date:20131226

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  some newbie asked:

 RR at 125. Is this a record yet? And what does it mean?

Not even *close* to a record. Back *before* the posting limits were
created, several people including Judy often made more posts than this a
week.

But mark my words...the next thing that's going to happen is that the
Mean Girls are going to start calling for Posting Limits again, now that
they're the people being stalked, instead of the stalkers...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Go for a calm, relaxing, four-minute cross-country ski break

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

 Methinks it could be short lived if we get around to playing it again.
I did better than I expected this first day of skiing.  But quite
exhausted.  Gonna see if I can get through these remaining posts before
nodding off.

I have the same problem, and I wasn't even skiing.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Posting Limits

Ahem. Let's hear what the self-proclaimed resident expert on everything
said about posting limits back during the period when they were being
debated as a way to get HER and two other idiots to stop making 100-150
posts per week and STFU:

 If anybody thinks Barry would be so insistently--
 and *nastily*--complaining about the top posters
 here if they were critical of TM and supportive of
 Barry, rather than supportive of TM and critical
 of Barry, I have a nice bridge you might want to
 have a look at.  - Judy Stein, Nov 3, 2006

In other words, making 150+ posts a week was just FINE with her, when
she was making that many to stalk other people, as she's done
consistently for almost 20 years. But when Richard cleverly turns the
table on her and the other Mean Girls, suddenly *she's* the one trying
to sell the posting limits bridge to other people.

Can you say Karma, dude?  I think you can.  :-)

Here she is proposing the *exact same strategy* currently being used
against her so effectively by Richard (bold emphasis mine):

 I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but it's awfully
 convenient for Barry that the three top posters
 just happen to be among his chief critics here--
 so he can try to intimidate us into silence under
 cover of complaining about how much we post.
 It would be fun to see what he'd do if we
 were to limit our posts to criticisms of him.
- Judy Stein, Nov 2, 2006

Richard didn't even have to do that. Turns out he has *plenty* to say,
about many topics, pretty much all of them more interesting than Judy
Stein. All he had to do was up his quotient of posts criticizing Judy
and she goes batshit crazy, and now (ironically) is one of the people
screaming for posting limits again.

The bottom line here is pretty simple, and pretty clear-cut: NO ONE but
Judy's clone Ann seem to be the least bit bothered by Richard turning
the tables and doing to her what she's done to so many others for so
many years.  NO ONE is rushing to her defense. Instead, pretty much
everyone is kinda *enjoying* seeing her get a taste of her own medicine.

Richard has, in fact, given the rest of us who've had to live with this
woman's insanity for so long a kind of Christmas present, letting us see
her demonstrate how badly she handles someone doing to her what she does
to others. I therefore nominate Richard as FFL Santa of the Year.  :-)










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

 I have to agree, except I'd rather make it a 75-post limit.

  However, I don't think there's any chance of the limit being
reimposed. Alex is very unlikely to want to take it back on, and Rick's
too busy to even read the posts here except once in a blue moon. Plus
which, apparently Neo has made managing a group nearly impossible. As
long as the group pretty much runs itself, that doesn't matter, but if
it involves removing and then reinstating posting privileges on a fairly
regular basis, it's likely to be a huge hassle.

  But something really does have to be done about Richard. Either he's
deliberately trying to kill the group, or he's developed some kind of
mental problem that keeps him from seeing what he's doing--maybe the
onset of dementia.

  I didn't think I would hear myself say this (and I haven't because
I'm writing it) but I am formally asking Rick for the reinstatement of
posting limits. At least at 50 I might, just might, be able to stick it
out with the, shall we say, obsessive troller Richard. He is nothing if
not persistent in his need to drive this forum into the basement. FFL
will end some day but it would be nice if it wasn't because of Ricky.
He's just not worth it.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Posting Limits

2013-12-26 Thread j_alexander_stanley

I absolutely refuse to take it back on. If folks are too stupid or lazy to just 
fucking filter out what they don't want to read, then they should go offline 
and do something else. Stop expecting others to do simple shit you can damn 
well do yourselves. Get a fucking grip, people.

 

---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

 I have to agree, except I'd rather make it a 75-post limit.
 

