(snip)
And the most fun part of it is that the teacher
often assigns each student the *opposite* of
their own point of view to defend. That's a real
kick in the ass, lemme tell you.
Socrates also taught in this way;
Now it's called the 'Socratic Method' of teaching...
Barack Obama uses
(snip)
Jesus is here, and he wants to resurrect somebody!
- Rumi
Jesus was a revolutionary teacher of his time, and of any time.
His ideas go against the Power of Rome(or any earthly power)...
Which cause him to be killed.
He was the predicted 'Messiah', and was able to transcend the
http://tinyurl.com/2cz3vd
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the Artist *uses* Science, but usually not the other
way around.
I believe that for a person who grew up in a developed county in the
last 80 years the assimilation of some of the principles of science
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@
wrote:
--- curtisdeltablues wrote:
There is much more time spent on the miracles
than any of [Jesus'] presentation of ethical philosophy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
Bonobo chimps are hilarious. They evolved in a region
with plenty of food so they are not very aggressive
and they screw at the drop of a hat (or in this
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He never had anything to offer!!! Atheists generally
don't, but that is another subject.
Atheists, hmmm? Is that sorta like a nigger or a spic?
Worse. Niggers and spics know
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@
wrote:
--- curtisdeltablues wrote:
Gillam wrote:
What's the evolutionist's answer to the question? I would
think it would have something to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apparently, if they don't have on the diaper they masturbate
as much as they physically can.
That helps? Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try and report
back!
LOL. But, if you want a real laugh, do a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
--- BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote:
He never had anything to offer!!! Atheists generally
don't, but that is another subject.
Atheists, hmmm?
On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:47 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
My favorite Jesus quote is my original:
Hey Jesus, since you've risen, how about getting me a beer!
I found Jesus! he was behind the couch the whole time.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
--- BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote:
He never had anything to offer!!! Atheists
--- curtisdeltablues wrote:
--- Angela Mailander wrote:
Chimps have forgiveness rituals???
The source is Peacemaking Among Primates
by De Waal the bonobo expert.
Most social primates have to have a way
to make up to keep the society together.
They will offer a hand to the mouth
--- Mr. Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyhoo...I just have to wonder about the deeper
hidden drives
that make a person NEED to discount any possible
goodness that our
civilizations' 'spiritual' people may have brought
us.
That really is a good question.
--- Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bonobo chimps are hilarious. They evolved in a
region
with plenty of food so they are not very
aggressive
and they screw at the drop of a hat (or in this
case,
a banana)
We
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richardson says the speech Obama gave in response to the Rev. Wright
smear campaign showed his real leadership abilities and sealed the
deal for his endorsement. Richardson called for the negative tone
and
dirty
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey initiate22000@
wrote:
Hi, I am a former Fairfield resident (from the 80's!)and an
occasional
visitor to this listserv. I imagine this topic has probably been
discussed, so if you want to direct me to former postings, that's
fine.
Not eloquent--cacophonous . She needs a good and
patient editor. As for trash? dunno--totally out of
any universe of discourse I've swum in.
--- matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--Eloquent trash!
- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mantra
The TMO, read Girish, is exactly like the latter day Mafia -- that is,
they got cash rich and started investing in legitimate businesses
until those businesses began to compete with their illegal activities
in terms of profits.
The TMO is a real estate company first and foremost with criminal
Here's wikipedia on the historicity of jesus
There are passages relevant to Christianity in the
works of four major non-Christian writers of the late
1st and early 2nd centuries Josephus, Tacitus,
Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger. However, these are
generally references to early Christians
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The TMO, read Girish, is exactly like the latter day Mafia -- that is,
they got cash rich and started investing in legitimate businesses
until those businesses began to compete with their illegal activities
in terms of
Duveyoung seems to have a remarkable talent of concisely summarizing
large organizational structures so prevalent in today's world.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The TMO, read Girish, is exactly like the latter day Mafia -- that
is,
they got cash
Stu wrote: Love, truth and beauty is the recognition of this
harmony around us. They are part of nature, its part of us. No
supernatural stuff need apply. Even a hardened materialist can
appreciate the organic unity of these ideals.
Edg: You know those Necker cubes where the diagram of a box
There is a lot of talk in the history of philosophy about the
connection between conception and perception. Psychology has taken up
the topic in some detail.
I appreciate your point about choosing our attention. I believe that
my happiness is maintained by what I pay attention to and what I
http://www.unleashingthewench.com/images/domebrdrd2.jpg Don't know if
the image will show up for online readers, but the link above leads to
an image that all of us are familiar with. It pertains to the concepts
below. I've tried my best to discover the name of the artist -- anyone
know? Edg
On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
I've tried my best to discover the name of the artist -- anyone know?
No, but I love the picture.
Sal
It's a woodcut from a book from the 1800's. IIRC the artist is unknown.
On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
http://www.unleashingthewench.com/images/domebrdrd2.jpg Don't know
if the image will show up for online readers, but the link above
leads to an image that all of us are
On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
I've tried my best to discover the name of the artist -- anyone
know?
No, but I love the picture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_Woodcut
My guess on love, truth, and beauty's evolutionary
purpose (as well as the notion of God, which may be a
synthesis of love beauty and truth) is that all of
them have to do with right-brain activity and, more
importantly, with uniting the two halves of the brain,
that is, with effecting
On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Vaj wrote:
On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
I've tried my best to discover the name of the artist -- anyone
know?
No, but I love the picture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_Woodcut
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Saavy ?By the end of MMY's life, the TMO was
crack-cocaine-addicted to $1m Raja
course fees, the pool of potential Rajas had dried, the existing were
Rajas tapped out.
