[FairfieldLife] Re: A Tale of Two Cows

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Indian bureaucracy makes it impossible to open a business and sell milk. You emigrate. You become enormously successful like all Indians do once they leave India. You buy as many cows as you want. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL P

[FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
Here's another idea: Keep the 5 posts a day maximum. But for those that want to post MORE than the 5, we can have buy indulgences. You know, like the Catholic Church in days of yore. Or in the TMO like when someone buys into becoming a Raja. Or maybe we can purchase extra posts via carbon c

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sal, what's the meaning of your signoff acronym "JM2C" (below)? I'm > stumped. Salvatore is a conspiracy theorist. "JM2C" is an obvious reference to the belief held by many Beatles fans in the 1960s that Pau

[FairfieldLife] Re: Infinite_monkey_theorem and the 5 post limit

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When Bob Newhart was doing stand up on Ed Sullivan. One joke he told > has always stuck with me -- reoccuring to me many times across the > decades. > > He said, "If they ever sit these infinite number of monkeys down

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > wrote: > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, you guys leave Curtis alone. We hungout together > at MIU and he's quite "otay" in my book. If you > personally knew Curtis there's no way in the world you > guys would attack him or attempt to demean him. He's > one o

[FairfieldLife] In Case You Were Wondering ...

2007-05-04 Thread new . morning
Sex Facts http://weirdfacts.com/weird-sex.html Weird Sex Laws http://weirdfacts.com/weird-sex-laws.html Weird Texas Laws http://weirdfacts.com/content/view/62/2/ Weird Science http://weirdfacts.com/latest/weird-science-2.html Weird thought 29 http://weirdfacts.com/weird-thoughts/weird-thoughts-

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buggy Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:00 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting Hi my son has it now in a folder so I can monitor how many times I reply. I will keep to

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Sigh. Rambling here. Who's still reading? Definitely not me, and what a shame since I so enjoy your posts. lurk > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Buggy
Hi my son has it now in a folder so I can monitor how many times I reply. I will keep to your groups requirements. - Original Message - From: Rick Archer To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:20 AM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread Peter
--- "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > Richard, i don't know where to even start to > respond > > to you > > > Just be honest and tell me what happened to all the > money. All the money? When I taught TM I sent all of it to National and half was returned to

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Peter wrote: > Richard, i don't know where to even start to respond > to you > Just be honest and tell me what happened to all the money.

[FairfieldLife] Guru Dev quotes

2007-05-04 Thread bob_brigante
'The dawn comes to dispel the darkness of night, allowing us to enjoy the light of the sun (which is self-illuminating). Spiritual teachings destroy ignorance and therefore remove darkness, but they cannot throw light on the inner Self, for the Self is Light.' * One should know as to how to live i

[FairfieldLife] MUM Eco-fair

2007-05-04 Thread bob_brigante
http://www.mum.edu/ecofair/schedule.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever wonder where the prudery in the TMO came from?

2007-05-04 Thread qntmpkt
---Comment below: ...that Hinduism is the only religion that reflects Nature to it's fullest possible extent. Actually, Buddhism is more consistent with the most up-to-date hypotheses concerning Cosmology - i.e. the origins of the universe itself; along with speculations on the major unanswere

[FairfieldLife] USA TODAY: The Raj in Vedic City included in 10 top spas

2007-05-04 Thread george_deforest
[ ] [ ] Friday, April 27, 2007 In Vedic City, Iowa: Detox with vegetarian meals, herbal supplements, steam baths and customized enemas. Photo by Mel Sauerbeck, The Raj 10 great places to detox, tune up, calm down It's time to rev up our metabolic engines and clean out our systems to g

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 4, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Incidentally, Buggy’s situation, as a blind person, is a good reason for all of us snipping. If he’s using a program which reads emails aloud, then if we don’t snip, he has to listen to many minutes of junk to get to the new material embedded in i

[FairfieldLife] Re: life

2007-05-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Dear Lee, Your son's case is very distressing and is an unfortunate narrative of the adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Certainly the states' legislatures believe that sexual abuse and specifically child sex abuse are crimes that deserve particular attention because o

[FairfieldLife] Spiderman - 3 , Review

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Spock
Review of Spiderman - 3 http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32500 - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buggy Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:50 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting Blindness has NO effect on my ability to count. However the program I am on using Web Mai

[FairfieldLife] The 4 Varna System, Duty and not birth

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Spock
The 4 Varnas or class's existed in all Ancient cultures. It's a natural system based on Duty and not birth. The 4 Varna caste system is a product of the First-wave agricultural civilisation which had only a rudimentary economy. The system gave the world, social stability for