 However, I don't think there's any chance of the limit being reimposed. Alex 
is very unlikely to want to take it back on, and Rick's too busy to even read 
the posts here except once in a blue moon. Plus which, apparently Neo has made 
managing a group nearly impossible. As long as the group pretty much runs 
itself, that doesn't matter, but if it involves removing and then reinstating 
posting privileges on a fairly regular basis, it's likely to be a huge hassle.
 

 But something really does have to be done about Richard. Either he's 
deliberately trying to kill the group, or he's developed some kind of mental 
problem that keeps him from seeing what he's doing--maybe the onset of dementia.
 

 
 I didn't think I would hear myself say this (and I haven't because I'm writing 
it) but I am formally asking Rick for the reinstatement of posting limits. At 
least at 50 I might, just might, be able to stick it out with the, shall we 
say, obsessive troller Richard. He is nothing if not persistent in his need to 
drive this forum into the basement. FFL will end some day but it would be nice 
if it wasn't because of Ricky. He's just not worth it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Go for a calm, relaxing, four-minute cross-country ski break

2013-12-26 Thread Share Long

thanks, turq, my first LOL of the day. And yes, I'm sure my posts rank high in 
your nodding off category. Go figure!





On Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:30 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Methinks it could be short lived if we get around to playing it again.  I did 
 better than I expected this first day of skiing.  But quite exhausted.  Gonna 
 see if I can get through these remaining posts before nodding off.

I have the same problem, and I wasn't even skiing.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Posting Limits

2013-12-26 Thread dhamiltony2k5

 I am just a humble meditator.  I could help moderate this.  I have shoveled a 
lot of shit in my lifetime.  I am going to go out right now by dawn's early 
light before going to the morning Dome meditation to shovel some shit.  I feel 
that by by life's fullest and long experience that I could be pretty good at 
moderating this list.  My friends all call me Judicious by nickname.   I 
could be quite fair enforcing a posting limit here for the good of the group.  
Let me have the password to FFL and I'll do it. 
 I feel like I could serve the group well in moderation.  I volunteer.
 Jai Brahmananda Saraswati,  
 -Buck of the Dome

[FairfieldLife] Re: Posting Limits

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

 I absolutely refuse to take it back on. If folks are too stupid or
lazy to just fucking filter out what they don't want to read, then they
should go offline and do something else. Stop expecting others to do
simple shit you can damn well do yourselves. Get a fucking grip, people.

I completely understand, and please remember that *I* am not the person
asking for posting limits again. Hilariously, it's the person who *they
were invented for* asking for them.

That said, I *can* think of a more low maintenance version of the
Posting Limit, should anyone want to take over your function. This
version only requires the moderator to look at one Post Count post per
week, the one that comes out after Friday night and that contains the
weekly totals.

If anyone on it has gone over 75 posts, the moderator just blocks their
address and bans them from posting, FOREVER.

I already know who the first three people to go would be, and Richard
wouldn't be one of them.  :-)


 ---In FairfieldLife@{{evilDomain}}, authfriend@... wrote:

  I have to agree, except I'd rather make it a 75-post limit.

  However, I don't think there's any chance of the limit being
reimposed. Alex is very unlikely to want to take it back on, and Rick's
too busy to even read the posts here except once in a blue moon. Plus
which, apparently Neo has made managing a group nearly impossible. As
long as the group pretty much runs itself, that doesn't matter, but if
it involves removing and then reinstating posting privileges on a fairly
regular basis, it's likely to be a huge hassle.

  But something really does have to be done about Richard. Either he's
deliberately trying to kill the group, or he's developed some kind of
mental problem that keeps him from seeing what he's doing--maybe the
onset of dementia.

   I didn't think I would hear myself say this (and I haven't because
I'm writing it) but I am formally asking Rick for the reinstatement of
posting limits. At least at 50 I might, just might, be able to stick it
out with the, shall we say, obsessive troller Richard. He is nothing if
not persistent in his need to drive this forum into the basement. FFL
will end some day but it would be nice if it wasn't because of Ricky.
He's just not worth it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Posting Limits

2013-12-26 Thread Share Long

Brings up an interesting question: why don't Judy and Ann filter out Richard? 
And me and turq and feste and whoever else is on their unacceptable list. And 
if they don't want to delete those posts, it's simple enough to create a Maybe 
Read Later folder. I now have over 50 posts in my Maybe Read Later folder!





