[FairfieldLife] My research article
Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known to be caused by involvement in religious cults [3]. The scars and trauma of being manipulated, rejected and isolated in cults is known to be affect some to develop full blown symptoms of Small Penis Disorder [4]. Dr. Ravi Yogi has identified by the following maladaptive schemas using Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema theory [5] with SPC - DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME (DS), SOCIAL ISOLATION / ALIENATION (SI), FAILURE (FA) and/or ABANDONMENT / INSTABILITY (AB). Diagnosis The person's behavior, history, involvement in spiritual circles especially their behavior of haranguing believers along with a psychological evaluation, are usually sufficient to establish the diagnosis. Treatment is often prompted by depression associated with dissolved cult relationships and/or by family and friends who notice their overbearing harassing behavior on spiritual online portals. Treatment Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. Dr. Ravi Yogi, the pioneer in SPC recommends the following. * Schema Therapy * Cognitive behavioral therapy * Dr. Ravi Yogi's TTWFAR Therapy (TTWFAR - Taking the world for a ride™) References 1. Dr. Ravi Yogi (formerly Ravi Chivukula), Psy.D, U.C Berkeley is one of the leading researchers of SPC and is lobbying to include SPC in DSM V - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) the fifth edition. 2. See Histrionic Personality Disorder 3. Frederick Lenz, former Cult leader on Amazon 4. Seekers, Gurus, SPC and the rise of Skeptic Gurus by Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy.D, U.C Berkeley 5. Schema Therapy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Congresswoman shot in Arizona
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: As I worship Pall, from the heart of my bottom. For speakers of a Uralic (Fenno-Ugric) -- rather awkward -- language, Hungarians are surprisingly gifted. Perhaps Tom *doesn't* have Hungarian ancestry, but we think Pall is a fairly common family name in Hungary... :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: I have no idea what motivates Vaj or Barry. I could never grok what motivates them. I only worship the very quicksand upon which they tread. Haha, very funny ! :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anti-Immigrant Backlash -- the biggest problem of our time
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:14 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: [...] Many hospitals near the southern border of the US have been driven out of business by the huge influx of illegals, seeking free care. Do you have a citation for that, Vaj? I believe I first heard of it on 60 Minutes or some similar news magazine. But here's a quick grab off the web: As detailed in Illegal aliens threaten U.S. medical system between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services were unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals are on the verge of closure. Both PA and NJ hospitals recently reported that they provided almost $2 billion in free emergency and short term care services, in large part to illegal aliens. Minnesota county commissioners say that the cost of medical care for uninsured immigrants is too high for local governments to bear and they expect a $4.2 billion budget shortfall over the next two years. NC has about $1.4 billion in un-reimbursed hospital expenses annually. The Texas Hospital Association directly spent $393 million treating illegal aliens in 2002. One third of the patients treated by the LA County Health System are illegal aliens and the system is facing a $300 million deficient. In AZ, the Southeast Arizona Medical Center had a $1 billion shortfall and recently filled for bankruptcy. Hmmm... WorldNetDaily... Do you have a backup reference, please? Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anti-Immigrant Backlash -- the biggest problem of our time
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:14 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: [...] Many hospitals near the southern border of the US have been driven out of business by the huge influx of illegals, seeking free care. Do you have a citation for that, Vaj? I believe I first heard of it on 60 Minutes or some similar news magazine. But here's a quick grab off the web: As detailed in Illegal aliens threaten U.S. medical system between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services were unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals are on the verge of closure. Both PA and NJ hospitals recently reported that they provided almost $2 billion in free emergency and short term care services, in large part to illegal aliens. Minnesota county commissioners say that the cost of medical care for uninsured immigrants is too high for local governments to bear and they expect a $4.2 billion budget shortfall over the next two years. NC has about $1.4 billion in un-reimbursed hospital expenses annually. The Texas Hospital Association directly spent $393 million treating illegal aliens in 2002. One third of the patients treated by the LA County Health System are illegal aliens and the system is facing a $300 million deficient. In AZ, the Southeast Arizona Medical Center had a $1 billion shortfall and recently filled for bankruptcy. Hmmm... WorldNetDaily... Do you have a backup reference, please? Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Crazy Talk
An article by Vaughan Bell, reposted from Slate because it's about bloody time somebody said this. Oh...he did it because he's crazy is IMO just a way of saying I'm too lazy to think past the first convenient box I found with which to pigeonhole him. Emphasis (bolding) is mine. We're too quick to use mental illness as an explanation for violence.Shortly after Jared Lee Loughner had been identified as the alleged shooter http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-08/jared-lee-lou\ ghner-details-on-gabrielle-giffords-alleged-shooter/ of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, online sleuths turned up pages of rambling text and videos http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/a/u/1/nHoaZaLbqB4 he had created. A wave of amateur diagnoses soon followed, most of which concluded that Loughner was not so much a political extremist http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6198004/jared_lee_loughners_st\ range_youtube.html?cat=9 as a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/tploomis/jared-lee-loughner-gabrie\ lle-giffords-shooter_n_806243_73192186.html . For many, the investigation will stop there. No need to explore personal motives, out-of-control grievances or distorted political anger. The mere mention of mental illness is explanation enough. This presumed link between psychiatric disorders and violence has become so entrenched in the public consciousness that the entire weight of the medical evidence is unable to shift it. Severe mental illness, on its own, is not an explanation for violence, but don't expect to hear that from the media in the coming weeks. Seena Fazel is an Oxford University psychiatrist who has led the most extensive scientific studies to date of the links between violence and two of the most serious psychiatric diagnosesschizophrenia and bipolar disorder, either of which can lead to delusions, hallucinations, or some other loss of contact with reality. Rather than looking at individual cases, or even single studies, Fazel's team analyzed all the scientific findings they could find. As a result, they can say with confidence that psychiatric diagnoses tell us next to nothing about someone's propensity or motive for violence. A 2009 analysis http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.10001\ 20 of nearly 20,000 individuals concluded that increased risk of violence was associated with drug and alcohol problems, regardless of whether the person had schizophrenia. Two similar http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.97 analyses http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.171 on bipolar patients showed, along similar lines, that the risk of violent crime is fractionally increased by the illness, while it goes up substantially among those who are dependent on intoxicating substances. In other words, it's likely that some of the people in your local bar are at greater risk of committing murder than your average person with mental illness. Advertisement Of course, like the rest of the population, some people with mental illness do become violent, and some may be riskier when they're experiencing delusions and hallucinations. But these infrequent cases do not make schizophrenia or bipolar a helpful general-purpose explanation for criminal behavior. If that doesn't make sense to you, here's an analogy: Soccer hooligans are much more likely to be violent when they attend a match, but if you tell me that your friend has gone to a soccer match, I'll know nothing about how violent a person he is. Similarly, if you tell me your friend punched someone, the fact that he goes to soccer matches tells me nothing about what caused the confrontation. This puts recent speculation about the Arizona suspect in a distinctly different light: If you found evidence on the Web that Jared Lee Loughner or some other suspected killer was obsessed with soccer or football or hockey and suggested it might be an explanation for his crime, you'd be laughed at. But do the same with schizophrenia and people nod in solemn agreement. This is despite the fact that your chance of being murdered by a stranger with schizophrenia is so vanishingly small that a recent study http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbp112 of four Western countries put the figure at one in 14.3 million. To put it in perspective, statistics http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm show you are about three times more likely to be killed by a lightning strike. The fact that mental illness is so often used to explain violent acts despite the evidence to the contrary almost certainly flows from how such cases are handled in the media. Numerous studies http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16424966 show that crimes by people with psychiatric problems are over-reported, usually with gross inaccuracies that give a false impression of risk. With this constant misrepresentation, it's not surprising that the public sees mental illness
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Shooter described as Left-Wing Pothead.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: BillyG, you are so utterly useless. There's better evidence that Loughner is a right-wing crackpot than that he's a left-wing crackpot. Since you admit he's a crackpot, what difference does it make? NONE! I don't admit that he's a crackpot, I *assert* that he's a crackpot (and have done so almost from the beginning). And I assert that you're worse than useless, you're thoroughly dishonest, for quoting the first paragraph of my post but not the next two: But for a person who is clinically mentally ill, which very much appears to be the case with Loughner, partisan politics is basically irrelevant. In any case, his classmate knew him back in 2007. People change--especially crazy people. What we know of him since then, from his YouTube text-videos and his MySpace and Facebook pages, is that his thinking was too incoherent to represent any particular political position. In other words: *I* was the one pointing out that it made no difference--as I have almost from the beginning-- in response to *your* chortling over having found a classmate of Loughner's from three years ago who thought he was a lefty. Now that you find there's evidence he was a righty, all of a sudden it's you who's demanding to know what difference it makes. God doesn't like hypocrites or liars, BillyG. And you're both. Don't get your panties in a bunch, go meditate! :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crazy Talk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoi...@... wrote: An article by Vaughan Bell, reposted from Slate because it's about bloody time somebody said this. Oh...he did it because he's crazy is IMO just a way of saying I'm too lazy to think past the first convenient box I found with which to pigeonhole him. Emphasis (bolding) is mine. We're too quick to use mental illness as an explanation for violence.Shortly after Jared Lee Loughner had been identified as the alleged shooter http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-08/jared-lee-lou\ ghner-details-on-gabrielle-giffords-alleged-shooter/ of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, online sleuths turned up pages of rambling text and videos http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/a/u/1/nHoaZaLbqB4 he had created. A wave of amateur diagnoses soon followed, most of which concluded that Loughner was not so much a political extremist http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6198004/jared_lee_loughners_st\ range_youtube.html?cat=9 as a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/tploomis/jared-lee-loughner-gabrie\ lle-giffords-shooter_n_806243_73192186.html . For many, the investigation will stop there. No need to explore personal motives, out-of-control grievances or distorted political anger. The mere mention of mental illness is explanation enough. This presumed link between psychiatric disorders and violence has become so entrenched in the public consciousness that the entire weight of the medical evidence is unable to shift it. Severe mental illness, on its own, is not an explanation for violence, but don't expect to hear that from the media in the coming weeks. Seena Fazel is an Oxford University psychiatrist who has led the most extensive scientific studies to date of the links between violence and two of the most serious psychiatric diagnosesschizophrenia and bipolar disorder, either of which can lead to delusions, hallucinations, or some other loss of contact with reality. Rather than looking at individual cases, or even single studies, Fazel's team analyzed all the scientific findings they could find. As a result, they can say with confidence that psychiatric diagnoses tell us next to nothing about someone's propensity or motive for violence. A 2009 analysis http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.10001\ 20 of nearly 20,000 individuals concluded that increased risk of violence was associated with drug and alcohol problems, regardless of whether the person had schizophrenia. Two similar http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.97 analyses http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.171 