[FairfieldLife] Re: RE: RE: Pope Francis technique
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: There is the problem again. Better get on the stick and price TM so regular people can afford to try it. TM is going to get left deep in the dust if they don't get going really soon... Doug, with all due respect, that happened (TM being left in the dust) decades ago. The *only* people on earth who don't understand this are the TM dinosaurs who are still so convinced of their own superiority that they still believe they're part of something viable.
[FairfieldLife] ghee rulez OK!
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[FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
BTW, Buck, before you go off on one of your Fascist Gotta silence these neganauts on FFL rants, I am *not* saying that the world would not benefit if more people learned to meditate. I'm saying that I don't think that TM has a snowball's chance in hell of being the form of meditation they learn. It just drags along with it too much baggage at this point, caused by the crass commercialism, the fake (or, at best, self-serving and exaggerated) research that's been used to sell it, the haughty and superior attitude of those teaching it, the incredibly bad taste left in everyone's mouth by it being so hideously overpriced for so long, the add-on- baggage of Ayurveda, S-V, yagyas, pundits and the (in the eyes of most people in the world) laughable sidhis. Then there's the all-important hipness factor. TM is about as hip as 45rpm records. Ask around at any gathering of people interested in meditation, and see what they think of TM and TMers. Price too high? You couldn't *pay* many people enough to entice them to learn TM, it has such a reputation for being low-rent and uncool. What is needed is a non-religious (TM is anything but), secular practice with no Hindu trappings and no allegiances to any long-standing Eastern religious culture, taught for free or for a maximum of $25, in one weekend, and with no attempt to rope people who learn it into any kind of organization or into taking any kind of advanced add-on courses. That can -- and will -- never happen with TM. In the spiritual marketplace of the future, it's deader than Maharishi. Just my opinion... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: There is the problem again. Better get on the stick and price TM so regular people can afford to try it. TM is going to get left deep in the dust if they don't get going really soon... Doug, with all due respect, that happened (TM being left in the dust) decades ago. The *only* people on earth who don't understand this are the TM dinosaurs who are still so convinced of their own superiority that they still believe they're part of something viable.
[FairfieldLife] Yellen#39;s Western!
Yikes, Yellen's Western rx-chart has Pluto loosely(?) conjunct with both Saturn and Sun in Leo!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: RE: Pope Francis technique
Amen! On Mon, 10/14/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: RE: Pope Francis technique To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 8:41 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: There is the problem again. Better get on the stick and price TM so regular people can afford to try it. TM is going to get left deep in the dust if they don't get going really soon... Doug, with all due respect, that happened (TM being left in the dust) decades ago. The *only* people on earth who don't understand this are the TM dinosaurs who are still so convinced of their own superiority that they still believe they're part of something viable.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
I absolutely agree with what you are saying. In addition to the factors you mention, there is also the track record the Movement has created both amongst the long time practitioners of TM and the general public. One learns, if one does TM for any length of time and associates with the people who run the Movement and the Movement facilities, one will get screwed - the leaders and managers of the Movement just do not behave very well at all, certainly not like people who have mastered friendliness, happiness and compassion. The Movement has also demonstrated many, many times its unwillingness to work on common projects such as ayurveda with others who are not part of the Movement unless everyone gets on board with TM and the Movement gets to run the agenda - in other words for this example, the other folks like Vasant Lads people would cease to practice ayurveda and begin to promote Marshy Ayurveda. But I suppose that is included in their general arrogance and uncaring attitude toward what anyone else needs or wants. And lastly the Movement has demonstrated time and time again it cannot be trusted and its methods of attempting to work with people and organizations outside the Movement typically runs along the lines of the other organization or people put up all the money, take all the financial risk, the Movement gets at least half the profits and all the praise and even then it is typical of the Movement to bail out on a project when its incomplete, leaving everyone else holding the bag. For these and the reasons Barry stated the TM deal will never catch on in public awareness ever again no matter how many celebrities David Lynch parades across the television screen stumping for TM. Those like David who wish with all their hearts the general public would embrace TM and esp. TMSP should take the advice I gave a long time ago - break completely away form the Movement , distance yourself from Marshy and start fresh. Teach people without all the baggage - that MIGHT work, maybe. On Mon, 10/14/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 10:26 AM BTW, Buck, before you go off on one of your Fascist Gotta silence these neganauts on FFL rants, I am *not* saying that the world would not benefit if more people learned to meditate. I'm saying that I don't think that TM has a snowball's chance in hell of being the form of meditation they learn. It just drags along with it too much baggage at this point, caused by the crass commercialism, the fake (or, at best, self-serving and exaggerated) research that's been used to sell it, the haughty and superior attitude of those teaching it, the incredibly bad taste left in everyone's mouth by it being so hideously overpriced for so long, the add-on- baggage of Ayurveda, S-V, yagyas, pundits and the (in the eyes of most people in the world) laughable sidhis. Then there's the all-important hipness factor. TM is about as hip as 45rpm records. Ask around at any gathering of people interested in meditation, and see what they think of TM and TMers. Price too high? You couldn't *pay* many people enough to entice them to learn TM, it has such a reputation for being low-rent and uncool. What is needed is a non-religious (TM is anything but), secular practice with no Hindu trappings and no allegiances to any long-standing Eastern religious culture, taught for free or for a maximum of $25, in one weekend, and with no attempt to rope people who learn it into any kind of organization or into taking any kind of advanced add-on courses. That can -- and will -- never happen with TM. In the spiritual marketplace of the future, it's deader than Maharishi. Just my opinion... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: There is the problem again. Better get on the stick and price TM so regular people can afford to try it. TM is going to get left deep in the dust if they don't get going really soon... Doug, with all due respect, that happened (TM being left in the dust) decades ago. The *only* people on earth who don't understand this are the TM dinosaurs who are still so convinced of their own superiority that they still believe they're part of something viable.
[FairfieldLife] Google Chromebook
Everyone knows that you can't have two people at the same time edit a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet online with multiple data entry technicians. In fact, doing anything online with Microsoft Office is not nearly as easy as using Google Docs. Most of us are already are comfortable using online tools like Yahoo and Facebook. So, if you need a device that works on the cloud then, the Google Chromebook may be for you. All you have to do is log in using the Chrome browser and get to work. Amazon review: Google Docs allows individuals to use their on-line document, spreadsheet and presentation software free of charge and, even better, you can collaborate with up to 50 people on the same document, practically in real-time. Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi, 11.6-Inch)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!
Obanmcare was supposed to be Obama's signature legislation. He had plenty of time to get this right, but it's obvious Obama knows nothing about running a business or coding a program. He got Obamacare passed in the middle of the night, before anyone had even read it - not a single Repub voted for Obamacare. What's up with that? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Bhairitu, about the good idea of a maximum wage, I'd like to also suggest that for actors. I would also include athletes but their shelf life is shorter and they are much more susceptible to injuries. What will it take to bring the economy more into balance? On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email. BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan is a prepay too (no contract). The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote for the Chromecast. I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW). Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too. On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny - the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his phone as he goes. LoL! The big problem is that the rent's too damn high! The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got UnitedHealth Care as a supplement. 'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare' News8: http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These days it costs forty bucks just to take a date out for a drink and dinner at Sam's Burger Joint! Go figure. Now, the medical insurance bill is going up? Not to mention fixing the price - so that younger people pay more to keep the premiums down for the older folks. If we had a single payer system for medical care, the federal government would pay all medical expenses for everyone. So, how much would the rent go up with a government paid health care system? Go figure. If I am elected, I promise a job for everyone so they can make a decent living wage and pay their own medical insurance bills. That's my ticket - to create jobs to make money and lower medical care expenses. The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don't make a lot of money--and many young people don't--writing that premium check is painful if not prohibitive. 'The Young and the Clueless' Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/articlehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303796404579097192784900688.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion On 10/10/2013 7:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: It looks like New York and New Jersey have some of the highest taxes in the U.S. And, the rent is too damn high! ...six of the top 10 states with the best business climate are western states, bolstered at least in part by new revenues from energy production that allows them to reduce other types of taxes. 'Western U.S. best for business, Tax Foundation says' http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/09/western-u-s-best-for-business-tax-foundation-says/ On 10/4/2013 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: So, when I returned the two cable boxes to Time-Warner and to terminate the HD and DVR service, I asked them how much would it cost just to have basic cable. The guy said they would have to send out a technician to put a 'trap' on the line to filter out the other channels, so I told them to close the account. It's Friday and the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!
