[FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Cult Behavior -- the unpaid dharmic warrior

2013-02-07 Thread turquoiseb
I honestly don't know which is sadder -- that Judy and Jimbo believe that FFL is all about a battle between themselves and me, or that they think they are winning. :-) I'll expand upon this, because in its 30 short words I think I finally stumbled upon the ultimate test of whether a spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Renouncing enlightenment

2013-02-07 Thread card
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu wrote: Per Jerry Jarvis (his opinion not shared by many Buddhists) although he used the word Unity: After Unity and dropping the physical body, the purpose of evolution has been fulfilled and there's no further relative existence for subtle

[FairfieldLife] Re: Renouncing enlightenment

2013-02-07 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: Looks like there's already a flag on the play - Navashok calls roughing the passer, but it looks like the officials will overturn it... The confession is only

[FairfieldLife] Designed in Herwood!

2013-02-07 Thread card
This little sucker, toy for phone, even Windoze phone, is designed in Herwood (Hervanta, daughter town of this tropicalists home town...) http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/07/nokia-lumia-620-review/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddha at the Gas Pump - 158. Fr. Thomas Keating

2013-02-07 Thread Buck
Yeah, I got to go up to Spencer Mass and be part of checking the brothers meditations and giving advanced lectures on meditation and TM back in the days. Was an exciting time in American spirituality. Those were heady times in TM and also watching the start of the whole centering prayer

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Cult Behavior -- the unpaid dharmic warrior

2013-02-07 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: I honestly don't know which is sadder -- that Judy and Jimbo believe that FFL is all about a battle between themselves and me, or that they think they are winning. :-) I'll expand upon this, because in its 30 short words I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Renouncing enlightenment

2013-02-07 Thread Share Long
Hey navashok I really appreciate what you say here especially the part about how mixed our qualities can be.  It reminds me of something I see sometimes in older people.  I think of it as the second innocence.  When they've gone through a lot and been humbled by life.  And come out on the other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddha at the Gas Pump - 158. Fr. Thomas Keating

2013-02-07 Thread seventhray27
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: I just finished reading Bill Howell's CULT, I know it took me long time, but I did not read it continuously, it wasn't on the top of my agenda. I must say that I was very touched by the last chapter, before the epilogue, called 'Desert'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddha at the Gas Pump - 158. Fr. Thomas Keating

2013-02-07 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: I just finished reading Bill Howell's CULT, I know it took me long time, but I did not read it continuously, it wasn't on the top of my agenda. I must say that I was very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Renouncing enlightenment

2013-02-07 Thread doctordumbass
Thanks for this - I agree completely with it. On FFL there is very little blind obedience to ANYTHING. All of us have been around the block, so what may look to you like inordinate defense of a guru, may in fact be an attempt to get the critics to open their eyes, and examine their legion of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Cult Behavior -- the unpaid dharmic warrior

2013-02-07 Thread authfriend
Barry, the reason you get smacked down so often is not because of your criticisms of TM. It's because you're a poisonous, low-vibe individual. You're chronically dishonest, and you treat the people you don't agree with like shit. Proof: Many here make the same TM criticisms you do, and they are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddha at the Gas Pump - 158. Fr. Thomas Keating

2013-02-07 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yeah, I got to go up to Spencer Mass and be part of checking the brothers meditations and giving advanced lectures on meditation and TM back in the days. Was an exciting time in American spirituality. Those were heady times in TM and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Cult Behavior -- the unpaid dharmic warrior

2013-02-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
authfriend: Barry, the reason you get smacked down so often is not because of your criticisms of TM. It's because you're a poisonous, low-vibe individual. You're chronically dishonest, and you treat the people you don't agree with like shit. Barry just doesn't seem to get it - HE is the cult

[FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
The USPS owns eleventy-billion trucks and employs eleventy-billion union workers, all to deliver a product nobody wants. Posted by Stephen Green: http://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2013/02/06/only-one-michael-moore-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-column/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Renouncing enlightenment

2013-02-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
nablusoss1008: My point was that the Turq claims he was in CC in Fuiggi but in reality he had a few days of witnessing, believing it was CC. This short experience decades ago have made such an impression on the poor soul that he keeps referring to it as a major event in his life

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

2013-02-07 Thread Buck
the Yoga Vasistha: A real preceptor is one who can produce blissful sensation in the body of the disciple by their sight, touch, or instructions. The back story, A movement held hostage. I got a friend who lunches with Bevan whence Bevan is in town and this friend says of Bevan that our Bevan

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Share Long
I wonder if there are other Boomers like me who like to pay their bills via snail mail.  I never liked the idea of online banking and I liked it even less after my credit cards and SS# were compromised last year.  I know online banking is inevitable.  Just putting it off as long as possible. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rama,Krishna, Buddha are nothing reply 2 Xeno

2013-02-07 Thread Share Long
Xeno, I've been wanting to reply and tell you that I enjoyed this post and as usual, because it made me think.  I actually think that it's the job of other people, the world, etc. to fall very short of imagined ideals.  Maybe that's the only way we can learn to love unconditionally. 

