so many other possibilities. While some will differ, those are not the qualities I found in the man. And as far as age, there were some quite attractive mid-30's women around. (and some school marms -- its not a universal observation) Would mid 30's cosmopolitan European women have been OK? The difference in authority and power between MMY and the women, however, is another issue That's the biggie, IMHO. It really changes the consensuality equation. It would with any powerful man who holds a lot of authority over a younger woman, but *especially* with a supposedly enlightened spiritual teacher and a disciple. I used to think along those lines. But I don't now. One can paint a picture of and image power sex, but I don't see it. I don't see him forcing himself on anyone, using power as a coercive threat. As I have said, its quite plausible to me that it was more the inverse of that, if anything -- but I don't think anyone was forcing anyone. What was he saying -- if going down the former road I am am going to withhold enlightenment to you if you don't do me? One woman J. in particular was shaken by the thing as recounted by skin boys (who have their own shaking out when replaced -- not all leave happily -- and projecting their disgruntlement on others a bit is not unfathomable.) Judith it appears was not, but her book will say. I have been shaken by relations -- particularly those that went south. Basket case for a bit. The world is full of stories of men and women having a rough patch when or as relations end. Most people understand this when entering relations. Its a part of life. And even if naive -- then an affair with Biff in hte room next door at the TTC may have greatly shaken her. Indeed, I wish I could wave a magic wand and proclaim No more hurt from relations. No More! poof! but -- thats not life. Thats a fairy tale. How did J or others think it was going to end? To be the Mrs MMY? To be a consort for 30 years in the palace? Raise a family? I believe that is a naive, condescending and simplistic view of her. How did she say, or other say, the affairs started? I may not remember the details -- but I don't recall coercion or pressure. I recall an eager girl thinking this was great. While some appear to have seen a lot of naive country girls just off the turnip truck around him -- I did not -- but I hardly saw everything / everywhere. There were some deeply devoted types -- maybe those were seen as turnip girls -- however, I see a large distinction between naivity and devotion. Others I saw were sophisticated women -- even if 22 -- though a lot were in mid to later 20's as I recall. This was the 70's not the 50's -- that I saw. (though it would not be a shock if there was such activity in the 50's I have heard some inklings of that.) One thing I *haven't* encountered, that I can recall-- somebody correct me if I'm wrong--in any of the stories that *is* a feature of many similar stories about other gurus is the promotion by the guru of the idea that having sex with him is going to further the woman's spiritual evolution. (Of course, that's an assumption the
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: snip And yet, and yet ... of course I understand why so many people want to believe in heaven, even now, even in the face of all the evidence, and all reason. It is a way however futilely of trying to escape the awful emptiness of death. As Philip Larkin put it: Not to be here/Not to be anywhere/And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true. I know. Enlightenment sounds like such a drag. Imagine, losing the sense of individuality. No more mine and Me. The horror! To die. To rot. To be nothing. We wouldn't be sane if we didn't seek a way to leap off this conveyor-belt heading towards a cliff. I guess I must not be sane, then, because I see the horror at the awful emptiness of death as a cognitive problem, a peculiar inability to recognize that if Nothing Comes Next, *you won't know it*. Or anything else. People seem to think they're going to *be* there, looking around at the emptiness and thinking how awful it is, being nothing and finding it excruciating, even experiencing their bodies rotting. *That* seems insane to me.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My experience with Trivedi
Curtis: It is in the legal arena where the concepts become the most murky. Personally I believe Patty Hurst was brainwashed and in a diminished capacity when she robbed the bank... Maybe so, but Patty Hearst was unsuccessful in her attempt to claim a 'brainwashing' defense, as were Steven Fishman, even with the 'expert' testimony of Margaret Singer, and they were both found guilty. The 'brainwashed' defense of Lee Boyd Malvo was also rejected by the court, and all of the above were found guilty and sentenced to prison. Margaret Singer was censured by her peers. Most of the testimony she gave in major cases was discredited. That's because it has been proved that 'brainwashing' and 'mind control' don't really work. If it did, we could use 'mind control' in our prisons to help rehabilitate convicted prisoners, right?. So, I don't think that many psychologists currently support the 'coercive persuasion' technique espoused by Singer.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Science Cycle
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Here's the way it looks to me: * In my impressionable youth, an Indian guy wearing a dress And here's the way it looks to me: The phrase wearing a dress and its insistent repetition is a dead giveaway that there's at least as much bias and elitism in this account as in what it's criticizing, at least as much disregard for even a pretense of objectivity... LOL. Isn't it fascinating to see what pushes TBs' buttons? :-) My post was directed to Doug/Buck. I wished to find a phrase to describe Maharishi that had some of the same tone or feel or respectfulness as the way he uses the phrase non-meditators. When he says non-meditators, it feels similar to the way that some people use the word Nigger or Kike. I thought he deserved to see what it felt like. Guess THE CORRECTOR deserved to feel it, too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating! Feel free to swear properly Mike, we're all men of the world around here. --- On Wed, 4/21/10, gullible fool ffl...@... wrote: From: gullible fool ffl...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 AM   Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says.  Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, the acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran, said women should stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.  Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes, he explained.  Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade.  Mr Sediqi was delivering a televised sermon at the Tehran University campus mosque last Friday on the need for a general repentance by Iranians when he warned of a prevalence of degeneracy.  What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes, he said.  'Disappoint God'  Correspondents say many young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight-fitting clothes.  Mr Sediqi also described the violence following last year's disputed presidential election - the result of which prompted thousands of people to hold mass protests - as a political earthquake.  Now if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. So lets not disappoint God.  More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient city of Bam in 2003.  Seismologists have warned that the capital, Tehran, is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating earthquake soon.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million inhabitants should relocate.  There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom. http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8631775. stm  Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love.  - AmmaÂ
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
Hugo: The nothingness is easily understood too. Dying is most probably like going under anaesthetic, nothing you can do except disappear. Along with awareness goes the part of you that thinks there must be something else that survives... You are using metaphysical terms, so to follow this thread, you'd have to assume that we 'exist' in the first place, in order to postulate that we will one day be 'non-existent'. So, really you have said nothing, except to postulate a metaphysical nihilism. In which case, you have said nothing, since you have not proved that we exist. It's a case of circular logic, if not a logical fallacy. I guess I must not be sane, then, because I see the horror at the awful emptiness of death as a cognitive problem, a peculiar inability to recognize that if Nothing Comes Next, *you won't know it*. Or anything else. People seem to think they're going to *be* there, looking around at the emptiness and thinking how awful it is, being nothing and finding it excruciating, even experiencing their bodies rotting. *That* seems insane to me.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: Posts I asked Buck to remind us of: Today in the domes, you have left yourself with some TSR people who are generally well made people of means. Beyond a partial group of well made is another group of folks who are well employed. By any demographics you want to choose, both of these groups are minorities in our larger group of meditators. It's obvious that Jesus had it wrong. The Hindu version of things is correct: blessed are the rich for they have good karma and they have chosen the proper path in life. Interesting how the Raj, the Rukmapura peons cater to the rich, have this rich sort of polish about them yet they themselves can't afford dome fees. I well remember a yahoo who posted here years ago who asserted a certain blessedness because through proper application of the sidhis and choice of a career, he was prosperous and IRRC, he was very proud of his income, which level of which he alluded to herein, and the fact that he took a month or two at the Raj to take care of a prostate problem. No one challenged him back then. But the forum was full with the likes of the psychologist in Boca Raton (very wealthy town) and Rudra Joe, who once got fired from a restaurant for feeding the staff the restaurant's foi gras and truffles. Looks like activism waxes and wanes here on FairfieldRife. -- Are you better off now than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Hugo: The nothingness is easily understood too. Dying is most probably like going under anaesthetic, nothing you can do except disappear. Along with awareness goes the part of you that thinks there must be something else that survives... You are using metaphysical terms, so to follow this thread, you'd have to assume that we 'exist' in the first place, in order to postulate that we will one day be 'non-existent'. I certainly find it hard to believe you exist. So, really you have said nothing, except to postulate a metaphysical nihilism. In which case, you have said nothing, since you have not proved that we exist. It's a case of circular logic, if not a logical fallacy. I guess I must not be sane, then, because I see the horror at the awful emptiness of death as a cognitive problem, a peculiar inability to recognize that if Nothing Comes Next, *you won't know it*. Or anything else. People seem to think they're going to *be* there, looking around at the emptiness and thinking how awful it is, being nothing and finding it excruciating, even experiencing their bodies rotting. *That* seems insane to me.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Science Cycle