Whine, whine, whine. I wish that damn US health care package would hurry up and get up and running 'cause then maybe we won't have to listen to all the fear mongering and complaining. Maybe if you stop calling it Obamacare you will start opening your mind a little and becoming more objective. So many who are against it are not fans of Obama so they label the health plan Obama such and such. Next it'll be Obamawar, Obamacrime, Obamapollution ... On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:43:15 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Obanmcare was supposed to be Obama's signature legislation. He had plenty of time to get this right, but it's obvious Obama knows nothing about running a business or coding a program. He got Obamacare passed in the middle of the night, before anyone had even read it - not a single Repub voted for Obamacare. What's up with that? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Bhairitu, about the good idea of a maximum wage, I'd like to also suggest that for actors. I would also include athletes but their shelf life is shorter and they are much more susceptible to injuries. What will it take to bring the economy more into balance? On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email. BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan is a prepay too (no contract). The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote for the Chromecast. I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW). Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too. On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny - the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his phone as he goes. LoL! The big problem is that the rent's too damn high! The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got UnitedHealth Care as a supplement. 'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare' News8: http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These days it costs forty bucks just to take a date out for a drink and dinner at Sam's Burger Joint! Go figure. Now, the medical insurance bill is going up? Not to mention fixing the price - so that younger people pay more to keep the premiums down for the older folks. If we had a single payer system for medical care, the federal government would pay all medical expenses for everyone. So, how much would the rent go up with a government paid health care system? Go figure. If I am elected, I promise a job for everyone so they can make a decent living wage and pay their own medical insurance bills. That's my ticket - to create jobs to make money and lower medical care expenses. The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don't make a lot of money--and many young people don't--writing that premium check is painful if not prohibitive. 'The Young and the Clueless' Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article On 10/10/2013 7:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: It looks like New York and New Jersey have some of the highest taxes in the U.S. And, the rent is too damn high! ...six of the top 10 states with the best business climate are
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Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High! [1 Attachment]
Analysis of the President's Budget from the Congressional Budget Office.
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
“Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970’s by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.” http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!
I was out in the sun a lot last summer, and began to get Obama-skin. Scary. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Whine, whine, whine. I wish that damn US health care package would hurry up and get up and running 'cause then maybe we won't have to listen to all the fear mongering and complaining. Maybe if you stop calling it Obamacare you will start opening your mind a little and becoming more objective. So many who are against it are not fans of Obama so they label the health plan Obama such and such. Next it'll be Obamawar, Obamacrime, Obamapollution ... On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:43:15 AM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: Obanmcare was supposed to be Obama's signature legislation. He had plenty of time to get this right, but it's obvious Obama knows nothing about running a business or coding a program. He got Obamacare passed in the middle of the night, before anyone had even read it - not a single Repub voted for Obamacare. What's up with that? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: Bhairitu, about the good idea of a maximum wage, I'd like to also suggest that for actors. I would also include athletes but their shelf life is shorter and they are much more susceptible to injuries. What will it take to bring the economy more into balance? On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email. BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan is a prepay too (no contract). The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote for the Chromecast. I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW). Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too. On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny - the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his phone as he goes. LoL! The big problem is that the rent's too damn high! The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got UnitedHealth Care as a supplement. 'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare' News8: http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These days it costs forty bucks just to take a date out for a drink and dinner at Sam's Burger Joint! Go figure. Now, the medical insurance bill is going up? Not to mention fixing the price - so that younger people pay more to keep the premiums down for the older folks. If we had a single payer system for medical care, the federal government would pay all medical expenses for everyone. So, how much would the rent go up with a government paid health care system? Go figure. If I am elected, I promise a job for everyone so they can make a decent living wage and pay their own medical insurance bills. That's my ticket - to create jobs to make money and lower medical care expenses. The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don't make a lot of money--and many young people don't--writing that premium check is painful if not prohibitive. 'The Young and the Clueless' Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303796404579097192784900688.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion On 10/10/2013 7:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: It looks like New York and New Jersey have some of the highest taxes in the U.S. And, the rent is too damn high! ...six of the
[FairfieldLife] Speed of light vs. speed of traffic
It sometimes takes hours for my posts to show up on FFL, after I have sent them - No big deal, though, ironically, Yahoo HQ is only about three miles away from my house. I have thought of driving down there one day, when the post lagging is particularly bad, and hand them a thumb drive with my posts on it, so they can directly enter them into their servers.:-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970's by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
So, it's all about Willytex. Go figure. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:46 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer *[from Transcendental Meditation]* in the 1970's by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.comwrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Speed of light vs. speed of traffic
A few posts are trickling in really late via email. Barry's post to me from early yesterday morning didn't show up in my email feed until some time last night. The only reason I saw the thread yesterday is because Bhairitu's response showed up right away. If you really want to stay up to date on FFL, you need to use the website, but the website still absolutely sucks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: It sometimes takes hours for my posts to show up on FFL, after I have sent them - No big deal, though, ironically, Yahoo HQ is only about three miles away from my house. I have thought of driving down there one day, when the post lagging is particularly bad, and hand them a thumb drive with my posts on it, so they can directly enter them into their servers.:-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: Those of you in the US about to celebrate Columbus Day...
Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position. 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus' by Samuel Eliot Morison Posted by Glenn Reynolds: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71@... wrote: Whoa, really a different version of things. I guess most of our history books need rewriting - probably all over the world, given how we humans like nice stories. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ...read this excellently-researched strip by The Oatmeal first. Even when it starts getting a little too depressing for you, finding out who Christopher Columbus *really* was and what he did, keep reading to the end. Because then you'll want to change the name of the Federal holiday to Bartolomé Day, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I was out in the sun a lot last summer, and began to get Obama-skin. Scary. A raisin in the sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Whine, whine, whine. I wish that damn US health care package would hurry up and get up and running 'cause then maybe we won't have to listen to all the fear mongering and complaining. Maybe if you stop calling it Obamacare you will start opening your mind a little and becoming more objective. So many who are against it are not fans of Obama so they label the health plan Obama such and such. Next it'll be Obamawar, Obamacrime, Obamapollution ... On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:43:15 AM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: Obanmcare was supposed to be Obama's signature legislation. He had plenty of time to get this right, but it's obvious Obama knows nothing about running a business or coding a program. He got Obamacare passed in the middle of the night, before anyone had even read it - not a single Repub voted for Obamacare. What's up with that? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: Bhairitu, about the good idea of a maximum wage, I'd like to also suggest that for actors. I would also include athletes but their shelf life is shorter and they are much more susceptible to injuries. What will it take to bring the economy more into balance? On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email. BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan is a prepay too (no contract). The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote for the Chromecast. I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW). Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too. On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny - the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his phone as he goes. LoL! The big problem is that the rent's too damn high! The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got UnitedHealth Care as a supplement. 'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare' News8: http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These days it costs forty bucks just to take a date out for a drink and dinner at Sam's Burger Joint! Go figure. Now, the medical insurance bill is going up? Not to mention fixing the price - so that younger people pay more to keep the premiums down for the older folks. If we had a single payer system for medical care, the federal government would pay all medical expenses for everyone. So, how much would the rent go up with a government paid health care system? Go figure. If I am elected, I promise a job for everyone so they can make a decent living wage and pay their own medical insurance bills. That's my ticket - to create jobs to make money and lower medical care expenses. The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don't make a lot of money--and many young people don't--writing that premium check is painful if not prohibitive. 'The Young and the Clueless' Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303796404579097192784900688.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion On 10/10/2013 7:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: It looks like New
[FairfieldLife] How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
can you ask them to compare and contrast the two and get back to us? On Mon, 10/14/13, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 3:36 PM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace. Many of my closest six or seven friends moved to Colorado and spent vast amounts of time around Father Thomas Keating in the Benedictine monastery in Snowmass. It is an extraordinary place and Thomas Keating is equally as special. These were my friends 'recovering' from their time around WTS and the trauma they experienced in the last few months in Victoria especially. These are also people who, I believe, reject TM absolutely and yet adopted and practiced and embraced centering prayer. They would probably have an interesting perspective on the differences or similarities of the two practices since most of them did TM for many years and more currently have been practicing centering prayer for probably even more years (25 or more).
