[FairfieldLife] OMG: doSa-biija-kSaya and kaivalya
YS III 51: tad-vairaagyaad api doSa-biija-kSaye[1] kaivalyam. Taimni's translation: By non-attachment even to that, on the very seed of bondage being destroyed, follows /kaivalya/. Alistair Shearer: And when he is unattached even to this state, the very seeds of bondage are destroyed, and Enlightenment follows. (Taimni's translation is obviously more word-for-word...) But WTF is the 'that' or 'this state'? It seems to be what one might well call the ultimate siddhi, III 49: He who has realized the distinction between the subtlest level of his mind, which is translucent intellect, and the Self, enjoys supremacy over all creation. Nothing remains unknown to him. (Shearer) Only from the avareness of the distinction between sattva and puruSa arise supremacy over all states and forms of existence (omnipotence) and knowledge of everything (omniscience). (Taimni) At least one of the siddhi-suutras to develop that distincition seems to be III 36 (numba 12?): sattva-puruSayor atyantaasaMkiirNayoH pratayaaviseSo bhogaH paraarthaat svaartha-saMyamaat puruSa-jñaanam. Experience is the result of inability to distinguish between the puruSa and the sattva though they are absolutely distinct. Knowledge of the puruSa results from saMyama on the self-interest (of the puruSa) apart from another's interest (of prakRti). (Taimni) 1. ~ dawsha-beeja-kshu_yeah, heh...
[FairfieldLife] Upselling: lofty spiritual goals as a distraction from Here And Now
Walking my dogs this morning, I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, and couldn't help but notice the enormous smile on my face. The day is beautiful -- warm, sunny, and almost what summer is supposed to be like in places other than the Netherlands :-), and I noticed the smile and it made me realize that I *really* look forward to the rest of my day. Life on a 46-year spiritual path hasn't always been like that for me. I can remember back to many mornings in which I *wasn't* looking forward to the events of the day, and to enjoying them, and to spreading that joy among the people I love. Instead, a large part of me was thinking how much better my day would be and my life would be if I were just enlightened. I got over it. Now I'm content with the moment, and trying to live it fully. I look upon this goal shift as having made spiritual progress. I've known so many seekers over the decades who have been sold lofty spiritual goals, which, once they bought into them, became the entire focus of their lives. These seekers may have *started* meditating just to enjoy their lives a little more, but that was before their teachers ran an upsell routine on them, and convinced them that these goals weren't lofty or meaningful enough. What was really important was to become enlightened. Or to actually levitate. Or to get thousands or millions of people to meditate and believe the same things they did. Or to achieve world peace. The lofty goals vary from spiritual trip to spiritual trip, but the purpose of them -- in my opinion -- never does. The lofty, probably unachievable goals are served up by the teachers to *distract* the students and keep them focused on the carrot-on-a-stick that keeps getting moved further and further away every year. The lofty goals are designed to keep them from noticing that they still haven't realized the lesser goals that were the reasons they started to meditate or pursue a spiritual path in the first place -- being able to live a happier, more fulfilling life, both for themselves and those they love, every day. How many people do you know who honestly believe that they won't be truly happy until they're enlightened? Be honest, now. Where do you think they *got* that belief? It was almost always given to them as part of an upsell campaign, from one or more of their spir- itual teachers. Now think about these people as individuals. How many of them would you characterize as being consistently happy in the Here And Now? My point is that many of them have *forgotten* about that lesser goal. They've been told that it's better to focus on the lofty goals, and they've been told this for so long that they have forgotten the reasons that they actually started meditating in the first place. I think it's more intelligent to backtrack a little, and try to remember those original lesser goals. Who CARES if you become enlightened, if you spend all of the days leading up to flashing out being not happy, and not fulfilled, always feeling that something is missing or lacking from your life? The last day of each of our lives is going to start exactly like today did. Chances are we're going to live it pretty much the same way we live today. I'm pretty sure, looking forward to my day -- I'm taking a bunch of kids to the beach -- that if it turns out to be my last day, I'll dive into the Bardo content and with the same smile on my face I caught a reflection of this morning in a window. And along the Way, I'll have probably shared that smile with a few others. Who needs more than that? I'll leave the lofty goals to those who feel that they're important. Call me a spiritual slacker, but I've come full circle to the goals I had when I first started meditating -- to become more able to live each day a little happier and a little more content, and thus more able to do nice and produc- tive things for the people I meet.
[FairfieldLife] Barriers being built to block entrance to Arunachala's Inner Path
Now the Forest Department is erecting barriers to block entrance to the Inner Path of Arunachala. See more in this post. http://richardarunachala.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/breaking-news-building-barriers-now-to-stop-arunachala-inner-path-pradakshina/ Richard
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upselling: lofty spiritual goals as a distraction from Here And Now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Walking my dogs this morning, I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, and couldn't help but notice the enormous smile on my face. At first I thought the proximity of Vlodrop might explain at least some of that, but just found out the distance between Leiden and Vlodrop is almost 100 miles! ;D
[FairfieldLife] Re: OMG: doSa-biija-kSaya and kaivalya
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: 1. ~ dawsha-beeja-kshu_yeah, heh... As in She loves you, yeah, yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YifXhm-Zc
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upselling: lofty spiritual goals as a distraction from Here And Now
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Walking my dogs this morning, I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, and couldn't help but notice the enormous smile on my face. At first I thought the proximity of Vlodrop might explain at least some of that, but just found out the distance between Leiden and Vlodrop is almost 100 miles! ;D Don't be silly. First, Vlodrop is more like 220 kilometers (137 miles) from Leiden. Second, the crime rates in the Eastern parts of the country (where Vlodrop is) are consistently as high or higher than in other parts of the Netherlands, *including* Amsterdam. Just across the border (and thus much closer to Vlodrop than Leiden), the Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) area of Germany is listed as the weakest economy among the German states, and has the 2nd-highest unemployment rate, at 8.1% Third, and most important, a bunch of people bouncing on their butts does absolutely *nothing* to improve the vibe of a place, or lower the crime rate, let alone increase the SILENCE of a place, as far as I can tell. The SILENCE is ever-present, ever-the-same-everywhere, and never-changing. I have journeyed to places of power all over the world, and any SILENCE I found there was equally present in New York City (the area around Wall Street is positively *smokin'* in the wee hours of the morning) and Paris (one feels the same SILENCE walking along the Seine). The SILENCE is there -- everywhere -- in equal amounts, *whether you notice it or not*. The only difference I think exists from place to place is whether the energies of that place are in harmony with your own, and thus allow you to *notice* the ever-present SILENCE when there. *For me* Leiden is a place of power because something in me resonates with the flow of energies along its many canals, and thus leaves me open to perceiving the SILENCE that underlies any city noises. There is no Woo Woo involved, *let alone* any emanating from Vlodrop. Get over it.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
...this little lady, Ms Dickinson, mastered something... Xeno, God I love your writing! also laughing because I've been concerned that I'm becoming as reclusive as Ms. Dickinson. But she NEVER went out so she's still the champ in this department. I think what she mastered was a major case of agoraphobia. Meaning she made the most of it. To grossly describe what she was and did. Not that she ever thought about that, being spared the inanities of the so called New Age. But what about when the ego turns being nobody into something spiritual? I'm just saying. Ego very tricky wicky. At least mine is. Share From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:57 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Here's what I think the dynamics of the situation are. There are a few people here whose lives are so empty, and who are basically so uninteresting, that the only thing they can think of to give them pleasure is to glom onto someone else whose life *IS* interesting, and act either as a groupie to that person, or as a hater of that person. My challenge to these sad people is to write something to this forum that is interesting in itself, rather than spend all their time fixating on others. I feel that this description accurately covers Judy Stein. She has proven herself over the years *incapable* of writing anything interesting about her own life and her own spiritual experiences, because...duh...there is nothing either interesting or spiritual IN that life. So instead she focuses on others, either as a groupie, the way she has with Maharishi and Robin, or as a hater, as she has with me, Curtis, Vaj, Sal, Ruth, Andrew Skolnick, and so many others. She focuses on them to take the focus off of her life, and how empty it is. The fascinating thing, from my point of view, is that there is a sizable contingent of people on this forum who actually ADMIRE her for doing this. They become *her* groupies. They sit back and enjoy her lashing out at interesting people for the crime of being inter- esting when she isn't, and they play pile on and aid her in attacking her hate object du jour. This became crystal-clear when Judy stupidly couldn't keep her hatred under control recently and overposted, and had to sit on the Stupid People's Bench for a week. What happened? *Her* groupies -- the people who have been filling the emptiness of their *own* lives by hanging on her vendettas -- came out of the woodwork and took up the slack, attacking Judy's enemies *for her*, during her absence. Those people were Ann (who positively *drools* in admiration of Judy's hatred), Emily, Share, Nabby, Robin, oxcart, feste, Buck, willytex, sparaig, and raunchydog. Every single one of them had to fill the void of Judy's absence by taking her place and fixating on the same hate-objects she does. I suggest that they did this for the same reason Judy does -- their lives are basically uninteresting and empty, and THEY CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY. I challenge the whole sorry lot of them to prove me wrong by writing posts to Fairfield Life that actually contain something positive. Posts that indicate that there is something more going on in their lives than being either a groupie to someone more interesting than themselves, or hating someone who is more inter- esting than themselves. My bet is that they can't do it. Share will probably come the closest, because she actually seems to have something of a life. The others...I don't think they will be able to think of ANYTHING to write about their own lives, and the positive or spiritual things that happen in those lives. And I submit that the reason is fairly obvious -- nothing interesting or spiritual IS happening in their lives, so they live them vicariously, by either becoming a groupie or a pile on hater. The challenge is leveled. You lot will either deal with it and try to respond, or you'll stay on the hater bandwagon. My money is on all or most of you doing the same old same old. Well here I am, staring at a white bread cheese sandwich (with the crusts trimmed off). The cheese has no colouring in it, so it looks almost white too. The cheese is from London. And the walls of this room are white. My clothes and underwear are white. I am surrounded by mood enhancing white purity. My new white computer and white keyboard arrive soon. Maybe if I close my eyes, I will see an inner white light. Life is like distilled water - purity in every direction. No wonder I have to post to this forum, just to get a little edge in somewhere. Who should I hate today? Let me count the ways. I think random selection is a good method, because it can surprise me as well as the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Barriers being built to block entrance to Arunachala's Inner Path
Namaste Richard, is there anything we can do to help? Share From: Richard rich...@infinitepie.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Barriers being built to block entrance to Arunachala's Inner Path Now the Forest Department is erecting barriers to block entrance to the Inner Path of Arunachala. See more in this post. http://richardarunachala.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/breaking-news-building-barriers-now-to-stop-arunachala-inner-path-pradakshina/ Richard
[FairfieldLife] Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Romney/Ryan, a ticket serious about fiscal conservatism and entitlement reform. You can't ask for a clearer choice about the direction of the country. Tax and spend or Not to tax and spend, that is the question. Will we face four more years of trillion dollar deficits, exploding debt, unemployment, and punishing success or will we stop the insanity? Change! YES WE CAN!
[FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Here's one for Sandy: http://www.wimp.com/moretricks/ http://www.wimp.com/moretricks/ That's the way to start a day! Great video.
[FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All
Oh my, oh my,my Share You really did not care? [:D] Groupies of All already gave you a look askance Will you, won't you really won't you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? The Turquoiseb Quadrille Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to LongShare, There's a Turquoise close behind us, he's treading without any care. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea! But LongShare replied Too far, too far! and gave a look askance -- Said she thanked the whiting kindly, but she would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. What matters it how far we go? her scaly friend replied. There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The further off from FFL the nearer is No Chance-- Then turn not pale, beloved LongShare, but come and join the dance. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? Parody of The Spider and the Fly by Mary Botham Howitt,written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) blemished and spoiled by meruma(i)d --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Well at least Barry's never called me a fly before (-: From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hi Judy, When Barry writes about Leiden or The Newsroom, it sounds authentic to me.à OTOH, I know what you mean.à Several times I've been reading a post of Barry's, including one to me, and he'll be positive.à Then bam!à Suddenly he'll say something really negative.à And I'm like, what just happened?!à It seems to come out of left field.à It has baffled me.à I guess with Barry as soon as I sense negativity coming, I simply stop reading.à That way whatever he's said that's positive can stand on its own congruence.à And beauty. à à There is positive and negative in us all.à Since I love psychology, I simply wonder, how can we best live with this fact.à I'm still learning. What fascinates me about your post, Judy is the idea that the positive is a set up for the negative.à I'd never thought of it that way.à Why would someone do such?à Share Will you step into my parlor? said the spider to the fly; 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there. O no, no, said the little fly, to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again The spider turned him round about, and went into his den, For well he knew the silly fly would soon be back again: So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner sly, And set his table ready to dine upon the fly. Then he came out to his door again, and merrily did sing Come hither, hither, pretty fly, with the pearl and silver wing: Your robes are green and purple; there's a crest upon your head; Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed; Unto an evil counselor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly. From: authfriend jstein@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All à --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: snip But here is one question that keeps arising in me.à And we have the perfect example this morning.à Barry wrote something wonderful about silence.à Nabby replied but with a barb.à Why why why?à Why why why keep the negativity going?à Why not simply enjoy positive offering? Share, it's difficult to respond positively even to something positive when it's from someone who is so overwhelmingly negative. When he posts something positive, it's incongruous; there's no way he can make it sound authentic. If you look at that positive post again, moreover, you'll see that only the first four paragraphs are positive. The last five are all negative. It's difficult to avoid
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some facts and background on Robin Carlsen / umasking the zebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: To capture another line used in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - it's always alright in the end; if it's not alright, it's not the end. Â Great Pearl!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some facts and background on Robin Carlsen / umasking the zebra
So we must celebrate the changes. Or haven't we traveled far enough that we cannot allow our tears to fallï¼ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: To capture another line used in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - it's always alright in the end; if it's not alright, it's not the end. Â Great Pearl!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some facts and background on Robin Carlsen / umasking the zebra
So we must celebrate the changes. Or haven't we traveled far enough that we cannot allow our tears to fall? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: To capture another line used in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - it's always alright in the end; if it's not alright, it's not the end. Â Great Pearl!
[FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
Oh Emily, what a cool person you are. I wish we could meet and take those walks with the dog, I'll go with you to the rheumatologist and cook you some gluten free, dairy free goodies. Then we can sit down, have a cool drink under a shady tree and laugh about life. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Barry, baby!  I made the list!  Merci beaucoup and I love you too.  Now, I spent the last week listening and watching...what a week.  Let me think about the interesting moments.  I cried Barry, cried for Lord Knows, cried for Robin, cried...and cooked.  Comfort food.  Lasagna, chicken divan, strawberry pie.  I made a really delicious and dense vegetarian lasagna with mushrooms, onions, carrots, green pepper, broccoli, spinach, fresh basil and whoops...double the amount of mozzarella.  Used rice noodles. And then, horrors...I got the results of my allergy tests back and in addition to gluten, I am highly allergic these days to cows milk.  I cried again.  My favorite cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt - all off the table.  The naturopath encouraged me to go to Whole Foods and sample the sheep and goat cheeses.  Seriously, Barry?  I don't know if I can accommodate the after tastes.  But, whatever it takes to feel better Barry, that's what I'll do.  And, it's finally off to the rheumatologist.  And then the car went into the shop.  The AC doesn't work - not worth it to fix it.  The freeze plug in the engine is leaking...not worth it to fix it.  Just need to keep water and antifreeze in the car and check the fluids every few days.  A jeep, an American car...only 185,000 miles on it.  It needs to keep running Barry, it needs to get me up to the mountains a few more times.  What else of interest?  Lots of walks with the dog.  Barry, I'm trying to train her that her morning walk depends on my getting a cup of coffee.  I must have time to grind the beans, heat the water, filter it through, drink it slowly - feel it seep into my nervous system.  The terrier needs to meditate Barry, she does.  Her patience level in the morning is zilch, nada, zero.  But, she's a smart one, she'll learn.  Small steps, I tell her, small steps. Well, there you have it.  The most interesting parts of my week.  Now, remember (to capture a line from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)...when I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.  Ramble on, Barry, ramble on.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:15 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies  Here's what I think the dynamics of the situation are. There are a few people here whose lives are so empty, and who are basically so uninteresting, that the only thing they can think of to give them pleasure is to glom onto someone else whose life *IS* interesting, and act either as a groupie to that person, or as a hater of that person. My challenge to these sad people is to write something to this forum that is interesting in itself, rather than spend all their time fixating on others. I feel that this description accurately covers Judy Stein. She has proven herself over the years *incapable* of writing anything interesting about her own life and her own spiritual experiences, because...duh...there is nothing either interesting or spiritual IN that life. So instead she focuses on others, either as a groupie, the way she has with Maharishi and Robin, or as a hater, as she has with me, Curtis, Vaj, Sal, Ruth, Andrew Skolnick, and so many others. She focuses on them to take the focus off of her life, and how empty it is. The fascinating thing, from my point of view, is that there is a sizable contingent of people on this forum who actually ADMIRE her for doing this. They become *her* groupies. They sit back and enjoy her lashing out at interesting people for the crime of being inter- esting when she isn't, and they play pile on and aid her in attacking her hate object du jour. This became crystal-clear when Judy stupidly couldn't keep her hatred under control recently and overposted, and had to sit on the Stupid People's Bench for a week. What happened? *Her* groupies -- the people who have been filling the emptiness of their *own* lives by hanging on her vendettas -- came out of the woodwork and took up the slack, attacking Judy's enemies *for her*, during her absence. Those people were Ann (who positively *drools* in admiration of Judy's hatred), Emily, Share, Nabby, Robin, oxcart, feste, Buck, willytex, sparaig, and raunchydog. Every single one of them had to fill the void of Judy's absence by taking her place and fixating on the same hate-objects she does. I suggest that they did this for the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Mike Dixon: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Obama never held a real job so he knows next to nothing about being an entrepeneur. So, I'm going to vote for the business man and the budget man. If you have a small business, you did build that! - U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan http://tinyurl.com/8j4ach3
[FairfieldLife] Re: Batty Wright
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 08/10/2012 05:38 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Oh, Curtis, go melt down your curdled testosterone on somebody else. I didn't lie and you know it. Nor was what I said about you in the least bit malicious. For Christ's sake, I was *defending your buddy* to Rick. Your buddy's the one who actually *did* lie to try to make your conflict with Ravi appear to be what had gotten Ravi bounced, and to try to convince readers I had lied when he knew otherwise. It's no wonder you didn't correct him. Unlike you, I try to go with what is *right*, not with who my buddies are. It wasn't *right* for Dan Friedman to post rumors about Barry's sexuality, any more than it was right for Ravi to accuse you of being a predator. Same situation. The latter very likely did play a major role in Ravi getting canned. You yourself said his having revealed someone's real name was only what tipped the balance. And that's what I said too, that revealing the name was the *proximate* cause, regardless of what else went into it. So unwind your panties and try to calm down. You're just making yourself look as foolish as your buddy does when he gets into one of his snits and loses all control of himself. Find somebody who gives a shit to beat up on and make yourself feel all manly. Sheesh, you've got yourself so twisted up you're blowing your self-righteousness right out your ass. And believe me, it already smelled bad enough in here before you let loose. Faugh. What a creep. Snits and Shits on FFLife: http://youtu.be/xP1-oquwoL8 One of my favorite dark comedies. I laugh and laugh every time I watch it! :-D What's funniest is that she was so out of control, and so desperate to make this one last rant, that she overposted. Again. Looks like it's another week on the Stupid People's Bench for Judy. :-) No, no dear Barry. I think she is the smart one. Who wouldn't want to be forcefully removed from the loony bin? She, at least, has gotten out alive. She knew what she was doing, I'll bet you anything. If you don't know that, you have no idea about her and you've known (of her) a lot longer than I have.
[FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All
This is why I love you Merudanda. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: Oh my, oh my,my Share You really did not care? [:D] Groupies of All already gave you a look askance Will you, won't you really won't you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? The Turquoiseb Quadrille Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to LongShare, There's a Turquoise close behind us, he's treading without any care. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea! But LongShare replied Too far, too far! and gave a look askance -- Said she thanked the whiting kindly, but she would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. What matters it how far we go? her scaly friend replied. There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The further off from FFL the nearer is No Chance-- Then turn not pale, beloved LongShare, but come and join the dance. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? Parody of The Spider and the Fly by Mary Botham Howitt,written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) blemished and spoiled by meruma(i)d --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Well at least Barry's never called me a fly before (-: From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hi Judy, When Barry writes about Leiden or The Newsroom, it sounds authentic to me.à OTOH, I know what you mean.à Several times I've been reading a post of Barry's, including one to me, and he'll be positive.à Then bam!à Suddenly he'll say something really negative.à And I'm like, what just happened?!à It seems to come out of left field.à It has baffled me.à I guess with Barry as soon as I sense negativity coming, I simply stop reading.à That way whatever he's said that's positive can stand on its own congruence.à And beauty. à à There is positive and negative in us all.à Since I love psychology, I simply wonder, how can we best live with this fact.à I'm still learning. What fascinates me about your post, Judy is the idea that the positive is a set up for the negative.à I'd never thought of it that way.à Why would someone do such?à Share Will you step into my parlor? said the spider to the fly; 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there. O no, no, said the little fly, to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again The spider turned him round about, and went into his den, For well he knew the silly fly would soon be back again: So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner sly, And set his table ready to dine upon the fly. Then he came out to his door again, and merrily did sing Come hither, hither, pretty fly, with the pearl and silver wing: Your robes are green and purple; there's a crest upon your head; Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed; Unto an evil counselor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly. From: authfriend jstein@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All à --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: snip But here is one question that keeps arising in me.à And we have the perfect example this morning.à Barry wrote something wonderful about silence.à Nabby replied but with a barb.à Why why why?à Why why why keep the negativity going?à Why not simply enjoy positive offering? Share, it's difficult to respond positively even to something positive when it's from someone who is so overwhelmingly negative. When he posts something positive, it's incongruous;
[FairfieldLife] the door closes with a gentle sigh
Dear Robin, Two lines have come to me which express the sense I now have about what has transpired between us over the last few days the door closes with a gentle sigh behind me stepping into a quiet dawn, s what is that sound That is the simple sense I have, let it be. I sent you two private emails on Thursday but it seems they might not have been received by you, it doesn't really matter because this message is my concluding communication to you. I am not envisioning any more posting on FFL or any more private communications. Good Bye and may peace be with you, Lord Knows
[FairfieldLife] Re: the door closes with a gentle sigh
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lordknows888 lordknows888@... wrote: Dear Robin, Two lines have come to me which express the sense I now have about what has transpired between us over the last few days the door closes with a gentle sigh behind me stepping into a quiet dawn, s what is that sound That is the simple sense I have, let it be. Good exit line. Classy. Compare and contrast to Judy's. Having succeeded in dragging Curtis' name into a forum on which he no longer participates, having intentionally mischar- acterized him in hopes of luring him into coming back long enough to defend himself, Judy uses the opportunity of what she believes is a captive audience to unload on him, trying to fit all the hatred she's built up over many years into one last hate-filled, hysterical, stomp-away-and- slam-the-door-behind-her Drama Queen tirade: Oh, Curtis, go melt down your curdled testosterone on somebody else. I didn't lie and you know it. Nor was what I said about you in the least bit malicious. For Christ's sake, I was *defending your buddy* to Rick. Your buddy's the one who actually *did* lie to try to make your conflict with Ravi appear to be what had gotten Ravi bounced, and to try to convince readers I had lied when he knew otherwise. It's no wonder you didn't correct him. Unlike you, I try to go with what is *right*, not with who my buddies are. It wasn't *right* for Dan Friedman to post rumors about Barry's sexuality, any more than it was right for Ravi to accuse you of being a predator. Same situation. The latter very likely did play a major role in Ravi getting canned. You yourself said his having revealed someone's real name was only what tipped the balance. And that's what I said too, that revealing the name was the *proximate* cause, regardless of what else went into it. So unwind your panties and try to calm down. You're just making yourself look as foolish as your buddy does when he gets into one of his snits and loses all control of himself. Find somebody who gives a shit to beat up on and make yourself feel all manly. Sheesh, you've got yourself so twisted up you're blowing your self-righteousness right out your ass. And believe me, it already smelled bad enough in here before you let loose. Faugh. What a creep. Some people have class, and some don't. Simple as that...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Upselling: lofty spiritual goals as a distraction from Here And Now
Great... And you are still posting things in FFL because...? And you still attack Judy because? etc. It seems to me that you haven't really gotten over much of anything. You're still carrying the woman we left back in the village a few miles back... So to speak. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Walking my dogs this morning, I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, and couldn't help but notice the enormous smile on my face. The day is beautiful -- warm, sunny, and almost what summer is supposed to be like in places other than the Netherlands :-), and I noticed the smile and it made me realize that I *really* look forward to the rest of my day. Life on a 46-year spiritual path hasn't always been like that for me. I can remember back to many mornings in which I *wasn't* looking forward to the events of the day, and to enjoying them, and to spreading that joy among the people I love. Instead, a large part of me was thinking how much better my day would be and my life would be if I were just enlightened. I got over it. Now I'm content with the moment, and trying to live it fully. I look upon this goal shift as having made spiritual progress. I've known so many seekers over the decades who have been sold lofty spiritual goals, which, once they bought into them, became the entire focus of their lives. These seekers may have *started* meditating just to enjoy their lives a little more, but that was before their teachers ran an upsell routine on them, and convinced them that these goals weren't lofty or meaningful enough. What was really important was to become enlightened. Or to actually levitate. Or to get thousands or millions of people to meditate and believe the same things they did. Or to achieve world peace. The lofty goals vary from spiritual trip to spiritual trip, but the purpose of them -- in my opinion -- never does. The lofty, probably unachievable goals are served up by the teachers to *distract* the students and keep them focused on the carrot-on-a-stick that keeps getting moved further and further away every year. The lofty goals are designed to keep them from noticing that they still haven't realized the lesser goals that were the reasons they started to meditate or pursue a spiritual path in the first place -- being able to live a happier, more fulfilling life, both for themselves and those they love, every day. How many people do you know who honestly believe that they won't be truly happy until they're enlightened? Be honest, now. Where do you think they *got* that belief? It was almost always given to them as part of an upsell campaign, from one or more of their spir- itual teachers. Now think about these people as individuals. How many of them would you characterize as being consistently happy in the Here And Now? My point is that many of them have *forgotten* about that lesser goal. They've been told that it's better to focus on the lofty goals, and they've been told this for so long that they have forgotten the reasons that they actually started meditating in the first place. I think it's more intelligent to backtrack a little, and try to remember those original lesser goals. Who CARES if you become enlightened, if you spend all of the days leading up to flashing out being not happy, and not fulfilled, always feeling that something is missing or lacking from your life? The last day of each of our lives is going to start exactly like today did. Chances are we're going to live it pretty much the same way we live today. I'm pretty sure, looking forward to my day -- I'm taking a bunch of kids to the beach -- that if it turns out to be my last day, I'll dive into the Bardo content and with the same smile on my face I caught a reflection of this morning in a window. And along the Way, I'll have probably shared that smile with a few others. Who needs more than that? I'll leave the lofty goals to those who feel that they're important. Call me a spiritual slacker, but I've come full circle to the goals I had when I first started meditating -- to become more able to live each day a little happier and a little more content, and thus more able to do nice and produc- tive things for the people I meet.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Upselling: lofty spiritual goals as a distraction from Here And Now