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Here's the way it looks to me: * In my impressionable youth, an Indian guy wearing a dress And here's the way it looks to me: The phrase wearing a dress and its insistent repetition is a dead giveaway that there's at least as much bias and elitism in this account as in what it's criticizing, at least as much disregard for even a pretense of objectivity... LOL. Isn't it fascinating to see what pushes TBs' buttons? :-) More fascinating to see what Barry thinks is a TB button. Sorry, but I find it just as elitist and biased when someone refers to the pope as wearing a dress (even though the implication in the pope's case is most likely closer to the reality). My post was directed to Doug/Buck. I wished to find a phrase to describe Maharishi that had some of the same tone or feel or respectfulness as the way he uses the phrase non-meditators. The phrase non-meditators, however, reflects reality. Wearing a dress doesn't, even absent the sexist/ homophobic coloration. Hint: You could have made the same point you pretend you were making by using the phrase wearing a white silk dhoti instead. When he says non-meditators, it feels similar to the way that some people use the word Nigger or Kike. Sounds like you had your buttons pushed good and proper. I thought he deserved to see what it felt like. Guess THE CORRECTOR deserved to feel it, too. Uh-huh. Except that Buck is perfectly straightforward about his elitism, such as it may be, whereas you're a far worse elitist than he is but feign to the contrary--utterly oblivious to the inane self- referentiality of trying to make it seem as though you're a better person because you supposedly aren't an elitist.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Hugo fintlewoodle...@mail.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: I certainly find it hard to believe you exist. I dated a girl years ago who was an honors philosophy graduate from Vassar. Whenever we got into a tiff she used to prove that I didn't exist. -- Are you better off now than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: I certainly find it hard to believe you exist. I dated a girl years ago who was an honors philosophy graduate from Vassar. Whenever we got into a tiff she used to prove that I didn't exist. That must have worn down the ol' ego. Are you better off now than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating! Feel free to swear properly Mike, we're all men of the world around here. Apparently not. Some appear to see virgins on pedastals, wailing damsels in distress, dark sinister villians (probably with those long, waxed mustaches) and perhaps projections of themselves as white knights - or white hatted cowboys -- riding to the rescue. Sounds like boys walking out of the picture show in 1915 after seeing the latest dime-store western -- not men of the world. However, for my clear sin of stupidity in seeing it this way, I fear Tom Mix may come gunnin' for me This wide open country ain't big enough for contrary views, Black Bart. You best be git before you rile up the citizens here and we come to lynch ya.. --- On Wed, 4/21/10, gullible fool fflmod@ wrote: From: gullible fool fflmod@ Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 AM   Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says.  Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, the acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran, said women should stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.  Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes, he explained.  Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade.  Mr Sediqi was delivering a televised sermon at the Tehran University campus mosque last Friday on the need for a general repentance by Iranians when he warned of a prevalence of degeneracy.  What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes, he said.  'Disappoint God'  Correspondents say many young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight-fitting clothes.  Mr Sediqi also described the violence following last year's disputed presidential election - the result of which prompted thousands of people to hold mass protests - as a political earthquake.  Now if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. So lets not disappoint God.  More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient city of Bam in 2003.  Seismologists have warned that the capital, Tehran, is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating earthquake soon.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million inhabitants should relocate.  There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom. http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8631775. stm  Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love.  - AmmaÂ
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
Wanna bet I never get a decent straight answer out of him? And who could grill this old fart successfully? No onecuz he's practiced every answer -- just as we had our answers for first lectures all prepared. He's an old man. He's taken a stance, and he's not going to budge out of it for the likes of me. There's zero profit in the scenario for any party -- what do I get?a merit badge for yelling at someone? Hell, even here when I put up the list and asked for suggestions, there was almost a group yawn. And now what, you want me to beat on an old guy so that I, what?, tarnish my already rusted through image here? I viewed his recent videos and there's just not a hint of him being willing to take a step back or explain his part in the whole fiasco. I loved the guy, but he can't simply walk back into the movement spotlight without some 'splainin' to do. No movement leader has ever not once not one god damned time stood up and spoke the real truth to any of us. Who here thinks I should put on my best bastard hat and wail on beloved old Jerry? As much as I'd love the true answers to my questions, for me to expect them for free when the cost to the TMO and presumably Jerry's reputation is so large to cede that ground, would be like me walking into an already swung fist. Creating the list was good work for me though...got me clear about the couple dozen issues that were begging for my attention, and almost any of them, if I had answered them truthfully way back when, should have had me leaving the movement on the spot, but n, I had to cut the movement break after break after break So, um no Jerry, you don't knock on my door and ask for another one. Again, St. Paul? -- come to Fairfield, do an open lecture and take questions -- anything less is cowardly and manipulative and certainly a tell that no real interaction or exchange is being offered. Do this in Fairfield, and I drive the six hours to attend. Even on the basis of him saying he's enlightened, we deserve to ask him why the fuck his holy voice was muted so ruthlessly and yet he never cosmically even did a double take enough to hang in there for our sakes and fight the good fight against his ouster. And, he didn't do the siddhi program, right? Yet here he's being trotted out to do what? Sell us mercury laced medicine? Promise we're all so close to enlightenment now? Jerry, I didn't ask, cuz you wouldn't tell. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: right...it's all vile; the Movement will self-destruct since there's almost nothing worth saving. But I still like TM. That will survive;...and I still like Jerry inspite of his drinking the Kool Aid. Go ahead...call him. I dare you. If so, get back with the outcome. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: yifuxero I didn't chicken out; I saw that I would get nowhere and saved myself the shame of trying to get an old dog to admit to his tricks knowing full well that that simply wouldn't happen. Do you actually want me to call him and have at him with the dark vibe he deserves for being a part of such a low integrity organization and his continuing support of it? I will, but you'll warn him to not pick up the phone, right? He could've answered medoesn't do email -- what a fucking lame assed excuse. It's not my job to prove him wrong, but it sure is his job to prove himself a person of integrity by at least admitting that the issues that he's so ignored for 30 fucking years actually matter and should be handled. This isn't about appeasing me, it's about answering to whole generations of the faithful about the vile shit the movement has hidden at any cost from us. And, and, and now only now he's coming back at us? Fuck that shit! Give him a crown and a robe and let him join the power mongers openly instead of letting himself be schlepped around by the movement in some desperate and obvious ploy to re-ignite a market they killed long long ago. By resorting to the using of a favorite puppet of Maharishi they've found at the back of the closet and dusted off for us, what more proof do we need of the cynical approach the TMO is taking to their tottering and shaky about-to-be-most-sincerely-dead movement? I'm fucking pissed -- I had a wonderful movement, and a wonderful guru, and it was all a sham for money and I was a complete fool. Pissed at myself, firstly, yes, but only a titch less pissed at the TMO and Jerry too. Let's see Jerry start his lectures with explaining all the hijinks and the actual cash flows to Girish and how he can turn a blind eye to the immorality of B and H as they maraud the marriages. And you, yifuxero, explain yourself for why you're trying to protect this old codger. Doesn't seem like the 5 - 8 years concepts fulfilled
[FairfieldLife] Civic Center: The Crucial May 4 Vote
Dear Friends, Did you know that there is a referendum vote on May 4 for all Fairfield city residents? Its purpose is to allow the City of Fairfield to use 12.5% of the existing Local Option Sales Tax to purchase the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center for $650,000. If this vote doesn't pass, it's almost certain that the Civic Center will go dark for at least 6 months and for as long as 2 years. For everything that the Center now adds to our quality of life and Fairfield's economy, I'm voting Yes and also doing everything I can to help get out the Yes vote on May 4th. I'm appealing to you to vote Yes on the referendum. And, since absentee ballots are available now, you can vote at the courthouse through April 30th. If you want additional information to make a fully informed decision, I got the facts from http://www.fairfieldcenterinfo.com/ www.FairfieldCenterInfo.com . If you'd like to help to get out the vote, please let me know or contact FACC board member, Tom Makeig at tmakei...@lisco.com Thanks for your help! Marsha ps Did you know that absentee ballots are already available for the May 4 referendum for the City of Fairfield to purchase the Civic Center? They are available at the Jefferson County courthouse through April 30th. Network Blitz Bkgrd.gif