On Thursday, December 26, 2013 5:49 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com 
j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
I absolutely refuse to take it back on. If folks are too stupid or lazy to just 
fucking filter out what they don't want to read, then they should go offline 
and do something else. Stop expecting others to do simple shit you can damn 
well do yourselves. Get a fucking grip, people.



---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


I have to agree, except I'd rather make it a 75-post limit.

However, I don't think there's any chance of the limit being reimposed. Alex is 
very unlikely to want to take it back on, and Rick's too busy to even read the 
posts here except once in a blue moon. Plus which, apparently Neo has made 
managing a group nearly impossible. As long as the group pretty much runs 
itself, that doesn't matter, but if it involves removing and then reinstating 
posting privileges on a fairly regular basis, it's likely to be a huge hassle.

But something really does have to be done about Richard. Either he's 
deliberately trying to kill the group, or he's developed some kind of mental 
problem that keeps him from seeing what he's doing--maybe the onset of dementia.



I didn't think I would hear myself say this (and I haven't because I'm writing 
it) but I am formally asking Rick for the reinstatement of posting limits. At 
least at 50 I might, just might, be able to stick it out with the, shall we 
say, obsessive troller Richard. He is nothing if not persistent in his need to 
drive this forum into the basement. FFL will end some day but it would be nice 
if it wasn't because of Ricky. He's just not worth it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] History of Christmas

2013-12-26 Thread Share Long

Very cool, John. I've also thought that the Divine Feminine can be thought of 
as the universal horizontal and the Divine Masculine as the universal vertical. 
In this sense Jesus can be seen to embody both.





On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 11:10 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
 
  
Share,

The acharya's observation is similar to Santos Bonacci's point about Leonardo 
Da Vinci's. The Last Supper painting.  In his video, Bonacci said that the 
painting represents the variious zodiac signs and the four seasons.  The 
position of Jesus in the middle of the table represents the cross or the 
intersection between the equinoxial and solticial lines.  Thus his presence 
means that his teachings will last for all time here on earth or figuratively 
for the entire universe.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Posting Limits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long  wrote:

 Brings up an interesting question: why don't Judy and Ann filter out
Richard? And me and turq and feste and whoever else is on their
unacceptable list.

Especially if, *as they claim*, neither they nor anyone else here takes
what any of us says seriously.

Seems to me they take it VERY seriously indeed. *They*, ironically, are
the only ones now lobbying for posting limits to cut down the number of
things said about them. Talk about Egos In A Panic.  :-)

The irony of it all is just too delicious. The very person the FFL
Posting Limits were invented FOR is now crying like a baby and calling
for them again, to keep someone from doing to her what *she* was doing
to many others back when they first invented the Posting Limits to get
*her* to lighten up.

Thanks again for the Christmas present, Richard.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: FairfieldLife-supporting

2013-12-26 Thread dhamiltony2k5

Om, This lecture is even better the 2nd time listening through once you got 
where the geography of the lecture goes. -Buck

Veda and Greece
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 
 

Buck wrote:

 Deep and spiritual marination everywhere. In Fairfield, Iowa this kind of 
extremely elevated thing like this lecture is the kind thing that gets talked 
about in all the shops, places and cafes and the kind of thing that we have 
playing on our radios. Deep and spiritual marination everywhere.   It is in the 
air-waves.   It is even on the car radio when you drive around Fairfield, Iowa 
commuting or just out on errands.   It is in the Walkman or on the ipod when 
folks are out walking or biking or doing work, ditch digging  or out with doing 
farm chores.   I'd seriously recommend it for everyone: 
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 

For good listening outside  like even when Buck is not in the Dome,
-Buck http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 

Buck wrote:

 Most you people lurking here and a lot posting here on FFL  I git the 
impression don't live anywhere close to Fairfield, Iowa and it seems a number 
of you don't even meditate.   There is a fabulous lecture on  the Greeks and 
the Veda you can listen to vicariously to give you some feeling as to what we 
are doing here as a meditating community. It is a good lecture that connects 
and does unifies in context a lot of what is going on here really. Anybody on 
Fairfieldlife really ought to listen to this lecture to really be able to 
participate with much of anything to say on Fairfieldlife. It would improve the 
group a lot if we were all on one page at least about certain things and not 
just dumping any ignorant stuff here on this forum.

