date:20131210

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi  wrote:

 This was an outstanding series.  It's a shame that we have to resort
to things like bit torrent to view awesome television like this in the
US.  These moronic IP, trade pacts, and just plain old Hollywood
nonesense prevents us from getting quality programming until too late.

 I was very much pleased by both seasons and totally left wasted by the
ending of Season 2.


Thanks so much for weighing in on this. I sometimes wonder if anyone has
gotten to see any of these Euro classics I report on from time to time.
It is a damned shame that the marketeers keep them from being seen in
their original versions.

As I've said, I gave up on the American ripoff version after two
episodes. It's not that Dianne Kruger is a bad actress, just that she
simply is not in Sofia Helin's league. And the writers of the US version
managed to take everything subtle about the original series and turn it
gross and in-your-face and...well...American.

Watching the original is a very different experience. The writing, the
music, the photography (with its images of the bleak but beautiful
Danish and Swedish landscapes and cityscapes) -- all are superb.

But it's really the acting that makes this series so formidable. I can
say without hesitation that I have probably not seen duo acting of
this caliber since the early days of Ingmar Bergman working with Liv
Ullmann and Max Von Sydow. As noted before, Sofia Helin is beyond
amazing as Saga Noren, portraying one of the most complex and touching
characters I've ever seen onscreen.

But her work is complimented by Kim Bodnia as Martin Rhode. Martin is as
generally outgoing (but with problems) as the Danish cop as Saga is
distant and unemotional (but with even more problems) as the Swedish
cop. The bond that forms between the two of them is tangible, and
touching. Martin becomes literally Saga's only friend, because she is
emotionally incapable of forming relationships with anyone else. And
that, of course, leads to the feeling you had at the end of season 2.

The Wikipedia page on Bron-Broen (WARNING: Avoid the Plot sections for
each season if you plan to see the series, because they're full of
spoilers) says that a season 3 is in the works. I can hardly wait...

[FairfieldLife] This Is What Happens When You Watch Mainstream Media TV News

Be sure to watch the scrolling headlines in the bottom banner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guaLbl_WmVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guaLbl_WmVw

[FairfieldLife] I'll see your religious fanaticism and raise you

Satanists Generously Offer To Build Monument Next To Oklahoma
Statehouse's 10 Commandments Display

http://wonkette.com/536134 http://wonkette.com/536134

[FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Nerd Movie

This 45-year-old film is fascinating (if you're drawn that way), because
the presentation it captured basically created the personal computer
revolution.

In it, Doug Engelbart presented the results of 10 years of research at
Stanford Research Institute, demo-ing the first mouse ever seen, the
first example of WYSIWYG, hypertext, and many things we take for granted
today.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-mother-of-all-\
demos-is-45-years-old-doesnt-look-a-day-over-25/282152/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-mother-of-all\
-demos-is-45-years-old-doesnt-look-a-day-over-25/282152/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

noozguru, that's definitely a vata vitiating movie. I feel cold just
remembering some of the images in it. Good to watch in the summer. I enjoyed it
though.

I'm thinking that humans are a part of the ecosystem. But maybe the diseased
part!

On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:55 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

We may be enjoying The Day After Tomorrow for real. Earth has it's own
ecosystem correction mechanism and humans be damned!

On 12/09/2013 02:08 PM, Share Long wrote:

noozguru, I've definitely gotten more sensitive to the cold as I've gotten
older. Even though I guess I'm still pure pitta! And of course I sit a lot
when I'm at the computer so that doesn't help though there's a radiator only
about 2 feet from the desk. I love to put my gloves on the radiator by the
front door when I come in. And my socks on the radiator upstairs, especially
if they've gotten wet.

Wind chill is definitely a factor in windy FF. The women's Dome is up on a
ridge and sometimes in the morning, I walk from the parking lot clutching my
hood tightly on my head. I'm a wimp!

What I notice about Iowa weather is that it's more erratic now, more sudden
and dramatic changes. and about 20 years ago we had snow on May 1!

On Monday, December 9, 2013 3:46 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

I just got back from my walk which I usually take in the morning but decided
to wait until it warmed up a bit. According to local news it is the coldest
day so far in this cold snap. It is in the low 40s right now but clear skies
and sun. At the house it felt warmer than around the corner at the park where
apparently a wind was coming down the valley creating a wind chill.

When I first moved here in the 1990s
the only real cold days were in
January and might only last for a
week. Now it starts in early
November. I go from shorts and a
t-shirt, skip over the warm-up suit
(mainly wind breaker stuff) and to the
flannel warmups.

On 12/09/2013 12:23 PM, Share Long
wrote:

noozguru, according to cnn weather it's currently -8 in Fairfield. But the
sun is shining so that helps a little. Farmers Almanac, with an 86% accuracy
rate, is predicting a winter of piercing cold. But I don't know if that's for
all the country or just a portion.

On Monday, December 9, 2013 2:06 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

Enjoying the new ice age? It was down in the mid-20s overnight here.
Any below 0's
on FFL?

It's been
almost 10
years since
this article
was posted:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360120/

More or less
based on local
research:
http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Pentagon-sponsored-climate-report-sparks-2791555.php

And more
recently the
bigger
surprise:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/24/scientists-wonder-what-the-weakest-solar-cycle-in-50-years-means-for-eath/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

2013-12-10 Thread sharelong60

I'm nobody! Who are you? I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish -- you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog! 
 
 
 
Emily Dickinson

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

but but but, John, if we should only be concerned about now, then why do we 
study and use jyotish?!





On Monday, December 9, 2013 8:47 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
 
  
Richard,

The present is now and should be the only thing that's important for human 
beings.  The past has already occurred and is irretrievable.  And the future 
will never come.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

2013-12-10 Thread emptybill

Wolf Baiter sez:
  
 Perhaps Richard cares. But then you might be right. What are we? Suppose that 
in reality we are all NOBODY inside, that our personal life is but the stuff 
dreams are made of, a fiction created by mistaking our idea of ourselves for 
something that is real?
 

 Great synopsis of one of Buddhism’s essential point. However, you forgot the 
other important point. Yer supposed to feel sorry for all the schizoids wanting 
to protect that nothing who falsely believe they are something. 

 

 So, feel sorry and start calling your“self” …  Mz. Nothing.

[FairfieldLife] RE: quot;I#39;ll see your religious fanaticism and raise youquot;

2013-12-10 Thread obbajeeba

Signed on just to make sure I remembered my password and to prod the devil 
himself, since you posted most recently. Don't bother to reply because I will 
probably not sign on for another few weeks again and this message will get 
buried somewhere amongst the turq's unabridged infinite void of solitaire in 
the comforts of a three way and a coffee or whore house viewing. Never mind. 
Hugs and kisses.
 -Obba

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  emptybill wrote:

  Wolf Baiter sez:
 
   Perhaps Richard cares. But then you might be right. What are we?
Suppose that in reality we are all NOBODY inside, that our personal life
is but the stuff dreams are made of, a fiction created by mistaking our
idea of ourselves for something that is real?

  Great synopsis of one of Buddhism's essential points. However, you
forgot the other important point. Yer supposed to feel sorry for all the
schizoids wanting to protect that nothing who falsely believe they are
something.

  So, feel sorry and start calling yourself  Mz. Nothing.

Excellent point, Empty. And exactly why it's so difficult for me to find
anything worth reading or replying to on FFL any more. Because of a few
out-of-control ego-selves (who don't exist), the place has degenerated
into non-stop arguments between selves (who don't exist) arguing with
other selves (who don't exist).

I mean, how pathetic does a self (who doesn't exist) have to BE to get
their panties (which probably don't exist, because who would wear them?)
in a twist over something that another self (who doesn't exist) said
about their self (who doesn't exist)?

Much less turn all of this into vendettas and grudges in which a self
(who doesn't exist) gets SO panty-twisted that they start to STALK other
selves (who don't exist), all because one or more of them said something
in cyberspace (which probably doesn't exist) about their self (who
doesn't exist) that they (again, non-existent) don't like or don't agree
with.

It's a major clusterfuck of ego-nonsense. One that is becoming easier to
deal with every day by just treating these panty-twisted selves (who
don't exist) as if they REALLY don't exist. It's not an insult or an
affront. In a way, it's a kind of Buddhist favor, all dripping with
compassion. :-)

I'm treating you (who don't exist) AS IF you don't exist because I'm
trying to remind you (who don't exist) that you really don't. If you
realized that and just lightened up, you'd be a lot happier (even though
'you' don't really exist). And besides, your panties would fit better.

:-)  :-)  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote:

 Wolf Baiter sez:
  
 Perhaps Richard cares. But then you might be right. What are we? Suppose that 
in reality we are all NOBODY inside, that our personal life is but the stuff 
dreams are made of, a fiction created by mistaking our idea of ourselves for 
something that is real?
 

 Great synopsis of one of Buddhism’s essential point. However, you forgot the 
other important point. Yer supposed to feel sorry for all the schizoids wanting 
to protect that nothing who falsely believe they are something. 

 

 So, feel sorry and start calling your“self” …  Mz. Nothing.
 

 Wolf Baiter said no such thing. That was Xeno who said that. You'd never 
hear/see something like that come out of my mouth or off my computer screen. 
See response of mine to what he wrote here:
 

 Dear Xeno, this is as real as it gets. You need to take the bull by its 
proverbial horns and go for a RIDE man. Stop pussyfooting around and pretending 
it is all make-believe, that life is a row, row, row your boat. You are in the 
middle of something big and something powerful and yet you stand by the wayside 
and think it all has nothing to do with you, that there isn't real red 
pulsating blood in them thar veins. But there is and you can pretend all you 
like that concrete isn't hard and rain isn't wet but you're missing the chance 
to ride in the last car of the roller coaster when you live in your head like 
you do. I'd love to spend a day with you, but bring your galoshes and thermos 
of hot chocolate.

[FairfieldLife] Re: I'll see your religious fanaticism and raise you

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:

 Signed on just to make sure I remembered my password and to prod the
devil himself, since you posted most recently. Don't bother to reply
because I will probably not sign on for another few weeks again and this
message will get buried somewhere amongst the turq's unabridged infinite
void of solitaire in the comforts of a three way and a coffee or whore
house viewing. Never mind. Hugs and kisses.
  -Obba

It doesn't matter, Obba. I didn't see your message (which doesn't really
exist) because neither you nor I exist, either.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

2013-12-10 Thread anartaxius

Ann---
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

 Let me rephrase that:
 
 NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if you're posting 
 here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if you have any clients 
 and almost NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. Almost NOBODY.
 

 Can I just say this: NOBODY cares what you wore today. NOBODY cares what your 
face looked like today. NOBODY cares where you drove by during your mundane 
day, NOBODY. Oh, except Sweet Share.

Perhaps Richard cares. But then you might be right. What are we? Suppose that 
in reality we are all NOBODY inside, that our personal life is but the stuff 
dreams are made of, a fiction created by mistaking our idea of ourselves for 
something that  is real?
 

 Dear Xeno, this is as real as it gets. You need to take the bull by its 
proverbial horns and go for a RIDE man. Stop pussyfooting around and pretending 
it is all make-believe, that life is a row, row, row your boat. You are in the 
middle of something big and something powerful and yet you stand by the wayside 
and think it all has nothing to do with you, that there isn't real red 
pulsating blood in them thar veins. But there is and you can pretend all you 
like that concrete isn't hard and rain isn't wet but you're missing the chance 
to ride in the last car of the roller coaster when you live in your head like 
you do. I'd love to spend a day with you, but bring your galoshes and thermos 
of hot chocolate.
 



You are misinterpreting what I am saying. I never imply that concrete is not 
hard, that there is no such thing as physical pain. It's snowing here now, it 
is cold. I made hot chocolate last night. The illusion, if you will, is not 
these experiences, it is how the mind interprets them. It is kind of a 
graduated thing, the further you get from concrete experience and into the more 
abstract realms the mind is capable of thinking, the less likely those thoughts 
are really useful for anything unless there is a way to correlate those 
thoughts with experience (this is how scientists are supposed to proceed). Now 
thoughts get very abstract when talking about consciousness and all this 
spiritual stuff. They mean nothing without the underlying experience to flesh 
them out, and in fact they are, in relation to experience, essentially untrue. 
 

 Most of the psychological suffering people experience has to do with ideas in 
the head about their life - who they think they are and what life is supposed 
to be - ideas that are basically false. It is quite a project to undo these 
ideas; that project is typically called 'the path of enlightenment' wherein one 
examines one's experience from various perspectives (using such devices as 
meditation, etc.) until a point is reached where those false ideas fall away.
 

 I was in New York City the other day, basically to look at a painting by 
Vermeer - 'The Girl with the Pearl Earring' - which is temporarily on loan from 
Europe. A beautiful, not very large, but soft portrait of a young woman, 
considered one of the great paintings of all time. There were also some 
paintings by Rembrandt. Walking back at night to Grand Central Terminal, I was 
on 48th Street and happened to pass by the Fox News Channel headquarters. The 
red news banner was proclaiming that Nelson Mandela had died. His name was not 
visible, but from the text it was unmistakable that they were writing about 
Mandela in the past tense. Now there is someone who experienced an incredible 
life.
 

 Experience has everything to do with everything. You are mistaking what I say 
to mean I am detached. Everything in this world is intimately connected. 
Everything about this world is about the world as a whole. The mistake people 
make is thinking the world is about an individual 'them' being in the world. 
The idea of a personal 'self' is a fiction. It seems real enough until you get 
far enough along on a spiritual path, and then you discover it is not about 
you, it is all about the world as a whole and that interpretation of 'your' 
experience that makes it seem as if you are a separate thing apart from the 
world is just a misinterpretation. 
 