Hi TurqB, your day does sound wonderful. As does what you call your goal shift and resulting spiritual progress. I'm happy for you. Thanks for your insights which evoked in me what I write below. For your phrase Here and Now I'm using the word presence. Anyway, in my experience at any given moment a person is always some mix of presence and what you call distraction. For myself, in a nanosecond I can slide from 90% presence and 10% distractedness to 10% presence and 90% distractedness. It helps to have an intention to be more present. And definitely for me, the state of my physiology can play a major role in how present or distracted I am. So important to stay rested, eat healthily, exercise, etc. Common sense stuff. And sometimes good to ignore this too (-: What also helps me be more present is just being more in my body. Awareness on sensations or on the breath or on focused perception. I think this is the direction spirituality is taking now, thank God. Embodied spirituality. The spirit matter split being healed. Tough love can definitely be a part of this healing. But only if it's balanced by compassionate love. Both the stick and the carrot are needed to keep us all on the path of becoming happier in ourselves and more loving towards others. And it seems that some of us are better at the stick aspect and some at the carrot. Too much of either is not ideal. But I'd say in general, better to err on the side of compassionate love than tough love. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 2:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Upselling: lofty spiritual goals as a distraction from Here And Now Walking my dogs this morning, I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, and couldn't help but notice the enormous smile on my face. The day is beautiful -- warm, sunny, and almost what summer is supposed to be like in places other than the Netherlands :-), and I noticed the smile and it made me realize that I *really* look forward to the rest of my day. Life on a 46-year spiritual path hasn't always been like that for me. I can remember back to many mornings in which I *wasn't* looking forward to the events of the day, and to enjoying them, and to spreading that joy among the people I love. Instead, a large part of me was thinking how much better my day would be and my life would be if I were just enlightened. I got over it. Now I'm content with the moment, and trying to live it fully. I look upon this goal shift as having made spiritual progress. I've known so many seekers over the decades who have been sold lofty spiritual goals, which, once they bought into them, became the entire focus of their lives. These seekers may have *started* meditating just to enjoy their lives a little more, but that was before their teachers ran an upsell routine on them, and convinced them that these goals weren't lofty or meaningful enough. What was really important was to become enlightened. Or to actually levitate. Or to get thousands or millions of people to meditate and believe the same things they did. Or to achieve world peace. The lofty goals vary from spiritual trip to spiritual trip, but the purpose of them -- in my opinion -- never does. The lofty, probably unachievable goals are served up by the teachers to *distract* the students and keep them focused on the carrot-on-a-stick that keeps getting moved further and further away every year. The lofty goals are designed to keep them from noticing that they still haven't realized the lesser goals that were the reasons they started to meditate or pursue a spiritual path in the first place -- being able to live a happier, more fulfilling life, both for themselves and those they love, every day. How many people do you know who honestly believe that they won't be truly happy until they're enlightened? Be honest, now. Where do you think they *got* that belief? It was almost always given to them as part of an upsell campaign, from one or more of their spir- itual teachers. Now think about these people as individuals. How many of them would you characterize as being consistently happy in the Here And Now? My point is that many of them have *forgotten* about that lesser goal. They've been told that it's better to focus on the lofty goals, and they've been told this for so long that they have forgotten the reasons that they actually started meditating in the first place. I think it's more intelligent to backtrack a little, and try to remember those original lesser goals. Who CARES if you become enlightened, if you spend all of the days leading up to flashing out being not happy, and not fulfilled, always feeling that something is missing or lacking from your life? The last day of each of our lives is going to start exactly like today did. Chances are we're going to live it pretty much the same way we live
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All
meruma(i)d uhoh, have I messed up again beloved meruD? sigh...if yes, apologies, etc. if no, then thank you. I think (-: nonetheless bowing to the master of the dance here on FFL there too here too From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All Oh my, oh my,my Share You really did not care? Groupies of All already gave you a look askance Will you, won't you really won't you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? The Turquoiseb Quadrille Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to LongShare, There's a Turquoise close behind us, he's treading without any care. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea! But LongShare replied Too far, too far! and gave a look askance -- Said she thanked the whiting kindly, but she would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. What matters it how far we go? her scaly friend replied. There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The further off from FFL the nearer is No Chance-- Then turn not pale, beloved LongShare, but come and join the dance. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? Parody of The Spider and the Fly by Mary Botham Howitt,written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) blemished and spoiled by meruma(i)d --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Well at least Barry's never called me a fly before (-: From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Hi Judy, When Barry writes about Leiden or The Newsroom, it sounds authentic to me. OTOH, I know what you mean. Several times I've been reading a post of Barry's, including one to me, and he'll be positive. Then bam! Suddenly he'll say something really negative. And I'm like, what just happened?! It seems to come out of left field. It has baffled me. I guess with Barry as soon as I sense negativity coming, I simply stop reading. That way whatever he's said that's positive can stand on its own congruence. And beauty.   There is positive and negative in us all. Since I love psychology, I simply wonder, how can we best live with this fact. I'm still learning. What fascinates me about your post, Judy is the idea that the positive is a set up for the negative. I'd never thought of it that way. Why would someone do such? Share Will you step into my parlor? said the spider to the fly; 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there. O no, no, said the little fly, to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again The spider turned him round about, and went into his den, For well he knew the silly fly would soon be back again: So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner sly, And set his table ready to dine upon the fly. Then he came out to his door again, and merrily did sing Come hither, hither, pretty fly, with the pearl and silver wing: Your robes are green and purple; there's a crest upon your head; Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed; Unto an evil counselor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly. From: authfriend jstein@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: snip But here is one question that keeps arising in me. And we have the perfect example this morning. Barry wrote something wonderful about silence. Nabby replied but with a barb. Why why why? Why why why keep the negativity going? Why not
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
Oh my God, too cute. Thank you RD, sent to my sister and her family which includes a Jack Russell terrier. From: seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 8:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Here's one for Sandy: http://www.wimp.com/moretricks/ That's the way to start a day! Great video.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barriers being built to block entrance to Arunachala's Inner Path
The best help would be from someone that knows influential Tamil Nadu politicians, like Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, or movie actor Rajinikanth. Rajinikanth did great service to Arunachala Pradakshina a few years back. Or that know important people in Tiruvannamalai. This now is political, I think, and pressure from the top would work best. Anyone know people like this in India? Richard --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Namaste Richard, is there anything we can do to help? Share From: Richard richard@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Barriers being built to block entrance to Arunachala's Inner Path  Now the Forest Department is erecting barriers to block entrance to the Inner Path of Arunachala. See more in this post. http://richardarunachala.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/breaking-news-building-barriers-now-to-stop-arunachala-inner-path-pradakshina/ Richard
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Yeah, but you have to give Obama credit for organizing discontent and failure into the hope of being taken care of *better* from cradle to grave. From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Mike Dixon: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Obama never held a real job so he knows next to nothing about being an entrepeneur. So, I'm going to vote for the business man and the budget man. If you have a small business, you did build that! - U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan http://tinyurl.com/8j4ach3
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
You built the roads and schools and the internet that everyone uses? Those were cooperative efforts made possible by government financing, participation, coordination and regulation. And many small businesses come about by accepting small business loans from the government as well. Both sides like to trot out extremist sound-bites, but i this case, the you didn't build that mockers such as yourself and Richard, are more guilty than the other side. Or such is my opinion. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Yeah, but you have to give Obama credit for organizing discontent and failure into the hope of being taken care of *better* from cradle to grave. From: Richard J. Williams richard@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Â Mike Dixon: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Obama never held a real job so he knows next to nothing about being an entrepeneur. So, I'm going to vote for the business man and the budget man. If you have a small business, you did build that! - U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan http://tinyurl.com/8j4ach3
Re: [FairfieldLife] Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
On 08/11/2012 05:22 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: Romney/Ryan, a ticket serious about fiscal conservatism and entitlement reform. You can't ask for a clearer choice about the direction of the country. Tax and spend or Not to tax and spend, that is the question. Will we face four more years of trillion dollar deficits, exploding debt, unemployment, and punishing success or will we stop the insanity? Change! YES WE CAN! ROTFL! Like Zombie Ryan can solve the problems the Republiscums created in the first place. a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/; title=Zombie Ryan by Bhairitu, on Flickrimg src=http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5462/7043042671_00b039ac50.jpg; width=500 height=281 alt=Zombie Ryan/a (This is a test as the photo link may not work as expected)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re-Election
Remember who was President four years ago? Remember who was Vice President? Guess on whose watch the bankster handouts occurred? Clue: in September 2008 Obama was not yet in office. On 08/10/2012 07:23 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: Because... you're better-off today than you were four years ago? From: Mark msilver1...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re-Election Based on the President's economic track record *and* his political ideology, present an argument why I should vote for him in November.