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip For that matter, someone who's been sheltered from normal social relationships with the opposite sex for as long as MMY was isn't likely to think about it either. Large assumption perhaps. Did he start his activity in the 70's? or the 50's? Or, as nabulous said, he did not comment even if Purusha took a getaway weekend. Maybe he could relate. Could be, but all the stories are from the '70s, as far as I'm aware. And in any case, even if he did mess around earlier, it still wasn't in a normal social context. It's a mug's game to try to figure out how MMY felt about anything, but I'm really curious. From what I've read, it seems the dilly-dallying took place during a specific period--I have the impression it was a decade or less--and then stopped. Your typical philanderer *doesn't* stop. So why did MMY? Conscience? The pragmatic aspects? Why the philanderer image? philander, to have casual or illicit sexual relations with a woman or with many women Sounds on the nose to me. Its surprising to me that many here seem to have this rogue image of the man -- it was all exploitive -- little red riding hood and the big bad wolf. Perhaps. But so many other possibilities. While some will differ, those are not the qualities I found in the man. But I explicitly drew a contrast with the *typical* philanderer. Did you miss that? And as far as age, there were some quite attractive mid-30's women around. (and some school marms -- its not a universal observation) Would mid 30's cosmopolitan European women have been OK? Maybe not so bad, but not really OK if they were disciples, again because of the power differential. The difference in authority and power between MMY and the women, however, is another issue That's the biggie, IMHO. It really changes the consensuality equation. It would with any powerful man who holds a lot of authority over a younger woman, but *especially* with a supposedly enlightened spiritual teacher and a disciple. I used to think along those lines. But I don't now. One can paint a picture of and image power sex, but I don't see it. I don't see him forcing himself on anyone, using power as a coercive threat. Neither do I, nor was that what any of the stories I read suggested--to the contrary. But that's just the point, a powerful man often doesn't *have* to do any overt coercing. Coercion is implicit in the power differential, at least to the extent that, as I said, it changes the consensuality equation so it's no longer balanced; it isn't a level playing field. As I have said, its quite plausible to me that it was more the inverse of that, if anything -- but I don't think anyone was forcing anyone. What was he saying -- if going down the former road I am am going to withhold enlightenment to you if you don't do me? And as I have said, I didn't see anything in the various stories that suggested he did anything along those lines, although it's very common in similar stories about other gurus. I have been shaken by relations -- particularly those that went south. Basket case for a bit. The world is full of stories of men and women having a rough patch when or as relations end. Most people understand this when entering relations. I think you might want to read some of the clinical literature on how these kinds of relationships--i.e., with a guru/authority figure--affect the women involved. It just doesn't work the same way, especially if the guru is viewed as holy/enlightened. snip How did J or others think it was going to end? To be the Mrs MMY? To be a consort for 30 years in the palace? Raise a family? I believe that is a naive, condescending and simplistic view of her. Gee, you're really not reading what I write. I'm suggesting they weren't thinking that far ahead. I sure didn't when I was their age, and I got myself into some messes as a result (fortunately not of this type). snip One thing I *haven't* encountered, that I can recall-- somebody correct me if I'm wrong--in any of the stories that *is* a feature of many similar stories about other gurus is the promotion by the guru of the idea that having sex with him is going to further the woman's spiritual evolution. (Of course, that's an assumption the women may have adopted on their own.) If so, then those women were out for themselves -- or I guess themSelves. My guess is some of them may actually have felt sorry for him. Or that may even have been his pitch--It's so lonesome here at the top... snip The sense I get of the overall picture is that MMY was just pathetically *naive* about the whole business. He knew it had to be kept quiet, but other than that, he really didn't know what he was doing, especially emotionally, or have any idea of the possible psychological repercussions,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating! Feel free to swear properly Mike, we're all men of the world around here. Apparently not. Some appear to see virgins on pedastals, wailing damsels in distress, dark sinister villians (probably with those long, waxed mustaches) and perhaps projections of themselves as white knights - or white hatted cowboys -- riding to the rescue. Sounds like boys walking out of the picture show in 1915 after seeing the latest dime-store western -- not men of the world. In that case I stand corrected and commend you for your sensitivity. I just thought if hanging around here doesn't toughen you up a bit.. However, for my clear sin of stupidity in seeing it this way, I fear Tom Mix may come gunnin' for me This wide open country ain't big enough for contrary views, Black Bart. You best be git before you rile up the citizens here and we come to lynch ya.. Hmmm, maybe your way is best. --- On Wed, 4/21/10, gullible fool fflmod@ wrote: From: gullible fool fflmod@ Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 AM   Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says.  Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, the acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran, said women should stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.  Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes, he explained.  Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade.  Mr Sediqi was delivering a televised sermon at the Tehran University campus mosque last Friday on the need for a general repentance by Iranians when he warned of a prevalence of degeneracy.  What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes, he said.  'Disappoint God'  Correspondents say many young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight-fitting clothes.  Mr Sediqi also described the violence following last year's disputed presidential election - the result of which prompted thousands of people to hold mass protests - as a political earthquake.  Now if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. So lets not disappoint God.  More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient city of Bam in 2003.  Seismologists have warned that the capital, Tehran, is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating earthquake soon.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million inhabitants should relocate.  There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom. http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8631775. stm  Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love.  - AmmaÂ
[FairfieldLife] Invisibility, levitation and walk through walls .....
From: joerg dao [mailto:joerg...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:45 PM To: r...@searchsummit.com Subject: invisibility, levitation and walk through walls . Hi Rick, I always got a lot of mmy projects where not meant for us, the TM-consumers and mmy-believers, but where directly meant for others, mostly the power-people, and to shake them, to wake up. So here is a fascinating document, showing, that mmy really reached out and made it into high official intelligence. They all believed in zze maharishi, but never showed it openly. Maybe, a lot of people are intelligent enough, to only need a small impulse, and than go on themselves. So that is, what most mmy-projects did. Make people think. cheers Albert Bert N. Stubblebine III is a retired Major General in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army United States Army. He was the commanding general of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Intelligence_and_Security_C ommand United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984, when he retired from the Army. He is also known for his interest in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology parapsychology. Stubblebine graduated from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy United States Military Academy and received a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree master's degree in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_engineering chemical engineering from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University Columbia University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-0 [1] He spent 32 years in the Army, rising to the rank of Major General. He is credited with redesigning the US Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence intelligence architecture during his command of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Intelligence_and_Security_C ommand United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984. Other U.S. Army commands that he led included the Electronic Research and Development Command (ERADCOM) and the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-undersiegemovie-1 [2] Stubblebine was a key person in the US military invasions of Panama and Grenada and was, according to a report published by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail Daily Mail, at the heart of America's military machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-Penman-2 [3] He is a member of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Intelligence_Hall_of_Fame Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-3 [4] He was a supporter of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project Stargate Project.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed] After Stubblebine retired from the Army, in 1984, he worked for BDM Corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-COURT_OF_APPEALS_ OF_VIRGINIA-4 [5] He also acted as a part-time consultant to two government contractors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Research_Institute_of_Michigan ERIM and Space Applications Corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-COURT_OF_APPEALS_ OF_VIRGINIA-4 [5] Stubblebine appeared in the 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film documentary One Nation Under Siege http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-undersiegemovie-1 [2] where he states that a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757 Boeing 757 airplane could not have crashed into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon The Pentagon on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001 September 11, 2001.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed] A proponent of psychic warfare, Stubblebine was involved in a US military project to create a breed of 'super soldier' who would have the ability to become invisible at will and to walk through walls. He encouraged visitors to his office to walk through walls and has said that the ability to do so is a great idea, but that it would also be a disappointment, similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal) levitation.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-Penman-2 He features prominently in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ronson Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare at Goats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-5 , where he is described as firmly believing that he himself can walk through walls.[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-6 Stubblebine and his wife, psychiatrist http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rima_E._Laibowaction=editredlin k=1 Rima E. Laibow, M.D., founded the http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_Solutions_Foundationacti on=editredlink=1 Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF), a non-profit
[FairfieldLife] 911 .......