 The whole world is pure existence in all its hard, gritty glory, it is pure 
experience through and through. There is happiness, sadness, elation, 
depression, comfort and pain, but it is not happening to anyone, it is just 
happening. For brevity and convenience, we say 'it is happening to me' but if 
we believe this, we are lost. But to unbelieve it requires something much more 
than denial of the belief, or a pretense of detachment, it requires dismantling 
of the human ego, and that is a rocky trip indeed. The world is all about the 
world in all its variety and that includes the body and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill wrote:
 
  Wolf Baiter sez: 
  
   Perhaps Richard cares. But then you might be right. What are we? Suppose 
   that in reality we are all NOBODY inside, that our personal life is but 
   the stuff dreams are made of, a fiction created by mistaking our idea of 
   ourselves for something that is real? 
 
 Great synopsis of one of Buddhism's essential points. However, you forgot the 
 other important point. Yer supposed to feel sorry for all the schizoids 
 wanting to protect that nothing who falsely believe they are something. 
 
 So, feel sorry and start calling yourself Mz. Nothing.

 Excellent point, Empty. And exactly why it's so difficult for me to find 
anything worth reading or replying to on FFL any more. Because of a few 
out-of-control ego-selves (who don't exist), the place has degenerated into 
non-stop arguments between selves (who don't exist) arguing with other selves 
(who don't exist). 

I mean, how pathetic does a self (who doesn't exist) have to BE to get their 
panties (which probably don't exist, because who would wear them?) in a twist 
over something that another self (who doesn't exist) said about their self (who 
doesn't exist)? 

Much less turn all of this into vendettas and grudges in which a self (who 
doesn't exist) gets SO panty-twisted that they start to STALK other selves (who 
don't exist), all because one or more of them said something in cyberspace 
(which probably doesn't exist) about their self (who doesn't exist) that they 
(again, non-existent) don't like or don't agree with. 

It's a major clusterfuck of ego-nonsense. One that is becoming easier to deal 
with every day by just treating these panty-twisted selves (who don't exist) as 
if they REALLY don't exist. It's not an insult or an affront. In a way, it's a 
kind of Buddhist favor, all dripping with compassion. :-)

I'm treating you (who don't exist) AS IF you don't exist because I'm trying to 
remind you (who don't exist) that you really don't. If you realized that and 
just lightened up, you'd be a lot happier (even though 'you' don't really 
exist). And besides, your panties would fit better.  

:-)  :-)  :-)
 

 Silly, silly man Barry. Get the quotes right, get the writers sorted out on 
who wrote what before you start spewing your usual drek that seems to go on and 
on and on and on and on...

[FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

Science is as much religion, as religion, is. It uncovers measurable results, 
bases theories on them, and proclaims it, truth. Yet another opiate of the 
masses, imo.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

You have to keep in mind that none of us here are scientists, or even 
savants, but based on the tradition that most of us are following, the 
idea that a sound vibration set the universe in motion, it is not a 
stretch to imagine a single sound vibration or throb could easily fit on 
a pin head.


According to Wilber, ...is that story, sung by mystics and sages the 
world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is 
that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and 
fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which 
of those two stories actually sounds totally insane?


Work cited:

'A Brief History of Everything'
By Ken Wilber
Shambhala, 2007
Page 42-3

On 12/9/2013 4:29 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:

It doesn't sound very plausible does it?

[FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

Global Warming could be called climate destabilization, or climate 
polarization, instead. People made the same stupid argument as you have, when 
it was discovered that the Pacific current, that runs down the coast of 
California, is getting cooler. Only later did the reason become obvious - the 
arctic ice cap is melting.

So, yeah, the effects of pouring tons of pollution into the air, don't always 
lead to warmer weather, but it is foolish to conclude that, therefore, there is 
no issue.

[FairfieldLife] RE: A Guaranteed Income for Life

However, with Quantitative Easing going on, and the government printing $85 
billion a month, the money we receive is becoming worth less and less.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

But Richard, isn't it true that the pin head IS a sound vibration so in one 
sense, not need for a fitting?





On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:23 AM, Richard J. Williams 
pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  
You have to keep in mind that none of us here are scientists, or even savants, 
but based on the tradition that most of us are following, the idea that a sound 
vibration set the universe in motion, it is not a stretch to imagine a single 
sound vibration or throb could easily fit on a pin head.

According to Wilber, ...is that story, sung by mystics and sages
  the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story,
  which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full
  of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very
  carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally
  insane?

Work cited:

'A Brief History of Everything'
By Ken Wilber
Shambhala, 2007
Page 42-3

On 12/9/2013 4:29 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:

It doesn't sound very plausible does it?

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear


The rent is too damn high!

It's usually 100 degrees in the shade around here and I like wearing my 
$149 leather jacket at least once or twice a year. If I want to sweat, 
I'll go to a sweat lodge, naked. Most of the time I wear a nice 
Hawaiian shirt -  and they are all silk sent to me from my friend over 
in Thailand.


On 12/9/2013 7:57 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Re Today, I wore a leather jacket, black; and a sweater underneath, 
blue; and boots, brown; and a wooly cap, navy, pulled down over my 
ears. And, that's when I was inside my home office.:



Why not turn up the heating? Then you could wear a silk shirt and 
linen slacks and feel unrestricted.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: We can all feel safer now...

Around here you could get arrested if you were seen carrying a a fake 
weapon that looks like the real deal.


Let me repeat:

 A basic rule around here is to NEVER show your weapon until you are 
forced to use it. And NEVER EVER take a fake, plastic gun to a gun fight 
at the OK corral.


On 12/9/2013 8:05 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


A basic rule around here is to NEVER tell anyone that are carrying a 
concealed weapon. Another basic rule of self defense around here is to 
NEVER show your weapon until you are forced to use it. And, you should 
NEVER take a knife to a gun fight at the OK corral. LoL!



But is it OK to carry a fake gun that looks like the real deal? That 
way you don't need a permit and can use it to scare off a potential 
attack. It sounds like an inexpensive and effective deterrent to me. 
(Of course, if you're up against a mugger wired on angel dust or 
methamphetamine you're out of luck.)



I'd rather jump a gun than a knife -  Jimmy Hoffa

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

Thanks, Doc, I didn't have this understanding before, but it makes sense. I 
like the phrase climate destabilization too. Something else I never heard til 
your post!





On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:26 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com 
doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
 
  
Global Warming could be called climate destabilization, or climate 
polarization, instead. People made the same stupid argument as you have, when 
it was discovered that the Pacific current, that runs down the coast of 
California, is getting cooler. Only later did the reason become obvious - the 
arctic ice cap is melting.

So, yeah, the effects of pouring tons of pollution into the air, don't always 
lead to warmer weather, but it is foolish to conclude that, therefore, there is 
no issue.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

Thanks - you need to get out more. ;-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but 
it's hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The 
problem isn't so much what the respondents here think about your handle 
and your email address - it's what your clients think about it when they 
find out you're posting here at all. Go figure.


On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know. *



*Richard wrote:*

 The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name 
as a handle and including your business email address in order to 
advertise your services. That's against the FFL rule about posting 
spam to the group. It's even worse if you're using someone else's 
business name. That's real serious!

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

Doc, I might get out today as we're having a heat wave. It was at 15F this 
morning! Actually have already been to group program but that probably doesn't 
count as getting out (-:





On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:42 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com 
doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
 
  
Thanks - you need to get out more. ;-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

You're sounding JELLOS, but I am retired now, so I do have lot's of time 
on my hands. I can always depend on your to respond, but are you retired 
too?


On 12/9/2013 8:30 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:

This is a man who has far too much free time on his hands.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Barry always describes negative situations, with which he is intimately 
evolved, and often a causal partner, as if he is observing them from a 
distance. 

I think its called hypocrisy.:-) :-) :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

2013-12-10 Thread sharelong60

But wait a minute, Richard! Way over on that other thread Time Doesn't 
Exist..., they concluded that time is an illusion! Signed, the other retired 
non self on FFL (-:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Well Ann, I didn't make up the rules around here and I didn't start this 
thread either. But, I did post this from my home office and I used my 
real name, so it looks like I'm guilty on all charges. The only 
difference is, I don't charge anything for offering my opinions like a 
professional editor would be doing. LoL!


But, I have been picked on a lot by Judy, for no apparent reason that I 
can tell. If she thinks I told an untruth, why won't she just point it 
out so we can all read it and decide for ourselves? It's one thing to 
post slander, but why does Judy have to be a hypocrite as well? Go figure.


On 12/9/2013 8:37 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

Let's get serious.

So, why would anybody care if anyone else is posting from home; or 
from their living room; or from their kitchen; or from a cafe in 
Paris, FR; or from a Dairy Queen in Paris, TX; or even posting from a 
parking lot on a cell phone Walmart in Deadwood, SD?


Now, I can understand why someone might get defensive if anyone found 
out they were posting to a chat room from their place of employ; or if 
you're charging clients by the hour and posting from your home office 
when you should be doing work. That's some serious posting!


But, if you're getting paid by the piece, it should be no problem - 
lot's of people are able to multi-task all day and all night and make 
an honest living and send posts at all hours.


The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name as 
a handle and including your business email address in order to 
advertise your services. That's against the FFL rule about posting 
spam to the group. It's even worse if you're using someone else's 
business name. That's real serious!


As serious as it gets Ricky. I, for one, will distribute the mandatory 
pitchforks, you can organize the burning torches. BTW, were you picked 
on as a kid and now use FFL as a way to get back at the world for 
having allowed yourself to have been tortured to death as a child by 
some aberrant neighbor or older sibling? You certainly seem like a guy 
with a rather large, shall we say, chip on their shoulder. I first 
noticed it with MJ.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa


Let me rephrase that:

NOBODY cares if you care what Share cares about. NOBODY.

On 12/9/2013 8:44 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

Let me rephrase that:

NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if you're 
posting
here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if you have any 
clients

and almost NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. Almost NOBODY.

Can I just say this: NOBODY cares what you wore today. NOBODY cares 
what your face looked like today. NOBODY cares where you drove by 
during your mundane day, NOBODY. Oh, except Sweet Share.



On 12/9/2013 1:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote:


 Let's make this real simple so everyone understands:

 NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if you're
 posting here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if you 
have

 any clients and NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. NOBODY.


/*I dunno, Richard. I, for one, would love to see her come up with 
this detailed refuation she's been crowing about for so long.


So, speaking in my capacity as someone other than Xeno who takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, I want one.


Failure to produce one will prove Judy a liar, because she made that 
very offer just below.


I expect exact quotes, URLs, and citations. Maybe even a bibliography 
and footnotes. :-)

*/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Richard, Ann was talking about Sweet Share (-:




On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams 
pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  
Let me rephrase that:

NOBODY cares if you care what Share cares about. NOBODY.

On 12/9/2013 8:44 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:

  


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:


Let me rephrase that:

NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY
  cares if you're posting 
here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares
  if you have any clients 
and almost NOBODY cares if you post anything or not.
  Almost NOBODY.


Can I just say this: NOBODY cares what you wore today. NOBODY cares what your 
face looked like today. NOBODY cares where you drove by during your mundane 
day, NOBODY. Oh, except Sweet Share.


On 12/9/2013 1:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:  
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote:

 Let's make this real simple so everyone
understands:
 
 NOBODY cares that you're working from home
and NOBODY cares if you're 
 posting here in between working for clients
and NOBODY cares if you have 
 any clients and NOBODY cares if you post
anything or not. NOBODY.


I dunno, Richard. I, for one, would love to see her come up with this 
detailed refuation she's been crowing about for so long. 

So, speaking in my capacity as someone
  other than Xeno who takes Richard
  seriously enough to want a detailed
  refutation, I want one. 

Failure to produce one will prove Judy a
  liar, because she made that very offer
  just below. 

I expect exact quotes, URLs, and
  citations. Maybe even a bibliography and
  footnotes. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams  wrote:

 Let me rephrase that:

 NOBODY cares if you care what Share cares about. NOBODY.

I just thought it was funny, that's all. The crazy old coot does this
all the time -- claim that she *could* document something to prove how
RIGHT she is and how WRONG (or LYING) someone else is -- but never has
any intention of actually doing it. So I figured I'd take advantage of
her blanket offer to see if she'd actually be able to come up with the
detailed refutation she claimed to be able to write. As I suspected,
she wasn't. It was just more lame-o He's lying bullshit.

More people should call her on this crap. Then as she floundered around
trying to get her own petard out of her ass, *perhaps* there might be
something about her interesting enough to at least laugh at.  :-)

 On 12/9/2013 8:44 PM, awoelflebater@... wrote:
 
  ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@ wrote:
 
  Let me rephrase that:
 
  NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if
you're
  posting
  here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if you have any
  clients
  and almost NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. Almost NOBODY.
 
  Can I just say this: NOBODY cares what you wore today. NOBODY cares
  what your face looked like today. NOBODY cares where you drove by
  during your mundane day, NOBODY. Oh, except Sweet Share.
 
  On 12/9/2013 1:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

   Let's make this real simple so everyone understands:
  
   NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if
you're
   posting here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if
you
  have
   any clients and NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. NOBODY.
 
 
  /*I dunno, Richard. I, for one, would love to see her come up with
  this detailed refuation she's been crowing about for so long.
 
  So, speaking in my capacity as someone other than Xeno who takes
  Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, I want
one.
 
  Failure to produce one will prove Judy a liar, because she made
that
  very offer just below.
 
  I expect exact quotes, URLs, and citations. Maybe even a
bibliography
  and footnotes. :-)
  */

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

Good point. Around here, all you have to do is bundle up in some warm 
clothes for a few days.


