[FairfieldLife] Most objective proof of enlightenment, LOL?

[card]

YS 3.39 (XOR 40, 41):

samaana-jayaaj jvalanam

BonGiovanni's tranlation:

By self-control over the maintenance of breath,
one may radiate light.

http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_pdf/yogasuutra_meaning.pdf

ROFLOL?

[FairfieldLife] Uber-narcissists who would fit right in on FFL

[turquoiseb]

These folks remind me of people like Robin, who assume that they're
actually interesting enough that people would want to tune into their
lives full-time.
Cases of 'Truman Show' delusions on the rise as more people believe
they're the stars of their own reality TV programsReality TV shows are
making increasing  numbers of people convinced that they're the stars of
their own,  unwanted television programs.
Psychiatrists  are treating more people for so-called 'Truman Show'
delusions -- named  after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man
who spends his entire  life unwittingly at the center of a fictional
world that's being  broadcast to millions of homes.

The  startling cases often afflict successful people who develop
paranoid  fantasies that they're being filmed at all times and that the
world  that's in front of them isn't real.
  [Truman Show]
They're being watched: People suffering from  'Truman Show' delusions
believe they are the star of a TV program like  Jim Carrey's character
in the 1998 movie

Their friends and loves ones are  actors. The news they see on TV is
made up to control the way they  think. The things that happen to them
are merely events staged for the  amusement of others.


The result can turn disturbing and even violent.
In 2009, Anthony Waterlow killed his  father and his sister in Australia
because he believed they were  broadcasting his life to the world as
part of a game show to either  murder him or convince him to kill
himself.

During a psychological exam, he specially mentioned 'The Truman Show,'
according to the Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/waterlow-shattered-by-the-reality-of-killings\
-20110412-1dcpz.html#ixzz1wHr2bspd .

  [Truman show]
Affliction: The paranoid suspicion of being spied on has driven some
people to violence -- even murder -- in event years

In  2007, psychiatrist William Johns III allegedly assaulted a
2-year-old  and his mother in New York City after he left his home in
Florida  because he 'had to get out of the Truman Show' that he believed
was  filming him in his home town, according to ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3416296page=1#.T8hFh6pWL49 .


Drs  Joel and Ian Gold, researchers at New York University and McGill 
University in Montreal, respectively, recently published a series of 
case studies about suffers of 'Truman Show' delusions.


Their article in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13546805.2012.666113#preview\
 , followed five patients who believed their lives were the center of a
secret TV show.


One patient traveled to New York City  and walked in a federal building
and demanded to see 'the director.' He  said he had to come to Manhattan
because he believed the World Trade  Center attacks had been faked for
the TV show being filmed around him,  according to BuzzFeed
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/truman-show-delusion-becoming-more-co\
mmon .

He  said he had to see for himself whether the twin towers were still 
standing. If they weren't, he said, it would be final proof that he was 
the unwilling star of a reality TV program.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 On 02/09/2013 07:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
  
  Well, I finished watching this series today...
 
 You are more of a TV junkie than I am then.  

Possibly, but I also had a short work week last week,
and thus was able to devote 9.75 hours (shorter, really,
because I could fast-forward through the repeating
opening sequences) to watching a novel. 

That's definitely how the writer thought of it, given
the amount of artistic freedom (total, not one critical
comment or suggestion from Netflix during the entire
production) he had, and given Netflix's decision to make
all episodes available on the viewer's time schedule.
They didn't have to invent cliff-hanger endings to get
people to tune in next week. 

 I'm about halfway through but a little disappointed that 
 so far we haven't seen much of the real problem in politics 
 and that's big corporations. Even Frank would have to kowtow 
 to them or lose his office. Other political analysts have 
 mentioned the same thing about the series.

Oh, that's definitely there, or did you (and these 
analysts miss the stuff about Sancorp? It gets more 
pronounced towards the end. 

 BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of Utopia. I would 
 think the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming 
 on Netflix. The accents are too strong for most Americans 
 to understand.  

Not only that. American TV producers are never going 
to go for a series that proposes a giant underground
organization willing to create diseases that target
only specific races. They should have heard the guys
from Los Alamos talking about the research they were
doing to do exactly that. :-)

 But I hope that a watered down remake for the US doesn't 
 keep the original version out of the US market. I like 
 the cinematography in it which is probably another problem 
 for dumbed down 'mericans who don't like black bars. It's 
 presented in scope so there are black bars on a 16:9 
 screen. I understand that House of Cards has a 2:1 ratio 
 (slightly scope) but probably due to overscan on my old HD 
 set I don't see the black bars.  

I seriously doubt that most Americans are bright enough
to even notice the aspect ratios, except for old movies
shown on TNT.  :-)

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

[navashok]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 Not content to make up things about people she considers
 her enemies, now Judy makes up facts about the Inquisition.
 That's a very Inquisitor-like thing to do.  :-)
 
 Even a short period of Googling would reveal how wrong she
 is about several things below, like being 354 years off on
 the start date, as reported even by apologist Catholic
 organizatins. I'm pointing it out just so that she'll 
 go crazy trying to prove herself RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a
 fool of herself for our amusement.  :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg
There aint't no doubt about it, she's lying. She makes up little quibbles 
continuously to be able to call other's liar and that is a lie as well.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  (snip)
   I was never Catholic, and don't know much about Pope
   Benedict, other than his uncanny resemblance to the
   Sith Emperor from Star Wars :-), and what was said
   about him before he was elected Pope, which was that
   he was one of the most feared men in Catholicism. I
   do know that he was the person who brought *back* the
   Inquisition to the Church, after it had finally been
   abolished after 600 years, and led it for many years.
  
  For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
  been in continuous operation since it was established
  in 1542. It was never abolished (nor has it been around
  for 600 years!). It has undergone a couple of name
  changes; since 1965 it's been called the Congregation
  for the Doctrine of the Faith.
  
  Of course it doesn't burn anybody at the stake these
  days.
  
  Ratzinger was named Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation
  by Pope John Paul II in 1981.
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 
 
 Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an artist when he 
 was younger.  But the karma of his birth chart made him take a more infamous 
 path in life.  Jyotishis have noted that he had Shakti Yoga which made him an 
 evil incarnate here on earth.


He was actually an Initiate with a point of evolution of 2,0 at the time of 
death.
http://www.share-berlin.de/list_of_initiates.htm#LinkH

[FairfieldLife] Vivekananda in Iowa [1893]

[Buck]

Seeds of transcendentalism in fertile ground.  

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/unpublished/iowastateregister12031893.pdf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
 
  
  
  Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an artist when 
  he was younger.  But the karma of his birth chart made him take a more 
  infamous path in life.  Jyotishis have noted that he had Shakti Yoga which 
  made him an evil incarnate here on earth.
 
 
 He was actually an Initiate with a point of evolution of 2,0 at the time of 
 death.
 http://www.share-berlin.de/list_of_initiates.htm#LinkH

An initiate into what? And why does he get a higher score than
Philip K Dick who didn't, as far as I know, slaughter millions of people and 
lay waste to an entire continent?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

[Buck]

Om when the saints!
We can innumerate their visits to Fairfield:
Mother Meera visiting with Fairfield.  
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Meera


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 In Fairfield we've been extremely fortunate to have had the number of the 
 great saints of our times visit Fairfield over the years.  It's pretty 
 incredible that they come and we have got to have had such close and intimate 
 time with some of them.  
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
 
  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 
  is scared to death of saints for fear he might have a spiritual experience. 

  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
  
   Life work of The holy. 
   
   On Saintly Healing Maharishi says, 
   
   That is `The department of the Almighty does it`.
   It is not the individual - it is the department. And it is only one way, 
   it is
   not two ways. The help is not given, it is received. It is received by our
   ability to attune with that.
   
   And that ability develops with devotion, surrender and service. These 
   three things - automatically one is elevated to that level. And help 
   doesn`t come from outside, it comes from right were we are, from our own 
   being.
   
   But those unaware of one`s own being have this mechanics to help them. 
   And this
   is true for all the saints in all the times through out the world.
   
   
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:

 Paraphrasing Maharishi, a doctor doesn't need to be in good health 
 to heal others.
 

   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
   
No, are looking at and talking about something else bigger here.  
Primary care providers with a degree in medicine, even Chopra, are more 
usually just different trades-people compared to saints.

 
 --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  This is a good answer, Mike.
  
  I wouldn't want to have to define holy man or saint, so
  I wouldn't want to say what would disqualify him (or qualify
  him, for that matter) for being either. He wasn't a perfect
  human being, that's for sure. It's up to the individual to
  decide how much they want to hold his sins against him.
  
 
 
 Couldn't describe?  Saints?  Okay, if you won't stick your neck out 
 at this point I will for sake of the discussion here.  We all know 
 them when we see them.  Saints become described by their work.  As 
 spiritual people our saints are those particular people who can help 
 people spiritually and who distinguish their life work that way.  
 More than just doing good works and different from folks [think 
 Batgap.com] just being awake authors or spiritual teachers out on the 
 circuit but those being in the work of tangibly lending spiritual 
 transformation by interceding with healing for others of the binding 
 influences in the subtle bodies of the spiritual psycho-physical and 
 emotional samskara towards helping to free people of the binding 
 influences in their spiritual life on earth.  Real saints, it's those 
 particular enlightened who can tangibly or manifestly heal people who 
 are either afflicted or ignorant in their spiritual lives.
 -Buck
 
  
  --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:
  
   Yeah, he's still a holy man, just not as holy as most of us 
   thought. The Bible tells us that all men fall short of the 
   Glory of God. That means that all men have and will sin. 
   Maharishi was a man, not God. The Bible also speaks of angels 
   coming to earth and having sex with women. Veda Vyasa had sex 
   with an unmarried woman in a boat while crossing a river, thus we 
   have Shukadeva. Maharishi belongs on a pedestal, just not as high 
   as we might have thought. My thoughts are that M was a very high 
   soul on a mission and upon taking birth as a man, he did things 
   men do.
   
   
   
   
From: Michael Jackson 
   To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com; 
   Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 12:58 PM
   Subject: [FairfieldLife] Serious Question
   
     
   
   OK, serious question here to all those who have defended 
   Maharishi as a saint and true holy man. 
   
   
   How do you account for the stories that several of his former 
   skin boys have told about his sexual escapades? Mark Landau, 
   Billy Clayton, Nedd Wynn and others have told stories that are 
  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

[Buck]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 Om when the saints!
 We can innumerate their visits to Fairfield:

 Mother Meera visiting with Fairfield.  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Meera
 

 Shree Maa visited with Fairfield.
http://www.shreemaa.org/

 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
 
  In Fairfield we've been extremely fortunate to have had the number of the 
  great saints of our times visit Fairfield over the years.  It's pretty 
  incredible that they come and we have got to have had such close and 
  intimate time with some of them.  
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
  
   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 is scared to death of saints for fear he might have a spiritual 
   experience.   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
   
Life work of The holy. 

On Saintly Healing Maharishi says, 

That is `The department of the Almighty does it`.
It is not the individual - it is the department. And it is only one 
way, it is
not two ways. The help is not given, it is received. It is received by 
our
ability to attune with that.

And that ability develops with devotion, surrender and service. These 
three things - automatically one is elevated to that level. And help 
doesn`t come from outside, it comes from right were we are, from our 
own being.

But those unaware of one`s own being have this mechanics to help them. 
And this
is true for all the saints in all the times through out the world.



 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:
 
  Paraphrasing Maharishi, a doctor doesn't need to be in good health 
  to heal others.
  
 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 No, are looking at and talking about something else bigger here.  
 Primary care providers with a degree in medicine, even Chopra, are 
 more usually just different trades-people compared to saints.
 
  
  --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   This is a good answer, Mike.
   
   I wouldn't want to have to define holy man or saint, so
   I wouldn't want to say what would disqualify him (or qualify
   him, for that matter) for being either. He wasn't a perfect
   human being, that's for sure. It's up to the individual to
   decide how much they want to hold his sins against him.
   
  
  
  Couldn't describe?  Saints?  Okay, if you won't stick your neck out 
  at this point I will for sake of the discussion here.  We all know 
  them when we see them.  Saints become described by their work.  As 
  spiritual people our saints are those particular people who can 
  help people spiritually and who distinguish their life work that 
  way.  More than just doing good works and different from folks 
  [think Batgap.com] just being awake authors or spiritual teachers 
  out on the circuit but those being in the work of tangibly lending 
  spiritual transformation by interceding with healing for others of 
  the binding influences in the subtle bodies of the spiritual 
  psycho-physical and emotional samskara towards helping to free 
  people of the binding influences in their spiritual life on earth.  
  Real saints, it's those particular enlightened who can tangibly or 
  manifestly heal people who are either afflicted or ignorant in 
  their spiritual lives.
  -Buck
  
   
   --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:
   
Yeah, he's still a holy man, just not as holy as most of us 
thought. The Bible tells us that all men fall short of the 
Glory of God. That means that all men have and will sin. 
Maharishi was a man, not God. The Bible also speaks of angels 
coming to earth and having sex with women. Veda Vyasa had sex 
with an unmarried woman in a boat while crossing a river, thus 
we have Shukadeva. Maharishi belongs on a pedestal, just not as 
high as we might have thought. My thoughts are that M was a 
very high soul on a mission and upon taking birth as a man, he 
did things men do.




 From: Michael Jackson 
To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com; 
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 12:58 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Serious Question

  

OK, serious question here to all those who have defended 
Maharishi as a saint and 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

[Buck]

 
  Om when the saints come!
  We can innumerate their visits to Fairfield:
 
  Mother Meera visiting with Fairfield.  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Meera
  
 
  Shree Maa visited with Fairfield.
 http://www.shreemaa.org/


Karunamayi in Fairfield:
http://www.karunamayi.org/
 
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
  
   In Fairfield we've been extremely fortunate to have had the number of the 
   great saints of our times visit Fairfield over the years.  It's pretty 
   incredible that they come and we have got to have had such close and 
   intimate time with some of them.  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
   
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 is scared to death of saints for fear he might have a 
spiritual experience.   

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 Life work of The holy. 
 
 On Saintly Healing Maharishi says, 
 
 That is `The department of the Almighty does it`.
 It is not the individual - it is the department. And it is only one 
 way, it is
 not two ways. The help is not given, it is received. It is received 
 by our
 ability to attune with that.
 
 And that ability develops with devotion, surrender and service. These 
 three things - automatically one is elevated to that level. And help 
 doesn`t come from outside, it comes from right were we are, from our 
 own being.
 
 But those unaware of one`s own being have this mechanics to help 
 them. And this
 is true for all the saints in all the times through out the world.
 
