[FairfieldLife] In Praise of the Golden Globes

2012-01-16 Thread turquoiseb
Pretty good article from Slate.com. In the followup I'll say which choices this year I thought were good, and which sucked. As if you cared. :-) In Praise of the Golden GlobesImagine a world in which most of the cosmic injustices perpetuated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

[FairfieldLife] Re: Patanjali's Eight means to Yoga (as MMY calls them).

2012-01-16 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u anitaoaks4u@... wrote: MMY calls Patanjali's Eight limbs of Yoga *means* to Yoga in his Bhagavad Gita (appendix on Yoga). Mistakenly, many Meditators have been led to think they are the *end* of Yoga, this is a mistake!! MMY only meant to imply

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
All area Satsangs: While Yogic Flying produces a powerful, generalized, non-directed surge of positivity for the general well-being of society, Yagyas create a very focused, concentrated influence of positivity designed to neutralize specific threats. Like the threats that are looming

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
Today the United States TM® organization (Maharishi Foundation USA) is launching this Maharishi National Yagya Program in a major way. In conjunction with the Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation USA, we are directly overseeing the highly professional, cost-efficient management of this program to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
Maybe one day the TMO will schism into two sects, the rationalists and the bhaktis, Well yes, the schism has happened. Have a look at the 'oldest' FFL messages using that 'oldest' button under messages, this stand-off with the President's Office and meditators gets chronicled through

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] The Beatles: Parting Ways - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2012-01-16 Thread merlin
The Beatles: Parting Ways - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si60YPOrnA8feature=share

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread curtisdeltablues
This post is an epistemological field day! It brings up many questions about how we can be confident about what we know. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: snip There have been a number of large well-designed studies

[FairfieldLife] Re: News Blackout on National Defense Authorization Act

2012-01-16 Thread richardatrwilliamsdotus
News media's blackout on the most radical elimination of American rights in U.S. history... Bhairitu: That and the MSM isn't covering the SOPA bill either. So, what have you got against a ban on internet bloggers quoting sources as copyright infringement, even if sources are cited?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Beatles: Parting Ways - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2012-01-16 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@... wrote: The Beatles: Parting Ways - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si60YPOrnA8feature=share Balanced account, very nice. Thanks for posting this !

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: This post is an epistemological field day! It brings up many questions about how we can be confident about what we know. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

[FairfieldLife] German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Consumes

2012-01-16 Thread turquoiseb
Green works. And it can even be pretty. The photos that go with the captions below are at: http://inhabitat.com/german-village-produces-321-more-energy-than-it-nee\ ds/ http://inhabitat.com/german-village-produces-321-more-energy-than-it-ne\ eds/ Ok, those Germans are just showing off now. Not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: News Blackout on National Defense Authorization Act

2012-01-16 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/16/2012 07:11 AM, richardatrwilliamsdotus wrote: News media's blackout on the most radical elimination of American rights in U.S. history... Bhairitu: That and the MSM isn't covering the SOPA bill either. So, what have you got against a ban on internet bloggers quoting sources as

[FairfieldLife] Indians on Mars

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
from three years ago or so. Indians on Mars 3:00 http://www.box.com/shared/5bng8jnbv7

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: This post is an epistemological field day! It brings up many questions about how we can be confident about what we know. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Praise of the Golden Globes

2012-01-16 Thread Bhairitu
On 01/16/2012 02:07 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Winners in red and starred. My comments in whatever this color is. Cecil B. DeMille Award Morgan Freeman About bloody time. http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/# Best Motion Picture - Drama * The

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: What I want to know is, to whom was Nabby addressing this remark? It appeared to be in response to my follow-up post quoted immediately above it. That seems unlikely, but it also seems unlikely with regard to either

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Many of these things/ideas will eventually hold up to scrutiny as you put it. But it may take time. Like Maharishi suggested it could take 400 years. Awesome, then sign me up for 50 yagyas and I'll pay in 400 years. If the

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Praise of the Golden Globes

2012-01-16 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Suggest seeing the Beginners - it was excellent. I took both my kids and they loved it also. I also saw the Descendents - wasn't overly impressed, but it was good film as compared to many. I want to see the Artist,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: What I want to know is, to whom was Nabby addressing this remark? It appeared to be in response to my follow-up post quoted immediately above it. That

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: What I want to know is, to whom was Nabby addressing this remark? It appeared

[FairfieldLife] Review: Hugo

2012-01-16 Thread turquoiseb
Yesterday, in anticipation of the Golden Globes, wanting to have seen as many of the contenders as possible, I finally got around to watching Martin Scorcese's Hugo. The HFPA gave him a Golden Globe for Best Director, and IMHO they probably should have given him the award for Best Drama as well.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Review: Hugo