Just before the cold spell hit here, my AC went on the blink, so I 
called Jon Wayne Heating and Air Conditioning. They charge $100.00 just 
to show up and the cost goes up from there. And who can trust those guys 
anyway?


Since I didn't need the AC for a week or so, I put off calling until a 
few days ago. Then, I got Sam Diego to come over and he found a dead 
capacitor in the unit. He charged me $29.50 for the service call. The AC 
works great now, if I need it.


The rent is too damn high!


On 12/9/2013 8:46 PM, Bhairitu wrote:


And get a big heating bill next month.  I have a space heater if I 
really need it.  My furnace needs a tune up but no one around here 
seems to know anyone honest about those things and it needs to be done 
in the fall as right now they're busy fixing ones that have broken 
down.  As it is the house is set for 65 degrees most of the day and 
evening.


On 12/09/2013 05:57 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Re Today, I wore a leather jacket, black; and a sweater underneath, 
blue; and boots, brown; and a wooly cap, navy, pulled down over my 
ears. And, that's when I was inside my home office.:



Why not turn up the heating? Then you could wear a silk shirt and 
linen slacks and feel unrestricted.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fealty, Neganauts, and #39;Dissolute#39; life

So, what would MMY's sexual activty, or lack of it, have to do with your 
spiritual progress on the path to being a siddha? Go figure.

So far as I can tell, there is not one single shred of evidence that MMY 
engaged in any improper sexual activities relating to his relations with 
his students. But, even assuming that MMY did engage in acts of a 
private, sexual nature, why do you suppose some ankle-biters would want 
to dwell on the unsubstantiated rumors contained in a paperback book? It 
just doesn't make any sense.

It is interesting that, in contrast to the confessions of Judith 
Bourque, another previous MMY secretary, Conny Larsson, writes nothing 
about any observed personal sexual activities pertaining to MMY. Judith 
was a TM meditator who was initated in Sweden alomg with Conny Larsson. 
Her experiences with the TM technique inspired her to enroll in the 
Maharishi's teacher training course at his academy in India. So, in 
Judith travelled to India to study under the Maharishi and to become a 
TM Teacher - this was at the 1968 Rishikesh TTC.

According to Bourque, she became more than just a student at the academy 
- she became the Maharishi's private secretary and more. In fact, Judith 
says she fell in love with the Maharishi! At the completion of the 
course Judith was appointed to be the Maharishi's private secretary, 
although Judith had exactly zero experience or training to do 
secretarial work having no training higher than that of a clerk, if 
that. Go figure.

So, Bourque spent two years working for the MMY, first at the TTC in 
Rishikesh in 1968, and later in Switzerland, until TTC 1970. According 
to Bourque, she had sexual relations with the him, on numerous occasions 
during that time.

Apparently she was infatuated with MMY. As part of her compensation MMY 
bought her a few saris and some jewelry to wear in order to cover up her 
nakedness. She was one of the Maharishi's 'inner circle', which included 
Jerry Jarvis and Ms. Jemima Pittman. This was after the Beatles and 
after the formation of SIMS.

But, the real question is: Is there anything wrong with getting naked 
and having naked sex on a bear-skin rug? Why not just be open about it 
and tell everyone you want to screw the guru so you can get closer to 
him than anyone else - get some power so you can boss people around?

Work cited:

'Robes of Silk Feet of Clay'
By Judith Bourque
p. 34

Ned to Casey:
FairfieldLife/message/251652

Other titles of interest:

'God's Little Clown'
By Conny Larsson

On 12/9/2013 10:44 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 The next biggest favor I ever got was when Rick shared here on FFL and 
 with me in a couple messages he reasons for believing Marshy was a 
 sexual active person

[FairfieldLife] MMY's Tantra

How convenient - Bill neglected to offer up a definition of tantrika. 
Apparently he doesn't want to talk about the elephant in the room. 
According to New Wynn, MMY broke the sacred trust, the rule that bonds 
guru and disciple. This then brings up the question of why most of the 
respondents here do not see fit to defend the tantric practices of their 
teacher, MMY. Read, Rick, Judy, Joe, and Vaj. Go figure.

So, let's review what we know about tantra.

The prefix tan in Sanskrit means to elaborate and tra which means 
a tool. So, tantra is a set of tools for the attainment of 
self-realization. Tantra is whatever is used in the pursuit of the 
attainment of spiritual reality, for example mantra, yantra, puja, 
pradakshina, etc. Tantra is thus a toolbox that provides the means for 
spiritual practice.

So, tantra is called tantra because it elaborates on esoteric and 
profound practices, especially relating to the principles of spiritual 
realization (tattva) by the use of sacred mantras and because it 
provides the tools for human liberation.

In fact, Rama was probably one of the most intelligent tantric teachers 
that we know about, based on his education and on his writings. 
Likewise, MMY was probably one of the most insightful tantric teachers 
in the last 100 years. Go figure.

According to White, Tantra is that Asian body of beliefs and practices 
which, working from the principle that the universe we experience is 
nothing other than the concrete manifestation of the divine energy of 
the godhead that creates and maintains that universe, seeks to ritually 
appropriate and channel that energy, within the human microcosm, in 
creative and emancipatory ways.

So, who is a tantrika? So, it should be taken for granted that the Zen 
Master Rama was a tantric practitioner and so was MMY. Based on this 
definition, all TMers are tantrics, because they depend on the use of 
secret mantras as tools for realizing an enlightened state. Anyone that 
uses a systematic program of spiritual practice should be called a 
tantrika.

Works cited:

'Tantra in Practice'
by David Gordon White
Princeton University Press
p. 9

'Transcendent in America'
By Lola Williamson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra

[FairfieldLife] RE: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa



 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 
 Let me rephrase that:
 
 NOBODY cares if you care what Share cares about. NOBODY.

 I just thought it was funny, that's all. The crazy old coot does this all the 
time -- claim that she *could* document something to prove how RIGHT she is and 
how WRONG (or LYING) someone else is -- but never has any intention of actually 
doing it. So I figured I'd take advantage of her blanket offer to see if she'd 
actually be able to come up with the detailed refutation she claimed to be 
able to write. As I suspected, she wasn't. It was just more lame-o He's lying 
bullshit. 
 

 The really funny thing is, Bawwy, that no one has to prove anything with 
regard to your bullshit, lying and otherwise mean-spiritedness because you 
continue to give us concrete examples of this every waking moment. FFL is full 
of it and as long as you continue to find it fun and exciting and fulfilling to 
be here it will continue to be full of it.

More people should call her on this crap. Then as she floundered around trying 
to get her own petard out of her ass, *perhaps* there might be something about 
her interesting enough to at least laugh at.  :-)

  On 12/9/2013 8:44 PM, awoelflebater@... wrote:
 
  ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@ wrote:
 
  Let me rephrase that:
 
  NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if you're 
  posting
  here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if you have any 
  clients
  and almost NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. Almost NOBODY.
 
  Can I just say this: NOBODY cares what you wore today. NOBODY cares 
  what your face looked like today. NOBODY cares where you drove by 
  during your mundane day, NOBODY. Oh, except Sweet Share.
 
  On 12/9/2013 1:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 

   Let's make this real simple so everyone understands:
  
   NOBODY cares that you're working from home and NOBODY cares if you're
   posting here in between working for clients and NOBODY cares if you 
  have
   any clients and NOBODY cares if you post anything or not. NOBODY.
 
 
  /*I dunno, Richard. I, for one, would love to see her come up with 
  this detailed refuation she's been crowing about for so long.
 
  So, speaking in my capacity as someone other than Xeno who takes 
  Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, I want one.
 
  Failure to produce one will prove Judy a liar, because she made that 
  very offer just below.
 
  I expect exact quotes, URLs, and citations. Maybe even a bibliography 
  and footnotes. :-)
  */

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 

 
Richard trolled:

 Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but it's 
hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The problem isn't so 
much what the respondents here think about your handle and your email address - 
it's what your clients think about it when they find out you're posting here at 
all. Go figure.
 
 On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard wrote:
 
  The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name as a 
  handle and including your business email address in order to advertise your 
  services. That's against the FFL rule about posting spam to the group. It's 
  even worse if you're using someone else's business name. That's real serious!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Interesting, but not at all unexpected. After I'd refuted Richard's accusation 
that I had fibbed, with documentation, I asked explicitly if anyone could 
still detect any fibs.
 

 Barry couldn't, of course, because there weren't any (duh).
 

 I had done exactly what I had promised to do. So there's Barry, hoist on his 
own petard, with egg dripping down his face, as usual. And as usual, he simply 
tells his own fibs and pretends his hopeful fantasy was the reality.
 

 Offer is still open, for anybody, including Barry (but not including Richard 
or Xeno) to find any fibs either in what I had said originally or in my 
refutation. But you need to specify what the purported fibs are rather than 
just declare you found some.
 

 While I'm at it, another REEELY STOPID fib Barry tells in the post I'm 
commenting on is that I claim to be able to document what I say but never do. 
Anyone who actually reads my posts knows that I do it frequently, most recently 
with Share (and not the only time I've done it with her either), and countless 
times with Barry. Neither of them is capable of admitting they've been caught 
telling falsehoods.
 

 Another offer: Anyone (except Richard and Xeno, but including Barry) who wants 
to go back to any of Richard's previous (or subsequent) posts that I've 
responded to with the macro I started using awhile back and demand to see the 
refutations I promised is welcome to do so. This current one wasn't all that 
detailed because Richard's fibs weren't that detailed.
 

 I use the macro because it's not possible to rationally engage with Richard, 
as many folks here have discovered. He isn't interested in rational engagement, 
only in trolling, and in extending an initial troll for as long as he can 
possibly keep it going. The only way to deal with him is simply to refuse to 
play his game and make him play it with himself.
 

 Barry fibbed:. 
 

 I just thought it was funny, that's all. The crazy old coot does this all the 
time -- claim that she *could* document something to prove how RIGHT she is and 
how WRONG (or LYING) someone else is -- but never has any intention of actually 
doing it. So I figured I'd take advantage of her blanket offer to see if she'd 
actually be able to come up with the detailed refutation she claimed to be 
able to write. As I suspected, she wasn't. It was just more lame-o He's lying 
bullshit. 

More people should call her on this crap. Then as she floundered around trying 
to get her own petard out of her ass, *perhaps* there might be something about 
her interesting enough to at least laugh at.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Ann, I have a hunch that by Wolf Baiter, empty isn't referring to you but to 
Xeno, who baited you. I.e., you da wolf, Xeno da baiter.
 

 empty wrote:
 

  Wolf Baiter sez:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.

 

 Richard trolled:
 
  Well Ann, I didn't make up the rules around here and I didn't start this 
  thread either. But, I did post this from my home office and I used my real 
  name, so it looks like I'm guilty on all charges. The only difference is, I 
  don't charge anything for offering my opinions like a professional editor 
  would be doing. LoL!
 
 But, I have been picked on a lot by Judy, for no apparent reason that I can 
 tell. If she thinks I told an untruth, why won't she just point it out so we 
 can all read it and decide for ourselves? It's one thing to post slander, but 
 why does Judy have to be a hypocrite as well? Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

2013-12-10 Thread emilymaenot

Dear Sharry:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOqu079hyg 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOqu079hyg

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Bron-Broen, season 2

The problem with bit torrent is that it implicates you in the piracy 
because to get any decent download speed you have to open a port so the 
packets you've received can be sent out.  I don't think you can be 
prosecuted for watching it on a site like DailyMotion or YouTube 
though.  And of course nowadays you can just broadcast what is on the 
browser to your TV.


On 12/09/2013 09:44 PM, ultrarishi wrote:


This was an outstanding series.  It's a shame that we have to resort 
to things like bit torrent to view awesome television like this in the 
US.  These moronic IP, trade pacts, and just plain old Hollywood 
nonesense prevents us from getting quality programming until too late.


I was very much pleased by both seasons and totally left wasted by the 
ending of Season 2.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bron-Broen, season 2

It's an okay show, however the US version was written by the same folks 
who did the Danish version. They also got more budget to work with.  A 
lot of the dialog was even the same. I liked the US version too.


It's hard to say who the culprits are in distribution.  It could be the 
Danish network itself that didn't want  to let go of the rights.  But 
then FX might have demanded as part of the deal it couldn't be released 
in the US.  Stupid because only a small percent of US viewers, those of 
us who like indie and foreign film, would want to watch a show with 
subtitles.  Sometimes these shows like the original version of The 
Killing are available via DVD but they are Region 2 encoded (not to 
mention overpriced) on Amazon.  Some of us have players that are region 
free.


On 12/10/2013 01:04 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote:

 This was an outstanding series. It's a shame that we have to resort 
to things like bit torrent to view awesome television like this in the 
US. These moronic IP, trade pacts, and just plain old Hollywood 
nonesense prevents us from getting quality programming until too late.


 I was very much pleased by both seasons and totally left wasted by 
the ending of Season 2.



*/Thanks so much for weighing in on this. I sometimes wonder if anyone 
has gotten to see any of these Euro classics I report on from time to 
time. It is a damned shame that the marketeers keep them from being 
seen in their original versions.


As I've said, I gave up on the American ripoff version after two 
episodes. It's not that Dianne Kruger is a bad actress, just that she 
simply is not in Sofia Helin's league. And the writers of the US 
version managed to take everything subtle about the original series 
and turn it gross and in-your-face and...well...American.


Watching the original is a very different experience. The writing, the 
music, the photography (with its images of the bleak but /**/beautiful 
Danish and Swedish landscapes and cityscapes) -- all are superb.


But it's really the acting that makes this series so formidable. I can 
say without hesitation that I have probably not seen duo acting of 
this caliber since the early days of Ingmar Bergman working with Liv 
Ullmann and Max Von Sydow. As noted before, Sofia Helin is beyond 
amazing as Saga Noren, portraying one of the most complex and touching 
characters I've ever seen onscreen.


