[FairfieldLife] Re: Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : You just made our day with this piece of news. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sa...@yahoogroups.com wrote : All part of my Global Bad News service ;-) Seriously though, what is the point of the modern world if what we

[FairfieldLife] Welcome to the Cannabis Corner

2015-03-16 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
NORTH BONNEVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Columbia River Gorge, a short drive from the Bridge of the Gods, the nation’s only government-run marijuana shop was running low on weed. http://wapo.st/1xt5fqy Put that in your chillum and smoke it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Starving sick: Sea lion pups wash ashore in record numbers, global warming blamed http://rt.com/usa/240609-california-stranded-sea-lion-pups/ More likely Fukushima is to blame. On 03/16/2015 11:50 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Humanity has raced past four of the boundaries keeping it hospitable

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hell no! You put a great line together! Putting, making continual movie and tv reviews on the pedestal of constructive quest for understanding now, there's a top 10 post of the month, and...more importantly, likely to get a pat on the head from Barry. oh, sometime, id be neat to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is very sad to read that young sea lion pups are being abandoned by their mothers. Nature is telling us there's something wrong with the ecosystem that's not producing the necessary food for the animals. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Starving sick: Sea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
“I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT.” http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/03/dont-tell-glenn-reynolds.php http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/03/dont-tell-glenn-reynolds.php ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nothing wrong with TV and movie reviews. I am just surprised at how much time some people have to dedicate to those endeavors. But that is coming from someone who watches maybe a couple hours of TV a week, and maybe sees one or two movies a month. It was not a big pick up truck that

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Tue 17-Mar-15 00:15:06 UTC

2015-03-16 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 03/14/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 03/21/15 00:00:00 143 messages as of (UTC) 03/17/15 00:03:39 24 richard 20 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 18 Michael Jackson mjackson74 17 salyavin808 15 Bhairitu noozguru 12 steve.sundur

[FairfieldLife] The Beginning of the Police State

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | White House office to delete its FOIA regulationsThe White House Office of Administration says it's not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act | | | | View on www.usatoday.com | Preview by Yahoo | | |

[FairfieldLife] Re: Equal-time cult bashinge.

2015-03-16 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The key to this Salon article is to realize that Michael Roach practiced make-it-up Tantric Buddhism. His ultimate faith was in his own self - which is peculiar since by Buddhist standards he doesn't have one. This is one reason that Traditional Tibetan Lamas no longer trust most Western

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Naw waddin' nuthin' wrong with them folk - it was jist that there global healing mechanism thingy the TM people yap about now. It uz all good. And I too have posted a number of comments on other cults here, other frauds, other so-called gurus like Amma, Muktananda and so forth, but Feste and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good question. In my experience the early stage of the spiritual process is a slash and burn affair, and often not pretty. It is often marked by an urgency to, (to use an analogy that probably is not apt) to escape earth's gravity. And then after that, maybe you can proceed without

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What do you conceive the spiritual process to be? As far as I can see everyone is following it to a lesser or greater degree, unconsciously or consciously, lackadaisically or with focus. It seems to me Turq focuses on the pitfalls of the process, the things that lead one astray, he does not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just one other comment, for the record, before Barry gets carried away with the exaggerations, misrepresentations, and outright lies which have become his calling card over the past so many years. Those early courses were wild events. We all know that. But as in any experiment, the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cult behaviour suppresses the tendency of nature to create unique forms, it is basically a prison in which you are told you are free, but only if you adhere to certain principles and behaviour and thought. Exxcellent piece of writing and thinking! From: anartax...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Welcome, Vaikuntha of Fairfield

2015-03-16 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Whoa! This is the house across the street from my house! Funny old world (-: From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Welcome, Vaikuntha of Fairfield  

Re: [FairfieldLife] David Orme-Johnson is a LIAR! (was Re: TM never does harm)

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Willy musta removed the pic cuz the link no longer works but...   There is no question the movement knew of incidents and numerous others. A review of files in La Antilla, the results of rounding courses in Majjorca [sic], Spain and Fiuggi, Italy confirmed these same disastrous consequences for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
which is another way of saying lets turn a blind eye to the liars frauds and hucksters and let them keep ripping people off and ripping lives apart. From: Martin A Rosenthal rozenth...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Being overly critical is a malady similar to being overly gullible. Being straightforwardly critical however is the only way to navigate any situation, to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, the useful from the bullshit. You have to examine carefully what others tell you, and you have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm sorry you don't realize what you sound like here. You really don't understand the spiritual process, and as such, you've ended up in some lonely back water. You have a couple people here who think you are on to something. Everyone else has written you off. As Feste suggested,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Secular Life and Administrating 'Faith' in Theocratic Religion

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, here's something for you to ponder. In this reply you essentially hijacked a post I made that did not mention or reference TM *at all* and turned it into an opportunity for YOU to rant about the theocrats that you believe are separating people in Fairfield.  I mean, I posted the original

[FairfieldLife] Secular Life and Administrating 'Faith' in Theocratic Religion

2015-03-16 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
“..a naked attempt to force Christian theocracy upon the citizens of Oklahoma.” Of course there is a spectrum in the story. Likewise in a spectrum it is not just that some of the methodical TM-haters here are 'out of harmony with the group', but they actively and methodically are

[FairfieldLife] More proof that religion causes insanity

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The best part of this article for me was the subtitle that it was given in the forum on which I saw it posted: Some state governments think they can do anything. They're not that tough. They're the mall cops of government. Oklahoma House Passes Bill Restricting Marriage To People Of Faith |   |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Welcome. While you are welcome to your beliefs, might I point out a potential problem with how you express them? You write: Find me any yoga or religious system or person who is not associated with some fault.  To be overly critical is also a fault, and it the mentality of the asuras.  The

[FairfieldLife] The future's so bright...