I should recommend you all listen  to this distinguished lecture  for the good 
of the community here.   Listen to it clear through.   It is an mp3 and would 
be good for you and the group here: 
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 
http://www.khoe.org/mp3s/kenchandler10_19_13.mp3 

-Buck in the Dome
 Take the time.  
 [Sorry for the formatting, Yahoo-Neo is the shits.]

[FairfieldLife] Meditation: It's Not What You Think

You can define meditation as a type of prayer. According to MMY, meditation
is like prayer, except on a very subtle level.

In a recent visit to Sonoma in California it seemed like almost the entire
northern half of California meditates using various breath awareness
techniques or various yoga techniques. I know that in northern California
lots of people practice Zen meditation. Recently I sat with Jokusho Kwong,
the roshi of the Sonoma Zen Center, when I visited my daughter in Santa
Rosa. I've known the roshi since the days when I sat with Suzuki at the San
Francisco Zen Center.

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Everyday Zen at Sonoma Zen Center

According to the dictionary, meditation means simply 'to think things
over'. If so, then everyone meditates. There's probably not a person on the
planet who doesn't pause once or twice a day to take stock of their mind
contents. And we're all transcending - even without a specific technique.
So, the question is: do you enjoy?

As a method of stress reduction, meditation is often used in hospitals in
cases of chronic or terminal illness to reduce complications associated
with increased stress including a depressed immune system. There is growing
agreement in the medical community that mental factors such as stress
significantly contribute to a lack of physical health, and there is a
growing movement in mainstream science to fund research in this area.

Dr. Herbert Benson of the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated
with Harvard and several Boston hospitals, reports that meditation induces
a host of biochemical and physical changes in the body collectively
referred to as the 'relaxation response.' The relaxation response includes
changes in metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and brain
chemistry. Benson and his team have also done clinical studies at Buddhist
monasteries in the Himalayan Mountains.

Transcendental means to go beyond; meditation means thinking. Hence,
'Transcendental Meditation' means to go beyond thinking. - Charlie Lutes

Works cited:

Charles F. Lutes
http://www.maharishiphotos.com/tmintro.html

Sonoma Mountain Zen Center:
http://www.smzc.net/

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

Other References:

'The Mystery of Consciousness'
By Steven Pinker
Time Magazine, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3ck5qe

'The Science of Meditation'
Time Magazine Cover Story, August 4, 2003
http://tinyurl.com/63xac5

'Just say Om'
by Joel Stein
Time Magazine, Sunday, Jul. 27, 2003
http://tinyurl.com/icu6

[FairfieldLife] RE: Revelation and Conversion

2013-12-26 Thread punditster

This is a very shocking message from Robin concerning his departure from the 
discussion group. For the record, I must apologize for the bad behavior of the 
some of informants here on FairfieldLife. It is a sad comment on the state of 
mind of one of the respondents that you mention in this message. I would like 
to take this opportunity to apologize for Ms Stein's bad behavior in attacking 
your integrity, falsely accusing you of posting parody in the place of truth - 
it is a blatant display of bad form and I feel a certain amount of 
embarrassment at her behavior.

I can't speak for anyone else here but Judy was wrong in her campaign to get 
Barry. Her hateful hostility should be reason for pause, in her case, and to do 
some hard thinking about this matter. I agree there should be a moratorium on 
this whole mean campaign to malign  the integrity of Richard and Barry and 
Curtis - she should cease and she should apologize to the group or leave. 
That's what I think.

Judy may be an intelligent and well-meaning person; but you and Curtis and 
Barry and Richard have now identified what is wrong with her - and I agree with 
you that Judy is the problem here, and nobody else. You were her last supporter 
and now even you have had admited that Judy is in the wrong in this never 
ending dispute. 

When the chorus and the entire band rebels against the conductor, it is time to 
revise the entire opera and start all over with not only new leadership, but 
with a change of attitude.

So, I hope Judy reads this and takes it to heart. It is just sad to see you, 
the Masked Zebra quit the group over the actions of a single respondent, Ms 
Stein.It is sad, very sad, that it has come to this. Again, speaking for 
myself, good luck in all your future endeavors. Stay on the path, beware of the 
full moon.- Richard Williams

 masked zebra wrote:

 In withdrawing from FFL I have had time to reflect upon my history there and 
the characters I have interacted with.
 