on bipolar patients showed, along similar lines, that the risk of violent crime is fractionally increased by the illness, while it goes up substantially among those who are dependent on intoxicating substances. In other words, it's likely that some of the people in your local bar are at greater risk of committing murder than your average person with mental illness. Advertisement Of course, like the rest of the population, some people with mental illness do become violent, and some may be riskier when they're experiencing delusions and hallucinations. But these infrequent cases do not make schizophrenia or bipolar a helpful general-purpose explanation for criminal behavior. If that doesn't make sense to you, here's an analogy: Soccer hooligans are much more likely to be violent when they attend a match, but if you tell me that your friend has gone to a soccer match, I'll know nothing about how violent a person he is. Similarly, if you tell me your friend punched someone, the fact that he goes to soccer matches tells me nothing about what caused the confrontation. This puts recent speculation about the Arizona suspect in a distinctly different light: If you found evidence on the Web that Jared Lee Loughner or some other suspected killer was obsessed with soccer or football or hockey and suggested it might be an explanation for his crime, you'd be laughed at. But do the same with schizophrenia and people nod in solemn agreement. This is despite the fact that your chance of being murdered by a stranger with schizophrenia is so vanishingly small that a recent study http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbp112 of four Western countries put the figure at one in 14.3 million. To put it in perspective, statistics http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm show you are about three times more likely to be killed by a lightning strike. The fact that mental illness is so often used to explain violent acts despite the evidence to the contrary almost certainly flows from how such cases are handled in the media. Numerous studies http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16424966 show that crimes by people with psychiatric problems are over-reported, usually
[FairfieldLife] Re: This one is for Turqster
Turq's problem is he believes that since a trail guide map (for instance,i.e.Religion) is man made, it is unreliable, which is really a no-brainer as the only way to prove if the map is accurate is to walk the path yourself. You don't dismiss all the experiences of the past (past trail guide maps) because they themselves are subject to errors! Only a moron would believe everything and everybody at face value but perhaps that is what Turq did when he became a Siddha (or a TM'er)? It's called throwing out the baby with the bath water! Turq, there can be no *proof* of God other than your OWN experience! If you wish to reinvent the wheel and forgo all the experiences and teachings of the past that is your choice, though I would submit not a very good one! Everything is taken on Faith until it becomes your own direct experience, even simple directions to the post office! Roll up your sleeves you have to walk the path yourself, there is no such thing as an infallible Religion until you yourself KNOW it to be so! Correct me if I'm wrong --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raviyogi2009 no_re...@... wrote: God is not an argument, it is a fulfillment, a feeling of fulfillment. You may have observed that whenever you are discontent, you want to deny God. Whenever you are dissatisfied, your whole being wants to say: There is no God. Atheism is not out of logic, it is out of discontent. You may rationalize it -- that's another thing. You may not say you are an atheist because you are discontent. You may say: There is no God and I have got proofs. But that is not the true thing. If you are satisfied, suddenly your whole being says: THERE is god. Suddenly you feel it! The whole existence becomes divine. If love is there you will be really for the first time in the feeling that existence is divine and everything is a blessing. But much has to be done before this can happen. Much has to be destroyed before this can happen. You have to destroy all that creates barriers in you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wgm4u@ wrote: Did I say I meant 'real' religion? (Not that you believe there is such a thing). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In response to his persistent message that the world would be better off if we all were just more religious. Proud of the company you keep, Billy? Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Funerals Of Arizona Shooting Victims http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/westboro-baptist-church-arizon\ \ a_n_806319.html Westboro Baptist Church, the Topeka church known for its inflammatory anti-gay protests, plans to picket the funerals of the six people gunned down in Arizona http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/gabrielle-giffords-shot-c_n_80\ \ 6211.html on Saturday. In a flier posted on its web site, the controversial church writes, THANK GOD FOR THE SHOOTER -- 6 DEAD! The message continues: God appointed this rod for your sins! God sent the shooter! This hateful nation unleashed violent veterans on the servants of God at WBC--hoping to silence our kind warning to obey God and flee the wrath to come. The flier claims that the shooting of both a House member and a federal judge -- the latter of whom was killed http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/judge-john-roll-dead-killed_n_\ \ 806239.html -- is god's punishment for judicial and Congressional action against the WBC. God sent the shooter to shoot you! And He's sitting in Heaven laughing at you! the announcement reads. In graphic language, it continues: Your federal judge is dead and your (fag-promoting, baby-killing, proud-sinner) Congresswoman fights for her life. God is avenging Himself on this rebellious house! WBC prays for your destruction--more shooters, more dead carcasses piling up, young, old, leader and commoner--all. Your doom is upon you! In December, Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/elizabeth-edwards-funeral-west\ \ boro-baptist-church_n_794333.html of Elizabeth Edwards. The group is known to display signs that say God Hates Fags and Thank God For Dead Soldiers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Turq_Please don't submit the size of your penis! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviy...@... wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known to be caused by involvement in religious cults [3]. The scars and trauma of being manipulated, rejected and isolated in cults is known to be affect some to develop full blown symptoms of Small Penis Disorder [4]. Dr. Ravi Yogi has identified by the following maladaptive schemas using Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema theory [5] with SPC - DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME (DS), SOCIAL ISOLATION / ALIENATION (SI), FAILURE (FA) and/or ABANDONMENT / INSTABILITY (AB). Diagnosis The person's behavior, history, involvement in spiritual circles especially their behavior of haranguing believers along with a psychological evaluation, are usually sufficient to establish the diagnosis. Treatment is often prompted by depression associated with dissolved cult relationships and/or by family and friends who notice their overbearing harassing behavior on spiritual online portals. Treatment Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. Dr. Ravi Yogi, the pioneer in SPC recommends the following. * Schema Therapy * Cognitive behavioral therapy * Dr. Ravi Yogi's TTWFAR Therapy (TTWFAR - Taking the world for a rideâ¢) References 1. Dr. Ravi Yogi (formerly Ravi Chivukula), Psy.D, U.C Berkeley is one of the leading researchers of SPC and is lobbying to include SPC in DSM V - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) the fifth edition. 2. See Histrionic Personality Disorder 3. Frederick Lenz, former Cult leader on Amazon 4. Seekers, Gurus, SPC and the rise of Skeptic Gurus by Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy.D, U.C Berkeley 5. Schema Therapy
[FairfieldLife] Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.* Burma Shave
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.* Burma Shave Personally, I think the guy is being too *nice*. Rather, it now would be time to say, *Get some fucking discipline and sit up. In a busy world it will take you some will-power and concentration. Git going. Shake off that *faint-heartedness*, come to meditation.* -Buck
[FairfieldLife] Obsessive love affair with guns
In a middle-aged person's lifetime we Democrats have managed to see, just to point out a few things, two Kennedy Brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated, the murders of several physicians who performed abortions, and now this. A little fact that makes it rather understandable some of us have a problem, not with the Second Amendment as written, but rather the unhealthy obsessive love affair too many people have with it. It's a legal document, not your mother/binky/savior/God/manhood. Michael Moore http://www.americablog.com/2011/01/michael-moore-on-sarah-palin-and.htm\ l made a trenchant point about this seeming fetish with bullet fashion that applies to its most notable current adherent Sarah Palin http://my.firedoglake.com/jimwhite/2011/01/08/rep-gabrielle-giffords-in\ -march-interview-with-msnbc-re-palins-targeting/ : [aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125105] http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/forgive-me-my-delicate-sensibilities/\ moore/ I think it would be safe to say we'd also immediately see irrational blog posts and tweets from many on the right with overblown responses favoring crushing every available Constitutional right and privilege except the Second Amendment, of course. So I guess it would be another day ending in Y. http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/forgive-me-my-delicate-sensibilities/ http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/forgive-me-my-delicate-sensibilities/\ In the comments: The disease of the neo-cons and their enablers sickens the nation. I was in the 6th grade when Kennedy was assassinated. I've witnessed too much of this senseless violence for the sake of political expediency. I've seen many posts online lately complaining about how the government gets the new, better weapons while the citizens have antiquated ones not capable of overthrowing the government. Is this what we want? Is this what America has become? Are we now a nation of vigilantes living out fantasies of how life might have been 150 years ago when the Civil War ended and (mostly) Confederate soldiers headed out west with their weapons, becoming the gunslingers of the late 19th century? Have we become a nation of Lee Harvey Oswalds? I'm disgusted with our media, our politicians and our unequal, extremely partial judicial system where money and race equal justice. I'm ashamed I live in a nation that coddles even glorifies torturers. And I'm tired of listening to incessant talking heads offering lies as truth, hatred as freedom and war as peace. The billionaires paying for this are beyond contempt. The Koch brothers. The Bush family. The Murdochs. The Rockefellers. The European and American bankers whose policies of personal enrichment corrupt our banking institutions. And all of the rest of the moneyed caste who've wrecked this nation and manipulate its citizens daily to act out against their own government and against their own interests. These obscenely wealthy rats paid handsomely for this malevolence more money than it would take to build a society that would be the envy of the world in all respects. And all they've brought us is war, destitution, abuse of power, fraud and corruption. Those people need to be brought to account for what they've done. But our courts are led by the same sorts of men lacking in character as those others who are misleading the nation. Roberts? Alito? Thomas? Kennedy? Scalia? They have no honor and no integrity. The same can be said for our well-paid pundit class of habitual liars and professional propagandists. Each and every one of them is every bit as responsible for what happened in Tucson as the assassin himself. Each and every one of them had their hands on the stock and their finger squeezing the trigger as good, honest, hardworking people fell silent on the ground.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:41 PM, seventhray1 wrote:
The thing about effortlessness, to me is like the same about gold.
Is pure gold, pure? No, it is only 99.999% pure. Is TM completely
effortless ? No, but why quibble about the amount of effort to
introduce or come back to the mantra. Maybe it's only 90%
effortless. I'll give it a pass on that basis. Is this really an
area of contention?
The primary reason is that in Indian (and Buddhist or Jain)
meditation systems, Patanjali for example, explains that effort is
necessary in a dualistic system. ANY system of meditation that relies
on objects or props (alambanas) will, ipso facto, require some
effort. The more balanced and innocent the effort, the better the
technique. Effortless meditation, in eastern metaphysics, refers to
either the higher end of prop-based meditation practice where the
intent to enter absorption is all that is necessary (for hours of
effortless deep meditation) OR, more importantly, it refers to
nondual meditation.
It's the naive confusion of the style of non-meditation in nondual
mediation practice, like used in Advaita Vedanta or Dzogchen that
should be a warning sign to any careful listener. It's a sure way to
tell if the person is a programmed parrot or not.
In the west such nuances are easily glossed over. But in the east, in
front of a knowledgeable pundit, you wouldn't fare as well.
It it has alambanas, it has effort. Period.
Otherwise you'd have to deny that TM relies on the support of mantras
and the memory to return to the mantra when transcending stops and
engagement with thinking starts again.
Alambana
n. depending on or resting upon ; hanging from Pa1n2. ; supporting ,
sustaining Megh. ; foundation , base Prab. Kat2hUp. ; reason ,
cause ; (in rhetoric) the natural and necessary connection of a
sensation with the cause which excites it Sa1h. ; the mental exercise
practised by the Yogin in endeavouring to realize the gross form of
the Eternal VP. ; silent repetition of a prayer [W.] ; (with
Buddhists) the five attributes of things (apprehended by or connected
with the five senses , viz. form , sound , smell , taste , and
touch ; also %{dharma} or law belonging to %{manas}).