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > > > > In all fairness to Girish, does anybody know him? He > > > may look creepy, bu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Buggy
Blindness has NO effect on my ability to count. However the program I am on using Web Mail does not tell me who the email is from it simply opens it and reads the post you or another respond too. I am a very active member of several groups and receive at least a thousand emails a day on several

[FairfieldLife] A Tale of Two Cows

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Spock
A Midwesterner's political Primer DEMOCRATIC You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbra Streisand sings for you. REPUBLICAN You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? SOCIALIST You have two cows. The government takes one and give

[FairfieldLife] life

2007-05-04 Thread Buggy
Hi I hope each of you will take the time to read my story and respond as this is going on in our world and I joined this group hoping to meet and get positive input as well as educate some to how the laws are screwing over your people like yourselves and others in this country. In December 2005

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever wonder where the prudery in the TMO came from?

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Spock
Sorry for the delayed response. I agree with you. MMY's version certainly has more depth. True religion should reflect Nature. Hinduism is the only religion that reflects Nature to it's fullest possible extent. The concept of Ethics is Universal. It does not ch

[FairfieldLife] 'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art find

2007-05-04 Thread Vaj
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6624117.stm'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art findThe discovery has been likened to finding a treaure trovePaintings of Buddha dating back at least to the 12th century have been discovered in a cave in a remote area of Nepal's north-central region.

[FairfieldLife] New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

2007-05-04 Thread FairfieldLife
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the FairfieldLife group. File: /Audio Files/GunFight Ballad -Marty Robbins.mp3 Uploaded by : jedi_spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description : GunFight Ballad for Shemp & R

[FairfieldLife] Re: Media Moguls got it Wrong

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Spock
Sorry for the late response. Nothing at all. People have gotten wise to the games these bloody politicians play. Shall I send you the GunFight Ballad by Marty Robbins as an attachment.?? Or should I upload the file to FFL.?? ShempMcGurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Fri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Posting limits (Rick, Sal)

2007-05-04 Thread Jonathan Chadwick
See, spontaneous right action: it is supposed to be seven. Read the Handbook. authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Went over by 2 without realizing it. Recent Activity 2 New Members

[FairfieldLife] Barry: Utopia and hypocrisy

2007-05-04 Thread authfriend
Don't know if there's any way for this to fit into a Utopian parable, but I was reading the other day about a species of bird, I think it was--or it may have been fish--that have been found to inbreed almost exclusively. This is highly unusual, since inbreeding tends to bring out recessive genes fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Designing Utopia

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Technologies like this one could be used to train children to enter > states of consciousness which pacify and tame the mind ("training > wheels"): > > > > http://snipurl.com/1jbyl > I think, it would be impossible to

[FairfieldLife] Misc: quantum packet, Sal, Shemp, Peter

2007-05-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, quantum packet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "If God intended reasonable men and women > to worship Him without embarrassment, why did > He create Christopher Hitchens? It was a > fatal miscalculation. In God Is Not > Great, Hitchens not only demonstrates > t

[FairfieldLife] More on AMMA, to be featured on ABC TV News 20/20 Primetime Friday May 11

2007-05-04 Thread Rick Archer
ABC News is doing a special hour segment on Faith, which will include a profile on Amma. Check your local listing for the ABC News 20/20 timeslot, but it's usually between 9pm and 11pm and should be airing on Friday May 11. The segment on Amma was mostly filmed in Chennai during the North Indi

[FairfieldLife] AMMA to be featured on ABC TV News 20/20 Primetime Friday May 11

2007-05-04 Thread Rick Archer
I'll post a reminder on that day.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Break out your old records

2007-05-04 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of at_man_and_brahman Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:36 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Break out your old records This isn't new. It's been around for a number of years. http://en.wikip

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread Duveyoung
Turq, Nice post, Mr. T. I'm going to pretend that I'm writing to you, but this is me looking into my mirror. I found myself resonant with your "protect my mind" concept -- and I think that expanding it a bit might be educational. How about we agree for it to mean: a resolve to not identify

[FairfieldLife] Posting limits (Rick, Sal)

2007-05-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy posted 10 times today My bad, inadvertent. Went over by 2 without realizing it during the day Wednesday, planned to compensate by making only 3 posts on Thursday, then blew it that night by forgetting Thursday

[FairfieldLife] Posting limits (Rick, Sal)

2007-05-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy posted 10 times today My bad, inadvertent. Went over by 2 without realizing it during the day Wednesday, planned to compensate by making only 3 posts on Thursday, then blew it that night by forgetting Thursday

Re: [FairfieldLife] Designing Utopia

2007-05-04 Thread Vaj
Technologies like this one could be used to train children to enter states of consciousness which pacify and tame the mind ("training wheels"): http://snipurl.com/1jbyl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Designing Utopia

2007-05-04 Thread Vaj
On May 4, 2007, at 7:47 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Assuming anyone is interested in sharing cool ideas for an aspect of life -- be it social, religious, health-related, education-related...whatever -- you'd want to see in your personal utopia, I'd love to keep the thread as positive as possible.

