[FairfieldLife] Re: If they Withdraw your Dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-01 Thread srijau
Im sorry to hear you are not given a Dome badge but this has nothing to do with the conference. No one at the conference was going there to get teaching from another tradition.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If they withdraw your dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
All while claiming that TM makes one invincible. Classic Orwellian double-speak. Speaking of classic Orwellian double-speak: I've been sitting three feet in front of him and seen him go invisible, to the point where you could see stars through the outline of his body, and then no outline.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in a Van

2015-03-01 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yup, I don't believe you can do this if you have a wife and kids to raise. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : This sounds like fun, if you are young and fancy free. But, it's not at all practical for a householder with a wife and family raise and provide for. There

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
http://www.zimbio.com/Famous+Republicans/articles Lindsay Lohan? Of course what do the words Hollywood Republican mean? A conservative, middle-of-the-road or liberal Republican. There's quite a range there. We had a liberal Republican governor in Washington state. What was Clint doing

[FairfieldLife] Re: If they Withdraw your Dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In talking around Fairfield about this with others here I was surprised finding another friend of mine here who is on the progressive side of wanting things to work out here for TM and the movement who also has been active as an aide and advisor to Hagelin and is also retained to work for

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 02-Mar-15 00:15:12 UTC

2015-03-01 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/28/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 03/07/15 00:00:00 103 messages as of (UTC) 03/02/15 00:12:49 19 richard 12 Bhairitu noozguru 10 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 9 salyavin808 7 jr_esq 7 Michael Jackson mjackson74 6

[FairfieldLife] Re: Monk Wants to Overhaul Buddhism

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Worldwide there are over 500 million people that adhere to some form of Buddhism, so its not surprising that some of them have become corrupted by either sex, drugs and money, or all of the above. China has the most practicing Buddhist and everyone knows that China is a totally corrupt state.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com He hasn't made an actual film since 2006 (Inland Empire). Only commercials and short, 10-minute weird auteur films for festivals and the like. I don't think he has it in him to make a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ...I took an FFL approach to watching it -- Take what you need and leave the rest. There were good parts, but I was left with a kind of icky feeling after watching the whole thing. The same

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Clint is well-known in the industry as a filmmaker whose projects never go a day over schedule or a dollar over budget. That, plus his name recognition, keeps the projects flowing in. Suffice it to say that I didn't like American Sniper very much, mainly because the senility he displayed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Clint is well-known in the industry as a filmmaker whose projects never go a day over schedule or a dollar over budget. That, plus his name recognition, keeps the projects flowing in. Suffice it to say that I didn't like

[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms

2015-03-01 Thread FairfieldLife
BC - Brahman Consciousness BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi CC - Cosmic Consciousness GC - God Consciousness MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of Maharishi's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-01 Thread feste37
I'm not sure what you mean by normal TM elitist. When I said that the astrologer Howard Sasportas also happened to be a TM teacher, I certainly did not mean that that automatically made him better than others. It was just a piece of information about him, that's all. Sometimes you read things

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You should give Gran Torino a try - his character was a WHOLE LOT like my own father, so it was a must see for me. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 2:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Memristor

2015-03-01 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Naturally, my first impulse was to google the exact term, memristor overlords ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote : This is the component that could revolutionize computers. Hewlette Packard plans to build a new computer based on this new technology by 2020. So

[FairfieldLife] Re: If they withdraw your dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As it turns out, 'Administratively' what was my current badge to be in the Dome meditation and also go to our movement meetings expired yesterday. I had been re-admitted the Dome meditation sometime ago on an exemption to the TM anti-saint policies in a process conducted then by John

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com   I'm not sure what you mean by normal TM elitist. When I said that the astrologer Howard Sasportas also happened to be a TM teacher, I certainly did not mean that that automatically made him better than others. It was just a piece of information about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : The only way this would be an interesting bit of news is if their career had markedly improved after they had learned. Eastwood began TM in 1972, and his film acting and directing has improved to the point where he has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Apparently you don't read the news either. What does it take you dumb shits to read a page at Wikipedia? Go figure. Eastwood has described himself as a libertarian' - he was opposed to the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is in favor of gun control and voted for democrat

