Summa Wrestling and one more swipe at William of Occam: at_man_and_brahman
poses a question or two for Masked Zebra:
Robin, no one has taken up my suggestion to consider how William of Occam would
treat your story. As you probably know, Occam's Razor says, Pluralitas non est
ponenda sine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote:
...I disagree with any poster that says that editors can't write.
Any poster spreading such scurrilous rumours should study more
about how Raymond Carver and Pat Conroy arrived at their brilliance.
turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
You are also obviously afraid to answer those five questions.
I guess we should expect anyone who is a fake like you to ardently
refuse to answer questions about their background under any
(snip)
Guru, deva and dakini are the primordial state of spontaneous
presence. These are not separate.
Answer the simple questions. Or are you just a fake?
(snip)
Explore into the 'empty self' to see how cares about such things...
Who is the 'Self' that wonders about fake or not fake...
Maharishi used to always have a 'bad feeling' about the CIA getting too close
to him...
And, one time when he came to Fairfield, Robin Carlsen, was attempting to have
the Sherrif serve M with papers, that MIU attorney's were barely able to stop...
This incident happened during the Presidency
Briefly, I'm delighted you've returned. I was feeling guilty, thinking I'd
scared you off. I was writing the post below as you were responding to Curtis,
and yes, there's overlap. Also, for the record, I have Protestant DNA, but I'm
not a practicing Methodist. My family is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVRVEVtWCOkNR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDQjHTxt4I0feature=related
Bob, if you don't mind I'm going to dispense with the interspersed
comments, because this thread is already starting to look like a
Dagwood sandwich. I'll put all my comments at the top and leave
yours below, in case you have to reference them to remember
what you only a few hours ago. :-)
I get
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgbWMNcjvE0feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4JfzeXoExofeature=relatedf
Since Bob has me pondering the writing process, I thought
I'd rap a bit on one of the fundamental issue of a writer
finding his voice. It's NOT in my opinion the finding
that's an issue as to whether the writing is finally
appreciated; it's whether anyone wants to listen to
that voice.
Some
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, stevelf ysoy10li@... wrote:
the good-old-days can really be refreshing.
Nothing to say in response to your post, but I
wanted to reply because I like your email name.
Nyuck nyuck. :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think emptybill is really an empty person.
I'm beginning to think he's a late bloomer who is
still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79lOKs0Kr_Yfeature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsM3H4dHdYw
Unlike Vaj, at least he HAS testicles!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
Speaking of good movies, I just saw a really good movie last night called The
Company Men, a post bank bailout flick about the bloodless nature of
corporations designed to make a profit for the already wealthy at the expense
of the workers. Excellent cast: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem. Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think emptybill is really an empty person.
I'm
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
ONE PERSON sits down on the Throne Of Creativity and proceeds
to grunt, groan, push, shove, and occasionally scream until the great
turd of a novel is out. It may at this point in fact be too large a
turd
to sell in the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
Maybe the difference is as simple as Curtis being an enter-
tainer and MZ not. Curtis doesn't get paid unless he can
find a way to invite people into his world in such a way
that they actually want to come in.
I would have
Still pondering the koan of writer's voice ( Damn you! Bob Price...may
She Who Must Be Obeyed box your ears. :-), and having no answer as to
what makes one inviting and another not, I thought I'd ponder in this
cafe a couple of writers whose voices sucked me in from page one, in an
attempt to
Still pondering the writing thang ( Bob, please have SWMBO box your ears
twice ), I find myself pondering the recently-mentioned Marshall
McLuhan. If, as he postulated, the medium is the message, what is the
relationship of the vision and the visionary?
Bob ( three times, dude ) tried to
Familiar faces among Beatles in Rishikesh group photo scene -
Walter Koch?- in red, to MMY's left;
Geoffrey Baker? - to Lennon's left, waving?
Maureen Wynn?, to Ringo's right?
and who is at 2:50 - looks like Katy Perry!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill wrote:
You are wasting our time Vag.
Another ad hominem.
Familiar faces among Beatles in Rishikesh group photo scene?
Walter Koch?- in red, to MMY's left;
Geoffrey Baker? - waving, to Lennon's left;
Maureen Wynn?- to Ringo's right.
Who is at 2:50? - looks like Katy Perry!
-Mainstream
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008
emptybill:
Calmness is not the same as state of least
excitation...
It's Tibetan, Bill, from the Tantras, not from the
Pali Sutras. Some students get mixed up and confuse
the 'vipassana-shamatha' practices of the Theravada
with the 'siddha-yoga' practices of the Vajrayana.
Vajrayana
turquoiseb :
It's a pretty Jr. High School mentality...
If Vaj is junior high school, you're about the
level of pre-school. LoL!!!
Fer chirssakes, Barry, we already know you're
a liar, but do you have be a hypocrite as well?
