[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

2014-01-31 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Do you know Crumb? I am a great admirer of that guy, although I was probably more affected by Gilbert Shelton and Steve Clay Wilson. I mean who wouldn't love to kick back after a few hits of hash and read the latest issue of Cap'n

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread Share Long
Xeno, though it has been over 40 years, I have been drunk. In fact, I would say for about 1 month, I was addicted to alcohol. I was newly separated from my husband of 6 years. I was 26 and living alone for the first time in my life. I never passed out. I think I got sick only once. Plus I had

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Win 8 blues...NOT!

2014-01-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/31/2014 1:01 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: */And, of course, you've still got the Win8 interface if you want it. Nothing is taken away, just your old Start menu and Taskbar capabilities added back in. /* For most of my internet work I've been using a Chromebook by Google with the free 1 Gig

[FairfieldLife] Mindmovies

2014-01-31 Thread TurquoiseB
YouTube artist JohnEBMcC does the best job of anyone I've ever seen at doing justice to the mindmovies of Bruce Cockburn's music in visual images. Most of the photographs in his montages he took himself, on his road trips (like Bruce's) to Mali, to the Amazon, to wherever. Enjoy. Use Me While You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/31/2014 1:13 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: The poor fellows were seriously misled into believing that they could save thousands of dollars doing simple work and got so desperate to stay in the US that they even ran away AFTER check-in at the airport. Someone has been active in misleading them

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Zoran Krneta
Such things were happening in Holland too, I have spent some time working closly with indian comunity in Vlodrop, I knew very well their problems, and that article is not very far from truth. Dana 31. 1. 2014. 21:18 osoba Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com napisala je: Then why did Hagelin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread anartaxius
Good! When you pass out drunk, you transcend self, but not consciously. Drug effects can give great, or not so great experience, but do not as a rule result in any sense of advancement. As for the meditation transcendence, that is a metaphor, one of the more effective carrot-on-the-sticks

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread Bhairitu
A lot of people drink occasionally for social reasons. It loosens the tongue and in general can make folks a little more pleasant to be around (not counting those whose over indulgence turns them in to belligerent and often violent ass holes). However MADD did a good job of getting rid of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread authfriend
Getting rid of the drinking social scene?? Are you dreaming? A lot of people drink occasionally for social reasons. It loosens the tongue and in general can make folks a little more pleasant to be around (not counting those whose over indulgence turns them in to belligerent and often

[FairfieldLife] Tori

2014-01-31 Thread TurquoiseB
Here's a musician that I'd bet Willy is not likely to post about. :-) Watching the Bruce Cockburn-related videos I posted earlier got me thinking about the many times I have seen him perform live. One of the weirdest such times was the gig in which he opened for Tori Amos. It shouldn't have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread anartaxius
Oh, I enjoy your humour. I have shown examples of your writing to someone who is very into TM and they thought you were a good writer. But if the subject matter you selected for a particular post encroached on the sanctity of belief, they would shun it. From my perspective creativity and craft

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Getting rid of the drinking social scene?? Are you dreaming? Maybe he's drunk. A lot of people drink occasionally for social reasons. It loosens the tongue and in general can make folks a little more pleasant to be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread merudanda
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: .. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, stayed in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tori

2014-01-31 Thread TurquoiseB
Although I doubt very seriously that anyone here is into Tori Amos, just in case here's a remarkable concert that I hadn't heard before tonight, and just stumbled onto on YouTube. It's from 2012, and is a re-imagining of songs she'd done several decades before on Little Creatures. If you know the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread merudanda
shockingshocking shocking ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: being blue shocking blue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAsrOCj6a5k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAsrOCj6a5k ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: .. over 40

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Jackson
yeah, the money was great Richie - as a sidha, I got $75 a month - after FICA was taken out by the university, we sidhas got about 69 bucks - the meditators got $50 before FICA. On Fri, 1/31/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Jackson
Thank you for posting that - can you share with us what some of their problems were/are? On Fri, 1/31/14, Zoran Krneta krneta.zo...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread Bhairitu
Remember I used to play night clubs for a living and certainly that movement or what came of it reduced the traffic in the clubs. I didn't mean to say it got rid of it entirely. Or maybe things are wilder in NJ? What time do the bars open or do they ever close? On 01/31/2014 02:08 PM,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Om ha ha ha. .. considering you guys as source about these things spiritual. --- salyavin808 wrote: Perhaps but maybe having such a mythos also helps keep people together in one place where they can reinforce each others beliefs. If everyone is spread out it gets hard to keep

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sat 01-Feb-14 00:15:04 UTC

2014-01-31 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 01/25/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/01/14 00:00:00 629 messages as of (UTC) 01/31/14 23:47:32 66 TurquoiseB 55 Share Long 49 Richard Williams 49 Michael Jackson 37 dhamiltony2k5 36 doctordumbass 35 Richard J.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread steve.sundur
That's a rather interesting approach. But it would not be my style. And I have visited a few other teachers, but have been content to just listen and then make a determination. And then, either leave, or come back for another session. Turns out I never latched on to another teacher other

[FairfieldLife] RE: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Ecuador too. Somebody contacted me today about having gone to Ecuador with a team testing the extended Global Maharishi Effect. Anybody go on a project team to Africa?What other countries or places? Anywhere else? [If you are shy about posting to the list, To reply, push reply and then

[FairfieldLife] Girish Varma is Free!