http://bluesplayer.co.uk/youtube_animation/video/daNr_TrBw6E/General-of-all- American-Intelligence-911-was-a-fraud.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Invisibility, levitation and walk through walls .....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: joerg dao [mailto:joerg...@...] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:45 PM To: r...@... Subject: invisibility, levitation and walk through walls . Hi Rick, I always got a lot of mmy projects where not meant for us, the TM-consumers and mmy-believers, but where directly meant for others, mostly the power-people, and to shake them, to wake up. So here is a fascinating document, showing, that mmy really reached out and made it into high official intelligence. They all believed in zze maharishi, but never showed it openly. Maybe, a lot of people are intelligent enough, to only need a small impulse, and than go on themselves. So that is, what most mmy-projects did. Make people think. cheers Albert Bert N. Stubblebine III is a retired Major General in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army United States Army. He was the commanding general of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Intelligence_and_Security_C ommand United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984, when he retired from the Army. He is also known for his interest in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology parapsychology. Stubblebine graduated from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy United States Military Academy and received a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree master's degree in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_engineering chemical engineering from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University Columbia University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-0 [1] He spent 32 years in the Army, rising to the rank of Major General. He is credited with redesigning the US Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence intelligence architecture during his command of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Intelligence_and_Security_C ommand United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984. Other U.S. Army commands that he led included the Electronic Research and Development Command (ERADCOM) and the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-undersiegemovie-1 [2] Stubblebine was a key person in the US military invasions of Panama and Grenada and was, according to a report published by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail Daily Mail, at the heart of America's military machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-Penman-2 [3] He is a member of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Intelligence_Hall_of_Fame Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-3 [4] He was a supporter of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project Stargate Project.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed] After Stubblebine retired from the Army, in 1984, he worked for BDM Corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-COURT_OF_APPEALS_ OF_VIRGINIA-4 [5] He also acted as a part-time consultant to two government contractors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Research_Institute_of_Michigan ERIM and Space Applications Corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-COURT_OF_APPEALS_ OF_VIRGINIA-4 [5] Stubblebine appeared in the 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film documentary One Nation Under Siege http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-undersiegemovie-1 [2] where he states that a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757 Boeing 757 airplane could not have crashed into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon The Pentagon on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001 September 11, 2001.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed] A proponent of psychic warfare, Stubblebine was involved in a US military project to create a breed of 'super soldier' who would have the ability to become invisible at will and to walk through walls. He encouraged visitors to his office to walk through walls and has said that the ability to do so is a great idea, but that it would also be a disappointment, similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal) levitation.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-Penman-2 He features prominently in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ronson Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare at Goats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-5 , where he is described as firmly believing that he himself can walk through walls.[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine#cite_note-6 Stubblebine and his wife, psychiatrist http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rima_E._Laibowaction=editredlin k=1 Rima E. Laibow, M.D., founded the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
Seeing women's value is a start to peace Doin' the 'Adam' (placing blame onto another) destroys and is not indicative of healing In it's stead, let us find beauty in all other life, plant, human -all let us live in what we have now Let us play and revel in what there is now let us leave behind why's , who's...blame ;finding it negative... There is a Divine , and therefore Good intent behind all this, not evil let us revel in the new even if we do not understand fully all it's intrinsic nature of blessing. For that is what it is bliss See it now celebrate it now -M
[FairfieldLife] Re: Invisibility, levitation and walk through walls .....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: Bert Stubbleine sounds completely bonkers to me! You can believe you can walk through walls as much as you want, maybe project Stargate (were they expecting to be taken seriously?) could have filmed him doing this then we wouldn't need to believe it was possible either. My father was a career US Air Force officer. I grew up having the head honchos who ran the bases he worked on sitting around in our living room talking, and listen- ing to them talk. This guy may be bonkers, but he sounds pretty normal to me. He would not stand out in the military crowd. I remember clearly seeing Dr. Strangelove when it was first released in theaters, and having the realization that these (General 'Buck' Turgidson, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Colonel 'Bat' Guano, Major 'King' Kong, and Lieutenant Lothar Zogg) were the first military officers I had ever seen portrayed onscreen who struck me as *realistic*, given the guys I saw around me while growing up.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Invisibility, levitation and walk through walls .....
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: Bert Stubbleine sounds completely bonkers to me! You can believe you can walk through walls as much as you want, maybe project Stargate (were they expecting to be taken seriously?) could have filmed him doing this then we wouldn't need to believe it was possible either. My father was a career US Air Force officer. I grew up having the head honchos who ran the bases he worked on sitting around in our living room talking, and listen- ing to them talk. This guy may be bonkers, but he sounds pretty normal to me. He would not stand out in the military crowd. I remember clearly seeing Dr. Strangelove when it was first released in theaters, and having the realization that these (General 'Buck' Turgidson, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Colonel 'Bat' Guano, Major 'King' Kong, and Lieutenant Lothar Zogg) were the first military officers I had ever seen portrayed onscreen who struck me as *realistic*, given the guys I saw around me while growing up. Stubbleine is often a guest on podcasts which those who fear their proforma tarnished stay away from. :-D
[FairfieldLife] Re: 911 .......
Excellent find Rick. Now I find it easy to believe that this guy walks into walls so often that when he gets to a doorway he considers it a sidhi when he makes it through! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: http://bluesplayer.co.uk/youtube_animation/video/daNr_TrBw6E/General-of-all- American-Intelligence-911-was-a-fraud.html
[FairfieldLife] Xocolatl
Chocolate (Xocolatl) - food of the Gods http://ki-xocolatl.com/eng/
Re: [FairfieldLife] 911 .......