 
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:
  
   Paraphrasing Maharishi, a doctor doesn't need to be in good 
   health to heal others.
   
  
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
 
  No, are looking at and talking about something else bigger here.  
  Primary care providers with a degree in medicine, even Chopra, are 
  more usually just different trades-people compared to saints.
  
   
   --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, authfriend  
   wrote:
   
This is a good answer, Mike.

I wouldn't want to have to define holy man or saint, so
I wouldn't want to say what would disqualify him (or qualify
him, for that matter) for being either. He wasn't a perfect
human being, that's for sure. It's up to the individual to
decide how much they want to hold his sins against him.

   
   
   Couldn't describe?  Saints?  Okay, if you won't stick your neck 
   out at this point I will for sake of the discussion here.  We all 
   know them when we see them.  Saints become described by their 
   work.  As spiritual people our saints are those particular people 
   who can help people spiritually and who distinguish their life 
   work that way.  More than just doing good works and different 
   from folks [think Batgap.com] just being awake authors or 
   spiritual teachers out on the circuit but those being in the work 
   of tangibly lending spiritual transformation by interceding with 
   healing for others of the binding influences in the subtle bodies 
   of the spiritual psycho-physical and emotional samskara towards 
   helping to free people of the binding influences in their 
   spiritual life on earth.  Real saints, it's those particular 
   enlightened who can tangibly or manifestly heal people who are 
   either afflicted or ignorant in their spiritual lives.
   -Buck
   

--- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  
wrote:

 Yeah, he's still a holy man, just not as holy as most of us 
 thought. The Bible tells us that all men fall short of the 
 Glory of God. That means that all men have and will sin. 
 Maharishi was a man, not God. The Bible also speaks of angels 
 coming to earth and having sex with women. Veda Vyasa had sex 
 with an unmarried woman in a boat while crossing a river, 
 thus we have Shukadeva. Maharishi belongs on a pedestal, just 
 not as high as we might have thought. My thoughts are that M 
 was a very high soul on a mission and upon taking birth as a 
 man, he did things men do.
 
 
 
 
  From: Michael Jackson 
 To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com; 
 Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 12:58 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] 

[FairfieldLife] Quite a Country

[Michael Jackson]

 
 Magazine 
 
9 February 2013 Last updated at 19:30 ET  
Shiv Sena knives: At the sharp end of Indian politicsBy Alex Preston Mumbai  
The death of a 23-year-old woman who was gang-raped in Delhi in December, 
sparked widespread protests and has led to demands for greater security 
for women - and at least one initiative to provide women with weapons.

In the middle-class district of Lalbaug in central Mumbai, a 
group of far-right politicians is handing out knives - 21,000 sharp, 
short blades distributed by enthusiastic party activists. 
Several thousand women wait to receive their bounty in the 
humid early evening air. Many of them have dressed-up for the rally, 
their shalwar kameezes a riot of colour, their foreheads decorated with bright 
bindis (dots of colour). 

They are here to celebrate the birthday of the late Bal Thackeray, the founder 
of Shiv Sena. 
Little-known outside Mumbai, Shiv Sena wields extraordinary power in India's 
economic capital. 
Founded in 1966 by Thackeray, a political cartoonist at the 
time, the party initially pushed for the rights of the native 
Maharashtrian community in the face of a wave of immigration from South 
India. 
With a militant wing, a fondness for bandhs (mass strikes) and violence, Shiv 
Sena has been a major political force in the city, winning control of the state 
of Maharashtra in 1995. The 
charismatic figure of Thackeray led the strikes until his death in 
November last year.

In the wake of the horrifying Delhi rape case in December, 
Shiv Sena has turned its focus to the issue that is dominating the 
country's newspapers and television channels - women's rights. 

I spoke to the girl next to me on the bus the morning I arrived in Mumbai, a 
student from Chennai. 

She disapproved of Shiv Sena's politics, she said, but 
claimed that the party's white-coated moral police force had made life better 
for women in Mumbai. 
She had taken a train at midnight the night before, something she would never 
be able to do in her home city. 

The culture of Eve teasing - an ugly euphemism for sexual harassment - is far 
less pronounced in 
Mumbai than in any of India's other major cities and Shiv Sena can take 
much of the credit for this. 
While the party has its bigots and bruisers, its record on 
putting forward female candidates, on speaking out against practices 
such as sati (the banned practice of burning widows on the funeral pyres of 
their husbands) and forced marriage, is impressive.

I arranged to meet Thackeray's biographer, the political 
journalist Vaibhav Purandare, in The Gaylord - a glitzy restaurant in 
south Mumbai. 
I walked to our rendezvous through Churchgate and past the 
hockey stadium which still carries traces of recent Shiv Sena protests 
that forced the Pakistani team to flee the country. 
We sat outside, looking out on to a road lined with vine-clad baobab trees in 
which hooded crows cackled and croaked. 

I asked Purandare about the party's role as defender of the city's women.
Shiv Sena is facing a crisis of identity, he told me. 
Since they lost power in the state in 1999, they've been struggling. They are 
desperately looking for issues. 
Suddenly, since the rape on the Delhi bus, people are concerned about the 
safety of women. There are 
spontaneous protests, the feeling that the government is not doing 
enough. Shiv Sena thinks it can cash in on this.

I asked him about reports of the party's moral police force attacking women 
for wearing short skirts and harassing couples for 
walking arm-in-arm in public. 
There's some truth to those stories, Purandare told me, 
but they aren't just brutal thugs. And this is from a man whose face 
bears the scars of a recent run-in with the Shiv Sena militia, while 
reporting on a city-wide strike. He escaped with two broken cheekbones. 

The Maharati community has strong, independent-minded women, he continued.
In a Maharati family it's the women who call the shots and Shiv Sena needs to 
work with this, to appeal to them.

The next morning I walked along Marine Drive, to a meeting 
with one of the rising political stars of Shiv Sena - Shweta Parulekar. 

She is a serious, self-contained woman dressed in saffron and red and frowns at 
my description of Shiv Sena as a party of violence. 

What can you do if you try all of the normal, legal methods? she asked, 
holding up her hands. 
Ultimately, what does the common man do? He goes out on to the streets. 
Parulekar called the handing out of knives by the party: A publicity stunt, to 
make a point. 

From the brief time we spent together I cannot think the pun is intended. 
On the television that evening, a local Shiv Sena leader energetically defended 
the arming of the city's female population. 

Bal Thackeray used to say women should prefer a rampuri (knife) in their 
purse, to a lipstick, he said. 
This government has failed to provide security to women so we are distributing 
these knives to empower them. 
I tried to buy one from a 

[FairfieldLife] Can Transcendental Meditation Help Military Rape Victims?

[merlin]

