[FairfieldLife] Happy New Year FFL

2013-12-31 Thread bobpriced
"This means we are not only children longer, we are childlike longer, and that has made us by far the most creative and adaptable creatures ever. "We are not a computer that follows routines laid down at birth," Jacob Bronowski once observed. "If we are any kind of machine, then we are a learnin

[FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Richard isn't confusing me. My point is that choosing a *woman* to be the first witness makes the "story" more believable (to moderns) as a made-up account would have had the first witness a male in that patriarchal society. Angels don't count being non-sexual!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 10:39 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > No, Mary was not the first person to see the risen Christ according to Luke. > Luke does not dispute the other Gospels, even if he does not mention Mary Magdalene by name. John 20 and Mark 16:9 specifically name her as the first person to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 10:38 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > And one more time: Luke does not say that Mary M. or any of > the other women saw the risen Christ. (That's assuming Richard > is referring to the guy to whom the Gospel of Luke is attributed, > rather than to some dude he knows named Luke)

[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Soma

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
I like these psychedelic speculations but would point out that Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is a deliriant rather than a lucid psych like LSD. A sweaty, unpleasant mind-fuck more suited to shamans seeking an out-of-the-body experience rather than sadhus seeking to escape from the wheel of life

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 9:56 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Just so Richard doesn't confuse you, Seraphita, there's been no > dispute about Mary M. having been the first to see the risen > Christ according to Matthew, Mark, and John. > Maybe Judy should take it up with Wikipedia. "In listing witness

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 9:53 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Richard than getting the story straight about his lying trolls. > "Uniquely among the followers of Jesus, she is specified by name (though not consistently by any one gospel) as a witness to three key events: Jesus' crucifixion, his burial,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 9:44 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote > No, Luke does not say that, as you know. Luke says there were at > least five women, first of all (as you know): Mary M., the mother of > James, and a Joanna, plus unnamed "others with them." > "In Mark, Matthew, and John, Mary Magdalene is f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 9:44 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote > No, Luke does not say that, as you know. Luke says there were at > least five women, first of all (as you know): Mary M., the mother of > James, and a Joanna, plus unnamed "others with them." > "In Mark, Matthew, and John, Mary Magdalene is f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
No, Mary was not the first person to see the risen Christ according to Luke. > But not, as Richard knows, according to Luke (although he claimed all > four Gospels agreed); and according to all four Gospels, nobody saw > Jesus "hovering in the air" until the Ascension > What part of the Bi

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 9:35 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: > Indeed. Now bear in mind that in those far-off days a woman's testimony > would be regarded as very much inferior to a male witness. If the Gospel > writers were making the story up would they have chosen Mary as a witness > to that pivotal eve

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
OK, so now we know that when Richard tells us about Bible stories, he's not necessarily talking about what's in the Bible; he may be talking about stuff he made up. But he's not going to tell us this up front; he'll tell us only if otherwise we all assume he's telling lies about what's in the Bi

[FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

2013-12-31 Thread emptybill
Back to the usual clap-trap. If there is no false interpretation then Buddhists are free to believe that: 1. there is an eternal Atman along with 2. a changeless, eternal substance supporting the universe and 3. a personal god who creates people like you to subvert the essential

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 9:35 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > But not, as Richard knows, according to Luke (although he claimed all > four Gospels agreed); and according to all four Gospels, nobody saw > Jesus "hovering in the air" until the Ascension > What part of the Bible do you not understand - can'

[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Adwaita

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Re "The Trinity is a theological formulation in Christianity ... not a philosophical idea. : Yes, but the Christian theologians were indebted to the Neoplatonists, especially the divine Plotinus and Iamblichus. The One is at the top of the hierarchy. The first emanation is Nous (Divine Mind

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:55 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > This, FYI, folks, is why there's no point in arguing with Richard. > I've been doing it just so you all can see what happens if you try. > > > Exactly. Nice job and you too have the muddy knees and bruised > > elbows to show for it crawling

