[FairfieldLife] The Art Of Persuasion
Or, How Buck went from 20 minutes twice a day to two+ hours twice a day plus non-stop proselytizing during the other 20 hours, explained in 59 seconds: http://digg.com/video/the-art-of-persuasion-explained-in-59-seconds http://digg.com/video/the-art-of-persuasion-explained-in-59-seconds
[FairfieldLife] Ukraine?
It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
[FairfieldLife] What are Criss's biggest LIE's?
Is the reaction of that audience a huge lie? Criss Angel's BeLIEve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gK2MxGR0M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gK2MxGR0M Is most of Western economy based on lies (commercials, stock market analysts, etc, etc.)? Luckily, this forum is not Fairfield LIEf!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
Yes, Salya, but only for the rest of us, not for you (-: PS I like how you have a sense of humor about yourself. PPS That is what you were doing, wasn't it?! On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:32 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So anyway, about re-introducing the post limit. Is next week OK? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/15/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/22/14 00:00:00 705 messages as of (UTC) 02/21/14 00:11:05 86 salyavin808 75 authfriend 69 Richard J. Williams 60 awoelflebater 45 Michael Jackson 43 nablusoss1008 36 dhamiltony2k5 35 doctordumbass 33 Share Long 29 anartaxius 24 steve.sundur 23 Pundit Sir 22 Bhairitu 21 TurquoiseBee 17 jedi_spock 15 jr_esq 12 s3raphita 11 turquoiseb 8 emptybill 6 jchwelch 6 j_alexander_stanley 6 cardemaister 5 emilymaenot 4 noozguru 3 Mike Dixon 2 yifuxero 2 LEnglish5 1 lol_you_got_it 1 karuna54321 1 emptyliar 1 Rick Archer 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Duveyoung Posters: 34 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Doc, Emily and Noozguru, FB is a good way for me to stay in touch with my family who are about 975 miles away. Unfortunately, I joined and friended some people and groups before knowing how it works. Some stuff was appearing on my wall that wasn't representative of me, like inflammatory political pieces. Anyway, the whole phenomena is fascinating. One thing I read recently is that the young are abandoning FB for other sites not used by their parents and grand parents LOL! On Friday, February 21, 2014 12:17 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: I will check out the documentary. Thanks. I don't have a FB page, but have insisted my younger daughter give me her password (which she changes as often as I ask for it) and I check intermittently, but mostly, I give her her privacy online. I found the Frontline piece informative and fascinating as it highlighted real generational differences in mindset and relationship to media, or its evolution to social media, including completely different takes on the concepts of identity and privacy that I didn't quite understand up until now, as I am admittedly not up to speed. It helped me understand my teen. Yes, a goldmine of data for market and product research. Facebook is trying to acquire WhatsApp now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB but I think it's a gigantic spider web of whatever! Instead, give me a troll ridden forum any day! (-: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Arianna Huffington decided she hated anonymous comments on Huffington Post. I had an account there for years to comment though I didn't post comments very often. So the last time I tried to post a comment they wanted to verify it with my Facebook account. Dumb woman, doesn't understand that not all of use want to be on Facebutt. Arianna, like Bill Maher, is a limousine liberal who espouses liberal views for the money but probably vote conservative in a heartbeat if it suits their pocketbook. On 02/20/2014 10:17 AM, Share Long wrote: Trolls and snarks and goof offs, oh no! (to the tune of *lions and tigers and bears, oh no* from The Wizard of Oz) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:58 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On02/20/2014 07:17 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/19/2014 7:13 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The article is more about comment trolls than trolling on forums or groups. There's a difference? Go figure. I wouldn't even call what he is talking about trolls. It's mainly goof-offs posting snarky comments and not trying to get anything started. There will be a few that will try to troll a comment section but most are off to another article to post snarky comments. Sometimes the snarky comments are funny and to the point and that wouldn't be trolling either. And of course Morford claims not to read the comments section as his solution (bet he does sometimes). Sure, we get snarky posts here but then they will stick around to see if their troll worked. Mark maybe doesn't hangout in any groups or forums. The description of a troll posted by the two Barry's and Judy
[FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
Actually your excesses, during this week, have given me another idea. I'd like to see posting limits go the other way - Contractual *minimums*, for the most prolific posters - say 200 posts a week, from Richard, for starters, with a C-note each, from Judy and Turq. And I guess that goes for you too, Sal. Just like cell phone minutes, the contracted amount of postings would be reusable, so if Richard, for example, went on a month's vacation from FFL, upon returning, he would be on the hook for a *thousand* messages, that next week. This will really separate the men from the boys. I say we go for it!! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So anyway, about re-introducing the post limit. Is next week OK? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/15/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/22/14 00:00:00 705 messages as of (UTC) 02/21/14 00:11:05 86 salyavin808 75 authfriend 69 Richard J. Williams 60 awoelflebater 45 Michael Jackson 43 nablusoss1008 36 dhamiltony2k5 35 doctordumbass 33 Share Long 29 anartaxius 24 steve.sundur 23 Pundit Sir 22 Bhairitu 21 TurquoiseBee 17 jedi_spock 15 jr_esq 12 s3raphita 11 turquoiseb 8 emptybill 6 jchwelch 6 j_alexander_stanley 6 cardemaister 5 emilymaenot 4 noozguru 3 Mike Dixon 2 yifuxero 2 LEnglish5 1 lol_you_got_it 1 karuna54321 1 emptyliar 1 Rick Archer 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Duveyoung Posters: 34 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So anyway, about re-introducing the post limit. Is next week OK? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/15/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/22/14 00:00:00 705 messages as of (UTC) 02/21/14 00:11:05 86 salyavin808 75 authfriend 69 Richard J. Williams 60 awoelflebater 45 Michael Jackson 43 nablusoss1008 36 dhamiltony2k5 35 doctordumbass 33 Share Long 29 anartaxius 24 steve.sundur 23 Pundit Sir 22 Bhairitu 21 TurquoiseBee 17 jedi_spock 15 jr_esq 12 s3raphita 11 turquoiseb 8 emptybill 6 jchwelch 6 j_alexander_stanley 6 cardemaister 5 emilymaenot 4 noozguru 3 Mike Dixon 2 yifuxero 2 LEnglish5 1 lol_you_got_it 1 karuna54321 1 emptyliar 1 Rick Archer 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Duveyoung Posters: 34 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
http://alex.natel.net/misc/no.jpghttp://alex.natel.net/misc/no.jpg http://alex.natel.net/misc/no.jpg ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So anyway, about re-introducing the post limit. Is next week OK? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/15/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/22/14 00:00:00 705 messages as of (UTC) 02/21/14 00:11:05 86 salyavin808 75 authfriend 69 Richard J. Williams 60 awoelflebater 45 Michael Jackson 43 nablusoss1008 36 dhamiltony2k5 35 doctordumbass 33 Share Long 29 anartaxius 24 steve.sundur 23 Pundit Sir 22 Bhairitu 21 TurquoiseBee 17 jedi_spock 15 jr_esq 12 s3raphita 11 turquoiseb 8 emptybill 6 jchwelch 6 j_alexander_stanley 6 cardemaister 5 emilymaenot 4 noozguru 3 Mike Dixon 2 yifuxero 2 LEnglish5 1 lol_you_got_it 1 karuna54321 1 emptyliar 1 Rick Archer 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Duveyoung Posters: 34 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Richard, I'm taking an online class now and let me tell you, there's tons of homework! Look what it did to my Post Count! Imagine what it would do to Rita's schedule! I'm just sayin... On Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:17 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/20/2014 5:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote: If you want an employment opportunity then zig when everyone else is zagging. It's all a matter of positioning and placement. If you want an employment opportunity you've got to position yourself where there are opportunities and place yourself where you can meet people. For example, if Rita wanted to go back into doing AutoCad, she would enroll in a course at a community college and learn 3-D AutoCad - then she would move to Charlotte NC or to the Research Triangle, somewhere they do manufacturing and electronics. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Abstraction To edit pic sizes
I find it difficult to edit pic sizes in firebug inspect element. I wonder if there is any other way. http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/blog/Abstraction8_newRGB.jpg http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/blog/Abstraction8_newRGB.jpg
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ukraine?