Can Transcendental Meditation Help 
Military Rape Victims?
~~~

http://www.tm.org/blog/video/can-transcendental-meditation-help-military-rape-victims/?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=can-transcendental-meditation-help-military-rape-victims

~~
with 2  short clips 
@@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[doctordumbass]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John wrote:
 
   Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an
 artist when he was younger. But the karma of his birth chart made him
 take a more infamous path in life. Jyotishis have noted that he had
 Shakti Yoga which made him an evil incarnate here on earth.
 
 This reminds of something I remember from about 20 years ago, I was
 buying something at our big independent bookstore, and somehow, because
 of what I was buying, I got into a brief discussion (maybe two or three
 minutes) with the person checking me out.  He was in his early twenties,
 and he told me that WW2, with Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini was the
 low point of this era.  And that having gotten through that, things
 began a cycle of improvement.  And the more I thought about it, the more
 I think he was right.
 
 Now, right now, because of technology, it appears we are losing our
 privacy, and maybe our freedoms bit by bit, under the cover of creating
 a safer world.  I suppose the technology is irresistable in what it
 can do.  Law enforcement can't resist all the tools that are available
 to keep tabs on illegal activities.
 
 I'm not sure how it's all going to play out, but I don't think very well
 for the majority of us.

Yeah, it is an interesting time, to say the least. I was reading recently that 
the FAA is going to allow drones over civilian airspace in the US in 2015 - We 
already patrol the border with Mexico that way, in parts of Texas.

On the other hand, pervasive communication, the extension of the senses for all 
of us, also means that much of what we thought about the world and those in it, 
is changed by having access to events globally, in real time, with the ability 
to read and comment on an endless variety of viewpoints.

Also shines a light on the bad guys more easily. A lot of our so-called heroes 
have fallen by the wayside, in light of pervasive communications, the virtual 
spotlight on each of us.

About a year ago, as a contractor, I produced an industrial training program, 
called the diamond program, for the US Mint in San Francisco. The security 
involved in getting hired,  and getting in and out of the place, each day, was 
very, very intense; FBI background clearance (including interviews with my 
neighbors), and fingerprint check, two man traps, guard access and scrutiny at 
three points, metal detectors, x-ray for anything loose, and always in the 
presence of well trained, heavily armed federal police officers. Even going out 
for lunch I had to do this.

The point being, I adjusted to it, and quickly relaxed into the routine. So if 
we simply know what we are doing, there is nothing to fear. Just becomes part 
of the background.:-) 

The only carry over, is that the cops had to confiscate and write up even a 
penny if you brought it into work, so I continue now to never carry change in 
my pockets - lol.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
  
   If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
   today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the concept of 
   Aryan purity in his daily life.
   
   v
  
  Yes, and he was Catholic too. People who eat meat get enlightened too, 
  though not likely Hitler.
  
  If absolute being is omnipresent as is often said, then nothing should be 
  in the way of realising it.
 
 
 Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an artist when he 
 was younger.  But the karma of his birth chart made him take a more infamous 
 path in life.  Jyotishis have noted that he had Shakti Yoga which made him an 
 evil incarnate here on earth.

What is the difference between an evil incarnate and just a downright lousy, 
cruel human being? Are there such things as evil beings? Or do entities take 
over a human being? Are you an evil incarnate from the moment of birth or were 
you that before? I am curious about this stuff.

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

[obbajeeba]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  Not content to make up things about people she considers
  her enemies, now Judy makes up facts about the Inquisition.
  That's a very Inquisitor-like thing to do.  :-)
 
 I don't make up anything about anything or anybody. That's
 your gig, Barry.
 
 The Inquisition of which Ratzinger was named Cardinal-Prefect
 in 1981 by Pope John Paul II--now known as the Congregation
 for the Doctrine of the Faith--was, as I said, established in
 1542 by Pope Paul III and has been in continuous operation
 since then.
 
 Which Inquisition did you have in mind, Barry?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI
 
 
  Even a short period of Googling would reveal how wrong she
  is about several things below, like being 354 years off on
  the start date, as reported even by apologist Catholic
  organizatins. I'm pointing it out just so that she'll 
  go crazy trying to prove herself RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a
  fool of herself for our amusement.  :-)
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   (snip)
I was never Catholic, and don't know much about Pope
Benedict, other than his uncanny resemblance to the
Sith Emperor from Star Wars :-), and what was said
about him before he was elected Pope, which was that
he was one of the most feared men in Catholicism. I
do know that he was the person who brought *back* the
Inquisition to the Church, after it had finally been
abolished after 600 years, and led it for many years.
   
   For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
   been in continuous operation since it was established
   in 1542. It was never abolished (nor has it been around
   for 600 years!). It has undergone a couple of name
   changes; since 1965 it's been called the Congregation
   for the Doctrine of the Faith.
   
   Of course it doesn't burn anybody at the stake these
   days.
   
   Ratzinger was named Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation
   by Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Uber-narcissists who would fit right in on FFL

[Susan]

This does not sound like narcissism, but psychosis/paranoia/schizophrenia or 
something in that ballpark.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 These folks remind me of people like Robin, who assume that they're
 actually interesting enough that people would want to tune into their
 lives full-time.
 Cases of 'Truman Show' delusions on the rise as more people believe
 they're the stars of their own reality TV programsReality TV shows are
 making increasing  numbers of people convinced that they're the stars of
 their own,  unwanted television programs.
 Psychiatrists  are treating more people for so-called 'Truman Show'
 delusions -- named  after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man
 who spends his entire  life unwittingly at the center of a fictional
 world that's being  broadcast to millions of homes.
 
 The  startling cases often afflict successful people who develop
 paranoid  fantasies that they're being filmed at all times and that the
 world  that's in front of them isn't real.
   [Truman Show]
 They're being watched: People suffering from  'Truman Show' delusions
 believe they are the star of a TV program like  Jim Carrey's character
 in the 1998 movie
 
 Their friends and loves ones are  actors. The news they see on TV is
 made up to control the way they  think. The things that happen to them
 are merely events staged for the  amusement of others.
 
 
 The result can turn disturbing and even violent.
 In 2009, Anthony Waterlow killed his  father and his sister in Australia
 because he believed they were  broadcasting his life to the world as
 part of a game show to either  murder him or convince him to kill
 himself.
 
 During a psychological exam, he specially mentioned 'The Truman Show,'
 according to the Sydney Morning Herald

  -20110412-1dcpz.html#ixzz1wHr2bspd .
 
   [Truman show]
 Affliction: The paranoid suspicion of being spied on has driven some
 people to violence -- even murder -- in event years
 
 In  2007, psychiatrist William Johns III allegedly assaulted a
 2-year-old  and his mother in New York City after he left his home in
 Florida  because he 'had to get out of the Truman Show' that he believed
 was  filming him in his home town, according to ABC News
  .
 
 
 Drs  Joel and Ian Gold, researchers at New York University and McGill 
 University in Montreal, respectively, recently published a series of 
 case studies about suffers of 'Truman Show' delusions.
 
 
 Their article in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   , followed five patients who believed their lives were the center of a
 secret TV show.
 
 
 One patient traveled to New York City  and walked in a federal building
 and demanded to see 'the director.' He  said he had to come to Manhattan
 because he believed the World Trade  Center attacks had been faked for
 the TV show being filmed around him,  according to BuzzFeed

  mmon .
 
 He  said he had to see for himself whether the twin towers were still 
 standing. If they weren't, he said, it would be final proof that he was 
 the unwilling star of a reality TV program.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[Susan]

I just finished last night.  You are right - they avoid the plot manipulation 
(creating a cliff-hanger at the end of each episode).  The story flows.   
Really nice.  the theme music is very nice, altho I got tired of the long 
intros. I have Netflixed the original British version, which I am told is 
darker.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 
  On 02/09/2013 07:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
   
   Well, I finished watching this series today...
  
  You are more of a TV junkie than I am then.  
 
 Possibly, but I also had a short work week last week,
 and thus was able to devote 9.75 hours (shorter, really,
 because I could fast-forward through the repeating
 opening sequences) to watching a novel. 
 
 That's definitely how the writer thought of it, given
 the amount of artistic freedom (total, not one critical
 comment or suggestion from Netflix during the entire
 production) he had, and given Netflix's decision to make
 all episodes available on the viewer's time schedule.
 They didn't have to invent cliff-hanger endings to get
 people to tune in next week. 
 
  I'm about halfway through but a little disappointed that 
  so far we haven't seen much of the real problem in politics 
  and that's big corporations. Even Frank would have to kowtow 
  to them or lose his office. Other political analysts have 
  mentioned the same thing about the series.
 
 Oh, that's definitely there, or did you (and these 
 analysts miss the stuff about Sancorp? It gets more 
 pronounced towards the end. 
 
  BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of Utopia. I would 
  think the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming 
  on Netflix. The accents are too strong for most Americans 
  to understand.  
 
 Not only that. American TV producers are never going 
 to go for a series that proposes a giant underground
 organization willing to create diseases that target
 only specific races. They should have heard the guys
 from Los Alamos talking about the research they were
 doing to do exactly that. :-)
 
  But I hope that a watered down remake for the US doesn't 
  keep the original version out of the US market. I like 
  the cinematography in it which is probably another problem 
  for dumbed down 'mericans who don't like black bars. It's 
  presented in scope so there are black bars on a 16:9 
  screen. I understand that House of Cards has a 2:1 ratio 
  (slightly scope) but probably due to overscan on my old HD 
  set I don't see the black bars.  
 
 I seriously doubt that most Americans are bright enough
 to even notice the aspect ratios, except for old movies
 shown on TNT.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Drones in Your Backyard@ Niagara Falls Base next2 me!

[Richard J. Williams]

Bhairitu:
 So you're going to wage war on Americans?  
 If you're going to do that go after the 
 banksters and the Neocons.

Go after 'banksters' and 'Neocons' without 
a charge, trial or due process?

The non sequitur is breathtaking. Awlaki 
wouldn't receive notice, the opportunity to 
be heard or a hearing before a decision 
maker...

'Obama's Drone Attack on Your Due Process'
Bloomberg:
http://tinyurl.com/ayasyts

 
  I  already own a small remote-controlled 
  helicopter with a built in video recorder. 
  $80 dollars from Fry's Electronics. A fairly 
  fun  toy.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[Richard J. Williams]

seventhray27:
 ...because of technology, it appears we are 
 losing our privacy, and maybe our freedoms 
 bit by bit, under the cover of creating a 
 safer world.

Big Sis News:

Meantime, a lawsuit the ACLU brought on the 
issue concerns a New York man whose laptop was 
seized along the Canadian border in 2010 and 
returned 11 days later after his attorney 
complained...

'DHS Watchdog OKs `Suspicionless' Seizure of 
Electronic Devices Along Border'
Wired:
http://tinyurl.com/alvwrrn

[FairfieldLife] Dr. Schneider begins Total Health World Tour 2013

[merlin]

 



Maharishi’s Global Family Chat
January 28, 2013
 
 
Dr. Schneider
begins Total Health World Tour

 
Dr Robert Schneider, dean of Maharishi University of Management’s Maharishi 
College of Perfect Health, visited India, Nepal, and Greece in the first 
section of a world tour to spread the knowledge of Maharishi Vedic Medicine.
The World Ayurveda Congress on public health in India, held in Bhopal, was 
attended by a number of Maharishi Ayurveda leaders, including Dr Oliver Werner, 
seen here addressing the congress. 

Dr Schneider presented on Maharishi Ayurveda, explaining the three areas of 
this approach to health:
1. the mind/body connection,
2. physiological approaches such as herbs, diet, purification 
procedures, and lifestyle, and
3. environmental approaches such as Maharishi Vedic architecture and 
Maharishi Vedic astrology.
“The second area was the most familiar to the hundreds of Ayurvedic doctors in 
attendance,” Dr. Schneider said. “I think my presentation expanded their 
boundaries about what Ayurvedic medicine really is — beyond herbs to the inner 
and outer universes.”
The group also visited the beautiful new Maharishi Vedic Health Centre 
including Panchakarma clinic while they were in Bhopal.


In Delhi Dr Schneider presented a graduate and faculty seminar on the role of 
Maharishi Vedic Medicine and its verification by modern science at Apeejay 
University. The MAV group also attended the 25th anniversary celebration of 
Maharishi Ayurveda Products.


Dr. Schneider then traveled to Nepal, where he spoke to several hundred 
students, faculty, and deans from the Ayurveda and the modern medicine colleges 
at Tribhuvan University.
The presentation led to a discussion of partnering to create a college of 
integrative medicine and hospital in Nepal that would have an international 
student body and bring together the best of science-based natural medicine and 
modern medicine.


The next stop was the University of Athens medical school, where he was a 
visiting professor for a graduate program in stress management. Again there was 
enthusiasm for developing an integrative medical school and health center for 
students worldwide.
About his world tour, Dr. Schneider said, “It’s time to bring our University’s 
knowledge to the rest of the world.”
He plans to continue the tour, targeting top-level decision-makers, such as 
academics, medical schools, and government agencies on every continent. He 
invites any National Directors who feel they could contribute, to contact him 
at rschnei...@maharishi.net. 
Dr Schneider can help locate the right people in each country, and he is also 
happy to address the Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators while he is in your 
country. This is a great opportunity to inform and delight your brightest 
meditators with Dr Schneider’s brilliant presentations on all aspects of 
health. 
  
**

[FairfieldLife] For Salyavin

[Ann]

Here is a picture just for you of our walking tour while in
Spitalfields. The Tour Company is a little independent called Bowl of
Chalk. Really great young guy leads the tours. Of course, he also makes
a living playing music and writing -  a really free spirit, I liked him
a lot.
http://www.bowlofchalk.net/things-are-afoot.html
  [Photo: Typical British, Spitalfields was originally Hospital
Fields.] 
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151452139481136set=a.47073400\
6135.289669.554396135type=1relevant_count=1






  [Picture] 

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[Richard J. Williams]

  You are more of a TV junkie than I am then.  
  
turquoiseb: 
  I finished watching this series today...
 
turquoiseb: 
 I seriously doubt that most Americans are bright 
 enough to even notice the aspect ratios, except 
 for old movie shown on TNT...

You're thinking that most Americans can't tell the 
difference between a cathode ray tube and an HD
LCD flat screen? Go figure.

Apparently you can't tell the difference between
TV set ratios and film ratios. LoL!

The most common aspect ratios used today in the 
presentation of films in movie theaters are 1.85:1 
and 2.39:1

Driving the forecast, IHS says, is the maturation 
of the market — most consumers who could afford to 
swap out their big, bulky TVs in favor of more 
elegant high-definition flat screens have already 
done so...

http://tinyurl.com/aksvgek

[FairfieldLife] Moorjani Quote

[Michael Jackson]

If a guru, teacher, or master makes you feel that you aren’t “yet” enlightened 
and still have more to “learn,” “release,” or “let go of” before getting there, 
then they’re not doing a good job of teaching you who you truly are, or you’re 
misunderstanding them. - Anita Moorjani

[FairfieldLife] Re: A question for Buck and Ann and other horse people

[Richard J. Williams]

The government are assuring us it's safe but people are 
currently worried about veterinary drugs that aren't good 
for us humans entering the food chain. That and the high
Shergar content (groan again).

   I can understand why you're bridling at it.
  
  Are you trying to stirrup trouble?
 
Ann: 
 I wish you guys would stop saddling me with these bad puns, 
 they really are a bit tack(y). Of course, the mane point 
 here should be never to shy away from unpleasant subjects 
 like eating horse meat; we must trot out the true facts in 
 order to rein in this kind of outrage.
 
A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, Why the long face? 

[FairfieldLife] It's Your Money!

[Richard J. Williams]

Every year, the IRS dutifully reports the most 
common blunders that taxpayers make on their 
returns. And every year, at or near the top of 
the oops list is forgetting to enter their 
Social Security number at the top of the tax 
form ...

'The Most-Overlooked Tax Deductions'
http://tinyurl.com/aqhb425

[FairfieldLife] L Ron ads

[Susan]

At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads for L 
Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this selective 
advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If so, they are 
way off base.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uber-narcissists who would fit right in on FFL

[Share Long]

I think everybody's interesting when we are first getting to know them.  But if 
either of us is stuck, not growing, then eventually familiarity and or sameness 
will give rise to an experience of someone not being interesting.  I like how 
Ammachi says that Love is never bored.  I notice when I'm what I'll call in the 
zone, I'm not bored, even if everything and everyone is the same on the surface 
of life.  





 From: Susan waybac...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 8:04 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uber-narcissists who would fit right in on FFL
 

  
This does not sound like narcissism, but psychosis/paranoia/schizophrenia or 
something in that ballpark.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 These folks remind me of people like Robin, who assume that they're
 actually interesting enough that people would want to tune into their
 lives full-time.
 Cases of 'Truman Show' delusions on the rise as more people believe
 they're the stars of their own reality TV programsReality TV shows are
 making increasing  numbers of people convinced that they're the stars of
 their own,  unwanted television programs.
 Psychiatrists  are treating more people for so-called 'Truman Show'
 delusions -- named  after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man
 who spends his entire  life unwittingly at the center of a fictional
 world that's being  broadcast to millions of homes.
 
 The  startling cases often afflict successful people who develop
 paranoid  fantasies that they're being filmed at all times and that the
 world  that's in front of them isn't real.
   [Truman Show]
 They're being watched: People suffering from  'Truman Show' delusions
 believe they are the star of a TV program like  Jim Carrey's character
 in the 1998 movie
 