[FairfieldLife] TM Projects
Does anyone have any idea of how many projects the Movement and Maharishi solicited funds for which subsequently were never built or completed?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All
Hi Judy, will also send directly to you in case you're taking a complete break from FFL. Anyway, just this morning I read your whole post. Ugh, this is why I abhor emailing sometimes. I thought your post ended just above my comment to Nabby about loving his crop circles. The funny thing is ha ha that my vicious remark was about a comment that Buck made in reference to a photo that merudanda posted. It had nothing to do with Barry. In fact, it had nothing to do with merudanda. Thank you for clearing up the mystery. And I will say here and now that as far as I can tell, which isn't that far given my short time here, TurqB has made the most vicious remark of all. Ann referred to it which contained the c word and a wish for someone's death! Without know any details, will say that was well over the line. Just so you know, I don't feel under anyone's thumb on FFL. Or in 3D life either. If anything, and despite my apologizing often, I probably tend to be too independent. The apologizing is a safety procedure. Just in case I've stepped on someone's heart. Better to be safe and start the healing than to avoid and then festering occurs. I do also believe that sometimes the toughest exteriors protect the tenderest hearts. I'm not saying that excuses any negative behavior. I just keep the tender heart in mind. And give the tough exterior wide berth. Hope you have a good week. Share From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: groupie of All --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: snip But here is one question that keeps arising in me. And we have the perfect example this morning. Barry wrote something wonderful about silence. Nabby replied but with a barb. Why why why? Why why why keep the negativity going? Why not simply enjoy positive offering? Share, it's difficult to respond positively even to something positive when it's from someone who is so overwhelmingly negative. When he posts something positive, it's incongruous; there's no way he can make it sound authentic. If you look at that positive post again, moreover, you'll see that only the first four paragraphs are positive. The last five are all negative. It's difficult to avoid the impression that the positive stuff in the beginning was just a setup for the negative at the end. Here it is again: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/316612 Apologies Mr. Nabby, I love your crop circles. But why why why? Also, Barry says I joined in the latest surge of hatefulness. Which I honestly don't remember doing You didn't. This is just Barry being hateful. He hates me because I don't stand for his crap, and he wants desperately to isolate me from everyone else. He's been trying to do this for years without success. One of his tactics is to characterize anybody who might share my views about some person or issue as being somehow under my influence. He hopes this will prevent them from expressing the same views lest they be seen as my puppet. In this case he's referring to your observation, during the week I was out, about some people here making vicious posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/315201 You see, I've referred to some posts being vicious as well (especially Barry's), so if you express the same view, it's not because you've made this observation on your own, it can only be (according to Barry) because you've been influenced by me. The same goes, in Barry's scenario, for anyone here who has ever thought his posts or those of his allies were vicious. They were not thinking for themselves, they were simply parroting me. They're my groupies. You didn't realize you were under my thumb, did you, Share? Well, that's how powerful I am. I can control your thoughts without your even realizing it. ;-) Let's look again at what Barry wrote: *Her* groupies -- the people who have been filling the emptiness of their *own* lives by hanging on her vendettas -- came out of the woodwork and 'took up the slack,' attacking Judy's enemies *for her*, during her absence. Those people were Ann (who positively *drools* in admiration of Judy's hatred), Emily, Share, Nabby, Robin, oxcart, feste, Buck, willytex, sparaig, and raunchydog. Every single one of them had to 'fill the void' of Judy's absence by taking her place and fixating on the same hate-objects she does. None of the 10 people Barry lists, according to what he would have readers believe, was expressing his or her own independent thoughts about Barry (or iranitea, or Vaj) during that week I was out. If it weren't for me and my overwhelming influence, it would never occur to any of them to think ill of any of these three people. Does that sound just a tad far-fetched? You can make up your own mind about that, Share, and so can the other nine people on
Re: [FairfieldLife] the door closes with a gentle sigh
Dear Lord Knows, again thank you for posting your closure here. In addition to crying for you and Robin last week, I cried for myself and my children. I rendered great harm on them at one point in my life and I strive to make amends every day. Forgiveness is a messy affair - my ego gets in the way at times - but ultimately, I am 100% accountable as an adult for my actions, no matter what the reason, and they must know it was not their fault. May peace be with you as well. From: lordknows888 lordknows...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] the door closes with a gentle sigh Dear Robin, Two lines have come to me which express the sense I now have about what has transpired between us over the last few days the door closes with a gentle sigh behind me stepping into a quiet dawn, s what is that sound That is the simple sense I have, let it be. I sent you two private emails on Thursday but it seems they might not have been received by you, it doesn't really matter because this message is my concluding communication to you. I am not envisioning any more posting on FFL or any more private communications. Good Bye and may peace be with you, Lord Knows
[FairfieldLife] Re: the door closes with a gentle sigh
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lordknows888 lordknows888@... wrote: Dear Robin, Two lines have come to me which express the sense I now have about what has transpired between us over the last few days the door closes with a gentle sigh behind me stepping into a quiet dawn, s what is that sound That is the simple sense I have, let it be. I sent you two private emails on Thursday but it seems they might not have been received by you, it doesn't really matter because this message is my concluding communication to you. I am not envisioning any more posting on FFL or any more private communications. Good Bye and may peace be with you, Lord Knows For here at least the lord then knows no more, but what is still known is more than enough to fill the world.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
Hey, I have an aunt in Victoria and took my younger daughter up there for Spring Break last year - a great time was had by all. Victoria does have all those beautiful oak trees. Thank god I'm not allergic to good wine - yet, anyway. Ha. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies Oh Emily, what a cool person you are. I wish we could meet and take those walks with the dog, I'll go with you to the rheumatologist and cook you some gluten free, dairy free goodies. Then we can sit down, have a cool drink under a shady tree and laugh about life. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Barry, baby!  I made the list!  Merci beaucoup and I love you too.  Now, I spent the last week listening and watching...what a week.  Let me think about the interesting moments.  I cried Barry, cried for Lord Knows, cried for Robin, cried...and cooked.  Comfort food.  Lasagna, chicken divan, strawberry pie.  I made a really delicious and dense vegetarian lasagna with mushrooms, onions, carrots, green pepper, broccoli, spinach, fresh basil and whoops...double the amount of mozzarella.  Used rice noodles. And then, horrors...I got the results of my allergy tests back and in addition to gluten, I am highly allergic these days to cows milk.  I cried again.  My favorite cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt - all off the table.  The naturopath encouraged me to go to Whole Foods and sample the sheep and goat cheeses.  Seriously, Barry?  I don't know if I can accommodate the after tastes.  But, whatever it takes to feel better Barry, that's what I'll do.  And, it's finally off to the rheumatologist.  And then the car went into the shop.  The AC doesn't work - not worth it to fix it.  The freeze plug in the engine is leaking...not worth it to fix it.  Just need to keep water and antifreeze in the car and check the fluids every few days.  A jeep, an American car...only 185,000 miles on it.  It needs to keep running Barry, it needs to get me up to the mountains a few more times.  What else of interest?  Lots of walks with the dog.  Barry, I'm trying to train her that her morning walk depends on my getting a cup of coffee.  I must have time to grind the beans, heat the water, filter it through, drink it slowly - feel it seep into my nervous system.  The terrier needs to meditate Barry, she does.  Her patience level in the morning is zilch, nada, zero.  But, she's a smart one, she'll learn.  Small steps, I tell her, small steps. Well, there you have it.  The most interesting parts of my week.  Now, remember (to capture a line from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)...when I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.  Ramble on, Barry, ramble on.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:15 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies  Here's what I think the dynamics of the situation are. There are a few people here whose lives are so empty, and who are basically so uninteresting, that the only thing they can think of to give them pleasure is to glom onto someone else whose life *IS* interesting, and act either as a groupie to that person, or as a hater of that person. My challenge to these sad people is to write something to this forum that is interesting in itself, rather than spend all their time fixating on others. I feel that this description accurately covers Judy Stein. She has proven herself over the years *incapable* of writing anything interesting about her own life and her own spiritual experiences, because...duh...there is nothing either interesting or spiritual IN that life. So instead she focuses on others, either as a groupie, the way she has with Maharishi and Robin, or as a hater, as she has with me, Curtis, Vaj, Sal, Ruth, Andrew Skolnick, and so many others. She focuses on them to take the focus off of her life, and how empty it is. The fascinating thing, from my point of view, is that there is a sizable contingent of people on this forum who actually ADMIRE her for doing this. They become *her* groupies. They sit back and enjoy her lashing out at interesting people for the crime of being inter- esting when she isn't, and they play pile on and aid her in attacking her hate object du jour. This became crystal-clear when Judy stupidly couldn't keep her hatred under control recently and overposted, and had to sit on the Stupid People's Bench for a week. What happened? *Her* groupies -- the people who have been filling the emptiness of their *own*
[FairfieldLife] Xeno - the Guru Papers
Xeno, no I haven't read the full book - only excerpts - and not the Chapter you referenced. But, you remind me that I received a Kindle as a gift and could try it out if the book is available electronically. I swear I'm almost ready for the big print Reader's Digest!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
George W. Bush was a business guy too...so I don't know why this is a plus... Corporations can be ruthless, and Romney fits that description... We pray that the United States does not fall prey to ruthless leaders, like the Republican Right Wing Facists'... Obama/Biden 2012; compassionate intelligent leadership for a strong America... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams richard@... wrote: Mike Dixon: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Obama never held a real job so he knows next to nothing about being an entrepeneur. So, I'm going to vote for the business man and the budget man. If you have a small business, you did build that! - U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan http://tinyurl.com/8j4ach3
[FairfieldLife] GOP Has a Non-Protestant Presidential Ticket
It appears that the GOP handlers think this ticket is acceptable to most Americans. Perhaps, it's because many Americans don't think Obama is a Christian. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ryan-means-no-protestant-presidential-ticket-first-103055320.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Since the 1980's when Reagan sold out this country to corporate interests, outsourcing, hidiing money overseas, it has been harder and harder for people to make a decent living... Multi-National Corporations have ruthlessly continue to nickel and dime everyone, and refuse to pay taxes... When so much wealth has been hoarded at the top, it is time to force a 'Trickle Down' by taxing the wealthy at the top, as they can surely afford it... Romney has never had the experience of wondering where his next dollar is going to come from; because like George Bush, he was born rich... To think that these Corporate types have anything in mind except to continuing to pump money to the military for contracts we don't need, pump money to the rich who don't need it, and let the infrastructure continue to deterorate, is just plain stupid... Vote for intelligence and compassion: Obama/Biden 2012. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Romney/Ryan, a ticket serious about fiscal conservatism and entitlement reform. You can't ask for a clearer choice about the direction of the country. Tax and spend or Not to tax and spend, that is the question. Will we face four more years of trillion dollar deficits, exploding debt, unemployment, and punishing success or will we stop the insanity? Change! YES WE CAN!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Batty Wright
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: snipIf you don't know that, you have no idea about her and you've known (of her) a lot longer than I have. The biblical meaning would have been more interesting.