The situation is that group TMSP doesn't work any better in the Ukraine than it does anywhere else. On Fri, 2/21/14, cardemais...@yahoo.com cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ukraine? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 9:25 AM It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 6:21 AM, Share Long wrote: Some stuff was appearing on my wall Probably nobody is putting anything on your FB Wall, you may be looking at FB Home - to see your own FB Wall, click on your name in the upper right hand corner.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ukraine?
On 2/21/2014 7:55 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: The situation is that group TMSP doesn't work any better in the Ukraine than it does anywhere else. Almost everyone says that basic TM works pretty good as a relaxation technique. Why is it that it doesn't seem to work for you?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Abstraction To edit pic sizes
On 2/21/2014 7:29 AM, jedi_sp...@yahoo.com wrote: I find it difficult to edit pic sizes in firebug inspect element. You might try the free Google Chrome browser and the free photo app for Chrome - Pixlr Editor. The Chrome app store has seen a lot of improvements lately, but a lot of the apps that work inside Google Chrome still go under the radar. With that in mind, here are a few of our favorites you might not have seen yet. http://lifehacker.com/the-best-chrome-apps-youre-probably-not-using-494408658
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Yes, Salya, but only for the rest of us, not for you (-: PS I like how you have a sense of humor about yourself. PPS That is what you were doing, wasn't it?! Yes it was, though I seem to have got Alex's cat worked up... 86 though! I was trying to set an example, in the old days that would have got hung drawn and quartered. I'll let myself off with a warning... On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:32 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So anyway, about re-introducing the post limit. Is next week OK? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/15/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/22/14 00:00:00 705 messages as of (UTC) 02/21/14 00:11:05 86 salyavin808 75 authfriend 69 Richard J. Williams 60 awoelflebater 45 Michael Jackson 43 nablusoss1008 36 dhamiltony2k5 35 doctordumbass 33 Share Long 29 anartaxius 24 steve.sundur 23 Pundit Sir 22 Bhairitu 21 TurquoiseBee 17 jedi_spock 15 jr_esq 12 s3raphita 11 turquoiseb 8 emptybill 6 jchwelch 6 j_alexander_stanley 6 cardemaister 5 emilymaenot 4 noozguru 3 Mike Dixon 2 yifuxero 2 LEnglish5 1 lol_you_got_it 1 karuna54321 1 emptyliar 1 Rick Archer 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Duveyoung Posters: 34 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
Well, according to http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ the Raja of Ukraine is Emanuel Schiffgens, most fondly remembered around these parts for this spectacular performance: http://vimeo.com/4201441 http://vimeo.com/4201441 Um, yeah... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Yes, Salya, but only for the rest of us, not for you (-: PS I like how you have a sense of humor about yourself. PPS That is what you were doing, wasn't it?! Yes it was, though I seem to have got Alex's cat worked up... Over posting is a matter of opinion of course, not a number. Glad you got carried away last week. 86 though! I was trying to set an example, in the old days that would have got hung drawn and quartered. I'll let myself off with a warning... On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:32 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So anyway, about re-introducing the post limit. Is next week OK? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/15/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/22/14 00:00:00 705 messages as of (UTC) 02/21/14 00:11:05 86 salyavin808 75 authfriend 69 Richard J. Williams 60 awoelflebater 45 Michael Jackson 43 nablusoss1008 36 dhamiltony2k5 35 doctordumbass 33 Share Long 29 anartaxius 24 steve.sundur 23 Pundit Sir 22 Bhairitu 21 TurquoiseBee 17 jedi_spock 15 jr_esq 12 s3raphita 11 turquoiseb 8 emptybill 6 jchwelch 6 j_alexander_stanley 6 cardemaister 5 emilymaenot 4 noozguru 3 Mike Dixon 2 yifuxero 2 LEnglish5 1 lol_you_got_it 1 karuna54321 1 emptyliar 1 Rick Archer 1 Paulo Barbosa 1 Jason 1 Duveyoung Posters: 34 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 2/21/2014 6:21 AM, Share Long wrote: Some stuff was appearing on my wall Probably nobody is putting anything on your FB Wall, you may be looking at FB Home - to see your own FB Wall, click on your name in the upper right hand corner. She can also block people from sharing stuff to her page, but I already told her that.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 6:51 AM, Share Long wrote: I'm taking an online class now and let me tell you, there's tons of homework! Most of the courses that are offered at our local community college are presented using Blackboard Learning System (BB), a software program for distance education. Depending on the course you could be required to read the textbook and the professor's lecture notes and then post comments and reviews on the BB bulletin board; and take online exams using the BB exam tool. You are a success the moment you begin moving toward a goal. - Vince Lombardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learning_System
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Fri 21-Feb-14 00:15:03 UTC
On 2/21/2014 8:43 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I was trying to set an example Keep up the good work!
[FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM
Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes: So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making excuses for why TM obviously seems to work in reverse for people who run the Movement.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Richard, you're bringing back memories of when I was a Distance Education Coordinator. The worst part of the job was administering the exams. Nightmare! Actually it's why I left the job. Glad to know there's an easier way to do all that now. PS As part of my class I've had to use their platform to make some little movies. Great fun! No textbook per se. Everything is digital! I feel very high tech now (-: On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:06 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/21/2014 6:51 AM, Share Long wrote: I'm taking an online class now and let me tell you, there's tons of homework! Most of the courses that are offered at our local community college are presented using Blackboard Learning System (BB), a software program for distance education. Depending on the course you could be required to read the textbook and the professor's lecture notes and then post comments and reviews on the BB bulletin board; and take online exams using the BB exam tool. You are a success the moment you begin moving toward a goal. - Vince Lombardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learning_System
[FairfieldLife] Kristin Kirk: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 02/21/2014
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM
The point is that you claim TM and TMSP will cure all ills - that is certainly how it is being marketed. Yet you say that it can't mend bad upbringing or bad environment? You can't have it both ways Buck unless you practice compartmentalization which you do seem to practice. On Fri, 2/21/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:22 PM Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes:So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making excuses for why TM obviously seems to work in reverse for people who run the Movement.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For all romantics out there
For all you romantics out there: [image: Inline image 1] Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head - Live http://youtu.be/npnGTnupBX0 On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Little Stevie Wonder [image: Inline image 2] I Just Called To Say I Love You - Live http://youtu.be/XxoBaEQGMPo Recommended by the Professor DJ: Natural Wonder - Live [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: For all you romantics out there - B.J. Thomas - Hooked on a Feeling [image: Inline image 1] Hooked on a Feeling - Original version, vinyl http://youtu.be/Wqt_iZBvtCo Greatest Hits Medley http://youtu.be/iKsC7ocz6no I can't stop this feelin' deep inside of me Girl, you just don't realize what you do to me When ya hold me in your arms so tight You let me know everything's all right I-I-I, I'm hooked on a feelin' High on believin' that you're in love with me Lips are sweet as candy, the taste stays on my mind Girl, you keep me thirsty for another cup of wine I got it bad for you girl, but I don't need a cure I'll just stay addicted and hope I can endure All the good love when we're all alone Keep it up, girl, yeah ya turn me on I-I-I, I'm hooked on a feelin' High on believin' that you're in love with me All the good love when we're all alone Keep it up, girl, yeah ya turn me on I-I-I, I'm hooked on a feelin' I'm high on believin' that you're in love with me. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: [image: Inline image 1] There are lots of worse things than getting stuck on a deserted island with a beautiful woman like this! Huey Lewis The News - Happy To Be Stuck With You http://youtu.be/-8b0IKQxx2k On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: [image: Inline image 1] Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? http://youtu.be/_cS5aCozhcA The first time I heard Elvis was in 1953 in Abilene, Texas when I was about four years old. My mother took me to the Paramount theater and let me sit up front with her - she was about eighteen at the time. Later, when I was fifteen I started buying his records including this one I bought in 1960. Me and my first girlfriend used to listen to these Elvis songs all the time after school. At one time, I owned about a dozen Elvis albums on vinyl, since all sold. Now, I have a 2-CD set - The Essential Elvis Presley, RCA B000KX0HVY. This song, one of my favorites, is a very romantic song - a real tear-jerker! Read more: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick Little, Brown and Company, 1995 Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick Little, Brown and Company, 1999 Music by Lou Handman and lyrics by Roy Turk. It was written in 1926, and first published in 1927. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Lonesome_Tonighthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Lonesome_Tonight%3F_%28song%29 Are you lonesome tonight, do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry we drifted apart? Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day When I kissed you and called you sweetheart? Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare? Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there? Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again? Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? I wonder if you're lonesome tonight You know someone said that the world's a stage And each must play a part. Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart. Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange And why I'll never know. Honey, you lied when you said you loved me And I had no cause to doubt you. But I'd rather go on hearing your lies Than go on living without you. Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there With emptiness all around And if you won't come back to me Then make them bring the curtain down. Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again? Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:15 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.comwrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard Williams wrote: Very romantic dancing song! Speaking of romantic songs, here's one that has a cool story behind it. Back when I used to live in L.A., there was a bar out in North Malibu that I used to go to often to listen to a band called Billy and the Beaters. They were without question the most FUN band in L.A. to see and dance to, a modern version of the old Ray Charles band, with a horn section and great players. And Billy himself was just the best -- great guy, great voice, great songwriter, and fun. Anyway, he and his band were known around L.A., but their only album was long out of print and they were just gettin' by on club dates, and then a TV producer caught
[FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
Some TM heads should roll over this. Obviously they do not have one percent meditating in the Ukraine. Time to put a TM administrator in there who could get this objective through. Clearly they do not have enough meditation going on. We have waited too long on this. On really firm scientific grounds we should be partnering with the United Nations right now to send in meditation as mediation peace-keeping mission of field effect right now. What is the population of the Ukraine? The goal should be to get one percent meditating there right away. And in the whole region. This civil strife breaking out in murder and blood is extremely pitiful in this modern age of science and spirituality. While the world spends its time and life energy on social media the Ukraine is burning. This is really bad. It is time for everyone who knows better to meditate. -Buck in the Dome Cardemaister writes: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. alexander_stanley writes: Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM... Well, according to http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ the Raja of Ukraine is Emanuel Schiffgens, most fondly remembered around these parts for this spectacular performance: http://vimeo.com/4201441 http://vimeo.com/4201441 Um, yeah... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 9:31 AM, Share Long wrote: I've had to use their platform to make some little movies. Don't forget the Microsoft Windows Movie Maker - it's free. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker#t1=overview Windows Movie Maker is a freeware video editing software by Microsoft. It is a part of Windows Essentials software suite and offers the ability to create and edit videos as well as to publish them on SkyDrive, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
[FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
Also, looks like Raja Luis is seriously slacking off in Venezuela. Get thee to a buttbouncery! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Some TM heads should roll over this. Obviously they do not have one percent meditating in the Ukraine. Time to put a TM administrator in there who could get this objective through. Clearly they do not have enough meditation going on. We have waited too long on this. On really firm scientific grounds we should be partnering with the United Nations right now to send in meditation as mediation peace-keeping mission of field effect right now. What is the population of the Ukraine? The goal should be to get one percent meditating there right away. And in the whole region. This civil strife breaking out in murder and blood is extremely pitiful in this modern age of science and spirituality. While the world spends its time and life energy on social media the Ukraine is burning. This is really bad. It is time for everyone who knows better to meditate. -Buck in the Dome Cardemaister writes: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. alexander_stanley writes: Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM... Well, according to http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ the Raja of Ukraine is Emanuel Schiffgens, most fondly remembered around these parts for this spectacular performance: http://vimeo.com/4201441 http://vimeo.com/4201441 Um, yeah... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
On 2/21/2014 10:05 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: *Some TM heads should roll over this.* It's possible that due to the expansion of consciousness developed through TM practice, the Ukrainian protestors are becoming more aware of the great possibilities that lie ahead.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM
On 2/21/2014 9:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: Yet you say that it can't mend bad upbringing or bad environment? Nothing you do can change the past, but what you do now can make your own future.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Also, looks like Raja Luis is seriously slacking off in Venezuela. Get thee to a buttbouncery! Funniest line I've ever read here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Some TM heads should roll over this. Obviously they do not have one percent meditating in the Ukraine. Time to put a TM administrator in there who could get this objective through. Clearly they do not have enough meditation going on. We have waited too long on this. On really firm scientific grounds we should be partnering with the United Nations right now to send in meditation as mediation peace-keeping mission of field effect right now. What is the population of the Ukraine? The goal should be to get one percent meditating there right away. And in the whole region. This civil strife breaking out in murder and blood is extremely pitiful in this modern age of science and spirituality. While the world spends its time and life energy on social media the Ukraine is burning. This is really bad. It is time for everyone who knows better to meditate. -Buck in the Dome Cardemaister writes: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. alexander_stanley writes: Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM... Well, according to http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ the Raja of Ukraine is Emanuel Schiffgens, most fondly remembered around these parts for this spectacular performance: http://vimeo.com/4201441 http://vimeo.com/4201441 Um, yeah... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] To Buck
On 2/20/2014 9:02 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Someone on the kitchen staff at a school would probably never come into direct contact with any school administrators, let alone the school President or anyone on the Board of Directors. These sound like people you never even met up with. Go figure. Maybe one of your problems was that you were a nobody at MIU - that's what happened to me at UT. I thought I knew it all and was a big shot too until I got to the campus with the other 35,000 students. It was a rude awakening to find out that I was a nobody. You need to get over it - I hate the community college Chancellor down here as much as anyone, but I'm not blaming him for my own failures.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
On 2/21/2014 10:37 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: Victor K. Kiam was an American entrepreneur Apparently Victor Kiam liked the Remington electric shaver so much, he bought the company. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Most sites use DISQUS not Facebutt. Lots of people don't like Facebutt and won't join it and others have quit it. Is Zuckerbutt going to get Congress to pass a law mandating that everyone MUST have a Facebutt account? And yeah, social media is VERY NARCISSISTIC. And great a bunch of geeks with an site most Americans have never heard of become instant billionaires. No one should ever be allowed to control so much money and power. Indeed it is time for a global socialist revolution. On 02/20/2014 08:18 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB but I think it's a gigantic spider web of whatever! Instead, give me a troll ridden forum any day! (-: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Arianna Huffington decided she hated anonymous comments on Huffington Post. I had an account there for years to comment though I didn't post comments very often. So the last time I tried to post a comment they wanted to verify it with my Facebook account. Dumb woman, doesn't understand that not all of use want to be on Facebutt. Arianna, like Bill Maher, is a limousine liberal who espouses liberal views for the money but probably vote conservative in a heartbeat if it suits their pocketbook. On 02/20/2014 10:17 AM, Share Long wrote: Trolls and snarks and goof offs, oh no! (to the tune of *lions and tigers and bears, oh no* from The Wizard of Oz) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:58 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: On02/20/2014 07:17 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/19/2014 7:13 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The article is more about comment trolls than trolling on forums or groups. There's a difference? Go figure. I wouldn't even call what he is talking about trolls. It's mainly goof-offs posting snarky comments and not trying to get anything started. There will be a few that will try to troll a comment section but most are off to another article to post snarky comments. Sometimes the snarky comments are funny and to the point and that wouldn't be trolling either. And of course Morford claims not to read the comments section as his solution (bet he does sometimes). Sure, we get snarky posts here but then they will stick around to see if their troll worked. Mark maybe doesn't hangout in any groups or forums. The description of a troll posted by the two Barry's and Judy don't seem to match the one described in the report. Why do you suppose they would be so insecure that they would post fibs about trolls on FFL? Where is Dr Pete when we need him? Go figure. Sociopathic, sadistic, narcissistic, cruel by nature, highly unpleasant to be around. They love to cause pain. They delight in ruining the beautiful. The more pure and integrity-filled something is, the more they enjoy corrupting it. http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/02/18/how-to-eat-an-internet-troll/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
Thanks, Emily and Richard. I just had a nice long chat with my Mom so I haven't been a total slug this morning! On Friday, February 21, 2014 10:51 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/21/2014 10:37 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: Victor K. Kiam was an American entrepreneur Apparently Victor Kiam liked the Remington electric shaver so much, he bought the company. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
That list of rajas reflects 27 million dollars in Marshy's pocket for training them. On Fri, 2/21/14, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 2:44 PM Well, according to http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ the Raja of Ukraine is Emanuel Schiffgens, most fondly remembered around these parts for this spectacular performance: http://vimeo.com/4201441 Um, yeah... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark My thanks to Kyle who brought this to my attention. On Fri, 2/21/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:22 PM Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes:So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making excuses for why TM obviously seems to work in reverse for people who run the Movement.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ukraine?