 Their friends and loves ones are  actors. The news they see on TV is
 made up to control the way they  think. The things that happen to them
 are merely events staged for the  amusement of others.
 
 
 The result can turn disturbing and even violent.
 In 2009, Anthony Waterlow killed his  father and his sister in Australia
 because he believed they were  broadcasting his life to the world as
 part of a game show to either  murder him or convince him to kill
 himself.
 
 During a psychological exam, he specially mentioned 'The Truman Show,'
 according to the Sydney Morning Herald

-20110412-1dcpz.html#ixzz1wHr2bspd .
 
   [Truman show]
 Affliction: The paranoid suspicion of being spied on has driven some
 people to violence -- even murder -- in event years
 
 In  2007, psychiatrist William Johns III allegedly assaulted a
 2-year-old  and his mother in New York City after he left his home in
 Florida  because he 'had to get out of the Truman Show' that he believed
 was  filming him in his home town, according to ABC News
  .
 
 
 Drs  Joel and Ian Gold, researchers at New York University and McGill 
 University in Montreal, respectively, recently published a series of 
 case studies about suffers of 'Truman Show' delusions.
 
 
 Their article in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

 , followed five patients who believed their lives were the center of a
 secret TV show.
 
 
 One patient traveled to New York City  and walked in a federal building
 and demanded to see 'the director.' He  said he had to come to Manhattan
 because he believed the World Trade  Center attacks had been faked for
 the TV show being filmed around him,  according to BuzzFeed

mmon .
 
 He  said he had to see for himself whether the twin towers were still 
 standing. If they weren't, he said, it would be final proof that he was 
 the unwilling star of a reality TV program.



 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Moorjani Quote

[Richard J. Williams]

Michael Jackson:
 Moorjani Quote

Of course, there are many sceptics, and many ask me 
why I am so lucky to come back and heal, and I tell 
them, I am nothing special. We all have this inner 
strength, and I am here just to remind you of it. It
is up to you to take what you need from my experience. 
Miracles are possible. - Anita Moorjani

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Salyavin

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann  wrote:

 Here is a picture just for you of our walking tour while in
 Spitalfields. The Tour Company is a little independent called Bowl of
 Chalk. Really great young guy leads the tours. Of course, he also makes
 a living playing music and writing -  a really free spirit, I liked him
 a lot.
 http://www.bowlofchalk.net/things-are-afoot.html
   [Photo: Typical British, Spitalfields was originally Hospital
 Fields.] 

  6135.289669.554396135type=1relevant_count=1
 
Thanks Ann, hope you had a good time, you all look happy enough. Must be good 
getting a tour round the place as they probably have all sorts of knowledge. 
I'd like to do one round the Roman parts of the city, I love how it's all been 
added to and mixed up over the centuries. I've never noticed that sign, shall 
pay more attention next time I'm there.

Most importantly, did you get a pie and mash?



   [Picture]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[seventhray27]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote:

 About a year ago, as a contractor, I produced an industrial training
program, called the diamond program, for the US Mint in San Francisco.
The security involved in getting hired, and getting in and out of the
place, each day, was very, very intense; FBI background clearance
(including interviews with my neighbors), and fingerprint check, two man
traps, guard access and scrutiny at three points, metal detectors, x-ray
for anything loose, and always in the presence of well trained, heavily
armed federal police officers. Even going out for lunch I had to do
this.


That's sort of neat.  I have a customer in downtown St. Louis right next
to the Federal Reserve.  Every once in a while, I will see a Brinks
style truck making a pick up or delivery, and having those same heavily
armed federal police officers standing guard on either side until the
pick up is completed.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A question for Buck and Ann and other horse people

[Share Long]

A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, Why the long face?
Horse wearing number 007:  Because the last time I was here my martini was 
stirrup instead of shaken.




 From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:06 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A question for Buck and Ann and other horse people
 

  


The government are assuring us it's safe but people are 
currently worried about veterinary drugs that aren't good 
for us humans entering the food chain. That and the high
Shergar content (groan again).

   I can understand why you're bridling at it.
  
  Are you trying to stirrup trouble?
 
Ann: 
 I wish you guys would stop saddling me with these bad puns, 
 they really are a bit tack(y). Of course, the mane point 
 here should be never to shy away from unpleasant subjects 
 like eating horse meat; we must trot out the true facts in 
 order to rein in this kind of outrage.
 
A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, Why the long face? 


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] It's Your Money!

[Share Long]

Supposedly they only need your last four digits.  That's what I heard just 
recently.  True?





 From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:09 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] It's Your Money!
 

  
Every year, the IRS dutifully reports the most 
common blunders that taxpayers make on their 
returns. And every year, at or near the top of 
the oops list is forgetting to enter their 
Social Security number at the top of the tax 
form ...

'The Most-Overlooked Tax Deductions'
http://tinyurl.com/aqhb425


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:

 At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks 
 are frequent ads for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others 
 have this happening? Is this selective advertising where 
 they consider FFL people a good audience?  If so, they 
 are way off base.

Possibly not, according to the algorithms that run
Google's ad placement. They would figure, Once a 
sucker, always one. 

After all, consider Buck's bragging about how many
spiritual teachers, healers, saints, etc. come to
Fairfield. Why do you think they DO that...for the
weather? 

They come to Fairfield because they know that they
have a substantial audience with a proven history of
paying money (and often substantial sums of money)
for Anything Supposedly Spiritual. 

I wouldn't be surprised if the Google algorithms made
the same decisions. 

I don't seen any ads because I use Ad-Blocker, so I
can't comment on any that might appear. But I do know
that no humans are in the loop when deciding on their
placement. It's all statistics, and assessments of who
might be the most likely target audiences for the
products involved. I know that they parse the content
of groups like this looking for keywords, and then 
choose matching ads for placement. Possibly a number
of the posts made here recently about $cientology 
have triggered the ads you're seeing. That and the
fact that the Co$ is in a state of panic right now,
and has radically increased its advertising. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:

 At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are
 frequent ads for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this
 happening?  Is this selective advertising where they consider FFL
 people a good audience?  If so, they are way off base.


I get them when I look at the FFL website on my iPad. On my PC, there are no 
ads in email, and when I go to the website, my ad blocker kills all banner ads.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[Share Long]

You guys need to watch Numb3rs.  Then you'll have the inside scoop on ALL this 
(-:

And someone on FFL posted a youtube link explaining that the Federal Reserve 
name is like the Federal Express name.  Not denoting anything to do with the US 
govt!  That shocked me.  





 From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:41 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?
 

  

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote:
 
 About a year ago, as a contractor, I produced an industrial training program, 
 called the diamond program, for the US Mint in San Francisco. The security 
 involved in getting hired, and getting in and out of the place, each day, was 
 very, very intense; FBI background clearance (including interviews with my 
 neighbors), and fingerprint check, two man traps, guard access and scrutiny 
 at three points, metal detectors, x-ray for anything loose, and always in the 
 presence of well trained, heavily armed federal police officers. Even going 
 out for lunch I had to do this.

That's sort of neat.  I have a customer in downtown St. Louis right next to the 
Federal Reserve.  Every once in a while, I will see a Brinks style truck making 
a pick up or delivery, and having those same heavily armed federal police 
officers standing guard on either side until the pick up is completed.

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[turquoiseb]

  About a year ago, as a contractor, I produced an industrial 
  training program, called the diamond program, for the US 
  Mint in San Francisco. The security involved in getting 
  hired, and getting in and out of the place, each day, was 
  very, very intense; FBI background clearance (including 
  interviews with my neighbors), and fingerprint check, two 
  man traps, guard access and scrutiny at three points, metal 
  detectors, x-ray for anything loose, and always in the 
  presence of well trained, heavily armed federal police 
  officers. Even going out for lunch I had to do this.
 
 That's sort of neat.  I have a customer in downtown St. Louis 
 right next to the Federal Reserve.  Every once in a while, I 
 will see a Brinks style truck making a pick up or delivery, 
 and having those same heavily armed federal police officers 
 standing guard on either side until the pick up is completed.

Twice in my life I have done work for Citibank. The 
second time was in New York, and I only learned after
a few weeks working there that the building we were
in was in the Top Ten Potential Terrorist Targets in
the city. *Not* because of Citibank, but because two
of the floors above us in the building contained offices
of the Israeli government. We got used to guys riding
the elevators with us obviously packing heat, and one
day I actually had to make a delivery for my bosses to
one of those floors. When I stepped off the elevator
I found myself enclosed in a bomb-proof man trap, and
surrounded outside the shatterproof plastic by men with
Uzis. I never got any further than that man trap. 
They asked my business, asked me to show my ID, and
then had me push my package through a small window
in the man-sized trap into a smaller one, where it was
X-rayed and sniffed by dogs. Then they told me to go. 

That said, this was only the second-most secure build-
ing I've ever been in. The first was in L.A. Again I
was doing work for Citibank, and that work occasioned
me to drop off something at an address I'd been given
in Pasadena. When I drove up, I thought I'd gotten the
address wrong, because it was a very normal-looking
strip mall, containing only a few very normal stores
and a 7-11. I parked and walked to the address I'd been
given, and found myself in a fairly normal-looking 
travel agency office. A nice lady asked who I was, 
again looked at my Citbank ID, and took the envelope
I was delivering, and I left.

Only later did I find out that the whole place was 
straight out of Maxwell Smart. Inside the inner doors
of the outer office was another similar man trap, lead-
ing past armed guards to a secure elevator that led
down several stories below the ground to an enormous
computer center. Why was it so secure? It contained
the servers that routed all electronic banking and
trading transactions that went through the West coast
of America to and from Asia. One bomb placed there 
would have wreaked economic disaster, because it would
have taken the entire system offline for weeks or 
months. 

I have heard since that such data centers are now
redundant, meaning that there are many such secret
locations, so that one could provide backup if another
is taken offline by an earthquake or terrorism. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Psycopathy and Occupation (Share)

[Share Long]

Yes, Xeno, maybe decline.  But I hope that I'm simply becoming less dependent 
on left brain dominance and more balanced in the functioning of both sides of 
the brain.


There's an intersection a block from my house that is notorious for red light 
running.  Usually people traveling from east to west.  I'm a little more 
cautious there.  I think the intersection is cursed or something.  Last summer 
a guy in a red pick up actually came straight at me even though I had the light 
and was in the crosswalk.  It was a hot day and his windows were open and his 
face was red.  I backed up so he could proceed ahead of me.  I understand pitta 
vitiation.  No point in being dead right (-:

Today the plodding is definitely lighter feeling.  Even with torrential rain.  



 From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 11:56 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Psycopathy and Occupation (Share)
 

  
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long  wrote:

 Thanks Xeno and Judy for all the good info.  Besides being a loose thinker, 
 Xeno, I think I've also become a little ADD as I've gotten older.  For 
 example, I LOVE Fr. Keating's interview but find I can only watch about 15 
 minutes at a time.  I notice I also get overwhelmed when there's a long 
 thread here on FFL.  Anyway, I'm plodding along as best I can, replying to 
 what's interesting and or enjoyable.  

You know, there is a cognitive decline as we age, and it does not seem 
spiritual techniques compensate for it on the level of sense experience. 
Looking for things right in front of us and not seeing them immediately seems 
to be one I experience. It seems that switching tasks is less efficient, 
perhaps due to memory shortcomings, that is, when we are distracted from one 
thing there seems to be a tendency to not switch back to the original task: we 
are more distractible than when younger. The brain when switching a task has to 
disconnect from he original task, switch to another area of the brain to 
activate the new task. This takes a bit of time, and the process is not as 
fluid as we get older. This is also why when people multi-task, they perform 
worse on every task, because the brain, except for autonomic functions and 
visual processing, does not seem to use much parallel processing, but has to 
sequentially switch, especially with intellectual functions.

I remember almost getting totaled in my car in FF Iowa some years ago when an 
old white-haired lady ran a stoplight, eyes straight, ahead and barely missed 
me. Now I experience that same kind of lack of attention to some extent, I have 
to focus a bit more to avoid getting locked in a passing distraction, avoid 
conversations and especially telephones when driving. Whoever that old woman 
was, I have no rancor for her because I am experiencing what that is like 
creeping up on me.

It is thinking of a verbal response when driving that seems to be the most 
interfering with driving. Listening to music does not seem to interfere much 
(music without words - no songs with understandable words). Plodding seems to 
be a good word to describe the feeling of living now.

Long threads on FFL are sometimes not worth investing the time to follow the 
argument, which often veers off on a tangent soon enough.


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] 4 elements and TV, just for fun

[Share Long]

Well we know from your birthday that Sun is also in Sag.  Probably Venus since 
it's usually not far from Sun and Merc.  Maybe Guru too?  I'm curious what 
makes you artistically eccentric.  Usually I'd associate that with the outer 
planets.  





 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 4 elements and TV, just for fun
 

  
Try Mercury in Scorpio.  Three planets in fire sign Sagittarius which 
made David Frawley declare that from the horoscope I would be a pitta 
type with acquired kapha.

Most people find me artistically eccentric which is not a bad trait 
for a creative artist to have.  That also shows in the horoscope.  It 
has made me difficult for my relatives to understand in spite of their 
support of the arts.  I was more at home more around friends who grew up 
in families of performing musicians and artists.  Makes me think of my 
relatives as being more like rubes :-D

On 02/09/2013 02:36 PM, Share Long wrote:
 Yes, it was between Fire and Earth.  I think I went with Earth because you 
 often sound like a very practical person.  On FFL all I can go by for anyone 
 is their writing.  Maybe your Mercury is in an earth sign Taurus, Virgo or 
 Capricorn?




 
   From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 2:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 4 elements and TV, just for fun
 

 
 I'm sure that some TV screenplay writers may use that as part of
 formula.  Aristotle's Poetics is often studied in film schools for
 methods developing a script. I've read a little of which isn't saying
 much because it isn't that long a document.  But a film school grad back
 in the early 1980s watching one of my short films tipped me to Greek
 drama though he didn't mention this book.  A couple weeks back a
 director in his commentary mentioned Poetics and it's interesting how
 something written that long ago is still in use.

 Another thing about TV series screenplays is that they are often two act
 plays.  The first act presents a problem for the protagonist to solve
 and the second act the protagonist solves the problem.  Also novels can
 often be boiled down to the protagonist trying to solve a problem.
 There are even some movies that are two act plays.

 Interesting that you should see me as an earth type.  I'm pitta/kapha
 by constitution but mixed by vakriti (real pain in the ass to balance or
 bring back to constitutional state).  By palmistry I have fire hands and
 actually a fire type physique. Interesting how much these things show up
 in astrology, palmistry and alternative medicine.

 On 02/09/2013 09:54 AM, Share Long wrote:
 Have read several articles over the years about how TV shows often feature 4 
 main characters and thus reflect the traditional four main elements or modes 
 of individuality:  thinking feeling sensing and acting.  Just my opinion, I 
 could be wrong, just for fun, yada yada.  And I'm finally off to see 
 Playbook postponed due to challenging weather and road conditions.


 orig Star Trek
 air thinking Spock
 fire acting Capt Kirk
 water feeling Bones
 earth sensing Scotty

 Sex and the City
 air Carrie
 fire Amanda
 water Charlotte
 earth Samantha

 Seinfeld, not so sure of these

 air Jerry
 fire Elaine
 water Kramer
 earth George

 Numb3rs
 air Fleinhart

 fire Don
 water Charlie
 earth Allan, the Dad

 and though not a TV show YET
 Fairfield Life not so sure of these either

 air Xeno Nablusoss navashok salyavin me

 fire turq Buck Judy Richard Doc

 water Steve Ravi Michael

 earth Raunchy Ann card Mike Bhairitu


 


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
 
  At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are
  frequent ads for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this
  happening?  Is this selective advertising where they consider FFL
  people a good audience?  If so, they are way off base.
 
 
 I get them when I look at the FFL website on my iPad. On my PC, there are no 
 ads in email, and when I go to the website, my ad blocker kills all banner 
 ads.


You can stop ads on the net, are you serious, where can you get that?
That might even make using the interbollocks enjoyable again!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Drones in Your Backyard@ Niagara Falls Base next2 me!

[Bhairitu]

On 02/10/2013 06:25 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:

 Bhairitu:
 So you're going to wage war on Americans?
 If you're going to do that go after the
 banksters and the Neocons.

 Go after 'banksters' and 'Neocons' without
 a charge, trial or due process?

 The non sequitur is breathtaking. Awlaki
 wouldn't receive notice, the opportunity to
 be heard or a hearing before a decision
 maker...

 'Obama's Drone Attack on Your Due Process'
 Bloomberg:
 http://tinyurl.com/ayasyts


We have plenty of charges to go after the banksters and Neocons with.  
The banksters need to be tried by the DOJ and the NeoCons The Hague 
for their war crimes.  Their process is LONG overdue.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[Bhairitu]

Jeff Beal who did the music is from Castro Valley, here in the Bay Area 
and went to school with my niece and nephews (who are also musicians).  
He's done a number of film and TV scores throughout the years.  I saw 
the British version years ago when it played on Masterpiece Theater.

On 02/10/2013 06:09 AM, Susan wrote:
 I just finished last night.  You are right - they avoid the plot manipulation 
 (creating a cliff-hanger at the end of each episode).  The story flows.   
 Really nice.  the theme music is very nice, altho I got tired of the long 
 intros. I have Netflixed the original British version, which I am told is 
 darker.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 On 02/09/2013 07:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
 Well, I finished watching this series today...
 You are more of a TV junkie than I am then.
 Possibly, but I also had a short work week last week,
 and thus was able to devote 9.75 hours (shorter, really,
 because I could fast-forward through the repeating
 opening sequences) to watching a novel.

 That's definitely how the writer thought of it, given
 the amount of artistic freedom (total, not one critical
 comment or suggestion from Netflix during the entire
 production) he had, and given Netflix's decision to make
 all episodes available on the viewer's time schedule.
 They didn't have to invent cliff-hanger endings to get
 people to tune in next week.

 I'm about halfway through but a little disappointed that
 so far we haven't seen much of the real problem in politics
 and that's big corporations. Even Frank would have to kowtow
 to them or lose his office. Other political analysts have
 mentioned the same thing about the series.
 Oh, that's definitely there, or did you (and these
 analysts miss the stuff about Sancorp? It gets more
 pronounced towards the end.

 BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of Utopia. I would
 think the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming
 on Netflix. The accents are too strong for most Americans
 to understand.
 Not only that. American TV producers are never going
 to go for a series that proposes a giant underground
 organization willing to create diseases that target
 only specific races. They should have heard the guys
 from Los Alamos talking about the research they were
 doing to do exactly that. :-)

 But I hope that a watered down remake for the US doesn't
 keep the original version out of the US market. I like
 the cinematography in it which is probably another problem
 for dumbed down 'mericans who don't like black bars. It's
 presented in scope so there are black bars on a 16:9
 screen. I understand that House of Cards has a 2:1 ratio
 (slightly scope) but probably due to overscan on my old HD
 set I don't see the black bars.
 I seriously doubt that most Americans are bright enough
 to even notice the aspect ratios, except for old movies
 shown on TNT.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
  
   At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are
   frequent ads for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this
   happening?  Is this selective advertising where they consider 
   FFL people a good audience?  If so, they are way off base.
  
  I get them when I look at the FFL website on my iPad. On 
  my PC, there are no ads in email, and when I go to the 
  website, my ad blocker kills all banner ads.
 
 You can stop ads on the net, are you serious, where can you 
 get that? That might even make using the interbollocks 
 enjoyable again!

I never use Internet Explorer, so I don't know whether
its latest incarnations accept add-ons/extensions, but
a neat, free program called Adblock Plus will do it
for Firefox and Chrome. 

In Firefox, go to Firefox  Add-Ons, and in Chrome, go 
to Customize and Control Google Chrome  Settings  
Extensions. Once there, search for Adblock Plus or 
scroll through the most popular programs, and you'll 
see it. Firefox has a video demo showing you how to
load Add-Ons if you need it under Firefox  Add-Ons  
Get Add-Ons, but most people don't. 

Adblock Plus works on most Web programs including
YouTube. It's a whole new world when you're not 
subjected to ads. 

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

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok  wrote:
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  Not content to make up things about people she considers
  her enemies, now Judy makes up facts about the Inquisition.
  That's a very Inquisitor-like thing to do.  :-)
  
  Even a short period of Googling would reveal how wrong she
  is about several things below, like being 354 years off on
  the start date, as reported even by apologist Catholic
  organizatins. I'm pointing it out just so that she'll 
  go crazy trying to prove herself RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a
  fool of herself for our amusement.  :-)
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg
 There aint't no doubt about it, she's lying. She makes up
 little quibbles continuously to be able to call other's
 liar and that is a lie as well.

The way you know who the liars are is whether, after
being called on their lies, instead of attempting to
prove themselves innocent, they accuse the person who
has exposed them of lying and never try to document
that either.

For the record, I don't think Barry was lying about
Ratzinger; he was just ignorant of the facts (as is
navashok). There's more than enough reason to
denounce Ratzinger on the basis of what he's actually
done (and not done), but He brought back the
Inquisition sounds so *dramatic*.

Stupid, too, for Barry to claim the Inquisition of
which Ratzinger became the head had previously been
abolished--as if the Vatican would ever have sat
back and allowed heresy against the doctrines of the
Church to flourish unimpeded within its ranks.




 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   (snip)
I was never Catholic, and don't know much about Pope
Benedict, other than his uncanny resemblance to the
Sith Emperor from Star Wars :-), and what was said
about him before he was elected Pope, which was that
he was one of the most feared men in Catholicism. I
do know that he was the person who brought *back* the
Inquisition to the Church, after it had finally been
abolished after 600 years, and led it for many years.
   
   For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
   been in continuous operation since it was established
   in 1542. It was never abolished (nor has it been around
   for 600 years!). It has undergone a couple of name
   changes; since 1965 it's been called the Congregation
   for the Doctrine of the Faith.
   
   Of course it doesn't burn anybody at the stake these
   days.
   
   Ratzinger was named Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation
   by Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:

 At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads for 
 L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this selective 
 advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If so, they are 
 way off base.


The only one who have mentioned Scientology here, even rather freqently, is the 
Turq. Perhaps they got interested due to that twisted soul.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[Bhairitu]

On 02/10/2013 01:53 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 On 02/09/2013 07:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
 Well, I finished watching this series today...
 You are more of a TV junkie than I am then.
 Possibly, but I also had a short work week last week,
 and thus was able to devote 9.75 hours (shorter, really,
 because I could fast-forward through the repeating
 opening sequences) to watching a novel.

 That's definitely how the writer thought of it, given
 the amount of artistic freedom (total, not one critical
 comment or suggestion from Netflix during the entire
 production) he had, and given Netflix's decision to make
 all episodes available on the viewer's time schedule.
 They didn't have to invent cliff-hanger endings to get
 people to tune in next week.

Lilyhammer, their series with Steve Van Zandt had all episodes 
available.  Netflix will also be presenting some new episodes of 
Arrested Development.   Netflix and other streaming services are more 
affordable than cable and satellite subscriptions and offer better stuff 
than the TV networks are allowed to broadcast.  Times are a changin'.


 I'm about halfway through but a little disappointed that
 so far we haven't seen much of the real problem in politics
 and that's big corporations. Even Frank would have to kowtow
 to them or lose his office. Other political analysts have
 mentioned the same thing about the series.
 Oh, that's definitely there, or did you (and these
 analysts miss the stuff about Sancorp? It gets more
 pronounced towards the end.

The one critic who mentioned this on his podcast (had connections that 
said his book was on the set and the title was indeed mentioned in the 
episode I watched last night) had only seen an early episode or two.   
HBO's Newsroom got more involved with corporatism.


 BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of Utopia. I would
 think the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming
 on Netflix. The accents are too strong for most Americans
 to understand.
 Not only that. American TV producers are never going
 to go for a series that proposes a giant underground
 organization willing to create diseases that target
 only specific races. They should have heard the guys
 from Los Alamos talking about the research they were
 doing to do exactly that. :-)

One needs to be developed that targets the greedy gene. :-D

There's a good sci-fi plot line.


 But I hope that a watered down remake for the US doesn't
 keep the original version out of the US market. I like
 the cinematography in it which is probably another problem
 for dumbed down 'mericans who don't like black bars. It's
 presented in scope so there are black bars on a 16:9
 screen. I understand that House of Cards has a 2:1 ratio
 (slightly scope) but probably due to overscan on my old HD
 set I don't see the black bars.
 I seriously doubt that most Americans are bright enough
 to even notice the aspect ratios, except for old movies
 shown on TNT.  :-)

Film aficionados notice.  HBO crops scope movies and Showtime 
doesn't.  I hate HBO for doing that.  It was really dumb too as the 
research was asking their office staff if the films should be cropped 
or not.   Watching another episode of House of Cards last night I did 
notice there was a short black bar at the bottom.

I also watched a little of the first episode of The History of Film 
which is a 15 episode British documentary series now available on 
Netflix.  The first episode traces the developments of Edison and the 
Lumière Brothers.  They also showed a boxing match circa 1897 shot on 
63mm film and widescreen.  Widescreen is nothing new and actually some 
films in the late 1920s were shot that way but the process was put away 
until they needed something to drag people away from their TVs in the 
early 1950s.  And then we got a plethora of widescreen formats.  
Cinemascope involved the use of an anamorphic lens which was originally 
developed in the late 1920s.  Since using it was a bit complicated 
others jumped into the act for solutions including just using a 
different mask on full frame 35mm.  Even today there are varying aspect 
ratios for scope.  16:9 is close to 1:85:1 or VistaVision.  16:9 
mathematically relates to 4:3 so was chosen for the widescreen TV aspect 
ratio.  House of Cards is a 16:9 frame masked to 2:1 using a Red 
camera which is a camera developed by the founder of RayBan Sunglasses 
who happened to be a digital photo and video enthusiast.  Film motion 
picture cameras aren't even made anymore.

Scope is favored by a lot of directors because it is a better canvas for 
action.

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
   
At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are
frequent ads for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this
happening?  Is this selective advertising where they consider 
FFL people a good audience?  If so, they are way off base.
   
   I get them when I look at the FFL website on my iPad. On 
   my PC, there are no ads in email, and when I go to the 
   website, my ad blocker kills all banner ads.
  
  You can stop ads on the net, are you serious, where can you 
  get that? That might even make using the interbollocks 
  enjoyable again!
 
 I never use Internet Explorer, so I don't know whether
 its latest incarnations accept add-ons/extensions, but
 a neat, free program called Adblock Plus will do it
 for Firefox and Chrome. 
 
 In Firefox, go to Firefox  Add-Ons, and in Chrome, go 
 to Customize and Control Google Chrome  Settings  
 Extensions. Once there, search for Adblock Plus or 
 scroll through the most popular programs, and you'll 
 see it. Firefox has a video demo showing you how to
 load Add-Ons if you need it under Firefox  Add-Ons  
 Get Add-Ons, but most people don't. 
 
 Adblock Plus works on most Web programs including
 YouTube. It's a whole new world when you're not 
 subjected to ads.

Thanks, I shall be checking this out immediately. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[doctordumbass]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote:
 
  About a year ago, as a contractor, I produced an industrial training
 program, called the diamond program, for the US Mint in San Francisco.
 The security involved in getting hired, and getting in and out of the
 place, each day, was very, very intense; FBI background clearance
 (including interviews with my neighbors), and fingerprint check, two man
 traps, guard access and scrutiny at three points, metal detectors, x-ray
 for anything loose, and always in the presence of well trained, heavily
 armed federal police officers. Even going out for lunch I had to do
 this.
 
 
 That's sort of neat.  I have a customer in downtown St. Louis right next
 to the Federal Reserve.  Every once in a while, I will see a Brinks
 style truck making a pick up or delivery, and having those same heavily
 armed federal police officers standing guard on either side until the
 pick up is completed.

It was honestly like living on a 1940's film noir set - especially on a rainy 
predawn morning. We would get deliveries, from armored 18 wheelers - While the 
truck backed in, the cops are out in their ponchos in the rain, with 
flashlights, low fog, the 1930's granite edifice of the Mint in the background. 
The Mint sits on literally tons of silver, and the security is unbelievable. 
The vaults on the first floor have doors of polished steel, each about two and 
a half feet thick. The place is still all 1930's deco inside, with lots of 
brass fittings, and marble. Very cool!

Interestingly enough too, either because of the intense security, or working 
with a noble metal all day, or both, I swear everybody there was in a good 
mood, 99% of the time! No kidding - It was instantly apparent, and others 
noticed also.

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:

 At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads for 
 L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this selective 
 advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If so, they are 
 way off base.


It must be a sign. I think you should join up Susan, it could be
a new path to the wonders of being enlightened or clear. 

And if you get all the way to being an operating thetan level 6
you can tell us the truth about our galactic overlord, Xenu. 
Shouldn't cost you more than 20% of your earnings and maybe your marriage and 
sanity... But you might meet Tom Cruise, so you have
to weigh up the pros and cons for yourself.

[FairfieldLife] Ad Blocking (was: Re: L Ron ads)

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:

 You can stop ads on the net, are you serious, where can you get that?
 That might even make using the interbollocks enjoyable again!

http://adblockplus.org/

Available for Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Android.

Go to that site in the browser you want to add it to, and it'll take you 
directly to an install page.

Personally, I use it in Opera and Firefox, leaving Chrome as a non-IE browser 
that will work on sites that hork up hairballs if ad blocking is used.

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
 
  At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads 
  for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this 
  selective advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If 
  so, they are way off base.
 
 
 The only one who have mentioned Scientology here, even rather
 freqently, is the Turq. Perhaps they got interested due to that
 twisted soul.


There was a Scientology auditor named Jeff Fischer who used to post to FFL some 
years ago. And, Scientology is mentioned right there on the FFL homepage:

Pretty much any topic is fair game. Currently, there's a lot of discussion 
about American politics. We have discussed spirituality, politics, economics, 
morality and higher states of consciousness, drug laws, evolution vs. 
creationism, enlightenment, advaita, reincarnation, karma, Jyotish (Vedic 
astrology), yagya, Ayurveda, dzogchen, tantra, channeling, vegetarianism, 
kundalini, celibacy, sexuality, homosexuality, abortion, racism, UFOs, 
Buddhism, Hinduism, Veda, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Scientology, etc.

I'd wager that the presence of Elron ads has everything to do with the FFL 
homepage and nothing to do with Turqananda-ji.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 I also watched a little of the first episode of The History of Film 
 which is a 15 episode British documentary series now available on 
 Netflix.  

If it's the series where a fellow with irish accent speaks veeery slowly, then 
it's highly recommendable ! Just be sure to have pen and pencil ready because 
the clips he show are the best of the best and you'll probably not know many of 
the directors. Truly a great documentary !

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[John]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
 
  If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
  today.  
 
 It isn't the case, Hitler wasn't a vegetarian though he did
 sometimes order veggie food from his cook to cure him of his
 bad flatulence (hope he left chickpea rissoles off the menu.)
 This is according to his biographers who claim he was fond of
 Bavarian sausages and game pie.
 
 He wasn't an atheist either.
 
 And, as far as we know, he had two testicles. Rumours that
 he had only one were invented by the British secret service
 in the hope it would make him seem less of a man (!)
 
 I don't believe that eating meat is responsible for violence
 either, perhaps more likely that people who become veggies
 are peaceful types to start with?

Hey Salyavin,

Did you know that the Brits planned on feeding Hitler with female hormones so 
that he would become less aggressive?  They did not want to poison him because 
they knew that Hitler had food tasters who would screen the meals.  It's on the 
internet.  Look it up.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[John]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
   
If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in 
society today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the 
concept of Aryan purity in his daily life.

v
   
   Yes, and he was Catholic too. People who eat meat get enlightened too, 
   though not likely Hitler.
   
   If absolute being is omnipresent as is often said, then nothing should be 
   in the way of realising it.
  
  
  Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an artist when 
  he was younger.  But the karma of his birth chart made him take a more 
  infamous path in life.  Jyotishis have noted that he had Shakti Yoga which 
  made him an evil incarnate here on earth.
 
 What is the difference between an evil incarnate and just a downright 
 lousy, cruel human being? Are there such things as evil beings? Or do 
 entities take over a human being? Are you an evil incarnate from the moment 
 of birth or were you that before? I am curious about this stuff.
 

Anne,


In Hindu mythology, the hierarchy of beings in the world are as follows:

1.  Supreme Being
2.  Angels called Vishnu dhatus in Sanskrit
3.  Humans
4.  Devil or the Asuras and Rakshasas
5.  Animals
6.  Insects
7.  Plants
8.  Rock

So we can be comforted that humans are higher in consciousness than the devil, 
who is often portrayed as more powerful than humans.

JR

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

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok  wrote:
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   Not content to make up things about people she considers
   her enemies, now Judy makes up facts about the Inquisition.
   That's a very Inquisitor-like thing to do.  :-)
   
   Even a short period of Googling would reveal how wrong she
   is about several things below, like being 354 years off on
   the start date, as reported even by apologist Catholic
   organizatins. I'm pointing it out just so that she'll 
   go crazy trying to prove herself RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a
   fool of herself for our amusement.  :-)
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg
  There aint't no doubt about it, she's lying. She makes up
  little quibbles continuously to be able to call other's
  liar and that is a lie as well.
 
 The way you know who the liars are is whether, after
 being called on their lies, instead of attempting to
 prove themselves innocent, they accuse the person who
 has exposed them of lying and never try to document
 that either.
 
 For the record, I don't think Barry was lying about