 It will perhaps come as a shock to some, but in reading Barry more closely and 
without the intense bias that has gripped me right from the start when Barry 
appeared to make himself immune to the effects of my posts, I have concluded 
that essentially Barry is right. Right not just about Judy; but right about 
even myself. Barry is arguing from a point of view which I have up until very 
recently been unable to accepteven tolerate. And this was of course because of 
his refusal to take me seriously in what I said in all my posts. For Barry, 
these were tedious, narcissistic, and melodramatic. Well, it turns out he was 
right. At least this is the conclusion I have come to by being brave enough to 
consider that my own defensiveness and touchiness in reacting to his criticism 
of me and my posts was preventing me from having an experience that I needed to 
have: namely, that my own estimate of my posts did not necessarily coincide 
with the truth, with reality.
 
 Whereas *his* estimate of my posts did achieve such correspondence.
 
 So, as much as I hate to do this, given how much I have invested in this 
anti-Barry project, I have to admit it: Barry is not only correct in his 
assessment of Judy (see his argument with Emily and Raunchydog), his judgment 
of me and my posts is valid as well.
 
 Now I would just ask the readers of FFLthose who have aligned themselves with 
Judy, with Robin, with the now departed Bob Price, with Jim and othersto 
reconsider their position, since for someone like myself to undergo a change of 
perception this significant, a change which I was determined would not and 
could not happen, suggests something very powerful at work here. You remember 
Saul persecuting the Christians and then being struck down on the Road to 
Damascus by Christ, and in the violence of his conversion becoming a fierce 
defender of Christ. Well, although I did not undergo quite as spectacular a 
transformation of belief, I think there are parallels here, and to the extent 
to which Saul became Paul, I have become a very different Robin. I don't say 
that Barry is Jesus or anything like that. That would be absurd. And even if I 
did think that Barry was Christ, I know he would only have contempt for such a 
view of him. So, no, I won't go that far. But I will say that in the main Barry 
has been right all along, and even his most vitriolic and bitter posts have 
been in the service of somehow forcing people to see what they, like me, were 
blind to.
 
 Well, I have been persuaded, and in a way which really means something, that 
Barry is the martyr here, and I can't tell you (although Steve perhaps has 
somewhat had the foretaste of such a sensationbut only very mildly) how much 
better I feel, not just in my heart, but in my conscience. I am not going to 
congratulate myself on what I have accomplished here in mortifying my pride and 
my sense of righteousness to bend the knee and reverse course in my judgment of 
this person, but I do think that

[FairfieldLife] The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living

A message from Edward Tarabilda:

Despite these drawbacks in his recent teaching and his failure to fully 
honor The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living®, by promoting only one 
generic form of meditation, Maharishi still deserves our praise and 
thanks. No one has done more to enhance human evolution in the twentieth 
century than Maharishi. He has been a virtual dynamo from the moment he 
came out of the Himalayas, and has offered a seemingly never ending 
series of innovative programs to help mankind solve its pressing 
problems. I, myself, have gained much from Maharishi and hold him in 
high esteem, even though I am also, at times, his harshest critic.

One of my criticisms has been Maharishi's tendency to promote a 
dangerous form of elitism among his followers. There is a difference 
between one-pointed attention to the task at hand and an elitism which 
tends to dismiss the contributions of others as insignificant. The 
streak of eastern fundamentalism which is so predominant in Swami 
Brahmananda Saraswati's other disciple, Swami Prakashananda, also exists 
in Maharishi's teaching and organization, although to a lesser degree. 
These authoritarian tendencies exist in most eastern teachings and are 
one of the reasons why they are no longer the most suitable for modern 
western people. However, none of what I have just said should keep us 
from admiring the accomplishments of these group, nor from supporting 
them where appropriate.

In Maharishi's defense, we must realize that the urgency of his task 
(helping prevent the world from self-destructing) required unusual 
methods and sacrifices, which sometimes appear to ignore or violate the 
principles of The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living® He has always 
suggested that a time would come when the spiritual needs of each 
individual would become a rightly restored priority. It is apparent that 
in saying this, he was referring to the advent of The Art of 
Multi-Dimensional Living.