But her work is complimented by Kim Bodnia as Martin Rhode. Martin is 
as generally outgoing (but with problems) as the Danish cop as Saga is 
distant and unemotional (but with even more problems) as the Swedish 
cop. The bond that forms between the two of them is tangible, and 
touching. Martin becomes literally Saga's only friend, because she is 
emotionally incapable of forming relationships with anyone else. And 
that, of course, leads to the feeling you had at the end of season 2.


The Wikipedia page on Bron-Broen (WARNING: _Avoid_ the Plot sections 
for each season if you plan to see the series, because they're full of 
spoilers) says that a season 3 is in the works. I can hardly wait...





/*

[FairfieldLife] Viral hoaxes: Truth takes a beating

Story in the NYTimes today about viral hoaxes, focusing on the one about the 
crazy lady on the plane that Barry was taken in by and used in one of of his 
endless obsessive attempts to stalk me. Says the perp:

 

 “I really have an issue with the word hoax,” said Mr. Gale, who says nobody 
called him to verify his story. “I was broadcasting to my followers who know 
what I do. It’s the people who reported it who are deceiving their audience.”
 

 Needless to say, Barry hasn't admitted the story he posted with such glee 
turned out to be a hoax.
 

 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/business/media/if-a-story-is-viral-truth-may-be-taking-a-beating.html
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/business/media/if-a-story-is-viral-truth-may-be-taking-a-beating.html

[FairfieldLife] Clickbait

...The more conscious people become that by passing something along they're 
not so much participants in a beautiful collective celebration of our shared 
humanity, but are instead part of an intentionally constructed attempt at 
content viralization, the less they'll want to be a part of it. Because after 
all, one of the hallmarks of not just Millennials but the couple of older 
generations going back at least as far as Generation X is media savvy, or at 
least the desire for media savvy. We all want to think we're immune to 
advertising's manipulations and we don't get suckered by even the cleverest 
marketing campaigns. When you go to Buzzfeed, at least you can say, This site 
does real journalism, and they also make a lot of funny lists, and there's no 
harm in spending a few minutes looking at celebrities' yearbook photos. But on 
some of these other sites, it's hard not to become aware very quickly that 
they're trying to enlist you in a campaign. Even if it isn't to sell some new 
product, at the very least it's a campaign to get other people to come to that 
page and generate page views and ad revenue. You're no longer a thinking 
reader, you're an unpaid member of their advertising sales staff.
 

 Read more:
 

 
http://prospect.org/article/insert-headline-guaranteed-to-draw-massive-clicks-here
 
http://prospect.org/article/insert-headline-guaranteed-to-draw-massive-clicks-here

 

 Also see:
 

 http://www.upworthygenerator.com/ http://www.upworthygenerator.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

My place was prepped for central air so I got an estimate from the 
company that set it up originally and because it would need an 
electrical upgrade it would have cost $5500 to put in.  That was over 10 
years ago so I'm sure it would cost a lot more now.  Not too sure how 
well it would help with heat. I had central air in the apartment I moved 
from.


The furnace here is natural gas as is the water heater.  A heat pump 
doesn't cost that much so most of that installation bill was for the 
electrical upgrade and installing the pump outside. However if it was 
worth doing the prior owner would have done it. She told me she barely 
had to run the AC in the summer and that unit still works though I would 
love to replace it too.  That would only cost around $800 for a quiet 
through the wall with remote.


On 12/09/2013 08:32 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Nah, our heat pump decides that.


Heat pumps - what the hell are they? Don't you have central heating? 
Don't let the machines boss you around; they should be our servants.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

noozguru, what's good about a window air conditioner in the bedroom is that I 
run its fan every night all winter so that fresh air is coming into the room 
while I sleep. But in the summer when I have it on AC mode, it tends to be 
noisy and then I wish for central AC. 





On Monday, December 9, 2013 7:57 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com 
s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
Re Today, I wore a leather jacket, black; and a sweater underneath, blue; and 
boots, brown; and a wooly cap, navy, pulled down over my ears. And, that's when 
I was inside my home office.:


Why not turn up the heating? Then you could wear a silk shirt and linen slacks 
and feel unrestricted.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bron-Broen, season 2

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 It's an okay show, however the US version was written by the same
folks
 who did the Danish version. They also got more budget to work with.  A
 lot of the dialog was even the same. I liked the US version too.

Taste is relative, and yours is no relative of mine. :-)

More seriously, I can imagine that there must have been good parts in
the US version. It's just that I couldn't get past the heavy-handed
Americanism of it to give a shit about any of the characters, so I
stopped watching after episode 2. Most were caricatures, not characters,
especially those supposed to be Mexican.

If the original writers did this, I simply have to assume that they knew
as little about both America and Mexico as most Americans would know
about Sweden and Denmark.

 It's hard to say who the culprits are in distribution.  It could be
the
 Danish network itself that didn't want  to let go of the rights.  But
 then FX might have demanded as part of the deal it couldn't be
released
 in the US.  Stupid because only a small percent of US viewers, those
of
 us who like indie and foreign film, would want to watch a show with
 subtitles.  Sometimes these shows like the original version of The
 Killing are available via DVD but they are Region 2 encoded (not to
 mention overpriced) on Amazon.  Some of us have players that are
region
 free.

Indeed, it's hard to tell where the fault lies in things like this.
Wherever it lies, I hold those parties responsible for keeping folks in
the US who are interested in seeing the original of a good series from
doing so.

This It's good, so we've gotta remake it mindset demonstrates IMO not
only a poverty of marketing imagination (negating those of us who don't
mind subtitles), but a poverty of creative imagination as well. They
literally can't think up any good ideas of their own (or not enough of
them, at any rate), so they rip off ideas that have been popular
elsewhere.

I still refuse to see a Harvey Keitel movie after the butchering he gave
to the lead character in the terrible American remake of Life On Mars.
That has to rank at the top of my Worst Remakes Of All Time list.

As for DVD players that have been hacked to be region-free, it's IMO the
only way to go if you are a film lover. Many classic films are no longer
available in Region 1 releases, so if you want them, you have to go
elsewhere. And out of the box, your player won't play them, because
lawyers made the manufacturers set them to Region 1 Only.

In many cases, all that is required to do it for many models is to enter
a specific sekrit code (to set it to Region 0, or Don't bother
checking) on the unit's remote control. The sekrit codes themselves can
be found for most devices on the Net by Googling region free. About
half of my remaining DVDs are Region 1 (America), but the rest come from
all over the world, and I've never had the least bit of trouble playing
them on my hacked Samsung player.

 On 12/10/2013 01:04 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote:
  
   This was an outstanding series. It's a shame that we have to
resort
  to things like bit torrent to view awesome television like this in
the
  US. These moronic IP, trade pacts, and just plain old Hollywood
  nonesense prevents us from getting quality programming until too
late.
  
   I was very much pleased by both seasons and totally left wasted by
  the ending of Season 2.
 
 
  */Thanks so much for weighing in on this. I sometimes wonder if
anyone
  has gotten to see any of these Euro classics I report on from time
to
  time. It is a damned shame that the marketeers keep them from being
  seen in their original versions.
 
  As I've said, I gave up on the American ripoff version after two
  episodes. It's not that Dianne Kruger is a bad actress, just that
she
  simply is not in Sofia Helin's league. And the writers of the US
  version managed to take everything subtle about the original series
  and turn it gross and in-your-face and...well...American.
 
  Watching the original is a very different experience. The writing,
the
  music, the photography (with its images of the bleak but
/**/beautiful
  Danish and Swedish landscapes and cityscapes) -- all are superb.
 
  But it's really the acting that makes this series so formidable. I
can
  say without hesitation that I have probably not seen duo acting of
  this caliber since the early days of Ingmar Bergman working with Liv
  Ullmann and Max Von Sydow. As noted before, Sofia Helin is beyond
  amazing as Saga Noren, portraying one of the most complex and
touching
  characters I've ever seen onscreen.
 
  But her work is complimented by Kim Bodnia as Martin Rhode. Martin
is
  as generally outgoing (but with problems) as the Danish cop as Saga
is
  distant and unemotional (but with even more problems) as the Swedish
  cop. The bond that forms between the two of them is tangible, and
  touching. Martin becomes literally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chromebook Review

2013-12-10 Thread Richard Williams

For users of Google's $35 Chromecast dongle, the inclusion of HBO Go was
pretty much the final piece of the holy streaming trifecta (the others
being Netflix and Hulu Plus).

'Google Chromecast adds ten new apps to its streaming arsenal'
http://www.engadget.com/google-chromecasthttp://www.engadget.com/2013/12/10/google-chromecast-adds-ten-new-apps-to-its-streaming-arsenal/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0589

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

I've been using my Chromebook laptop with the Chromecast USB device and it
works well. The Chrome Browser provided the interface I always wanted to
manage my streaming media from Amazon, Netflix and Hulu using a Wi-Fi home
connection. I've also been using Google Mail for several years and you
can't beat Google Search. On my Chromebook, I can use Google Apps like
Google Docs and Pixeltr for editing images - they are free.

And, I get several gigabytes of free space from Google on the cloud for
two years, where I can store all my stuff. I can access my stuff from any
computer anywhere and anytime I want to. And, I don't need to buy any
expensive Microsoft software or Norton Anti-virus. My Chromebook is very
light-weight and boots up almost instantly with the SSD inside. And, with
this 4th generation Chromebook, I can work on apps even when I'm not on the
web.

What's not to like? I hate chiclet keyboards on these kinds of machines,
but I can live with it, since most laptops have them these days. I can't
stand entering data on any tablet or device using a touch screen keyboard!
(I've still got my old 15 inch IBM Thinkpad with it's great keyboard, but
it weighs a ton and takes eternity to boot up.)

Did I tell you the Acer Chromebook costs only $199.00?

It’s pretty much a brick, says Pawn Stars’ Rick Harrison as he rejects a
Samsung Chromebook brought in by an actor playing a customer. Microsoft
really does not want you buying this thing. But why? Just how big of a
threat are Chromebooks, Google’s oft-ridiculed web-only laptops, to
Microsoft’s core business?

'Why is Microsoft scared of Chromebooks?'

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5181974/why-is-microsoft-scared-of-chromebooks

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

So,why is Microsoft worried about Chromebooks? Because it can see the
writing on the wall?

Microsoft wants you to believe that you can't do anything with a
Chromebook when you're offline. That's just plain wrong at this point.

'Microsoft Should Be Worried About Google’s Chromebooks'
http://techcrunch.com/about-googles-chromebookshttp://techcrunch.com/2013/12/01/microsoft-should-be-worried-about-googles-chromebooks/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0591

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

P.S. The Acer Chromebook C7 (Model 720-2802) with 2GB memory and 16GB
solid state drive, an 1.4 GHz Intel dual-core Celeron processor, with an HD
graphics chip, is a 4th generation Chromebook, NOT to be confused with the
Acer C7 Chromebook, the one with the 320 GB hard drive and 4GB of memory.

'Microsoft Hires ‘Pawn Stars’ to Bash Google Chromebooks'

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/26/microsoft-hires-pawn-stars-to-bash-google-chromebooks/?mod=yahoo_hs

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

[image: Inline image 1]
Chromebook

The Acer Chromebook is a laptop computer which runs on the Chrome OS,
(which is based on Unix). The Chromebook does not run any Windows software,
only applications designed for the Chrome OS. There are hundreds, if not
thousands, of Google apps to choose from at the Google Store - there's even
an app for photo editing, (you can also install Linux on the Chromebook).
Google OS is open source. You don't have to buy any expensive software to
use for personal productivity tools.

It's a dual-core machine with an 11.2 inch screen and is very light
weight, almost like an Ultrabook. It has a solid-state drive inside and
boots up almost instantly. Battery life is very long because it doesn't
have a mechanical hard disk inside. So, there's hardly anything to wear
out.

The Chromebook automatically updates the OS every time you boot up and
most of the software is free: the Google Chrome web browser, Google Docs,
Google Sheets, Google Play, and Google Slides come already installed.
Google owns YouTube, so that also comes with linked in the Chrome browser.
Chrome OS has a decent file manager and a neat Search function key. The
Chromebook does not have a CD-DVD device, but it has Wi-Fi built in, and
two USB ports, one a USB-3, a mini HDMI port, and and a DVI connection, as
well as an ethernet jack for networking in your home office.

Chromebooks are 'internet books' because they work on the internet. You
can save stuff locally but it is designed to work on the Google Cloud,
which is also free. When you save a doc it gets saved to

[FairfieldLife] Relevant Information about Bronte Baxter, Gail Tredwell#39;s editor

2013-12-10 Thread glassnatalie99

Holy Hell, Gail Tredwell’s self published book about her memories of Amma, was 
edited by Jessi Hoffman, a professional ghostwriter and editor. Jessi Hoffman 
also operates under the hidden cyber-identity Bronte Baxter. Bronte Baxter is 
the instigator and moderator of the members only Yahoo group Ex-Amma. She 
conveniently uses various platforms to malign and discredit Amma and promote 
Gail's agenda. But what is Hoffman's agenda? We don't need to guess because she 
has told us so on her own website. Hoffman promotes the idea that Amma is a 
demonic entity working with the United Nations and reptilian beings to take 
over the world. And that's why it's so important to her to bring Amma down. 
Should you believe Hoffman who writes for Gail Tredwell? 
Check out this blog to learn more: 
http://gail-tredwell-jessi-hoffman-holy-hell.blogspot.com

[FairfieldLife] Great Country Classics

2013-12-10 Thread Richard Williams

George Strait

[image: Inline image 1]

George Strait - Amarillo By Morning (Live From The Houston Astrodome)
http://youtu.be/kX_9Go0Z8e4

One of my favorite Straight songs, Amarillo by Morning, is regarded by
many as one of the greatest country songs of all-time. Billboard ranked
Strait No. 1 in the top 25 country artists of the past 25 years.