Go figure.
Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever
you
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote:
snip
In my opinion, PUBLISHED modern novels are a collaborative
effort more like film than painting. We do not hesitate to
credit Walter Murch - Coppola's and Manghella's editor on
much of their best work, as a creative
With Smalltalk, often the code IS the comment.
E.G.:
myStringArray at: 5 put: 'this string'.
L.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote:
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
For the record, when I was working at a software company
Hi Ravi, I can't say what most fiction book stories consist of, though they
*are* stories, and having made up so many stories myself, pre-realization, I
may just be tired of them, whatever their intent.
Also it seems that in order to read and appreciate a story, we have to believe
a story
I too am reading Thinking and Destiny by Harold Percival, but very slowly. I
was given this copy in the late eighties, by someone close.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
I can
Grand Rapid lip syncthis is pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI
.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:36 PM, emptybill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, danfriedman2002
danfriedman2002@... wrote:
I too am reading Thinking and Destiny by Harold Percival, but very
slowly. I was given this copy in the late eighties, by someone close.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@
wrote:
Rory,
Thanks for the deep insight. Now I can set out today better prepared.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, danfriedman2002 danfriedman2002@
wrote:
Rory,
Perhaps you have identified the main difference
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote:
Hi Ravi, I can't say what most fiction book stories
consist of, though they *are* stories, and having
made up so many stories myself, pre-realization, I
may just be tired of them, whatever their intent.
What makes you
Dan, you seem like a pretty level headed guy. Tell me where I am
mistaken in my perception. I don't know if under any circumstances, I
would set foot in Mexico. All the places I used to hear about where
people would vacation seem to now have killings going on. What made you
choose Mexico as a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
ONE PERSON sits down on the Throne Of Creativity and proceeds
to grunt, groan, push, shove, and occasionally scream until the great
turd of a novel is out. It may at this point in fact be too large a turd
to sell in the
May I ask who is Field Marshall Stanley and what about it would be more
controlled?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote:
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:28 PM, obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
If needed, I will support FFL to exist, if anyone
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of obbajeeba
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:36 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Notice of Infringement
May I ask who is Field Marshall Stanley and what about it would be
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
ONE PERSON sits down on the Throne Of Creativity and proceeds
to grunt, groan, push, shove, and occasionally scream until the
great turd of a novel is
You could always run a forum. Maybe pay the cost of the web hosting
with a few ads. Forums can have sections so those who don't want to
read about certain things can easily skip those sections. Probably no
need for posting limits either. Most of the popular forum software is
open source,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, danfriedman2002 danfriedman2002@...
wrote:
Rory,
Thanks for the deep insight. Now I can set out today better prepared.
* * Ha! Any time, Dan ...
Better prepared how, and to do what, if I may ask?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of obbajeeba
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:36 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Notice of Infringement
Re: Summa Wrestling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price bobpriced@... wrote:
Don't know about the rest of you but I'm concerned we have
not heard from the Zebra for almost two days.
If you're honest, you have to admit its not the same without him.
turquoiseb
Thanks for this Judy, couldn't agree with you more.
I tend to give Stefen King a pass for his more recent offerings, as I'm sure
you know, he was involved in that terrible car accident and I think he is close
to legally blind. I keep buying his books
in hopes he'll revert to his previous
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVRVEVtWCOkNR=1
Beautiful never seen this before, thanks for posting !
On 07/10/2011 10:07 AM, Alex Stanley wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archerrick@... wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of obbajeeba
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:36 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
New season for both. Gee, Syfy will be worth watching again ... for a
while.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM, authfriend jst...@panix.com wrote:
As if Barry and Vaj weren't themselves chronic
piler-oners and ad-hominemers. As if the very
posts in which they're criticizing piling on
and ad hominem aren't glaring examples of both.
You really gotta wonder about the
If you know the answer to the question in the Subject
line, and were a fan, you owe it to yourself to add
this 2010 documentary to your Netflix queue. If you
don't have a clue, and missed the shooting star that
was Harry Nilsson, you may want to add it to your queue
anyway. Just look at the IMDB
On 07/10/2011 11:44 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
New season for both. Gee, Syfy will be worth watching again ... for a
while.
And Alphas, a new series with David Strathairn no less, follows both.
http://www.syfy.com/alphasseries/
And I know we have at least one other Haven fan here and it starts a
The Beach Boys still 'Get Around'
by Tom Lawrence
The Daily Republic 10 July 2011
On 10 July 2011 The Daily Republic reported:
Mike Love, of Beach Boys fame, now 70,
has been touring and playing rock 'n' roll for almost half a century, but said
he isn't road-weary: 'It's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
snip
And Alphas, a new series with David Strathairn no less,
follows both.