Like most countries where upheaval is in progress the Ukrainians can't afford to eat let alone afford TM. Just wait, if California doesn't get it's rain Americans won't be able to afford to eat and their will be upheaval here too. On 02/21/2014 01:25 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Have they improved it any? I have a friend who used to go through conniption fits preparing lessons for his classes with it. On 02/21/2014 07:06 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/21/2014 6:51 AM, Share Long wrote: I'm taking an online class now and let me tell you, there's tons of homework! Most of the courses that are offered at our local community college are presented using Blackboard Learning System (BB), a software program for distance education. Depending on the course you could be required to read the textbook and the professor's lecture notes and then post comments and reviews on the BB bulletin board; and take online exams using the BB exam tool. You are a success the moment you begin moving toward a goal. - Vince Lombardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learning_System
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ukraine?
Apparently Chavez's successor isn't able to keep the show going like Chavez could. I figure the oil oligarchs there are all too ready to cause disruption so they can install a fascist government. On 02/21/2014 08:21 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: Also, looks like Raja Luis is seriously slacking off in Venezuela. Get thee to a buttbouncery! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: *Some TM heads should roll over this. Obviously they do not have one percent meditating in the Ukraine. Time to put a TM administrator in there who could get this objective through. * * * * Clearly they do not have enough meditation going on. We have waited too long on this. On really firm scientific grounds we should be partnering with the United Nations right now to send in meditation as mediation peace-keeping mission of field effect right now. * * * * What is the population of the Ukraine? The goal should be to get one percent meditating there right away. And in the whole region. This civil strife breaking out in murder and blood is extremely pitiful in this modern age of science and spirituality. While the world spends its time and life energy on social media the Ukraine is burning. This is really bad. It is time for everyone who knows better to meditate.* *-Buck in the Dome * Cardemaister writes: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. alexander_stanley writes: Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM... Well, according to http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/administration-2/ the Raja of Ukraine is Emanuel Schiffgens, most fondly remembered around these parts for this spectacular performance: http://vimeo.com/4201441 Um, yeah... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote: It makes me quite sad that (in my understanding) Ukraine was, at least a couple of years back, one of the most active TM-countries in Europe. Have no idea, what is the situation there nowadaze, as to TM...
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
I like the old fashioned way of social networking and that is seeing folks face to face. So I do it the Seattle way and that's why I am to found at Starbucks around here but not as much as I used to be. Also Californians aren't as friendly as Seattlites so it is hard to strike up a conversation. On 02/20/2014 10:17 PM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: I will check out the documentary. Thanks. I don't have a FB page, but have insisted my younger daughter give me her password (which she changes as often as I ask for it) and I check intermittently, but mostly, I give her her privacy online. I found the Frontline piece informative and fascinating as it highlighted real generational differences in mindset and relationship to media, or its evolution to social media, including completely different takes on the concepts of identity and privacy that I didn't quite understand up until now, as I am admittedly not up to speed. It helped me understand my teen. Yes, a goldmine of data for market and product research. Facebook is trying to acquire WhatsApp now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB but I think it's a gigantic spider web of whatever! Instead, give me a troll ridden forum any day! (-: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Arianna Huffington decided she hated anonymous comments on Huffington Post. I had an account there for years to comment though I didn't post comments very often. So the last time I tried to post a comment they wanted to verify it with my Facebook account. Dumb woman, doesn't understand that not all of use want to be on Facebutt. Arianna, like Bill Maher, is a limousine liberal who espouses liberal views for the money but probably vote conservative in a heartbeat if it suits their pocketbook. On 02/20/2014 10:17 AM, Share Long wrote: Trolls and snarks and goof offs, oh no! (to the tune of *lions and tigers and bears, oh no* from The Wizard of Oz) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:58 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: On02/20/2014 07:17 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/19/2014 7:13 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The article is more about comment trolls than trolling on forums or groups. There's a difference? Go figure. I wouldn't even call what he is talking about trolls. It's mainly goof-offs posting snarky comments and not trying to get anything started. There will be a few that will try to troll a comment section but most are off to another article to post snarky comments. Sometimes the snarky comments are funny and to the point and that wouldn't be trolling either. And of course Morford claims not to read the comments section as his solution (bet he does sometimes). Sure, we get snarky posts here but then they will stick around to see if their troll worked.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Ha. Seattleites are not friendly in the winter months. We keep our head down and our eyes on the wet pavement. The friendliest strangers I've run into are in New York. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: I like the old fashioned way of social networking and that is seeing folks face to face. So I do it the Seattle way and that's why I am to found at Starbucks around here but not as much as I used to be. Also Californians aren't as friendly as Seattlites so it is hard to strike up a conversation. On 02/20/2014 10:17 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: I will check out the documentary. Thanks. I don't have a FB page, but have insisted my younger daughter give me her password (which she changes as often as I ask for it) and I check intermittently, but mostly, I give her her privacy online. I found the Frontline piece informative and fascinating as it highlighted real generational differences in mindset and relationship to media, or its evolution to social media, including completely different takes on the concepts of identity and privacy that I didn't quite understand up until now, as I am admittedly not up to speed. It helped me understand my teen. Yes, a goldmine of data for market and product research. Facebook is trying to acquire WhatsApp now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB but I think it's a gigantic spider web of whatever! Instead, give me a troll ridden forum any day! (-: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Arianna Huffington decided she hated anonymous comments on Huffington Post. I had an account there for years to comment though I didn't post comments very often. So the last time I tried to post a comment they wanted to verify it with my Facebook account. Dumb woman, doesn't understand that not all of use want to be on Facebutt. Arianna, like Bill Maher, is a limousine liberal who espouses liberal views for the money but probably vote conservative in a heartbeat if it suits their pocketbook. On 02/20/2014 10:17 AM, Share Long wrote: Trolls and snarks and goof offs, oh no! (to the tune of *lions and tigers and bears, oh no* from The Wizard of Oz) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:58 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: On02/20/2014 07:17 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/19/2014 7:13 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The article is more about comment trolls than trolling on forums or groups. There's a difference? Go figure. I wouldn't even call what he is talking about trolls. It's mainly goof-offs posting snarky comments and not trying to get anything started. There will be a few that will try to troll a comment section but most are off to another article to post snarky comments. Sometimes the