[FairfieldLife] Re: GOP Has a Non-Protestant Presidential Ticket
The one who is not a 'Christian' is Romney, because Mormons are not Christians, as it is a made up religion, based in racism and polygomy... They have a very closed social system, based in closed mindedness... Very dangerous person to be president of an open society, because these people want to take the country back to Dick Cheney territory... I pray to God that President Obama wins a second term! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: It appears that the GOP handlers think this ticket is acceptable to most Americans. Perhaps, it's because many Americans don't think Obama is a Christian. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ryan-means-no-protestant-presidential-ticket-first-103055320.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: the door closes with a gentle sigh
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lordknows888 lordknows888@ wrote: Dear Robin, Two lines have come to me which express the sense I now have about what has transpired between us over the last few days the door closes with a gentle sigh behind me stepping into a quiet dawn, s what is that sound That is the simple sense I have, let it be. I sent you two private emails on Thursday but it seems they might not have been received by you, it doesn't really matter because this message is my concluding communication to you. I am not envisioning any more posting on FFL or any more private communications. Good Bye and may peace be with you, Lord Knows For here at least the lord then knows no more, but what is still known is more than enough to fill the world. This is all so Shakespere. Like the closing of Act III. Now we just need someone to come on stage with a closing soliloquy. Something along the lines, of And now dear souls
[FairfieldLife] Re: GOP Has a Non-Protestant Presidential Ticket
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: It appears that the GOP handlers think this ticket is acceptable to most Americans. Perhaps, it's because many Americans don't think Obama is a Christian. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ryan-means-no-protestant-presidential-ticket-first-103055320.html Gee, I wonder how that happened? Maybe is was the corporate shills, Faux Noise Machine, Breitbart toadies, Beck, Rush and the Teabagger Congress Critters polluting the media with racist dog whistles for the past four years that Americans think Obama is a Kenyan-Socialist-America-Hating Bastard Son of Frank Marshall Davis and not a Christian. Anyway... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Steve
Hi Steve: Because I know you are a parent, I am sending you this - I got a pretty big kick out of the quote (isolated out of context I'm sure). When all is said and done, the act of being a parent involves a set of radically unselfish and often incomprehensibly inconvenient activities. Two adults who could otherwise employ their time and resources in pleasurable activities of various kinds elect to seek housing and provide food and other facilities for completely dependent organisms whose personal schedules, furthermore, could not be at greater variance with adult ones, and who will involve their parents literally for decades in a compromise between a program of work or pleasure and the requirements of their offspring. It is not altogether remarkable that parents may have one child, if only in error or because of confused expectations of bliss. What is truly remarkable is that most parents have more than one child. ~Lionel Tiger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Tiger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Tiger --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: To capture another line used in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - it's always alright in the end; if it's not alright, it's not the end. Â Great Pearl!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Hey, I have an aunt in Victoria and took my younger daughter up there for Spring Break last year - a great time was had by all.  Victoria does have all those beautiful oak trees. Thank god I'm not allergic to good wine - yet, anyway.  Ha.  I would imbibe the rosy red Of sparkling wine and honey mead, A golden draught or two, We're not for woozy head And wheezy sulfite allergy I would gladly share a brew. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies  Oh Emily, what a cool person you are. I wish we could meet and take those walks with the dog, I'll go with you to the rheumatologist and cook you some gluten free, dairy free goodies. Then we can sit down, have a cool drink under a shady tree and laugh about life. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Barry, baby! àI made the list! àMerci beaucoup and I love you too. àNow, I spent the last week listening and watching...what a week. àLet me think about the interesting moments. àI cried Barry, cried for Lord Knows, cried for Robin, cried...and cooked. àComfort food. àLasagna, chicken divan, strawberry pie. àI made a really delicious and dense vegetarian lasagna with mushrooms, onions, carrots, green pepper, broccoli, spinach, fresh basil and whoops...double the amount of mozzarella. àUsed rice noodles. And then, horrors...I got the results of my allergy tests back and in addition to gluten, I am highly allergic these days to cows milk. àI cried again. àMy favorite cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt - all off the table. àThe naturopath encouraged me to go to Whole Foods and sample the sheep and goat cheeses. àSeriously, Barry? àI don't know if I can accommodate the after tastes. àBut, whatever it takes to feel better Barry, that's what I'll do. àAnd, it's finally off to the rheumatologist. àAnd then the car went into the shop. àThe AC doesn't work - not worth it to fix it. àThe freeze plug in the engine is leaking...not worth it to fix it. àJust need to keep water and antifreeze in the car and check the fluids every few days. àA jeep, an American car...only 185,000 miles on it. àIt needs to keep running Barry, it needs to get me up to the mountains a few more times. àWhat else of interest? àLots of walks with the dog. àBarry, I'm trying to train her that her morning walk depends on my getting a cup of coffee. àI must have time to grind the beans, heat the water, filter it through, drink it slowly - feel it seep into my nervous system. àThe terrier needs to meditate Barry, she does. àHer patience level in the morning is zilch, nada, zero. àBut, she's a smart one, she'll learn. àSmall steps, I tell her, small steps. Well, there you have it. àThe most interesting parts of my week. àNow, remember (to capture a line from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)...when I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. àRamble on, Barry, ramble on. àhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:15 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies àHere's what I think the dynamics of the situation are. There are a few people here whose lives are so empty, and who are basically so uninteresting, that the only thing they can think of to give them pleasure is to glom onto someone else whose life *IS* interesting, and act either as a groupie to that person, or as a hater of that person. My challenge to these sad people is to write something to this forum that is interesting in itself, rather than spend all their time fixating on others. I feel that this description accurately covers Judy Stein. She has proven herself over the years *incapable* of writing anything interesting about her own life and her own spiritual experiences, because...duh...there is nothing either interesting or spiritual IN that life. So instead she focuses on others, either as a groupie, the way she has with Maharishi and Robin, or as a hater, as she has with me, Curtis, Vaj, Sal, Ruth, Andrew Skolnick, and so many others. She focuses on them to take the focus off of her life, and how empty it is. The fascinating thing, from my point of view, is that there is a sizable contingent of people on this forum who actually ADMIRE her for doing this. They become *her* groupies. They sit back and enjoy her lashing
[FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Hey, I have an aunt in Victoria and took my younger daughter up there for Spring Break last year - a great time was had by all.  Victoria does have all those beautiful oak trees. Thank god I'm not allergic to good wine - yet, anyway.  Ha.  I would imbibe the rosy red Of sparkling wine and honey mead, A golden draught or two. Were it not for woozy head And wheezy sulfite allergy I would gladly share a brew. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies  Oh Emily, what a cool person you are. I wish we could meet and take those walks with the dog, I'll go with you to the rheumatologist and cook you some gluten free, dairy free goodies. Then we can sit down, have a cool drink under a shady tree and laugh about life. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Barry, baby! àI made the list! àMerci beaucoup and I love you too. àNow, I spent the last week listening and watching...what a week. àLet me think about the interesting moments. àI cried Barry, cried for Lord Knows, cried for Robin, cried...and cooked. àComfort food. àLasagna, chicken divan, strawberry pie. àI made a really delicious and dense vegetarian lasagna with mushrooms, onions, carrots, green pepper, broccoli, spinach, fresh basil and whoops...double the amount of mozzarella. àUsed rice noodles. And then, horrors...I got the results of my allergy tests back and in addition to gluten, I am highly allergic these days to cows milk. àI cried again. àMy favorite cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt - all off the table. àThe naturopath encouraged me to go to Whole Foods and sample the sheep and goat cheeses. àSeriously, Barry? àI don't know if I can accommodate the after tastes. àBut, whatever it takes to feel better Barry, that's what I'll do. àAnd, it's finally off to the rheumatologist. àAnd then the car went into the shop. àThe AC doesn't work - not worth it to fix it. àThe freeze plug in the engine is leaking...not worth it to fix it. àJust need to keep water and antifreeze in the car and check the fluids every few days. àA jeep, an American car...only 185,000 miles on it. àIt needs to keep running Barry, it needs to get me up to the mountains a few more times. àWhat else of interest? àLots of walks with the dog. àBarry, I'm trying to train her that her morning walk depends on my getting a cup of coffee. àI must have time to grind the beans, heat the water, filter it through, drink it slowly - feel it seep into my nervous system. àThe terrier needs to meditate Barry, she does. àHer patience level in the morning is zilch, nada, zero. àBut, she's a smart one, she'll learn. àSmall steps, I tell her, small steps. Well, there you have it. àThe most interesting parts of my week. àNow, remember (to capture a line from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)...when I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. àRamble on, Barry, ramble on. àhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:15 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A challenge to the haters on FFL, and their groupies àHere's what I think the dynamics of the situation are. There are a few people here whose lives are so empty, and who are basically so uninteresting, that the only thing they can think of to give them pleasure is to glom onto someone else whose life *IS* interesting, and act either as a groupie to that person, or as a hater of that person. My challenge to these sad people is to write something to this forum that is interesting in itself, rather than spend all their time fixating on others. I feel that this description accurately covers Judy Stein. She has proven herself over the years *incapable* of writing anything interesting about her own life and her own spiritual experiences, because...duh...there is nothing either interesting or spiritual IN that life. So instead she focuses on others, either as a groupie, the way she has with Maharishi and Robin, or as a hater, as she has with me, Curtis, Vaj, Sal, Ruth, Andrew Skolnick, and so many others. She focuses on them to take the focus off of her life, and how empty it is. The fascinating thing, from my point of view, is that there is a sizable contingent of people on this forum who actually ADMIRE her for doing this. They become *her* groupies. They sit back and enjoy her lashing
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard
They're a little shy, I guess. [:))] [ladies] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7760521896/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Nope. Nothing on my browser. Try again.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Xeno - the Guru Papers
I have a Kindle, and the book is available that way - cheaper that way. You can change type size - ebooks do not have fixed format, but reflow pages when you change type size or line spacing and number of words per line, and if the author or publisher has not restricted it, you can have it read to you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Xeno, no I haven't read the full book - only excerpts - and not the Chapter you referenced. But, you remind me that I received a Kindle as a gift and could try it out if the book is available electronically. I swear I'm almost ready for the big print Reader's Digest!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Batty Wright
Ann you miss so much. You've no doubt heard the teaching many times which points out the resultant karma for people who continually dwell upon the perceived faults of others. They take those faults upon themselves. In similar fashion, and unlike mere backbiters, Jude assumes the mantle of the vixen just so she can deliver others from the scourge of their afflictions. She steals bliss from the gods to deliver relief to the distressed by taking away their sins and then delivers it all into her own crucible of maladies faster than Fed-Ex overnight. Even more remarkable, she does all this before bedtime and her usual midnight hot toddy. This is why Robby accepts her defending him. He suspects that her secret sacrifice honors the blessed mother of god and knows he needs the backup, considering all he has unjustly done. So instead of praising her escape from the asylum, recognize that Jude Stone is actually a high bodhisattva. She is the protector bent upon delivering Soma-on-the-rocks to those tormented in the hell-fires of FFL and won't tolerate no wu-wu until everyone is adequately de-enlightened. All praise to the Stone of Judas. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote: No, no dear Barry. I think she is the smart one. Who wouldn't want to be forcefully removed from the loony bin? She, at least, has gotten out alive. She knew what she was doing, I'll bet you anything. If you don't know that, you have no idea about her and you've known (of her) a lot longer than I have.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: They're a little shy, I guess. [:))] [ladies] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7760521896/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Nope. Nothing on my browser. Try again. Blushing beauties ring my garden Shyly showing nakedness. Amaryllis belladonna, I rather like her gaucheness.