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:55 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Richard knows all this, Ann. He's known it all along. He's > just doing his usual trolling and lying. > "John 20 and Mark 16:9 specifically name her as the first person to see Jesus after his Resurrection." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:52 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: *This, FYI, folks, is why there's no point in arguing with Richard. I've been doing it just so you all can see what happens if you try.* "She was at his burial, and she is the only person that all four Gospels say was first to realize that Jesus

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:50 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: > Ahh, I think Judy may have the court advantage at this point. > The "Ascension" is what clinched it for me. Richard? > The Ascension came forty years later - that's when Christ went up to heaven. Everyone knows that Mary Magdalene was the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:46 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Your previous posts have said Mary M. saw the risen Christ "hovering > in the air." None of the Gospels say that. > Nobody said the Gospels say that the risen Christ was hovering in the air. Richard said that - that''s what Richard thinks a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:42 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: << Luke 23:55 states: "the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee" - the women were Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary", who in Mark is "the mother of James". They were the first to see the risen Jesus. >> > No, as you know, Luke does no

[FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Just so Richard doesn't confuse you, Seraphita, there's been no dispute about Mary M. having been the first to see the risen Christ according to Matthew, Mark, and John. Luke is the outlier: he says the women were told by two men, presumably angels, at the tomb that Christ had risen, whereup

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Again, nobody is disupting this. Share's lost the plot completely because she didn't read the posts with any attention and is much more interested in defending Richard than getting the story straight about his lying trolls. << > Judy, I think you and Richard were using the word *risen* in dif

[FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Another possibility is that aliens have picked up our transmissions of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and are avoiding us like we avoid vacationing in Detroit or Newark.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 7:22 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: > I could buy that if I could first buy the fact that there was > a Christ, a Mary Magdalene and a rising. > Nobody is asking you to buy anything, but it says in the Bible that Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the risen Christ. If y

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
No, Luke does not say that, as you know. Luke says there were at least five women, first of all (as you know): Mary M., the mother of James, and a Joanna, plus unnamed "others with them." And Luke makes it crystal clear that none of those women saw the risen Christ. As you know. << > Luke

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 4:00 PM, Share Long wrote: > Judy, I think you and Richard were using the word *risen* in > different ways. Richard was saying that Mary M was first to > see Jesus after he had risen from the dead whereas you were > talking about Jesus' ascension into heaven. > According to the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Re "According to the Bible, Mary Magdalen was the first to see the risen Christ.": Indeed. Now bear in mind that in those far-off days a woman's testimony would be regarded as very much inferior to a male witness. If the Gospel writers were making the story up would they have chosen Mary as a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
But not, as Richard knows, according to Luke (although he claimed all four Gospels agreed); and according to all four Gospels, nobody saw Jesus "hovering in the air" until the Ascension, Richard is now taking his trolling and lying even further by lying about what the dispute concerned. That

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 3:53 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Luke does not say Mary M. was the first to see Christ risen from the > dead--but Richard insists all four Gospels say that. > Luke said there were two women from Galilee that first saw the risen Christ - that was Mary Magdalene and the mother

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 3:33 PM, Share Long wrote: > Judy, I think Richard was saying that Mary Magdelene from first to see Christ risen from the dead. > According to the Bible, Mary Magdalen was the first to see the risen Christ. That's what the Bible says. Mary Magdalene was the first. It's in the Bi

[FairfieldLife] RE: Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians

2013-12-31 Thread emptybill
Barack Hussein O'Muslim said it so well ... We have never been "just a Christian nation". America has long included Jews, Mormons, Freemasons and other non-Christians. They made up proly close to 5%. Now we have Muslims here to ennoble us and lead us to Dar-As-Salam.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 12:14 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: > Such “enlightenment” is utter make-believe. It is a false > interpretation - both of Shankara’s Advaita and of Buddhist > Mahamudra and Dzogchen. > First of all, there's no such thing as "false interpretation", because there are numerous in

[FairfieldLife] RE: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Nephew Arrested on Rape Charge - The New Indian Express

2013-12-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Girish Varma in the news again? Om, how demoralizing to everyone in TM who try to do good participating in a spiritual regeneration movement to then have this leadership out there cuckolding his people . Is this characteristic of TM leadership? Who would want to be involved with these people? T

Re: [FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Not surprisingly, the quote was taken out of context and an important qualifier deleted. Here's the actual quote: "Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian n

[FairfieldLife] Global 'warming' hits the US.