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
No one said you had been. I have, so I must go redeem myself now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Thanks, Emily and Richard. I just had a nice long chat with my Mom so I haven't been a total slug this morning! On Friday, February 21, 2014 10:51 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 2/21/2014 10:37 AM, emilymaenot@... wrote: Victor K. Kiam was an American entrepreneur Apparently Victor Kiam liked the Remington electric shaver so much, he bought the company. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Where did it come from? Farcebook advertising I suppose. I joined FB accidentally, I got an email from them saying someone had mentioned me on a photo and I had to join to look, so I thought I would for bit just to see what they were on about and they automatically checked my address book and sent an email to everyone with an FB account that I now had one! Turned out to be good though as I got to see loads of people I hadn't seen for years but I wouldn't put personal details up, I also decline when I get a link to look at but have to accept that the site in question gets to look at my data and friends etc. What do they do with all the data? I get paranoid that some hideous New World Order will acquire it and use it to enslave us but it's probably just for advertising, which doesn't affect me anyway coz I use an Adblocker. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?! On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:06 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Yeah, I get old friends finding me since I own my name as a domain and asking why I'm not on Facebutt. Duh, I am easy to find on the Internet so why have a Facebutt account? I can get that Facebutt is a good way for people not tech savvy to have some central bulletin board but I don't need it. On 02/21/2014 04:21 AM, Share Long wrote: Doc, Emily and Noozguru, FB is a good way for me to stay in touch with my family who are about 975 miles away. Unfortunately, I joined and friended some people and groups before knowing how it works. Some stuff was appearing on my wall that wasn't representative of me, like inflammatory political pieces. Anyway, the whole phenomena is fascinating. One thing I read recently is that the young are abandoning FB for other sites not used by their parents and grand parents LOL! On Friday, February 21, 2014 12:17 AM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: I will check out the documentary. Thanks. I don't have a FB page, but have insisted my younger daughter give me her password (which she changes as often as I ask for it) and I check intermittently, but mostly, I give her her privacy online. I found the Frontline piece informative and fascinating as it highlighted real generational differences in mindset and relationship to media, or its evolution to social media, including completely different takes on the concepts of identity and privacy that I didn't quite understand up until now, as I am admittedly not up to speed. It helped me understand my teen. Yes, a goldmine of data for market and product research. Facebook is trying to acquire WhatsApp now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB
[FairfieldLife] RE: prayer to Ganesh
Ahh yes, Ganapati (Ganesh) Lord of the ganas (multitudes). Interesting how he governs the very 1st chakra as the 'remover of obstacles', for until one makes progress removing his or her Doshas (in Yoga=faults) they can not proceed along the spiritual path and reach the 7th chakra or *final* Samadhi. Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras cited lust (kama), anger (krodha), and greed (lobha) among the faults of the ego that afflict the ego nature of the incarnate soul. When indulged, these tamasic qualities insinuate themselves in one form of another into every motive and action, pulling their host into ever deeper states of hellish delusive ignorance. Yogananda/Gita XVIvs21
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
Re rape in the Bible: Yes, we all know about it! It's worth pointing out though that some of the quotes you supply that we moderns naturally read as being anti-female, could also be read as an attempt by the authors to give the women of that dark age some rights! For example, take another look at this one: When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.
[FairfieldLife] A couple of watchables
Portlandia begins it's new season on IFC next week but even if you don't have cable or satellite they have an 11 minute episode with Steve Buscemi called The Celery Incident. Available at IFC.com and on various other sites and if you have Hulu+ watch it on your TV. Portlandia is so Portland or the Pacific Northwest. Chipolte has jumped into the TV business and has a comedy series on Hulu called Farmed and Dangerous with Ray Wise. It mocks the big food industry.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
FWIW, that isn't a meme I've ever heard or read. And if you did encounter it, I can't imagine why you'd find it scary rather than just silly. I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. (Well, maybe if you paid me a LOT...) This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?!
[FairfieldLife] RE: Moral Behavior and TM
Very good post, Buck. You are exactly right. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes: So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making excuses for why TM obviously seems to work in reverse for people who run the Movement.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Judy, from online dictionary: meme is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. I was using it in the sense of an idea. Salyavin knew what I meant so my usage seems correct. For me, any idea that one MUST do something, especially something as innocuous as join a social media, is scary because it suggests that we humans aren't as developed as I like to think. On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:54 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: FWIW, that isn't a meme I've ever heard or read. And if you did encounter it, I can't imagine why you'd find it scary rather than just silly. I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. (Well, maybe if you paid me a LOT...) This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?!
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
I don't believe I commented on your usage of meme, Share. I know what it means. What I wrote stands as I wrote it. Judy, from online dictionary: meme is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. I was using it in the sense of an idea. Salyavin knew what I meant so my usage seems correct. For me, any idea that one MUST do something, especially something as innocuous as join a social media, is scary because it suggests that we humans aren't as developed as I like to think. On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:54 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: FWIW, that isn't a meme I've ever heard or read. And if you did encounter it, I can't imagine why you'd find it scary rather than just silly. I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. (Well, maybe if you paid me a LOT...) This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?!
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Judy, I don't think of a meme as something that one only reads or hears. I think of it also as something that spreads as a behavior. On Friday, February 21, 2014 2:25 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't believe I commented on your usage of meme, Share. I know what it means. What I wrote stands as I wrote it. Judy, from online dictionary: meme is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. I was using it in the sense of an idea. Salyavin knew what I meant so my usage seems correct. For me, any idea that one MUST do something, especially something as innocuous as join a social media, is scary because it suggests that we humans aren't as developed as I like to think. On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:54 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: FWIW, that isn't a meme I've ever heard or read. And if you did encounter it, I can't imagine why you'd find it scary rather than just silly. I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. (Well, maybe if you paid me a LOT...) This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?!