[FairfieldLife] Re: GOP Has a Non-Protestant Presidential Ticket
But all Mormons think they're Christians, despite the fact that some of their theology are not supported by the Bible, as interpreted by the mainline Christian denominations. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: The one who is not a 'Christian' is Romney, because Mormons are not Christians, as it is a made up religion, based in racism and polygomy... They have a very closed social system, based in closed mindedness... Very dangerous person to be president of an open society, because these people want to take the country back to Dick Cheney territory... I pray to God that President Obama wins a second term! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: It appears that the GOP handlers think this ticket is acceptable to most Americans. Perhaps, it's because many Americans don't think Obama is a Christian. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ryan-means-no-protestant-presidential-ticket-first-103055320.html
[FairfieldLife] I 51 and III 51!
YS I 51: tasyaapi nirodhe sarvanirodhaan nirbiijaH samaadhiH. YS III 51: tadvairaagyaad (from unattachment to the ultimate siddhi after mastering it) api doSa-biija-kSaye kaivalyam. Notice how similar those two suutra-s are. The main difference is that the first phrase (tasyaapi nirodhe)in I 51 has its headword in the locative singular (ekavacana saptamii vibhakti: seventh case - nirodhe) and the second phrase in the ablative singular (ekavacana pañcamii vibhakti: fifth case - sarvanirodhaat [sic!]), whereas in III 51 they are the other way round, so to speak (-vairaagyaat, -kSaye). Patañjali obviously could have used a tatpuruSa compound (tan-nirodhe) as in: abhyaasa-vairaagyaabhyaaM tan-nirodhaH (tat + nirodhaH; I 12), but for some reason he ended up using a genitive attribute construction, (tasya [...] nirodhe) or stuff. From Taimni's comment on I 51 (huh?!): When the *capacity to perform saMyama* has been acquired...
[FairfieldLife] Re: GOP Has a Non-Protestant Presidential Ticket
Religion may not matter during this election. IMO, it will come down to what Romney says that will concern most Americans. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: It appears that the GOP handlers think this ticket is acceptable to most Americans. Perhaps, it's because many Americans don't think Obama is a Christian. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ryan-means-no-protestant-presidential-ticket-first-103055320.html Gee, I wonder how that happened? Maybe is was the corporate shills, Faux Noise Machine, Breitbart toadies, Beck, Rush and the Teabagger Congress Critters polluting the media with racist dog whistles for the past four years that Americans think Obama is a Kenyan-Socialist-America-Hating Bastard Son of Frank Marshall Davis and not a Christian. Anyway... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Projects
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Does anyone have any idea of how many projects the Movement and Maharishi solicited funds for which subsequently were never built or completed? Most? Nearly all? Does anyone have similar figures for failed projects at any major organization? L
[FairfieldLife] Re: Batty Wright
Jude of Stone need not atone For placing foot upon a sinner. Vixen fixed in steady aim, Roasts them all for dinner. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Goddess_Kali_B\ y_Piyal_Kundu1.jpg/800px-Goddess_Kali_By_Piyal_Kundu1.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Ann you miss so much. You've no doubt heard the teaching many times which points out the resultant karma for people who continually dwell upon the perceived faults of others. They take those faults upon themselves. In similar fashion, and unlike mere backbiters, Jude assumes the mantle of the vixen just so she can deliver others from the scourge of their afflictions. She steals bliss from the gods to deliver relief to the distressed by taking away their sins and then delivers it all into her own crucible of maladies faster than Fed-Ex overnight. Even more remarkable, she does all this before bedtime and her usual midnight hot toddy. This is why Robby accepts her defending him. He suspects that her secret sacrifice honors the blessed mother of god and knows he needs the backup, considering all he has unjustly done. So instead of praising her escape from the asylum, recognize that Jude Stone is actually a high bodhisattva. She is the protector bent upon delivering Soma-on-the-rocks to those tormented in the hell-fires of FFL and won't tolerate no wu-wu until everyone is adequately de-enlightened. All praise to the Stone of Judas. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: No, no dear Barry. I think she is the smart one. Who wouldn't want to be forcefully removed from the loony bin? She, at least, has gotten out alive. She knew what she was doing, I'll bet you anything. If you don't know that, you have no idea about her and you've known (of her) a lot longer than I have.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? From: raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? I suppose it would never occur to Mike that rape is never funny and that a woman, not a man or anyone else, has a right to make medical decisions about her body. From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard
Came through my yahoo email beautifully. Positively dreamy. From: bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:26 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard They're a little shy, I guess. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Nope. Nothing on my browser. Try again.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Oh Raunch...of course there's nothing funny about rape..but your post was. From: raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? I suppose it would never occur to Mike that rape is never funny and that a woman, not a man or anyone else, has a right to make medical decisions about her body. From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ More to the point, beyond the point on his forehead, Ryan wants tax loopholes for the rich: http://tinyurl.com/bsjdo46 He cries class warfare for any talk of raising taxes on the rich but has no problem raising taxes on the middle class. http://tinyurl.com/c8ogruk Ryan's proposed budget would have given trillions of dollars to corporations: In all, those tax breaks amount to a $3 trillion giveaway to the richest Americans and corporations, according to the Tax Policy Center. Repealing the repatriation tax would add roughly $130 billion to that. This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Ryan insisted that the plan would generate the same amount of revenue as the government currently receives. In true Ryan form, though, he wouldn't say how... http://tinyurl.com/9vfzhfw On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Oh Raunch...of course there's nothing funny about rape..but your post was. Granted, Richard and Mike contemplating suicide in old age for supporting a presidency that would leave them sick and penniless, is funny for it's irony. Your knocked up slam in response to the horror of women having forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, not funny. From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Â --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? I suppose it would never occur to Mike that rape is never funny and that a woman, not a man or anyone else, has a right to make medical decisions about her body. From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barriers being built to block entrance to Arunachala's Inner Path
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard richard@... wrote: The best help would be from someone that knows influential Tamil Nadu politicians, like Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, or movie actor Rajinikanth. Rajinikanth did great service to Arunachala Pradakshina a few years back. Or that know important people in Tiruvannamalai. This now is political, I think, and pressure from the top would work best. Anyone know people like this in India? Perhaps. But I'd like to hear one single important reason to object this closing of this path. Why is this path so much better than any other path you are free to walk on all over India ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Projects
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Does anyone have any idea of how many projects the Movement and Maharishi solicited funds for which subsequently were never built or completed? A lot less than those realized.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Re: Raunchy's comment. Number 12 on this list is enough to make my decision. I would never sellout on my daughters' rights as women over their bodies. It was a battle hard fought and hard won and thank god for the women who went before me on this issue, on voting rights, on equal pay for equal work (not there yet actually), and many other issues. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/11/677171/12-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan/?mobile=nc From: raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Oh Raunch...of course there's nothing funny about rape..but your post was. Granted, Richard and Mike contemplating suicide in old age for supporting a presidency that would leave them sick and penniless, is funny for it's irony. Your knocked up slam in response to the horror of women having forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, not funny. From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Â --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? I suppose it would never occur to Mike that rape is never funny and that a woman, not a man or anyone else, has a right to make medical decisions about her body. From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But this way does: [Zombie Ryan] http://www.flickr.com/photos/75935037@N02/7043042671/ America under siege by the Plutocratic Zombies. Now to make it work from Thunderbird!
[FairfieldLife] Better angels of america?
Huh? Looked it up. Ryan appeals to the better angels of america? Methinks not. Hella strategy. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address Monday, March 4, 1861
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard
The first email? It seems to work with email but not web sites. What Thunderbird is doing is including the photo data though I told it not to (bug). Yahoo will delete that and so it won't work on the web site even if the link is there. So I just used to the web site to post the follow-up. On 08/11/2012 03:24 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: Came through my yahoo email beautifully. Positively dreamy. From: bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:26 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Naked Ladies in my backyard They're a little shy, I guess. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Nope. Nothing on my browser. Try again.
[FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita revealed as the New A
Read and finally understand
[FairfieldLife] Re: Neo-Advaita revealed as the New A
? oops New Advaita is just the new ahhh --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Read and finally understand
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Re: Raunchy's comment. Â Number 12 on this list is enough to make my decision. Â I would never sellout on my daughters' rights as women over their bodies. Â It was a battle hard fought and hard won and thank god for the women who went before me on this issue, on voting rights, on equal pay for equal work (not there yet actually), and many other issues. Â http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/11/677171/12-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan/?mobile=nc Emily, thanks for posting this. Number 12 on the list is important to women, and hopefully to a growing number of men. I get mad when anyone thinks women who stand up for the right to choose is an occasion for a joke. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1972, I was at a rally for the equal rights amendment. Unfortunately, ERA went by the wayside after the Roe v. Wade decision. First off the bat, to prime us for the weekend, we witnessed a debate on abortion with Phyllis Schlafly. She was very convincing, but wrong. Later in the day I listened to the beautiful music of the lovely Holly Near and gazed into blue, blue eyes of Jane Fonda as she spoke passionately about women's rights. On the last day of the weekend, several thousand women and a few supportive men gathered to attend an event hosted by guest speakers, Gloria Stienum and Candice Bergen. Gorgeous to behold. I sat about 10 feet away and loved every word they spoke. As we waited to enter the auditorium, we ran the gauntlet of aborted baby posters and hecklers. Then we got word there was a bomb threat being investigated in the auditorium. We waited about an hour for an all clear. It sure dampened my enthusiasm for going into the auditorium, but not ever my resolve to stand up for a woman's right to choose. It's so disheartening to think that we are fighting this old battle all over again. This in the news recently, is enough to make your hair stand on end: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/09/kansas-doctor-under-attack-for-not-forcing-ten-year-old-rape-victim-to-give-birth/ From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP Â --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh Raunch...of course there's nothing funny about rape..but your post was. Granted, Richard and Mike contemplating suicide in old age for supporting a presidency that would leave them sick and penniless, is funny for it's irony. Your knocked up slam in response to the horror of women having forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, not funny. From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP ÃÂ --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? I suppose it would never occur to Mike that rape is never funny and that a woman, not a man or anyone else, has a right to make medical decisions about her body. From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells the story of his voucher plan. Now how about that suspicious widows peak? Seems to me it's a dead give away for the genetic origins of such a plan, the bastard child of Ayn Rand and the Munsters. [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WMYVqhDfJAQ/TqiuoDTLFgI/IaQ/\ h7Azkg6fgGk/eddie_SS500_%252520paul_ryan.jpg] [http://i.imgur.com/IEwUs.jpg] --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: But
[FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita is just confused advaita
Read and see how - http://www.shiningworld.com/top/images/stories/pub-pdfs/Articles/%284%29\ %20Neo-Advaita.pdf
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP
Good story (yours). Yes, the other is shocking. My girls (and also myself) take so many things for granted. My older daughter is at a liberal arts school and is learning so much. Not with respect to vocation, but with respect to history on so many topics. It's a good thing. From: raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Re: Raunchy's comment.  Number 12 on this list is enough to make my decision.  I would never sellout on my daughters' rights as women over their bodies.  It was a battle hard fought and hard won and thank god for the women who went before me on this issue, on voting rights, on equal pay for equal work (not there yet actually), and many other issues.  http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/11/677171/12-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan/?mobile=nc Emily, thanks for posting this. Number 12 on the list is important to women, and hopefully to a growing number of men. I get mad when anyone thinks women who stand up for the right to choose is an occasion for a joke. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1972, I was at a rally for the equal rights amendment. Unfortunately, ERA went by the wayside after the Roe v. Wade decision. First off the bat, to prime us for the weekend, we witnessed a debate on abortion with Phyllis Schlafly. She was very convincing, but wrong. Later in the day I listened to the beautiful music of the lovely Holly Near and gazed into blue, blue eyes of Jane Fonda as she spoke passionately about women's rights. On the last day of the weekend, several thousand women and a few supportive men gathered to attend an event hosted by guest speakers, Gloria Stienum and Candice Bergen. Gorgeous to behold. I sat about 10 feet away and loved every word they spoke. As we waited to enter the auditorium, we ran the gauntlet of aborted baby posters and hecklers. Then we got word there was a bomb threat being investigated in the auditorium. We waited about an hour for an all clear. It sure dampened my enthusiasm for going into the auditorium, but not ever my resolve to stand up for a woman's right to choose. It's so disheartening to think that we are fighting this old battle all over again. This in the news recently, is enough to make your hair stand on end: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/09/kansas-doctor-under-attack-for-not-forcing-ten-year-old-rape-victim-to-give-birth/ From: raunchydog raunchydog@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:08 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh Raunch...of course there's nothing funny about rape..but your post was. Granted, Richard and Mike contemplating suicide in old age for supporting a presidency that would leave them sick and penniless, is funny for it's irony. Your knocked up slam in response to the horror of women having forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, not funny. From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP  --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Raunch... you're not worried about getting knocked-up... are you? I suppose it would never occur to Mike that rape is never funny and that a woman, not a man or anyone else, has a right to make medical decisions about her body. From: raunchydog raunchydog@ To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:49 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh Yeah! Paul Ryan next VP --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: We'll have to call Ryan a Romney Zomney! :-D For those who haven't seen the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2iaR-TwRE You probably heard that Mittiot said their ticket is no different than Obama and Biden. Why bother then? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/11/official-romney-talking-point-the-ticket-is-no-different-that-obama-and-biden/ Good Lord, if the Democrats can't push back that their ticket is no different than Romney and Ryan, then we are really up shit creek, doomed to $3 an hour jobs, forced pregnancies no matter rape or incest, and Richard and Mike in their old age contemplating suicide. On 08/11/2012 10:56 AM, raunchydog wrote: Hey, bhairitu. Ryan as Medicare Zombie chewing on the bones of old people tells
Re: [FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita is just confused advaita
H. That's my contribution and I noted the Amma reference in here. I would be interested in hearing from Xeno and Robin and actually all others that might have an experience-based or otherwise response to this. From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:30 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Neo-Advaita is just confused advaita Read and see how - http://www.shiningworld.com/top/images/stories/pub-pdfs/Articles/%284%29%20Neo-Advaita.pdf
[FairfieldLife] Re: Neo-Advaita revealed as the New A
[I thought this first post was the best, the one that nails the subject of this forum.] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Read and finally understand
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Projects
Ha! That's true - I stopped actively participating in the Movement after a 2 year stint working on staff at MIU (wonder if there are any statistics for how many people quit the Movement after a staff experience at a Movement facility) So I wasn't totally aware of all the projects - oddly enough when I was still a Movement junky the very first time I had an odd feeling about it all was during the Taste of Utopia course in '83-'84 when Maharishi asked for some large amount of cash for some project. I remember feeling Didn't he just ask for a bunch of money for some other project a year or so ago? Writing this reminds me of a staff meeting we had with Bevan when he had just come back from Europe with M and was talking in glowing terms about some guy they had heard of who was loaded, as Bevan said He is as rich as Croesus. And these are the kinds of people we need to get meditating. Because if he starts doing TM, he can give us his money and we can use his money to further the cause of bringing the world to enlightenment. I remember thinking what about his personal enlightenment? What about the benefits to the rich guy? You only want him for his money? but as I was not yet ready to leave MIU I kept that though to myself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@ wrote: Does anyone have any idea of how many projects the Movement and Maharishi solicited funds for which subsequently were never built or completed? A lot less than those realized.
[FairfieldLife] Re: GOP Has a Non-Protestant Presidential Ticket
Yeah, but this Mormon guy, who is high up in the hierarchy of Mormonism, might just sell America to Utah, or try to make us all like the people in Utah...have you ever been to Utah...it's a beautiful place but really uptight, in so many ways... It call be a really bad movie if Romney wins... Like a Roman Circus of horrors... Why would we want any Republican in such a short time after Georgie Bush..? Are we really that insane as a collective consciousness? Come on...! Glenn Beck, Donald Trump, all of these bastards? Do we really want this kind of ignorance running this super power??? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Religion may not matter during this election. IMO, it will come down to what Romney says that will concern most Americans. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: It appears that the GOP handlers think this ticket is acceptable to most Americans. Perhaps, it's because many Americans don't think Obama is a Christian. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ryan-means-no-protestant-presidential-ticket-first-103055320.html Gee, I wonder how that happened? Maybe is was the corporate shills, Faux Noise Machine, Breitbart toadies, Beck, Rush and the Teabagger Congress Critters polluting the media with racist dog whistles for the past four years that Americans think Obama is a Kenyan-Socialist-America-Hating Bastard Son of Frank Marshall Davis and not a Christian. Anyway... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States
[FairfieldLife] 'Ragin' Ruthless Romney's Circus of Horrors'...
Will we get the Ruthless Romney Circus of Horrors... As Rush Limbaugh spews his garbage... As Michelle Bachman spews her devil talk... As Dick Cheney spews his torture nonsense... As Donald Trump spews his egotistical garbage... As Ann Romny dances her horse around the manure... Are we really going back to 'Cheneyville'...a very scarey place indeed... Are we really too peaceful with President Obama that we want to go back to chaos and confusion..? A takeover of our country by corporate interests with no controls, whatsoever? Mussolini style facism? Come on folks...
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Projects
Yes, many people became disillusioned with the Movement and Maharishi when he showed so much interest in business and money making... I guess he felt that he needed to 'Strike when the iron is Hot'...as he always liked to say... The culture he came from is so poor, which so many people starving, that I think he must have felt he needed to accumulate as much wealth as possible to keep the movement going and to support people in India and the revival of Veda-ism...and so on... In my mind Maharishi had certain personality traits that upset some people, but he was only doing what he felt was his Dharma...and that is to teach TM worldwide to as many people as possible.. Plus he got burnt quite a few times, and always felt that people still didn't 'get' what he was teaching... So, with money and with sex and with power, there is always a lot of controversy Bevan always seemed to support Maharishi's thinking, as the perfect 'yes-man'...but I don't know how much Maharishi liked him... I think he was just good for business... I think probably Maharishi had more love and respect for Jerry Jarvis, but Jerry wasn't really a good 'Yes-Man'... And so it goes... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: Ha! That's true - I stopped actively participating in the Movement after a 2 year stint working on staff at MIU (wonder if there are any statistics for how many people quit the Movement after a staff experience at a Movement facility) So I wasn't totally aware of all the projects - oddly enough when I was still a Movement junky the very first time I had an odd feeling about it all was during the Taste of Utopia course in '83-'84 when Maharishi asked for some large amount of cash for some project. I remember feeling Didn't he just ask for a bunch of money for some other project a year or so ago? Writing this reminds me of a staff meeting we had with Bevan when he had just come back from Europe with M and was talking in glowing terms about some guy they had heard of who was loaded, as Bevan said He is as rich as Croesus. And these are the kinds of people we need to get meditating. Because if he starts doing TM, he can give us his money and we can use his money to further the cause of bringing the world to enlightenment. I remember thinking what about his personal enlightenment? What about the benefits to the rich guy? You only want him for his money? but as I was not yet ready to leave MIU I kept that though to myself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@ wrote: Does anyone have any idea of how many projects the Movement and Maharishi solicited funds for which subsequently were never built or completed? A lot less than those realized.