2013-12-31 Thread wgm4u
Frigid New Year's forecast for parts of U.S. -- 40 below zero http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-weather-cold-new-year-20131231,0,4139182.story#ixzz2p6n8k0UG http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-weather-cold-new-year-20131231,0,4139182.story#ixzz2p6n8k0UG

[FairfieldLife] Pretty creepy and cool...

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
http://distractify.com/culture/arts/the-most-spectacular-abandoned-places-in-the-world/ http://distractify.com/culture/arts/the-most-spectacular-abandoned-places-in-the-world/ I wouldn't call them necessarily "spectacular" but they are "abandoned".

[FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Wed 01-Jan-14 00:15:03 UTC

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
Hey Ricky, Share has performed 69 for you. Nice work and go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 12/28/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 01/04/14 00:00:00 489 messages as of (UTC) 01/01/14 00:08:28 69 S

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: This, FYI, folks, is why there's no point in arguing with Richard. I've been doing it just so you all can see what happens if you try. Exactly. Nice job and you too have the muddy knees and bruised elbows to show for it crawling amid the min

[FairfieldLife] RE: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Nephew Arrested on Rape Charge - The New Indian Express

2013-12-31 Thread emptybill
A purported $9.7 Billion fortune. Hummh ... Could the TMO just be about the $$$? May this is what they mean by evolution of consciousness.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Richard knows all this, Ann. He's known it all along. He's just doing his usual trolling and lying. << Ahh, I think Judy may have the court advantage at this point. The "Ascension" is what clinched it for me. Richard? >>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
This, FYI, folks, is why there's no point in arguing with Richard. I've been doing it just so you all can see what happens if you try. > No, sorry, Share, but I had made it quite clear what I meant by "risen." << Risen means risen - where else do you think the dead rise, if not into th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Luke (as you know) doesn't say Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. << Mary Magdalene was at Jesus burial, and she is the only person that all four Gospels say was first to realize that Jesus had risen. >> "Realizin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Your previous posts have said Mary M. saw the risen Christ "hovering in the air." None of the Gospels say that. Nobody is arguing that Mary M. wasn't the first to see him, as related in the Gospel of John. That has never been in dispute. << The lies are in your previous posts about what Ma

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Luke (as you know) doesn't say Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. << Mary Magdalene was at Jesus burial, and she is the only person that all four Gospels say was first to realize that Jesus had risen. >> "Realizing," as you know, is not "seeing," Richard. << Jo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Welcome to 2014

2013-12-31 Thread Bhairitu
Given that all the US did in 2008 was slap a band aid on the economic crisis the chickens are going to come home to roost. The banksters will present us with their gambling bill and we in turn should salute with our middle fingers. Then the brawl begins. No way I'm paying for their losses.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Fw: Fwd: Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
Fabulous exotic creatures these human beings are. Just look at the adornment, the body art, the color, the functionality that integrates with the aesthetic qualities of the garments, the jewelry, the body paint or the fur. This was great feasting for the eyes. Thank God for diversity and individ

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 3:26 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > No, sorry, Share, but I had made it quite clear what I meant by "risen." > Risen means risen - where else do you think the dead rise, if not into the air? Are you thinking that the risen Christ was crawling on the floor? A resurrected Christ

[FairfieldLife] RE: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: On 12/31/2013 3:08 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: > The lies are in your previous posts about what Mary M. > style="font-style:italic;">saw, > Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the risen Christ - that much has now

Re: [FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians

2013-12-31 Thread Bhairitu
Depends on what questions they asked, doesn't it? If they asked me if I was from a "Christian family" about the only thing I could say was my maternal grandmother was a Methodist and attended church. The rest of us just said "meh." On 12/31/2013 05:06 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: A rece

[FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Share, It's hard to fathom. But there are many intelligent fundamentalist Christians who believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old. And they believe in the literal interpretation of the Old and New Testament. I would really have t

[FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians

2013-12-31 Thread emptybill
A recent Gallup poll refutes the claim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik made by Barack Obama on March 9, 2008 that “we are no longer a Christian nation.” Gallup http://www.gallup.com/ found that three quarters of all Americans - a supermajority - identify themselves as Christians,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 3:08 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > The lies are in your previous posts about what Mary M. saw, > Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the risen Christ - that much has now been established. What she saw was the risen Christ - so, I guess we could say that Mary Magdalene sa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 3:05 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Luke (as you know) doesn't say Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. > Mary Magdalene was at Jesus burial, and she is the only person that all four Gospels say was first to realize that Jesus had risen. John 20 and Mark 16:9

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: HUM... HUM...HUM... ! ! !

2013-12-31 Thread Bhairitu
Unfortunately the "land of the Ved" is quite less than Vedic or even civilized. Those with money live like kings while those without struggle. They are often illiterate too. This is NO right. Things must change. On 12/31/2013 03:39 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Re "Yes, this *is *India

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Williams
Janis Joplin [image: Inline image 1] Me and Bobby McGee - from the album Pearl http://youtu.be/6iX-EcRKXJw Cheap Thrills http://youtu.be/VobLiLA9qAk Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas the same year I was born. I met Janis at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio - we both graduat

[FairfieldLife] Welcome to 2014

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
What does the new year have in store for us? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIFkjiJm0gc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIFkjiJm0gc

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Wed 01-Jan-14 00:15:03 UTC

2013-12-31 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 12/28/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 01/04/14 00:00:00 489 messages as of (UTC) 01/01/14 00:08:28 69 Share Long 67 Richard J. Williams 46 Richard Williams 44 authfriend 38 awoelflebater 32 s3raphita 29 TurquoiseB 28

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Share, just read over the discussion between Richard and me, once, twice, as many times as necessary until you see Richard's original mistake and then his lies after I corrected him. One of your biggest problems in any debate-type situation is that you do not take the time to read and unders

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Let's not forget groovy Julie Driscoll. Probably the best cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch". Eat your heart out Austin Powers.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZPEleI-U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZPEleI-U

[FairfieldLife] RE: HUM... HUM...HUM... ! ! !

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Re "Yes, this is India where money talks": Money talks everywhere unfortunately, but the recent high-profile rape cases in India which have shocked the world probably mean something will be done this time. Is there anything viler than the rape and murder of that young Indian girl some mont

[FairfieldLife] RE: Female Rock Stars

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
Barry plugs John Renbourn on a parallel thread. I only know his work with Pentangle. I prefer their old songs to Fairport these days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9of8OhkeQ&list=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9of8OhkeQ&list=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMA

[FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
The photo you post of Lama Yongden was on the title page of "The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects" by Alexandra David-Neel. I bought the book decades ago in a regular book store and remember the assistant who served me couldn't stop smirking. Alas, the petty humiliations we must e

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sixties Brit pop ladies

2013-12-31 Thread s3raphita
"Johnny Remember Me" - yes. My favourite Joe Meek production (whereas Maggie Thatcher's was "Telstar"!). The fawning and fainting girls . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4JXwd7XMo&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4JXwd7XMo&feature=youtu.be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
Judy, I think you and Richard were using the word *risen* in different ways. Richard was saying that Mary M was first to see Jesus after he had risen from the dead whereas you were talking about Jesus' ascension into heaven. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:53 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wro

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Not necessarily the same article. As I just got done saying, the poll results are all over the news. He could have read about them anywhere. << Judy, here's what noozguru posted: I can really believe that 1/3 of the US population does not accept evolution. >> I know what he said, Share.

[FairfieldLife] "Won't Last Long" (Tom Petty) - Sayonara, 2013!