Yo Rick, are you a *truther*? --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] 911 ... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:11 PM http://bluesplayer. co.uk/youtube_ animation/ video/daNr_ TrBw6E/General- of-all-American- Intelligence- 911-was-a- fraud.html
[FairfieldLife] Judith Bourke's comment on pricing
Since I have been getting a lot of emails I visited the Fairfield chat to see what's there. I had received criticism for my pricesthis person could at least be accurate. The 500 he is referring to is 500 Swedish crowns, which is now less than one hundred dollars. I would never charge 500$ for a private session. I charge about $100 for an hour and a half session. Namaste, Judith
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
Thanks Hugo, but I try to keep it toned down... a bit. I figure *Effing* could stand for a number of exclamations. You're free to choose one. Something tells me though that Judy and Raunchy would prefer *not* to be referred to as*men of the world* :) --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Hugo fintlewoodle...@mail.com wrote: From: Hugo fintlewoodle...@mail.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:57 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ ... wrote: What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating! Feel free to swear properly Mike, we're all men of the world around here. --- On Wed, 4/21/10, gullible fool ffl...@... wrote: From: gullible fool ffl...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 AM   Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says.  Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, the acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran, said women should stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.  Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes, he explained.  Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade.  Mr Sediqi was delivering a televised sermon at the Tehran University campus mosque last Friday on the need for a general repentance by Iranians when he warned of a prevalence of degeneracy.  What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes, he said.  'Disappoint God'  Correspondents say many young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight-fitting clothes.  Mr Sediqi also described the violence following last year's disputed presidential election - the result of which prompted thousands of people to hold mass protests - as a political earthquake.  Now if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. So lets not disappoint God.  More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient city of Bam in 2003.  Seismologists have warned that the capital, Tehran, is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating earthquake soon.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million inhabitants should relocate.  There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom. http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8631775. stm  Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love.  - AmmaÂ
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Civic Center: The Crucial May 4 Vote
Forwarded from a friend: Dear Friends, Did you know that there is a referendum vote on May 4 for all Fairfield city residents? Its purpose is to allow the City of Fairfield to use 12.5% of the existing Local Option Sales Tax to purchase the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center for $650,000. If this vote doesn't pass, it's almost certain that the Civic Center will go dark for at least 6 months and for as long as 2 years. For everything that the Center now adds to our quality of life and Fairfield's economy, I'm voting Yes and also doing everything I can to help get out the Yes vote on May 4th. I'm appealing to you to vote Yes on the referendum. And, since absentee ballots are available now, you can vote at the courthouse through April 30th. If you want additional information to make a fully informed decision, I got the facts from http://www.fairfieldcenterinfo.com/www.FairfieldCenterInfo.com. If you'd like to help to get out the vote, please let me know or contact FACC board member, Tom Makeig atmailto:tmakei...@lisco.com tmakei...@lisco.com. Thanks for your help! Marsha ps Did you know that absentee ballots are already available for the May 4 referendum for the City of Fairfield to purchase the Civic Center? They are available at the Jefferson County courthouse through April 30th.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Thanks Hugo, but I try to keep it toned down... a bit. I figure *Effing* could stand for a number of exclamations. You're free to choose one. Something tells me though that Judy and Raunchy would prefer *not* to be referred to as*men of the world* :) Something tells me you haven't been paying attention. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: 911 .......
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100412/NEWS03/4120315/Hansen-Official-9-11-story-is-hooey-critic-maintains Hansen: Official 9/11 story is hooey, critic maintains BY MARC HANSEN mahan...@dmreg.com APRIL 12, 2010 David Ray Griffin comes to Drake University on April 23 to tell us why the official explanation for the 9/11 attack on the United States doesn't hold water. A theologian, philosopher of religion and professor emeritus at California's Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, Griffin has been at it for about seven years now and says he won't stop until the government conducts a new, impartial, independent investigation. --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: Rick Archer r...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] 911 ... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:11 PM Â http://bluesplayer. co.uk/youtube_ animation/ video/daNr_ TrBw6E/General- of-all-American- Intelligence- 911-was-a- fraud.html Â
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: I started to watch the 4 videos on you tube -- an then sampled the audios on the blog -- listening to segments of about 10 contributors. While all nice people, there was not much compelling material in the hour of so I listened. Certainly there could be great gems hidden in the material I passed over. But I got bored with most. I wouldn't be able to just sit and listen to most of them either, because I'm too busy and too restless. But I listen to at least an hour a day of stuff on my iPod. If you have one, go to http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id359034195 and subscribe.
[FairfieldLife] Vajra Seven-Line Guru Rinpoche Prayer
-Subject: Vajra Seven-Line Guru Rinpoche Prayer http://www.quietmountain.org/links/teachings/7_Line_Prayer_To_Guru_Rinpoche/7lnpryr.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
In my conversation at BATGP, I found very clearly that what mattered was how I was listening -- I am the definer of my experiences, and lo and behold, I moved towards less defining -- mostly because I see now that it takes a deep intent and a ton of creativity to grasp another's POV without judgmentalism's projective veneering masking the real deal. Gotta sort out so much on the fly and then, what?, be responsible for one's subsequent projections? It's Sisyphussy! And I've never met a concept that wasn't a hypnotist bully. They arrive in my mind like cowboys entering a saloon -- ready to frame the scenario to their own needs and holding a gun to my head demanding identification. It's like even a passing notion is a diva demanding think of me, think of me, think of me. Can't just have an ALL THIS experience, gotta parse and parse and parseand I'm so tired of the intellect's addiction to a relentless handcuffing of me into having a take about anything, all things, nothings. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: I started to watch the 4 videos on you tube -- an then sampled the audios on the blog -- listening to segments of about 10 contributors. While all nice people, there was not much compelling material in the hour of so I listened. Certainly there could be great gems hidden in the material I passed over. But I got bored with most. I wouldn't be able to just sit and listen to most of them either, because I'm too busy and too restless. But I listen to at least an hour a day of stuff on my iPod. If you have one, go to http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id359034195 and subscribe.
[FairfieldLife] Re: anger caused by enemies
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: [heavily snipped] Currently I'm attempting to upgrade my Voodoo hex's; to the level of a real Death Ray at a distance. . . . I'm mainly into the Black Magic - . . . there's a good chance the Death Ray will be ready in a year or less. First on my list: Osama Bin Laden. Any other candidates? How'z'bout: The TMO's leaders present and past. But, gads, how can anyone take you seriously if you're espousing being a psychic hit man? Cast a curse on your own dark needs that you're denying by pretending to be creation's White Knight. When we have a perfect God who can do anything anytime who are you to pose as better at aiming weaponry than God? Hubris is your kool-ade. Edg --- On Fri, 4/9/10, Yifu Xero yifuxero@ wrote: From: Yifu Xero yifuxero@ Subject: [FairfieldLife] anger caused by enemies To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 9, 2010, 5:52 PM  Regarding anger precipitated by psychic (or any type) of attacks by enemies, I have found the best way to deal with it is to pray to the Santeria Orishas to repel the attack and strike them. By strike I mean by psychic energy, not a physical attack or emotional outburst. In other words, to place a type of Voodoo hex on my enemies. The system works but it takes a lot of chanting mantras to the Santeria Orishas. No animal sacrifices. Once, I commissioned a famous Santeria Sorcerer (passing through Tijuana - he was from Cuba; his name was El Negro), to put a hex on MMY. Then soon later I had a discussion with Charlie Lutes in which he divulged to me that MMY said he was being psychically attacked and he wanted his followers to stay close around him. ... http://i.ytimg. com/vi/2HLTzp3um lg/0.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America By Frank Schaeffer Before he'd been in office one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds -- including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader) this unlikely Obama supporter -- are sticking with our President. Why? Because he's shown he will succeed by slow, calm and steady...staying the course. We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified leader. Obama's loyal supporters will be proven right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst. The Context of the Obama Presidency: Not since the rise of fascism in Europe , the Second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any president led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any president faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition -- from both the right and left. As the President's poll numbers have fallen so has his support from some on the left who hailed him as a Messiah not long ago; those lefty web sites and commentators that were falling over themselves on behalf of our first black president during the 2008 election. The left's lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling prophecy-- snipe at the President and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend you didn't have anything to do with it! Here is what Obama faced when he took office-- none of which was his fault: # An ideologically divided country, to the point America is really two countries # Two wars; one mishandled from the start, the other unnecessary and immoral # The worst economic crisis since the depression # America 's standing in the world at its lowest point in history # A country misled into accepting the use of torture on prisoners of war # A health care system in free fall # An educational