The only way you will know if a teacher is enlightened, is if he is 
able to enlighten you! - Edward Tarabilda

A Note on Edward Tarabilda:

The late Edward F. Tarabilda's was a spiritual teacher in the tradition 
of knowledge known as Gyana Yoga. The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living is 
a profound elaboration of this path which grew out of his inner 
cognitions. Edward was a colleague of Dr Vasant Lad and Dr David 
Frawley. Edward Tarabilda, of Fairfield, IA, was an early adopter of TM, 
author and critic, philosopher, spiritual guide, ex- M.U.M faculty, 
ex-M.U.M. Vice-President, passed away on January 10th, 1999 at 
Fairfield, IA while playing tennis at MUM.

Read more:

'Ayurveda Revolutionized: Integrating'
by Edward Tarabilda
Lotus Press, 1997

'The Art of Multi-dimensional Living'
by Edward Tarabilda
http://shell.forethought.net/~risaacs/ 
http://shell.forethought.net/%7Erisaacs/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

Richard Wagner

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Rienzi Overture (Full) - The Symphony Orchestra of the LISZT School of
Music, Weimar
http://youtu.be/URIwWtwn6qA

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theater director,
polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas. Wagner
revolutionized opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total
work of art), by which he sought to synthesis the poetic, visual, musical
and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced
in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realized these ideas
most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des
Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

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

A note on Wagner:

Apparently Wagner wore pink underwear, climbed trees, and liked to stand on
his head. To match his pink pink underwear he often wore satin breeches, a
pink eiderdown-padded house robe and pink slippers with the rose bouquets.
In spite of this, some people think he wrote some nice music. Go figure.

As a young college student I listened to several of his operas (works) in
two courses of music appreciation. I attended this course twice so that I
could get the perspective from two different professors of music. We would
sit here for hours listening to the arias,which were translated,probably
because nobody in the class could understand all those complicated German
words.

You can always tell a genuine Wagner opera because they last for hours on
end when performed on the stage. One critic at the time wrote about a
Wagner opera:

Of all the clumsy,lumbering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on
a human stage; of all the affected, sapless, soul-less, beginingless,
endless, topless, bottomless, topsy-turviest doggerel of sound I ever
endured the deadliness of,that eternity of nothing was the deadliest.

Work cited:

'Lives of the Musical Greats'
by Victor Borge
Doubleday-Tarcher, 1971
p. 119

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

Igor Stravinsky

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The Firebird - Gergiev · Vienna Philarmonic
http://youtu.be/RZkIAVGlfWk

Petrushka - Boston Symphony Orchestra
http://youtu.be/ZZIEKCN-rIU

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) - Leonard Bernstein
http://youtu.be/5Kyso5VmZ6g

Igor Stravinsky is considered to be one of the most important and
influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional
career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved
international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei
Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The
Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). Stravinsky
was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the
century.

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

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

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Aram Khachaturian - Sabre Dance, Seiji Ozawa
http://youtu.be/ejIk_Za-q4Y

Sabre Dance is a movement in the final act of the ballet Gayane (1942)
by Aram Khachaturian. It is considered Khachaturian's most famous work. It
is based on Armenian folk music, especially its middle section.

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

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Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer. Alongside Sergei
Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, Khachaturian is sometimes called one of
the three 'titans' of Soviet music. He is also considered 'one of the major
musicians' of the 20th century.

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

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Andante (2nd
Movement) - Daniel Barenboim
http://youtu.be/DRCEwy5XQSs

The second movement was featured in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira
Madigan.

Elvira Madigan is a 1967 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg, based
on the tragedy of the Danish tightrope dancer Hedvig Jensen (born 1867),
working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather's
travelling circus, who runs away with the deserter Swedish lieutenant
Sixten Sparre (born 1854)

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Elvira Madigan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Madiganhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Madigan_%28film%29

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the
Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest
childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the
age of five and performed before European royalty.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

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Beethoven Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' - Daniel Barenboim, Royal Albert
Hall, 27 July 2012

[FairfieldLife] RE: Posting Limits

2013-12-26 Thread doctordumbass

Hooray!!! I am always in favor of self-sufficiency, especially when it comes to 
something as extraneous and just for fun, as a web forum. Even if I post 10,000 
posts next week, no will miss a meal or lose a loved one. This issue in terms 
of stuff that matters, falls way down near the bottom of my list. 
As for Richard's postings, they all look the same to me - nothing 
differentiates one from another, so, no offense, please, but I don't think I 
have read one in months.
Regarding the continual efforts of Judy to prove Barry wrong, and his ongoing 
efforts to prove her wrong, that has become a hallmark around here - The 
Squabbling Seniors, I call it. Kinda fun, when I am in the mood to watch.