 Ratzinger; he was just ignorant of the facts (as is
 navashok). There's more than enough reason to
 denounce Ratzinger on the basis of what he's actually
 done (and not done), but He brought back the
 Inquisition sounds so *dramatic*.
 
 Stupid, too, for Barry to claim the Inquisition of
 which Ratzinger became the head had previously been
 abolished--as if the Vatican would ever have sat
 back and allowed heresy against the doctrines of the
 Church to flourish unimpeded within its ranks.

Someday Judy should learn that there are certain
things that you cannot learn by sitting on your
fat ass in New Jersey and Googling. Some things
you can only learn by going to actual Dominican
libraries and reading the original documents there.

Such as the documents sent to individual Dominican
Orders at the time that Pope Paul VI changed the
name of the Holy Office to its current name. Those
documents -- not meant for the general public --
seriously curtailed the powers and the provenance
of the Inquisition, effectively eliminating many
of the outlandish things it had still been able
to do up until that time. This was greeted with
much approval by people both within and outside
of the Church, and was a prime example of Paul
VI's many ecumenical reforms. It was widely
spoken of within the Church that the dark era
of the Inquisition is finally over. 

When Ratzinger was named to the head of the 
Inquisition by a later Pope, he had already
served as that Pope's enforcer, and the Church's
arbiter of doctrinal orthodoxy. Once in place as
head of the Inquisition, he set about reversing
all of the revised policies, and quickly became
the most feared man in Catholicism. He ordered
crackdowns on even slightly heretical or non-
mainstream ideas, instituting widespread use
of private detectives and surveillance of priests'
letters, sermons, and communications to ferret
out gays and other liberal priests. He was notably
insane over acceptance of ideas about abortion,
gays, and in Third World countries, liberal
theology. He gained within the Church the
nickname of Grand Inquisitor and among fellow
Germans, Der Panzerkardinal.

At the same time, he was a major force in the
coverups of child abuse and other sexual impro-
prieties by priests, and a major force in 
bringing back exorcism to the Church. The 
Dominican priests who were my sources during
my investigations of the Cathars were *terrified*
of him. They likened him both to Domenico Guzman
himself (founder of the Dominican Order, and
without question a psychopath) and Torquemada.

So while the Vatican may have saved face by
preserving the office of the Holy Office, it
*did* seriously curtail its activities, giving
Catholicism its first real breath of fresh air
for seven hundred years. Ratzinger -- now Pope
Benedict -- brought all of the stale air back. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
  
   At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads 
   for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this 
   selective advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If 
   so, they are way off base.
  
  
  The only one who have mentioned Scientology here, even rather
  freqently, is the Turq. Perhaps they got interested due to that
  twisted soul.
 
 
 There was a Scientology auditor named Jeff Fischer who used to post to FFL 
 some years ago. And, Scientology is mentioned right there on the FFL homepage:
 
 Pretty much any topic is fair game. Currently, there's a lot of discussion 
 about American politics. We have discussed spirituality, politics, economics, 
 morality and higher states of consciousness, drug laws, evolution vs. 
 creationism, enlightenment, advaita, reincarnation, karma, Jyotish (Vedic 
 astrology), yagya, Ayurveda, dzogchen, tantra, channeling, vegetarianism, 
 kundalini, celibacy, sexuality, homosexuality, abortion, racism, UFOs, 
 Buddhism, Hinduism, Veda, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Scientology, etc.
 
 I'd wager that the presence of Elron ads has everything to do with the FFL 
 homepage and nothing to do with Turqananda-ji.

Given the Judester's ludicrous attempts to pass off 
Googling as knowledge lately on the subject of the
Inquisition, I'd prefer to be known as Turquemada,
thanks.  :-) :-) :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
  
   If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
   today.  
  
  It isn't the case, Hitler wasn't a vegetarian though he did
  sometimes order veggie food from his cook to cure him of his
  bad flatulence (hope he left chickpea rissoles off the menu.)
  This is according to his biographers who claim he was fond of
  Bavarian sausages and game pie.
  
  He wasn't an atheist either.
  
  And, as far as we know, he had two testicles. Rumours that
  he had only one were invented by the British secret service
  in the hope it would make him seem less of a man (!)
  
  I don't believe that eating meat is responsible for violence
  either, perhaps more likely that people who become veggies
  are peaceful types to start with?
 
 Hey Salyavin,
 
 Did you know that the Brits planned on feeding Hitler with female hormones so 
 that he would become less aggressive?  They did not want to poison him 
 because they knew that Hitler had food tasters who would screen the meals.  
 It's on the internet.  Look it up.

Ah well, if it's on the internet it must be true. Look at all
the stuff you and Nabby post if you don't believe me ;-)

Seriously though, how were they planning to get the female hormones
inside him? And are you implying that veggies are by definition feminine and 
therefore less aggressive? Maybe that was what the
SOE thought in those days, but I think if they could get close
enough to poison him they would just blow him up

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[PaliGap]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of Utopia.  I would think
 the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming on
 Netflix.  The accents are too strong for most Americans to
 understand.  

I just *love* the beautiful sing-song Welsh accent of Becky
(Alexandra Roach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Roach)

 I like the cinematography in it 

Yes, me too.

The series has good 'bad guys'. A key ingredient IMO. 
(e.g. Alan Rickman, especially his voice, in Die Hard).

Speaking of good baddies, I wonder what you and Barry would
make of the original House Of Cards which featured a tour de
force by the late Ian Richardson? It may be a little to 
localised (read 'localized') to British politics I suspect.
I haven't yet seen the new version, but, good as I'm sure it
is, I just can't imagine anyone topping Richardson's original
performance (whose You might very well think that; I couldn't
possibly comment subsequently entered the British vernacular).

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

[authfriend]

None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
J-P II knew exactly what he was doing when he put
Ratzinger in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith.

The Vatican is very good at saving face when it needs
to (although the predatory-priest scandal has been more
than it could successfully cover up).

But there was no chance it would ever have abolished
its war against heresy in the Church, whatever reforms
it may have made. If it ever does, it will no longer
*be* the Roman Catholic Church.

The darkness of the means it uses to root out heresy
will wax and wane depending on who wields the power and
on Vatican and Church politics, as well as the political
and social situation outside the Church. But the
inquisitorial mindset is inherent and permanent; it is
itself doctrinal.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok  wrote:
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   
Not content to make up things about people she considers
her enemies, now Judy makes up facts about the Inquisition.
That's a very Inquisitor-like thing to do.  :-)

Even a short period of Googling would reveal how wrong she
is about several things below, like being 354 years off on
the start date, as reported even by apologist Catholic
organizatins. I'm pointing it out just so that she'll 
go crazy trying to prove herself RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a
fool of herself for our amusement.  :-)
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg
   There aint't no doubt about it, she's lying. She makes up
   little quibbles continuously to be able to call other's
   liar and that is a lie as well.
  
  The way you know who the liars are is whether, after
  being called on their lies, instead of attempting to
  prove themselves innocent, they accuse the person who
  has exposed them of lying and never try to document
  that either.
  
  For the record, I don't think Barry was lying about
  Ratzinger; he was just ignorant of the facts (as is
  navashok). There's more than enough reason to
  denounce Ratzinger on the basis of what he's actually
  done (and not done), but He brought back the
  Inquisition sounds so *dramatic*.
  
  Stupid, too, for Barry to claim the Inquisition of
  which Ratzinger became the head had previously been
  abolished--as if the Vatican would ever have sat
  back and allowed heresy against the doctrines of the
  Church to flourish unimpeded within its ranks.
 
 Someday Judy should learn that there are certain
 things that you cannot learn by sitting on your
 fat ass in New Jersey and Googling. Some things
 you can only learn by going to actual Dominican
 libraries and reading the original documents there.
 
 Such as the documents sent to individual Dominican
 Orders at the time that Pope Paul VI changed the
 name of the Holy Office to its current name. Those
 documents -- not meant for the general public --
 seriously curtailed the powers and the provenance
 of the Inquisition, effectively eliminating many
 of the outlandish things it had still been able
 to do up until that time. This was greeted with
 much approval by people both within and outside
 of the Church, and was a prime example of Paul
 VI's many ecumenical reforms. It was widely
 spoken of within the Church that the dark era
 of the Inquisition is finally over. 
 
 When Ratzinger was named to the head of the 
 Inquisition by a later Pope, he had already
 served as that Pope's enforcer, and the Church's
 arbiter of doctrinal orthodoxy. Once in place as
 head of the Inquisition, he set about reversing
 all of the revised policies, and quickly became
 the most feared man in Catholicism. He ordered
 crackdowns on even slightly heretical or non-
 mainstream ideas, instituting widespread use
 of private detectives and surveillance of priests'
 letters, sermons, and communications to ferret
 out gays and other liberal priests. He was notably
 insane over acceptance of ideas about abortion,
 gays, and in Third World countries, liberal
 theology. He gained within the Church the
 nickname of Grand Inquisitor and among fellow
 Germans, Der Panzerkardinal.
 
 At the same time, he was a major force in the
 coverups of child abuse and other sexual impro-
 prieties by priests, and a major force in 
 bringing back exorcism to the Church. The 
 Dominican priests who were my sources during
 my investigations of the Cathars were *terrified*
 of him. They likened him both to Domenico Guzman
 himself (founder of the Dominican Order, and
 without question a psychopath) and Torquemada.
 
 So while the Vatican may have saved face by
 preserving the office of the Holy Office, it
 *did* seriously curtail its activities, giving
 Catholicism its first real breath of fresh air
 for seven hundred years. Ratzinger -- now Pope
 Benedict -- brought all of the stale air back.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[seventhray27]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote:
 It was honestly like living on a 1940's film noir set - especially on
a rainy predawn morning. We would get deliveries, from armored 18
wheelers - While the truck backed in, the cops are out in their ponchos
in the rain, with flashlights, low fog, the 1930's granite edifice of
the Mint in the background. The Mint sits on literally tons of silver,
and the security is unbelievable. The vaults on the first floor have
doors of polished steel, each about two and a half feet thick. The place
is still all 1930's deco inside, with lots of brass fittings, and
marble. Very cool!


Yes, I've noticed the same thing in many federal buildings including the
Federal Reserve builing in downtown St. Louis.  I have never made it
past the reception area, and that was over fifteen years ago, but it had
the same feel and same features.

I guess it's pretty obvious that we borrowed a lot from Greek and Roman
times.

And then taking an architecural boat ride tour in Chicago, you get a
good idea of the influences from those times as well.

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[raunchydog]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:

 At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads for 
 L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this selective 
 advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If so, they are 
 way off base.


Yep. I have the same ad, just noticed it today. Creepy. 
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423602/february-06-2013/scientology-church-violence

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[Bhairitu]

On 02/10/2013 10:25 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 I also watched a little of the first episode of The History of Film
 which is a 15 episode British documentary series now available on
 Netflix.
 If it's the series where a fellow with irish accent speaks veeery slowly, 
 then it's highly recommendable ! Just be sure to have pen and pencil ready 
 because the clips he show are the best of the best and you'll probably not 
 know many of the directors. Truly a great documentary !



That's probably it and at in the beginning of episode one has a clip of 
David Lynch before his hair got gray.  I have the two Kino DVDs about 
the Lumière camera and films.  One is a collection of early films shot 
with their system with commentary from film historians. The other is a 
100th anniversary celebration of short films by famous directors 
including Lynch shot with that system.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[Bhairitu]

On 02/09/2013 09:20 PM, John wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
 On 02/09/2013 02:30 PM, John wrote:
 If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
 today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the concept of Aryan 
 purity in his daily life.

 http://www.inquisitr.com/516342/hitlers-food-taster-fuhrer-had-terrible-table-habits-called-meat-broth-corpse-tea/


 Our bodies are like cars.  Put the wrong fuel in them and use the wrong
 oil they will break down.  Just as you would not put diesel in a fuel
 tank for a car that needs regular gasoline so would you not put food in
 a body that needs a different fuel.  Ayurveda, Chinese medicine and
 metabolic typing spell this out.  There is no one diet that will work
 for everyone.  Give a vegetarian diet, especially a vegan one, to a vata
 type and they may indeed flip off the handle and become violent or
 schizophrenic.

 I've certainly run into authoritarian vegans who believe that everyone
 should be vegan.  Just ask what a gorilla what they eat. Well we don't
 have any gorillas in the wild of North America so that is a little
 difficult.  Vegans should go live in tropical jungles then where their
 diet might work.  However there is a caveat in that usually their
 ancestors were not vegans so it still won't work because they don't have
 the genetics for it.

 A lot of people who try vegan diets and start proselytizing for it do
 so because it is a cleansing diet and for awhile it feels really good.
 Years later though they may wind up sick.  They may lose weight but most
 of that weight loss will be muscle not fat.  The other point to remember
 that I just revealed is there is a SMALL percentage of people who will
 do well on a vegetarian diet because that IS the right fuel mix for
 them.  But they are rare in northern climes.

 Something I learned years ago that after flirting with lighter fuel I
 often felt better eating reg'lar food.
 One thing I've learned is that garlic aggravates the pitta constitution in 
 me.  If it is included in my food, I would soon start scratching my chest and 
 arms.

 I warned a friend of mine about the fiery property of garlic since he often 
 complained about swollen knee joints.  But I don't believe he listened to 
 what was said.

Don't tell that to Gilroy. :-D

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

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.

Sez the person who claimed:
 For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
 been in continuous operation since it was established
 in 1542.  

The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
running of the Inquisition was turned over to
the Dominicans in 1232. 

A cursory reading of even the Wikipedia page on 
the Inquisition would have enabled even an idiot
to keep from claiming it was started in 1542.

But I guess Judy stopped at the first page she
found, convinced she'd found a zinger. This is 
what happens when one's ego and one's obsessions
are larger than one's brains, folks.  :-) :-) :-)

[FairfieldLife] Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[turquoiseb]

To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
honey why do you even have to ask me that?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html

Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
land. What can you expect? 

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: House Of Cards

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 On 02/10/2013 10:25 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
  I also watched a little of the first episode of The History of Film
  which is a 15 episode British documentary series now available on
  Netflix.
  If it's the series where a fellow with irish accent speaks veeery slowly, 
  then it's highly recommendable ! Just be sure to have pen and pencil ready 
  because the clips he show are the best of the best and you'll probably not 
  know many of the directors. Truly a great documentary !
 

 That's probably it and at in the beginning of episode one has a clip of 
 David Lynch before his hair got gray.  I have the two Kino DVDs about 
 the Lumière camera and films.  One is a collection of early films shot 
 with their system with commentary from film historians. The other is a 
 100th anniversary celebration of short films by famous directors 
 including Lynch shot with that system.


That's right. He includes Lynch in the small group of best directors ever. But 
don't tell the Turq :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
 honey why do you even have to ask me that?
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html
 
 Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
 land. What can you expect?


A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't fit into 
your hate-view og those darned Hindus.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
  honey why do you even have to ask me that?
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html
  
  Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
  land. What can you expect?
 
 
 A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't fit into 
 your hate-view og those darned Hindus.

Those PRIMITIVE Hindus. Stupid enough to give shelter to your holyman who was 
so scared of staying in his homeland Tibet that he sought protection from those 
primitive people never to return leaving his country and culture to be raped by 
the Chinese.

[FairfieldLife] Ad Blocking (was: Re: L Ron ads)

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:
 
  You can stop ads on the net, are you serious, where can you get that?
  That might even make using the interbollocks enjoyable again!
 
 http://adblockplus.org/
 
 Available for Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Android.
 
 Go to that site in the browser you want to add it to, and it'll take you 
 directly to an install page.
 
 Personally, I use it in Opera and Firefox, leaving Chrome as a non-IE browser 
 that will work on sites that hork up hairballs if ad blocking is used.


Yay it works! I'm so happy, the amount of intrusive ads was really
starting to drive me nuts on everything I wanted to read/watch.
Even on videos of old TV shows I'd get ads I couldn't switch off
or even mute the sound, but no more, it's like going back five years
to when websites were for fun not profit. Hard to believe it's
legal actually, but then I never look at ads so they aren't losing
any money.

Installed it in Chrome and had a bit of trouble getting it to run,
turns out you have to be signed in to Google to install it, but
they don't tell you that. A fine days work.

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

[authfriend]

See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
amusement. :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
 
 Sez the person who claimed:
  For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
  been in continuous operation since it was established
  in 1542.  
 
 The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
 running of the Inquisition was turned over to
 the Dominicans in 1232.

Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.