According to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording
artist in the United States overall, with 60 number one hit singles. Strait
was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music. He was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy
award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the
Year in 1989, 1990 and 2013, and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990.

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strait

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bron-Broen, season 2


On 12/10/2013 09:53 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:

 It's an okay show, however the US version was written by the same folks
 who did the Danish version. They also got more budget to work with. A
 lot of the dialog was even the same. I liked the US version too.

*/Taste is relative, and yours is no relative of mine. :-)

More seriously, I can imagine that there must have been good parts 
in the US version. It's just that I couldn't get past the heavy-handed 
Americanism of it to give a shit about any of the characters, so I 
stopped watching after episode 2. Most were caricatures, not 
characters, especially those supposed to be Mexican.


If the original writers did this, I simply have to assume that they 
knew as little about both America and Mexico as most Americans would 
know about Sweden and Denmark.

/*



Demian Bichir in an interview complained about the portrayal of Mexico 
and Mexicans in the series.  Similarly those of us who have lived in 
Seattle found the portrayal of it in The Killing to be hilarious, 
especially the  Elliot Bay Prison (there is no such place).


/*
*/



 It's hard to say who the culprits are in distribution. It could be the
 Danish network itself that didn't want to let go of the rights. But
 then FX might have demanded as part of the deal it couldn't be released
 in the US. Stupid because only a small percent of US viewers, those of
 us who like indie and foreign film, would want to watch a show with
 subtitles. Sometimes these shows like the original version of The
 Killing are available via DVD but they are Region 2 encoded (not to
 mention overpriced) on Amazon. Some of us have players that are region
 free.

*/Indeed, it's hard to tell where the fault lies in things like this. 
Wherever it lies, I hold those parties responsible for keeping folks 
in the US who are interested in seeing the original of a good series 
from doing so.


This It's good, so we've gotta remake it mindset demonstrates IMO 
not only a poverty of marketing imagination (negating those of us who 
don't mind subtitles), but a poverty of creative imagination as well. 
They literally can't think up any good ideas of their own (or not 
enough of them, at any rate), so they rip off ideas that have been 
popular elsewhere.


I still refuse to see a Harvey Keitel movie after the butchering he 
gave to the lead character in the terrible American remake of Life On 
Mars. That has to rank at the top of my Worst Remakes Of All Time list.


As for DVD players that have been hacked to be region-free, it's IMO 
the only way to go if you are a film lover. Many classic films are no 
longer available in Region 1 releases, so if you want them, you have 
to go elsewhere. And out of the box, your player won't play them, 
because lawyers made the manufacturers set them to Region 1 Only.


In many cases, all that is required to do it for many models is to 
enter a specific sekrit code (to set it to Region 0, or Don't bother 
checking) on the unit's remote control. The sekrit codes themselves 
can be found for most devices on the Net by Googling region free. 
About half of my remaining DVDs are Region 1 (America), but the rest 
come from all over the world, and I've never had the least bit of 
trouble playing them on my hacked Samsung player.

/*



I have two players that are Region Free.  One is the APEX which had 
the manufacturer settings page on it which could turn off the Region 
check.  The second was my AVeL Linkplayer2 which was a prototype to test 
resources for Blu-Ray though it is a DVD player. It also upscaled over 
component and could play HD files on disc.


Blu-Ray discs have an option for Region Free versions and some 
releases out of Europe are that way.   I believe the release of Bangkok 
Dangerous, the original by the Pang Brothers, comes that way.  In fact 
I kick myself because Fry's had it briefly.  For limited international 
editions this was a smart option for the association to make available.  
Most films on DVD and Bluray are 24 fps anyway regardless of the country 
and the wrapper tells them which video frame rate to inverse telecine.


That said more and more is available streaming just off the net. BTW, I 
gave a good clue in my response to ultrarishi where one might watch the 
Danish version if interested.  I don't really care to collect discs that 
much anymore.


Movie and television execs make me understand why the business caste is 
on the third level of the Indian caste system.  They are nothing more 
than glorified shoe salesmen.


/**/



 On 12/10/2013 01:04 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote:
  
   This was an outstanding series. It's a shame that we have to resort
  to things like bit torrent to view awesome television like this in 
the

  US. These moronic IP, trade pacts, and just plain old Hollywood
  nonesense prevents us from getting quality programming until too late.
  
   I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

One of my favorite sci-fi films is Sunshine by Danny Boyle. In that
film the Sun is dying and a crew on a space craft is traveling there to
launch a nuclear device to re-ignite it. It's also where John Murphy's
Adagio in D minor made it's debut.

On 12/10/2013 04:44 AM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, that's definitely a vata vitiating movie. I feel cold just
remembering some of the images in it. Good to watch in the summer. I
enjoyed it though.

I'm thinking that humans are a part of the ecosystem. But maybe the
diseased part!

On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:55 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
wrote:
We may be enjoying The Day After Tomorrow for real. Earth has it's
own ecosystem correction mechanism and humans be damned!

On 12/09/2013 02:08 PM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, I've definitely gotten more sensitive to the cold as I've
gotten older. Even though I guess I'm still pure pitta! And of course
I sit a lot when I'm at the computer so that doesn't help though
there's a radiator only about 2 feet from the desk. I love to put my
gloves on the radiator by the front door when I come in. And my socks
on the radiator upstairs, especially if they've gotten wet.

Wind chill is definitely a factor in windy FF. The women's Dome is up
on a ridge and sometimes in the morning, I walk from the parking lot
clutching my hood tightly on my head. I'm a wimp!

What I notice about Iowa weather is that it's more erratic now, more
sudden and dramatic changes. and about 20 years ago we had snow on May 1!

On Monday, December 9, 2013 3:46 PM, Bhairitu
noozg...@sbcglobal.net mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I just got back from my walk which I usually take in the morning but
decided to wait until it warmed up a bit. According to local news it
is the coldest day so far in this cold snap. It is in the low 40s
right now but clear skies and sun. At the house it felt warmer than
around the corner at the park where apparently a wind was coming down
the valley creating a wind chill.

When I first moved here in the 1990s the only real cold days were in
January and might only last for a week. Now it starts in early
November. I go from shorts and a t-shirt, skip over the warm-up suit
(mainly wind breaker stuff) and to the flannel warmups.

On 12/09/2013 12:23 PM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, according to cnn weather it's currently -8 in Fairfield.
But the sun is shining so that helps a little. Farmers Almanac, with
an 86% accuracy rate, is predicting a winter of piercing cold. But I
don't know if that's for all the country or just a portion.

On Monday, December 9, 2013 2:06 PM, Bhairitu
noozg...@sbcglobal.net mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

Enjoying the new ice age? It was down in the mid-20s overnight here.
Any below 0's on FFL?

It's been almost 10 years since this article was posted:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360120/

More or less based on local research:
http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Pentagon-sponsored-climate-report-sparks-2791555.php

And more recently the bigger surprise:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/24/scientists-wonder-what-the-weakest-solar-cycle-in-50-years-means-for-eath/

[FairfieldLife] RE: Relevant Information about Bronte Baxter, Gail Tredwell#39;s editor

2013-12-10 Thread emilymaenot

The Amma org is scared, aren't they?  Must be a lot of truth in that book, huh? 
 Your blog is garbage; Gail wrote her own story.  Why don't you write yours and 
publish it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: A Guaranteed Income for Life

With Social Security you get a cost of living increase most years; you 
don't get that with an insurance annuity, or from a bank savings 
account, and not from burying your gold in the back yard. It's a 
no-brainer.


On 12/10/2013 9:26 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:


However, with Quantitative Easing going on, and the government 
printing $85 billion a month, the money we receive is becoming worth 
less and less.

[FairfieldLife] car older than 2012? Don't use E15 gas...

in case you don't already know about it:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

2013-12-10 Thread jr_esq

Share,
 

 It's all about having a better now time.  Jyotish shows the probabilities of 
what is to come.  Thus, one can take the path of least resistance to become 
successful in achieving one's goals and to avert possible dangers along this 
path.

[FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.
 

 BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:
 

 http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp 
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

 
Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, parts 
aren't.
 

 Share warned:
 
  in case you don't already know about it:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: A Guaranteed Income for Life

Sadly a lot of people who planned to take SS at age 70 for the full 
benefit were forced take it at an earlier age.  Some of these were even 
people who should have had no problem finding work up until 70 if not 
beyond.  That's how screwed up everything is.


On 12/10/2013 11:00 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


With Social Security you get a cost of living increase most years; you 
don't get that with an insurance annuity, or from a bank savings 
account, and not from burying your gold in the back yard. It's a 
no-brainer.


On 12/10/2013 9:26 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:


However, with Quantitative Easing going on, and the government 
printing $85 billion a month, the money we receive is becoming worth 
less and less.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Maybe I missed the documentation of how Judy created a macro in Neo, but 
it's not important - what is interesting is Judy's statement  below, 
which contradicts her previous statement, that the TM mantras are not 
the names of the personal gods. If Judy refuted her own statement, can 
someone post it here so we can all read it. Thanks.


Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever 
it is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the 
deities (whatever nicknames means in this context).


From: authfriend
Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM



On 12/10/2013 10:43 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


Interesting, but not at all unexpected. After I'd refuted Richard's 
accusation that I had fibbed, with documentation, I asked explicitly 
if anyone could still detect any fibs.



Barry couldn't, of course, because there weren't any (duh).


I had done exactly what I had promised to do. So there's Barry, hoist 
on his own petard, with egg dripping down his face, as usual. And as 
usual, he simply tells his own fibs and pretends his hopeful fantasy 
was the reality.



Offer is still open, for anybody, including Barry (but not including 
Richard or Xeno) to find any fibs either in what I had said originally 
or in my refutation. But you need to specify what the purported fibs 
are rather than just declare you found some.



While I'm at it, another REEELY STOPID fib Barry tells in the 
post I'm commenting on is that I claim to be able to document what I 
say but never do. Anyone who actually reads my posts knows that I do 
it frequently, most recently with Share (and not the only time I've 
done it with her either), and countless times with Barry. Neither of 
them is capable of admitting they've been caught telling falsehoods.



Another offer: Anyone (except Richard and Xeno, but including Barry) 
who wants to go back to any of Richard's previous (or subsequent) 
posts that I've responded to with the macro I started using awhile 
back and demand to see the refutations I promised is welcome to do so. 
This current one wasn't all that detailed because Richard's fibs 
weren't that detailed.



I use the macro because it's not possible to rationally engage with 
Richard, as many folks here have discovered. He isn't interested in 
rational engagement, only in trolling, and in extending an initial 
troll for as long as he can possibly keep it going. The only way to 
deal with him is simply to refuse to play his game and make him play 
it with himself.



Barry fibbed:.


*/I just thought it was funny, that's all. The crazy old coot does 
this all the time -- claim that she *could* document something to 
prove how RIGHT she is and how WRONG (or LYING) someone else is -- but 
never has any intention of actually doing it. So I figured I'd take 
advantage of her blanket offer to see if she'd actually be able to 
come up with the detailed refutation she claimed to be able to 
write. As I suspected, she wasn't. It was just more lame-o He's 
lying bullshit. /*

*/
More people should call her on this crap. Then as she floundered 
around trying to get her own petard out of her ass, *perhaps* there 
might be something about her interesting enough to at least laugh at.  :-)

/*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chromebook Review

You still have an HBO account?  I thought you cut the cable?  HBO isn't 
available any other way other than satellite.  Or are you using a 
relatives account?  I think my sister still has HBO but hasn't a clue 
about HBO GO and that the password can be shared I think with up to 
three people.


I wonder when  HBO and Showtime's contracts run out with the cable 
companies if they will set up rental sites or start renting a day after 
they show on TV or at least a month after the show.  Trends do show more 
and more people cutting cable though they keep the provider for 
Internet. Cable and satellite is so yesterday's news as is broadcast TV.


On 12/10/2013 10:22 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
For users of Google's $35 Chromecast dongle, the inclusion of HBO Go 
was pretty much the final piece of the holy streaming trifecta (the 
others being Netflix and Hulu Plus).


Read more:

'Google Chromecast adds ten new apps to its streaming arsenal'
http://www.engadget.com/google-chromecast 
http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/10/google-chromecast-adds-ten-new-apps-to-its-streaming-arsenal/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0589

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

It sure looks like you're posting as authfriend and it looks like your 
email address is authfriend. But I could be mistaken. Are you still The 
Author's Friend or not? Seriously - it's not a trick question!



On 12/10/2013 10:45 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.

*

*
Richard trolled:*

Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but 
it's hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The 
problem isn't so much what the respondents here think about your 
handle and your email address - it's what your clients think about it 
when they find out you're posting here at all. Go figure.


On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know. *



*Richard wrote:*

 The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name 
as a handle and including your business email address in order to 
advertise your services. That's against the FFL rule about posting 
spam to the group. It's even worse if you're using someone else's 
business name. That's real serious!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

Now this is funny - somebody that posts as empty, is nobody, and gets 
a reply from nobody, and an authfriend, who is a professional editor, 
replies to nobody. Go figure.


n 12/10/2013 10:55 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


Ann, I have a hunch that by Wolf Baiter, empty isn't referring to 
you but to Xeno, who baited you. I.e., you da wolf, Xeno da baiter.



empty wrote:


 Wolf Baiter sez:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 

 P.S.: Anyone with two synapses to rub together should be able to figure out 
Richard's fib here, even if they didn't read my refutation.
 