[FairfieldLife] Monk Wants to Overhaul Buddhism

2015-03-01 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Apparently, money and sex have corrupted Buddhism in Thailand. http://news.yahoo.com/activist-monk-seeks-buddhism-overhaul-thailand-over-corruption-073039016.html http://news.yahoo.com/activist-monk-seeks-buddhism-overhaul-thailand-over-corruption-073039016.html

[FairfieldLife] Having a seizure during a skydive

2015-03-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
People subject to seizures should stick to sports like chess and tiddlywinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QUQHm2B5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QUQHm2B5A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : http://www.zimbio.com/Famous+Republicans/articles http://www.zimbio.com/Famous+Republicans/articles Lindsay Lohan? Of course what do the words Hollywood Republican mean? A conservative, middle-of-the-road or liberal Republican.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re this guru, one thing you have to say in his favor is that he's managed to identify a bunch of guys who are potential Darwin Award Winners and help them achieve their true potential by eliminating their DNA from the gene pool. Thus it can be argued that he has improved the human race.  :-) Re

[FairfieldLife] Re: Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread salyavin808
It sounds like natural selection to me. But it's also worrying because I usually get annoyed when I hear the authorities tell us that people have to be protected from their own stupidity. Clearly there are some very stupid people about. I wonder if anyone was happy with the outcome and

[FairfieldLife] Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Spiritual leader allegedly manipulated 400 men into removing testicles to be 'closer to God' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/spiritual-leader-allegedly-manipulated-400-men-into-removing-testicles-to-be-closer-to-god-10078095.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Addressing the important issues! According to what I've read, over 50 million fetuses were removed from their mother's womb in the U.S. since 1973. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Spiritual leader allegedly manipulated 400 men into removing testicles to be 'closer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Monk Wants to Overhaul Buddhism

2015-03-01 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If China is a corrupt state, then it is a miracle that it's government has been able to pass some benefits to the people. Foremost, the government has been able to bring economic prosperity to the country. Nonetheless, we do see the government executing to death sentences its prominent

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
There. I've replied, and I hope I haven't been too mean. Now we'll see whether any of the believers in astrology here are willing to do anything in response but call me names. :-) Now it's my turn. You are an idiot. Not because you don't believe in astrology, but because you believe in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-01 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Okay, this is the only card that Barry ever plays. Prove It I don't see anyone arguing that it can be proved. But, look at it from the opposing angle. I mean look at what Barry's belief system has produced for him. A negative, cynical, and apparently lonely person, who spends an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I will allow those who feel they can make a case for seminal retention as a path to God to do so.  :-) What I'll riff on is -- strangely enough -- the fact that this article and like discussions remind me a bit of what it's been like to watch the third season of House Of Cards. I've already

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
I'm not sure owning a 1972 Ford Maverick is comparable to owning a 1972 Ford Gran Torino, and I've seen no evidence your Dad served in the Korean conflict. Correct me if I'm mistaken about this. Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : You should give Gran Torino

[FairfieldLife] Re: If they Withdraw your Dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Some thing evidently is going on with some tightening of Dome badge renewals in Fairfield. An old meditator/TM teacher who has long been a regular attender of the group meditation in the Domes who I know from Fairfield Quaker Meeting is being turned out and cast off from his long communal

[FairfieldLife] 7 reasons to start with vedic organic agriculture

2015-03-01 Thread email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
  7. VEDIC ORGANIC FOOD IS NOURISHING NOT ONLY THE BODY, BUT ENLIVENING ALSO OUR MIND: MEDITATING FARMERS, WHO USE VEDIC SOUNDS TO LET GROW THEIR PLANTS,PRODUCES HEALTHY HAPPY PLANTS WHO PROMOTE HEALTHY AND HAPPY PEOPLE ... http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/agriculture/ A HEALTHY MIND IN A

