[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: This theme -- one species with its own view of what ethics entails meeting another with an entirely different, not only incompatible but *inconceivable* view -- has been dealt with often in classic science fiction.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5

2010-09-06 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:28 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUbCMbW-BRE

[FairfieldLife] Food Rebellions: Mozambicans Know Which Way the Wind Blows

2010-09-06 Thread nablusoss1008
Food Rebellions: Mozambicans Know Which Way the Wind BlowsBy Raj http://rajpatel.org/author/raj/ on 09/4/2010 in Uncategorized http://rajpatel.org/category/uncategorized/ , featured http://rajpatel.org/category/featured/ [A version of this article appear's in The Observer

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Growing up on Class-A imaginings of the possible interactions between humans and extraterrestrials like this is what often leaves me with little patience when I hear New Age twifs talking about the space brothers and our

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Growing up on Class-A imaginings of the possible interactions between humans and extraterrestrials like this is what often leaves me with little

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: My recollection is that Charlie Lutes said it was ok to hitch a ride with the aliens in the saucer shaped space ships but not the cigar shaped space ships. Sounds to me more like a reflection of Charlie's

[FairfieldLife] Hawking warns about active SETI

2010-09-06 Thread Vaj
Stephen Hawking may have been the only person to play himself on Star Trek, but that doesn't mean he's ready to sign Earth up for the United Federation of Planets. The world's most famous living scientist recently reiterated his warning that the search for intelligent life on other worlds could

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread gullible fool
  I was in the audience when Lutes came to the Boston area to give talks a couple of times back in 78 and 79. This was back when we were all eager to eat up anything anyone higher up in the movement had to say, whether MMY, Domash, Charlie Donahue, or Lutes, so we all bought

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: My recollection is that Charlie Lutes said it was ok to hitch a ride with the aliens in the saucer shaped space ships but not the

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread Duveyoung
I paid my twenty bucks to see Charlie as he tottered to oblivion, and I reminded him that the last time I saw him he said they were about to discover Christ's spaceship hidden inside the great pyramid and I wondered why that hadn't happened yet. He said: I never said such a thing. So even in

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is common between Ahmadinejad and Hitler?

2010-09-06 Thread emptybill
Doesn't matter, forget about Hitler. For a Muslim, Once a Muslim, always a Muslim. This is the one thing that Barack Hussein and Ahmadinejad share. This is Sharia and like the mafia there is no way out because Islam has no apostasy. Apostates can be killed at will by any Muslim. --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread gullible fool
Oh yeah... he'd bring up his women reincarnated as men being light in the loafers shtick at almost every lecture.    Didn't Lutes say it was those who were supposed to be women in this lifetime, but who incarnated as boy baby's, who were light in the loafers? I know some people have

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread emptybill
Grabbed it. Thanks for the link. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: This theme -- one species with its own view of what ethics entails meeting another with an entirely different, not only

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
I hope Showtime has another promo price deal. I sign up for those and then cancel at the end of the promo price period. I signed up for HBO last year to watch True Blood and the deal was 6 months for $7 a month. Comcast screwed up and I changed the $18 monthly. To compensate they gave me

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hawking warns about active SETI

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
Vaj wrote: Stephen Hawking may have been the only person to play himself on Star Trek, but that doesn't mean he's ready to sign Earth up for the United Federation of Planets. The world's most famous living scientist recently reiterated his warning that the search for intelligent life on

RE: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5

2010-09-06 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:59 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5 I hope Showtime has another promo price deal. I sign up for those and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking warns about active SETI

2010-09-06 Thread emptybill
Klingons? Just another human, warrior analogue. Eat us? Our bodies are actual bacterial time capsules of earth biology. We would probably be lethal even through chance contact. Virus contact might be the most deadly of all. Of course, this might go both ways. Any contact at all might lead to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:59 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5 I hope Showtime has another promo price deal.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Burning Man, from space

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
Of course you could cool off this way: :-D http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/philly-cyclists-bare-promote-cleaner-air/ Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air. A Turq delight. Alex Stanley

[FairfieldLife] 1938 in 2010

2010-09-06 Thread do.rflex
1938 in 2010 By PAUL KRUGMAN http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists\ /paulkrugman/index.html?inline=nyt-per I had hoped that we would do better this time. But it turns out that politicians and economists alike have spent decades unlearning the lessons of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What is common between Ahmadinejad and Hitler?