system in free fall # A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush/Cheney administration and Republicans had done nothing) # An impasse between culture warriors from the right and left # A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally irresponsible Bush administration. And these were just some of the problems left for Obama to deal with when he came into office! Help from the Right? What did Republicans and the religious right, libertarians and half-baked conspiracy theorists (what Republicans were reduced to by the time Obama took office) do to help our new president (and our country) succeed? They claimed he wasn't a real American, didn't have an American birth certificate, wasn't born here, was secretly a Muslim, was white-hating racist, was a secret communist, was the Anti-Christ, was the reincarnation of Hitler and wanted death panels to kill the elderly! They called for his assassination through the not-so- subtle use of signs held up at rallies and even a bumper sticker quoting Psalm 109:8. They organized tea parties to sound off against imagined insults and government in general. They gathered to howl at the moon. They were led by insurance industry lobbyists and deranged (but well-financed) commentators from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh. Utterly discredited Roman Catholic bishops teamed up with utterly discredited evangelical leaders to denounce a president who was trying to improve conditions for the poor, the environment, to diminish the number of abortions through compassionate programs to help women and to care for the sick! But in Congress the Republican leadership knew only one word: No! In other words the reactionary white, uneducated, crazy far right, combined with educated neoconservative war mongers, religious right big business shills, libertarian Fed Reserve-hating gold bugs, gun-toting crazies, child-molesting acquiescent bishops, frontier loons and evangelical gay-hating flakes...they all found one thing to agree on and rally around: their desire to stop a Black man from succeeding at all costs! Help from the Left? What did the left do to help their newly elected president? Some of them blasted the President because they disagreed with the bad choices he was being forced to make regarding a war in Afghanistan. Choices he'd inherited from the worst president in U.S. history! Others stood up to proclaim the President's economic policies failed before the President even instituted them! Others said since not all gay rights battles had not been won, they'd been
[FairfieldLife] climate change, again
You wrote : He believes that the release of ocean sediment methane hydrate is the big marker, or tipping point, of disaster. Well it seems the tipping point is here.Please pass these on to FFL if you feel inclined : Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/04/science-nsf-tundra-permafrost-methane-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-venting/ ..found Arctic temperatures almost beyond imaginationabove 74°Ftemperatures more than 18°F warmer than current climate models had predicted when applied to this period. The three dozen authors conclude that existing climate models are missing crucial feedbacks that can significantly amplify polar warming. http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/20/a-methane-feedback-from-the-past-strikes-again/
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:25 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1! He was not what most of us thought he was - a celibate monk. He said he was a monk and we all assumed celibate went with that. Good old projection. Nothing wrong with that, happens all the time. Interesting admission by Nabby. Aren't monks celibate by definition?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: I'm looking forward to more of the videos. I think the nonverbal information offered at least equals the verbal. It may take a round of editing these down to make this more accessible. Almost no good writing takes place without an edit and certainly loose conversations like these could be tightened up. Of course the edit is another take, a decision about how the thing is presented and that may go against the grain of what you are trying to do. But it would be nice to have a 5-10 minute intro with some of their important points to see if it is worth the wait. The concept is so compelling I think it is now down to packaging and letting a person make informed decisions about time commitments. Eventually a transcript will be nice so you can buzz through the content. Sometime I would like to map out the structure of each person's belief structure. I spent a bit of time checking out the yahoo group answering the question what do awakened people like to talk about? I need to read more to have a more informed opinion. It is all very self-conscious at this point so perhaps they need a bit of a trigger to get them going on something interesting. It needs to come from someone with less of the fart in church baggage of this writer! I think this project has potential for wider interest if packaged in a way that doesn't take a big upfront time buy-in. High five for growing this idea Rick! There is a genius in the directness of your premise: there are people in Fairfield who identify themselves as awakened. Let's interview them and see what they have to say. Brilliant! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: I started to watch the 4 videos on you tube -- an then sampled the audios on the blog -- listening to segments of about 10 contributors. While all nice people, there was not much compelling material in the hour of so I listened. Certainly there could be great gems hidden in the material I passed over. But I got bored with most. I wouldn't be able to just sit and listen to most of them either, because I'm too busy and too restless. But I listen to at least an hour a day of stuff on my iPod. If you have one, go to http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id359034195 and subscribe.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
You are using metaphysical terms, so to follow this thread, you'd have to assume that we 'exist' in the first place, in order to postulate that we will one day be 'non-existent'. Hugo: I certainly find it hard to believe you exist. Circular logic, Hugo. You failed to define 'exist'. So, really you have said nothing, except to postulate a metaphysical nihilism. In which case, you have said nothing, since you have not proved that we exist. It's a case of circular logic, if not a logical fallacy.
[FairfieldLife] climate change - release of methane stores
A few weeks ago there was a discussion here about methane hydrate being released into the atmosphere and spseeding up global warming. Here is more information that someone sent to me: http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/04/science-nsf-tundra-permafrost-methane-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-venting/ and http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/20/a-methane-feedback-from-the-past-strikes-again/
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:47 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer r...@... wrote: I'm looking forward to more of the videos. I think the nonverbal information offered at least equals the verbal. It may take a round of editing these down to make this more accessible. Almost no good writing takes place without an edit and certainly loose conversations like these could be tightened up. Of course the edit is another take, a decision about how the thing is presented and that may go against the grain of what you are trying to do. But it would be nice to have a 5-10 minute intro with some of their important points to see if it is worth the wait. The concept is so compelling I think it is now down to packaging and letting a person make informed decisions about time commitments. Eventually a transcript will be nice so you can buzz through the content. Sometime I would like to map out the structure of each person's belief structure. I spent a bit of time checking out the yahoo group answering the question what do awakened people like to talk about? I need to read more to have a more informed opinion. It is all very self-conscious at this point so perhaps they need a bit of a trigger to get them going on something interesting. It needs to come from someone with less of the fart in church baggage of this writer! I think this project has potential for wider interest if packaged in a way that doesn't take a big upfront time buy-in. High five for growing this idea Rick! There is a genius in the directness of your premise: there are people in Fairfield who identify themselves as awakened. Let's interview them and see what they have to say. Brilliant! Thanks Curtis. All good suggestions, but all time-consuming. Doing as much as I can with very limited time. Tonight I'm interviewing Igal Moria (used to be Igal Harmelin), in case you remember him.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
I dated a girl years ago who was an honors philosophy graduate from Vassar. Whenever we got into a tiff she used to prove that I didn't exist. Hugo: That must have worn down the ol' ego. So you've read Freud. But, do we really have an 'ego'? What about the 'super-ego'? If we have an ego, where is it? Is the term 'ego' a scientific term, or a metaphysical term, Hugo? Sounds to me like you're mixing up physics with theoretical metaphysical constructs. You're not making any sense.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:47 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: I'm looking forward to more of the videos. I think the nonverbal information offered at least equals the verbal. It may take a round of editing these down to make this more accessible. Almost no good writing takes place without an edit and certainly loose conversations like these could be tightened up. Of course the edit is another take, a decision about how the thing is presented and that may go against the grain of what you are trying to do. But it would be nice to have a 5-10 minute intro with some of their important points to see if it is worth the wait. The concept is so compelling I think it is now down to packaging and letting a person make informed decisions about time commitments. Eventually a transcript will be nice so you can buzz through the content. Sometime I would like to map out the structure of each person's belief structure. I spent a bit of time checking out the yahoo group answering the question what do awakened people like to talk about? I need to read more to have a more informed opinion. It is all very self-conscious at this point so perhaps they need a bit of a trigger to get them going on something interesting. It needs to come from someone with less of the fart in church baggage of this writer! I think this project has potential for wider interest if packaged in a way that doesn't take a big upfront time buy-in. High five for growing this idea Rick! There is a genius in the directness of your premise: there are people in Fairfield who identify themselves as awakened. Let's interview them and see what they have to say. Brilliant! Thanks Curtis. All good suggestions, but all time-consuming. Doing as much as I can with very limited time. Tonight I'm interviewing Igal Moria (used to be Igal Harmelin), in case you remember him. Please give him my greetings; he was the greatest of all the moodmakers to ever grace Purusha :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: The main thing is that you are capturing these moments on tape now. That is the most important thing. I would like to see some yoga oriented sponsors for your site sometime. That might free up some time for this project. Igal rings a bell. I may remember him when I see the picture. Have fun pinning down the infinite! From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:47 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: I'm looking forward to more of the videos. I think the nonverbal information offered at least equals the verbal. It may take a round of editing these down to make this more accessible. Almost no good writing takes place without an edit and certainly loose conversations like these could be tightened up. Of course the edit is another take, a decision about how the thing is presented and that may go against the grain of what you are trying to do. But it would be nice to have a 5-10 minute intro with some of their important points to see if it is worth the wait. The concept is so compelling I think it is now down to packaging and letting a person make informed decisions about time commitments. Eventually a transcript will be nice so you can buzz through the content. Sometime I would like to map out the structure of each person's belief structure. I spent a bit of time checking out the yahoo group answering the question what do awakened people like to talk about? I need to read more to have a more informed opinion. It is all very self-conscious at this point so perhaps they need a bit of a trigger to get them going on something interesting. It needs to come from someone with less of the fart in church baggage of this writer! I think this project has potential for wider interest if packaged in a way that doesn't take a big upfront time buy-in. High five for growing this idea Rick! There is a genius in the directness of your premise: there are people in Fairfield who identify themselves as awakened. Let's interview them and see what they have to say. Brilliant! Thanks Curtis. All good suggestions, but all time-consuming. Doing as much as I can with very limited time. Tonight I'm interviewing Igal Moria (used to be Igal Harmelin), in case you remember him.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Invention of Heaven
I certainly find it hard to believe you exist. Tom: I dated a girl years ago who was an honors philosophy graduate from Vassar. Whenever we got into a tiff she used to prove that I didn't exist. So, what does it mean to 'not exist'? Why wouldn't we exist in the future, if we existed in the past? If you existed in the past, why wouldn't you exist in the future? And, if you don't exist now, then who is it that is writing these words? And how would anyone 'prove' that they don't exist? So many questions, Tom - so few answers. Metaphysics is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:53 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer r...@... wrote: The main thing is that you are capturing these moments on tape now. That is the most important thing. I would like to see some yoga oriented sponsors for your site sometime. That might free up some time for this project. Good idea, once I build up enough traffic. Igal rings a bell. I may remember him when I see the picture. Have fun pinning down the infinite! Thanks!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:25 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1! He was not what most of us thought he was - a celibate monk. He said he was a monk and we all assumed celibate went with that. Good old projection on your side. Nothing wrong with that, happens all the time. Interesting admission by Nabby. Aren't monks celibate by definition? We are free to create any definition we like. A monk will perhaps not desire sex beacuse he has more serious spiritual matters to attend, but if it comes along and is positive, why not ? On Purusha there where no written rules in this regard.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Rick Archer wrote: The President's critics, left and right, had one thing in common: impatience laced with no sense of history (let alone reality). Then of course there were the snide, white, know-it-all commentators and talking heads who just can't imagine that maybe, just maybe they aren't as smart as they thought they were and certainly not as smart as a Black President. He hadn't consulted them so he must be wrong! The ideological ideas of Obama critics' defined their idea of reality rather than reality defining their ideas. Meanwhile back in the reality-based community - in just 12 short months -- President Obama scored victories that went unreported on the evening news: Excellent article, Rick--and very accurately sums up above most of the inane criticism of Obama we've heard right here. This guy gets a big thumbs-up from me because of where he came from from and how far in the other direction he's gone. I tried the first part of his book but it couldn't hold my attention, he seems to be better in small bites (IMO). Then again, maybe I'll have to give it another try. He sure does bring a unique perspective to the table. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating! Feel free to swear properly Mike, we're all men of the world around here. Apparently not. Some appear to see virgins on pedastals, wailing damsels in distress, dark sinister villians (probably with those long, waxed mustaches) and perhaps projections of themselves as white knights - or white hatted cowboys -- riding to the rescue. Sounds like boys walking out of the picture show in 1915 after seeing the latest dime-store western -- not men of the world. In that case I stand corrected and commend you for your sensitivity. I just thought if hanging around here doesn't toughen you up a bit.. However, for my clear sin of stupidity in seeing it this way, I fear Tom Mix may come gunnin' for me This wide open country ain't big enough for contrary views, Black Bart. You best be git before you rile up the citizens here and we come to lynch ya.. Hmmm, maybe your way is best. I think we both enjoying mirthing it up a bit, seeing the fun in things. So perhaps no way is the best way -- or perhaps the ways of mirth are all the same in the Enchanted Forest of life. Though sometimes my humor can come across as serious I suppose -- perhaps had to be there sort of thing. Only its hard jamming people into my head. (But if you are a rugby fan -- perhaps you know some tricks) Btw I enjoy your sense of humor, and your science inserts and knowledge.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America By Frank Schaeffer Before he'd been in office one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds -- including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader) this unlikely Obama supporter -- are sticking with our President. Why? Because he's shown he will succeed by slow, calm and steady...staying the course. We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified leader. Obama's loyal supporters will be proven right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst. The Context of the Obama Presidency: Not since the rise of fascism in Europe , the Second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any president led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any president faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition -- from both the right and left. As the President's poll numbers have fallen so has his support from some on the left who hailed him as a Messiah not long ago; those lefty web sites and commentators that were falling over themselves on behalf of our first black president during the 2008 election. The left's lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling prophecy-- snipe at the President and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend you didn't have anything to do with it! Here is what Obama faced when he took office-- none of which was his fault: # An ideologically divided country, to the point America is really two countries # Two wars; one mishandled from the start, the other unnecessary and immoral # The worst economic crisis since the depression # America 's standing in the world at its lowest point in history # A country misled into accepting the use of torture on prisoners of war # A health care system in free fall # An educational system in free fall # A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush/Cheney administration and Republicans had done nothing) # An impasse between culture warriors from the right and left # A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally irresponsible Bush administration. And these were just some of the problems left for Obama to deal with when he came into office! Help from the Right? What did Republicans and the religious right, libertarians and half-baked conspiracy theorists (what Republicans were reduced to by the time Obama took office) do to help our new president (and our country) succeed? They claimed he wasn't a real American, didn't have an American birth certificate, wasn't born here, was secretly a Muslim, was white-hating racist, was a secret communist, was the Anti-Christ, was the reincarnation of Hitler and wanted death panels to kill the elderly! They called for his assassination through the not-so- subtle use of signs held up at rallies and even a bumper sticker quoting Psalm 109:8. They organized tea parties to sound off against imagined insults and government in general. They gathered to howl at the moon. They were led by insurance industry lobbyists and deranged (but well-financed) commentators from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh. Utterly discredited Roman Catholic bishops teamed up with utterly discredited evangelical leaders to denounce a president who was trying to improve conditions for the poor, the environment, to diminish the number of abortions through compassionate programs to help women and to care for the sick! But in Congress the Republican leadership knew only one word: No! In other words the reactionary white, uneducated, crazy far right, combined with educated neoconservative war mongers, religious right big business shills, libertarian Fed Reserve-hating gold bugs, gun-toting crazies, child-molesting acquiescent bishops, frontier loons and evangelical gay-hating flakes...they all found one thing to agree on and rally around: their desire to stop a Black man from succeeding at all costs! Help from the Left? What did the left do to help their newly elected president? Some of them blasted the President because they disagreed with the bad choices he was being forced to make regarding a war in Afghanistan. Choices he'd inherited from the worst president in U.S. history! Others stood up to
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
Yeah, he seems to have accepted this information peacefully enough. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:25 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1! He was not what most of us thought he was - a celibate monk. He said he was a monk and we all assumed celibate went with that. Good old projection. Nothing wrong with that, happens all the time. Interesting admission by Nabby. Aren't monks celibate by definition?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
excellent ! thanks rick ! i sent it to everyone on my list changing the subject to: America Will Triumph --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America By Frank Schaeffer . But here's the good news: President Obama is succeeding without the help of his supporters on the left and despite his hate-filled Republican detractors on the right! The Future Looks Good After Obama has served two full terms (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts -- with a uncanny and calculating eye to achieving success (and he will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning (and they will), after the naysayers are proved wrong: let the record show that not all Americans panicked and jumped ship at the first sign of a storm. Just because we didn't get everything we wanted in the health care bill, and his first year in office...not all of us are giving up! Some of us are staying the course. And we will be proved right. PS. if you agree that Obama is shaping up to be a great president, please pass this on and hang in there! Pass it on anyway to ensure that his report card gets the attention it deserves.
[FairfieldLife] Tulku Thondup
- Subject: Tulku Thondup http://www.tulkuthondup.com/album.htm
[FairfieldLife] Hitler reacts to Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
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Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 17 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 24 00:00:00 2010 426 messages as of (UTC) Thu Apr 22 00:12:41 2010 49 authfriend jst...@panix.com 40 tartbrain no_re...@yahoogroups.com 38 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 26 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com 24 Hugo fintlewoodle...@mail.com 24 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 22 yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com 22 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 22 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 17 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 15 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 13 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 9 wayback71 waybac...@yahoo.com 9 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com 8 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 7 Joe geezerfr...@yahoo.com 6 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com 6 Carol jchwe...@gmail.com 6 do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com 5 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 5 Jason jedi_sp...@yahoo.com 4 shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca 4 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com 3 m 13 meowthirt...@yahoo.com 3 anatol_zinc anatol_z...@yahoo.com 3 Bob hsty...@pacbell.net 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com 2 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Yifu Xero yifux...@yahoo.com 2 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 2 Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com 1 merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 1 mainstream20016 mainstream20...@yahoo.com 1 brian64705 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 wle...@aol.com 1 John jr_...@yahoo.com 1 I am the eternal l.shad...@gmail.com 1 AnkhAton ankha...@yahoo.com Posters: 41 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler reacts to Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube
Some one should do one on one of the following 1) Jerry coming back 2) Judith's book coming out 3) King tony's marriage and kids 4) TMO in trouble --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ Also, its clearly the Age of Enlightenment, Heaven on Earth The lion lies down with the lamb, sort of Trying to Save Wild Tigers by Rehabilitating Them By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: April 21, 2010 BALIMBING, Indonesia The two wild Sumatran tigers, held in large, adjoining cages here, had killed at least eight people between them. Enlarge This Image They growled ferociously, lunged at a man outside, ran in circles inside the cages and slammed against the walls, their eyes radiating a fierceness absent in zoo tigers. But if all goes well, one of them eventually will be reintroduced into the wild. In the only one of two such experiments in the world, tiger experts here have begun rehabilitating and releasing tigers that have attacked humans and livestock elsewhere on Indonesia's island of Sumatra. As a growing human population and economic development keep squeezing tigers out of their remaining habitats, clashes are increasing with deadly frequency. Last year, tigers killed at least nine people in Sumatra, mostly illegal loggers pushing ever deeper into previously untouched forest. In the past 20 months, conservationists have successfully returned four Sumatran tigers to the wild here, in what some experts describe as a promising strategy to help save the world's population of wild tigers now below 3,000, or less than 3 percent of their numbers a century ago. The Sumatran tiger, with fewer than 400 left, is considered one of the most critically endangered of the world's six surviving tiger subspecies. The tigers' release has drawn criticism, not least from local villagers who complain that they have lost goats and chickens to the predators, and now fear venturing outside at night. Some conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, have hesitated to get involved with the program, which is financed by Tomy Winata, an Indonesian tycoon who parlayed close ties to the military into building an empire in real estate, banking, mining and other industries.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 17 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 24 00:00:00 2010 426 messages as of (UTC) Thu Apr 22 00:12:41 2010 49 authfriend jst...@... I checked the log, and this post count does include the post you made three minutes before the post count script ran. So, you have one more post for the week.
[FairfieldLife] students at the Oman mathematics Olympiad
- Subject: students at the Oman mathematics Olympiad http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohelakhan/2343178695/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
If the hysterical tone and wild hyperbole don't immediately tell you this is a piece of the most banal hackwork, the fact that it fails utterly to acknowledge that there could be any legitimate criticism of Obama should clue you in. How many of you praising the essay noticed, I wonder? Obama is All Good, and his critics are All Bad. Very much like the more virulent TM critics here, the writer has switched allegiances but not the No Shades of Gray Ever style of thinking he learned when he was in thrall to the Other Side. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America By Frank Schaeffer
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 17 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 24 00:00:00 2010 430 messages as of (UTC) Thu Apr 22 00:06:35 2010 50 authfriend jst...@panix.com 41 tartbrain no_re...@yahoogroups.com 38 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 26 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com 24 Hugo fintlewoodle...@mail.com 24 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 22 yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com 22 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 22 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 17 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 16 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 15 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 13 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 9 wayback71 waybac...@yahoo.com 9 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com 8 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 7 Joe geezerfr...@yahoo.com 6 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com 6 Carol jchwe...@gmail.com 6 do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com 5 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 5 Jason jedi_sp...@yahoo.com 5 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com 4 shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca 3 m 13 meowthirt...@yahoo.com 3 anatol_zinc anatol_z...@yahoo.com 3 Yifu Xero yifux...@yahoo.com 3 Bob hsty...@pacbell.net 2 scienceofabundance no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com 2 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 2 Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com 1 merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 1 mainstream20016 mainstream20...@yahoo.com 1 brian64705 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 wle...@aol.com 1 John jr_...@yahoo.com 1 I am the eternal l.shad...@gmail.com 1 AnkhAton ankha...@yahoo.com Posters: 41 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 17 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 24 00:00:00 2010 430 messages as of (UTC) Thu Apr 22 00:06:35 2010 50 authfriend jst...@... I just noticed that a post from before the post script was delayed in email, so I manually ran the post script, and you are, in fact, at 50. For anyone who is just under 50 posts, it's a good idea to not post right before the post count, because if posts are delayed, the post count may not reflect reality.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
This topic of loyalty, oh triumphant deserves a commercial break. : ) Ode to Vogon Poetry: Twenty somethings in line to help finish the wars that were started and I guess must continue because one can only solve a war by continuing war. I am sure the new health plan will be stabilized with terminally ill people and whatever property or bank accounts can be harvested as they die or before they die, maybe a strong push with the cheap poppies from Afghanistan. The genetically modified foods must have good sources of nutrition. The economy is growing strong as I see people bundling up in homes, more than one family or isolated children from the generation teaching their grown kids to stand on their own two feet as they are taken in by more caring families, parents turning their back to continue the lifestyle they are used to living, because they deserve it and worked hard to get it. Anti-depressants prescribed to help the kids adjust...oh heck, mommies and daddies too. Don't try to stop taking those pills cold turkey or you will be jerking more than on a flying block. Breathe on Earth day, enjoy your freedom, love and peace, America. Teleprompter intuitive It is someones fault, so we must continue their legacy! From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, 21 April, 2010 7:06:35 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America If the hysterical tone and wild hyperbole don't immediately tell you this is a piece of the most banal hackwork, the fact that it fails utterly to acknowledge that there could be any legitimate criticism of Obama should clue you in. How many of you praising the essay noticed, I wonder? Obama is All Good, and his critics are All Bad. Very much like the more virulent TM critics here, the writer has switched allegiances but not the No Shades of Gray Ever style of thinking he learned when he was in thrall to the Other Side. --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America By Frank Schaeffer
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
Your careful attention to detail make this a better online community. Thanks Alex.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My experience with Trivedi
Was another large meeting with Mr. Trivedi tonite(Weds). Spoke about culture, spiritual phenomena, discernment and science. Q A. Gave a blessing too.
[FairfieldLife] Longchen on the Four Methods (Chogzhag-s) of Dzogchen Meditation
April 30th - May 2nd, 2010 Madison, WI GAINING STABILITY IN DZOGCHEN MEDITATION Chapter Ten of Longchenpa's Choying Dzod /The Four Chog Zhags. The four chog zhags are the four methods taught in the Dzogchen tantras to establish stability in Dzogchen contemplation. Chapter ten of the Choying Dzod describes the basic principle of gaining stability Dzogchen meditation. This understanding is then applied to the four chogzhags i.e. mountain chogzhag, ocean chogzhag, rigpa chogzhag and the chogzhag of appearances. Location: The Quarry Arts Building 715 Hill St ( Across the side street from Whole Foods) Room 150, Madison, WI Times: Friday 5-8pm Saturday through Sunday 10am-5pm Cost: $125 for pre-registration for all sessions, online registration will be available. $150 at the door. No one turned away for inability to pay. Work-study/paypment plans available. Please make arrangements in advance. Please make checks payable to RSL.