There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.

It was the Roman Inquisition that was established in
1542, the one that is still extant, and was eventually
renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
(That was the one responsible for burning Giordano
Bruno at the stake and for harassing and threatening
Galileo.)

Ratzinger did not bring back the Roman Inquisition
(much less the Medieval, Spanish, or Portuguese ones).
The Roman Inquisition had never been shut down, merely
moderated for a time.

As I said (and Barry carefully snipped), there is no
way the Vatican would ever abolish its fight against
heresy within Roman Catholicism.

I'm going to quote the whole of the post Barry is
responding to, since he carefully deleted everything
but the first sentence, the only one he could even
take a stab at quibbling with (and shouldn't have
tried, since his quibble failed miserably to refute
it):

-
None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
J-P II knew exactly what he was doing when he put
Ratzinger in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith.

The Vatican is very good at saving face when it needs
to (although the predatory-priest scandal has been more
than it could successfully cover up).

But there was no chance it would ever have abolished
its war against heresy in the Church, whatever reforms
it may have made. If it ever does, it will no longer
*be* the Roman Catholic Church.

The darkness of the means it uses to root out heresy
will wax and wane depending on who wields the power and
on Vatican and Church politics, as well as the political
and social situation outside the Church. But the
inquisitorial mindset is inherent and permanent; it is
itself doctrinal.
-

 A cursory reading of even the Wikipedia page on 
 the Inquisition would have enabled even an idiot
 to keep from claiming it was started in 1542.
 
 But I guess Judy stopped at the first page she
 found, convinced she'd found a zinger. This is 
 what happens when one's ego and one's obsessions
 are larger than one's brains, folks.  :-) :-) :-)

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

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
 RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
 amusement. :-)

See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
  
  Sez the person who claimed:
   For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
   been in continuous operation since it was established
   in 1542.  
  
  The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
  running of the Inquisition was turned over to
  the Dominicans in 1232.
 
 Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.
 
 There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
 Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
 around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
 Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.

There has never been anything *other* than The
Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
never changed since 1188, and the people running 
it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
was change the name periodically. 

The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
organization into parts they could focus on in
their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
believes that they can learn about the world 
by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 

Nighty-night, Jude. :-)
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
  honey why do you even have to ask me that?
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html
  
  Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
  land. What can you expect?
 
 
 A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't
 fit into your hate-view og those darned Hindus.


Reality check, Nabs. Here in first world, superpower America, bridges never 
collapse, especially not major bridges on Interstate highways. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

[Buck]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 
 
 
  
   Om when the saints come!
   We can enumerate their visits to Fairfield:
  
   Mother Meera visiting with Fairfield.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Meera
   
  
   Shree Maa visited with Fairfield.
  http://www.shreemaa.org/
 
 
 Karunamayi in Fairfield:
 http://www.karunamayi.org/


An elder and saintly, Bapuji-Pujya Shree Prem Avadhootji was brought to visit 
with Fairfield on his tour of America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpYriW8dwPo 
 
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
   
In Fairfield we've been extremely fortunate to have had the number of 
the great saints of our times visit Fairfield over the years.  It's 
pretty incredible that they come and we have got to have had such close 
and intimate time with some of them.  


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 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 is scared to death of saints for fear he might have a 
 spiritual experience.   
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
 
  Life work of The holy. 
  
  On Saintly Healing Maharishi says, 
  
  That is `The department of the Almighty does it`.
  It is not the individual - it is the department. And it is only one 
  way, it is
  not two ways. The help is not given, it is received. It is received 
  by our
  ability to attune with that.
  
  And that ability develops with devotion, surrender and service. 
  These three things - automatically one is elevated to that level. 
  And help doesn`t come from outside, it comes from right were we 
  are, from our own being.
  
  But those unaware of one`s own being have this mechanics to help 
  them. And this
  is true for all the saints in all the times through out the world.
  
  
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:
   
Paraphrasing Maharishi, a doctor doesn't need to be in good 
health to heal others.

   
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
  
   No, are looking at and talking about something else bigger here.  
   Primary care providers with a degree in medicine, even Chopra, 
   are more usually just different trades-people compared to saints.
   

--- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, authfriend  
wrote:

 This is a good answer, Mike.
 
 I wouldn't want to have to define holy man or saint, so
 I wouldn't want to say what would disqualify him (or qualify
 him, for that matter) for being either. He wasn't a perfect
 human being, that's for sure. It's up to the individual to
 decide how much they want to hold his sins against him.
 


Couldn't describe?  Saints?  Okay, if you won't stick your neck 
out at this point I will for sake of the discussion here.  We 
all know them when we see them.  Saints become described by 
their work.  As spiritual people our saints are those 
particular people who can help people spiritually and who 
distinguish their life work that way.  More than just doing 
good works and different from folks [think Batgap.com] just 
being awake authors or spiritual teachers out on the circuit 
but those being in the work of tangibly lending spiritual 
transformation by interceding with healing for others of the 
binding influences in the subtle bodies of the spiritual 
psycho-physical and emotional samskara towards helping to free 
people of the binding influences in their spiritual life on 
earth.  Real saints, it's those particular enlightened who can 
tangibly or manifestly heal people who are either afflicted or 
ignorant in their spiritual lives.
-Buck

 
 --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  
 wrote:
 
  Yeah, he's still a holy man, just not as holy as most of us 
  thought. The Bible tells us that all men fall short of 
  the Glory of God. That means that all men have and will 
  sin. Maharishi was a man, not God. The Bible also speaks of 
  angels coming to earth and having sex with women. Veda 
  Vyasa had sex with an unmarried woman in a boat while 
  crossing a river, thus we have Shukadeva. Maharishi belongs 
  on a pedestal, just not as high as we might have thought. 
  My thoughts are that M 

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[Susan]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
 
  At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads 
  for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this 
  selective advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If 
  so, they are way off base.
 
 
 It must be a sign. I think you should join up Susan, it could be
 a new path to the wonders of being enlightened or clear. 
 
 And if you get all the way to being an operating thetan level 6
 you can tell us the truth about our galactic overlord, Xenu. 
 Shouldn't cost you more than 20% of your earnings and maybe your marriage and 
 sanity... But you might meet Tom Cruise, so you have
 to weigh up the pros and cons for yourself.


MMM, Tom Cruise is not my style. A sign?  Well, if you join first and spend a 
good year or two devotedly doing their programs, report back to me.  No matter 
what you say, I won't join you.

But - wouldn't it be weird if someone actually did get enlightened or awakened 
(a la TM or advaita criteria) via COS?

My next move is to join AdBlock Plus.  The L Ron ads are nonstop, done on a 
gold colored background, and flash faster and faster with all his 
accomplishments, or supposed ones.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[Bhairitu]

On 02/10/2013 12:42 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
 To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
 honey why do you even have to ask me that?

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html

 Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
 land. What can you expect?

Many Indians are OC sorta like  oh, never mind. ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
   honey why do you even have to ask me that?
   
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html
   
   Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
   land. What can you expect?
  
  
  A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't
  fit into your hate-view og those darned Hindus.
 
 
 Reality check, Nabs. Here in first world, superpower America, bridges never 
 collapse, especially not major bridges on Interstate highways.

That's right, and Holland isn't drowning due to global warming either.  
Thinking of floods; Vlodrop could be one of a few dutch places that will be 
dry, perhaps the Turq has to seek refuge there amongst the Hindu's :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

[seventhray27]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:

 An elder and saintly, Bapuji-Pujya Shree Prem Avadhootji was brought
to visit with Fairfield on his tour of America.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpYriW8dwPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpYriW8dwPo


Great background music.

[FairfieldLife] Re: L Ron ads

[salyavin808]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan  wrote:
  
   At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks are frequent ads 
   for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others have this happening?  Is this 
   selective advertising where they consider FFL people a good audience?  If 
   so, they are way off base.
  
  
  It must be a sign. I think you should join up Susan, it could be
  a new path to the wonders of being enlightened or clear. 
  
  And if you get all the way to being an operating thetan level 6
  you can tell us the truth about our galactic overlord, Xenu. 
  Shouldn't cost you more than 20% of your earnings and maybe your marriage 
  and sanity... But you might meet Tom Cruise, so you have
  to weigh up the pros and cons for yourself.
 
 
 MMM, Tom Cruise is not my style. A sign?  Well, if you join first and spend a 
 good year or two devotedly doing their programs, report back to me.  No 
 matter what you say, I won't join you.

Ooh, that's not the spirit they like. They want complete credulity,
helps with the programming, I mean the auditing. That's what they
call their form of psychotherapy which, they claim, releases sub-
conscious stress. I always imagined it might have an effect like
TM in that respect. I'd like to try that aspect but you have to
put up with the brainwashing too I'm afraid. And I can't afford it..


 But - wouldn't it be weird if someone actually did get enlightened or 
 awakened (a la TM or advaita criteria) via COS?

They claim that every Operating Thetan (great lingo huh?)of 
a certain level is free of what used to hold them back and in
full control of mind and faculties, which should sound familiar. 
Shame I'm so cynical now as I'd like to be innocent enough to
get roped into another cult group but I doubt it could happen.
Especially one that I know is quite sinister.
 
 My next move is to join AdBlock Plus.  The L Ron ads are nonstop, done on a 
 gold colored background, and flash faster and faster with all his 
 accomplishments, or supposed ones.

I'd like to have seen them but I don't get any ads here at all now!

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

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
  RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
  amusement. :-)
 
 See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
   
None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
   
   Sez the person who claimed:
For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
been in continuous operation since it was established
in 1542.  
   
   The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
   running of the Inquisition was turned over to
   the Dominicans in 1232.
  
  Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.
  
  There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
  Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
  around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
  Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.
 
 There has never been anything *other* than The
 Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
 never changed since 1188, and the people running 
 it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
 was change the name periodically.

Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
was a series of local inquisitions that were run
by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
took them over. But these operations were phased
out once the heretical movements against which
they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).

The first Inquisition run from the top down was
the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
became the head of. It's said to have been the
most benign of all of them.

Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
the sake of convenience, as if it were one
continuous monolithic operation, when one is
speaking in the most general terms; but that
ignores the real (not artificial) historical
distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
terms of control.

When one is referring to a single individual in
modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
behooves one to be more specific. It would be
correct to say that, as head of the Roman
Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
(Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
went after anything but heresy *within* the
Church.)

It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
(and as if, indeed, that activity included the
torture and executions that took place in earlier
inquisitional phases).



 
 The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
 gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
 dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
 organization into parts they could focus on in
 their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
 believes that they can learn about the world 
 by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 
 
 Nighty-night, Jude. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ad Blocking (was: Re: L Ron ads)

[Share Long]

Isn't Adblock Plus wonderful?  I installed it during the US presidential 
election.  Which first of all means that anyone can install it.  Go for it 
Susan.
What prompted my action were Romney ads that took up 1 third of my screen!  
Then another ad appeared over the first one and it hid 1/2 of the screen.  And 
there was no way to close the ads!  Very scary.  I just hope that all those 
businesses including yahoo, realize that's is now Romney's fault that I don't 
see their ads.  




 From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:59 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ad Blocking (was: Re: L Ron ads)
 

  


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808  wrote:
 
  You can stop ads on the net, are you serious, where can you get that?
  That might even make using the interbollocks enjoyable again!
 
 http://adblockplus.org/
 
 Available for Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Android.
 
 Go to that site in the browser you want to add it to, and it'll take you 
 directly to an install page.
 
 Personally, I use it in Opera and Firefox, leaving Chrome as a non-IE browser 
 that will work on sites that hork up hairballs if ad blocking is used.

Yay it works! I'm so happy, the amount of intrusive ads was really
starting to drive me nuts on everything I wanted to read/watch.
Even on videos of old TV shows I'd get ads I couldn't switch off
or even mute the sound, but no more, it's like going back five years
to when websites were for fun not profit. Hard to believe it's
legal actually, but then I never look at ads so they aren't losing
any money.

Installed it in Chrome and had a bit of trouble getting it to run,
turns out you have to be signed in to Google to install it, but
they don't tell you that. A fine days work.


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius  wrote:
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in 
 society today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the 
 concept of Aryan purity in his daily life.
 
 v

Yes, and he was Catholic too. People who eat meat get enlightened too, 
though not likely Hitler.

If absolute being is omnipresent as is often said, then nothing should 
be in the way of realising it.
   
   
   Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an artist 
   when he was younger.  But the karma of his birth chart made him take a 
   more infamous path in life.  Jyotishis have noted that he had Shakti Yoga 
   which made him an evil incarnate here on earth.
  
  What is the difference between an evil incarnate and just a downright 
  lousy, cruel human being? Are there such things as evil beings? Or do 
  entities take over a human being? Are you an evil incarnate from the moment 
  of birth or were you that before? I am curious about this stuff.
  
 
 Anne,
 
 
 In Hindu mythology, the hierarchy of beings in the world are as follows:
 
 1.  Supreme Being
 2.  Angels called Vishnu dhatus in Sanskrit
 3.  Humans
 4.  Devil or the Asuras and Rakshasas
 5.  Animals
 6.  Insects
 7.  Plants
 8.  Rock
 
 So we can be comforted that humans are higher in consciousness than the 
 devil, who is often portrayed as more powerful than humans.
 
 JR

Ok, but do devils, supreme beings and angels ever look like human beings? Do 
humans ever look like angels or devils? Do devils and angels know they are not 
human? Do humans ever think they are angels and devils (I think I know the 
answer to that one.)

Who has determined this hierarchy? Tell me more if you would please.

[FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!

[card]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4786771/russell-brands-fury-at-howard-stern-suggesting-he-doesnt-wear-condoms.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[John]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:

 On 02/09/2013 09:20 PM, John wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
  On 02/09/2013 02:30 PM, John wrote:
  If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
  today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the concept of 
  Aryan purity in his daily life.
 
  http://www.inquisitr.com/516342/hitlers-food-taster-fuhrer-had-terrible-table-habits-called-meat-broth-corpse-tea/
 
 
  Our bodies are like cars.  Put the wrong fuel in them and use the wrong
  oil they will break down.  Just as you would not put diesel in a fuel
  tank for a car that needs regular gasoline so would you not put food in
  a body that needs a different fuel.  Ayurveda, Chinese medicine and
  metabolic typing spell this out.  There is no one diet that will work
  for everyone.  Give a vegetarian diet, especially a vegan one, to a vata
  type and they may indeed flip off the handle and become violent or
  schizophrenic.
 
  I've certainly run into authoritarian vegans who believe that everyone
  should be vegan.  Just ask what a gorilla what they eat. Well we don't
  have any gorillas in the wild of North America so that is a little
  difficult.  Vegans should go live in tropical jungles then where their
  diet might work.  However there is a caveat in that usually their
  ancestors were not vegans so it still won't work because they don't have
  the genetics for it.
 
  A lot of people who try vegan diets and start proselytizing for it do
  so because it is a cleansing diet and for awhile it feels really good.
  Years later though they may wind up sick.  They may lose weight but most
  of that weight loss will be muscle not fat.  The other point to remember