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
Yeah right. As I mentioned before I know a woman who was born into a Muslim family. Couldn't tell you anything about it because her family never practiced it. IOW, like many American Christians. How many of us wrote Christian back in the 1950s when some forms, even government, asked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Burning Man, from space

2010-09-06 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Of course you could cool off this way: :-D http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/philly-cyclists-bare-promote-cleaner-air/ Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote

[FairfieldLife] Maoist commander seduced by SSRS AOL

2010-09-06 Thread PaliGap
A case of Guriji inspired by Guruji? Locals can now *breathe* easy? A Maoist commander of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist outfit surrendered before police in Jharkhand's Bokaro district Monday. Ramendra Singh alias Guruji, sub-zonal commander of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is common between Ahmadinejad and Hitler?

2010-09-06 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: Some writers noted that Hitler was a Catholic at one time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: What is common between Ahmadinejad and Hitler? Both have Jewish roots?? According to

[FairfieldLife] Democrat Ronald Reagan rips Republicans

2010-09-06 Thread do.rflex
Here's Ronald Reagan campaigning for Harry Truman and slamming the Republicans for supporting the corporate rich against regular working Americans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

2010-09-06 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Today is our 9th birthday. 255,824 posts. Happy Birthday, FFL and founder Rick!happy happy birthday Fairy Field Life forever They stole little Richard for nine years long; When he came down again his friends were all gone.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL

2010-09-06 Thread Rick Archer
Thanks. Nice montage. From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of merudanda Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 12:32 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Burning Man, from space

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Of course you could cool off this way: :-D http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/philly-cyclists-bare-promote-cleaner-air/ Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through

[FairfieldLife] Nepal: Vedic Organic Agriculture

2010-09-06 Thread merlin
Nepal: Vedic Organic Agriculture conference planned for 24 September Global Good News   3 September 2010 Two international conferences will take place in Nepal in September; one on Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and the other on Consciousness-Based Education. The agriculture

[FairfieldLife] The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond

2010-09-06 Thread do.rflex
A War Completely Funded by Borrowing by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes There is no question that the Iraq war added substantially to the federal debt. This was the first time in American history that the government cut taxes as it went to war. The result: a war completely funded by

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hawking warns about active SETI

2010-09-06 Thread Vaj
On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Bhairitu wrote: IOW, humans are like weevils infesting a bag of flour. ;-) And we may be good eatin' for some alien species. How's your Klingon? Remember the old Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man? A seemingly benevolent race brings world peace to earth and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking warns about active SETI

2010-09-06 Thread Duveyoung
Any species capable of interstellar space travel can make anything they want from asteroids and comets -- probably don't even need materiality to mine -- just stimulate the virtual field to create atoms of any sort. Space travel requires almost godlike powers to manipulate the laws of physics

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is common between Ahmadinejad and Hitler?

2010-09-06 Thread emptybill
Someone might be either a practising or non-practising Muslim. That is a matter only between the follower and Allah. However this has nothing to do with apostacy. Apostacy is considered a grave crime against all Muslims. Your own experiences with muslims, whether good or bad, cannot be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking warns about active SETI

2010-09-06 Thread John
The ETs may be highly advanced scientifically and morally. As such, they may follow the Prime Directive. So, we'll never see them until earthlings show some signs of advanced technoloy comparable to theirs. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Any species

Re: [FairfieldLife] The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond

2010-09-06 Thread Bhairitu
And so today the wingnuts are complaining about $50 billion proposed to fix up US highways, railways, etc. Think how many times over we could have done that with the money wasted on destroying Iraq. But the wingnuts love to destroy things not build them. Go figure. do.rflex wrote: A War

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-09-06 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Sep 04 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Sep 11 00:00:00 2010 138 messages as of (UTC) Mon Sep 06 23:02:02 2010 19 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 19 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 8 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] KRUU Open House Ice Cream Social Sat Sept 11

2010-09-06 Thread Rick Archer
From: James Moore [mailto:kruu100@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:50 PM To: James Moore Subject: KRUU Open House Ice Cream Social Sat Sept 11 September 6 - 12th is officially KRUU Listener Appreciation Week, so proclaimed by Mayor Ed Malloy. If you love

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-06 Thread seventhray1
Thanks for the reply. I was in Chicago for the weekend. Not much recession in evidence there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Ray, don't feel discriminated against if I rarely answer your posts. I pick a few posts per day to look at and may, or may

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dexter Season 5

2010-09-06 Thread gullible fool
About a month ago, I unexpectedly had no high-def for four or five nights. I got little help from comcast at first. I ended up going to a comcast store four days in a row to exchange, first, the cables, and then the DVR three times (losing all my archived programs yet again) and I spent

Re: [FairfieldLife] Charlie Lutes, was: ET morality

2010-09-06 Thread gullible fool
One of his fans once insisted to me that Charlie must be speaking from direct experience “because he has been meditating for 15 years”.   11 years was enough to convince some of us back then. I used to go to the weekly evening lecture Charlie Donahue gave at the Cambridge TM