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
When scientists develop a full quantum computer, the world of computing will undergo a revolution of sophistication, speed and energy efficiency that will make even our beefiest conventional machines seem like Stone Age clunkers by comparison. Unlike classical computing, in which the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Maybe you are still in the cult and still in a trance induction state. There must be a reason you haven't visited a cult-exit counselor. Maybe you don't even realize that you are still brain-washed. Nothing you've posted here would indicate that you've gone beyond the cult-mindset, except that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
So, when are you going to visit a cult exit-counselor? It might be better for the forum that you get cured first, then report back to us on your recovery. As long as you are still under the trance induction it would be a waste of time speculating on what course of action you'll be taking in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
I'm not so sure you should blame your failed marriage and chronic unemployment on the liars and hucksters you used to work for. Maybe you should just take responsibility for your own choices in life and stop trying to shift the blame to others. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Speaking of cults

2015-03-16 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I've only watched the first episode of Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt which is about a woman who is rescued from a doomsday cult and winds up in New York City. Tina Fey is one of the showrunners. The first episode was quite funny. http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/80025384

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You just made our day with this piece of news. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Humanity has raced past four of the boundaries keeping it hospitable to life, and we're inching close to the remaining five, an Earth resilience strategist has found. In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : You just made our day with this piece of news. All part of my Global Bad News service ;-) Seriously though, what is the point of the modern world if what we do is just bound to end in tears that might even take us with them? I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
So, it's all about Steve and Richard. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sa...@yahoogroups.com wrote : And I'm all for TV and movie reviews, too much bible talk gets tedious. It's funny though, the only really negative people here are Stevie Wonder and the Lone Star Troll.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
There's nothing wrong with TV or reading movie reviews, but some of us come here to get away from mundane activities like that. Maybe we came here to get some spiritual help. Why won't y0u help us? Maybe we're not pirates downloading movies to watch; maybe we don't have Netflix; maybe we

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
On 03/16/2015 03:31 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Negativity or reality? And what's wrong with TV (and movie) reviews? Lots of folks here watch TV. Are they supposed to be spending their evenings reading the Gita? One man's negativity

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Negativity or reality? And what's wrong with TV (and movie) reviews? Lots of folks here watch TV. Are they supposed to be spending their evenings reading the Gita? One man's negativity is another's constructive quest for

[FairfieldLife] Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
Humanity has raced past four of the boundaries keeping it hospitable to life, and we're inching close to the remaining five, an Earth resilience strategist has found. In a paper published in Science in January 2015, Johan Rockström argues that we've already screwed up with regards to

[FairfieldLife] Equal-time cult bashing

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just to show that it's not just TM that I focus on as being a cult, here's an article about a former member of a Tibetan Buddhist organization who went off the rails and became a total cult leader. It can happen to anyone in any group, IMO. The temptations are always the same in any group

[FairfieldLife] Welcome, Vaikuntha of Fairfield

2015-03-16 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Welcome to FairfieldLife, Vaikuntha of Fairfield. Another Fairfield, Iowa meditator spiritual practice satsanga! I always appreciate seeing your literature in the corner of Paradiso Cafe in Fairfield and around. Welcome to the spiritual fray that is FFL at yahoo-groups and in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Welcome, Vaikuntha of Fairfield

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
Buck, I applaud your spiritual open-mindedness but is it any wonder they don't let you in the dome? Q. Is this a new look for the old ISKCON movement? Their website has lots of stuff about Prahbupadha so I'm guessing they are re-branding for some reason. You'll be lucky if it is them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apocalypse soon...

2015-03-16 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/461472a-t1.jpg http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/461472a-t1.jpg http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/461472a-t1.jpg http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/4...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Net Neutrality: the FCC rules are available

2015-03-16 Thread ultrarishi
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : The question is do we want the internet administered by the federal government or by the free marketplace? The ISP's left us no choice but to inflict the Federal Government upon them. The Free Market is a Unicorn, it is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Anyway, celebrity endorsement is gold and is what everyone aims for, for some reason things are considered more likely to be effective if some actor or model does it. Strange really that the quest for the deepest level of consciousness and the highest

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: What Is Shahada?

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I thought Shahada was a bad group recreating 1950s rock 'n roll. From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: What Is Shahada?   No,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Another intelligent post. Re The TM website . . . looks like a health page from a women's magazine: Indeed. A depressing insight into the concerns of current TMers. In my time at the TMO we had plenty of celebs who didn't want

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: What Is Shahada?

2015-03-16 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I thought Shahada was a bad group recreating 1950s rock 'n roll. It's also sounds like a planet in Dr Who, which is why I opened the post in the first place but my adblocker wouldn't let me see the pictures, so I remained

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cultist, cure thyself. You and Steve-o seem to feel no compunctions about projecting your They hate Maharishi fantasies onto Michael and I. T'ain't true, at least in my case. How is that NOT assigning us beliefs, emotions, and motivations? I don't consider myself obsessed with Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Faults are everywhere to be found.

2015-03-16 Thread Martin A Rosenthal rozenth...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dear Friends, In the material world, faults abound.  One must perform the work born of his or her own nature, both materially and spiritually, even if one can not perform perfectly. Find me any yoga or religious system or person who is not associated with some fault.  To be overly critical is

[FairfieldLife] David Orme-Johnson is a LIAR! (was Re: TM never does harm)

2015-03-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re this exercise in cult apologetics from David Orme-Johnson, here is the challenge I wrote to Feste in an earlier post: Here's a challenge for you, Feste. As a long-time TMer who claims not to be a cultist and who in fact seems to be affronted by the very notion that I suggest you're one, how