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
and WTS refers to? On Mon, 10/14/13, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 3:36 PM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace. Many of my closest six or seven friends moved to Colorado and spent vast amounts of time around Father Thomas Keating in the Benedictine monastery in Snowmass. It is an extraordinary place and Thomas Keating is equally as special. These were my friends 'recovering' from their time around WTS and the trauma they experienced in the last few months in Victoria especially. These are also people who, I believe, reject TM absolutely and yet adopted and practiced and embraced centering prayer. They would probably have an interesting perspective on the differences or similarities of the two practices since most of them did TM for many years and more currently have been practicing centering prayer for probably even more years (25 or more).
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Speed of light vs. speed of traffic
Worst thing with Thunderbird these days is they seem to have broken the realtime spellchecker. So if I sem msspling iz nt me bt dmn Thunderbird! On 10/14/2013 08:05 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: A few posts are trickling in really late via email. Barry's post to me from early yesterday morning didn't show up in my email feed until some time last night. The only reason I saw the thread yesterday is because Bhairitu's response showed up right away. If you really want to stay up to date on FFL, you need to use the website, but the website still absolutely sucks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: It sometimes takes hours for my posts to show up on FFL, after I have sent them - No big deal, though, ironically, Yahoo HQ is only about three miles away from my house. I have thought of driving down there one day, when the post lagging is particularly bad, and hand them a thumb drive with my posts on it, so they can directly enter them into their servers.:-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!
if the US Corporate masters decide they would gain benefit from owning the Canadian shale oil fields and all the fisheries and forests and we declare war on you and take over Canada can we call it Obamanada? On Mon, 10/14/13, Ann Woelfle Bater awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 2:00 PM Whine, whine, whine. I wish that damn US health care package would hurry up and get up and running 'cause then maybe we won't have to listen to all the fear mongering and complaining. Maybe if you stop calling it Obamacare you will start opening your mind a little and becoming more objective. So many who are against it are not fans of Obama so they label the health plan Obama such and such. Next it'll be Obamawar, Obamacrime, Obamapollution ... On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:43:15 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Obanmcare was supposed to be Obama's signature legislation. He had plenty of time to get this right, but it's obvious Obama knows nothing about running a business or coding a program. He got Obamacare passed in the middle of the night, before anyone had even read it - not a single Repub voted for Obamacare. What's up with that? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Bhairitu, about the good idea of a maximum wage, I'd like to also suggest that for actors. I would also include athletes but their shelf life is shorter and they are much more susceptible to injuries. What will it take to bring the economy more into balance? On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email. BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan is a prepay too (no contract). The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote for the Chromecast. I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW). Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too. On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny - the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his phone as he goes. LoL! The big problem is that the rent's too damn high! The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got UnitedHealth Care as a supplement. 'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare' News8: http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These days it costs forty bucks just
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970's by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
You mean the biter was bit? The pot got called black by the kettle? The crooks were hoist on their own petard? Caught in a cleft stick of their own cutting? The rip off artists got ripped off? Karma came home to roost? On Mon, 10/14/13, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 4:24 PM Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970's by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970's by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures),The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. It was distilled into a simple method of prayer [from Transcendental Meditation] in the 1970's by three Trappist monks - Fr. William Meninger, Fr. Basil Pennington and Abbot Thomas Keating at the Trappist St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html http://www.pghcenteringprayer.org/Page_2.html I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Centering Prayer description and instructions. This seems to pretty much cover the TM and mindfulness marketplace.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
Buck wrote: Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome I'll confirm that the assumption among TMers that these three clerics' version of Centering Prayer was based on TM was current back in the late 1970s. It isn't something Buck made up. Photocopies of the chapter entitled TM and Centering Prayer from Pennington's 1977 book Daily We Touch Him were routinely passed around among TMers. Moreover, if Barry had any curiosity at all, or any desire to get his facts straight, he would have checked out the PDF that Xeno uploaded. It would be extremely difficult for anyone familiar with TM instruction to read those two pages on how to do Centering Prayer and claim that it had nothing to do with TM. It's obvious that the clerics did indeed rip off the instructions for TM, just as Buck says above. The mechanics of the techniques are virtually identical. The only two significant differences are (1) that TM uses a teacher-assigned Sanskrit mantra, whereas Centering Prayer uses a self-chosen sacred word from the Christian tradition; and (2) that the explicit context of Centering Prayer is Christian, whereas TM's is either secular, religious/nondenominational, or Hindu, depending on one's approach. --The Corrector Barry wrote: (snip) I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
More likely to invite me over to smoke some of the pot he's planning to raise. On 10/14/2013 09:32 AM, Share Long wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com mailto:jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
And that's the truth. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote: Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome I'll confirm that the assumption among TMers that these three clerics' version of Centering Prayer was based on TM was current back in the late 1970s. It isn't something Buck made up. Photocopies of the chapter entitled TM and Centering Prayer from Pennington's 1977 book Daily We Touch Him were routinely passed around among TMers. Moreover, if Barry had any curiosity at all, or any desire to get his facts straight, he would have checked out the PDF that Xeno uploaded. It would be extremely difficult for anyone familiar with TM instruction to read those two pages on how to do Centering Prayer and claim that it had nothing to do with TM. It's obvious that the clerics did indeed rip off the instructions for TM, just as Buck says above. The mechanics of the techniques are virtually identical. The only two significant differences are (1) that TM uses a teacher-assigned Sanskrit mantra, whereas Centering Prayer uses a self-chosen sacred word from the Christian tradition; and (2) that the explicit context of Centering Prayer is Christian, whereas TM's is either secular, religious/nondenominational, or Hindu, depending on one's approach. --The Corrector Barry wrote: (snip) I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact.