Btw, I wrapped all the Christmas presents I gave this year in *meat-themed* 
wrapping paper - one looked like ground beef, or symmetrical corn dogs, or cuts 
of meat. Purchased from the Archie McPhee website.

Note to Ann - also bought something called Emergency Horse, which is a small 
plastic device with a speaker on it, and four buttons that each reproduce the 
sound of a horse; neigh, snort, gallop and whinny. Well worth the $4.95.

http://mcphee.com/shop/meat-parade-wrapping-paper-book.html 
http://mcphee.com/shop/meat-parade-wrapping-paper-book.html

[FairfieldLife] Adventures in Mind Science

The research referred to was co-funded by Mind Science Foundation and
featured in September of 2006 in the premier scientific publication in the
United States, Science, as well as the Wall Street Journal and CNN.

I regard the creation of the Mind Science Foundation as the most important
undertaking of my life … The human mind has tremendous unexplored potential
and I want to go about the discovery and development of that potential in a
scientific way. - Tom Slick

Thomas Baker Tom Slick, Jr. (May 6, 1916 – October 6, 1962) was a San
Antonio, Texas based inventor, businessman, adventurer, and heir to an oil
business. Slick's father, Thomas Baker Slick, Sr., a.k.a. The King of the
Wildcatters, had made a fortune during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s.
During the 1950s, Slick was an adventurer. He turned his attention to
expeditions to investigate the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti, Bigfoot and the
Trinity Alps giant salamander.

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The O’Neil Ford-designed Tom Slick house on Devine Road, San Antonio, Texas

Slick founded several research organizations, beginning with the forerunner
of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in 1941. His most well-known
legacy is the non-profit Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), which he
founded in 1947 to seek revolutionary advancements in technology. SwRI
continues to advance pure and applied science in a variety of fields from
lubricant and motor fuel formulation to solar physics and planetary
science. He also founded the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio in 1958
to do consciousness research.

Tom Slick: Visionary philanthropist and entrepreneur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Slick

Tom Slick Foundations:

Mind Science Foundation
117 West El Prado Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78212
http://www.mindscience.org/index.cfm

Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
7620 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.sfbr.org/

Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra Road
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.swri.org/

Titles of interest:

'The Mystery of Consciousness'
By  Steven Pinker
Time Magazine Special Issue, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3ck5qe

This is a great dedication to a man unafraid to seek out those mysterious
creatures which may or may not exist. This book should also serve as a
bittersweet and stark reminder of how much progress crypto-researchers have
made since Slick's time.

'Tom Slick and the Search for Yeti'
by Loren Coleman
Faber  Faber, 1989

The ending of the book and the stories of involvement with the CIA gave
great food for thought and I won't spoil anyone's enjoyment of the book by
going into more detail.

'Tom Slick'
True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology
by Loren Coleman
Linden Publishing, 2002

...as Slick’s niece, she had rare access to family members for interviews,
letters, papers and photo collections. She is a Fellow of the Explorers
Club, based in New York, and like her uncle, has journeyed to remote
corners of the world. When not investigating new mysteries, she lives in
San Antonio, Texas.

'Tom Slick Mystery Hunter'
by Catherine Nixon Cooke
Paraview, 2005

[FairfieldLife] Re: Information Technology Systems

Arrest him and book him!

You are fired for lying to the American people. Clear out your desk and
leave the building! Officer, arrest this man and book him for serial lying.
Bailiff, put this man in chains and take him for the perp walk,immediately!
Mr. Biden, get on the phone with that Snowden fellow and get his pardon
ready,NOW! Do it!

It's not easy to pick the year's most transparent lie from the self-styled
“most transparent administration in history.” There are so many to choose
from—such a richness of embarrassment.

For my money, the biggest presidential lie of the year came on June 7, the
week after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden
revealed the agency's secret collection of call records data on millions of
Americans. “I welcome this debate,” Obama proclaimed—even as his
administration was hunting down the whistleblower who started it and
preparing to hit him with 30 years of Espionage Act charges.

