[FairfieldLife] Re: Please snip your posts when possible

2012-07-26 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: The message you requested is temporarily unavailable because this group has exceeded its download limit. http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=contenty=PROD_GRPSlocale=en_USid=SLN4059impressions=true I have been getting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Please snip your posts when possible

2012-07-26 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: Agree snip and writing the answer in a different font(color) helps snip http://www.murraymoffatt.com/software-problem-0011.html Merudanda, if you use the html yahoo editor, for coloring your font, don't forget to make the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Please snip your posts when possible

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: Agree snip and writing the answer in a different font(color) helps snip http://www.murraymoffatt.com/software-problem-0011.html Merudanda, if you use the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantrum Yoga

2012-07-26 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: By the way, did your check from the Dalai Lama this week include a bonus for having taunted a certain TB into posting out? Mine did. Gotta do that more often, the economy being what it is. Well, I got only the half amount

[FairfieldLife] Re: Please snip your posts when possible

2012-07-26 Thread merudanda
Ah [#-o] thanks a lot using a MSword or TinyUrl are quite time consuming you on the move and still always a helping hand [:x] me in the mud trying/typing with dirty finger---mhh let's see http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_USpage=contenty=PROD_GRPSid=\ SLN2253impressions=true

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread iranitea
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: Oh dear, for the last 39 years I've been doing TM improperly. The horror. Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't know anymore, all your previous knowledge has been evaporated. There is a very

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread iranitea
Xeno, very beautiful analysis, just what I was thinking about, but expressed more elegantly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: I think this argument here may be because we have assigned a term to a particular experience and view that as an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantrum Yoga

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: By the way, did your check from the Dalai Lama this week include a bonus for having taunted a certain TB into posting out? Mine did. Gotta do that more

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Share Long
Hi Ann and Buck, I'm baffled by  all this.  I was totally out of the Dome for 7 years, 2003 to 2010.  During that time I openly participated in lots of stuff in FF, including Waking Down in Mutuality for about 3 years.  But I had no trouble getting back into the Dome.  No interrogation room,

[FairfieldLife] Romney is no horseman, nowhere near.

2012-07-26 Thread Buck
It explains a lot. Romney's a damn tin-horn back peddling from his horse. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/a-horse-at-the-olympics-but-romney-will-be-nowhere-near/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney is no horseman, nowhere near.

2012-07-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: It explains a lot. Romney's a damn tin-horn back peddling from his horse. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/a-horse-at-the-olympics-but-romney-will-be-nowhere-near/ All thru history great leaders have been great horsemen.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread feste37
I wondered how long it would be before the Nazis got dragged into it. Just one stop after the Stasi, it seems. The TM movement owns the domes and pays for them. The dome badge is free. The movement therefore makes the rules, and it can make them any way it chooses. Those who don't like it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney is no horseman, nowhere near.

2012-07-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: It explains a lot. Romney's a damn tin-horn back peddling from his horse. Old Abe Lincoln was an incredible horseman. Romney obviously is not from that part of the Republican party. He's no leader to follow.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev and Remote Viewing

2012-07-26 Thread merudanda
Really? excellent dig.Hope Uncle Tantra is not around [:D] Isn't the world so small , melodramatic, entertaining ---and beautiful -- thanks to You nooz' Bhairitu OTOH we may ask our self and contemplate the defense-snake-fence against the offense-horse-sense of misusing academic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev and Remote Viewing

2012-07-26 Thread merudanda
Really? excellent dig.Hope Uncle Tantra is not around [:D] Isn't the world so small , melodramatic, entertaining ---and beautiful -- thanks to You nooz' Bhairitu OTOH we may ask our self and contemplate the defense-snake-fence against the offense-horse-sense of misusing academic

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Oh dear, for the last 39 years I've been doing TM improperly. The horror. Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't know

[FairfieldLife] Re: Please snip your posts when possible

2012-07-26 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: The message you requested is temporarily unavailable because this group has exceeded its download limit.

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Oh dear, for the last 39 years I've been doing TM improperly. The horror. Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't know anymore, all

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: I wondered how long it would be before the Nazis got dragged into it. Just one stop after the Stasi, it seems. I'm not sure about the Nazis getting dragged into it. Seems more like the dome police are emulating all sorts

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread sparaig
Determining whether or not the mantra is subtle isn't part of TM practice. Nor does it matter that it doesn't matter. If you're doing TM, then you follow the instructions, if you don't follow the instructions, such as they are, then you're not doing TM. Of course, follow the instructions can

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I wondered how long it would be before the Nazis got dragged into it. Just one stop after the Stasi, it seems. I'm not sure about the

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: The TM movement owns the domes and pays for them. The dome badge is free. The movement therefore makes the rules, and it can make them any way it chooses. Those who don't like it don't have to go. It's really very simple.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal love is concentrated universal love MMY

2012-07-26 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Feste, I realize this issue has been discussed in greater detail since you wrote this; however I would just like to give you my impressions as they formed inside of me when first reading your post. We have to think of James Holmes, himself: If there is a conscience there, if he is

[FairfieldLife] yahooooooooooooooooooooooo!

