http://www.n2yo.com/?s=34602 http://www.n2yo.com/?s=34602
Bingo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/we-have-a-dumb-religion-p_\
b_4241442.html?utm_hp_ref=politicsir=Politics
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/we-have-a-dumb-religion-p\
_b_4241442.html?utm_hp_ref=politicsir=Politics
Worried about the guvmint snooping on your email or phone calls, or your
online presence? Small potatoes, and useless to worry about. If you have
a face, they already know everything about you.
http://cironline.org/reports/facial-recognition-once-battlefield-tool-la\
VERY cool, Carde, thanks for posting.
On Saturday, November 9, 2013 3:51 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com
cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=34602
This tread is an example of what? Spiritual decorum? Could folks here please
read the home page description for Fairfield Life. Could someone please relate
this thread to our more particular spiritual concerns on this list here or
remove it or remove themselves for straying so far from topic.
Buck, the Group Description does say that any topic is fair game. As horrifying
as this story is, I think it's essential for people to know about it, whether
those people are spiritual or not, religious or not, political or not. If we
are to be fully developed human beings, we must, I think,
There's lots of tragedy and injustice to be read in the news otherwise. So what
are you going to do about it? These post as they are have nothing to do with
FFL as they are posted. The FFL home page says “almost” anything. These posts
as they are made have nothing to do with FFL. Content and
Buck, once I witnessed police brutality and when a sign asked for witnesses, I
came forward and told what I had seen. Other than that, I do what we all do. I
do what I can to become a better human being myself. So that I'm contributing
to the solution rather than to the problem.
On
Buck wrote:
This tread is an example of what? Spiritual decorum? Could folks here
please read the home page description for Fairfield Life.
The home page description for Fairfield Life still says:
Pretty much any topic is fair game. Currently, there's a lot of discussion
about
Taken together with license plate readers, the NSA and the militarization of
the police this is the next step towards Amerika the Awesome.
Sieg to B. Hussein! If you voted for Him you gotta love him ‘cause he’s our
Sovereign and our Fuehrer.
All hail the new Isomorphic Caliphate!
Buck wrote:
There's lots of tragedy and injustice to be read in the news otherwise. So
what are you going to
do about it?
Can't do anything about it unless we know about it, can we?
These post as they are have nothing to do with FFL as they are posted. The
FFL home page
Judy, don't try to inhibit Buck from his mission to
silence anything he doesn't like. He effectively owns
this forum doesn't he?
If he gets too upset he might just leave FFL and start
another forum ... maybe calling it My Own Dome Forum.
---In
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
Worried about the guvmint snooping on your email or phone calls, or your
online presence? Small potatoes, and useless to worry about. If you have a
face, they already know everything about you.
From a NYTimes op-ed entitled Why Do Brits Accept Surveillance?
In Parliament, a few maverick individuals have raised concerns about civil
liberties and privacy. When others have mentioned the subject, it’s mostly been
to accuse The Guardian of damaging national security, rather than to ask
From a NYTimes article entitled G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing:
Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of
far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party
to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say
Buck evidently has an aversion to poop which is surprising as he apparently
lives on a farm. Perhaps the idea or image of a grown man receiving an enema in
public is too much to bear.
I particularly find interesting his quote, There's lots of tragedy and
injustice to be read in the news
I just came back from a wonderfully pleasant and relaxing lunch at
Einstein, a cafe/restaurant here in Leiden. Einstein's name frequently
comes up in conjunction with Leiden, of course, since he worked here at
the university.
Then when I came home, and relaxed even more by surfing the Net, one of
Sorry, forgot to use the Rich Text editor for this NYTimes link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/politics/gop-weighs-limiting-clout-of-right-wing.html?ref=republicanparty
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/politics/gop-weighs-limiting-clout-of-right-wing.html?ref=republicanparty
Frank Schaeffer is the poster boy of the psychically traumatized
fundamentalist. Like many converts from the saved believers, he carries his
counter-theology (now Orthodox) into his political evaluations.
In reality, his theology is an echo of his past evangelical fixations and this
emptybill wrote:
Judy, don't try to inhibit Buck from his mission to
silence anything he doesn't like. He effectively owns
this forum doesn't he?
Nope, not even ineffectively, and he needs to be reminded of this from time to
time.
If he gets too upset he might
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Sorry, forgot to use the Rich Text editor for this NYTimes link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/politics/gop-weighs-limiting-clout-\
of-right-wing.html?ref=republicanparty
Yeah ... ban that condescending brat until he apologizes to the group and
performs 20 ayurveda enemas.