'Obama's Epic Fib About the NSA'
http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/24/obamas-epic-fibs-about-the-nsa

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote:

The ObamaCare disaster is not just a management failure, it's a firing
incident. Where I used to work, a system failure this large would be a
cause for instant dismissal:

*Clean off your desk and get out, you're fired! Officer, escort this
person off the premises. And, don't you ever come back! You'll never work
in this town again. You fuckin' idiot!*

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'In Defense of Kathleen Sebelius'
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303680404579141473117316190

Re: [FairfieldLife] Posting Limits

Remember, folks, according to Judy herself, Robin was posting a parody. 
What is the difference between lying and posting a parody? What Robin 
posted was a put-on that everybody took seriously, but when Richard 
posts a put-on, it's lying, according The Judge. Go figure.


On 12/25/2013 11:02 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*Remember, folks, according to Richard himself, 99 percent of what he 
posts is a put-on that nobody should take seriously.*


*
*

*Hmm, I think I'll make a macro of the above.*


I didn't think I would hear myself say this (and I haven't
because I'm writing it) but I am formally asking Rick for the
reinstatement of posting limits. At least at 50 I might, just
might, be able to stick it out with the, shall we say, obsessive
troller Richard. He is nothing if not persistent in his need to
drive this forum into the basement. FFL will end some day but it
would be nice if it wasn't because of Ricky. He's just not worth it. 

Run to Rick, run to Rick. If Rick doesn't like me posting then he
can speak for himself and I can always post to Google Groups as
much as I want to, any time I want to, as long as I want to - it's
totally un-moderated.

Just for the record, Judy was one of the main reasons for the
posting limits in the first place. It's on record that she has
been the top poster for years on FFL and previously on Google
Groups. For some reason, she thinks she is the moderator of this
list now. Not for nothing do they call her The Corrector. Because
of her outright meanness, it's now open season on Ms Stein and now
I got the people-power to stand up to her. So, put that in your
pipe and smoke it.

I WILL NOT BOW AND SCRAPE TO THE TYRANT!

And also for the record, you and Judy are the main reasons this
group has gone into the basement. I don't see anyone else here
posting as much snark as you two post. Almost 50% of the posts
here are just ankle-biting and snark from you two gals. It's just
embarrassing. This is supposed to be an open discussion. In a
social gathering, you two gals would be asked to leave for being
just outright uncouth and mean-spirited.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Five, six, and seven for Feste

Creating a phoney macro in NEO is much more than just phoney - it's 
the sure sign of a poser, desperately seeking attention. Nothing that Ms 
Stein posts here is to be taken seriously. NOTHING. Even her macro is 
a pose! Every nerd on the planet knows you can't create a macro in 
Microsoft Notepad. Go figure.


On 12/25/2013 11:03 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


Richard shoots himself in both feet:


The only one going over the edge here is you, Ms Stein. If creating 
a phoney macro isn't going over the edge I don't know what is! 
Nothing I post is to be taken seriously



Yup, that'll be my new macro.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Five, six, and seven for Feste

Thanks for the link,but why in the world would I need a macro to post 
a reply to you, or to anyone else? Like Barry, I can already key in text 
at a very high rate of speed - I've been playing Letter Invaders for 
twenty years. I will admit using this Toshiba Ultrabook with the 
chicklet keys slows me down some, but on a Rosewill keyboard, the one 
with the mechanical clicking sound, I can hit 99 WPM with one hand tied 
behind my back.


Macros are for newbies and nerds who can't type. You'd think that after 
working as a professional editor out of a home office for close to 
thirty years, Judy would have learned one simple fact: the querty 
keyboard does not change - all you have to do is memorize the keyboard 
layout. It's not complicated.


On 12/25/2013 11:22 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


BTW, Richard, if you'd like to start using macros for all your 
repetitive text, here's the macro program I've been using:



http://www.tucows.com/preview/518190/AllKeys-Macro


It's free for the first 30 days, then it costs $30 to register it. 
Installs very easily in Windows, ridiculously simple to use, at least 
for automating text strings. I haven't tried any of its bells and 
whistles for doing fancier stuff, but maybe you'll find them helpful too.





Richard shoots himself in both feet:


The only one going over the edge here is you, Ms Stein. If creating 
a phoney macro isn't going over the edge I don't know what is! 
Nothing I post is to be taken seriously



Yup, that'll be my new macro.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Posting Limits