2012-07-26 Thread Share Long
Heard in shoe room of women's Dome this morning: it got up to 110F 43C yesterday! This morning it was 72F 22C! Plus it rained!  And continues to be cloudy. Ok, I don't give a fickity fick who gets the credit.  This pitta person is just happy.  And more comfy.  Hope our sun went to mount

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Robin Carlsen
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Hi Ann and Buck, I'm baffled by  all this.  I was totally out of the Dome for 7 years, 2003 to 2010.  During that time I openly participated in lots of stuff in FF, including Waking Down in Mutuality for about

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Share, I should just say that in the case of myself I thought I was *completing Maharishi's Teaching*, that my enlightenment produced a context for individual metaphysical drama which had not been anticipated before I went up on that mountain in September 1976—But for all that, *was an

[FairfieldLife] Ne Crop Circle

2012-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.journeyswithsoul.com/cropcircles.html Oliver's Castle, nr Devizes, Wiltshire. Reported 26th July Map Ref: SU007647 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=400738Y=164797A=YZ=115 This Page has been accessed [Hit Counter] Updated Thursday 26th July 2012 AERIAL SHOTS

[FairfieldLife] New Crop Circle;Hill Barn, nr East Kennett, Wiltshire. Reported 26th July

2012-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.journeyswithsoul.com/cropcircles.html Hill Barn, nr East Kennett, Wiltshire. Reported 26th July. Map Ref: SU130666 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=413063Y=166615A=YZ=115 This Page has been accessed [Hit Counter] Updated Thursday 26th July 2012 AERIAL SHOTS

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I wondered how long it would be before the Nazis got dragged into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Romney is no horseman, nowhere near.

2012-07-26 Thread Mike Dixon
Wow! Class envy from a *yogi*. Dipping that cloth in yellow die doen't do any good if you follow up with a dip in clorox bleach. From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:41 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantrum Yoga

2012-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: By the way, did your check from the Dalai Lama this week include a bonus for having taunted a certain TB into posting out? Mine did. Gotta do that more

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread feste37
I have no intention of debating you further on this. What I like in your post is the sentence I will admit I know very little of all of this. Exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Please snip your posts when possible

2012-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/25/2012 08:40 PM, raunchydog wrote: I've been busy, not much time to post so I take a quick peek at messages on my browser. Lately I've seen this pop up a few times: The message you requested is temporarily unavailable because this group has exceeded its download limit.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: The TM movement owns the domes and pays for them. The dome badge is free. The movement therefore makes the rules, and it can make them any way it chooses. Those who don't like it don't have to go. It's really very

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: I have been practicing TM for a long time, and I do think this 'don't know' mind has come about. A long long time ago I learned mindfulness, and found at that time it was rather difficult, or perhaps

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread feste37
Had you read the exchange a little more carefully, you would have seen that it was another poster who made the comparison to the Nazis. I merely commented on it. As to the questions you ask, I think that organizations should comply with the law, but I am unaware of any law that the TM movement

[FairfieldLife] TM newsletter from India

2012-07-26 Thread sparaig
http://www.e-gyan.net/ the current issue starts out in HIndu-Urdi, then continues in English. The archived newsletters seem to also be a mixture of the two languages. I didn't see anything that leapt out as especially interesting, but the fact that it is what TMers in India (the subscribers

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: I have no intention of debating you further on this. What I like in your post is the sentence I will admit I know very little of all of this. Exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself. No debates, you obviously love it

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread feste37
Actually, I live within my own rules, which are not those of the TM movement. I do not go to the dome and do not have a valid badge, although I have no reason to believe I would be denied one, should I decide to apply. I just happen to think that the movement is entitled to set its own policies

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread awoelflebater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Actually, I live within my own rules, which are not those of the TM movement. I do not go to the dome and do not have a valid badge, although I have no reason to believe I would be denied one, should I decide to apply. I just

[FairfieldLife] Ramblings around Leiden

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
I'm still clearly in the honeymoon period w.r.t. my new town. I just love it. Sometimes it's the Little Things. Like how the primary mode of transportation is the bicycle. You are actually penalized to some extent for living in the Centrum of Leiden and having a car. To park it, you have to get

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Mike Dixon
OMG! You sound Libertarian!   From: feste37 fest...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices   Actually, I live within my own rules,

[FairfieldLife] Ride, Sally Ride

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
I've seen few people in recent years go out with as much style as Sally Ride, America's first woman in space. This is a very sweet article. Chick-Fil-A, go fuck yourselves. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, comes out in obituaryOn Monday, Sally Ride, 61, died of pancreatic cancer. In an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ride, Sally Ride

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
The more I think about this, the funner it gets, and the more respect for her I have. One now gets to wonder whether NASA knew she was gay when they sent her off as the first woman in space, and whether this figured into their plans: The Guys: So. Here we are in space. Sally Ride: Whoa. You said

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ramblings around Leiden

2012-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/26/2012 12:41 PM, turquoiseb wrote: I'm still clearly in the honeymoon period w.r.t. my new town. I just love it. Sometimes it's the Little Things. Like how the primary mode of transportation is the bicycle. You are actually penalized to some extent for living in the Centrum of Leiden