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will address this to judyjim who seem to have formed a symbiotic > entity of malice toward me personally. Nobody has "malice" ("desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another") toward you personally, C

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [moved from the end of the post] > Thanks again to Curtis and Marek for exemplifying what > makes FFL a great forum, and pointing out via their > examples what *detracts* from that great forum in the > behavior of a few (a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine > wrote: > > > > On May 3, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Kenny H wrote: > > > > > > Since we all already know who has no self control > > > > and who would thus (blessedly) take

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Morning all, > > I am disabled (blind) so am not sure how I can rack how many > posts I respond too so I do not break your rules here anyone > go many ideas how I can track these? If you're capable of reading the posts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 4, 2007, at 4:48 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: On May 3, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Kenny H wrote: Since we all already know who has no self control and who would thus (blessedly) take themselves out of the action within the first 24 to 36 hours of the week, this one now has my vote, too. There was n

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 4, 2007, at 8:27 AM, new.morning wrote: What I find interesting is that you have these two people -- Curtis and Judy -- each of whom have been doing TM regularly for the past 35 years and yet one has a totally negative personality and the other has a totally positive personality. Isn't i

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > With only one post left today I knew how I would use it. I had a > > point by point defense for Judy's post. I was being clever (in my >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Designing Utopia

2007-05-04 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >except that I'd like to > see a system of government that has taking care of > its people -- *all* of its people, in terms of food, > shelter, health care and education -- as its first > and highest priority. I'll wo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread WLeed3
put a marble in a jar 4 each response U will need but 5, or a spoon or some object if U R tactually ok a string on each finger ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

[FairfieldLife] The Swiss: Guns, Guns, and More Guns!

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1566715.stm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Thursday's Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread Buggy
Morning all, I am disabled (blind) so am not sure how I can rack how many posts I respond too so I do not break your rules here anyone go many ideas how I can track these? Lee (Bug) - Original Message - From: Rick Archer To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 0

[FairfieldLife] Re: Infinite_monkey_theorem and the 5 post limit

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "matrixmonitor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Excellent point! (given enough time, a monkey typing on a keyboard > can come up with Shakespeare). But as pointed out in the Wiki article, > MOST of the stuff will be gibberish. Quite true. A monkey l

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bee myths

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Plus the honey bees are not even native to N. America, so no big > deal. Neither were the Algonquin, the Sioux, the Apache, the Cree or the members of all of the other thousand or so North and South American

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > > In all fairness to Girish, does anybody know him? He > > may look creepy, but he could be a great guy. Who > > knows? > > > I gotta say he doesn't even l

[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy

2007-05-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With only one post left today I knew how I would use it. I had a > point by point defense for Judy's post. I was being clever (in my own > mind), proving how wrong she was and how right I am! > > Then the t

[FairfieldLife] Designing Utopia

2007-05-04 Thread TurquoiseB
I've been working on a fiction idea lately that has left me thinking a lot about utopias. And I thought today that this might be an interesting thread for Fairfield Life. Any number of authors have tried their hand at designing a fictional utopia, from Sir Thomas More's island to Aldous Huxley'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ted Dreier, Black Mountain College, and MUM

2007-05-04 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Yeah, BMC, "Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school considered the creative arts and practical responsibilities as equally important components to intellectual development. "Fully Awake: Black Mountain College" explores the college's radical approach to education." Alot like, MUM? or,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Overposting

2007-05-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 3, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Kenny H wrote: > > > > Since we all already know who has no self control > > > and who would thus (blessedly) take themselves out > > > of the action within the first 24 to 36 hours of > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Troubled" past

2007-05-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to comment on this and don't really know how to, except > to endorse your willingness to explore life with deep and > wholehearted committment. I love that you were so totally > into the movement; you and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ted Dreier, Black Mountain College, and MUM

2007-05-04 Thread george_deforest
here's a link discussing the Black Mountain film, includes an old photo of Joseph Albers http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770414008 and, another interesting related link: Black Mountain College - Fully Awake http://www.bmcfullyawake.org/bmchomepage.html > off_world_be