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
Minor correction. I wrote: Photocopies of the chapter entitled TM and Centering Prayer from Pennington's 1977 book Daily We Touch Him were routinely passed around among TMers. The chapter title was TM and Christian Prayer, but it was about Centering Prayer specifically. BTW, Centering Prayer, even as taught by Catholic monks and priests, tends to be viewed with alarm by more doctrinaire Catholics because of its close association with Eastern meditation techniques and especially with TM.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Well, I was thinking he might share something from his garden with you as you all sit in the Zone of Tranquility and smile for the NSA cameras! On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:54 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: More likely to invite me over to smoke some of the pot he's planning to raise. On 10/14/2013 09:32 AM, Share Long wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RE: Pope Francis technique
And that's the truth. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote: Dear Turq; to give credit where credit is due, actually Centering Prayer was drawn from the range of Christian and Eastern mystics but to be more honest and accurate was distilled from Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's by the three monks and their brethren at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer Massachusetts. I know, I was there and watched them rip Transcendental Meditation [TM] off for their own purposes. -Buck in the Dome I'll confirm that the assumption among TMers that these three clerics' version of Centering Prayer was based on TM was current back in the late 1970s. It isn't something Buck made up. Photocopies of the chapter entitled TM and Centering Prayer from Pennington's 1977 book Daily We Touch Him were routinely passed around among TMers. Moreover, if Barry had any curiosity at all, or any desire to get his facts straight, he would have checked out the PDF that Xeno uploaded. It would be extremely difficult for anyone familiar with TM instruction to read those two pages on how to do Centering Prayer and claim that it had nothing to do with TM. It's obvious that the clerics did indeed rip off the instructions for TM, just as Buck says above. The mechanics of the techniques are virtually identical. The only two significant differences are (1) that TM uses a teacher-assigned Sanskrit mantra, whereas Centering Prayer uses a self-chosen sacred word from the Christian tradition; and (2) that the explicit context of Centering Prayer is Christian, whereas TM's is either secular, religious/nondenominational, or Hindu, depending on one's approach. --The Corrector Barry wrote: (snip) I think we all know that The Corrector will probably rip Buck a new asshole for running this tired and intentionally misleading routine again, but just on the off chance that she doesn't, I will. The bolded section in brackets above comes only from Buck's fevered imagination. Anyone who reads the rest of the descriptions on that page knows that it has nothing to do with TM. Buck's as bad as Willytex at making shit up and presenting it as fact.
[FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Ecotopia has a ring to it. But I don't believe the 14th Amendment to the Constitution can allow any states from seceding from the Union. It appears that our politicians are blinded by their own ideologies. But time is running out. The solution is really very simple. They're just too blind to see. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu
To the extent that the building embodies meanings conducive to an intellectual vision of the non-duality of principal Unity and manifested multiplicity, it functions as a symbol, that is to say, as a representation of reality on another. The belief that the building is capable of performing this symbolic function is founded on the Indian doctrine that there exists an analogy, or a correspondence between the physical and the metaphysical orders of reality, that the sensible world is a similitude of the intellectual, in such a way that: This world is the image of that, and vice-versa. (Aitareya Aranyaka, VIII.2, Keith) We really like the idea of having an interior courtyard as a zone of tranquility in a Spanish style home. It's like bring the outside into the inside. The outside doesn't have to very fancy, just simple daub and wattle with some Spanish tile. The simple exterior, in keeping with Spanish/Mexican adobe construction of a century ago, gives way to a modern interior, a contemplative courtyard experience centered on the sky and a swimming pool, creating a year-round connection between the home's interior and exterior spaces. *More at HK Associates Inc. Photo: Timmerman Photography.* http://barrio-historico-househttp://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2011/07/24/barrio-historico-house-by-hk-associates-inc.php [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Inside the zone of tranquility, there should be a balance between wind and water. The art of Fengshui in its earliest recorded context specifically refers to the School of Forms. Terrestrial features serve to block the wind, which captures qi and scatters it, and channel the waters, which collect qi and store it. Fengshui may literally indicate wind and water, but this is merely shorthand for an environmental policy of hindering the wind and hoarding the waters. The science of Fengshui, therefore is windbreak-watercourse qimancy. The art of Kanyu, on the other hand, the precursor of the Compass School, relies strictly on astrology and numerology as a means of fathoming qi on a cosmic scale. While Fengshui is local, Kanyu is universal. Since the medieval period in China, masters of qimancy were versed in the environmental science as well as the occult art. The term we have coined, Yaqui Vastu, applies to both Vastu and Fengshui. Example of a Yaqui Vastu dwelling: [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: It's all a matter of positioning and placement. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. All traditional cultures have their own systems of geomantic placement. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life and survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples of universal geomancy. Buckminister Fuller 'Dymaxion' House at the Henry Ford Museum: [image: Inline image 1] Geomancy can be defined as The skillfull use of the best available knowledge in order to create the most suitable conditions for living and working. Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and placement affect our environment and thus our own daily activities and relations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: ** The Yanqui all natural terra-form home from West Texas. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-: thanks for another lovely photo. On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden for the Zone of Tranquility. Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html [image: Inline image 2] Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: ** Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember that some of the FF vastu homes are made of straw bales; some off the grid; some just eco friendly. I love this idea of building in harmony with the surrounding land. On Friday,
[FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility (-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] This is the Church and This is the Steeple
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[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: The Uncertainty Machine
Judy, Someone should tell our politicians in Washington DC to consult the I Ching to solve the debt-ceiling crisis. They better hurry before it's too late. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Great article. I like this quote also: ..Uncertainty is not just an adventitious fault that can one day be eradicated. It is also a part of being a human, with limited knowledge, in an endlessly complex world. And given that we will never have the complete knowledge to which we might aspire, we must always act in the twilight between certainty and uncertainty, between knowing and unknowing. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Now there is the kind of man I would like to meet. Someone looking to have their opinions and fixed ideas proved wrong. Someone who welcomes the opportunity to be thrown into a world of newer, different possibilities perhaps putting them beyond their current comfort zone. It takes no small amount of courage to feel like this. This is how I read it anyway. Reminds me of a guy called RWC. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Fascinating essay on the I Ching by Will Buckingham, a philosopher and novelist. Money quote: ...Sitting with the coins or yarrow stalks in my hand, going through the ritual of asking the I Ching a question, I am not looking for some irrational mystical guidance. Instead, I am looking for a release from the prison of competing certainties, a way of letting loose the simmering doubts and confusions that accompany all thought, so that I can take advantage of their creative richness. In other words, I use the I Ching not as a certainty machine, but as an uncertainty machine. Dissolving false certainties, it integrates the fact of unknowing into the fabric of my thinking, opening me up to hitherto unimagined possibilities, scattering the monotony of my either-or dilemmas into a myriad of forking paths Read more: http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine
[FairfieldLife] Re: This is the Church and This is the Steeple
...and these are the believers...some call them Sheeple. :-) http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/Sheeple%207%20(R).jpg http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/Sheeple%207%20(R).jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: http://tinyurl.com/m3fn6dz http://tinyurl.com/m3fn6dz
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu
Richard, I really like feng shui and knew that it meant wind and water. But I didn't know the other details about that. And I never knew about the role of fire in geomancy. Very fascinating knowledge. Of course the Zone of Tranquility reminds me of the brahmanstan in vastu vidya. On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: To the extent that the building embodies meanings conducive to an intellectual vision of the non-duality of principal Unity and manifested multiplicity, it functions as a symbol, that is to say, as a representation of reality on another. The belief that the building is capable of performing this symbolic function is founded on the Indian doctrine that there exists an analogy, or a correspondence between the physical and the metaphysical orders of reality, that the sensible world is a similitude of the intellectual, in such a way that: This world is the image of that, and vice-versa. (Aitareya Aranyaka, VIII.2, Keith) We really like the idea of having an interior courtyard as a zone of tranquility in a Spanish style home. It's like bring the outside into the inside. The outside doesn't have to very fancy, just simple daub and wattle with some Spanish tile. The simple exterior, in keeping with Spanish/Mexican adobe construction of a century ago, gives way to a modern interior, a contemplative courtyard experience centered on the sky and a swimming pool, creating a year-round connection between the home's interior and exterior spaces. More at HK Associates Inc. Photo: Timmerman Photography. http://barrio-historico-house On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Inside the zone of tranquility, there should be a balance between wind and water. The art of Fengshui in its earliest recorded context specifically refers to the School of Forms. Terrestrial features serve to block the wind, which captures qi and scatters it, and channel the waters, which collect qi and store it. Fengshui may literally indicate wind and water, but this is merely shorthand for an environmental policy of hindering the wind and hoarding the waters. The science of Fengshui, therefore is windbreak-watercourse qimancy. The art of Kanyu, on the other hand, the precursor of the Compass School, relies strictly on astrology and numerology as a means of fathoming qi on a cosmic scale. While Fengshui is local, Kanyu is universal. Since the medieval period in China, masters of qimancy were versed in the environmental science as well as the occult art. The term we have coined, Yaqui Vastu, applies to both Vastu and Fengshui. Example of a Yaqui Vastu dwelling: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It's all a matter of positioning and placement. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. All traditional cultures have their own systems of geomantic placement. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life and survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples of universal geomancy. Buckminister Fuller 'Dymaxion' House at the Henry Ford Museum: Geomancy can be defined as The skillfull use of the best available knowledge in order to create the most suitable conditions for living and working. Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and placement affect our environment and thus our own daily activities and relations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: The Yanqui all natural terra-form home from West Texas. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-: thanks for another lovely photo. On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden for the Zone of Tranquility. Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/ Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember that some of the FF vastu homes
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Back in the 1990s I was invited to a friend's party in Berkeley. It was held at his business partner's house and it was built vastu style. I didn't get a chance to ask the owner about it though. On 10/14/2013 11:27 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
If the US collapses then there is no Constitution nor 14th Amendment. No copyright laws either. BTW, Ecotopia is the name of a 1970s book. It is about a high school student who accidentally develops a high kilowatt solar panel and has energy company goons trying to steal it and assassinate here. On 10/14/2013 11:12 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Ecotopia has a ring to it. But I don't believe the 14th Amendment to the Constitution can allow any states from seceding from the Union. It appears that our politicians are blinded by their own ideologies. But time is running out. The solution is really very simple. They're just too blind to see. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] FFL unavailable
For a couple of hours I have not been able to access the FFL website on Yahoo. My Yahoo mail, which I almost never use, seems to be available, and this post was sent that way.
Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL unavailable
Xeno, replying in case it might be useful info: same thing was happening very early this morning, no access to website. On Monday, October 14, 2013 2:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: For a couple of hours I have not been able to access the FFL website on Yahoo. My Yahoo mail, which I almost never use, seems to be available, and this post was sent that way.
RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!
I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends, and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I was out in the sun a lot last summer, and began to get Obama-skin. Scary. A raisin in the sun. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Whine, whine, whine. I wish that damn US health care package would hurry up and get up and running 'cause then maybe we won't have to listen to all the fear mongering and complaining. Maybe if you stop calling it Obamacare you will start opening your mind a little and becoming more objective. So many who are against it are not fans of Obama so they label the health plan Obama such and such. Next it'll be Obamawar, Obamacrime, Obamapollution ... On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:43:15 AM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: Obanmcare was supposed to be Obama's signature legislation. He had plenty of time to get this right, but it's obvious Obama knows nothing about running a business or coding a program. He got Obamacare passed in the middle of the night, before anyone had even read it - not a single Repub voted for Obamacare. What's up with that? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: Bhairitu, about the good idea of a maximum wage, I'd like to also suggest that for actors. I would also include athletes but their shelf life is shorter and they are much more susceptible to injuries. What will it take to bring the economy more into balance? On Friday, October 11, 2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex). But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email. BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan is a prepay too (no contract). The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote for the Chromecast. I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW). Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too. On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple operation and it was free. Now that's better! When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny - the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his phone as he goes. LoL! The big problem is that the rent's too damn high! The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got UnitedHealth Care as a supplement. 'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare' News8: http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These days it costs forty bucks just to take a date out for a drink and dinner at Sam's Burger Joint! Go figure. Now, the medical insurance bill is going up? Not to mention fixing the price - so that younger people pay more to keep the premiums down for the older folks. If we had a single payer system for medical care, the federal government would pay all medical expenses for everyone. So, how much would the rent go up with a government paid health care system? Go figure. If I am elected, I promise a job for everyone so they can make a decent living wage and pay their own medical insurance bills. That's my ticket - to create jobs to make money and lower medical care expenses. The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu
By 6,000 B.C.E. the art of geomacy resulted in the megalith and mound culture of Europe and South India. By 4,000 B.C.E. we see communities emerge, of which the Indus Valley Civilization, with it's planned city streets, being a prime example. In the Fertile Crescent the city states of Mesopotamia arose. Example of Yaqui Vastu House in San Antonio: [image: Inline image 1] Spanish style house at Brenda Gallery: [image: Inline image 2] Spanish Style House: [image: Inline image 3] The Spanish Colonial Revival Style is a United States architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_Revival_architecture On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Richard, I really like feng shui and knew that it meant wind and water. But I didn't know the other details about that. And I never knew about the role of fire in geomancy. Very fascinating knowledge. Of course the Zone of Tranquility reminds me of the brahmanstan in vastu vidya. On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: To the extent that the building embodies meanings conducive to an intellectual vision of the non-duality of principal Unity and manifested multiplicity, it functions as a symbol, that is to say, as a representation of reality on another. The belief that the building is capable of performing this symbolic function is founded on the Indian doctrine that there exists an analogy, or a correspondence between the physical and the metaphysical orders of reality, that the sensible world is a similitude of the intellectual, in such a way that: This world is the image of that, and vice-versa. (Aitareya Aranyaka, VIII.2, Keith) We really like the idea of having an interior courtyard as a zone of tranquility in a Spanish style home. It's like bring the outside into the inside. The outside doesn't have to very fancy, just simple daub and wattle with some Spanish tile. The simple exterior, in keeping with Spanish/Mexican adobe construction of a century ago, gives way to a modern interior, a contemplative courtyard experience centered on the sky and a swimming pool, creating a year-round connection between the home's interior and exterior spaces. *More at HK Associates Inc. Photo: Timmerman Photography.* http://barrio-historico-househttp://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2011/07/24/barrio-historico-house-by-hk-associates-inc.php [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Inside the zone of tranquility, there should be a balance between wind and water. The art of Fengshui in its earliest recorded context specifically refers to the School of Forms. Terrestrial features serve to block the wind, which captures qi and scatters it, and channel the waters, which collect qi and store it. Fengshui may literally indicate wind and water, but this is merely shorthand for an environmental policy of hindering the wind and hoarding the waters. The science of Fengshui, therefore is windbreak-watercourse qimancy. The art of Kanyu, on the other hand, the precursor of the Compass School, relies strictly on astrology and numerology as a means of fathoming qi on a cosmic scale. While Fengshui is local, Kanyu is universal. Since the medieval period in China, masters of qimancy were versed in the environmental science as well as the occult art. The term we have coined, Yaqui Vastu, applies to both Vastu and Fengshui. Example of a Yaqui Vastu dwelling: [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: It's all a matter of positioning and placement. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. All traditional cultures have their own systems of geomantic placement. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life and survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples of universal geomancy. Buckminister Fuller 'Dymaxion' House at the Henry Ford Museum: [image: Inline image 1] Geomancy can be defined as The skillfull use of the best available knowledge in order to create the most suitable conditions for living and working. Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation,
Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL unavailable
Due to the government shut down and the Columbus Day holiday the NSA is running on limited staff and can't review all the FFL to allow posting. On 10/14/2013 12:46 PM, Share Long wrote: Xeno, replying in case it might be useful info: same thing was happening very early this morning, no access to website. On Monday, October 14, 2013 2:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: For a couple of hours I have not been able to access the FFL website on Yahoo. My Yahoo mail, which I almost never use, seems to be available, and this post was sent that way.
Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL unavailable
The country’s in the very best of hands. On 10/14/2013 2:46 PM, Share Long wrote: Xeno, replying in case it might be useful info: same thing was happening very early this morning, no access to website. On Monday, October 14, 2013 2:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: For a couple of hours I have not been able to access the FFL website on Yahoo. My Yahoo mail, which I almost never use, seems to be available, and this post was sent that way.