2013-12-31 Thread doctordumbass
A fitting send-off! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCaUhiVXg8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCaUhiVXg8 lyrics: Won't last Long - (by one of the great American troubadours, Tom Petty) You and me been over this ground Over this ground before I can't explain, I can't explain I can't explai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Care to translate that into English for me, Share? Perhaps you meant to type "was the" instead of "from"? If so, of course nobody was arguing otherwise. And of course that isn't what Richard has been saying anyway, as you know if you've been following the discussion. You can just read wha

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
Judy, here's what noozguru posted: I can really believe that 1/3 of the US population does not accept evolution. I didn't know that you two were referring to the same article, the same group. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:47 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   Same group, Share. He's

[FairfieldLife] RE: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Nephew Arrested on Rape Charge - The New Indian Express

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Rick, see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368936 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368936 http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogis-Nephew-Arrested-on-Rape-Charge/2013/12/31/article1973903.e

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Same group, Share. He's referring to that recent poll discussed in the article I linked to. It's all over the news. << Judy, you're talking about the group you read about. And I'm talking about the group that noozguru posted about! >> Nice try, Share, but that's wrong too. They don't beli

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Nephew Arrested on Rape Charge - The New Indian Express

2013-12-31 Thread Rick Archer
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogis-Nephew-Arreste d-on-Rape-Charge/2013/12/31/article1973903.ece

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: ACLU Sues for Disclosure of Surveillance Executive Order

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
noozguru, and hopefully they won't figure out who Sharon is! On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:56 PM, Bhairitu wrote:   I'm sure the first things the NSA kids do each day is to check what Empty, Sharon and Bhairitu have posted on FFL.  It's very important for "national security", you know.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
Judy, you're talking about the group you read about. And I'm talking about the group that noozguru posted about! On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:24 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   Nice try, Share, but that's wrong too. They don't believe in evolution--for any critter, or even any pl

[FairfieldLife] Soundbreaker

2013-12-31 Thread cardemaister
Kimmo Pohjonen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmo_Pohjonen#mw-navigation, search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmo_Pohjonen#p-search Kimmo Pohjonen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kimmo_solo_3867.jpg Kimmo Pohjonen, photo by Kalle Bj

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
Judy, I think Richard was saying that Mary Magdelene from first to see Christ risen from the dead. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:26 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   No, sorry, Share, but I had made it quite clear what I meant by "risen." In this case, it doesn't mean "risen into th

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Darshan

2013-12-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Thanks, this narrative is a really nice personal voice. Recounting a time it is also good insight in to something not much spoken about, personal illumination. Especially Maharishi's personal experience with it. Jai the Jagad Sat Guru, -Buck Das in the Dome AEGTC, Seeligsburg, Switzerla

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
No, sorry, Share, but I had made it quite clear what I meant by "risen." In this case, it doesn't mean "risen into the air," as Richard maintains. Christ is not reported in the Bible to have been "hovering in the air" when Mary Magdalene saw him. Richard knows that. He also knows (if he's read t

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Nice try, Share, but that's wrong too. They don't believe in evolution--for any critter, or even any plant--because evolution isn't in the Bible. The Bible says God made everything once for all time. That's what the poll question asked, and they said that's what they believed. << IOW, Judy, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Female Rock Stars

2013-12-31 Thread doctordumbass
Loved these guys! Bought a bootleg of L&L in Taiwan (their main source of income, pre-computer chips) - I think it was blue plastic.

[FairfieldLife] 2014, The Dome Numbers, Resolutions, Some humble suggestions for the coming FF New Year

2013-12-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Yes indeed, let us be humble now at year's end with the New Year beginning. Taking stock now at year's end our community Dome meditation numbers are frightfully low. Men's Dome meditation numbers are more frequently even below 200. That is even lower than whence the Assembly started back in 20

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread jr_esq
Share, I found this strange correlation with the British royalty: 1. Prince Charles had the conjunction of Rahu and Moon in his birth chart. 2. Princess Diana had the conjunction of Ketu and the Moon. 3. Both Prince William and Kate Middleton had the conjunctions of Rahu and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Except that nobody has been arguing about what you just stated. The lies are in your previous posts about what Mary M. saw. < < Judy, I don't think Richard is lying at all! You and he are merely defining *risen* differently. According to the Gospels, Mary Magdalene was the first person to reali