[FairfieldLife] Cult Mania

2013-02-07 Thread salyavin808
Check out this guy! Siberian cult leader who claimed he was alien god from the star Sirius jailed for ritual rape of dozens of disciples * Russian Konstantin Rudnev's cult Ashram Shambala had 30,000 followers * Leader forced disciples to take part in orgies, occultism and drugs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health benefits of Xanthohumol

2013-02-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu wrote: http://www.xanthohumol.com It is 200 times more powerful than Resveratrol, the world renowned Antioxidant found naturally in Red Wine. Yes but...red,red wine...mmm... http://linsiloo.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/mmm-red-wine-cheese-platter/

[FairfieldLife] More Cult News

2013-02-07 Thread turquoiseb
This time about Andrew Cohen: Making Sense of Post-Cult Trauma the Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist My Thirteen Years at EnlightenNext by William Yenner

[FairfieldLife] And Yet More Cult News

2013-02-07 Thread turquoiseb
Just think, if you'd had more ambition and were willing to bounce on your butt in India while promoting Hindu supremacy, you could have gotten writeups like this, too. [Venkata Panindra performing pranayama in Ongole.— photo:Kommuri Srinivas]

[FairfieldLife] Re: And Yet More Cult News

2013-02-07 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: Just think, if you'd had more ambition and were willing to bounce on your butt in India while promoting Hindu supremacy, you could have gotten writeups like this, too. Only if you'd learned to master your perennial gland... (snip) The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cult Mania

2013-02-07 Thread John
The guy is criminally insane. End of story. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: Check out this guy! Siberian cult leader who claimed he was alien god from the star Sirius jailed for ritual rape of dozens of disciples * Russian Konstantin Rudnev's cult Ashram

[FairfieldLife] The top five regrets...

2013-02-07 Thread salyavin808
I found this quite profound, seems that I share a lot of these values already. I think if my number was called tomorrow I would regret not travelling more. Which gives me an incentive to get off my arse! Top five regrets of the dying A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: The USPS owns eleventy-billion trucks and employs eleventy-billion union workers, all to deliver a product nobody wants. Posted by Stephen Green:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cult Mania

2013-02-07 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John wrote: The guy is criminally insane. End of story. Not a very convincing story either, Sirius is way too hot to sustain any sort of life that we might understand - so he wouldn't have duped me. Just one of the advantages of a good science

[FairfieldLife] Re: The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread John
Don't you know that the USPS will never go bankrupt? Why? Because the Post Master General of the USA is the de facto leader of the country. According to Freemasonry literature, President Obama is only a figure head. This statement applies to all the countries in the world. The real power

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Mike Dixon
Just think of all the trees that could be spared if we didn't have a post office! From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 6:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

Re: [FairfieldLife] More Cult News

2013-02-07 Thread Bhairitu
On 02/07/2013 10:49 AM, turquoiseb wrote: This time about Andrew Cohen: Making Sense of Post-Cult Trauma the Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist My Thirteen Years at EnlightenNext by William Yenner

[FairfieldLife] Genetic Roulette - The Gamble of our Lives

2013-02-07 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=wnlTYFKBg18

Re: [FairfieldLife] The top five regrets...

2013-02-07 Thread Share Long
Yep, come visit Fairfield (-: Thanks, this is a great list. From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 1:14 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The top five regrets...   I found this quite

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Bhairitu
I pay most of my bills via snail mail but some of the banks and my credit union have added another option other than autopay. I can now just pay my credit union credit card via transfer so saves the cost of a stamp. Same with my rarely used credit card from a bank that I have a petty cash

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 08-Feb-13 00:15:02 UTC

2013-02-07 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/02/13 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 02/09/13 00:00:00 487 messages as of (UTC) 02/07/13 22:49:16 44 doctordumbass 42 Michael Jackson 40 turquoiseb 38 nablusoss1008 38 Share Long 29 authfriend 28 Bhairitu 27 seventhray27

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Mike Dixon
Maybe your carrier is reading your books first. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?   I pay most of my bills via

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Share Long
As for postal carriers, mine is a heroine for me.  Here's why.  The people who stole my SS# last year, used it to file a tax return.  As an address they used an empty store front about 3 blocks from where I live.  It was to this address that the IRS sent a letter saying that they were

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Bhairitu
Maybe. She's overweight and the book is another one on metabolic typing. ;-) On 02/07/2013 05:01 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: Maybe your carrier is reading your books first. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Bhairitu
Around here it is the postal carrier of the week. Sometimes the mail doesn't come until 7:30 PM. Though the neighbor got her mail this morning I've seen a carrier deliver by truck driving to each house and do that side of the street but not do mine until late in the day. Weird. Sometimes

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Bhairitu
Update. After sending off those two posts I checked my snail mail again and the book arrived along with a couple other pieces of mail. So my carrier didn't read it first. I also did some searches on USPS tracking and many folks say that it can take an extra day after tracking says out for

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Share Long
I'm laughing because my CPA charges me more each year though it seems he does less.  For example, he no longer prints and snail mails the forms.  He emails them to me and I get to print them out!  Then I fill them out so that I'm not even sure what he does any more except transfer a few

[FairfieldLife] Re: Genetic Roulette - The Gamble of our Lives

2013-02-07 Thread Buck
Holy smokes# I always suspected everything around GMO's would go this way. Evidently a lot more is known now. It's about time someone stops the runaway. This is a tremendous update. Give this video to anyone you know thinking of breeding children. -Buck --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS?

2013-02-07 Thread Bhairitu
The first year I ever filed a schedule C tax return was for 1972. I got audited by the IRS because I didn't know what I was doing. I appealed and got some of the extra tax off including a pissed supervisor who probably went back and wrung the neck of my first caseworker for not allowing