[FairfieldLife] TV series review: House Of Cards, season 3

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Slightly over 10 hours of my life I'll never get back. I'm just thankful that I was able to multitask and work on some things while watching it so that it wasn't a complete waste of my time. They allowed it to devolve into a soap opera set in the ickiness of American politics. But the problem

[FairfieldLife] Living in a Van

2015-03-01 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This guy quit his job and is traveling as far as he can go. We wish him good luck and fun adventures. 'There are so many ways to live': Meet the man who quit his job to make an $8,000 van home https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/man-converts-van-into-home--travels-europe-204948914.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Islam and AUM

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
It might be helpful to define the mantras used in TM and in the Indian yoga meditation practices. A mantra is a word or phrase used in the oral tradition and in the literature of the Aryan speakers who migrated from the Caucasus region into the Middle and Near East - Iran and India. The Rig

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV series review: House Of Cards, season 3

2015-03-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Russell Brand's Messiah Complex is even beating out House of Cards for popularity on Netflix. So you aren't the only one. Plus I haven't even dragged myself watch the first episode. Think the problem is that Americans *are *sick of politics. *BUT, *I did watch a neat little Hollywood indie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Your reply to the post is weak and uncomprehending. Perhaps, as a make-it-up Buddhist, you consider your reply to be philosophically profound. It is not. Buddhists of all types admit to many gods/deities/devas - so of course god exists. Buddhists do not believe in some supreme Semitic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You can posture all you want. I'll stick with my first reply. If you want to claim that God -- not gods, not devas, not minor deities -- exists, prove it. I'll wait. Until you can, you're just spouting hot air, the same as every other religious nut in history. From:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thank you for demonstrating what a posturer is. The initial statement Of course god exists is straightforward and covers all instances of the word god. It does not cover the Supreme Ruler God idea which is why I used the lower case. Apparently you are not intelligent enough to comprehend that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Maybe you should read what Bill posted again. The God of the Bible is a demi-urge, the creator of the dark side of life, at odds with the rest of the cosmos - a deceiver. Maybe you need to read a book on comparative religions - we've already covered this in numerous discussions of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
What kind of assumptions would you need to entertain in order to believe that there is a 'creation' - since it has been established that there is in fact, no 'science of creative intelligence'? What epistemology, theory of knowledge, would you cite to indicate that things or events were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Living in a Van

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
This sounds like fun, if you are young and fancy free. But, it's not at all practical for a householder with a wife and family raise and provide for. There are hundreds of rough-neck types living around here, working in the oil fields around the Eagle Fords shale escarpments. It's a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Speaking of posture and posing. You failed to distinguish the difference between gods and buddhas, not to mention the difference between devas and devatas. I've mentioned this at least twenty times - maybe you don't know. A buddha is an enlightened siddha, awake with the saving knowledge of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
You are incorrect: he is a poser. It has already been established that Uncle Tantra is currently unable to maintain a single yoga posture, including the corpse pose. It's all a matter of balance, a quality he has not been able to demonstrate in the last 19 years of posting. UT is a True

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Despite being a Hollywood Republican, Clint contends that The Sniper is an anti-war film. So was Flags of our Fathers. It told the story of the guys who re-enacted the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima and how they were used to sell the war to a country that was war weary. The other film he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Living in a Van

2015-03-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I have friends who left Microsoft and bought a mobile home to travel around the country. A couple years later they bought a bigger one and sold the home they had in the northwest. Their mobile home is of course much, much larger than a van. When they visit they park it in front of my

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV series review: House Of Cards, season 3

2015-03-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
The saddest part of this story is that you apparently subjected your whole family to ten hours of watching a political soap opera while you neglected them while multi-tasking on your laptop computer. Or, maybe you holed up in your bedroom with the door closed for ten hours. Either way, you