That'll show him.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:
Buck evidently has an aversion to poop which is surprising as he apparently
lives on a farm. Perhaps the
John, I agree that something about it does not feel right though if no force is
involved it seems legal enough. It seems like a win win but is it also a win
for the child? And it definitely indicates an unhealthy imbalance in the world
that a woman would have to earn money by bearing another
Thanks for reinforcing my point, Barry, that it's stupid religionists, not
stupid religion, that's the problem.
The dude who wrote the HuffPo article is a little verklempt. It's not
Evangelicalism per se
that's stupid, it's the stupid people who are Evangelicals.
Barry wrote:
Fundies don't believe they have a right but rather an obligation
to save us from ourselves. They love us so much that they want
us to become like them.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Sorry, forgot to use the Rich
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201311030405/OPINION01/311030029amp;nclick_check=1
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201311030405/OPINION01/311030029amp;nclick_check=1
From reading the article it seems only the husbands sperm was used but a
different donor's egg was fertilized. I would have thought they would have used
the wife's egg coupled with the husband's sperm and then placed in inside the
surrogate mother to incubate it and ultimately birth the baby.
The Great Commission:
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very
end of the age.
— Matthew 28:19,20
Share,
It's a tough question for couples answer whether it's ethical or not to use a
surrogate. But the most immediate concern for them is to have a baby.
For this type of case, Sanjay Rath, the jyotishi, believes it can be justified
since Krishna allows for everything to happen. If
Re This thread is an example of what? Spiritual decorum?:
Spiritual decorum! Well I admit to feeling squeamish about certain bodily
functions myself - you'd never persuade me to try ayurvedic enema therapy.
Although we all know that the story has gone viral because of its
Oh, hmmm, it seems like the U.S. isn't the only country that has problems with
its right wing.
From an article in today's NYTimes entitled, Right Wing’s Surge in Europe Has
the Establishment Rattled:
...All over, established political forces are losing ground to politicians
whom they
Re British surveillance: for me one of the more worrying trends has been the
rise in CCTV cameras everywhere. The newer angle is to have CCTV cameras that
talk back to people. And the novelty was first tried out in my home town of
Middlesbrough!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s94Yu_Io1U
Seraphita wrote:
(snip)
Although we all know that the story has gone viral because of its
sensationalistic
aspects, the fact that agents of the law can subject a free-born citizen to
such an
outrage is a symptom of a spiritual malaise in the body politic.
That's one way to look
X-gens are just hired hands doing the work of the Lard.
They are members of their own Union.
They don't allow non-members to work on their jobs.
If someone should try then their goons will rough 'em up.
Commission”
1. (n.) A responsibility, often discharged as part of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Fundies don't believe they have a right but rather an obligation
to save us from ourselves. They love us so much that they want
us to become like them.
You can use the word fundies if you want; I'll stick with
the word I used -- evangelists. And
The question is: who are the they. Are they aliens from another
planet? If not, then if guvmint then they are our employees and we
need to turn tables and watch them (as we would the employer of any
employee). If they are the corporations, well those need to be broken
up. The acquisition
And just who were the people supposed to vote for? Bomb, bomb Iran
McCain and his Caribou Barbee? Or Tweedledum Romney? We weren't given
much choice were we? You gotta know by now elections are rigged
anymore. Your real enemy is corporate America (go ask Alex Jones about
that). Go look
Part of the problem is the use of an all-purpose term like far-right. I
suppose Nazis and Ayn Rand could both be described as far right but they were
as different as chalk and cheese.
Some of the success of Euro right-wing parties is down to frank racism; some
is down to fears about Islamic
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/wikipedia-zero-data-internet/
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/wikipedia-zero-data-internet/
I don't know how many of you were around on the Internet before it was
called that, and before it had graphical user interfaces in the form of
the World Wide Web.
The
Not the Obamas selling pillows or comforters but this is a review about
a movie which is now available for rent on disc (IOW, cheap!) This was
Roland Emmerich's latest extravaganza which I watched last night on
Bluray. It's a dumb movie of course and filled with the roller coaster
rides we
Barry wrote:
(snip)
You can use the word fundies if you want; I'll stick with
the word I used -- evangelists. And yes, I meant to use that
word, not evangelicals.
Actually the HuffPo article you cited with Bingo! was ranting quite
specifically against Evangelicals, not evangelists.