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
IOW, Judy, I took what noozguru said at face value. I was not guessing about 1/3. I was guessing about why they don't believe in evolution. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:12 PM, Share Long wrote:   Judy, my post was not a wrong guess. It was a reference to noozguru saying that 1/3 of Am

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Luke (as you know) doesn't say Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. And none of the Gospels say he was "hovering in the air" when Mary M. saw him. Why Richard is lying about something so easy to check, I have no idea. It should be easy to check: All the four gospels agree on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 2:38 PM, Share Long wrote: > Judy, I don't think Richard is lying at all! You and he are merely defining *risen* differently. > According to the Gospels, Mary Magdalene was the first person to realize that Jesus had risen. Mary testified about this to the apostles that Jesus had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Share, > > It's hard to fathom. But there are many intelligent fundamentalist Christians who believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old. And they believe in the literal interpretation of the Old and New Testament. A shockingly sizable portio

Re: [FairfieldLife] The *other* great English folk-rock album of all time

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 10:50 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:*/ > For those few here (hopefully) who don't know it. > If you don't, you were really fuckin' out of it. :-) > /* Thanks for the link. Out of it for not remembering a folk-rock artist?

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
<< Note the courtesy with which Share corrects auth's mistake. >> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You are determined to trash every bit of credibility you may ever have had for the sake of defending Poor Innocent Share from her own mistakes. << Just the facts. >> The fact is that her "guess" was wr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/31/2013 11:37 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Why Richard is lying about something so easy to check, I have no idea. It should be easy to check: All the four gospels agree on this - Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:1, Luke 24:10, and John 20:1.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Get Your Ducks in a Row

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
Judy, I don't think Richard is lying at all! You and he are merely defining *risen* differently. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:37 AM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   Why Richard is lying about something so easy to check, I have no idea. Let me make myself clear: Mary Magdalene was

[FairfieldLife] Happy, Healthy, Prosperous 2014 to all beings everywhere

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XP-f7wPM0A

[FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread jr_esq
Share, It's hard to fathom. But there are many intelligent fundamentalist Christians who believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old. And they believe in the literal interpretation of the Old and New Testament.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
I know what you were referring to, Share. But what you said your guess was, was wrong. It's not just that folks don't believe humans evolved from apes, as you said; rather, they don't accept evolution, period (as Bhairitu said). That's why I italicized "since the beginning of time," you see.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread feste37
Note the courtesy with which Share corrects auth's mistake. Just the facts. No sneering or nastiness. Now imagine what it would have been like the other way round. Try to learn from Share, auth. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Judy, my post was not a wrong guess. It was a r

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread feste37
MMY didn't believe in evolution either. Humans were created as humans, not as apes who had a lot of evolving to do. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Judy, my post was not a wrong guess. It was a reference to noozguru saying that 1/3 of Americans don't believe in evolution.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: HUM... HUM...HUM... ! ! !

2013-12-31 Thread Bhairitu
Yes, this *is *India where money talks. On 12/31/2013 12:02 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: *Now, /that's/ what I call a promising start to the new year. (Assuming he's guilty, that is.) I was afraid the authorities were going to leave him be. Of course he could still get off even if he is g

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013

2013-12-31 Thread Share Long
Judy, my post was not a wrong guess. It was a reference to noozguru saying that 1/3 of Americans don't believe in evolution. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:53 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" wrote:   Wrong guess (and why guess, when it's so easy to find out what the facts are?): "A poll out

[FairfieldLife] RE: HUM... HUM...HUM... ! ! !

2013-12-31 Thread authfriend
Now, that's what I call a promising start to the new year. (Assuming he's guilty, that is.) I was afraid the authorities were going to leave him be. Of course he could still get off even if he is guilty, but at least they're taking the accusation seriously. << http://www.indianexpress.co

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: ACLU Sues for Disclosure of Surveillance Executive Order

2013-12-31 Thread Bhairitu
I'm sure the first things the NSA kids do each day is to check what Empty, Sharon and Bhairitu have posted on FFL. It's very important for "national security", you know. On 12/31/2013 11:31 AM, Share Long wrote: emptybill, do we really need TWO Big Brothers watching us?! On Tuesday, Decembe

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