[FairfieldLife] Re: How many "ordinary" people correspond to a TM-siddha?

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
The idea of how many people or souls would it take, is a matter of who among those people are experiencing pure Being... It would only take one, who is experiencing pure Being to have a significant effect, watching the game... In order to do sanyama, one needs to have stabilized pure Being in one

[FairfieldLife] How many "ordinary" people correspond to a TM-siddha?

2011-05-23 Thread cardemaister
How many "ordinary" people correspond to a TM-siddha? My answer might be, that in exceptional situations, like some 30K people celebrating the World Championship of my country in Ice Hockey, in the center of my home town, doing "saMyama" on the Cup, as small a number as one thousand might be en

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > Thermo-nuclear warefare is their destiny and their end. > > Read it and weep. > (snip) > The intention behind the above thought, comes from the 'Dark One'... > Just so you

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > Thermo-nuclear warefare is their destiny and their end. > > Read it and weep. > (snip) > The intention behind the above thought, comes from the 'Dark One'... > Just so you

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Thermo-nuclear warefare is their destiny and their end. > Read it and weep. (snip) The intention behind the above thought, comes from the 'Dark One'... Just so you can discriminate between light and dark...

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
"Different in terms of the path that 'I Am' would walk, as 'I 'Am would be > not of 'this world'..." --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > This must be a misspelling. There's no "you" in "I". > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > Different i

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Still way too many generalizations, Curtis, where Protestantism > > is concerned--different ideas about what it means not to be > > saved (the no-AC section is on

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
This must be a misspelling. There's no "you" in "I". --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > Different in terms of the path that you would walk, as you would be not of 'this world'... > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > So how is that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

2011-05-23 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 05/22/2011 10:56 PM, raunchydog wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > >> KARACHI, May 22: Armed militants stormed into a naval airbase here on > >> Sunday night, destroyed three aircraft and killed at

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
I'd say tendencies and unfulfilled desires may lead to reincarnation (i.e. an incarnation in some dimension). If by "attachment" you mean components of one's existence that are misidentified (seemingly separate from the Self); such a condition according to some would somehow keep people "on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
That statement implies a very bad intention, don't ya' thinK??? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Thermo-nuclear warefare is their destiny and their end. > Read it and weep. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > > > emptybill: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
Different in terms of the path that you would walk, as you would be not of 'this world'... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > So how is that Chaim? Just 'cause you claim a different intent are you > really different? > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert"

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
So how is that Chaim? Just 'cause you claim a different intent are you really different? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > Yes, that could very well be, but then that soul would be completely different in terms of their intention of being here... > > --- In FairfieldLife@y

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
Yes, that could very well be, but then that soul would be completely different in terms of their intention of being here... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > right, that's the idea; but what if the impetus is via taking a Buddhist vow > to assist all sentient beings in att

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
Thermo-nuclear warefare is their destiny and their end. Read it and weep. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > emptybill: > > Over 1.5 million Europeans were raided, enslaved > > and sold between 1500 and 1800 AD... > > > Well, it looks like Obama wants to return to th

[FairfieldLife] new Camping Rapture date Oct 21-st

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/?gt1=43001

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
You're right. My mis-apprehension. There is nothing about you that makes you what you are. You are not even tabula-rasa. Pretension is just a word. Your belief that my statement was about just you is your own mis-apprehension. In reality/unreality it is just raw emotion without an owner. There is n

[FairfieldLife] turnips

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/images/large/turnip2.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
right, that's the idea; but what if the impetus is via taking a Buddhist vow to assist all sentient beings in attaining Enlightenment and not to become "extinct" until that goal is accomplished? (and the impetus could be something else afterwards, say 'having fun'.) http://www.fantasygallery.net

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread whynotnow7
"I'm not surprised that Jimbo doesn't know this, because he has the intel-lectual depth of a turnip" Self realization has nothing to do with memorizing the words of a Master. After all it hasn't worked for you, has it? Again, you don't know what you are talking about.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@y

[FairfieldLife] 'Reincarnation/Enlightenment and Death'

2011-05-23 Thread Robert
If it is 'attatchent to things' that causes reicarnation... So, when one becomes enlightened, and beyond attatchment to things.. Then there will be no impetus for the soul, if it is not attatched any thing, to any earthly exerience... Then, when that soul, drops the body, there is no impetus to co

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
On the TTC/Fiuggi 1972 course, I listened to him categorically deny the possibility of a fully enlightened person returning to manifestation after the stream of his/her prana merged into the ocean of prana. I knew enough Buddhism (Dr. Alfonso Verdu, 1969-1972) to know this opinion was contradi

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > One of the values held by monastics is to maintain vigilant attention > upon your own failings and ignore and forget the failings of other. > "Ignore" means not to hold them in mind at all - even as a place > in memory. First of all I

[FairfieldLife] Marie Antoinette with decadent hair

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Marie_Antoinette_with_decadent_hair.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > emptybill: > > Over 1.5 million Europeans were raided, enslaved > > and sold between 1500 and 1800 AD... > > > Well, it looks like Obama wants to return to the 1949 > border lines. No, it doesn't look like that at all.