[FairfieldLife] Hollywood Geniuses
Can you believe Conan O'brien graduated magna cum laude from Harvard? or, James Woods has a IQ of 184? That means, he's smarter than Einstein. But, no, Arnold is not on the list. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-30-smartest-celebrities-in-hollywood-175417855.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-30-smartest-celebrities-in-hollywood-175417855.html
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility (-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu
Richard, If those houses are not facing east or north, they may not be good for the residents according to MMY's principles of vastu. It's also a good idea to have an atrium in the middle of the house. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: By 6,000 B.C.E. the art of geomacy resulted in the megalith and mound culture of Europe and South India. By 4,000 B.C.E. we see communities emerge, of which the Indus Valley Civilization, with it's planned city streets, being a prime example. In the Fertile Crescent the city states of Mesopotamia arose. Example of Yaqui Vastu House in San Antonio: Spanish style house at Brenda Gallery: Spanish Style House: The Spanish Colonial Revival Style is a United States architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_Revival_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_Revival_architecture On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: Richard, I really like feng shui and knew that it meant wind and water. But I didn't know the other details about that. And I never knew about the role of fire in geomancy. Very fascinating knowledge. Of course the Zone of Tranquility reminds me of the brahmanstan in vastu vidya. On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:45 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: To the extent that the building embodies meanings conducive to an intellectual vision of the non-duality of principal Unity and manifested multiplicity, it functions as a symbol, that is to say, as a representation of reality on another. The belief that the building is capable of performing this symbolic function is founded on the Indian doctrine that there exists an analogy, or a correspondence between the physical and the metaphysical orders of reality, that the sensible world is a similitude of the intellectual, in such a way that: This world is the image of that, and vice-versa. (Aitareya Aranyaka, VIII.2, Keith) We really like the idea of having an interior courtyard as a zone of tranquility in a Spanish style home. It's like bring the outside into the inside. The outside doesn't have to very fancy, just simple daub and wattle with some Spanish tile. The simple exterior, in keeping with Spanish/Mexican adobe construction of a century ago, gives way to a modern interior, a contemplative courtyard experience centered on the sky and a swimming pool, creating a year-round connection between the home's interior and exterior spaces. More at HK Associates Inc. Photo: Timmerman Photography. http://barrio-historico-house http://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2011/07/24/barrio-historico-house-by-hk-associates-inc.php On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Inside the zone of tranquility, there should be a balance between wind and water. The art of Fengshui in its earliest recorded context specifically refers to the School of Forms. Terrestrial features serve to block the wind, which captures qi and scatters it, and channel the waters, which collect qi and store it. Fengshui may literally indicate wind and water, but this is merely shorthand for an environmental policy of hindering the wind and hoarding the waters. The science of Fengshui, therefore is windbreak-watercourse qimancy. The art of Kanyu, on the other hand, the precursor of the Compass School, relies strictly on astrology and numerology as a means of fathoming qi on a cosmic scale. While Fengshui is local, Kanyu is universal. Since the medieval period in China, masters of qimancy were versed in the environmental science as well as the occult art. The term we have coined, Yaqui Vastu, applies to both Vastu and Fengshui. Example of a Yaqui Vastu dwelling: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: It's all a matter of positioning and placement. Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance. All traditional cultures have their own systems of geomantic placement. There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing, such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples of natural geomancy. Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life and survival. In human society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of continuing improvement in human dwelling construction. People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature. Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
And when I lived in Seattle and it snowed, I and other Subaru owners were about the only ones on the road. Front wheel drive. My Forester is All Wheel Drive but that axle costs mileage due to its weight. I can only think of one time the AWD came in handy and that was turning around on a road when I had to go off into mud and the Forester cut right through it like it wasn't even there. On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Share wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. What, pray tell, do you mean by high rent districts? Give us an East Coast example, please.
[FairfieldLife] Bob Roth: Bringing Calm To The Center Of Life#39;s Storm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/bob-roth_n_4070080.html the DLF sponsored is now in the hundreds of thousands of individuals
[FairfieldLife] victims of domestic violence will be able to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique at no cost
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Photo-Flash-Lena-Dunham-and-More-at-David-Lynch-Foundations-Women-Meditation-Stress-Event-20131010 victims of domestic violence will be able to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique at no cost. Read more about Photo Flash: Lena Dunham and More at David Lynch Foundation's 'Women. Meditation. Stress.' Event - BWWTVWorld http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Photo-Flash-Lena-Dunham-and-More-at-David-Lynch-Foundations-Women-Meditation-Stress-Event-20131010 by www.broadwayworld.com http://www.broadwayworld.com victims of domestic violence will be able to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique at no cost. Read more about Photo Flash: Lena Dunham and More at David Lynch Foundation's 'Women. Meditation. Stress.' Event - BWWTVWorld http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Photo-Flash-Lena-Dunham-and-More-at-David-Lynch-Foundations-Women-Meditation-Stress-Event-20131010 by www.broadwayworld.com http://www.broadwayworld.comvictims of domestic violence will be able to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique at no cost. Read more about Photo Flash: Lena Dunham and More at David Lynch Foundation's 'Women. Meditation. Stress.' Event - BWWTVWorld http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Photo-Flash-Lena-Dunham-and-More-at-David-Lynch-Foundations-Women-Meditation-Stress-Event-20131010 by www.broadwayworld.com http://www.broadwayworld.com
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Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
I'll do better than that, Judy. Here's a very cool website that compares places cost wise. Comparing FF to Annapolis, MD where my Mom lives, housing is 255% more expensive there. http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/fairfield-ia/annapolis-md/5 On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:11 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Share wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. What, pray tell, do you mean by high rent districts? Give us an East Coast example, please.
RE: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
OK, so it isn't districts, it's cities; and it isn't high rent, it's high housing costs in general. Now that we've clarified that, please explain what you mean by unsustainable in specific terms. What do you expect to happen? Share wrote: I'll do better than that, Judy. Here's a very cool website that compares places cost wise. Comparing FF to Annapolis, MD where my Mom lives, housing is 255% more expensive there. http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/fairfield-ia/annapolis-md/5 On Monday, October 14, 2013 6:11 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Share wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. What, pray tell, do you mean by high rent districts? Give us an East Coast example, please.
[FairfieldLife] RE: This is the Church and This is the Steeple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAy-F-V0LA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAy-F-V0LA ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: ...and these are the believers...some call them Sheeple. :-) http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/Sheeple%207%20(R).jpg http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/Sheeple%207%20(R).jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: http://tinyurl.com/m3fn6dz http://tinyurl.com/m3fn6dz
[FairfieldLife] RE: Bob Roth: Bringing Calm To The Center Of Life#39;s Storm
1968 Transcendental Meditation with the following analogy: The surface of the ocean is waves and white caps. But deeper down, the ocean is still. How TM differs from other meditations, he says, is that it doesn't attempt to still the waves, but rather allow access to the stillness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/bob-roth_n_4070080.html the DLF sponsored is now in the hundreds of thousands of individuals
[FairfieldLife] RE: Those of you in the US about to celebrate Columbus Day...
A nasty piece of work, no doubt about it. Worth mentioning though that it wasn't just Bartolomé who found his methods objectionable. The accusations of brutality were investigated and Columbus was put in chains and imprisoned and eventually sent back to Spain. After some favours were called in by his family he was eventually released and allowed to return to the New World but was never again given any political power. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position. 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus' by Samuel Eliot Morison Posted by Glenn Reynolds: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71@... wrote: Whoa, really a different version of things. I guess most of our history books need rewriting - probably all over the world, given how we humans like nice stories. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ...read this excellently-researched strip by The Oatmeal first. Even when it starts getting a little too depressing for you, finding out who Christopher Columbus *really* was and what he did, keep reading to the end. Because then you'll want to change the name of the Federal holiday to Bartolomé Day, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Those of you in the US about to celebrate Columbus Day...