 Richard trolled:
 
 Maybe I missed the documentation of how Judy created a macro in Neo, but it's 
 not important - what is interesting is Judy's statement  below, which 
 contradicts her previous statement, that the TM mantras are not the names of 
 the personal gods. If Judy refuted her own statement, can someone post it 
 here so we can all read it. Thanks.

 
 Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever it 
is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the deities 
(whatever nicknames means in this context).
 
 From: authfriend
 Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
 Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
 Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM
 
 
 
 On 12/10/2013 10:43 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   Interesting, but not at all unexpected. After I'd refuted Richard's 
accusation that I had fibbed, with documentation, I asked explicitly if 
anyone could still detect any fibs.
 
 
 Barry couldn't, of course, because there weren't any (duh).
 
 
 I had done exactly what I had promised to do. So there's Barry, hoist on his 
own petard, with egg dripping down his face, as usual. And as usual, he simply 
tells his own fibs and pretends his hopeful fantasy was the reality.
 
 
 Offer is still open, for anybody, including Barry (but not including Richard 
or Xeno) to find any fibs either in what I had said originally or in my 
refutation. But you need to specify what the purported fibs are rather than 
just declare you found some.
 
 
 While I'm at it, another REEELY STOPID fib Barry tells in the post I'm 
commenting on is that I claim to be able to document what I say but never do. 
Anyone who actually reads my posts knows that I do it frequently, most recently 
with Share (and not the only time I've done it with her either), and countless 
times with Barry. Neither of them is capable of admitting they've been caught 
telling falsehoods.
 
 
 Another offer: Anyone (except Richard and Xeno, but including Barry) who wants 
to go back to any of Richard's previous (or subsequent) posts that I've 
responded to with the macro I started using awhile back and demand to see the 
refutations I promised is welcome to do so. This current one wasn't all that 
detailed because Richard's fibs weren't that detailed.
 
 
 I use the macro because it's not possible to rationally engage with Richard, 
as many folks here have discovered. He isn't interested in rational engagement, 
only in trolling, and in extending an initial troll for as long as he can 
possibly keep it going. The only way to deal with him is simply to refuse to 
play his game and make him play it with himself.
 
 
 Barry fibbed:. 
 
 
 I just thought it was funny, that's all. The crazy old coot does this all the 
time -- claim that she *could* document something to prove how RIGHT she is and 
how WRONG (or LYING) someone else is -- but never has any intention of actually 
doing it. So I figured I'd take advantage of her blanket offer to see if she'd 
actually be able to come up with the detailed refutation she claimed to be 
able to write. As I suspected, she wasn't. It was just more lame-o He's lying 
bullshit. 
 
 More people should call her on this crap. Then as she floundered around trying 
to get her own petard out of her ass, *perhaps* there might be something about 
her interesting enough to at least laugh at.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 

 Richard trolled: 
 
 It sure looks like you're posting as authfriend and it looks like your email 
address is authfriend.  But I could be mistaken. Are you still The Author's 
Friend or not? Seriously - it's not a trick question!
 
 
 On 12/10/2013 10:45 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard trolled:
 
 Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but it's 
hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The problem isn't so 
much what the respondents here think about your handle and your email address - 
it's what your clients think about it when they find out you're posting here at 
all. Go figure.
 
 On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard wrote:
 
  The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name as a 
  handle and including your business email address in order to advertise your 
  services. That's against the FFL rule about posting spam to the group. It's 
  even worse if you're using someone else's business name. That's real serious!

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don't use E15 gas...

Refuting Judy's sneaky lie: I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't have TV. As 
for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...





On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com 
authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp


Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, parts 
aren't.

Share warned:


 in case you don't already know about it:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU

[FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

2013-12-10 Thread jr_esq

Doc,
 

 There are a few false priests in this religion of science, such as Stephen 
Hawking.  If he had taken a course in metaphysics, he would not have made a 
proclamation that God is not needed to create the universe.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chromebook Review


BTW, Google just added a bunch more services available via Chromecast:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/apps.html

On 12/10/2013 11:24 AM, Bhairitu wrote:


You still have an HBO account? I thought you cut the cable?  HBO isn't 
available any other way other than satellite.  Or are you using a 
relatives account?  I think my sister still has HBO but hasn't a clue 
about HBO GO and that the password can be shared I think with up to 
three people.


I wonder when  HBO and Showtime's contracts run out with the cable 
companies if they will set up rental sites or start renting a day 
after they show on TV or at least a month after the show.  Trends do 
show more and more people cutting cable though they keep the provider 
for Internet. Cable and satellite is so yesterday's news as is 
broadcast TV.


On 12/10/2013 10:22 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
For users of Google's $35 Chromecast dongle, the inclusion of HBO Go 
was pretty much the final piece of the holy streaming trifecta (the 
others being Netflix and Hulu Plus).


Read more:

'Google Chromecast adds ten new apps to its streaming arsenal'
http://www.engadget.com/google-chromecast 
http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/10/google-chromecast-adds-ten-new-apps-to-its-streaming-arsenal/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0589

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

It's true - I've been picked on by Judy for about ten years. I'm not 
making this up. Nobody would dispute this except Judy. It used to kind 
of hurt my feelings because I've posted thousands of on-topic message on 
the internet mostly about spiritual paths since 1999. But, I don't take 
it personal anymore since it's obvious that Judy is just mean and ornery 
to almost everyone. Why, I don't know. But, now it's kind of fun to poke 
fun at her because she takes everything so seriously. Go figure.


On 12/10/2013 10:56 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: .


*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.*


*
*

*Richard trolled:*


 Well Ann, I didn't make up the rules around here and I didn't start 
this thread either. But, I did post this from my home office and I 
used my real name, so it looks like I'm guilty on all charges. The 
only difference is, I don't charge anything for offering my opinions 
like a professional editor would be doing. LoL!


 But, I have been picked on a lot by Judy, for no apparent reason 
that I can tell. If she thinks I told an untruth, why won't she just 
point it out so we can all read it and decide for ourselves? It's one 
thing to post slander, but why does Judy have to be a hypocrite as 
well? Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Viral hoaxes: Truth takes a beating


So, it's all about Barry.

On 12/10/2013 11:31 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


Story in the NYTimes today about viral hoaxes, focusing on the one 
about the crazy lady on the plane that Barry was taken in by and used 
in one of of his endless obsessive attempts to stalk me. Says the perp:



“I really have an issue with the word hoax,” said Mr. Gale, who says 
nobody called him to verify his story. “I was broadcasting to my 
followers who know what I do. It’s the people who reported it who are 
deceiving their audience.”



Needless to say, Barry hasn't admitted the story he posted with such 
glee turned out to be a hoax.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/business/media/if-a-story-is-viral-truth-may-be-taking-a-beating.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Time May Have No Beginning

Thanks, John, it does seem to be one of those nifty paradoxes I like (-:





On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:13 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
 
  
Share,

It's all about having a better now time.  Jyotish shows the probabilities of 
what is to come.  Thus, one can take the path of least resistance to become 
successful in achieving one's goals and to avert possible dangers along this 
path.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

It really doesn't matter what your handle is or what your email address 
is, because you posted a fib, and it's not very difficult to tell when 
you're trying to weasel out of it. You either posted the message below 
or you did not. If you did, it contradicts what you previously posted 
about the TM mantras NOT being the names of the personal gods.


And, that's not even counting how many times you've posted comments 
about the technique.


Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever 
it is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the 
deities (whatever nicknames means in this context).


From: authfriend
Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM



On 12/10/2013 1:38 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.*



*Richard trolled: *


It sure looks like you're posting as authfriend and it looks like 
your email address is authfriend.  But I could be mistaken. Are you 
still The Author's Friend or not? Seriously - it's not a trick question!



On 12/10/2013 10:45 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.

*

*
Richard trolled:*

Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but 
it's hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The 
problem isn't so much what the respondents here think about your 
handle and your email address - it's what your clients think about it 
when they find out you're posting here at all. Go figure.


On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know. *



*Richard wrote:*

 The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name 
as a handle and including your business email address in order to 
advertise your services. That's against the FFL rule about posting 
spam to the group. It's even worse if you're using someone else's 
business name. That's real serious!

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...

Share snarled:
 
  Refuting Judy's sneaky lie:
 

 LOL. Share has now redefined question to mean lie if the answer isn't 
Yes. I'll remember that. Wish she had redefined it earlier so I could have 
applied it to her own questions to me. Maybe I'll go back and pick out a few... 
Won't that be fun, Share?
 

  I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't have TV.
 

 I'm glad to hear you don't watch Fox. I guess it was the fact that you posted 
a Fox News video in support of your claim that gave me the idea. Crazy, huh?
 

 That you don't watch any news, however, explains even more than if you did 
watch Fox News.
 

  As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...

 

 Whatever you do, don't read what Snopes has to say (My mind is made up, don't 
confuse me with the facts),
 

 
 
 On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote:
 
   So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.
 

 BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:
 

 http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp 
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

 
Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, parts 
aren't.
 

 Share warned:
 
  in case you don't already know about it:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 

 Richard trolled:
 


  It really doesn't matter what your handle is or what your email address is, 
  because you posted a fib, and it's not very difficult to tell when you're 
  trying to weasel out of it. You either posted the message below or you did 
  not. If you did, it contradicts what you previously posted about the TM 
  mantras NOT being the names of the personal gods. 
 
 And, that's not even counting how many times you've posted comments about 
 the technique.
 
 Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever it 
is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the deities 
(whatever nicknames means in this context).
 
 From: authfriend
 Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
 Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
 Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM
 On 12/10/2013 1:38 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 
 
 Richard trolled: 
 
 It sure looks like you're posting as authfriend and it looks like your email 
address is authfriend.  But I could be mistaken. Are you still The Author's 
Friend or not? Seriously - it's not a trick question!
 
 
 On 12/10/2013 10:45 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard trolled:
 
 Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but it's 
hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The problem isn't so 
much what the respondents here think about your handle and your email address - 
it's what your clients think about it when they find out you're posting here at 
all. Go figure.
 
 On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard wrote:
 
  The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name as a 
  handle and including your business email address in order to advertise your 
  services. That's against the FFL rule about posting spam to the group. It's 
  even worse if you're using someone else's business name. That's real serious!

[FairfieldLife] The Crimes of Terrorist Nelson Mandela

2013-12-10 Thread wgm4u

Oh ye gullible one's, listen up!
  
 The Crimes of Terrorist Nelson Mandela 
 

 Read here the crimes of the clever terrorist Nelson Mandela (most have never 
heard of, denied the opportunity by the treacherous liberal media) and 
understand why Amnesty International never accepted him as a political 
prisoner. Even as the world finally woke up to how wicked Winnie Mandela is, we 
must face reality about how dangerous and deceitful Nelson Mandela has been.

 The fact is that even Amnesty International refused to take on Nelson 
Mandela’s case because they asserted that he was no political prisoner but had 
committed numerous violent crimes and had had a fair trial and a reasonable 
sentence.
 Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of 
the ANC and South African Communist Party. He had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of 
public violence including mobilizing terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted 
bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many 
innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s 
MK terrorists.
  
 
http://plaintruthmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/07/crimes-of-terrorist-nelson-mandela.html
 
http://plaintruthmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/07/crimes-of-terrorist-nelson-mandela.html

[FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

2013-12-10 Thread wgm4u

So great one, what is your explanation for the coldest temperature ever 
recorded? Global cooling? You're a class act dude!  Anecdotal don't cut it, 
sorry! Do you have any SCIENCE to support your conclusions? I certainly 
wouldn't want to be a science denier!
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Global Warming could be called climate destabilization, or climate 
polarization, instead. People made the same stupid argument as you have, when 
it was discovered that the Pacific current, that runs down the coast of 
California, is getting cooler. Only later did the reason become obvious - the 
arctic ice cap is melting.

So, yeah, the effects of pouring tons of pollution into the air, don't always 
lead to warmer weather, but it is foolish to conclude that, therefore, there is 
no issue.

[FairfieldLife] Sid#39;s reply to the infamous B.Mullquist!

2013-12-10 Thread cardemaister

: asaMsargaH. 
 B. Mullquist wrote:

 What does asaMsargaH really mean in Patañjali II,40:

 Shaucaat svaanga-jugupsaa parair asaMsargaH?

My dear B. Mullquist,

I suggest that you buy one of several commentaries on Patanjali's 
ashhTaadhyaayii, and try to figure out as much as possible the general ideas 
of archaic Sanskrit terms such as AsaMsargaH.

My good buddy, the best in town, Sumant Katre has the fattest
commentary written so far. Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi, Rs. 895.00, about $22.00.

You did not write the reference correctly, otherwise I would have quoted 
Katre's interpretation. Dictionary meaning of the term sa.nsargaH, is union.
 Quoting hitopadesha, yatraaste vishasa.nsargo-amR^itaM tadapi mR^ityave, 
or ma.ndo-pyama.ndataameti
sa.sargeNa vipashchitaH, ibid. Also means proximity, sahavaasa,
sannidhya, saMba.ndha, and mishraNa.

asa.nsargaH, is the opposite. That is the dictionary meaning and does not 
necessarily mean in the context of Panini's quote.

Sid
 My dear Venkataraman,

You are absolutely right. My referring to Panini was a Freudian slip. No wonder 
I could not find the query in Sumant's book. Panini's ashTaadhaayii in raw 
comes in small booklet form and with one or more commentaries added in big 
volumes. It is too early in the morning.

My good buddy, if you throw me a couple of Patanjali's couplets that Mullquist 
got stuck with right before or right after I could figure out the contextual 
theme. I bet you do not need my help in figuring out what is that Patanjali is 
talking about.