King Tony's wife takes the children, runs off, and divorces him. When
asked why, she admits to wanting to protect the children from
evangelism, and from being indoctrinated into the TM cult by their
father's obsessive beliefs. Further imagine how she would be treated by
many die-hard TMers.
These days I like to tell religious folks that God is just a
mathematical equation that runs the universe. All religion and
spirituality does is supposedly align you with that equation to keep you
out of harm's way. An analogy might be the mail truck coming down the
street, you know to stay
Ego just means I. The only people I know without
an I are Tralfamadorians.
It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_Trout. It was about a visitor from outer
space... [who] made a serious study of Christianity
noozguru, I saw it at the theater when it came out. I enjoyed it a lot,
especially the girl power angle.
On Saturday, November 9, 2013 11:22 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Not the Obamas selling pillows or comforters but this is a review about
a movie which is now available
Maybe we should just not include his wife and children on a public forum
when we are speculating about Tony.
On 11/9/2013 11:32 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
King Tony's wife takes the children, runs off, and divorces him. When
asked why, she admits to wanting to protect the children from
So, they came out clean. It's quite common in border towns to smuggle
drugs inside body cavities. According to this Pioneer Press headline,
anal probes are ordered after New Mexico traffic stop:
http://www.twincities.com/anal-probes-ordered-after-nm-traffic-stop?
Seraphita, my former mother in law was fond of saying that Ayn Rand was so far
to the right that she actually was on the left. Though I don't agree, I do
think Rand is not easily pigeon holed using contemporary political labels. For
example, anyone familiar with her philosophy would know that
Something I wanted to add. Re it seems like the U.S. isn't the only country
that has problems with its right wing.:
You are, no doubt, well aware that no other country has a right-wing voting
bloc like your US right? The whole religious-right cause has zero appeal
elsewhere - except in
Before there was IMDB there were CDs with movie databases on them. I
had a couple of those. They ran on DOS. Amazon owns IMDB which is why
if a movie is available on disc or streaming it's an Amazon link shown.
Back around 1998 when I was doing some Palm Pilot development they
started
Mike Adams of Natural News blamed the supporters of the anti-GMO
initiative that lost in Washington state for being too nice. They
needed to be meaner and more aggressive as big fooda was able to defeat
the initiative through lies and maybe even fraud. Mike Papantonio, a
lawyer who also
Miss USA has a good chance. It all depends on what she says in the Q and A
portion of the contest. But the competition will be tough this year.
http://content2.catalog.photos.msn.com/ds/ee58ec8f-2275-4bd0-92e2-65a73bab924d.jpg
Of course there are no one-to-one correspondences between right wings, just
some strong similarities on specific issues (in the case of the U.S. and
Europe, the biggie with their right wings seems to be immigration, especially
Muslim immigration). As the article Barry cited points out, the
Well, that's not so much of a problem when you're talking about current right
wings. Historically, they're all over the place.
Seraphita wrote:
Part of the problem is the use of an all-purpose term like far-right. I
suppose Nazis and Ayn Rand could both be described as far right but they
So were you able to just drop the imagine into the rich text editor or
did you convert it to a Base64 encoding and paste it in with the use
HTML checked?
On 11/09/2013 09:40 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ego just means I. The only people I know without
an I are Tralfamadorians.
It was
I just dropped it into the rich text reply and then added the text underneath.
All done in Firefox.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
So were you able to just drop the imagine into the rich text editor or did you
convert it to a Base64 encoding and paste it in
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/146108654X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8tag=biblecodedigestlinkCode=as2camp=217145creative=399373creativeASIN=146108654X
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/146108654X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8tag=biblecodedigestlinkCode=as2camp=217145creative=399373creativeASIN=146108654X
Alert! Alert! Now it can be told.
What I think is hard-wired into the human psyche is
ego, and hubris, and that's what I think is at the root of
such goals, noble as they may seem.
However, such a post is NOT the result of ego and hubris
but is an oracular advent naturally appearing in
Thanks. That'll probably help some other folks who would like to insert
a graphic without using a link. Rich text previously didn't allow that.
On 11/09/2013 02:43 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
I just dropped it into the rich text reply and then added the text
underneath.