Put me out of my misery: is that creepy thing that crawls across the YAHOO! GROUPS logo in the top left corner of my screen supposed to be Columbus related? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: A nasty piece of work, no doubt about it. Worth mentioning though that it wasn't just Bartolomé who found his methods objectionable. The accusations of brutality were investigated and Columbus was put in chains and imprisoned and eventually sent back to Spain. After some favours were called in by his family he was eventually released and allowed to return to the New World but was never again given any political power. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position. 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus' by Samuel Eliot Morison Posted by Glenn Reynolds: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71@... wrote: Whoa, really a different version of things. I guess most of our history books need rewriting - probably all over the world, given how we humans like nice stories. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ...read this excellently-researched strip by The Oatmeal first. Even when it starts getting a little too depressing for you, finding out who Christopher Columbus *really* was and what he did, keep reading to the end. Because then you'll want to change the name of the Federal holiday to Bartolomé Day, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Bhairitu, When I was living in Seattle, I noticed that a thin layer of snow would just about shut down the entire city. My old boss, back then, would let us go home when it started to snow. I thought that was very reasonable. Better be safe than sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: And when I lived in Seattle and it snowed, I and other Subaru owners were about the only ones on the road. Front wheel drive. My Forester is All Wheel Drive but that axle costs mileage due to its weight. I can only think of one time the AWD came in handy and that was turning around on a road when I had to go off into mud and the Forester cut right through it like it wasn't even there. On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility (-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL unavailable
I just returned some materials to the City Library and the conveyor belt that you place your books, etc., on, is broken, for the first time, ever. Probably for the same reason - NSA can't update the 'books read' data fast enough, so they sent out a wireless command to blow the electrical feed, to the conveyor belt. Built right into the architectural plans for the library, no doubt. Crafty bastards! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Due to the government shut down and the Columbus Day holiday the NSA is running on limited staff and can't review all the FFL to allow posting. On 10/14/2013 12:46 PM, Share Long wrote: Xeno, replying in case it might be useful info: same thing was happening very early this morning, no access to website. On Monday, October 14, 2013 2:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... wrote: For a couple of hours I have not been able to access the FFL website on Yahoo. My Yahoo mail, which I almost never use, seems to be available, and this post was sent that way.
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Bob Roth: Bringing Calm To The Center Of Life#39;s Storm
'68 at UC Berkeley -- a campus considered Ground Zero for the anti-war movement and the cultural changes sweeping through the country at the time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: 1968 Transcendental Meditation with the following analogy: The surface of the ocean is waves and white caps. But deeper down, the ocean is still. How TM differs from other meditations, he says, is that it doesn't attempt to still the waves, but rather allow access to the stillness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/bob-roth_n_4070080.html the DLF sponsored is now in the hundreds of thousands of individuals
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Bob Roth: Bringing Calm To The Center Of Life#39;s Storm
'68 Berkeley also the Christian World Liberation Front began as a mission to the city's radicals. CWLF going on to sue and win in New Jersey Federal Court the case defining Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence a religion and hence that TM should not be taught in publicly sponsored schools. It seems that the David Lynch Foundation under Roth has won that case in the end. Huzzah! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: '68 at UC Berkeley -- a campus considered Ground Zero for the anti-war movement and the cultural changes sweeping through the country at the time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: 1968 Transcendental Meditation with the following analogy: The surface of the ocean is waves and white caps. But deeper down, the ocean is still. How TM differs from other meditations, he says, is that it doesn't attempt to still the waves, but rather allow access to the stillness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/bob-roth_n_4070080.html the DLF sponsored is now in the hundreds of thousands of individuals
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Here's why: http://www.komonews.com/home/video/36413989.html The next day I booked a room at the Holiday Inn because the morning of the 20th I was to fly down to the Bay Area. So I didn't want a follow-up storm (which did happen) make me miss my flight. On 10/14/2013 07:12 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Bhairitu, When I was living in Seattle, I noticed that a thin layer of snow would just about shut down the entire city. My old boss, back then, would let us go home when it started to snow. I thought that was very reasonable. Better be safe than sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: And when I lived in Seattle and it snowed, I and other Subaru owners were about the only ones on the road. Front wheel drive. My Forester is All Wheel Drive but that axle costs mileage due to its weight. I can only think of one time the AWD came in handy and that was turning around on a road when I had to go off into mud and the Forester cut right through it like it wasn't even there. On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility(-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
Reminds me of the year Seattle refused to salt the roads in an effort to be green and create pack...ha ha...idealism at its finest; the potholes created that winter were the best ever. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2008551284_snowcleanup23m.html http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2008551284_snowcleanup23m.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Bhairitu, When I was living in Seattle, I noticed that a thin layer of snow would just about shut down the entire city. My old boss, back then, would let us go home when it started to snow. I thought that was very reasonable. Better be safe than sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: And when I lived in Seattle and it snowed, I and other Subaru owners were about the only ones on the road. Front wheel drive. My Forester is All Wheel Drive but that axle costs mileage due to its weight. I can only think of one time the AWD came in handy and that was turning around on a road when I had to go off into mud and the Forester cut right through it like it wasn't even there. On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility (-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] RE: On Ramana, Yoga and Vedanta
Well Tea House ... You didn't say exactly when you were leaving but the link you provided was enough to assay the quality. Perhaps you didn't realized that I received training in Buddhism by Professor Alfonso Verdu. Under his tutelage, I received extensive teachings about Yogachara/Vijñanavada, Madhyamaka and HwaYen/Kegon. You also don't appear to realize that my current teacher is Younge Khachab Rimpoche VII, who is a Tibetan Khenpo-Geshe Rabjam and focuses particularly upon classical Mahayana, four and nine level Tantra, the Ganga Mahamudra of Tilopa/Naropa and the Dzogchen transmissions of Vimalamitra and Longchenpa. Khachab has stayed at my house and has been very generous with his personal teachings to me. I state it this way so you realize that I have been over this stuff before and don’t intend to waste time analyzing arguments by the like of Prairie Dog Willy or your blogging-friend Kevin Whatever. So sorry Ol' Tea House ... but the site only proffers old academic ideas long refuted and dismissed. Perhaps it all appeared clever to you but it only wasted my time. Glad though that you know who is and who is not enlightened. Perhaps you'll 'spanit to me because I do not find illumination in your undefined idea of 'lighten-mint' - which really only really means the Germanic Aufklärung. And don't gime more of MMY's 7 states. I was trained as a TM teacher and though it took me awhile to realize that he just made this stuff up, I certainly don’t intend to listen to it again. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Empty, I'm soon out of town, so no time now to give you a deserving answer. But since you like to pontificate with the voice of RAM aka James Swartz, I owe it to my close friend and Tiru resident Kevinanandaji, to expose you to his satirizing him. Here, take this, about your new found hero: http://chi-ting.blogspot.de/search/label/James%20Swartz%20%28Ram%29 http://chi-ting.blogspot.de/search/label/James%20Swartz%20%28Ram%29 (and don't take it too serious!) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Questioner: So you’re talking about Yoga and Vedanta to give some sort of context to his enlightement? Ram: Yes. Now that Ramana is getting fame it is rather sad to see all these Western people coming to Tiruvannamalai with absolutely no notion of the context of his enlightenment and his life, with no understanding of the depth of the Vedic tradition and burdened with amazing and ill-considered views of enlightenment based on their Ramana fantasies. Anyway, Ramana’s type of realization, because it did not occur at the feet of a guru in a traditional Vedantic classroom, is more in line with the tradition of Yoga, although most yogis do not become jnanis as Ramana did. His lifestyle too, sitting in meditation in a cave, is more typical of the yogic tradition than the Vedantic. The reason yogis do not usually become jnanis is because they have often been confused by the language of Yoga into thinking of enlightenment as a permanent experience of samadhi. So when the experience is ‘on’ they are not looking to understand anything, they are simply trying to make the state permanent, sahaja. The joke is that enlightenment is not an experience, nor is there any permanent experience. Furthermore, they do not realize that to make an experience permanent one would have to be a doer, an agent acting on the experience, maintaining it or controlling it or staying in it … which is a dualistic state, not enlightenment.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