2012-01-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
I found Hugo to be a wonderful film. I saw it in 3D - even some of the historical footage was converted to 3D. The film seemed to have been recorded in 3D. Many films are converted from 2D, and sometimes weird artifacts of the conversion are apparent if not well done. I saw a trailer of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: snip There have been a number of large well-designed studies recently, such as the Templeton study, of 'intercessionary prayer', which

[FairfieldLife] ACI - a hilarious article by Calvin Trillan

2012-01-16 Thread turquoiseb
ACI A new way of measuring pretentiousness. When I entered the nearly empty bar near Grand Central, I was unsurprised—and, I'll admit, rather pleased—to see, sitting on the stool he'd occupied when I was in the bar some months before, the mature gentleman who had told me

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
...Yagyas and intercessory prayer are different but they both seem to rely on 'action at a distance' through some kind of non-physical intervention via the human mind and experience. The philosophical conundrum here is how does something that is non-physical affect a physical entity. A

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@... wrote: ...Yagyas and intercessory prayer are different but they both seem to rely on 'action at a distance' through some kind of non-physical intervention via the human mind and experience. The philosophical conundrum here

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
could be. I'm willing to go either way. I recall I was predisposed to finding esoteric bits in spiritual books at the time, and found precious few in Maharishi's stuff. Having said that, I read the book in 1977... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: ...Yagyas and intercessory prayer are different but they both seem to rely on 'action at a distance' through some kind of non-physical

[FairfieldLife] Re: What A Week

2012-01-16 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@... wrote: What a week on FFL – Robin, your posts as always sing a dynamic tune of coherent reality. I have read each one enjoyably, happily traveling along to wherever they lead, knowing that I will never be led astray logically.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What A Week

2012-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2012, at 6:12 PM, maskedzebra wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@... wrote: What a week on FFL – Robin, your posts as always sing a dynamic tune of coherent reality. I have read each one enjoyably, happily traveling along to wherever they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Internet freedom converning Ravi's posts

2012-01-16 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: You're a beguiling guy, MZ, a seducer, a lover, a Minotaur, no less, luring the unsuspecting into your labyrinth of delicious words. It was post no. 281584 you recall. Reading your posts just after your arrival here stimulated me

[FairfieldLife] Obama Sued over NDAA

2012-01-16 Thread Bhairitu
Journalist Chris Hedges has mounted a law suit against President Barack Obama due to his signing the National Defense Authorization Act. Hedges says the signing signals “a catastrophic blow to civil liberties. I suspect the real purpose of this bill is to thwart internal, domestic movements

[FairfieldLife] Re: What A Week

2012-01-16 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Vaj: Well, lets keep in mind, none of them's actually met you, let alone spent some considerable time around you...on stage or in audience... Response: Nor have you, Vaj. Your eyes have never met my own. You have never been in

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2012-01-16 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jan 14 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Jan 21 00:00:00 2012 302 messages as of (UTC) Tue Jan 17 00:06:53 2012 40 Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com 39 futur.musik futur.mu...@yahoo.com 31 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 19

Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] What A Week

2012-01-16 Thread Vaj
On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:06 PM, maskedzebra wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Vaj: Well, lets keep in mind, none of them's actually met you, let alone spent some considerable time around you...on stage or in audience... Response: Nor have you, Vaj. Your

[FairfieldLife] Re: What A Week

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: What a week on FFL – Robin, your posts as always sing a dynamic tune of coherent reality. I have read each one enjoyably, happily traveling

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@ wrote: ...Yagyas and intercessory prayer are different but

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Beatles: Parting Ways - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2012-01-16 Thread futur.musik
Its always nice to see them all again. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@ wrote: The Beatles: Parting Ways - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
Maybe one day the TMO will schism into two sects, the rationalists and the bhaktis, Well yes, the schism has happened. Have a look at the 'oldest' FFL messages using that 'oldest' button under messages, this stand-off with the President's Office and meditators gets

[FairfieldLife] MLK Day

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
Everybody can be great. Because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
Seems saddening to see that the dome numbers with the meditator community are not working out for the tru-believers and that the Invincibility courses should be supplanted and let go this way. The potential was so great, except the Rajas could not bring themselves to figure out a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Revelation and Conversion

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
I understand L B is doing fine working as an English teacher in Red China. He was always a great teacher. He is well employed doing that now. He comes back to Fairfield every once in a while. L B is one of my earliest friends around TM going back to the starting days of TM in Iowa. He is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: snip There have been a number of large

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Need is for National Yagya

2012-01-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

[FairfieldLife] Transcendental Judgment:

2012-01-16 Thread Buck
Teaching the Knowledge * As a teacher, there is a different, more difficult lesson that must be accepted personally: if someone chosen by the Unified Field to be a prophet or a leader refuses to teach the truth, as Jonah did for example, then Nature will visit a terrible punishment on

Re: [FairfieldLife] What A Week

2012-01-16 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:06 PM, maskedzebra wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Vaj: Well, lets keep in mind, none of them's actually met you, let alone spent some considerable time