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > > In any case, nobody has suggested returning to the > > > > > > 1967 borders as a solution. That's just a blatant, > > > > > > deliberate falsehood. > > > > > > > > > > > "President Obama was right to stick by his call for > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: > Over 1.5 million Europeans were raided, enslaved > and sold between 1500 and 1800 AD... > Well, it looks like Obama wants to return to the 1949 border lines. Maybe he is thinking the Israelis will give back the Golan Heights to Syria; take from Jordan the entire West Bank and g

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > It would be more helpful if you would hold your own pretensions in > > >

[FairfieldLife] Mind Games

2011-05-23 Thread Vaj
From: The Lennon Sutras We're playing those mind games together Pushing barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerilla Chanting the Mantra: Peace on Earth We all been playing mind games forever Some kinda druid dude's lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerilla Some call i

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
One of the values held by monastics is to maintain vigilant attention upon your own failings and ignore and forget the failings of other. "Ignore" means not to hold them in mind at all - even as a place in memory. You were previously saying your experience was equal to the practice of monasticism

[FairfieldLife] Imagine

2011-05-23 Thread Vaj
Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Dixon
Ah Curtis, strike some balance! You hate them because you think they hate you, and this makes them, more frustrated and determined to save your soul and on and on and on. Brake the cycle. Just *forgive* them for they not not what they do, if that's what you think.< Forgive, letting go of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Camping "Rapture" disappoints

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
ctionable, in particular about gays, however.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110523/ts_yblog_thelookout/doomsday-prophet-follo

[FairfieldLife] Graphic representationof Swedenborg's Cosmology

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/triggers141.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On May 23, 2011, at 9:10 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > >> > >> > >> It would be more helpful if you would hold your own pretensions in > >> "equal contempt". > > > > So

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > > > It would be more helpful if you would hold your own pretensions in > > "equal contempt". > > So are you going to list what you think they are or shou

[FairfieldLife] Emanuel Swedenborg's Near Death Experiences

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/triggers14.html

[FairfieldLife] Derry's NDE: meeting Jesus in the Heavenly Garden

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
Says she met Jesus who gave her a choice to stay in Heaven or return to the earth. http://www.near-death.com/experiences/triggers13.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Camping "Rapture" disappoints

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110523/ts_yblog_thelookout/doomsday-prophet-followers-flabbergasted-world-didnt-end Interesting: "'It has been a really tough weekend,' Camping said Sunday,

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > Ignoring the fact that someone who claims to be > Maharishi-enlightened is ignorant of one of MMY's > most controversial teachings, it's a pretty contro- > versial teaching. Yes, one of his most controversial, in fact. I love it when B

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Vaj
On May 23, 2011, at 9:10 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: >> >> >> It would be more helpful if you would hold your own pretensions in >> "equal contempt". > > So are you going to list what you think they are or should I put this in my > "

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread turquoiseb
Sounds to me as if Maharishi should have read Shankara's commentary. :-) We're very aware that there are different theories about all of this, empt. What you seem unaware of is what MMY's stance was. It was intractable; in the famous talks being referred to here questioners went on for some minut

[FairfieldLife] Re: When Prophecy Fails

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
Glad he piped up to correct the record. Xeno, sorry for misleading you in part. Apparently, according to O-J, his team and Markovsky had not gotten together prior to Markovsky's interviews badmouthing the ME study, contrary to what I was told. On the other hand, for Markovsky to say they had refus

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
"Sometimes the speculation here on FFL is comical". Agreed!...especially what's written underneath "Go read Shankara's commentary"...; but thanks anyway; I'll pass on Shankara. http://www.fantasygallery.net/beauvais/art_14_Dragon-at-the-Djinn.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptyb

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > It would be more helpful if you would hold your own pretensions in > "equal contempt". So are you going to list what you think they are or should I put this in my "you are a poopy pants" file? > > ………. > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
It would be more helpful if you would hold your own pretensions in "equal contempt". ………. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Does it help that I hold all their pretensions about knowing what happens after death in equal contempt? > > > > ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
Go read Shankara's commentary on the Brahma Sutra-s. He says if you want to reside in Brahma-loka you may do so - that is until everything is dissolved at the cosmic pralaya. If you want to play around and enjoy cosmic siddhi-s you may also do that. He also says that you may even be called back