I was living in Seattle then. But I usually spent my Christmas in San Francisco to spend the holidays with my parents when they were still alive. It was also my way of getting away from the cold weather. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Here's why: http://www.komonews.com/home/video/36413989.html http://www.komonews.com/home/video/36413989.html The next day I booked a room at the Holiday Inn because the morning of the 20th I was to fly down to the Bay Area. So I didn't want a follow-up storm (which did happen) make me miss my flight. On 10/14/2013 07:12 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Bhairitu, When I was living in Seattle, I noticed that a thin layer of snow would just about shut down the entire city. My old boss, back then, would let us go home when it started to snow. I thought that was very reasonable. Better be safe than sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: And when I lived in Seattle and it snowed, I and other Subaru owners were about the only ones on the road. Front wheel drive. My Forester is All Wheel Drive but that axle costs mileage due to its weight. I can only think of one time the AWD came in handy and that was turning around on a road when I had to go off into mud and the Forester cut right through it like it wasn't even there. On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility (-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] RE: How the Supreme Court Resolve the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
dmevans, Yeah, that picture reminds me of the days when I was there. But by December, 2008, I was already living here in San Francisco. By the way, my TM teacher in Seattle was Bill Curry. Do you know if he's still active in the Movement? I remember the Center then was located at Linden Avenue near the Aurora Bridge. It was aligned with the proper vastu since it was facing east. But the house was old. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote: I was living in Seattle then. But I usually spent my Christmas in San Francisco to spend the holidays with my parents when they were still alive. It was also my way of getting away from the cold weather. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Here's why: http://www.komonews.com/home/video/36413989.html http://www.komonews.com/home/video/36413989.html The next day I booked a room at the Holiday Inn because the morning of the 20th I was to fly down to the Bay Area. So I didn't want a follow-up storm (which did happen) make me miss my flight. On 10/14/2013 07:12 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Bhairitu, When I was living in Seattle, I noticed that a thin layer of snow would just about shut down the entire city. My old boss, back then, would let us go home when it started to snow. I thought that was very reasonable. Better be safe than sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: And when I lived in Seattle and it snowed, I and other Subaru owners were about the only ones on the road. Front wheel drive. My Forester is All Wheel Drive but that axle costs mileage due to its weight. I can only think of one time the AWD came in handy and that was turning around on a road when I had to go off into mud and the Forester cut right through it like it wasn't even there. On 10/14/2013 03:18 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, We technically have four seasons over here. But it doesn't snow over here during the winter--which is just fine with me. When I was in Seattle, WA, I used to live on a hilly road. During the winter, the road became frozen with ice. And, I foolishly drove my car down the hill knowing that the car won't stop even if you put the brakes on. Luckily, I never got into an accident using that maneuver. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: John, I've gotten pretty spoiled living in a fairly inexpensive place like FF. I think of those high rent districts on the east and west coasts as being unsustainable, especially for an aging population. And I do like 4 seasons. Do you all have four seasons? On Monday, October 14, 2013 1:50 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: Share, That Zone sounds pretty cool. Everyone is welcome to move over here. We already have vastu houses in San Diego. But I don't know of anyone who has built one in the northern California area. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: And he's going to build a yaqui vastu house. Maybe he and Rita will invite you over so you can sit in the Zone of Tranquility (-: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Probably the best thing to happen is for the US to collapse into one big dung heap. It's old and broken down. It's suffering a bad hangover from an artificial boom made to steal property from the middle class. It should break up into several countries with California combined with western Washington and Oregon one of them. We don't get the money we pay to the feds back anyway. The Red states are getting our money. Watching Jerry Brown he seems to be gearing up to the first Prime Minister of Ecotopia. And. we're getting Willy moving here! On 10/14/2013 08:20 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: This article shows the complicated way for this to happen. But it appears that it's going to take a long time for the process to be completed. In the meantime, the federal government would default on its obligations and the economy would collapse. IMO, the best way to solve this crisis is to toss a coin. Head means pass a CR and raise the debt ceiling for one year, with Obamacare. Tail means pass a CR and reaise the debt ceiling for one year, without Obamacare. http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-resolve-debt-ceiling-crisis-103405149--politics.html
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Those of you in the US about to celebrate Columbus Day...
Servers must be on East Coast time, or GMT, because the ship/cockroach thingie is gone now. Invaders (the name is kind of a giveaway) are *never* nice guys, or chums. *Always* assholes. Neil Young, and Crazy Horse, on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Put me out of my misery: is that creepy thing that crawls across the YAHOO! GROUPS logo in the top left corner of my screen supposed to be Columbus related? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: A nasty piece of work, no doubt about it. Worth mentioning though that it wasn't just Bartolomé who found his methods objectionable. The accusations of brutality were investigated and Columbus was put in chains and imprisoned and eventually sent back to Spain. After some favours were called in by his family he was eventually released and allowed to return to the New World but was never again given any political power. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position. 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus' by Samuel Eliot Morison Posted by Glenn Reynolds: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71@... wrote: Whoa, really a different version of things. I guess most of our history books need rewriting - probably all over the world, given how we humans like nice stories. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ...read this excellently-researched strip by The Oatmeal first. Even when it starts getting a little too depressing for you, finding out who Christopher Columbus *really* was and what he did, keep reading to the end. Because then you'll want to change the name of the Federal holiday to Bartolomé Day, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
[FairfieldLife] #39;Traveler#39; music vid
Travel, inside, and out. This one starts with a sun rising 32x faster than the original. That morning, I discovered how to take a picture of the buddha, flooded with light, but not obscured. Also airplanes cruising above, and a half-second shot of a Jet Blue plane at SFO, slowed down 8x. The feral black cat fits in like a shadow. The song is 'Traveler' (2:30), an original composition. The voice sample sounds like Bowie - just a happy coincidence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS47Bw6k7fI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS47Bw6k7fI
[FairfieldLife] RE: Hollywood Geniuses
Einstein prolly wasn't exceptionally smart, but he had That Imagination? ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote: Can you believe Conan O'brien graduated magna cum laude from Harvard? or, James Woods has a IQ of 184? That means, he's smarter than Einstein. But, no, Arnold is not on the list. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-30-smartest-celebrities-in-hollywood-175417855.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-30-smartest-celebrities-in-hollywood-175417855.html
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ramana, Yoga and Vedanta
smRti (memory) is mundane knowledge, shruti (hearing) is Divine Knowledge?? ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Ok, emptybill, it's been a long time since I heard about smriti and shruti and it looks like no one else is gonna ask so: what is the difference between them? On Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:41 AM, emptybill@... emptybill@... wrote: Questioner: So you’re talking about Yoga and Vedanta to give some sort of context to his enlightement? Ram: Yes. Now that Ramana is getting fame it is rather sad to see all these Western people coming to Tiruvannamalai with absolutely no notion of the context of his enlightenment and his life, with no understanding of the depth of the Vedic tradition and burdened with amazing and ill-considered views of enlightenment based on their Ramana fantasies. Anyway, Ramana’s type of realization, because it did not occur at the feet of a guru in a traditional Vedantic classroom, is more in line with the tradition of Yoga, although most yogis do not become jnanis as Ramana did. His lifestyle too, sitting in meditation in a cave, is more typical of the yogic tradition than the Vedantic. The reason yogis do not usually become jnanis is because they have often been confused by the language of Yoga into thinking of enlightenment as a permanent experience of samadhi. So when the experience is ‘on’ they are not looking to understand anything, they are simply trying to make the state permanent, sahaja. The joke is that enlightenment is not an experience, nor is there any permanent experience. Furthermore, they do not realize that to make an experience permanent one would have to be a doer, an agent acting on the experience, maintaining it or controlling it or staying in it … which is a dualistic state, not enlightenment.