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Did you think you were commenting on something I said, Share? Or are you just posting to see yourself post? Judy, I don't think of a meme as something that one only reads or hears. I think of it also as something that spreads as a behavior. I don't believe I commented on your usage of meme, Share. I know what it means. What I wrote stands as I wrote it. Judy, from online dictionary: meme is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. I was using it in the sense of an idea. Salyavin knew what I meant so my usage seems correct. For me, any idea that one MUST do something, especially something as innocuous as join a social media, is scary because it suggests that we humans aren't as developed as I like to think. On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:54 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: FWIW, that isn't a meme I've ever heard or read. And if you did encounter it, I can't imagine why you'd find it scary rather than just silly. I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. (Well, maybe if you paid me a LOT...) This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Moral Behavior and TM
if you believe that you are as whacked out as Buck is On Fri, 2/21/14, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Moral Behavior and TM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 8:16 PM Very good post, Buck. You are exactly right. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were.-Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes:So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making excuses for why TM obviously seems to work in reverse for people who run the Movement.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
I don't hold anything against those who use FB - I just have no need for it. I don't have a smart phone, or cable TV, or a fast internet connection. Way to much to do, instead, in the *non-virtual world*. Regarding staying in touch, I have a preference for actually writing letters, and sending them USPS. I can put a lot of concentrated info into a couple of pages, and need to think about the content, being both interesting, and entertaining, or, at least, well written - and usually include some pictures. So that, and email, does it for me. And I enjoy these forums, too (yay, Rick). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Doc, Emily and Noozguru, FB is a good way for me to stay in touch with my family who are about 975 miles away. Unfortunately, I joined and friended some people and groups before knowing how it works. Some stuff was appearing on my wall that wasn't representative of me, like inflammatory political pieces. Anyway, the whole phenomena is fascinating. One thing I read recently is that the young are abandoning FB for other sites not used by their parents and grand parents LOL! On Friday, February 21, 2014 12:17 AM, emilymaenot@... emilymaenot@... wrote: I will check out the documentary. Thanks. I don't have a FB page, but have insisted my younger daughter give me her password (which she changes as often as I ask for it) and I check intermittently, but mostly, I give her her privacy online. I found the Frontline piece informative and fascinating as it highlighted real generational differences in mindset and relationship to media, or its evolution to social media, including completely different takes on the concepts of identity and privacy that I didn't quite understand up until now, as I am admittedly not up to speed. It helped me understand my teen. Yes, a goldmine of data for market and product research. Facebook is trying to acquire WhatsApp now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB but I think it's a gigantic spider web of whatever! Instead, give me a troll ridden forum any day! (-: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Arianna Huffington decided she hated anonymous comments on Huffington Post. I had an account there for years to comment though I didn't post comments very often. So the last time I tried to post a comment they wanted to verify it with my Facebook account. Dumb woman, doesn't understand that not all of use want to be on Facebutt. Arianna, like Bill Maher, is a limousine liberal who espouses liberal views for the money but probably vote conservative in a heartbeat if it suits their pocketbook. On 02/20/2014 10:17 AM, Share Long wrote: Trolls and snarks and goof offs, oh no! (to the tune of *lions and tigers and bears, oh no* from The Wizard of Oz) On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:58 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: On02/20/2014
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
Thanks for posting some of the “holy” evidence against the god of Semitic Monotheism. However, these passages are superseded by Joshua 1-12, where the god of the Jews is revealed to be a genocidal murderer - a Hitler before Adolph. Anyone considering these passages, who either sees or believes in supra-material intelligences will conclude that YHVH was not a deity (theos/theon) but rather an evil demon (kakodaimōn). So much for sacred history.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 11:02 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Indeed it is time for a global socialist revolution. Maybe they protesting over in Ukraine because they want a free market economy and a democracy. Maybe they don't like working on government run farms and working in state factories anymore. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Maybe you should have looked up Ukraine economy before you posted. LOL! It's not the 1980s anymore, Ricky. Ukriane has a free market economy. Much of the protests had to do with whether they joined the EU or not and corruption. They also got screwed by the banksters in 2008. On 02/21/2014 02:38 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/21/2014 11:02 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Indeed it is time for a global socialist revolution. Maybe they protesting over in Ukraine because they want a free market economy and a democracy. Maybe they don't like working on government run farms and working in state factories anymore. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 11:17 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Have they improved it any? I have a friend who used to go through conniption fits preparing lessons for his classes with it. It's been my experience that the main problem with online courses is the course content, or lack of it, not the delivery system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: No one said you had been. I have, so I must go redeem myself now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Thanks, Emily and Richard. I just had a nice long chat with my Mom so I haven't been a total slug this morning! On Friday, February 21, 2014 10:51 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 2/21/2014 10:37 AM, emilymaenot@... wrote: Victor K. Kiam was an American entrepreneur Apparently Victor Kiam liked the Remington electric shaver so much, he bought the company. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 11:23 AM, Bhairitu wrote: I like the old fashioned way of social networking and that is seeing folks face to face. Getting out and talking to people is the best social networking. Maybe we will go to the Rodeo Carnival tonight - it's $1.00 ride nite. We are also thinking about going out to see Martina McBride tonight at the ATT Center. And, we don't want to miss the Heart of Texas Dock Dogs jumping competition at the Wildlife Expo or the Swifty Swine Sprints, a competition for piglets at 7:00 p.m. SAN ANTONIO — OK, partner, cinch your hat, snug your saddle strap and trot on over to the top events on the final weekend of the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo at the ATT Center. 'What to look for on final days of rodeo' http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/rodeo/ http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/What-to-look-for-on-final-days-of-rodeo-5249391.php
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
Re Anyone considering these passages, who either sees or believes in supra-material intelligences will conclude that YHVH was not a deity (theos/theon) but rather an evil demon (kakodaimōn). : The second-century theologian Marcion declared that Christianity was opposed to Judaism and loathed the Old Testament. Marcion did not claim the Jewish Scriptures were false but au contraire should be read as literally true, showing that YHWH was not the God spoken of by Jesus. In a similar vein, French philosopher Simone Weil (who was an anti-Jewish Jew) was incensed that the New Testament was packaged up with the Old Testament in The Bible. The two books she always carried with her were the New Testament and The Gita.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 5:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Maybe you should have looked up Ukraine economy before you posted. LOL! Maybe you should read about the Ukrainian economy. LoL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Economy It's not the 1980s anymore, Ricky. Ukriane has a free market economy. Much of the protests had to do with whether they joined the EU or not and corruption. They also got screwed by the banksters in 2008. The EU is the free market economy. They are protesting the bad economy. They got screwed by the socialists.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 1:54 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. Why would you - you've got Yahoo! Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On 2/21/2014 2:47 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: *Or are you just posting to see yourself post?* You finally got back to work to post some more snark - now this thread has gone to crap. Good work, Judy!
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Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
Try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine I know Texas is a bit behind the times but most on FFL know the Soviet Block countries went from socialism to capitalism rather fast and generated much inequality. Oligarchs stink! On 02/21/2014 03:35 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/21/2014 5:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Maybe you should have looked up Ukraine economy before you posted. LOL! Maybe you should read about the Ukrainian economy. LoL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Economy It's not the 1980s anymore, Ricky. Ukriane has a free market economy. Much of the protests had to do with whether they joined the EU or not and corruption. They also got screwed by the banksters in 2008. The EU is the free market economy. They are protesting the bad economy. They got screwed by the socialists.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
And try this: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/quiet-oligarchs-rich-powers-behind-fighting-ukraine-n35671 Birchers are so 1950s, Ricky. On 02/21/2014 03:35 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/21/2014 5:00 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Maybe you should have looked up Ukraine economy before you posted. LOL! Maybe you should read about the Ukrainian economy. LoL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Economy It's not the 1980s anymore, Ricky. Ukriane has a free market economy. Much of the protests had to do with whether they joined the EU or not and corruption. They also got screwed by the banksters in 2008. The EU is the free market economy. They are protesting the bad economy. They got screwed by the socialists.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
Simone Weil was a Platonist. She was not particularly enamored with the Roman Catholic Church but found affinity with a form of Christian Platonism. That’s because of the historically inherited conglomerate – a term that actually descriptive of the bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and Platonism. Weil was, in essence, a serious contemplative with typical French political affections. Since my karmic predecessor spoke fluent French, I might have met her (before WWII). Haven’t explored that faint possiblity. However, if so, it would only reveal the personal since that predecessor was not enabled for such things – at least as far as I know. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re Anyone considering these passages, who either sees or believes in supra-material intelligences will conclude that YHVH was not a deity (theos/theon) but rather an evil demon (kakodaimōn). : The second-century theologian Marcion declared that Christianity was opposed to Judaism and loathed the Old Testament. Marcion did not claim the Jewish Scriptures were false but au contraire should be read as literally true, showing that YHWH was not the God spoken of by Jesus. In a similar vein, French philosopher Simone Weil (who was an anti-Jewish Jew) was incensed that the New Testament was packaged up with the Old Testament in The Bible. The two books she always carried with her were the New Testament and The Gita.