All done in
Works with video also ... example is the Orthodox Prelates
doing a Liturgy that I posted the other day.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
Thanks. That'll probably help some other folks who would like to insert a
graphic without using a link. Rich text previously
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Re These days I like to tell religious folks that God is just a mathematical
equation that runs the universe. All religion and spirituality does is
supposedly align you with that equation to keep you out of harm's way.:
This book - Mathematics Through the Eyes of Faith - isn't the type of
Yes, and TM'ers are too damned nice too. The science on meditation is just so
too staggering to not have all our public policy mandate the teaching of
effective meditation in all schools to every child and have quiet-time
meditation in every school every day. It is time to make science-based
So it would be good, to have better writing and more self-editing on FFL.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:
Miss USA has a good chance. It all depends on what she says in the Q and A
portion of the contest. But the competition will be tough this year.
Re Take the so-called Bodhisattva Vow. Essentially, it is declaring to
oneself and to the world one's intention to not allow oneself to become
enlightened oneself until all sentient beings are enlightened.:
There is only the One Self - so there are no others! To become enlightened
is to
Thank you!,
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re This thread is an example of what? Spiritual decorum?:
Spiritual decorum! Well I admit to feeling squeamish about certain bodily
functions myself - you'd never persuade me to try ayurvedic enema therapy.
That woman doesn't have a line or a pore in her face. Maybe she's a mannequin.
Whatever it is it doesn't appear human.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
So it would be good, to have better writing and more self-editing on FFL.
-Buck
---In
Look, obviously without a limit imposed people just post shit here and dilute
the place. It is time to save FFL. Time to bring FFL back. We need to fight
people just dumping whatever they feel on FFL. The list has need for edit, we
just make posting to FFL precious again by bringing back limits
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
Thank you!,
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re This thread is an example of what? Spiritual decorum?:
Spiritual decorum! Well I admit to feeling squeamish about certain bodily
Spiritual decorum!
..a symptom of a spiritual malaise in the body politic.
Thank you!,
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re This thread is an example of what? Spiritual decorum?:
Spiritual decorum! Well I admit to feeling squeamish about
Of course what I'm trying to do is getting to work from email.
On 11/09/2013 03:48 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Works with video also ... example is the Orthodox Prelates
doing a Liturgy that I posted the other day.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
Thanks.
My point was that stupidity is a characteristic of right-wingers . . . The
stupidity has much more to do with a certain inflexible and self-centred
mindset:
Come on! The inflexible mindset is a characteristic shared across the
political spectrum - left, right, centre. And there have, on
Re Take the so-called Bodhisattva Vow. Essentially, it is declaring to
oneself and to the world one's intention to not allow oneself to become
enlightened oneself until all sentient beings are enlightened.:
There is only the One Self - so there are no others! To become enlightened
is to
I mentioned on a recent thread that I've got back pain at the moment. (A rarity
for me.) Actually pain is way too strong a word - it's just an irritating
ache which lasts all day but I don't notice it when I'm distracted - or when I
do my TM session.
What I wanted to ask was: is it the
Buck and Ann,
The winner this year is Miss Venezuela. Doesn't she look like Raquel Welch?
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-crowned-miss-universe-moscow-ceremony-202053448.html
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-crowned-miss-universe-moscow-ceremony-202053448.html
I personally
And just who were the people supposed to vote for?:
They were offered the choice of the Natural Law Party at one time. I think if
people do vote they should always choose a fringe candidate - communist,
fascist, libertarian, laissez-faire capitalist, Trotskyist, . . . anything
that takes
Jeez. Sure there's some inflexibility on both sides, but the mindsets that are
inflexible are different. Xenophobia, e.g., is part of that mindset on the
right, but not on the left. And I'd say xenophobia is very much a self-centered
viewpoint.
As to stupidity, my point, in response to the
Thanks for the update but this specimen still doesn't quite look like a real
woman to me. I wouldn't have pegged you for a watcher of the Miss Universe
contest Jr.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:
Buck and Ann,
The winner this year is Miss Venezuela. Doesn't she
Ann,
How do you define a real woman using your criteria? By the way, there are
many people who watch the Miss Universe contest. I happen to be interested in
it for reasons that you can probably guess. But I didn't watch the show
tonight. I just read the news on the internet and passed
A truly magical selection of photos. I think what makes such striking images so
appealing is that one's fancy immediately starts to search for an imaginary
back story for the people shown. And what poverty-stricken lives - compared to
our affluent age - most of those shown had to live. A
I'm with Ann: That woman doesn't have a line or a pore in her face. Maybe
she's a mannequin. Whatever it is it doesn't appear human: The photo of
Audrey Hepburn posted by TurquoiseB (aka Barry) looks like a fully-paid up
human female, no?
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,
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