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Share Long
Though it seems so, I'm not sure it's as simple as all that.  Yes, of course the movement can make rules in any way it wants.  But perhaps when an organization is teaching a technique for becoming fully developed, one expects a lot of that organization.  Such as to be well, at least more

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: Determining whether or not the mantra is subtle isn't part of TM practice. Nor does it matter that it doesn't matter. If you're doing TM, then you follow the instructions, if you don't follow the instructions, such as they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramblings around Leiden

2012-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I'm still clearly in the honeymoon period w.r.t. my new town. I just love it. Sometimes it's the Little Things. Like how the primary mode of transportation is the bicycle. You are actually penalized to some extent for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramblings around Leiden

2012-07-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 07/26/2012 12:41 PM, turquoiseb wrote: I'm still clearly in the honeymoon period w.r.t. my new town. I just love it. Sometimes it's the Little Things. Like how the primary mode of transportation is the bicycle. You

[FairfieldLife] Re: Romney is no horseman, nowhere near.

2012-07-26 Thread awoelflebater
Romney pays for expensive horses, that is it. He is so not a horseman that he won't even be bothered to watch his Olympic sponsored horse compete in London in the dressage discipline. If he actually realized how long it takes to train a horse to Grand Prix and how slim the chances were to get a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramblings around Leiden

2012-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/26/2012 02:07 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I'm still clearly in the honeymoon period w.r.t. my new town. I just love it. Sometimes it's the Little Things. Like how the primary mode of transportation is the bicycle. You

[FairfieldLife] Car Surfing Pelican

2012-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
Well I haven't had it plant itself on the top of my SUV but this driver had a time trying to get it to leave the top of his car. This is the parking lot of the Waterfront Park that I walk at frequently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=5SHsXwvtLVY

[FairfieldLife] Speaking of Horsemen (and great horses)

2012-07-26 Thread awoelflebater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNid10_Bku0

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of Horsemen (and great horses)

2012-07-26 Thread raunchydog
Magnificent! Poetry in motion. Thanks for posting, Ann. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNid10_Bku0

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2012-07-26 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 21 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Jul 28 00:00:00 2012 441 messages as of (UTC) Fri Jul 27 00:13:01 2012 43 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 41 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 37 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Share Long
Dear Robin, Gosh, you don't have to explain yourself at all to me.  I believe what you say and I'm content to engage with you as you are now.  I wasn't at MIU when you were there.  Of course I heard a few stories.  And I've read some of the emails here.  Also my last X is a Canadian gov.  What

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Hi Ann and Buck, I'm baffled by  all this.  I was totally out of the Dome for 7 years, 2003 to 2010.  During that time I openly participated in lots of stuff in FF, including Waking Down in Mutuality for about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can TM Save Medicare from bankruptcy?

2012-07-26 Thread Share Long
Yes, when people decrease calories the primitive brains starts screaming, Famine, famine and holds onto fat.  After 1 week of a no carb diet, I saw such a dramatic improvement in my body that I was easily motivated to continue.  That was almost 4 years ago.   My latest wonderful discovery is

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hi Ann and Buck, I'm baffled by  all this.  I was totally out of the Dome for 7 years, 2003 to 2010.  During that time I openly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can TM Save Medicare from bankruptcy?

2012-07-26 Thread feste37
I hope you get the avocados at Walmart. Much cheaper than either Hy-Vee or Everybody's. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Yes, when people decrease calories the primitive brains starts screaming, Famine, famine and holds onto fat.  After 1 week of a no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can TM Save Medicare from bankruptcy?

2012-07-26 Thread Share Long
Thank you for info.  But what about that southern entrance (-: From: feste37 fest...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can TM Save Medicare from bankruptcy?   I hope you get the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of Horsemen (and great horses)

2012-07-26 Thread Mike Dixon
I've heard they have to use geldings in this competition. No horse with any balls would be caught dead prancing around like that. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:02 PM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Hopefully guidelines facilitate what you are doing and don't get in the way of what you are doing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Whittling the Dome guidelines Those parts in the Dome

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can TM Save Medicare from bankruptcy?

2012-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
I have been giving a friend free lemons from my lemon tree for years and he has an avocado tree. I have yet to see one avocado from his tree. On 07/26/2012 06:13 PM, feste37 wrote: I hope you get the avocados at Walmart. Much cheaper than either Hy-Vee or Everybody's. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of Horsemen (and great horses)

2012-07-26 Thread merudanda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DPh9zvSb4feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DPh9zvSb4feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYThblo74hgfeature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYThblo74hgfeature=relmfu That's the way i like it:..

[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of Horsemen (and great horses)

2012-07-26 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Beautiful.  Thank you.  I also can't believe Romney isn't there supporting his wife in the sport she loves.   Romney has a tin ear. He's a robot sticking to poll driven talking points, lower taxes for the rich

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-26 Thread Robin Carlsen
Dear Share, I think I was unclear in making my intent known to you in writing that second letter to you. I chose to address you, because of the receptivity and positivity that is part of your spiritual approach to persons and reality. But I was simply taking the opportunity—this had nothing to