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread emptybill
Yep, Muslim peace. How hallowed – "We are of Peace". Think of it. Mussalmen and Jews sitting around the camp fire singing kumbaya. It makes me weep with gratitude knowing this has been ordained by YHVH as he finally "shakes hands" with Allah. But perhaps you actually mean the peace that e

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-05-23 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat May 21 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat May 28 00:00:00 2011 319 messages as of (UTC) Tue May 24 00:00:29 2011 34 authfriend 30 tartbrain 29 Yifu 27 Buck 24 WillyTex 20 turquoiseb 17 whynotnow7 17 seventhray1 17

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
Does it help that I hold all their pretensions about knowing what happens after death in equal contempt? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > Curtis, it's not just Christians that say you're going to hell, it's > Buddhist, > Hindus and Muslims as well. Christianity i

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
below: can't reincarnate, can't take a body; that's because in the MMY/Jarvis model (from Shankara?); there are no "bodies". The elements making up those bodies completely disintegrate at death, among those in CC higher; again, with no options. Conventional bodies of course exist, case in po

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread whynotnow7
"after reaching Unity, the only fate is annihiliation of existence, relatively speaking; since the supposed purpose of evolution has been fulfilled and there's nothing else to "do"). In other words, total extinction of all bodies, gross and subtle; but the Self remains, of course, without any b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 05/23/2011 01:47 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > >> > >> On 05/22/2011 11:50 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > >>> History is clear, nations are built on war, with a strong army and > > war > >>>

[FairfieldLife] yagyas

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
Full moon eclipse next month. P. 17 a real monkey shows up to accept the banana offerings. This is a particularly good sign. http://puja.net/Newsletters/2011/May/May2011News.pdf

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

2011-05-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/23/2011 01:47 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >> >> On 05/22/2011 11:50 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: >>> History is clear, nations are built on war, with a strong army and > war >>> comes prosperity, nation and people thrive, people become > sophisticated

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
do.rflex: > On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama... > Not a very proud day for America with Obama throwing Israel under the bus! Everyone knows that the Hamas regularly preach hatred of Israel as well as Jews as a people. "[Palestinian culture is] the root of the conflict between Israel and the P

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hmmm... udumbala?

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
Yellow Jambhala, Buddhist counterpart of Kubera, the God of Wealth: http://www.dari-rulai-temple.org/picts/yellow%20Jambhala.JPG --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > The funeral hymn of Rgveda is X 14. > > Its 12th stanza starts like this: > > uruuNasaav, asutRpaa, u

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hmmm... udumbala?

2011-05-23 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > The funeral hymn of Rgveda is X 14. > > Its 12th stanza starts like this: > > uruuNasaav, asutRpaa, udumbalau, > Yamasya duutau carato janaaM anu; > > Before I read Macdonell's comment, thought (something like): > "Wha? udumbala?

[FairfieldLife] Hmmm... udumbala?

2011-05-23 Thread cardemaister
The funeral hymn of Rgveda is X 14. Its 12th stanza starts like this: uruuNasaav, asutRpaa, udumbalau, Yamasya duutau carato janaaM anu; Before I read Macdonell's comment, thought (something like): "Wha? udumbala?? ['udumbalau' is nominative *dual*]. What a strange word! Like a loan word from

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
on getting out of Hell: actually, once one is "in" Hell according to both Evangelical and Catholicism, there's no provision for getting out. But a Hellish fate (or not) is determined for Evangelicals solely on the basis of one's faith/belief during physical life. Then the judgement. ... otoh,

[FairfieldLife] the ME effect

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
ROTFLOL: "Orme-Johnson DW, Oates RM. A field-theoretic view of consciousness: reply to critics. Journal of Scientific Exploration 2008 23(2):139-166. pdf of the paper Abstract—This paper replies to a critique (Fales & Markovsky, 1997) of a study reporting that group practice of the Transcend

[FairfieldLife] Re: Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > > On 05/22/2011 11:50 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: > > History is clear, nations are built on war, with a strong army and war > > comes prosperity, nation and people thrive, people become sophisticated > > intellectuals, they then get attracted to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > > History is clear, nations are built on war, with a strong army and war > > comes prosperity, nation and people thrive > > > Fascism has a proud and distinguished