2014-01-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
My sources tell me he is out of jail. You heard it first on FFL!

[FairfieldLife] Opera Greats

2014-01-31 Thread Richard Williams
Renée Fleming [image: Inline image 1] *Casta Diva - Dmitri Hvorostovsky* http://youtu.be/Rg4L5tcxFcA Renée Fleming is an American soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock. Fleming has a full lyric

Re: [FairfieldLife] Girish Varma is Free!

2014-01-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/31/2014 7:20 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: My sources tell me he is out of jail. So, Girish is free and there are no missing pandit boys in Vedic City.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

2014-01-31 Thread Richard Williams
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.- Will Rogers On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-: On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams

[FairfieldLife] RE: Greatest mystery?

2014-01-31 Thread s3raphita
Silk Cut brand had ads in preparation for a ban on named tobacco advertising. The advertisements showed scissors cutting through purple silk with the Silk Cut logo on it. When the ban came into effect Silk Cut removed the logo from the advertisements and only left the purple silk. A study

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/31/2014 5:45 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: yeah, the money was great Richie - as a sidha, I got $75 a month - after FICA was taken out by the university, we sidhas got about 69 bucks - the meditators got $50 before FICA. So, all you had to do was meditate inside a golden dome for twenty

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Jackson
Tell that to the professors who make only 300 a month and have no benefits and no retirement. Go figure On Sat, 2/1/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

2014-01-31 Thread s3raphita
I always found Crumb's comix disturbing, violent and misogynistic. I particularly hated the Fritz the Cat animated film. A vision of life so cynical has to be a complete dead end.

[FairfieldLife] RE: 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic'

2014-01-31 Thread s3raphita
Re When I got through with those hucksters they would be squalling for their sycophants to carry them back to their ashrams!: There are stories of sexually dubious behaviour re both MMY and Muktananda so you'd have a field day dishing the dirt on them and watching them hurriedly making their

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic'

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Jackson
She would referee On Sat, 2/1/14, s3raph...@yahoo.com s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic' To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:35 AM

[FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

2014-01-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: I always found Crumb's comix disturbing, violent and misogynistic. I particularly hated the Fritz the Cat animated film. A vision of life so cynical has to be a complete dead end. His graphics are ugly, grotesque and leave me

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic'

2014-01-31 Thread steve.sundur
Call me a sucker, but I thought Muktananda's book, Play of Consciousness was awesome. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: Just a guess on my part, made facetiously, but given Marshy and Muktananda's behavior, proply not too far off the mark

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread Share Long
Happy Year of the Wood, Green Horse, merudanda... On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:04 PM, merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: .. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never passed out..have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread feste37
Actually, the stipend has gone up considerably since those days of $300 a month. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: Tell that to the professors who make only 300 a month and have no benefits and no retirement. Go figure

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing

2014-01-31 Thread Richard Williams
Orianthi [image: Inline image 3] Orienthe with Carls Santana Orianthi Panagaris, better known by her mononym Orianthi, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Orianthi was named one of the 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists by Elle magazine.[3] She also won the award as

[FairfieldLife] RE: Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/31/2014 1:13 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: The poor fellows were seriously misled into believing that they could save thousands of dollars doing simple work and got so desperate to stay in the US that they even ran away AFTER

[FairfieldLife] RE: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: .. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. Though Siddhartha

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Jackson
It will probably give you all the willies to know that Crumb did an illuminated Holy Bible - not a send up , not a parody, but an illustrated Bible with his art work. On Sat, 2/1/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject:

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic'

2014-01-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote: Call me a sucker, but I thought Muktananda's book, Play of Consciousness was awesome. Reminder: no one over the age of 14 is allowed to use the word awesome here Steve. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Jackson
That is good to know, but I understand they still have no benefits and no retirement On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 1,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

2014-01-31 Thread Richard Williams
Everything Has Its Basis in Nothing [image: Inline image 1] MMY at Vlodrop, NE The thing is, everything has its basis in nothing. I am not talking poetry just now, I am talking physics. Everything has its basis in NOTHING. We see a big tree - thousands of leaves and branches and flowers and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

2014-01-31 Thread Joe
Is it good? So what is the stipend now Feste? Double, say $600? Triple? Still way below the poverty line. What will it take for folks to wake up and realize that the money all goes to the Varma and Srivastava clan? Follow the money people, follow the money! --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

2014-01-31 Thread dhamiltony2k5
The interests of both the individual and society are unified in the Transcendental Meditation programme. In one stroke of action the individual takes care of himself and society -that single operation is to take deep rest through transcendental Meditation. Through that most simple and

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