Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Bullshit - Holier than Thou

2013-10-19 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Bavunnaanu iranitea gaaru - meeru ela vunnaaru? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:59 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Bagunnara, Ravi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, chivukula.ravi@... wrote: I had

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM and the Tree of Knowledge

2013-10-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: One lapel pin I'd like to have is the Global Country of World Peace pin, the one with the graphic of the rising sun with its Golden rays. Two of my favorites:

[FairfieldLife] Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Jackson
I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal

[FairfieldLife] Merit

2013-10-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
“Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying.

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: MUM and the Tree of Knowledge

2013-10-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
the wish-yielding tree that symbolizes the effortless ability to fulfill desires from the level of Natural Law. On the cover of a textbook for the Ideal Girls School: The cover, designed by Heather Hartnett, depicts the Kalp Vriksha, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread authfriend
Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read

[FairfieldLife] RE: Merit

2013-10-19 Thread authfriend
Buck wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying. You aren't going to correct this, are you, Buck?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that

[FairfieldLife] RE: Merit

2013-10-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Only a few generations have been granted the role of defending Freedom and promoting Spirituality as we do today in places like [meditating] Fairfield, I do not shrink from this responsibility I welcome it in every meditation, -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Black Hats and White Hats

2013-10-19 Thread Richard Williams
Let's see, on the one hand we have the personal privacy advocates, like Edward Snowden and Wikileak's Julian Assange, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And, on the other hand we have social networking sites like Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and micro blogging sites like Evan Williams's

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Richard Williams
There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. [image: Inline image 1] Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Merit

2013-10-19 Thread sharelong60
Judy, to my horror, it seems that even countless offenses of incorrect spelling and grammar are annihilated by meditating! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Jackson
The Movement does promise immortality at least obliquely along with promising everything else - so the idea of an Immortality Course is not too much of a stretch On Sat, 10/19/13, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Jackson
Thanks Barry - I was just interested in the thing to have a full picture of the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday,

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Merit

2013-10-19 Thread authfriend
Did you have something you wanted to tell me, Share? Share wrote: Judy, to my horror, it seems that even countless offenses of incorrect spelling and grammar are annihilated by meditating! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote:

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread authfriend
For some value of at least obliquely and of too much of a stretch. Michael wrote: The Movement does promise immortality at least obliquely along with promising everything else - so the idea of an Immortality Course is not too much of a stretch

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread Share Long
Michael, I think to have a full picture of the TMO these days, a person has to visit Fairfield for a few days, talk with people, attend a concert, stroll in the town square, etc. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:53 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote:   Thanks Barry - I was

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Share Long
Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so

[FairfieldLife] Here#39;s a whale that Girish missed.

2013-10-19 Thread Duveyoung
This guy could've been taken for millions. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/19/david-birnbaum-jeweller-philosopher

[FairfieldLife] RE: Meditation of Merit

2013-10-19 Thread cardemaister
Hmmm. thou : nominative? thee: objective? thy: possessive? ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Wow, did nobody ever teach the old meditators grammar? “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Jackson
Fairfield is not necessarily representative of the Movement - when I spent two years there I had no idea what the people in India and Europe were doing except through the dubious filter of Bevan who would tell us Lord Marshy's will for the people of MIU - I still remember him telling us in a

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread authfriend
Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote:

[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique

2013-10-19 Thread emptybill
According to the Orthodox, Ancestral Sin caused the reversal of paradisaical deathlessness by creating the consequential mortality that we all inherited. Obviously a mythologized explanation but this is how they explain why humans are prone to concupiscence and deviance of will. Better

[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Immortality Courses

2013-10-19 Thread doctordumbass
As usual, the flea criticizes the tiger. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread doctordumbass
I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread TurquoiseB
I love these. Yelp is often the lowest common denominator, which is not always a bad thing. I think it's good for those who consider themselves above the masses to find out what the masses think of them and their taste. You should see some of the reviews of some of the supposedly swanky places to

RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread emilymaenot
OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from

[FairfieldLife] In Argentine Nazi Refuge Bariloche

2013-10-19 Thread jr_esq
Given the history of this town, one wonders if Adolf Hitler once lived here. http://news.yahoo.com/argentine-nazi-refuge-bariloche-silence-rigueur-192654462.html http://news.yahoo.com/argentine-nazi-refuge-bariloche-silence-rigueur-192654462.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
You really made the TMers in Fairfield look stupid today, with their 'Immortality' courses', although you fibbed about it, good work! Did anyone notice that Barry didn't deny he was living in a food desert most of the time? Why do you think he spends so much time in cafes instead of at

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Share Long
Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique

2013-10-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
It seems obvious that the stories and myths gathered in the Bible were assembled from immortality and fertility myths which were in common circulation at that time, that is, about 3000 years ago. Stephen Oppenheimer, writing in Eden in the East notes that many of these same mythic elements are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique

2013-10-19 Thread Share Long
Richard, do other cultures have a myth about the fall of humanity that centers around acquiring some forbidden knowledge? And in other cultures is the fall blamed on the women? On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:04 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   It seems obvious that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Share Long
Oh, that is kind of funny. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:13 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread doctordumbass
Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Bhairitu
Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem to use family recipes so you can have a little difference between places. I found Indian restaurant so-so in Fairfield and I also ate at a California style pasta restaurant

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Jackson
that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique

2013-10-19 Thread s3raphita
Re the doctrine of creation ex nihilo is a whole lot older than modern Christianity.: Indeed, the doctrine was dismissed by Parmenides in the 5th centruy BC with his remark Nothing comes from nothing. Can't fault that logic! There is a whole shed load of doctrines a whole lot older than

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique

2013-10-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
The Fall of Man myth is a universal story that teaches by means of a confidence trick. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever... therefore the

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sun 20-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-19 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 10/19/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 10/26/13 00:00:00 47 messages as of (UTC) 10/20/13 00:07:58 7 dhamiltony2k5 6 authfriend 5 Share Long 5 Michael Jackson 4 TurquoiseB 3 doctordumbass 3 Richard J. Williams

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
Every town and village is interesting but most cities like Paris suck - if you live downtown you're probably living in a food desert. The existence of numerous cafes and restaurants notwithstanding. Most poor people, which is almost everyone who lives in a city, don't eat their main meals at

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Merit

2013-10-19 Thread anartaxius
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. --- Andrew Jackson http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andrew_jackson.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Judy, to my horror, it seems that even

[FairfieldLife] A hole in the head - the solution to your problems?

2013-10-19 Thread s3raphita
A Hole in the Head is an hour-long documentary about trepanation - the process of boring a hole in the skull. It examines the development of modern trepanation as used by people in the UK, the USA, and the Netherlands for the purpose of attaining a higher level of consciousness. This

[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique

2013-10-19 Thread s3raphita
Re And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:16-17). : Precisely! Man didn't die so

[FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread awoelflebater
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Every town and village is interesting but most cities like Paris suck - if you live downtown you're probably living in a food desert. The existence of numerous cafes and restaurants notwithstanding. Most poor people, which is

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread doctordumbass
Yeah, there's a fave about three blocks from here. Lots of Buddhist art and really good food. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread doctordumbass
Isn't it spelled with a 'C'? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck

2013-10-19 Thread doctordumbass
Cracked me up! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the