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Dixon
So, evangelicals don't see Christ as an inspirational and humbling teacher? Where did that come from? As I posted to Curtis earlier, Christianity is not the only religion that teaches that you are bound for hell. However, it's the only one that teaches that God became man, lived a perfect life

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > There is no confusion if the words of Master's aren't taken literally. > They create the idea of specialness understanding the greedy > goal-oriented nature of the human mind that feels a need to be special. > They then promise follower

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
There is no confusion if the words of Master's aren't taken literally. They create the idea of specialness understanding the greedy goal-oriented nature of the human mind that feels a need to be special. They then promise followers eternal bliss in heaven, and they create a sense of urgency by pred

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > > > > In any case, nobody has suggested returning to the > > > > > 1967 borders as a solution. That's just a blatant, > > > > > deliberate falsehood. > > > > > > > > > "President Obama was right to stick by his call for > > > > Israel's 1967 boundaries as a starting point for peace > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > > > > In any case, nobody has suggested returning to the > > > > > 1967 borders as a solution. That's just a blatant, > > > > > deliberate falsehood. > > > > > > > > > "President Obama was right to stick by his call for > > > > Israel's 1967 boundaries as a starting point for peace > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
Comes from Jerry Jarvis. (statement to me in 1973, I was in his office one day when he said emphatically that after reaching Unity, the only fate is annihiliation of existence, relatively speaking; since the supposed purpose of evolution has been fulfilled and there's nothing else to "do"). In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Dixon
Curtis, it's not just Christians that say you're going to hell, it's Buddhist, Hindus and Muslims as well. Christianity is the only one that claims a *get- out of- jail* card. Your beef is not with Christ or his teaching, it's with people who are passionate about their beliefs but can't articul

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-23 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > Perfection is never possible in the outside world, we can say > perfection > > is only possible in the inner world. Inner perfection is nothing but > > accepti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Welcome to America...finally #1 in something

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > Earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a > > bill that would reduce the prison population > > by about 40,000 inmates by transferring many > > low-level offenders to county jurisdiction. > > Bhairitu: > First off get rid of all the drug offenders, > those who were using not dealing. B

Re: [FairfieldLife] And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Dixon
Kinda reminds me of the story of Noah. Building an enormous boat, laboring day after day, the local people laughed and cursed Noah as a fool and  an idiot. Then the rain came. He who laughed lastnot that Noah laughed at the destruction of the world, if it really happened.< Most Christians wh

Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple fans react to computers like religion: BBC

2011-05-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/22/2011 06:06 AM, Tom Pall wrote: > I posted this URL days before it was "discovered" and received the status of > a separate post, as though then and only then did it achieve the status of > something etched in stone tablets just like the 10 Suggestions. > > My hate for Apple goes back to wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: When Prophecy Fails

2011-05-23 Thread Rick Archer
Dear Rick, I just got this alert of a comment on FF Life that I refused to share the data on the Israel Study. Please respond with a note that this data is posted on my website. It is available to anyone. It is under the heading Data Sharing, which describes the situation in which that false al

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread whynotnow7
Reincarnation and heaven are not realities opposed to each other. Its just the fantasy that one spends one's "afterlife" in either heaven or hell *eternally* that is opposed to reincarnation. Also, the self and manifest world don't vanish with Self Realization. Maharishi said the EXACT OPPOSIT

[FairfieldLife] Camping "Rapture" disappoints

2011-05-23 Thread Yifu
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110523/ts_yblog_thelookout/doomsday-prophet-followers-flabbergasted-world-didnt-end

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread whynotnow7
I recognize that I was stating some pretty wide assumptions. I also understand 1)there is no one size that fits all, and 2) no one gets out of here alive. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Judy makes a good distinction between the rapture belief and non evangel

Re: [FairfieldLife] Welcome to America...finally #1 in something

2011-05-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/23/2011 08:49 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > Found this photo and Wiki page the same day I found the article that > follows it. "Land of the free" just doesn't mean the same thing it used > to. The Wiki page lists countries ordered by the number of prisoners per > population. Spain is #81, France #1

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread whynotnow7
Glad to hear it - I am working off a small sample from experience only, transforming that into a bias. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > Yea agreed-- big, big, big difference between the evangelical

[FairfieldLife] Guru Purnima 2011

2011-05-23 Thread merlin
      http://www.globalcountrycourses.com/events/calendar.html   ~ jai guru dev ~

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > > > In any case, nobody has suggested returning to the > > > > 1967 borders as a solution. That's just a blatant, > > > > deliberate falsehood. > > > > > > > "President Obama was right to stick by his call for > > > Israel's 19