Western real estate holdings - the real
--External Gods may still be worshipped after Brahman Realization
(external as Brahman, nondifferent); since Ramakrishna was devoted
to Kali before and after Realization, and Ramana Maharshi was devoted
to Arunachala Shiva.
- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
[EMAIL
Richardson called for the negative tone and
dirty politics to come to an end and for the
party to come together to put forward a positive
message.
The most recent results, reported March 24, showed
Clinton ahead 46 percent to 44 percent. In other words,
over two weeks, Obama was down 4
--- dhamiltony2k5 wrote:
There is a lot of stuff
going on in FF that makes it real interesting.
You're being coy, Doug. What kind of stuff?
Please elaborate. Thanks.
Well said, and thank you it was Pliny I was thinking of although Livy
mentions the christ cult also.
Investigation and learning as much as is possible is, to me,
more noble than sayingNope..No Jesusneither mundane
or miraculous.File Him under 'Things only a child
In what sense is the distinction between internal
and external still valid in Unity or any state
after? It should be merely a heuristic by that time
in my estimation.
--- matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--External Gods may still be worshipped after
Brahman Realization
(external as
It's not matter of accent … more important is the posture in which he is
addressing to us...
zoran
I liked the explanation of the fish, knowing itself because it moves
through water-- so very much like the individual ego.
Regarding Unity or some such, I've heard it described like this: the
usual experience we have is differentiation predominating,
everything separate, but in Unity, the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- dhamiltony2k5 wrote:
There is a lot of stuff
going on in FF that makes it real interesting.
You're being coy, Doug. What kind of stuff?
Please elaborate. Thanks.
People have switched, finally, from
Doug wrote:
Explains a damn lot to me.
About a fifth of Clinton and Obama supporters now
say they wouldn't vote for the other candidate in
the general election. Meanwhile, on the other side,
voters get an unobstructed view of the Republican
nominee.
John McCain's approval ratings have
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--External Gods may still be worshipped after Brahman Realization
(external as Brahman, nondifferent); since Ramakrishna was devoted
to Kali before and after Realization, and Ramana Maharshi was
devoted
to
As I have heard, UC is recognition of Self in another object
(person/place/thing) . . . as UC matures, recognition becomes more
frequent and the 'scope' of the object expands . . . till entire
universe can be appreciated as Self. However - in BC the fullness of
'inside' and 'outside' collide and
On Mar 25, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Larry wrote:
As I have heard, UC is recognition of Self in another object
(person/place/thing) . . . as UC matures, recognition becomes more
frequent and the 'scope' of the object expands . . . till entire
universe can be appreciated as Self.
This is how Shankara
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor
matrixmonitor@ wrote:
--External Gods may still be worshipped after Brahman Realization
(external as Brahman, nondifferent); since Ramakrishna was devoted
to Kali before and after Realization, and Ramana Maharshi was
devoted
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 25, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Larry wrote:
As I have heard, UC is recognition of Self in another object
(person/place/thing) . . . as UC matures, recognition becomes more
frequent and the 'scope' of the object expands .
From salon.com
Blind Faith
The statements of clergymen like Jeremiah Wright aren't controversial
and incendiary; they're wicked and stupid.
By Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, March 24, 2008, at 12:09 PM ET
It's been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama
that he would
On Mar 25, 2008, at 7:34 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 25, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Larry wrote:
As I have heard, UC is recognition of Self in another object
(person/place/thing) . . . as UC matures, recognition becomes more
---Sure. Ramana was devoted to the Arunachala Hill, a murti of the
static form of Shiva . (p.2 Bhagavan Sri Ramana, A Pictorial Biography,
published by Sri V.S. Ramanan, President, Sri Ramanasramam).
Bhagavan spoke these words:
(p.1): Siva, the Lord Supreme whom all adore, Us'd once His trident
Vaj wrote:
samadhi : becoming free of all transmutations
(nirvikAra), maintaining the vrtti of being
identical with Brahman, then forgetting the
ry vrtti.
Lawson wrote:
More like water within water.
From what I've read, the word Samadhi does not occur
in the ten major Upanishads
from the David Godman website:
Being the perfect spiritual Master that he was, Sri Bhagavan knew
well how important and necessary is the form of God for the human
mind, which is ever attached to forms. And from his own personal
experience he knew the unique power of the form of Arunachala, a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I have heard, UC is recognition of Self in another object
(person/place/thing) . . . as UC matures, recognition becomes more
frequent and the 'scope' of the object expands . . . till entire
universe can be appreciated as
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More like water within water. Different currents have a different
character, but its all water.
Lawson
sounds like three's a crowd.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---Sure. Ramana was devoted to the Arunachala Hill, a murti of the
static form of Shiva . (p.2 Bhagavan Sri Ramana, A Pictorial
Biography,
published by Sri V.S. Ramanan, President, Sri Ramanasramam).
Bhagavan
from Hinduism Today:
--
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The Legend of Endless Fire
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A mythical story of three Gods
The long-lived fame of the great Arunachaleswara
Cheney and MDIXON like to lick dead bodies for breakfast.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h7izi9LaYyI
The U.S. is using white phosphorus, a chemical munition known more
commonly in the military as Willy Peter.
White phosphorus is a chemical weapon.
During the battle of Fallujah in November 2004, the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg
Aside from the fact that the girl in the video looks like Sharon Tate,
what is the significance of linking to it?
Why are you wasting my time, Bongo Brazil?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From salon.com
Blind Faith
I assume you all have your copies of The Audacity
of Hope in paperback breviary form. If you turn to the chapter
entitled Faith, beginning on Page 195, and read as far as Page 208,
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