Don't get stuck with svaa.nga jugupsaa however, that is a beast to explain.

Sid


Venkataraman wrote:

Hey Wait a minute ! I am getting somewhat mixed up. I thought Panini wrote 
ashtaadhyayii which is a work on grammar while Patanjali is the author of Yoga 
Suutraa-s dealing with philosophy.

Mullquist's question deals with Patanjali's work, right? Why are you asking him 
to go to a commentary on ashtaadhyaayii?
 My dear Anne,

I must have gotten on the wrong side of the bed. You are almost like my English 
teacher from University of Chicago, 'you either be good or be gone.' Thanks and 
may sun shine on your life as much as Freud shines in mine, a lot.

Care to comment on my little commentary on B.K.S. Iyengar's good book, Light 
on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, Harper Collins, 
Delhi, 1947. paperback, pp.337?

Also have a look at Sumitra (not Sumant)[almost spelled as Sumutra, 'one who 
pisses good.' Sid better watch] M. Katre's fancy schpansy book, now available 
on the net either directly from the publishers or the retailers like 
Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders all featured on my homepage somewhere.

Sid (my real name and not a Freudian slip)


Anne Cardinael wrote:

More than just a Freudian slip, I would say Sid. It is not Sumant Katre but 
Sumitra Katre (the ex-director of the Deccan College Research Institute, 
Poona). Where is the world coming to, I wonder, when the Sid's of this world 
(normally meticulous about research and citations) confuse Panini with 
Pantanjali, Sumant with Sumitra ... What next?

 Greetings
 My dear B. (is it Barbara or Brian?) Mullquist,

Unless you are a non English person, the Scottish sounding Highlander name does 
not mean you could be speaking one of the Gaelic languages only. They do teach 
Queen's English in the Great Britain the translation provided by B.K.S. Iyengar 
is sufficient.

BKS Iyengar works with a sanitized version of Patanjali, the original work has 
been either destroyed or hidden from the prying eyes of the world. Patanjali 
could be one person or many who worked at an ancient native form of, do it 
yourself nirvana, thingy, so popular among the Beatnics and Yuppies of the 
west.

Just kidding. Yoga practice of self attainment without the help of external 
deity worship so common in those days of Patanjali as today was restricted to 
very few as it required proper initiation from the guru and renunciation of 
normal humdrum lifestyle of a common man. I say man because fewer women go for 
that kind of ascetic lifestyle.

Like all higher learning and secret ritualistic practices of those days, women 
and Shudras were barred from either knowing or practicing the techniques. The 
do it yourself form of Yoga cannot be done without proper guidance hence cadre 
of Yoga teachers, gurus and commentators cum Yoga missionaries floating around. 
Literally, as they jet set from places to places to propagate this cash cow of 
Hindus.

The entire second chapter of Patanjali's yoga sutra, deals with 
saadhanapaadaH. Which is to say How to do it. In deliberate manner, 
Patanjali describes the dos and don'ts of Yoga.

B.K.S. Iyengar is not exactly a modern western man and has some problems with 
making things better than literally translating the words and expressions which 
are not even current in today's India. His exact translation of the said verse 
goes like this:

Cleanliness of body and mind develops disinterest

[FairfieldLife] Earliest Subzero Temps Since ’95; More Bitter Cold,Snow Coming

2013-12-10 Thread wgm4u

Oh ye gullible ones! Wake Up!  CHICAGO (CBS) – Temperatures dipped below zero 
overnight, the earliest it has been that cold in Chicago in 18 years. Dump the 
Green Guru, dump the green guru!!!
!
  
 
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/12/10/temps-reach-18-year-low-more-bitter-cold-and-snow-coming/
 
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/12/10/temps-reach-18-year-low-more-bitter-cold-and-snow-coming/

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...


Judy snarked:


That you don't  watch any news, however, explains even more than

 if you did watch Fox News.

Judy is probably the TV news watcher around here - broadcast MSNBC I'd 
guess. Go figure.


Judy is just getting hammered from all sides these days. Maybe if she 
shut her yap for a few days and got some work done so she can pay the 
rent, she'd be in a better mood. Judy doesn't seem to get the message 
that NOBODY wants to dialog witth her anymore because she's an 
ankle-biter, plain and simple.





On 12/10/2013 2:20 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


Share snarled:


 Refuting Judy's sneaky lie:

LOL. Share has now redefined question to mean lie if the answer 
isn't Yes. I'll remember that. Wish she had redefined it earlier so 
I could have applied it to her own questions to me. Maybe I'll go back 
and pick out a few... Won't that be fun, Share?


 I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't have TV.

I'm glad to hear you don't watch Fox. I guess it was the fact that you 
posted a Fox News video in support of your claim that gave me the 
idea. Crazy, huh?


That you don't watch any news, however, explains even more than if you 
did watch Fox News.


 As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...

Whatever you do, don't read what Snopes has to say (My mind is made 
up, don't confuse me with the facts),




On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfriend@... 
authfriend@... wrote:

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, 
parts aren't.


Share warned:

 in case you don't already know about it:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU**

*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

So, I guess it's settled now - Judy posted a fib and now everyone knows 
it. Serves her right for trying to be so high and mighty and attempting 
to teach us all about TM and what MMY meant about the names of the 
personal gods, which fetch to us all the grace. Judy thinks she knows 
more about TM than MMY himself. Go figure.


Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever 
it is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the 
deities (whatever nicknames means in this context).


From: authfriend
Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM
On 12/10/2013 1:38 PM

On 12/10/2013 2:25 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.*


*
*

*Richard trolled:*

*
*

 It really doesn't matter what your handle is or what your email 
address is, because you posted a fib, and it's not very difficult to 
tell when you're trying to weasel out of it. You either posted the 
message below or you did not. If you did, it contradicts what you 
previously posted about the TM mantras NOT being the names of the 
personal gods.


 And, that's not even counting how many times you've posted comments 
about the technique.


Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, 
whatever it is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of 
the deities (whatever nicknames means in this context).


From: authfriend
Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM

On 12/10/2013 1:38 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.*



*Richard trolled: *


It sure looks like you're posting as authfriend and it looks like 
your email address is authfriend.  But I could be mistaken. Are you 
still The Author's Friend or not? Seriously - it's not a trick 
question!



On 12/10/2013 10:45 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except 
Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, 
let me know.

*

*
Richard trolled:*

Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, 
but it's hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. 
The problem isn't so much what the respondents here think about your 
handle and your email address - it's what your clients think about 
it when they find out you're posting here at all. Go figure.


On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here 
(except Xeno) takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed 
refutation, let me know. *



*Richard wrote:*

 The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional 
name as a handle and including your business email address in order 
to advertise your services. That's against the FFL rule about 
posting spam to the group. It's even worse if you're using someone 
else's business name. That's real serious!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa



 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Ann, I have a hunch that by Wolf Baiter, empty isn't referring to you but to 
Xeno, who baited you. I.e., you da wolf, Xeno da baiter.
 

 He always calls me that so I am not so sure he meant it the way you describe 
here, but your analysis is a good one.

 

 empty wrote:
 

  Wolf Baiter sez:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation Fairfield, Iowa

This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) takes 
Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 

 Richard trolled:
 
  So, I guess it's settled now - Judy posted a fib and now everyone knows it. 
  Serves her right for trying to be so high and mighty and attempting to teach 
  us all about TM and what MMY meant about the names of the personal gods, 
  which fetch to us all the grace. Judy thinks she knows more about TM than 
  MMY himself. Go figure.
 
 Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever it 
is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the deities 
(whatever nicknames means in this context).
 
 From: authfriend
 Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
 Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
 Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM
 On 12/10/2013 1:38 PM
 
 On 12/10/2013 2:25 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 
 
 Richard trolled:
 
 
 
  It really doesn't matter what your handle is or what your email address is, 
  because you posted a fib, and it's not very difficult to tell when you're 
  trying to weasel out of it. You either posted the message below or you did 
  not. If you did, it contradicts what you previously posted about the TM 
  mantras NOT being the names of the personal gods. 
 
  And, that's not even counting how many times you've posted comments about 
  the technique.
 
 Richard is lying. I never said anything about the technique, whatever it 
is, or was. Nor did I say the bijas weren't nicknames of the deities 
(whatever nicknames means in this context).
 
 From: authfriend
 Subject: OMG: madhuauudana  definition of dhaaraNaa
 Forum: Yahoo! FairfiedLife
 Date: November 25, 2013 2:04 PM
 On 12/10/2013 1:38 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know.
 
 
 Richard trolled: 
 
 It sure looks like you're posting as authfriend and it looks like your email 
address is authfriend.  But I could be mistaken. Are you still The Author's 
Friend or not? Seriously - it's not a trick question!
 
 
 On 12/10/2013 10:45 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard trolled:
 
 Well, it sure looks like you're posting as the author's friend, but it's 
hard to tell by the way you spelled your it, authfriend. The problem isn't so 
much what the respondents here think about your handle and your email address - 
it's what your clients think about it when they find out you're posting here at 
all. Go figure.
 
 On 12/9/2013 8:09 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   This is all trolling, stuff Richard made up. If anyone here (except Xeno) 
takes Richard seriously enough to want a detailed refutation, let me know. 
 
 
 Richard wrote:
 
  The problem is posting to a chat room using your professional name as a 
  handle and including your business email address in order to advertise your 
  services. That's against the FFL rule about posting spam to the group. It's 
  even worse if you're using someone else's business name. That's real serious!

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don't use E15 gas...


A little more recent info on the situation:
http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20131205/NEWS/131209962/epa-to-lower-ethanol-blended-in-gasoline

It's so funny though that the air head reporter on FOX said 2012.  
It's vehicles before 2001.  Which might be a problem with my 1998 
Forester.  Well, green groups can just give me a loan for a new hybrid 
at a $1 down and a $1 a month.  But it looks like E15 is not going to 
happen here in California.


On 12/10/2013 11:40 AM, Share Long wrote:
Refuting Judy's sneaky lie: I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't 
have TV. As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...




On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com 
authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, 
parts aren't.


Share warned:

 in case you don't already know about it:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU**

*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Earliest Subzero Temps Since ’95; More Bitter Cold,Snow Coming


Well, maybe the Sun's going out. Wouldn't that be fun.

On 12/10/2013 03:01 PM, wgm4u wrote:


Oh ye gullible ones! Wake Up! *CHICAGO (CBS) –* Temperatures dipped 
below zero overnight, the earliest it has been that cold in Chicago in 
18 years. Dump the Green Guru, dump the green guru!!!

!

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/12/10/temps-reach-18-year-low-more-bitter-cold-and-snow-coming/

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[FairfieldLife] Reversing brain damage in former NFL players

2013-12-10 Thread yifuxero

Reversing Brain Damage in Former NFL Players : implications for traumatic 
brain injury and substance abuse rehabilitation, J. Psychoactive Drugs, 2011 
Jan-Mar; 43(1):1-5; article summarized on page 11 of Life Extension, Jan 2014- 
...
 Participants were encouraged to lose weight (if appropriate) and take the 
following supplements for 6 months:
 ...
 Fish oil, vinpocetine, ginkgo extract, acetyl-L-Carnitine, huperzine A, 
N-acetyl-cysteine, high-potency multivitamin.
 ...
 After 6 months, the tests were repeated.  There were statistically 
significant increases in scores of attention, memory, reasoning, information 
processing speed, and accuracy in these retired NFL players.
 .
 This study demonstrates that cognitive and cerebral blood flow improvements 
are possible in this group with multiple interventions
 .

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...

Snopes.com gives a fairly detailed presentation of the dispute, both the EPA's
side and the AAA's side.

It isn't clear where the 2012 date came from, but it's been in the viral scare
emails that have been circulating (possibly a matter of confusion with the date
the EPA approved E15, which was 2012?). Seems unlikely that if, as the AAA
claims, E15 is harmful to cars made after 2001, it wouldn't also be harmful to
cars made after 2012. (It's not a matter of post-2012 cars being
Flex-Fuel--GM has been making Flex-Fuel vehicles since 2008.)

Bhairitu wrote:

A little more recent info on the situation:

http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20131205/NEWS/131209962/epa-to-lower-ethanol-blended-in-gasoline

It's so funny though that the air head reporter on FOX said 2012.

It's on their slides as 2012 as well, FWIW.

It's vehicles before 2001. Which might be a problem with my 1998 Forester.
Well, green groups can just give me a loan for a new hybrid at a $1 down
and a $1 a month. But it looks like E15 is not going to happen here in
California.

On 12/10/2013 11:40 AM, Share Long wrote:

Refuting Judy's sneaky lie: I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't have TV.
As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@...
authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, parts
aren't.

Share warned:

in case you don't already know about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...

It's cars made before 2001 it might harm. Anyway the more recent
article shows that the EPA is backing down. People can't afford to buy
new cars like they used to and are trying to make what they have last.

Or is this the corn farmers trying to solve the declining market in
HFCS? I was just noting the other day that products I bought or looked
at last year such as the can of whipped cream no longer have HFCS.
Consumers have spoken.

On 12/10/2013 04:39 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

*Snopes.com gives a fairly detailed presentation of the dispute, both
the EPA's side and the AAA's side.*

*
*

*It isn't clear where the 2012 date came from, but it's been in the
viral scare emails that have been circulating (possibly a matter of
confusion with the date the EPA approved E15, which was 2012?). Seems
unlikely that if, as the AAA claims, E15 is harmful to cars made after
2001, it wouldn't also be harmful to cars made after 2012. (It's not a
matter of post-2012 cars being Flex-Fuel--GM has been making
Flex-Fuel vehicles since 2008.)*

*
*

*Bhairitu wrote:*

A little more recent info on the situation:
http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20131205/NEWS/131209962/epa-to-lower-ethanol-blended-in-gasoline

It's so funny though that the air head reporter on FOX said 2012.