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > > In any case, nobody has suggested returning to the > > > 1967 borders as a solution. That's just a blatant, > > > deliberate falsehood. > > > > > "President Obama was right to stick by his call for > > Israel's 1967 boundaries as a starting point for peace > > negotiations with the Palest

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > In reality, it would be a three-state solution: > > > > Gaza, West Bank, and Israel. What would you do, > > build a road with walls on either side to connect > > the West Bank to Gaza? Go figure. > > > > Or, split Jerusalem down the middle with a fence > > keeping the Jews away from the Weste

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > If you want to return to 1967 borders, why not > > > > give the Golan Heights, the West Bank and > > > > Jerusalem back to Jordan... > > > > > > > You do know that before Israel was founded that > > > Jews and Palestinians lived s

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Well I'm sure that is true. Sometimes it is a hard balance > to strike, especially on a first draft. Not surprising. Humor can be tricky, especially in the context of a "sensitive" subject. Just for one thing, I'd imagine the hu

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > > If you want to return to 1967 borders, why not > > > give the Golan Heights, the West Bank and > > > Jerusalem back to Jordan... > > > > > You do know that before Israel was founded that > > Jews and Palestinians lived side by side in peace? > > authfriend: > In any case, nobody has sugges

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 05/23/2011 09:13 AM, WillyTex wrote: > > > > do.rflex: > >> "Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel's opposition > >> Kadima party, also backed Mr Obama's two-state > >> solution..." > >> > > In reality, it would be a three-state solution: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think about this - Bruno Barbosa

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > > What religion would that be? > > > > > Hinduism. > > Bhairitu: > Better brush up on reading the Gita again... Cut the bullshit - everyone knows that Hinduism is a religion and tantra is a Hindu cult. You're guilty - just admit it! > > > What money? > > > > > All the money he sends to his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Militants Attack Pakistani Naval Base in Karachi

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
Bhairitu: > BTW, did you hear the one that the reason Obama hasn't > been seen pinning medals on the SEALs... > Why pin medals on people if you are going to charge the same outfit with torture for getting the information that bin Laden was in Pakiistan, leading to his killing by U.S. Forces? Ev

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/23/2011 09:13 AM, WillyTex wrote: > > do.rflex: >> "Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel's opposition >> Kadima party, also backed Mr Obama's two-state >> solution..." >> > In reality, it would be a three-state solution: > > Gaza, West Bank, and Israel. What would you do, > build a road with walls o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think about this - Bruno Barbosa

2011-05-23 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/23/2011 09:24 AM, WillyTex wrote: > >>> You sound pretty guilty - of joining a religion >>> - and you're not elite enough from being considered >>> part of the masses! It sounds like you're the one >>> that doesn't understand religious mind control! >>> > Bhairitu: >> What religion would tha

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Still way too many generalizations, Curtis, where Protestantism > is concerned--different ideas about what it means not to be > saved (the no-AC section is only one option); different ideas > about what it takes to be saved; different i

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > They want my head on a pike for eternity! Bastards...! > > Sal: > Well said Curtis > Don't you just hate those Milanarians and dooms-day fanatics! "Less than 10 years." That, Gore warns, is all the time that "leading scientists" say we may have "before we cross a point of no return" --

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
Well I'm sure that is true. Sometimes it is a hard balance to strike, especially on a first draft. I appreciate the feedback especially considering the field you are in! I come up against this in my school shows often. I learn more in every show I do. I had a bit that I used to do where I have

[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think about this - Bruno Barbosa

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
> > You sound pretty guilty - of joining a religion > > - and you're not elite enough from being considered > > part of the masses! It sounds like you're the one > > that doesn't understand religious mind control! > > Bhairitu: > What religion would that be? > Hinduism. > > So, what happens to

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread curtisdeltablues
Well I'm sure that is true. Sometimes it is a hard balance to strike, especially on a first draft. I appreciate the feedback especially considering the field you are in! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Just very quickly, because you missed my point (I'll get back

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Israel - A Proud Day for Obama

2011-05-23 Thread WillyTex
do.rflex: > "Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel's opposition > Kadima party, also backed Mr Obama's two-state > solution..." > In reality, it would be a three-state solution: Gaza, West Bank, and Israel. What would you do, build a road with walls on either side to connect the West Bank to Gaza? Go

[FairfieldLife] Re: And another bite...

2011-05-23 Thread authfriend
Just very quickly, because you missed my point (I'll get back to the rest later): --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > I believe that juxtaposing humor into serious discussions is > a form of art's integration that engages more neurology. Oh, I agree. I'm in favor

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