O, yummy, David Strathairn. I may have to turn on my
TV for that.
Huh?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote:
Hi Ravi, I can't say what most fiction book stories
consist of, though they *are* stories, and having
made up so many stories myself,
Nah, he just wants attention. Like I said he inserts emotional triggers into
his posts and waits for someone to react. Content doesn't matter - only the
gotcha does. As Gertrude Stein said, there is no there there.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In
Thanks for the supporting encouragement, I guess I´ll continue to take my time
with it. What´s the rush, anyway? Right?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, danfriedman2002
danfriedman2002@ wrote:
I too am
I've been at it for about two decades now. Works it way down to the
bottom of my occassional pile, then finds it way back on top when I
want to check something out.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, danfriedman2002
danfriedman2002@... wrote:
Thanks for the supporting encouragement, I
Actually, it´s another lazy, easy day in Morelia, Mexico, so not much
prepartaion was needed.
But I am better prepared by what you wrote, in that I´ll be forearmed to meet
up with challenging people, if I can apply your insight about how my heart is
keeping difficult people distant.
--- In
-- In the last 40 years the number of adult churchgoers has fallen
by half while the number of children regularly worshipping in
public declined by 80 per cent, the study says.
The Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler,
will present findings to the Church's national
I am glad to hear it's an easy day in Morelia, Dan :-)
OK, I see; thank you. Yes, I've found the insight can sometimes be really
tricky to apply. Some of the most challenging people for me to love have been
fundamentalist religious or political figures, and it generally wasn't until I
Amusing Chaim. You say Who?
but also who cares about such things ...
That only means I don't care about such things.
Why not just say that?
Aren't you still trying to get people to search for
the rabbit you appeared to pull from your top-hat?
The Palace of Occultism is destroyed.
Your former
That's it?
What a puny, anemic insult. You must be getting too old and
unimaginative to do better.
You attempt to defend Vag each time but lack the insight on how to do
so. You don't seem to understand the issues but, then again, you
only know your own opinions.
By definition, there is
This is for Curtis, who I suspect is still reading Robin's post. I've been
thinking Curtis deserves a better response about my POV, than I sent in my
previous post.
My honest response to his enquiry is that after years of very intense
experience, that I can only feel
gratitude for - I've
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Been married long?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
As if Barry and Vaj weren't themselves chronic
piler-oners and ad-hominemers. As if the very
posts in which they're criticizing
They might rejoin the Catholic Church, according to a news source a few weeks
ago. Will Henry VIII's body turn over in his grave?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@... wrote:
-- In the last 40 years the number of adult churchgoers has fallen
by half while the
I met gulliblefool here in Boston at Amma's program and he mentioned he is one
of the moderators here. So I'm shocked that he is not being mentioned in any of
these discussions here - contrary to the impression I had based on his Yahoo ID
he seemed quite shrewd and calculating - in fact I
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Ravi Yogi
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:04 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Notice of Infringement
I met gulliblefool here in Boston at Amma's program and he
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote:
Hi Ravi, I can't say what most fiction book stories
consist of, though they *are* stories, and having
made up so many stories myself,
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of turquoiseb
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:41 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin'
About Him?)
If you know the answer to the
Willy,
There is a Siddha sampradaya (lineage) in Buddhist Tantra but it is not
called siddha yoga.
The 84 Siddha-s have bequeathed various lineages but Tilopa-s line of
direct awakening through Ganga Mahamudra is not this kind of
gradualist path. Descriptively it is closer to Dzogchen.
The
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Ravi Yogi
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:04 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Notice of Infringement
On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
If you know the answer to the question in the Subject
line, and were a fan, you owe it to yourself to add
this 2010 documentary to your Netflix queue. If you
don't have a clue, and missed the shooting star that
was Harry Nilsson, you may want
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
[...]
You really gotta wonder about the kind of person
whose mentality blocks all awareness of his own
behavior.
Jesus mentions it with the remark about noticing the speck of dust in someone
else's eye while somehow failing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:
New season for both. Gee, Syfy will be worth watching again ... for a
while.
There's always anime...
Adults in this country tend to judge anime by Pokemon and so miss out on a very
wide-range of well-written (and often
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote:
Drugs and the Meaning of Life
by Sam Harris
Harris never participates in his own blog commentary. I've been adding my own
TM-ish perspective to things for some time and others have contributed other
perspectives as well,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
That's it?
What a puny, anemic insult. You must be getting too old and
unimaginative to do better.
You attempt to defend Vag each time but lack the insight on
how to do so. You don't seem to understand the issues but,
Curtis should like this one. A former worker for the
Psychic Friends Network tells how she pulled off
being a psychic without ever really being one.
It was 2 a.m., and by the time I got off the phone with Judy,
I knew all about her dead husband, ungrateful children and the
grandkids she didn't
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