[FairfieldLife] Re: This one is for Turqster
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wg...@... wrote: Turq's problem is he believes that since a trail guide map (for instance,i.e.Religion) is man made, it is unreliable, which is really a no-brainer as the only way to prove if the map is accurate is to walk the path yourself. You don't dismiss all the experiences of the past (past trail guide maps) because they themselves are subject to errors! Only a moron would believe everything and everybody at face value but perhaps that is what Turq did when he became a Siddha (or a TM'er)? Billy, since you admit above that all paths (trail guides) are prone to errors, doesn't it follow that only a moron would consider any of them infallible and worth following as if they were gospel or Truth? It's called throwing out the baby with the bath water! Turq, there can be no *proof* of God other than your OWN experience! Billy, this is why we can never agree. Subjective experience is NOT proof. It's only subjective experience. That may be enough to convince *you* of God's existence, but that's the only person on the planet you can ever convince using your subjec- tive experience as an argument. I'm NOT denying the value of making one's own judgments based on one's own subjective experiences. I do that, too. I just don't call it proof, because it isn't and never will be. For example, I've seen siddhis performed that other people here only talk about, and have never experienced personally. That doesn't mean that they existed, or prove anything about their existence; it's only an assertion on my part that I experienced them. Unlike you, I am content to *leave it* at that assertion; I seek to prove nothing to anyone. That's what people who are selling something do; I am selling nothing. If you wish to reinvent the wheel and forgo all the experiences and teachings of the past that is your choice, though I would submit not a very good one! It's also something I have never said. You made it up and attributed it to me. I follow lots of advice from past teachings; I just don't hold any of them to be infallible or Truth. The ones I still follow worked out for me, that's all. If they stop working for me, I'll drop them in an instant and never think about them again. I owe none of these teach- ings or suggestions any allegiance just because they worked for me for a while, at one stage of my spiritual development. Everything is taken on Faith until it becomes your own direct experience, even simple directions to the post office! Everything in the spiritual realm is taken on faith even after you have validated it to your satisfaction via direct experience. Your experience with non- verifiable phenomena proves nothing, *except to you*. Someday you may understand this. Roll up your sleeves you have to walk the path yourself, there is no such thing as an infallible Religion until you yourself KNOW it to be so! Billy, you always get carried away and write too much when you should have stopped when you had a winner. In this case, you should have stopped with ...there is no such thing as an infallible religion. :-) Correct me if I'm wrong I did. Billy, I'm NOT challenging your personal experience or declaring it wrong. I'm just trying to remind you what it is -- a completely unverifiable subjective experience. That is all it is, and all it will remain. No experience you ever have of a phenomenon that can't be objectively verified will allow you to claim that you KNOW something. That's just hubris, narcissism, and self-importance IMO.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoi...@... wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Oh, I get it...it's Spiritual Platitude Day. That's where one passes along advice to those who neither need it nor consider you a viable dispenser of advice. Here's mine: If you have a feeling that you're going to post a bunch of platitudes, try to do it in one post rather than take six posts over 18 minutes to do it. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Congresswoman shot in Arizona
But it's these kind of statements and actions (putting the congressman in gun cross-hairs) that creates an atmosphere where the unhinged feel they have the OK to go ahead... The images long described as crosshairs or rifle sights were actually just surveyor's symbols... authfriend Not. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/5339914742 So, you're suggesting that Palin wanted someone to shoot Giffords with a gun, so Palin had a bullseyes put on her site? That's what it sounds like, that you're saying the shooter saw the symbols on Palin's web site and then bought a gun to shoot Giffords. Do you have any evidence that the shooter saw Palin's web site? The images long described as crosshairs or rifle sights were actually just surveyor's symbols... The Atlantic, January 9, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/2dcwj6b
Re: [FairfieldLife] Obsessive love affair with guns
On Jan 10, 2011, at 8:06 AM, raunchydog wrote: In a middle-aged person's lifetime we Democrats have managed to see, just to point out a few things, two Kennedy Brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated, the murders of several physicians who performed abortions, and now this. A little fact that makes it rather understandable some of us have a problem, not with the Second Amendment as written, but rather the unhealthy obsessive love affair too many people have with it. It's a legal document, not your mother/binky/savior/God/manhood. clip Very well said collection.
[FairfieldLife] The Vatican does Reality TV...kinda
Bet it won't ever achieve even a fraction of the ratings of its competition. After all, six million people watch Jersey Shore, thinking that to be reality. My bet is that this show will never draw even a 1/10th of that number of viewers. Bitches get better ratings than witches any day. :-) Exorcism Reality Show 'The Exorcist Files' Planned By Discovery Channel And Vatican http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/exorcism-reality-show-the_n_80\ 5046.html The Discovery Channel is teaming up with the Vatican to create an exorcism reality show, James Hibberd reports http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/05/discovery-exorcist-files/ : The Exorcist Files will recreate stories of real-life hauntings and demonic possession, based on cases investigated by the Catholic Church. The project includes access into the Vatican's case files, as well as interviews with the organization's top exorcists -- religious experts who are rarely seen on television. If the show's first season is successful, the network hopes its partnership with the Church will pave the way for producers GoGo Luckey to take the series to the next level -- joining Catholic investigators on live demon-purging ride-alongs. (Move over, Syfy's Ghost Hunters.) Hibberd has more info on the show here http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/05/discovery-exorcist-files/ . We're not sure this is exactly in their target range, but if they're looking for fresh cases of witchcraft to dig into, Romania should prove fertile ground http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110105/eu-romania-witchcraft\ / . Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time are planning to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government. Also among Romania's newest taxpayers are fortune tellers -- but they probably should have seen it coming. Superstitions are no laughing matter in Romania -- the land of the medieval ruler who inspired the Dracula tale -- and have been part of its culture for centuries. President Traian Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days, supposedly to ward off evil. Romanian witches from the east and west will head to the southern plains and the Danube River on Thursday to threaten the government with spells and spirits because of the tax law, which came into effect Jan. 1. Story continues below Advertisement A dozen witches will hurl the poisonous mandrake plant into the Danube to put a hex on government officials so evil will befall them, said a witch named Alisia. She identified herself with one name -- customary among Romania's witches.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Congresswoman shot in Arizona
Joe: Exactly...just more of Palin's make-it-up-as-she-goes-along version of truth... So, you're trying to what, blame Palin and the 'Tea Party' for killing all those people? But, at the same time, you're saying that we should 'tone down' the rhetoric? You're not making any sense.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
raunchydog: The disease of the neo-cons and their enablers sickens the nation... So, let's blame the 'neo-cons' and their enablers for the recent Arizona massacre. Forget toning down the rhetoric! Let's do something about those gun-owners and politicians. The billionaires paying for this are beyond contempt... Kill the Jewish Cabal!!! Kill all the neo-cons rats!!! Kill all the enablers too!!! The Bush family... Don't you just hate that Bush family! Gawd, now they're targeting 9-year old children in Arizona. The Bush's were probably behind the Kennedy killings, and the Martin Luther King murder. The Murdochs. The Rockefellers... Shit, the Murdochs and the Rockefellers probably started the fukin' Civil War!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
In a middle-aged person's lifetime we Democrats have managed to see, just to point out a few things, two Kennedy Brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated, the murders of several physicians who performed abortions, and now this. A little fact that makes it rather understandable some of us have a problem, not with the Second Amendment as written, but rather the unhealthy obsessive love affair too many people have with it. It's a legal document, not your mother/binky/savior/God/manhood. Vaj: Very well said collection. Don't you just hate those fukin' Republicans!!! The Republicans probably killed Abraham Lincoln.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
I agree with the point you are making Willy, but when you use that kind of language to make it, people are very unlikely to pay attention. I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that. Lawson (accused of being a rightwing fanatic on Talking Points Memo for quoting a [now internationally] respected sheriff basically saying can't we all just get along?) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: raunchydog: The disease of the neo-cons and their enablers sickens the nation... So, let's blame the 'neo-cons' and their enablers for the recent Arizona massacre. Forget toning down the rhetoric! Let's do something about those gun-owners and politicians. The billionaires paying for this are beyond contempt... Kill the Jewish Cabal!!! Kill all the neo-cons rats!!! Kill all the enablers too!!! The Bush family... Don't you just hate that Bush family! Gawd, now they're targeting 9-year old children in Arizona. The Bush's were probably behind the Kennedy killings, and the Martin Luther King murder. The Murdochs. The Rockefellers... Shit, the Murdochs and the Rockefellers probably started the fukin' Civil War!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:
On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:41 PM, seventhray1 wrote:
The thing about effortlessness, to me is like the same about gold.
Is pure gold, pure? No, it is only 99.999% pure. Is TM completely
effortless ? No, but why quibble about the amount of effort to
introduce or come back to the mantra. Maybe it's only 90%
effortless. I'll give it a pass on that basis. Is this really an
area of contention?
The primary reason is that in Indian (and Buddhist or Jain)
meditation systems, Patanjali for example, explains that effort is
necessary in a dualistic system. ANY system of meditation that relies
on objects or props (alambanas) will, ipso facto, require some
effort. The more balanced and innocent the effort, the better the
technique. Effortless meditation, in eastern metaphysics, refers to
either the higher end of prop-based meditation practice where the
intent to enter absorption is all that is necessary (for hours of
effortless deep meditation) OR, more importantly, it refers to
nondual meditation.
Or, it refers to TM, where either situation (and countless more) can arise.
[...]
Alambana
n. depending on or resting upon ; hanging from Pa1n2. ; supporting ,
sustaining Megh. ; foundation , base Prab. Kat2hUp. ; reason ,
cause ; (in rhetoric) the natural and necessary connection of a
sensation with the cause which excites it Sa1h. ; the mental exercise
practised by the Yogin in endeavouring to realize the gross form of
the Eternal VP. ; silent repetition of a prayer [W.] ; (with
Buddhists) the five attributes of things (apprehended by or connected
with the five senses , viz. form , sound , smell , taste , and
touch ; also %{dharma} or law belonging to %{manas}).
As a friend of mine puts it, you meditate for days/weeks/months/years and
suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. Then you meditate for
days/weeks/months/years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong.
The process of TM isn't something that can be described. You're hung up on
gross descriptions of various possible scenarios and assume they arise from
different pedagogy.
Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Gabrielle Giffords warns Sarah Palin there will be consequences
Congresswoman and shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords may have foreseen her own future last year when she warned Sarah Palin that there would be consequences. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tTDiZZYCAs
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:20 AM, sparaig wrote: As a friend of mine puts it, you meditate for days/weeks/months/ years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. Then you meditate for days/weeks/months/years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. The process of TM isn't something that can be described. You're hung up on gross descriptions of various possible scenarios and assume they arise from different pedagogy. It's really just Indian meditational metaphysics 101, which is lost when we become more interested in marketing catch-phrases than in empowering our students with knowledge and wisdom. Consequently there's a huge gap between such foundational understanding and mere pedagogy. A moot point anyway, TM is most likely a dying meditation form and it's successor, Sahaj Meditation, seems more geared for reestablishing authenticity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Now that's funny! (But only because I'm old enough to know why.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.* Burma Shave
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
OK. And how does that make you feel? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviy...@... wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known to be caused by involvement in religious cults [3]. The scars and trauma of being manipulated, rejected and isolated in cults is known to be affect some to develop full blown symptoms of Small Penis Disorder [4]. Dr. Ravi Yogi has identified by the following maladaptive schemas using Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema theory [5] with SPC - DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME (DS), SOCIAL ISOLATION / ALIENATION (SI), FAILURE (FA) and/or ABANDONMENT / INSTABILITY (AB). Diagnosis The person's behavior, history, involvement in spiritual circles especially their behavior of haranguing believers along with a psychological evaluation, are usually sufficient to establish the diagnosis. Treatment is often prompted by depression associated with dissolved cult relationships and/or by family and friends who notice their overbearing harassing behavior on spiritual online portals. Treatment Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. Dr. Ravi Yogi, the pioneer in SPC recommends the following. * Schema Therapy * Cognitive behavioral therapy * Dr. Ravi Yogi's TTWFAR Therapy (TTWFAR - Taking the world for a rideâ¢) References 1. Dr. Ravi Yogi (formerly Ravi Chivukula), Psy.D, U.C Berkeley is one of the leading researchers of SPC and is lobbying to include SPC in DSM V - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) the fifth edition. 2. See Histrionic Personality Disorder 3. Frederick Lenz, former Cult leader on Amazon 4. Seekers, Gurus, SPC and the rise of Skeptic Gurus by Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy.D, U.C Berkeley 5. Schema Therapy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: I agree with the point you are making Willy, but when you use that kind of language to make it, people are very unlikely to pay attention. I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that. Lawson (accused of being a rightwing fanatic on Talking Points Memo for quoting a [now internationally] respected sheriff basically saying can't we all just get along?) Sounds more like a left wing nut case. CAn't we all just get along? What a perposterous idea! Why if the founding fathers wanted us to get along they would have written Kumbaya into the Constitution. GEtting along means giving up our god given rights to individual liberty and freedom to pursue even our most deviant of desires, is counter to the sacredness of ones vibrant ego stretched across the land from sea to shining sea, and violates the sacred vow that I am right, damn it. Always. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: raunchydog: The disease of the neo-cons and their enablers sickens the nation... So, let's blame the 'neo-cons' and their enablers for the recent Arizona massacre. Forget toning down the rhetoric! Let's do something about those gun-owners and politicians. The billionaires paying for this are beyond contempt... Kill the Jewish Cabal!!! Kill all the neo-cons rats!!! Kill all the enablers too!!! The Bush family... Don't you just hate that Bush family! Gawd, now they're targeting 9-year old children in Arizona. The Bush's were probably behind the Kennedy killings, and the Martin Luther King murder. The Murdochs. The Rockefellers... Shit, the Murdochs and the Rockefellers probably started the fukin' Civil War!
Re: [FairfieldLife] My research article
On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:38 AM, Ravi Yogi wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? If it doesn't, I would wonder what does. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: I agree with the point you are making Willy, but when you use that kind of language to make it, people are very unlikely to pay attention. I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that. Lawson (accused of being a rightwing fanatic on Talking Points Memo for quoting a [now internationally] respected sheriff basically saying can't we all just get along?) Sounds more like a left wing nut case. CAn't we all just get along? What a perposterous idea! Why if the founding fathers wanted us to get along they would have written Kumbaya into the Constitution. GEtting along means giving up our god given rights to individual liberty and freedom to pursue even our most deviant of desires, is counter to the sacredness of ones vibrant ego stretched across the land from sea to shining sea, and violates the sacred vow that I am right, damn it. Always. And dab nabbit the founding fathers would not have made the national symbol the Golden Ego if they did not want us to let out egos soar high and across the vastness of the sky. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: raunchydog: The disease of the neo-cons and their enablers sickens the nation... So, let's blame the 'neo-cons' and their enablers for the recent Arizona massacre. Forget toning down the rhetoric! Let's do something about those gun-owners and politicians. The billionaires paying for this are beyond contempt... Kill the Jewish Cabal!!! Kill all the neo-cons rats!!! Kill all the enablers too!!! The Bush family... Don't you just hate that Bush family! Gawd, now they're targeting 9-year old children in Arizona. The Bush's were probably behind the Kennedy killings, and the Martin Luther King murder. The Murdochs. The Rockefellers... Shit, the Murdochs and the Rockefellers probably started the fukin' Civil War!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
My favorite: Within this vale Of toil and sin Your head grows bald But not your chin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: Now that's funny! (But only because I'm old enough to know why.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.* Burma Shave
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:20 AM, sparaig wrote: As a friend of mine puts it, you meditate for days/weeks/months/ years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. Then you meditate for days/weeks/months/years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. The process of TM isn't something that can be described. You're hung up on gross descriptions of various possible scenarios and assume they arise from different pedagogy. It's really just Indian meditational metaphysics 101, which is lost when we become more interested in marketing catch-phrases than in empowering our students with knowledge and wisdom. Consequently there's a huge gap between such foundational understanding and mere pedagogy. A moot point anyway, TM is most likely a dying meditation form and it's successor, Sahaj Meditation, seems more geared for reestablishing authenticity. If its moot, why are you here? Come to think of it, if it's not moot, why are you here? Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, James Peterson enjoyhumanbe...@... wrote: Effortless Thing Again.. Lest WE forget..   K?  Big Boy was confronted on THIS relentlessly  finally admitted: O.K., Half-Effort . Anything to shut up the obsessive-compulsives in the audience. HInt hint... Lawson
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
On Jan 10, 2011, at 9:43 AM, tartbrain wrote: OK. And how does that make you feel? I hope it makes him feel like he's about to get his ass suspended. At least that would be my inclination, if it were up to me. Which it's not. Sal
[FairfieldLife] The Tell
Right wingers are falling all over themselves saying, It's not my fault, the crazy guy is responsible for shooting people. Even if NOT directly accused, they're busily scrubbing websites, saying Loughner was a lefty, gun-sight cross-hairs were surveyor's cross-hairs, and Sheriff Dupnik who never says right-wing vitriol or conservative hate speech or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo gets accused of stirring more vitriol when he simply called for more civility. The right wing certainly acts like they own it. What say you? http://tinyurl.com/479c3l8 http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/early-morning-swim-fox-news-megyn-kelly-browbeats-arizona-sheriff-for-speaking-out-against-vitriolic-rhetoric/
[FairfieldLife] On pointing fingers...
http://www.facebook.com/notes/lawson-english/on-pointing-fingers/155227804529673 I should have been a pundit Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fighting Spiritual Malaise
Classic! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoi...@... wrote: Here's mine: If you have a feeling that you're going to post a bunch of platitudes, try to do it in one post rather than take six posts over 18 minutes to do it. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Touring: ...enlightenment is possible. Not only is it possible. It can definitely be attained in this lifetime. *If you've been on the spiritual path for many years and haven't experienced what you expected, don't be discouraged. You can, and will, experience enlightenment.* *If you were disappointed by teachers that you felt didn't have integrity, or if you got turned off by the politics of spiritual organizations, don't be dismayed.* *If you've been meditating for years, but wonder why you haven't experienced what the guru's described in the books that inspired you in your youth, don't blame yourself.* *If you lost hope and got diverted along the way, please don't settle for anything less than what you know in your heart is your true purpose in life.* *As all the saints and sages throughout the ages have said, Human life is precious. Don't waste it.*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:20 AM, sparaig wrote: As a friend of mine puts it, you meditate for days/weeks/months/ years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. Then you meditate for days/weeks/months/years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. The process of TM isn't something that can be described. You're hung up on gross descriptions of various possible scenarios and assume they arise from different pedagogy. It's really just Indian meditational metaphysics 101, which is lost when we become more interested in marketing catch-phrases than in empowering our students with knowledge and wisdom. Consequently there's a huge gap between such foundational understanding and mere pedagogy. A moot point anyway, TM is most likely a dying meditation form and it's successor, Sahaj Meditation, seems more geared for reestablishing authenticity. If its moot, why are you here? Come to think of it, if it's not moot, why are you here? Lawson I think it has something to do with A G N.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Yogi? as in what? yogi bear? Wow, what a forum --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviy...@... wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gabrielle Giffords warns Sarah Palin there will be consequences
do.rflex: Gabrielle Giffords warns Sarah Palin there will be consequences FFL informants now race to blame Palin after Arizona shootings! Yep, all the leftists out there quickly tried to blame the Tea Party for this assassination, and it turns out it was one of their own. I think it's obvious which side truly believes in free speech and open debate, and which side believes in silencing and punishing conflicting opinions. It's no surprise really, this is classic Marxist/Communist? behavior here, look at history people. Washington Examiner, January 0, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/3a9ny3e Congresswoman and shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords may have foreseen her own future last year when she warned Sarah Palin that there would be consequences. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tTDiZZYCAs
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
sparaig: I agree with the point you are making Willy, but when you use that kind of language to make it, people are very unlikely to pay attention. I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that. Yes, let's just leave it at that. If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun. - Barack Obama I think the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business and what (we) see on TV and how our youngsters are being raised, that this has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in. And I think it's time that we do the soul-searching, the sheriff said. Fox News, January 9, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/26vzt72
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:56 AM, sparaig wrote: If its moot, why are you here? Come to think of it, if it's not moot, why are you here? The Holy Tradition sent me. They'll be airbrushing me in any day now.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that... tartbrain: Sounds more like a left wing nut case... Look who else put 'bull's-eye' on Giffords: Moulitsas, however, had also posted what he called a target list identifying Giffords. In a 2008 Daily Kos post, Moulitsas listed Giffords as one of dozens of representatives with a bull's-eye on their district for being a bad apple Democrat... World Net Daily, January 9, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/2ayyct8
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
lol- I assume you are joking Sal, right? At least I hope you are. turquoiseb talks about big dicks (as in penises) regularly and you've never asked for the moderators to intervene on your behalf regarding his remarks. I recall the last time he did this was in reference to that fellow Mario who was pestering people for the advanced techniques and turquoiseb said something about a side effect being the guy would grow a gigantic dick. Crickets from you Sal at that time. I thought Ravi's article was pretty good satire. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:38 AM, Ravi Yogi wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? If it doesn't, I would wonder what does. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig lengli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, James Peterson enjoyhumanbeing@ wrote: Effortless Thing Again.. Lest WE forget...Big Boy was confronted on THIS relentlessly and finally admitted: O.K., Half-Effort. Anything to shut up the obsessive-compulsives in the audience. HInt hint... So you're saying that you would prefer to believe that Maharishi was lying in this case to shut someone up rather than telling the truth. Says a lot about you.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
On 01/10/2011 08:26 AM, tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrainno_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaigLEnglish5@ wrote: I agree with the point you are making Willy, but when you use that kind of language to make it, people are very unlikely to pay attention. I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that. Lawson (accused of being a rightwing fanatic on Talking Points Memo for quoting a [now internationally] respected sheriff basically saying can't we all just get along?) Sounds more like a left wing nut case. CAn't we all just get along? What a perposterous idea! Why if the founding fathers wanted us to get along they would have written Kumbaya into the Constitution. GEtting along means giving up our god given rights to individual liberty and freedom to pursue even our most deviant of desires, is counter to the sacredness of ones vibrant ego stretched across the land from sea to shining sea, and violates the sacred vow that I am right, damn it. Always. And dab nabbit the founding fathers would not have made the national symbol the Golden Ego if they did not want us to let out egos soar high and across the vastness of the sky. Or perhaps our educational system since the 1980s has been too obsessed with raising the self-esteem of students.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:55 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, James Peterson enjoyhumanbe...@... wrote: Effortless Thing Again.. Lest WE forget..   K?  Big Boy was confronted on THIS relentlessly  finally admitted: O.K., Half-Effort . Anything to shut up the obsessive-compulsives in the audience. HInt hint... Hey it's like Shiva says: Effort achieves the goal. - Shiva Sutra
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obsessive love affair with guns
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com wrote: Don't you just hate those fukin' Republicans!!! The Republicans probably killed Abraham Lincoln. Better reel it in, Willy. Dontcha see where this is going? New laws will be passed, perhaps ex post facto, making it a crime to give a crazy guy ideas which he uses to justify murder or to raise a public debate to anything above a whispered yes, Dear. The Beetles (Helter-Skelter) and Jodi Foster might be charged under these new laws. Perhaps Kellogg, the makers of Rice Crispies, the cereal which, when moistened, talks to some and God (made me do it) might also be charged under these new laws. It's just a matter of time before there's a knock on your and my doors, charged with violating one of the new Gifford acts.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Tell
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Right wingers are falling all over themselves saying, It's not my fault, the crazy guy is responsible for shooting people. Even if NOT directly accused, they're busily scrubbing websites, saying Loughner was a lefty, gun-sight cross-hairs were surveyor's cross-hairs, and Sheriff Dupnik who never says right-wing vitriol or conservative hate speech or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo gets accused of stirring more vitriol when he simply called for more civility. The right wing certainly acts like they own it. What say you? http://tinyurl.com/479c3l8 http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/early-morning-swim-fox-news-megyn-kelly-browbeats-arizona-sheriff-for-speaking-out-against-vitriolic-rhetoric/ See the Buddha in all beings?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
How many of you were taught that the point of meditation is to look good in
front of a knowledgeable pundit? Seems like a great disservice.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:
On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:41 PM, seventhray1 wrote:
The thing about effortlessness, to me is like the same about gold.
Is pure gold, pure? No, it is only 99.999% pure. Is TM completely
effortless ? No, but why quibble about the amount of effort to
introduce or come back to the mantra. Maybe it's only 90%
effortless. I'll give it a pass on that basis. Is this really an
area of contention?
The primary reason is that in Indian (and Buddhist or Jain)
meditation systems, Patanjali for example, explains that effort is
necessary in a dualistic system. ANY system of meditation that relies
on objects or props (alambanas) will, ipso facto, require some
effort. The more balanced and innocent the effort, the better the
technique. Effortless meditation, in eastern metaphysics, refers to
either the higher end of prop-based meditation practice where the
intent to enter absorption is all that is necessary (for hours of
effortless deep meditation) OR, more importantly, it refers to
nondual meditation.
It's the naive confusion of the style of non-meditation in nondual
mediation practice, like used in Advaita Vedanta or Dzogchen that
should be a warning sign to any careful listener. It's a sure way to
tell if the person is a programmed parrot or not.
In the west such nuances are easily glossed over. But in the east, in
front of a knowledgeable pundit, you wouldn't fare as well.
It it has alambanas, it has effort. Period.
Otherwise you'd have to deny that TM relies on the support of mantras
and the memory to return to the mantra when transcending stops and
engagement with thinking starts again.
Alambana
n. depending on or resting upon ; hanging from Pa1n2. ; supporting ,
sustaining Megh. ; foundation , base Prab. Kat2hUp. ; reason ,
cause ; (in rhetoric) the natural and necessary connection of a
sensation with the cause which excites it Sa1h. ; the mental exercise
practised by the Yogin in endeavouring to realize the gross form of
the Eternal VP. ; silent repetition of a prayer [W.] ; (with
Buddhists) the five attributes of things (apprehended by or connected
with the five senses , viz. form , sound , smell , taste , and
touch ; also %{dharma} or law belonging to %{manas}).
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Tell
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, tartbrain no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: See the Buddha in all beings? I have two nominations for post of the week. This one and Vaj's saying he was sent by the Holy Tradition. Good one, Vaj!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
No Vajall practices from all traditions require effort in the form of Work; analogous to the Law of physics: Work = ET = energy * time. So if the time factor is reduced, the energy must increase. Possibly, a program can be effortless if the time is reduced to zero; say you hear you're already Enlightened and it sticks...but unlikely. ... In the Traditions/programs you have an affinity for, there's the time factor and Work. Take your 10 day Vipassana retreats. Obviously, there's plenty of work involved in even getting to the retreat. ... Basically, you're confused, Vaj; and prejudicial to boot. Hang it up . http://www.fantasygallery.net/stone/art_0_Winged-Elf-Lord.html ... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:20 AM, sparaig wrote: As a friend of mine puts it, you meditate for days/weeks/months/ years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. Then you meditate for days/weeks/months/years and suddenly realize you've been doing it all wrong. The process of TM isn't something that can be described. You're hung up on gross descriptions of various possible scenarios and assume they arise from different pedagogy. It's really just Indian meditational metaphysics 101, which is lost when we become more interested in marketing catch-phrases than in empowering our students with knowledge and wisdom. Consequently there's a huge gap between such foundational understanding and mere pedagogy. A moot point anyway, TM is most likely a dying meditation form and it's successor, Sahaj Meditation, seems more geared for reestablishing authenticity. If its moot, why are you here? Come to think of it, if it's not moot, why are you here? Lawson I think it has something to do with A G N.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
On Jan 10, 2011, at 12:50 PM, docwhammo wrote: How many of you were taught that the point of meditation is to look good in front of a knowledgeable pundit? Seems like a great disservice. The foot-in-mouth asana comes effortlessly for fools. No need to try. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Tell
On 01/10/2011 09:13 AM, raunchydog wrote: Right wingers are falling all over themselves saying, It's not my fault, the crazy guy is responsible for shooting people. Even if NOT directly accused, they're busily scrubbing websites, saying Loughner was a lefty, gun-sight cross-hairs were surveyor's cross-hairs, and Sheriff Dupnik who never says right-wing vitriol or conservative hate speech — or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo gets accused of stirring more vitriol when he simply called for more civility. The right wing certainly acts like they own it. What say you? http://tinyurl.com/479c3l8 http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/early-morning-swim-fox-news-megyn-kelly-browbeats-arizona-sheriff-for-speaking-out-against-vitriolic-rhetoric/ All the rhetoric is just a solid indicator that the US is in decline and people are losing it. I also have predicted that the US may look like warn-torn Bosnia by 2014 and things seem to be on schedule for that. And as I said at the start of 2011 is going to be a very interesting year. When you have 1% of the populace relatively controlling how the other 99% live you have a situation for upheaval and rightly so. But the tea partiers see the wrong culprit (the government) rather than the oligarchs because they foolishly believe they will be rich some day and want to be able to lord their fractured political beliefs over the masses. Dream on tea partiers. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crazy Talk
I read this article when it first went up on Slate and thought it was one of the most pointless pieces I'd ever read. Read it again just now and had the same reaction. What Barry has taken from it demonstrates how pointless it is: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoi...@... wrote: An article by Vaughan Bell, reposted from Slate because it's about bloody time somebody said this. Oh...he did it because he's crazy is IMO just a way of saying I'm too lazy to think past the first convenient box I found with which to pigeonhole him. We know why Barry posted this: because I've been insisting that Loughner is almost certainly mentally ill, and Barry thinks the article is an authoritative slam on me. But beyond that, Barry has no idea what the author is trying to say, because the author himself doesn't make a coherent argument, any more than Barry does above. What is the presumably preferable alternative to pointing out that Loughner is most likely clinically mentally ill? What *should* we be saying about Loughner? What do we come up with, according to the author, if we aren't too lazy to think past the first convenient box for Loughner? Moreover, many people's *first* reaction (including mine) wasn't that Loughner was crazy, but that he was an extreme right-winger who attempted to assassinate Giffords for her political views, egged on by right- wing rhetoric that seemed to justify violence against those who dissent from Tea Party-type positions. *That* was the first convenient box--the lazy box--in which Loughner was put. So the author and Barry have it wrong from the get-go. The crazy box is the less-lazy one, the one we come up with when we think past the first one, when we know more about Loughner from his YouTube and MySpace rants. The author doesn't say whether he thinks Loughner is a paranoid schizophrenic. It appears that *he* wants to stick with the first box, to lay all the blame on the right wing, to assume that Loughner had a sane basis for attempting to kill Giffords (and everyone who had come to her event, including a nine-year-old girl). BTW, paranoid schizophrenia isn't just an amateur diagnosis. A number of mental health professionals who read Loughner's rantings have come to that conclusion at least tentatively, because the form and content of those rantings are *paradigmatic* of paranoid schizophrenia. Of course he'd need to be examined in person and at length by qualified professionals for the diagnosis to be considered definitive, but it does seem like a good possibility. One of the gross flaws in the author's argument, such as it is, is that the issue isn't the percentage of mentally ill people who commit violence, but the percentage of those who commit violence who are mentally ill. The first isn't much different from the percentage of the sane population who commit violence, but the latter is disproportionately high. Basically, the author of the Slate piece has debunked a claim nobody was making, one that's entirely irrelevant to the reaction to the Giffords case. Actually, *both* statistics are irrelevant. Nobody is claiming Loughner is mentally ill on the basis of either statistic, but rather on the basis of what we know about him as an individual. And then the issue is, if he *is* crazy, does it make any sense to do extensive analysis of personal motives, out-of-control grievances or distorted political anger? Or would this be appropriate only if Loughner were sane? Ultimately it all boils down to whether Loughner can be considered responsible for his actions. Obviously he needs to be put away so he can't harm anybody else, but should he be punished for his crime, or treated for his mental condition? That's a question about which reasonable people can disagree, and if Loughner is determined to be mentally ill, that will be a major focus of public discussion. Anyway, the above is the kind of analysis with which Barry can't be bothered; it's too much work, and Barry is one of the most mentally lazy people I've ever encountered. He isn't interested in issues; all he wants to do is find something he can use to attempt to bash those he doesn't like, whether it makes sense or not. We're too quick to use mental illness as an explanation for violence.Shortly after Jared Lee Loughner had been identified as the alleged shooter http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-08/jared-lee-lou\ ghner-details-on-gabrielle-giffords-alleged-shooter/ of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, online sleuths turned up pages of rambling text and videos http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/a/u/1/nHoaZaLbqB4 he had created. A wave of amateur diagnoses soon followed, most of which concluded that Loughner was not so much a political extremist http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6198004/jared_lee_loughners_st\ range_youtube.html?cat=9 as a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Congresswoman shot in Arizona
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Joe geezerfr...@yahoo.com wrote: A self-proclaimed enlightened' bigot. Just what the world needs Bigot: anyone who doesn't hold Joe's worldview. Joe can jump up and down, call people names, but that's righteous. This whole thing is just amazing if you step back for a few minutes and just watch. It's like a madness bomb got dropped on FFL.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
So how long will it take people to realize they are all fools? Thats the question, isnt it? Perhaps they should ask Horatio. Of course, they may be afraid of how they will fare... and so he waits until they are ready to face it. What an asshole! I say: just kick em in the ass until they get the point. This aint no motherfuckin games, homeboy! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: The foot-in-mouth asana comes effortlessly for fools. No need to try. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:38 AM, Ravi Yogi wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? If it doesn't, I would wonder what does. Trollish dumbassery that happens to contain the word 'penis' is not what I would define as pornography. As I understand it, what would make Yahoo classify FFL as an adult group (which is what we're trying to avoid and the reason why we have the porno rule) is the posting of pornographic imagery. Ravi's post did not contain any images or links to images. It also contained no written descriptions of sexual acts or other overt sexual vulgarity, which, as I recall, got some troll in a bit of hot water with Rick a while back. As always, Rick has the final say, but I don't see Ravi's post as being in violation of FFL rules.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:32 PM, docwhammo wrote: So how long will it take people to realize they are all fools? Thats the question, isnt it? Hey, as long as you ain't buyin' a mantra, it's cheap entertainment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Tell
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Right wingers are falling all over themselves saying, It's not my fault, the crazy guy is responsible for shooting people. Even if NOT directly accused, they're busily scrubbing websites, saying Loughner was a lefty, gun-sight cross-hairs were surveyor's cross-hairs, and Sheriff Dupnik who never says right-wing vitriol or conservative hate speech or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo gets accused of stirring more vitriol when he simply called for more civility. The right wing certainly acts like they own it. What say you? http://tinyurl.com/479c3l8 http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/early-morning-swim-fox-news-megyn-kelly-browbeats-arizona-sheriff-for-speaking-out-against-vitriolic-rhetoric/ Just a drive by post... Even progressives succumb to casual hate-speech. I know this might seem to be from far-away Brit land, but George Monbiot is a VERY important player in the climate debate globally. He (and the Guardian) are on the side of what many here would take a priori to be the goodies. So what do we say we about this kind of hate-speech? Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/dec/05/comment.politics Just recently the coldest December in the UK for around 100 years caused widespread travel chaos, especially for those trying to fly. Imagine, in the light of Monbiot's comment, if some deranged loonie had had a pop at an airline boss! Say Richard Branson... In my view intemperance is all bad - but it's not always owned by the Right is it? Or in the US of A is it really divided up cleanly and simply between goodiea and baddies on right/left (progressive) lines?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
On Jan 10, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: Trollish dumbassery LOL! Another great expression... Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. TurquoiseB: On my walk this morning I passed a church, through the windows of which I heard the voices of children in a catechism class. I didn't understand the Dutch, but I certainly understood the scene. The pastor or whatever he is called in that church would spout a phrase and then the children were expected to repeat it. Rinse and repeat, first with all the children repeating the phrase in unison, and then singly, as the pastor went around the room listening to each of them say it. The kids who got it right (in his view) were praised; the ones who didn't were chastised and shamed in front of the other kids. This reminded me of what I see as the basis of the recent Pile On Vaj fest. Some people, many of whom never became TM teachers themselves, declared him not a real TM practitioner because some of his descriptions of the practice deviated from the TM catechism. In my view, children who had settled for learning something by rote were trying to play the role of the pastor and chastise someone who committed the dastardly sin of describing things in his own words. The TM movement is all about catechism. Pretty much the only things you could possibly get brownie points for in the TMO were 1) giving them large amounts of money, and 2) repeating what you'd been taught ver- batim. TM teachers were taught that deviating from the verbatim catechism was a violation of the purity of the teaching. Pretty much the only strokes or attaboys that lower-class TM citizens (non-teachers, non-Governors) could get were for repeating back to higher-class TM citizens (teachers, Governors) what they'd been taught, verbatim. Catechism 'R Us. Parrots 'R Us. Back in my TM days I was a parrot, too, and was considered one of the best at the art of verbatim squawking. :-) But long ago I stopped trying to please the parrots who taught me to parrot the things they were taught to parrot by other parrots and started phrasing things the way I felt like phrasing them. I see nothing wrong with this. Thus while those still in the TM fold may speak of the practice as effortless, I cannot. I know that some minimal amount of effort is involved, and is involved in ALL forms of meditation that require the practitioner to return their focus to an object of meditation (a mantra, yantra, whatever). I've also been exposed to forms of meditation that are truly effortless, in that they have no object of focus at all. So, knowing this, it would be a lie for me to describe TM as effortless; my personal experience tells me it is not. Some would probably berate me for this. You will have to forgive me if I ignore them, and use my own words. I hope Vaj continues to do so, too. I may not always agree with his choice of phrasing and the way that he describes things, but I respect the fact that he chooses his own words, often with precision and clarity. I have no such respect for the parrots.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Dear tartbrain, Thank you, I was feeling very depressed, lonely and downright needy. I knew I could count on your love, kindness and support. You have literally saved a life by responding !! May God bless you !!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: OK. And how does that make you feel? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known to be caused by involvement in religious cults [3]. The scars and trauma of being manipulated, rejected and isolated in cults is known to be affect some to develop full blown symptoms of Small Penis Disorder [4]. Dr. Ravi Yogi has identified by the following maladaptive schemas using Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema theory [5] with SPC - DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME (DS), SOCIAL ISOLATION / ALIENATION (SI), FAILURE (FA) and/or ABANDONMENT / INSTABILITY (AB). Diagnosis The person's behavior, history, involvement in spiritual circles especially their behavior of haranguing believers along with a psychological evaluation, are usually sufficient to establish the diagnosis. Treatment is often prompted by depression associated with dissolved cult relationships and/or by family and friends who notice their overbearing harassing behavior on spiritual online portals. Treatment Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. Dr. Ravi Yogi, the pioneer in SPC recommends the following. * Schema Therapy * Cognitive behavioral therapy * Dr. Ravi Yogi's TTWFAR Therapy (TTWFAR - Taking the world for a rideâ¢) References 1. Dr. Ravi Yogi (formerly Ravi Chivukula), Psy.D, U.C Berkeley is one of the leading researchers of SPC and is lobbying to include SPC in DSM V - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) the fifth edition. 2. See Histrionic Personality Disorder 3. Frederick Lenz, former Cult leader on Amazon 4. Seekers, Gurus, SPC and the rise of Skeptic Gurus by Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy.D, U.C Berkeley 5. Schema Therapy
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Tell
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Right wingers are falling all over themselves saying, It's not my fault, the crazy guy is responsible for shooting people. Even if NOT directly accused, they're busily scrubbing websites, saying Loughner was a lefty, gun-sight cross-hairs were surveyor's cross-hairs, and Sheriff Dupnik who never says right-wing vitriol or conservative hate speech or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo gets accused of stirring more vitriol when he simply called for more civility. The right wing certainly acts like they own it. What say you? http://tinyurl.com/479c3l8 http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/early-morning-swim-fox-news-megyn-kelly-browbeats-arizona-sheriff-for-speaking-out-against-vitriolic-rhetoric/ Just a drive by post... Even progressives succumb to casual hate-speech. I know this might seem to be from far-away Brit land, but George Monbiot is a VERY important player in the climate debate globally. He (and the Guardian) are on the side of what many here would take a priori to be the goodies. So what do we say we about this kind of hate-speech? Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/dec/05/comment.politics Just recently the coldest December in the UK for around 100 years caused widespread travel chaos, especially for those trying to fly. Imagine, in the light of Monbiot's comment, if some deranged loonie had had a pop at an airline boss! Say Richard Branson... In my view intemperance is all bad - but it's not always owned by the Right is it? Or in the US of A is it really divided up cleanly and simply between goodiea and baddies on right/left (progressive) lines?
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Small Penis Disorder Sal: Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
Actually, Buck, I was saying that the Buck stops here, in Us: not out there in Turq, or Vaj, or whoever else appears to be bringing up dissonance or pain in our awareness. In this respect, Turq, Vaj, et al. are in this moment our greatest teachers, inadvertent or not, as they are pointing out areas of pain in Us which need our unconditional Love and awareness to heal. *Love*Light*Laughter* always! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Tell
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: snip In my view intemperance is all bad - but it's not always owned by the Right is it? Or in the US of A is it really divided up cleanly and simply between goodiea and baddies on right/left (progressive) lines? Intemperance--in the form of eliminationist rhetoric-- isn't owned *exclusively* by the right, but the right owns *much more of it* than the left. It's pervasive on the right but merely occasional on the left (in this country, at least; can't speak for the U.K.). Those who are doing their damndest to set up some kind of moral equivalence tend to cherry-pick intemperate remarks from lefty blog and news-site commenters. But you'll rarely find it coming from pundits and broadcasters and politicians on the left, whereas you hear it *constantly* from pundits and broadcasters and politicians on the right (not to mention from right- wing commenters on blogs and news sites). (Interestingly, awhile back a poster here--I won't mention the name--made a suggestion startlingly similar to that of Monbiot: that those who oppose action to prevent global warming should be tied up and left on the beach to be drowned by rising ocean levels. And this poster considers himself to be a lefty.) That's 50 for me; see you all next week.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
Actually, Buck, I am saying the Buck stops here, that is, in Us, not in Turq or in anyone out there. If Turq (or Vaj, or anyone else) is bringing up pain or dissonance in Us, then to me it makes the most sense to see Turq (or Vaj, etc.) as our best teacher in this moment, inadvertent or not, for his pointing out something in Us which needs our unconditional Love and attention. *Love*Light*Laughter* always! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
right, they need to be nurtured. http://www.fantasygallery.net/kolb/art_7_Jungfrau.html ...with a whole spectrum of love, sometimes toughlove. Best way to deal with drug cartel kingpins: shoot them dead, giving them lots of love at the same time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff roryg...@... wrote: Actually, Buck, I am saying the Buck stops here, that is, in Us, not in Turq or in anyone out there. If Turq (or Vaj, or anyone else) is bringing up pain or dissonance in Us, then to me it makes the most sense to see Turq (or Vaj, etc.) as our best teacher in this moment, inadvertent or not, for his pointing out something in Us which needs our unconditional Love and attention. *Love*Light*Laughter* always! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
They don't need anything, as far as I can see. It is We who need the attention and love, if We are in pain. And again, I am advocating no particular action or inaction in the world; actions arise perfectly to meet the needs of the moment. What I am speaking of is a kind of meta-action, giving loving attention to our own pain to bring an end to karmic repetition and suffering, by transmuting all of our demons back into devotees. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: right, they need to be nurtured. http://www.fantasygallery.net/kolb/art_7_Jungfrau.html ...with a whole spectrum of love, sometimes toughlove. Best way to deal with drug cartel kingpins: shoot them dead, giving them lots of love at the same time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: Actually, Buck, I am saying the Buck stops here, that is, in Us, not in Turq or in anyone out there. If Turq (or Vaj, or anyone else) is bringing up pain or dissonance in Us, then to me it makes the most sense to see Turq (or Vaj, etc.) as our best teacher in this moment, inadvertent or not, for his pointing out something in Us which needs our unconditional Love and attention. *Love*Light*Laughter* always! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviy...@... wrote: Dear tartbrain, Thank you, I was feeling very depressed, lonely and downright needy. I knew I could count on your love, kindness and support. You have literally saved a life by responding !! May God bless you !!! I thought your piece was clever, well researched, and well done. While I chuckled, I also thought whats the point? why not use such cleverness for dissolving boundaries, not creating them. It was more a message to myself than to you. I am not immune to attempting creative dings, but I ask my self, whats the point. Besides, Turq is a national treasure. Though its tough sometimes to figure out which nation he is a treasure of -- being that he adheres to the vedic, christian and buddhist ideal that the world is my home. And dick size is so arbitrary. Anyone can perform the great tapas of some indian sadhus who tie heavy weights to such and let it seek infinite size. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: OK. And how does that make you feel? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known to be caused by involvement in religious cults [3]. The scars and trauma of being manipulated, rejected and isolated in cults is known to be affect some to develop full blown symptoms of Small Penis Disorder [4]. Dr. Ravi Yogi has identified by the following maladaptive schemas using Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema theory [5] with SPC - DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME (DS), SOCIAL ISOLATION / ALIENATION (SI), FAILURE (FA) and/or ABANDONMENT / INSTABILITY (AB). Diagnosis The person's behavior, history, involvement in spiritual circles especially their behavior of haranguing believers along with a psychological evaluation, are usually sufficient to establish the diagnosis. Treatment is often prompted by depression associated with dissolved cult relationships and/or by family and friends who notice their overbearing harassing behavior on spiritual online portals. Treatment Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. Dr. Ravi Yogi, the pioneer in SPC recommends the following. * Schema Therapy * Cognitive behavioral therapy * Dr. Ravi Yogi's TTWFAR Therapy (TTWFAR - Taking the world for a
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
good point; but since the Meta-Universe is holographic, whether in the conventional other people or in us; demonic possessions make no difference. If one exorcizes the demons, wherever they may be, it's all in the giant Hologram. ...If this were not true, doctors would be hampered in their attempts to excise the cancers in others. ...them, us,...it's all in the Cosmic Mandala. http://www.fantasygallery.net/lockwood/art_3_demonclr.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff roryg...@... wrote: They don't need anything, as far as I can see. It is We who need the attention and love, if We are in pain. And again, I am advocating no particular action or inaction in the world; actions arise perfectly to meet the needs of the moment. What I am speaking of is a kind of meta-action, giving loving attention to our own pain to bring an end to karmic repetition and suffering, by transmuting all of our demons back into devotees. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: right, they need to be nurtured. http://www.fantasygallery.net/kolb/art_7_Jungfrau.html ...with a whole spectrum of love, sometimes toughlove. Best way to deal with drug cartel kingpins: shoot them dead, giving them lots of love at the same time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: Actually, Buck, I am saying the Buck stops here, that is, in Us, not in Turq or in anyone out there. If Turq (or Vaj, or anyone else) is bringing up pain or dissonance in Us, then to me it makes the most sense to see Turq (or Vaj, etc.) as our best teacher in this moment, inadvertent or not, for his pointing out something in Us which needs our unconditional Love and attention. *Love*Light*Laughter* always! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] David Wants to Fly on MUM Campus
The film was going to be shown. Official posters were up in the Student Union. But it got cancelled, ostensibly because there was some disagreement with the producers over how funds from such a showing were to be dispersed.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Dear docwhammo, Thank you for your resonse. There seems to be lot of confusion in this list on my last name. I have clarified this several times in the past. Since you are new I don't mind repeating it again. My last name is spelled Y-O-G-I, but pronounced yoo-gee-oh. Aah..I love and hate the English language..LOL..hope this clarifies everything. Love - Ravi Yugeeoh --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, docwhammo docwha...@... wrote: Yogi? as in what? yogi bear? Wow, what a forum --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Congresswoman shot in Arizona
I often don't understand why companies want to locate in SF because of the much higher rent. It must be for the prestige. Office space is much cheaper around other parts of the Bay Area. I had an unsolicited offer to apply for a gig at a smart phone company that was adding Android to their line up. It was in a very nice part of town and yes their offices were actually there (instead of it being a rented mail box). The position was a little junior for me and also I wouldn't like the commute anyway. On 01/09/2011 03:11 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: If I have to, I'll use a garage. When I worked in the City, it was costing me 240/mo. for a parking space, and that was a few years ago. Other than that I go to areas like GG park where I've got my favorite places to park. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozg...@... wrote: How do you find parking in SF? I always think they ought to rename the city no parking. Hence I almost NEVER go there. In fact most folks who live in the East Bay never like to cross that bridge. :-D On 01/09/2011 01:40 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: All sounds great - Because of the hills in SF, I find going to Chinatown is the closest to visiting Hong Kong without going there. Every time I drive up to SF it is an adventure. The Bay Area too is so full of micro environments that you can easily experience whatever you want here, coast, rural, urban, mountains.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Dear Sally, Thank you for your input, I'm humbled and touched by your loving guidance. I know I behave like a petulant child (I'm sure this can be classified as some disorder , I would love your input here, banking on your wisdom and equanimity here). Since you love and admire Uncle Barry so much can you please suggest an alternative name for this disorder so we don't violate the rules? I had a fallout with Uncle Barry, though I love him so much (I still read every email of his - is this an obsession of mine?), he never responds to me anymore which makes me sad, lonely and depressed :-( Love - Ravi Yogi --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:38 AM, Ravi Yogi wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? If it doesn't, I would wonder what does. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Dear tartbrain, You have made 2 excellent observations Why not use the cleverness for dissolving boundaries? I have come to realize that intellect is a whore, it can only be used to analyze, dissect and divide. Though it has a great practical utility it cannot be used to dissolve boundaries - however it can help you to reach to the verge of realizing the futility of using intellect to dissolve boundaries which itself is a great achievement. I have decided to use my intellect like a car, never again will I let it deceive me. What is the point? I asked this myself several times. I have reached to a state that I never imagined was possible, I felt I had nothing left to do now. So I got depressed for a while constantly asking myself - what now. Then I realized I let my mind deceive myself and that the whole world is just a leela - a divine play and I just promised myself to just be playful and have fun. Meaning can only be attributed to practical things like a car or a house and not to existence or life, it is just meant to be enjoyed. So there is no point!!! Though I pick on Barry I have nothing against him, I know I need to be careful with my choice of words but then I'm really not serious. Love - Ravi --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Dear tartbrain, Thank you, I was feeling very depressed, lonely and downright needy. I knew I could count on your love, kindness and support. You have literally saved a life by responding !! May God bless you !!! I thought your piece was clever, well researched, and well done. While I chuckled, I also thought whats the point? why not use such cleverness for dissolving boundaries, not creating them. It was more a message to myself than to you. I am not immune to attempting creative dings, but I ask my self, whats the point. Besides, Turq is a national treasure. Though its tough sometimes to figure out which nation he is a treasure of -- being that he adheres to the vedic, christian and buddhist ideal that the world is my home. And dick size is so arbitrary. Anyone can perform the great tapas of some indian sadhus who tie heavy weights to such and let it seek infinite size. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: OK. And how does that make you feel? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known
[FairfieldLife] MAHARISHIJIS BIRTHDAY
January 12 Celebration on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:40 AM Holland time - 2:40 AM US CT Celebrations start with Rahstriya Gita followed by global Puja to Guru Dev, recitation by the Maharishi Vedic Pandits at the Brahmasthan of India and the Brahmasthan of Maharishi’s PeacePalace in MERU, and the keynote address for the year by Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace. There will also be an afternoon session with reports from leaders of Maharishi’s organisation around the world. Please check this page again for replay times http://www.maharishichannel.in/SCHEDULE/index.html Jai Guru Dev
[FairfieldLife] Catechism R' Us as Parrot food
Re: Statement about Parrot food (did I spell that correctly?). Anyway, this type of input can be of worth. The fact that it comes from a parrot doesn't equate (in all instances) to a devalued benefit. In fact, the benefits of TM are enhanced by a succession of Gurus repeating the same rituals and mantras in a parrot-like fashion, from Guru to disciple without much change. ... The changeless character of the rituals and mantras going back centuries or millenia acts to enhance the Shakti level. (Gregorian chants for example). Also, the fact that parts of the religious aspect accompanying techniques may be purely mythological likewise, may be irrelevant insofar as acting as a vehicle for Shakti.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:26 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: My research article --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:38 AM, Ravi Yogi wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? If it doesn't, I would wonder what does. Trollish dumbassery that happens to contain the word 'penis' is not what I would define as pornography. As I understand it, what would make Yahoo classify FFL as an adult group (which is what we're trying to avoid and the reason why we have the porno rule) is the posting of pornographic imagery. Ravi's post did not contain any images or links to images. It also contained no written descriptions of sexual acts or other overt sexual vulgarity, which, as I recall, got some troll in a bit of hot water with Rick a while back. As always, Rick has the final say, but I don't see Ravi's post as being in violation of FFL rules. I agree. It's a parody, written to appear as a scientific paper. Many genuine scientific papers contain the word penis and aren't pornographic. Others use that word here, or vulgar synonyms of it, and still don't cross the line. So I don't have a problem with Ravi's post.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Passion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff roryg...@... wrote: They don't need anything, as far as I can see. It is We who need the attention and love, if We are in pain. And again, I am advocating no particular action or inaction in the world; actions arise perfectly to meet the needs of the moment. What I am speaking of is a kind of meta-action, giving loving attention to our own pain to bring an end to karmic repetition and suffering, by transmuting all of our demons back into devotees. Better yet, or as a sequence, to let everything be absorbed into the Bliss Body. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: right, they need to be nurtured. http://www.fantasygallery.net/kolb/art_7_Jungfrau.html ...with a whole spectrum of love, sometimes toughlove. Best way to deal with drug cartel kingpins: shoot them dead, giving them lots of love at the same time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: Actually, Buck, I am saying the Buck stops here, that is, in Us, not in Turq or in anyone out there. If Turq (or Vaj, or anyone else) is bringing up pain or dissonance in Us, then to me it makes the most sense to see Turq (or Vaj, etc.) as our best teacher in this moment, inadvertent or not, for his pointing out something in Us which needs our unconditional Love and attention. *Love*Light*Laughter* always! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: In a flashback to Spain, Dear Turqb, Rory had some excel spiritual instruction the other day here on dealing with obstacles like this in the pain-body. We know you don't get along with Rory and you've said you don't read a number of us anymore here, but Rory's comment from experience was quite good about this kind of affliction of yours in the subtle body. It was a pearl of wisdom. The thing of your not needing necessarily to swim in every toilet along the way and then smear it over here too. Best Regards from FF,
[FairfieldLife] Why the Banksters liked the weekend's top story
In case you missed it on Friday the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled to void the seizure of two homes by Wells Fargo and US Bankcorp. This brings into question thousands of foreclosures across the land and the ability of people to keep their homes until this mess is sorted out. Problem is many banks don't often have the title on the home so their claims are fraudulent. Undoubtedly many a bankster might have been happy that story got buried with the weekend massacre. We need to make sure the public knows this ruling came down: http://www.cnbc.com/id/40969628/Massachusetts_High_Court_Slams_Banks_on_Mortgage_Foreclosures
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Rick Archer wrote: I agree. It’s a parody, written to appear as a scientific paper. Many genuine scientific papers contain the word “penis” and aren’t pornographic. Others use that word here, or vulgar synonyms of it, and still don’t cross the line. So I don’t have a problem with Ravi’s post. Rick, I don't have any objection to the word either, of course. It was the semi-pornographic imagery along with the personal attack that I felt crossed the line. Then again, I didn't read the whole thing either. Sal To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Tell
On 01/10/2011 10:43 AM, PaliGap wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydograunchy...@... wrote: Right wingers are falling all over themselves saying, It's not my fault, the crazy guy is responsible for shooting people. Even if NOT directly accused, they're busily scrubbing websites, saying Loughner was a lefty, gun-sight cross-hairs were surveyor's cross-hairs, and Sheriff Dupnik who never says right-wing vitriol or conservative hate speech — or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo gets accused of stirring more vitriol when he simply called for more civility. The right wing certainly acts like they own it. What say you? http://tinyurl.com/479c3l8 http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/10/early-morning-swim-fox-news-megyn-kelly-browbeats-arizona-sheriff-for-speaking-out-against-vitriolic-rhetoric/ Just a drive by post... Even progressives succumb to casual hate-speech. I know this might seem to be from far-away Brit land, but George Monbiot is a VERY important player in the climate debate globally. He (and the Guardian) are on the side of what many here would take a priori to be the goodies. So what do we say we about this kind of hate-speech? Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/dec/05/comment.politics Just recently the coldest December in the UK for around 100 years caused widespread travel chaos, especially for those trying to fly. Imagine, in the light of Monbiot's comment, if some deranged loonie had had a pop at an airline boss! Say Richard Branson... I'm surprised that executives haven't been the target of loonies. The loonies seem to often be misdirected to the government rather than the owners. I don't think if a bankster got knocked off you'd see a nation mourning though. Block parties maybe especially in areas of high foreclosures. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Dear wgm4u, Well my research has shown that it's not about the physical size but the mental perception of it. However he is welcome to submit his size, I think it does add a new exciting dimension to this research and I look forward to working with him on this!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wg...@... wrote: Turq_Please don't submit the size of your penis! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Small Penis Complex (SPC) or Small Penis disorder(SPD) has been defined by Dr. Ravi Yogi [1], Psy.D, U.C Berkeley as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior that includes extreme grief, panic triggered by references to any spiritual experience that gives the person a huge inferiority complex and results in the person spending their entire time in various online spiritual chat groups trying to harass and hound believers. They try convince the believers of their false freedom and happiness that purportedly had arisen from their philosophy of no practice or atheistic non-spiritual practices. Characteristics People with small penis disorder usually have good verbal and interpersonal skills, but they tend to use these skills to manipulate other people and become the center of attention [2]. People with SPC exhibit most or all of the following symptoms 1. Predominantly spend their time in spiritual online chat circles. 2. Display extreme sensitivity to any spiritual experiences or altered states of consciousness achieved through meditation, yoga. 3. Constantly bombard others with extremely negative or one-sided portrayals of religion. 4. Follow an aggressive strategy of attack and withdraw by stopping to respond and adopting a holier-than-thou attitude. 5. Strong dislike of authority and morals, and react by accusations of fear and retribution on people who display humility and respect of authority and morals. 6. Demand scientific proof of mystical experiences and berate subjective experiences while having no qualms about using their subjective experiences in other matters. 7. Constantly remind everyone of their projected freedom and happiness achieved through no practice practice which could include references to atheism, Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhist practices. 8. Exhibitionist behavior and a need to be the center of attention. Causes The cause of this disorder is known to be caused by involvement in religious cults [3]. The scars and trauma of being manipulated, rejected and isolated in cults is known to be affect some to develop full blown symptoms of Small Penis Disorder [4]. Dr. Ravi Yogi has identified by the following maladaptive schemas using Dr. Jeffrey Young's schema theory [5] with SPC - DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME (DS), SOCIAL ISOLATION / ALIENATION (SI), FAILURE (FA) and/or ABANDONMENT / INSTABILITY (AB). Diagnosis The person's behavior, history, involvement in spiritual circles especially their behavior of haranguing believers along with a psychological evaluation, are usually sufficient to establish the diagnosis. Treatment is often prompted by depression associated with dissolved cult relationships and/or by family and friends who notice their overbearing harassing behavior on spiritual online portals. Treatment Because of the lack of research support for work on personality disorders and long-term treatment with psychotherapy, the empirical findings on the treatment of these disorders remain based on the case report method and not on clinical trials. Dr. Ravi Yogi, the pioneer in SPC recommends the following. * Schema Therapy * Cognitive behavioral therapy * Dr. Ravi Yogi's TTWFAR Therapy (TTWFAR - Taking the world for a rideâ¢) References 1. Dr. Ravi Yogi (formerly Ravi Chivukula), Psy.D, U.C Berkeley is one of the leading researchers of SPC and is lobbying to include SPC in DSM V - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) the fifth edition. 2. See Histrionic Personality Disorder 3. Frederick Lenz, former Cult leader on Amazon 4. Seekers, Gurus, SPC and the rise of Skeptic Gurus by Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy.D, U.C Berkeley 5. Schema Therapy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
aint no motherfuckin games, homeboy! hol up - ima get my motherfuckin pistol. dont hit reset that shit is warped model of reality, no consequences and all that plus the world is going to hell in a handbasket, so ima stuff my sorrys in a sack - got it for .99 at walmart... always low prices - walmart because its made in a sweat shop!! we need to nuke china immediately before they destroy the planet, im telling you man Nuclear war - mothers love it, kids ask for it by name! ... no more ovaltine for you, pinko commie scum! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Hey, as long as you ain't buyin' a mantra, it's cheap entertainment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
Brilliant, a hair raising post! I'm forwarding to N. Korea and Iran. http://www.startlingart.com/Viewer.asp?ImageSource=fine_artFileName=ifthoughtscouldkill --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, docwhammo docwha...@... wrote: aint no motherfuckin games, homeboy! hol up - ima get my motherfuckin pistol. dont hit reset that shit is warped model of reality, no consequences and all that plus the world is going to hell in a handbasket, so ima stuff my sorrys in a sack - got it for .99 at walmart... always low prices - walmart because its made in a sweat shop!! we need to nuke china immediately before they destroy the planet, im telling you man Nuclear war - mothers love it, kids ask for it by name! ... no more ovaltine for you, pinko commie scum! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Hey, as long as you ain't buyin' a mantra, it's cheap entertainment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Catechism 'R Us
ho yifuxero i dont think forwarding is nearly enough, they have firewalls to prevent that sort of email.. what you need to do is cook up a virus that penetrates the root level encryption of each and every system on the globe, so you can start recruiting an army of zombie computers to do your bidding.. then, one day... ... ... wait for it... ... WHAMMO! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: Brilliant, a hair raising post! I'm forwarding to N. Korea and Iran. http://www.startlingart.com/Viewer.asp?ImageSource=fine_artFileName=ifthoughtscouldkill --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, docwhammo docwhammo@ wrote: aint no motherfuckin games, homeboy! hol up - ima get my motherfuckin pistol. dont hit reset that shit is warped model of reality, no consequences and all that plus the world is going to hell in a handbasket, so ima stuff my sorrys in a sack - got it for .99 at walmart... always low prices - walmart because its made in a sweat shop!! we need to nuke china immediately before they destroy the planet, im telling you man Nuclear war - mothers love it, kids ask for it by name! ... no more ovaltine for you, pinko commie scum! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Hey, as long as you ain't buyin' a mantra, it's cheap entertainment.
[FairfieldLife] I'M NOT A PART OF YOUR SYSTEM!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99944/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-on-the-ground
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
Uncle Barry...never responds to me anymore I noticed today too that among us regulars, his group he will not interact with anymore here on FFL is larger than the one he interacts with. He holds that unique distinction among those here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviy...@... wrote: Dear Sally, Thank you for your input, I'm humbled and touched by your loving guidance. I know I behave like a petulant child (I'm sure this can be classified as some disorder , I would love your input here, banking on your wisdom and equanimity here). Since you love and admire Uncle Barry so much can you please suggest an alternative name for this disorder so we don't violate the rules? I had a fallout with Uncle Barry, though I love him so much (I still read every email of his - is this an obsession of mine?), he never responds to me anymore which makes me sad, lonely and depressed :-( Love - Ravi Yogi --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:38 AM, Ravi Yogi wrote: Hi everyone, here's a research article that I have been working on. I would really appreciate your input and blessings. Thank you, Much Love - Ravi Yogi Anatomy of the Turqster Small Penis Disorder Uh, Rick, Alex~~doesn't this violate the porno rule? If it doesn't, I would wonder what does. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: My research article
It was the semi-pornographic imagery (wrt Ravi's research article) Sal, what on earth are you referring to? I missed this in his spoof the first time I read it, or so I thought, and just now went back and couldn't find anything including in all of his Wikipedia links, that comes remotely close to what you are claiming - have you read the definition of pornography? I mentioned turquoiseb's similar imagery earlier, which was at least as graphic as anything in Ravi's post. If you want to ban people using this type of language, why not be fair about it? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Rick Archer wrote: I agree. It's a parody, written to appear as a scientific paper. Many genuine scientific papers contain the word penis and aren't pornographic. Others use that word here, or vulgar synonyms of it, and still don't cross the line. So I don't have a problem with Ravi's post. Rick, I don't have any objection to the word either, of course. It was the semi-pornographic imagery along with the personal attack that I felt crossed the line. Then again, I didn't read the whole thing either. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Some devotees of Ramana Maharshi
http://www.premanandasatsang.org http://www.myajjia.org http://www.brahmam.net http://www.arshavidya.in http://www.rameshbalsekar.com http://www.srinannaguru.com http://www.purnavidya.org http://www.samdarshi.com http://www.anandashram.org http://www.selfknowledge.in http://www.sriramanamaharshi.org ... from Blueprints for Awakening, Open Sky press. ... http://www.fantasygallery.net/goldhawk/art_5_surf.html