*It's on their slides as 2012 as well, FWIW.*

It's vehicles before 2001. Which might be a problem with my 1998
Forester. Well, green groups can just give me a loan for a new
hybrid at a $1 down and a $1 a month. But it looks like E15 is not
going to happen here in California.

On 12/10/2013 11:40 AM, Share Long wrote:

Refuting Judy's sneaky lie: I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't
have TV. As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfriend@...
mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true,
parts aren't.

Share warned:

in case you don't already know about it:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU**

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...

AAA claims it will damage cars made after 2001 as well. That's what the dispute
is about; EPA says only cars made before 2001. A bunch of car makers have said
using E15 will void warranties.

Bhairitu wrote:

It's cars made before 2001 it might harm. Anyway the more recent article
shows that the EPA is backing down. People can't afford to buy new cars
like they used to and are trying to make what they have last.

Or is this the corn farmers trying to solve the declining market in HFCS? I
was just noting the other day that products I bought or looked at last year
such as the can of whipped cream no longer have HFCS. Consumers have spoken.

On 12/10/2013 04:39 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

Snopes.com gives a fairly detailed presentation of the dispute, both the
EPA's side and the AAA's side.

Bhairitu wrote:

A little more recent info on the situation:

http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20131205/NEWS/131209962/epa-to-lower-ethanol-blended-in-gasoline

It's so funny though that the air head reporter on FOX said 2012.

It's on their slides as 2012 as well, FWIW.

On 12/10/2013 11:40 AM, Share Long wrote:

Refuting Judy's sneaky lie: I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't have TV.
As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@...
authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true, parts
aren't.

Share warned:

in case you don't already know about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU

[FairfieldLife] Dr. Shermer: Why People See Ghosts

2013-12-10 Thread yifuxero

[from a pamphlet sent by the Skeptics Society, by Michael Shermer and Pat 
Linseto mention a few key points from the 13 viewpoints and Shermer's 
explanations for people seeing ghosts, Gods, Angels, Demons, Aliens, etc, and 
why they float, fly, and travel out of their bodies.  I don't have time now to 
present a rebuttal at length, but will simply mention the 13 viewpoints and a 
few key statements of Shermer]: 
 

 [my comments in brackets, if any]:
 1. psychoactive drugs. [here, Shermer falls short with statements such as 
Dissociative anesthetics such as ketamines are known to induce out-of-body 
experiences...and the like.  Obviously, the fact of such drug interventions 
says nothing about  the reality' of induced experiences...just that they occur 
and may be associated with changes in particular parts of the brain].
 .
 2. Meditation.  [he mentions the work of Newberg with meditating Buddhist 
monks, and then follows with his usual tactic of mentioning a part of the 
brain: the OAA or Orientation Association Area.  He says that when the OAA is 
booted up, there may be a breaking down of the lines between reality and 
fantasy.  More non-sequiturs from Shermer. His may be is speculation, as well 
as his perhaps: Perhaps this is what happens to monks who experience a sense 
of oneness with the universe, or with nuns who feel the presense of God, or 
with alien abductees who float up out of their beds to join with the mother 
ship.  Already I'm getting bored with Shermer's non-sensical arguments and 
wonder where he got his PhD.  I'm tempted not to continue with this abuse of 
logic but may mention a few more].
 .
 Brain damage: -[ more arguments presenting various tumors, hallucinations, 
etc; and then followed by brief lessons in brain anatomy, as if such facts 
disprove paranormal claims.].
 [by now the reader can see the drift of Shermer's attempted refutations of the 
reality of the paranormal: hallucinations.  I'll just list the rest of his 13:
 .
 4. Comas, 5. Sensed Presence Effect [the sense that someone or something else 
is with us].
 6. Natural-born Dualists: Children and adults alike, for example, speak of 
my body as if my and body are two different entities[then he - after 
much blah blah - says Out-of-body and Near-Death Experiences are processed as 
external events.
 [again, this fact doesn't prove or disprove that there is a real component 
to the Out-of-body experience].
 7. Dopamine [again, the hallucination argument]. 8. Right brain v. left brain 
Skeptics had greater left hemisphereic dominance compared to believers... [so 
what?].
 9. Sleep anomalies and Lucid Dreams.  [again, the hallucination argument].
 11. Agenticity, or sympathetic magic:  [agenticity: the tendency to infuse 
patterns with meaning, intention, and agency - such as attributing events to 
agents such as spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels , aliens.  True, 
agenticity is a real psychological phenomenon but says nothing about the 
reality of the agents].
 10. Patternicity [Shermer says this is the basis of all superstition and 
magical thinking'.  But again, this is a mere fact about life, not an argument 
for the true nature of the supposed magic.
 12. Hypnosis and memory [right, faulty memory is to blame!].
 13. Near-Death Experiences - [hallucination argument again - due to electrical 
stimulation of the right angular gyrus in the temporal lobe - Shermer's 
appeal to scientific jargon].
 ...
 [That's it for now!]

[FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

2013-12-10 Thread s3raphita

I have a Vaillant combination boiler which feeds the central heating and 
supplies the hot water. A few days ago it came up with error message F.22 and 
stopped working. I did a Google and came across a short YouTube tutorial 
showing me what to do. All I needed was a screwdriver. A few minutes after 
watching the video my boiler was working again. 
 Back in the dark ages (pre-internet) I'd have had to call in an engineer and 
would be out of pocket. Gotta love the Web.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: car older than 2012? Don#39;t use E15 gas...

I looked in my 1998 Subaru manual and it warns of using any fuel with
greater than 10% ethanol. The level for MTBE (which I believe has been
discontinued) is 15%. Of course my warranty is long gone but Subarus
are like the Eveready Bunny as long as you take care of them.

On 12/10/2013 04:59 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

*AAA claims it will damage cars made after 2001 as well. That's what
the dispute is about; EPA says only cars made before 2001. A bunch of
car makers have said using E15 will void warranties.*

*
Bhairitu wrote:
*
It's cars made before 2001 it might harm. Anyway the more recent
article shows that the EPA is backing down. People can't afford to
buy new cars like they used to and are trying to make what they have last.

Or is this the corn farmers trying to solve the declining market in
HFCS? I was just noting the other day that products I bought or
looked at last year such as the can of whipped cream no longer have
HFCS. Consumers have spoken.

On 12/10/2013 04:39 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

*Snopes.com gives a fairly detailed presentation of the dispute, both
the EPA's side and the AAA's side.*

*
*

*It isn't clear where the 2012 date came from, but it's been in the
viral scare emails that have been circulating (possibly a matter of
confusion with the date the EPA approved E15, which was 2012?). Seems
unlikely that if, as the AAA claims, E15 is harmful to cars made
after 2001, it wouldn't also be harmful to cars made after 2012.
(It's not a matter of post-2012 cars being Flex-Fuel--GM has been
making Flex-Fuel vehicles since 2008.)*

*
*

*Bhairitu wrote:*

A little more recent info on the situation:
http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20131205/NEWS/131209962/epa-to-lower-ethanol-blended-in-gasoline

It's so funny though that the air head reporter on FOX said 2012.

*It's on their slides as 2012 as well, FWIW.*

It's vehicles before 2001. Which might be a problem with my 1998
Forester. Well, green groups can just give me a loan for a new
hybrid at a $1 down and a $1 a month. But it looks like E15 is not
going to happen here in California.

On 12/10/2013 11:40 AM, Share Long wrote:

Refuting Judy's sneaky lie: I don't watch Fox or any news. I don't
have TV. As for snopes, I'll go with what AAA said about E15. YMMV...

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:17 PM, authfriend@...
mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

So you watch Fox News, eh? That could explain a great deal.

BTW, before freaking out over E15 gas, read this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/e15.asp

Snopes's verdict is Mixed--parts of the E15 scare story are true,
parts aren't.

Share warned:

in case you don't already know about it:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW9Nc1hVHU**

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dr. Shermer: Why People See Ghosts

Or because they *are *really seeing a ghost.  Flatlanders have a helluva 
time understanding that though.


On 12/10/2013 05:03 PM, yifux...@yahoo.com wrote:


[from a pamphlet sent by the Skeptics Society, by Michael Shermer and 
Pat Linseto mention a few key points from the 13 viewpoints and 
Shermer's explanations for people seeing ghosts, Gods, Angels, Demons, 
Aliens, etc, and why they float, fly, and travel out of their bodies. 
 I don't have time now to present a rebuttal at length, but will 
simply mention the 13 viewpoints and a few key statements of Shermer]:



[my comments in brackets, if any]:
1. psychoactive drugs. [here, Shermer falls short with statements such 
as Dissociative anesthetics such as ketamines are known to induce 
out-of-body experiences...and the like.  Obviously, the fact of such 
drug interventions says nothing about  the reality' of induced 
experiences...just that they occur and may be associated with changes 
in particular parts of the brain].

.
2. Meditation.  [he mentions the work of Newberg with meditating 
Buddhist monks, and then follows with his usual tactic of mentioning a 
part of the brain: the OAA or Orientation Association Area.  He says 
that when the OAA is booted up, there may be a breaking down of the 
lines between reality and fantasy.  More non-sequiturs from Shermer. 
His may be is speculation, as well as his perhaps: Perhaps this 
is what happens to monks who experience a sense of oneness with the 
universe, or with nuns who feel the presense of God, or with alien 
abductees who float up out of their beds to join with the mother ship. 
 Already I'm getting bored with Shermer's non-sensical arguments and 
wonder where he got his PhD.  I'm tempted not to continue with this 
abuse of logic but may mention a few more].

.
Brain damage: -[ more arguments presenting various tumors, 
hallucinations, etc; and then followed by brief lessons in brain 
anatomy, as if such facts disprove paranormal claims.].
[by now the reader can see the drift of Shermer's attempted 
refutations of the reality of the paranormal: hallucinations.  I'll 
just list the rest of his 13:

.
4. Comas, 5. Sensed Presence Effect [the sense that someone or 
something else is with us].
6. Natural-born Dualists: Children and adults alike, for example, 
speak of my body as if my and body are two different 
entities[then he - after much blah blah - says Out-of-body and 
Near-Death Experiences are processed as external events.
[again, this fact doesn't prove or disprove that there is a real 
component to the Out-of-body experience].
7. Dopamine [again, the hallucination argument]. 8. Right brain v. 
left brain Skeptics had greater left hemisphereic dominance compared 
to believers... [so what?].

9. Sleep anomalies and Lucid Dreams.  [again, the hallucination argument].
11. Agenticity, or sympathetic magic:  [agenticity: the tendency to 
infuse patterns with meaning, intention, and agency - such as 
attributing events to agents such as spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, 
angels , aliens.  True, agenticity is a real psychological phenomenon 
but says nothing about the reality of the agents].
10. Patternicity [Shermer says this is the basis of all superstition 
and magical thinking'.  But again, this is a mere fact about life, not 
an argument for the true nature of the supposed magic.

12. Hypnosis and memory [right, faulty memory is to blame!].
13. Near-Death Experiences - [hallucination argument again - due to 
electrical stimulation of the right angular gyrus in the temporal 
lobe - Shermer's appeal to scientific jargon].

...
[That's it for now!]

[FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

I am sorry - I didn't realize you just want to be an asshole. OK, permission 
granted...

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

China sounds just like the place for you, Billy.  Here are 5 ways that 
China says smog is good:


1. It unifies the Chinese people.
2. It makes China more equal.
3. It raises citizen awareness of the cost of China’s economic development.
4. It makes people funnier.
5. It makes people more knowledgeable (of things like meteorology and 
the English word haze).


More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-government-tries-to-spin-smog-as-a-healthy-benefit--and-aid-to-national-defense-174649885.html

On 12/10/2013 02:35 PM, wgm4u wrote:


So great one, what is your explanation for the coldest temperature 
ever recorded? Global cooling? You're a class act dude!  Anecdotal 
don't cut it, sorry! Do you have any SCIENCE to support your 
conclusions? I certainly wouldn't want to be a science denier!




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Global Warming could be called climate destabilization, or climate 
polarization, instead. People made the same stupid argument as you 
have, when it was discovered that the Pacific current, that runs down 
the coast of California, is getting cooler. Only later did the reason 
become obvious - the arctic ice cap is melting.


So, yeah, the effects of pouring tons of pollution into the air, don't 
always lead to warmer weather, but it is foolish to conclude that, 
therefore, there is no issue.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dr. Shermer: Why People See Ghosts

Yep. Humans, whether here or not, don't just vibrate on the frequencies that 
can be measured, and seen. Science has this incredible bias that if the 
scientists cannot figure out how to record, or measure something, the 
something doesn't exist. They continue to live in a world of superstition and 
unfounded beliefs.

[FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

Oh, man, I've had a bunch of those, All kinds of stuff I'd have been in the 
dark about and helpless to deal with on my own if it weren't for the Web. Not 
to mention how it helps with aging memory!
 

 And the search algorithms keep getting better and better; I'm constantly 
feeling as though they're reading my mind when I start typing in a word or two 
and instantly get what I'm looking for even though there are multiple possible 
topic headings containing those same words. I used to sweat creating perfect 
Boolean search strings, but it almost doesn't matter any more. Just type in a 
few words--even just related words--in any old order, never mind quotes to 
enclose a phrase or pluses to separate words or phrases, and you're still more 
than likely to come up with relevant hits.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Coldest temperature ever recorded!! :-)

It's amazing how few of the deniers know that temperature extremes, hot OR 
cold, are characteristic of global warming.
 
doctordumbass wrote:

  I am sorry - I didn't realize you just want to be an asshole. OK, permission 
  granted...

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear