[FairfieldLife] Re: New book, gives an interesting perspective on Maharishi

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
I had it set to utf-8. It's now set to Western ISO as you suggest. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: From the source of the message here's what it was doing: =E2=80=9Choly-war=E2=80=9D. It's not just with your post but a few others but only when using

[FairfieldLife] Re: New book, gives an interesting perspective on Maharishi

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
LOL when I did that, my own text looked horrible. Sooo,,, its back to utf-8 as the default and I'll just run filter when I need to copy paste from safari to safari. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: I had it set to utf-8. It's now set to Western ISO as you

[FairfieldLife] Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.giveforyouth.org/microprojects/teach-meditation-to-40-formerly-incarcerated-youth/

[FairfieldLife] Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide

2013-03-28 Thread nablusoss1008
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/16674-focus-monsanto-and-the-seeds-of-suicide

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: http://www.giveforyouth.org/microprojects/teach-meditation-to-40-formerly-incarcerated-youth/ 40 at a cost of $10,000 = $250 per student. 2 other projects:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: I wonder if this is a matching funds project, or if this is a new pricing structure for the DLF... It seems to me that $250 per student is a reasonable cost for TM instruction by anyone's standards. Now I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: http://www.giveforyouth.org/microprojects/teach-meditation-to-40-formerly-incarcerated-youth/ 40 at a cost of $10,000 = $250 per student. 2 other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Very beautiful, navashok, thank you.  I love that part about renouncing the renunciation even.  I've never before heard of the Ribhu Gita.  Is it part of the Vedic literature? You could say so. It's part of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
Thing is, these organizations aren't secular and aren't working with established charities and the TM teacher needs a place to live other than an ashram. And as for the billions in assets... If that exists, it is in the form of land investments and while I know the TMO has made a few good

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Very beautiful, navashok, thank you.  I love that part about renouncing the renunciation even.  I've never before heard of the Ribhu Gita.  Is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: [...] Sahaja Yoga or Shri Mataji is not a very good example, because the lady is really weird and it's really a Hindu cult, BUT, it's free, and it works *very well* - at least for me. I took it, it's a kundalini raising

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@ wrote: [...] Sahaja Yoga or Shri Mataji is not a very good example, because the lady is really weird and it's really a Hindu cult, BUT, it's free, and it works

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Very beautiful, navashok, thank you.  I love that part about renouncing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@ wrote: [...] Sahaja Yoga or Shri Mataji is not a very good example, because the lady

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: The Second Amendment as an Expression of First Principles

2013-03-28 Thread WLeed3
From: impri...@hillsdaleconnect.org Reply-to: happeni...@hillsdale.edu To: wle...@aol.com Sent: 3/28/2013 10:19:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: The Second Amendment as an Expression of First Principles _Click here_

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
I have heard of the Shiva Puranas from a friend who loves to browse in used bookstores and find long lost copies of Vedic literature.  She has metioned the Shiva Puranas a few times.  I've been told that Shiva is my ishta devata and that feels right to me.  When Poonjaji read the Ribhu Gita

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
You get what you pay for. That is why most people have never heard of these two meditation programs - No one with any name recognition has found them to be successful, so rather than generating interest, or even controversy, these two marginal techniques are relegated to the backwaters of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Before Java

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
noozguru Happy 30th Anniversary of being a computer programer.  My memory takes me back even farther than that.  My then husband's best friend was a programmer and he often carried around a stack of computer cards, but I think they were called something else.  Anyway, they had square holes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Before Java

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
I think it was around 1987 that tech took off for me. I had a 8080 XT clone, with a 30 MB hard drive, and a 1200 baud modem. For work, I was troubleshooting the FTS (Federal Telephone System) and in my spare time, writing an HR program using Turbo Pascal, an early OOP with lousy extensibility.

[FairfieldLife] Paper is not dead

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
Speaking of the tech/daily life interface: http://vimeo.com/61275290

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
Hmmm, I think pure awareness is thrilled with thoughts or no thoughts or even semi thoughts because all it EVER experiences is itself, but from all these different angles, so never bored.  I'm thinking that the unmanifest cannot be concentrated upon because there it is, even in what is not

[FairfieldLife] US Sends B2 Bombers to South Korea

2013-03-28 Thread John
Obama shows the US military might to North Korea. What will Kim-Jong-Un do to up the ante? http://news.yahoo.com/us-sends-b-2s-south-korea-military-drills-121203496.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] There was Time Before the Big Bang But With No Space

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
hey John I very much enjoyed this.  Being a word person, was amazed to learn that the word time is the noun that occurs most frequently.  Also her point about atomic clocks off earth running slower helped me understand the role of gravity in relation to time. I wonder if there can be time if

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Sends B2 Bombers to South Korea

2013-03-28 Thread seekliberation
He (Kim Jong Un) will posture up against the US and the world vocally, and at worst will instigate a minor attack against S. Korea and call it an accident. North Korea only shows enough courage to impress their own imprisoned people of their power. It's no different than a drunk thug at a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Before Java

2013-03-28 Thread Bhairitu
The stacks of cards kept me from any interest when I was in college. And in 1978 it was a toss up between buying a computer or getting the TM-Sidhis. I still have the 50th anniversary issue of Radio-Electronics (Oct 1979 and only $1.25) which features many early personal computers and kits.

[FairfieldLife] Happy Holi

2013-03-28 Thread srijau
When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now, teacher alleges Girish Chandra Varma raped her for 15 years / Victim, Girish Chandra Varma with sexual harassment threatens to commit suicide

2013-03-28 Thread srijau
Yes her claim is seeming more and more ridiculous and implausible, you are on record here accepting them immediately and at face value though. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Now, teacher alleges Girish Chandra Varma raped her for 15 years Rageshri Ganguly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@ wrote: [...] Sahaja Yoga or Shri Mataji is not a very good example,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/28/2013 03:46 AM, navashok wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: There was Time Before the Big Bang But With No Space

2013-03-28 Thread John
Share, The physicist is making a bold statement there and she knows it. She's asking for a strong backlash when she said time existed even before the Big Bang. I can see the following questions coming up: Is Time the essence of God or vice-versa? Is there time in heaven or the unified

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Sends B2 Bombers to South Korea

2013-03-28 Thread John
IMO, Obama should send Dennis Rodman back to North Korea as an unofficial diplomat to ease the tensions. Rodman may be able to save the world from a nuclear war. It sounds funny but Rodman may have found himself a new gig for the time being. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@ wrote: [...] Sahaja Yoga or Shri Mataji is not a very good example, because the lady is really

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I think they're excuses, made by people who, if they were being honest, cannot find any way to justify to *themselves* the unconscionably high prices that the TMO charges for TM, but feel the need to make such

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Balm of Gilead, John Willison, 1742

2013-03-28 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yes! OMG! It's what I've been trying to tell you all. -Buck in the Dome Great Unified Field, attend while Zion sings The joy that from Thy presence springs;

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
Fortunately, the effects on PTSD of various forms of meditation are now being studied by independent researchers, so we may have a reasonably definitive answer about this within a few years or a decade or so. I'm expecting TM to come out on top but of course, I'm quite often wrong. L --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread sparaig
Well, vipassana is mindfulness meditation. There are 2 or 3 formal forms of mindfulness that are being tested quite thoroughly by the scientific community, and are currently extremely popular, partly because they are cheaper then TM and partly because an awful lot of scientists are apparently

Re: [FairfieldLife] Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide

2013-03-28 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/28/2013 01:29 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/16674-focus-monsanto-and-the-seeds-of-suicide Obama signed HR 993 which has a rider protecting Monsanto. Obama has now proved to be an enemy of the people. He's frequently called Bush III.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
Thanks L, this is quite clear and I enjoy your sense of humor.  Anyway, what about the old restful alertness.  You've said what indicates relaxation.  Is there an EEG indication for the alert part? I also appreciate this that you said in another post: Stress means a lot more in this context

[FairfieldLife] How Will the Supreme Court Decide on Gay Marriages?

2013-03-28 Thread John
It appears that Judge Kennedy is the key figure in deciding the legality of Gay Marriages. The court may decide that Proposition 8 should not have been heard in the Supreme Court. By doing so, the gay proponents would win by default since the California Court favored gay marriage for the

[FairfieldLife] Company Offers One Way Trip to Mars

2013-03-28 Thread John
Any takers here on FFL? http://gma.yahoo.com/company-offers-one-way-trip-mars-191306571--abc-news-topstories.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
I like mindemptiness, in general. Mindfulness is fine for everyday common sense activity, not meditation. Otherwise another technique for monks, who can sit around and think about what they think. Yeah, I like the cushioning effect of established silence. Lots of restfulness, along with lots

[FairfieldLife] Re: Company Offers One Way Trip to Mars

2013-03-28 Thread feste37
I'll sponsor MJ for a trip. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Any takers here on FFL? http://gma.yahoo.com/company-offers-one-way-trip-mars-191306571--abc-news-topstories.html

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 29-Mar-13 00:15:02 UTC

2013-03-28 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 03/23/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 03/30/13 00:00:00 587 messages as of (UTC) 03/28/13 23:57:49 39 Share Long 38 Buck 37 doctordumbass 35 Ann 32 seventhray27 31 curtisdeltablues 31 Ravi Chivukula 29 Bhairitu 28

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible for 'aware-ness' to be an object?

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I have heard of the Shiva Puranas from a friend who loves to browse in used bookstores and find long lost copies of Vedic literature.  She has metioned the Shiva Puranas a few times.  I've been told that Shiva is my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: You get what you pay for. If you are dumb enough to believe it - it's a salesman slogan, nothing more, definitely not true in the spiritual world, definitely not true in my own experience. That you believe this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: You get what you pay for. That is why most people have never heard of these two meditation programs - No one with any name recognition has found them to be successful, so rather than generating interest, or even

Re: [FairfieldLife] Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide

2013-03-28 Thread Share Long
why why why?  What hold does Monsanto have over these people?  The whole thing baffles me. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Monsanto and the Seeds of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
dude, you sound incoherent. I cannot figure out what you are trying to say. Did Vipassonthat suddenly become more popular because you didn't like what I said? Or was it the rather rude reminder of B's past behavior that was verbotten? Spell it out, please. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
Death by a thousand cuts. Starts out as a way to capitalize on this power over nature, GM food - take profit where they can get it. Once a company goes public (in quotes to reflect the relative few that own most stocks) the motive for making money is abstracted into the need for a corporation

Re: [FairfieldLife] Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide

2013-03-28 Thread Bhairitu
Money, money, money, money. The world is about money. Forget enlightenment, get rich instead. Worse yet there was a recount in to areas of the California GMO labeling proposition. Recount showed more in favor than the original count. But when they went to do a recount in a farm area of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Holi

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
Thank you! I read this to my wife, and we both began laughing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@... no_reply@... wrote: When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[FairfieldLife] Re: There was Time Before the Big Bang But With No Space

2013-03-28 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Share, The physicist is making a bold statement there and she knows it. She's asking for a strong backlash when she said time existed even before the Big Bang. I can see the following questions coming up: Is Time the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: You get what you pay for. If you are dumb enough to believe it - it's a salesman slogan, nothing more, definitely not true in the spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Re: There was Time Before the Big Bang But With No Space

2013-03-28 Thread doctordumbass
Seems like time and space form an inextricable matrix*, like a cross in 2D, time vertical, space horizontal, with an identity dot stuck somewhere at the center. If the identity dot on the matrix expands, we have a lot more access to all the time/space points in the matrix. So, although time

[FairfieldLife] Re: Teach meditation to 40 formerly incarcerated youth

2013-03-28 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: You get what you pay for. That is why most people have never heard of these two meditation programs - No one with any name recognition has found

[FairfieldLife] For All You Baby Lovers

2013-03-28 Thread Ann
[Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden Primate Team Leader Ron Evans works with two-month-old Gladys, a Western Lowland Gorilla, who was born to a mother who showed little maternal instinct. Humans have stepped in as caregivers and say the animal is thriving. ] Little female is being fostered by zoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: There was Time Before the Big Bang But With No Space

2013-03-28 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Share, The physicist is making a bold statement there and she knows it. She's asking for a strong backlash when she said time existed even before the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Company Offers One Way Trip to Mars

2013-03-28 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Right he does need it, MJ apparently has saved so many anti-TM messages in his drafts folder over the last week and half that he is totally stressed out deciding which and how many to post. Not to mention drafts of drafts and drafts of drafts of drafts - he is totally confused as to which is a