[FairfieldLife] China Preparing for War with US
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[FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” I actually disagree with this quote. You are proof that this is not so. You feel you were bamboozled yet you have come out the other side and refuse to be bamboozled any longer. In fact, you are trying your damnedest to reveal the dirty secrets of the bamboozlers. (Isn't that a great word?!) ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark My thanks to Kyle who brought this to my attention. On Fri, 2/21/14, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:22 PM Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes:So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making excuses for why TM obviously seems to work in reverse for people who run the Movement.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?! I'm not sure that's true. I have lots of friends who are not on FB. I find it particularly useful for my business as I have a page for that. FB allows for tons of free advertising. And heck, if you like to see if you can find old friends who you haven't seen for a long time you can find them. I found a few old acquaintances from FF that way! On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:06 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Yeah, I get old friends finding me since I own my name as a domain and asking why I'm not on Facebutt. Duh, I am easy to find on the Internet so why have a Facebutt account? I can get that Facebutt is a good way for people not tech savvy to have some central bulletin board but I don't need it. On 02/21/2014 04:21 AM, Share Long wrote: Doc, Emily and Noozguru, FB is a good way for me to stay in touch with my family who are about 975 miles away. Unfortunately, I joined and friended some people and groups before knowing how it works. Some stuff was appearing on my wall that wasn't representative of me, like inflammatory political pieces. Anyway, the whole phenomena is fascinating. One thing I read recently is that the young are abandoning FB for other sites not used by their parents and grand parents LOL! On Friday, February 21, 2014 12:17 AM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: I will check out the documentary. Thanks. I don't have a FB page, but have insisted my younger daughter give me her password (which she changes as often as I ask for it) and I check intermittently, but mostly, I give her her privacy online. I found the Frontline piece informative and fascinating as it highlighted real generational differences in mindset and relationship to media, or its evolution to social media, including completely different takes on the concepts of identity and privacy that I didn't quite understand up until now, as I am admittedly not up to speed. It helped me understand my teen. Yes, a goldmine of data for market and product research. Facebook is trying to acquire WhatsApp now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I find it VERY common, that in order to post to almost any media site (except Yahoo News articles - yay), a Facebook membership is required. People get pissed off, whenever the specter of a National ID card, is raised, yet, that is what Tracebook IS. The genius of what Facebook has achieved, is that it tracks millions of users, worldwide, who happily over-share too much about their lives, *voluntarily*. What a goldmine! And it dovetails with probably the most unfortunate aspect of social media; the, everyone is a celebrity, meme - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: You mean the generation that is screwed up because they were raised being told that everyone wins? Here's a BBC documentary in three parts called Century of the Self which explains the mindset. https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf Those who have their own web sites and blogs don't need Facebutt. :-D On 02/20/2014 06:03 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... wrote: Clearly, you aren't part of Generation 'Like'. Did you see the Frontline show on this? I think the reality is more likely that the unemployed who don't update (smile) their social media skills are the ones losing out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I don't have time for all this social networking crap. I get 20 somethings from Google+ and LinkedIn telling me what to do for social networking like I care. No wonder we have some many unemployed in the US, they spend all their time social networking! :-D On 02/20/2014 01:17 PM, Share Long wrote: noozguru, I have recently been horrified by what was appearing on MY Facebook page and was not put there by me! So I unfriended a lot of people I had friended in the past before I knew what that meant. Anyway, I know some people love FB but I think it's a gigantic spider web of whatever! Instead, give me a troll ridden forum any day! (-: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Arianna Huffington decided she hated anonymous comments on Huffington Post. I had an account there for years to comment though I didn't post comments very often. So the last time I tried to post a comment they wanted to verify it with my Facebook account. Dumb woman, doesn't
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re Anyone considering these passages, who either sees or believes in supra-material intelligences will conclude that YHVH was not a deity (theos/theon) but rather an evil demon (kakodaimōn). : The second-century theologian Marcion declared that Christianity was opposed to Judaism and loathed the Old Testament. Marcion did not claim the Jewish Scriptures were false but au contraire should be read as literally true, showing that YHWH was not the God spoken of by Jesus. In a similar vein, French philosopher Simone Weil (who was an anti-Jewish Jew) was incensed that the New Testament was packaged up with the Old Testament in The Bible. The two books she always carried with her were the New Testament and The Gita. Seraphita, you're one smart cookie. You definitely know waaayy more about all this than I do.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 2/21/2014 11:23 AM, Bhairitu wrote: I like the old fashioned way of social networking and that is seeing folks face to face. Getting out and talking to people is the best social networking. Maybe we will go to the Rodeo Carnival tonight - it's $1.00 ride nite. We are also thinking about going out to see Martina McBride tonight at the ATT Center. And, we don't want to miss the Heart of Texas Dock Dogs jumping competition at the Wildlife Expo or the Swifty Swine Sprints, a competition for piglets at 7:00 p.m. SAN ANTONIO — OK, partner, cinch your hat, snug your saddle strap and trot on over to the top events on the final weekend of the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo at the ATT Center. 'What to look for on final days of rodeo' http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/rodeo/ http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/What-to-look-for-on-final-days-of-rodeo-5249391.php See, I knew it. You are a caricature (of Texas).
[FairfieldLife] For Richard, What I Did Today
Hoping I was too old for such nonsense I found out I was not. So I had one of my wisdom teeth yanked out of my head.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
On 2/21/2014 8:49 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: In fact, you are trying your damnedest to reveal the dirty secrets of the bamboozlers. It sounds to me like I am being bamboozled into believing that what works for me doesn't in fact work for me. Do I need someone to tell me what to think? Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
Agreed, Ann - this tired old saw about not being able to change, once we know something, is outmoded and an idea that is dying out, with the older, ignorant generations.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote: Simone Weil was a Platonist. She was not particularly enamored with the Roman Catholic Church but found affinity with a form of Christian Platonism. That’s because of the historically inherited conglomerate – a term that actually descriptive of the bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and Platonism. Weil was, in essence, a serious contemplative with typical French political affections. Since my karmic predecessor spoke fluent French, I might have met her (before WWII). Haven’t explored that faint possiblity. However, if so, it would only reveal the personal since that predecessor was not enabled for such things – at least as far as I know. Okaaay... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re Anyone considering these passages, who either sees or believes in supra-material intelligences will conclude that YHVH was not a deity (theos/theon) but rather an evil demon (kakodaimōn). : The second-century theologian Marcion declared that Christianity was opposed to Judaism and loathed the Old Testament. Marcion did not claim the Jewish Scriptures were false but au contraire should be read as literally true, showing that YHWH was not the God spoken of by Jesus. In a similar vein, French philosopher Simone Weil (who was an anti-Jewish Jew) was incensed that the New Testament was packaged up with the Old Testament in The Bible. The two books she always carried with her were the New Testament and The Gita.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 2/21/2014 8:49 PM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: In fact, you are trying your damnedest to reveal the dirty secrets of the bamboozlers. It sounds to me like I am being bamboozled into believing that what works for me doesn't in fact work for me. Do I need someone to tell me what to think? Go figure. Wasn't talkin' to you. Don't you have some swine to go watch jump through hoops or something? Isn't that the equivalent of the Texas Olympics?
[FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
Re an idea that is dying out, with the older, ignorant generations.: I think this old saw The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken still has a way to run. Most people today have completely bought in to the whole consumerist ethic and think that material goods will bring them fulfilment. What will happen when the retail therapy stops working and they realise they've been well and truly bamboozled? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Agreed, Ann - this tired old saw about not being able to change, once we know something, is outmoded and an idea that is dying out, with the older, ignorant generations.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:08 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: See, I knew it. You are a caricature (of Texas). Ann got it - good work, Ann. But, actually we decided to go see The Jim Cullum Jazz Band at the Boardwalk Bistro on Broadway. LoL! [image: Inline image 1] http://jimcullum.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: No one said you had been. I have, so I must go redeem myself now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Thanks, Emily and Richard. I just had a nice long chat with my Mom so I haven't been a total slug this morning! On Friday, February 21, 2014 10:51 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 2/21/2014 10:37 AM, emilymaenot@... wrote: Victor K. Kiam was an American entrepreneur Apparently Victor Kiam liked the Remington electric shaver so much, he bought the company. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Judy, from online dictionary: meme is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. I was using it in the sense of an idea. Salyavin knew what I meant so my usage seems correct. For me, any idea that one MUST do something, especially something as innocuous as join a social media, is scary because it suggests that we humans aren't as developed as I like to think. I have never heard nor do I believe that anyone MUST join FB. It is hardly special or unique in any way. Many never go near the place. I got encouraged to join by my niece who feels it's a great way to share pics and events. Some go crazy and post all sorts of inappropriate stuff that will come back to haunt them later - or not. It can be a hoot to read some of the stuff on there. On Friday, February 21, 2014 1:54 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: FWIW, that isn't a meme I've ever heard or read. And if you did encounter it, I can't imagine why you'd find it scary rather than just silly. I wouldn't join Facebook if you paid me. (Well, maybe if you paid me a LOT...) This is what I find scary about the whole thing: people think one HAS TO be on FB! Now where in the heck did that meme come from?!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy?
Re Simone Weil was a Platonist. TRUE Re She was not particularly enamored with the Roman Catholic Church: She came close to being baptised into the RC but the sufferings of her fellow Jews during WWII led her to stop as she always identified most with those who suffered most. Re bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and Platonism.: It's been more profitable than the bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and Aristotle! Re Weil [had] typical French political affections.: She started as a Communist but her religious sensibilities meant she lost interest in historical materialism and she hated power politics. Pity she didn't survive the War as her reflections on the Holocaust would have been profound.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
It refers to folks like Buck and Nabby and Feste On Sat, 2/22/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 2:49 AM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” I actually disagree with this quote. You are proof that this is not so. You feel you were bamboozled yet you have come out the other side and refuse to be bamboozled any longer. In fact, you are trying your damnedest to reveal the dirty secrets of the bamboozlers. (Isn't that a great word?!) ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark My thanks to Kyle who brought this to my attention. On Fri, 2/21/14, dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:22 PM Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes:So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
It refers to folks like Buck and Nabby and Feste On Sat, 2/22/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 2:49 AM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” I actually disagree with this quote. You are proof that this is not so. You feel you were bamboozled yet you have come out the other side and refuse to be bamboozled any longer. In fact, you are trying your damnedest to reveal the dirty secrets of the bamboozlers. (Isn't that a great word?!) ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark My thanks to Kyle who brought this to my attention. On Fri, 2/21/14, dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Moral Behavior and TM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:22 PM Yep; No, no this is an old vendetta you keep. You have no idea what they are like now. Born in to life with their personalities, their upbringings and such all these people put their pants on one leg at a time in life. You left TM a long time ago. They stayed on the path and you wandered off in to the world a long time ago. This is hardly a scientific conclusion or spiritually fair what you are asserting. You'd have to come back to better judge how it goes for these guys. No, you are just making excuses for railing against TM again instead of understanding these people and what makes them tick otherwise. Their bad-behavior mostly likely had not anything to do with the practice of TM it was just who they were. -Buck , Michael Jackson wrote: Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. RW writes:So, what do these people have to do with your meditation? MJackson74 writes Okay Buddy, you are laying it on the line here: Obviously we are born in to this wold with nature and then there is nurture. Evidently moral behavior is something developed and cultured in good upbringing. My feeling in watching is that a lot of the bad behavior that MJ in writing here for instance is so upset about in the TM community movement comes from bad upbringing and does not have so much of anything to do with whether some one meditates. It's mostly bad manners without virtue. Evidently. That's what I see, they are just being bad people for their poor upbringings and sometimes they are even immoral. Okay, that can be really bad at times on the part of some but not the normative of most folks. Just really bad upbringing. The whole point to many of my posts here is that TM does not work as you claim it works. The WHOLE FUCKING POINT to TM all these years is that TM IMPROVES EVERYTHING! That is the claim made for it. That's the whole point to doing TM, improving your life. If one has bad upbringing, then TM can make you a better person. Why do you think the David Lynch leeches are pushing so hard to get TM to the AT RISK populations, especially the young ones??? To, among other things, counteract BAD UPBRINGING! So if bad upbringing can't be negated or improved by regular practice of TM, what good is the practice? You have hoist yourself on your own petard, Buck. You seem to be saying that if one has bad upbringing, TM won't change the behavior that bad upbringing creates. Specifically, I have found fault with Bevan Morris, Greg and Georgina Wilson, Bill Sands, Neal Patterson, Marshy, Girish, the Srivastavas brothers, Susan Humphries, Cris Crowell, John Hagelin, Reed Martin and all the lying and manipulation that they and other small medium and large managers in the TMO have done. Are you saying that all the above named individuals had bad upbringing? You are making
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to eat an Internet troll - Notes Errata by Mark Morford
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:08 PM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: See, I knew it. You are a caricature (of Texas). Ann got it - good work, Ann. But, actually we decided to go see The Jim Cullum Jazz Band at the Boardwalk Bistro on Broadway. LoL! Laughing out loud, good for you! Did you like my tooth? http://jimcullum.com/ http://jimcullum.com/
[FairfieldLife] The UN, UNICEF, DLF and TM...
Watch the first video interviewing Bob Roth, especially starting around teh 5 minute mark. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/meditation-ptsd_n_4825609.html?utm%5C_hp%5C_ref=healthy-livingir=Healthy+Living http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/meditation-ptsd_n_4825609.html?utm%5C_hp%5C_ref=healthy-livingir=Healthy+Living
[FairfieldLife] RE: Empathy versus cruelty
Yep, lots and lots of distractions and addictions, some very pervasive, like the materialist illusion you mention. My comment was more general, about the ability, and acceptance, of admitting a belief is in error. Information is far more available, and fluid, than it used to be. What I smelled in Sagan's words was a bit of obstinate, crusty ego, and, imo, we don't have to get stuck as easily, to old ideas, as we used to. I don't know what happens when people wake up from the materialist illusion, especially with the availability of almost an endless variety of toys, for every economic strata -- from private islands, to high political office, jets, mansions, etc. for the ultra-wealthy, and Cuisinarts, Toyotas, Disneyland, and a 30-year mortgage, for the middle-class. I spent many years, as a child, living without a dependable source of electricity, so I don't take it, and its derivatives, as a necessity for life's enjoyment, though the convenience of it is obviously unparalleled. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re an idea that is dying out, with the older, ignorant generations.: I think this old saw The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken still has a way to run. Most people today have completely bought in to the whole consumerist ethic and think that material goods will bring them fulfilment. What will happen when the retail therapy stops working and they realise they've been well and truly bamboozled? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Agreed, Ann - this tired old saw about not being able to change, once we know something, is outmoded and an idea that is dying out, with the older, ignorant generations.
[FairfieldLife] RE: For Richard, What I Did Today
Lovely and the best post yet for what I did today. Just one? I remember well when my wisdom teeth were pulled as they were all impacted and it was a real operation, for some reason. I was living at the youth hostel in Boulder, CO after I dropped out of college and I spent a week recovering there, soaking cotton balls in aloe vera gel and then Vitamin E oil trying to heal up faster. There was a crazy guy there who would offer to rub my tummy for me. Oh dear, oh dear. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote: Hoping I was too old for such nonsense I found out I was not. So I had one of my wisdom teeth yanked out of my head.
[FairfieldLife] Watching the movie backwards
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