  that I just revealed is there is a SMALL percentage of people who will
  do well on a vegetarian diet because that IS the right fuel mix for
  them.  But they are rare in northern climes.
 
  Something I learned years ago that after flirting with lighter fuel I
  often felt better eating reg'lar food.
  One thing I've learned is that garlic aggravates the pitta constitution in 
  me.  If it is included in my food, I would soon start scratching my chest 
  and arms.
 
  I warned a friend of mine about the fiery property of garlic since he often 
  complained about swollen knee joints.  But I don't believe he listened to 
  what was said.
 
 Don't tell that to Gilroy. :-D


Yes, very definitely, since they claim to be the Garlic Capital of the World.  
They may ban me for life even before I'd seen their garlic festival.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[John]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann  wrote:
  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
   


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:
 
  If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in 
  society today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the 
  concept of Aryan purity in his daily life.
  
  v
 
 Yes, and he was Catholic too. People who eat meat get enlightened 
 too, though not likely Hitler.
 
 If absolute being is omnipresent as is often said, then nothing 
 should be in the way of realising it.


Some people have said that Hitler wanted to be a priest and an artist 
when he was younger.  But the karma of his birth chart made him take a 
more infamous path in life.  Jyotishis have noted that he had Shakti 
Yoga which made him an evil incarnate here on earth.
   
   What is the difference between an evil incarnate and just a downright 
   lousy, cruel human being? Are there such things as evil beings? Or do 
   entities take over a human being? Are you an evil incarnate from the 
   moment of birth or were you that before? I am curious about this stuff.
   
  
  Anne,
  
  
  In Hindu mythology, the hierarchy of beings in the world are as follows:
  
  1.  Supreme Being
  2.  Angels called Vishnu dhatus in Sanskrit
  3.  Humans
  4.  Devil or the Asuras and Rakshasas
  5.  Animals
  6.  Insects
  7.  Plants
  8.  Rock
  
  So we can be comforted that humans are higher in consciousness than the 
  devil, who is often portrayed as more powerful than humans.
  
  JR
 
 Ok, but do devils, supreme beings and angels ever look like human beings? Do 
 humans ever look like angels or devils? Do devils and angels know they are 
 not human? Do humans ever think they are angels and devils (I think I know 
 the answer to that one.)
 
 Who has determined this hierarchy? Tell me more if you would please.
 


Ann,

In the vedic literature, the Supreme Being showed Himself to humans as Sri 
Krishna.  He also showed his other forms to Arjuna in one of the chapters of 
the Bhagavad Gita.

In the Shrimad Bhagavatam, angels or the Vishnu dhatus have human forms but are 
more beautiful to behold and have angelic powers that humans do not have.

The devils or asuras and rakshasas have human forms but are ugly and grotesque.

Among humans, IMO, we can tell who are influencing them by the works that they 
do.  If their works are destructive, then we can be assured that they are 
influenced by the devil.

The hierarchy above is described in the Shrimad Bhagavatam.  You should read it 
if you have the time.

JR

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

[Buck]

 

 
  
  
  
   
Om when the saints come!
We can enumerate their visits to Fairfield:
   
Mother Meera visiting with Fairfield.  
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Meera

   
Shree Maa visited with Fairfield.
   http://www.shreemaa.org/
  
  
  Karunamayi in Fairfield:
  http://www.karunamayi.org/
 
 
 An elder and saintly, Bapuji-Pujya Shree Prem Avadhootji was brought to visit 
 with Fairfield on his tour of America.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpYriW8dwPo 


Ammachi, she's been to Fairfield
http://amma.org/meeting-amma/north-america
  

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:

 In Fairfield we've been extremely fortunate to have had the number of 
 the great saints of our times visit Fairfield over the years.  It's 
 pretty incredible that they come and we have got to have had such 
 close and intimate time with some of them.  
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
 
  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 is scared to death of saints for fear he might 
  have a spiritual experience.   
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
  
   Life work of The holy. 
   
   On Saintly Healing Maharishi says, 
   
   That is `The department of the Almighty does it`.
   It is not the individual - it is the department. And it is only 
   one way, it is
   not two ways. The help is not given, it is received. It is 
   received by our
   ability to attune with that.
   
   And that ability develops with devotion, surrender and service. 
   These three things - automatically one is elevated to that level. 
   And help doesn`t come from outside, it comes from right were we 
   are, from our own being.
   
   But those unaware of one`s own being have this mechanics to help 
   them. And this
   is true for all the saints in all the times through out the 
   world.
   
   
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  wrote:

 Paraphrasing Maharishi, a doctor doesn't need to be in good 
 health to heal others.
 

   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
   
No, are looking at and talking about something else bigger 
here.  Primary care providers with a degree in medicine, even 
Chopra, are more usually just different trades-people compared 
to saints.

 
 --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, authfriend  
 wrote:
 
  This is a good answer, Mike.
  
  I wouldn't want to have to define holy man or saint, so
  I wouldn't want to say what would disqualify him (or qualify
  him, for that matter) for being either. He wasn't a perfect
  human being, that's for sure. It's up to the individual to
  decide how much they want to hold his sins against him.
  
 
 
 Couldn't describe?  Saints?  Okay, if you won't stick your 
 neck out at this point I will for sake of the discussion 
 here.  We all know them when we see them.  Saints become 
 described by their work.  As spiritual people our saints are 
 those particular people who can help people spiritually and 
 who distinguish their life work that way.  More than just 
 doing good works and different from folks [think Batgap.com] 
 just being awake authors or spiritual teachers out on the 
 circuit but those being in the work of tangibly lending 
 spiritual transformation by interceding with healing for 
 others of the binding influences in the subtle bodies of the 
 spiritual psycho-physical and emotional samskara towards 
 helping to free people of the binding influences in their 
 spiritual life on earth.  Real saints, it's those particular 
 enlightened who can tangibly or manifestly heal people who 
 are either afflicted or ignorant in their spiritual lives.
 -Buck
 
  
  --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon  
  wrote:
  
   Yeah, he's still a holy man, just not as holy as most of 
   us thought. The Bible tells us that all men fall short 
   of the Glory of God. That means that all men have and 
   will sin. Maharishi was a man, not God. The Bible also 
   speaks of angels coming to earth and having sex with 
   women. Veda Vyasa had sex with an unmarried woman in a 
   boat 

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

[obbajeeba]

He called you a cunt, Auth!!!  



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07ISfx_5b0



-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
   RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
   amusement. :-)
  
  See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.

Sez the person who claimed:
 For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
 been in continuous operation since it was established
 in 1542.  

The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
running of the Inquisition was turned over to
the Dominicans in 1232.
   
   Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.
   
   There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
   Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
   around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
   Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.
  
  There has never been anything *other* than The
  Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
  never changed since 1188, and the people running 
  it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
  was change the name periodically.
 
 Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
 established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
 independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
 of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
 royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
 was a series of local inquisitions that were run
 by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
 took them over. But these operations were phased
 out once the heretical movements against which
 they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).
 
 The first Inquisition run from the top down was
 the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
 became the head of. It's said to have been the
 most benign of all of them.
 
 Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
 the sake of convenience, as if it were one
 continuous monolithic operation, when one is
 speaking in the most general terms; but that
 ignores the real (not artificial) historical
 distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
 terms of control.
 
 When one is referring to a single individual in
 modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
 behooves one to be more specific. It would be
 correct to say that, as head of the Roman
 Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
 investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
 been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
 (Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
 went after anything but heresy *within* the
 Church.)
 
 It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
 The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
 had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
 (and as if, indeed, that activity included the
 torture and executions that took place in earlier
 inquisitional phases).
 
 
 
  
  The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
  gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
  dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
  organization into parts they could focus on in
  their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
  believes that they can learn about the world 
  by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 
  
  Nighty-night, Jude. :-)
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!

[Michael Jackson]

Interesting to read the comments at the end of the article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2274173/Russell-Brand-jokes-sex-Queen-Howard-Sterns-radio-show.html#axzz2KY6VivW9





 From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:26 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!
 

  

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4786771/russell-brands-fury-at-howard-stern-suggesting-he-doesnt-wear-condoms.html


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!

[Michael Jackson]

Just one big happy TM family!





 From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:26 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!
 

  

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4786771/russell-brands-fury-at-howard-stern-suggesting-he-doesnt-wear-condoms.html


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!

[Mike Dixon]

Comments at the end, tend to be the best part of any article on the Internet!

 


 From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!
   
 
   
 
Interesting to read the comments at the end of the 
articlehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2274173/Russell-Brand-jokes-sex-Queen-Howard-Sterns-radio-show.html#axzz2KY6VivW9

 


 From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:26 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Russell and Howard!
   
  
 
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4786771/russell-brands-fury-at-howard-stern-suggesting-he-doesnt-wear-condoms.html
   
 

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

[doctordumbass]

That's nothin' - He called a mangy old dog that was lame, and blind in one eye, 
Mom, once!!!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:

 He called you a cunt, Auth!!!  
 
 
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07ISfx_5b0
 
 
 
 -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
   
See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
amusement. :-)
   
   See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
 
 Sez the person who claimed:
  For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
  been in continuous operation since it was established
  in 1542.  
 
 The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
 running of the Inquisition was turned over to
 the Dominicans in 1232.

Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.

There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.
   
   There has never been anything *other* than The
   Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
   never changed since 1188, and the people running 
   it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
   was change the name periodically.
  
  Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
  established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
  independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
  of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
  royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
  was a series of local inquisitions that were run
  by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
  took them over. But these operations were phased
  out once the heretical movements against which
  they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).
  
  The first Inquisition run from the top down was
  the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
  became the head of. It's said to have been the
  most benign of all of them.
  
  Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
  the sake of convenience, as if it were one
  continuous monolithic operation, when one is
  speaking in the most general terms; but that
  ignores the real (not artificial) historical
  distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
  terms of control.
  
  When one is referring to a single individual in
  modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
  behooves one to be more specific. It would be
  correct to say that, as head of the Roman
  Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
  investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
  been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
  (Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
  went after anything but heresy *within* the
  Church.)
  
  It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
  The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
  had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
  (and as if, indeed, that activity included the
  torture and executions that took place in earlier
  inquisitional phases).
  
  
  
   
   The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
   gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
   dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
   organization into parts they could focus on in
   their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
   believes that they can learn about the world 
   by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 
   
   Nighty-night, Jude. :-)
  
 

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

[raunchydog]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@...  wrote:

 That's nothin' - He called a mangy old dog that was lame, and blind in one 
 eye, Mom, once!!!
 

Aww...that's sweet. That Barry, what a mench.  

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:
 
  He called you a cunt, Auth!!!  
  
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07ISfx_5b0
  
  
  
  -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
 RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
 amusement. :-)

See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
  
  Sez the person who claimed:
   For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
   been in continuous operation since it was established
   in 1542.  
  
  The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
  running of the Inquisition was turned over to
  the Dominicans in 1232.
 
 Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.
 
 There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
 Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
 around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
 Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.

There has never been anything *other* than The
Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
never changed since 1188, and the people running 
it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
was change the name periodically.
   
   Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
   established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
   independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
   of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
   royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
   was a series of local inquisitions that were run
   by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
   took them over. But these operations were phased
   out once the heretical movements against which
   they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).
   
   The first Inquisition run from the top down was
   the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
   became the head of. It's said to have been the
   most benign of all of them.
   
   Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
   the sake of convenience, as if it were one
   continuous monolithic operation, when one is
   speaking in the most general terms; but that
   ignores the real (not artificial) historical
   distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
   terms of control.
   
   When one is referring to a single individual in
   modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
   behooves one to be more specific. It would be
   correct to say that, as head of the Roman
   Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
   investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
   been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
   (Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
   went after anything but heresy *within* the
   Church.)
   
   It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
   The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
   had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
   (and as if, indeed, that activity included the
   torture and executions that took place in earlier
   inquisitional phases).
   
   
   

The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
organization into parts they could focus on in
their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
believes that they can learn about the world 
by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 

Nighty-night, Jude. :-)
   
  
 

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

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:

 He called you a cunt, Auth!!!

Gee, that's nothing new. Where ya been?

He has...uh...a limited repertoire of words referring
to women, especially those who push his buttons.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07ISfx_5b0
 
 -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
   
See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
amusement. :-)
   
   See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
 
 Sez the person who claimed:
  For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
  been in continuous operation since it was established
  in 1542.  
 
 The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
 running of the Inquisition was turned over to
 the Dominicans in 1232.

Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.

There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.
   
   There has never been anything *other* than The
   Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
   never changed since 1188, and the people running 
   it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
   was change the name periodically.
  
  Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
  established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
  independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
  of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
  royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
  was a series of local inquisitions that were run
  by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
  took them over. But these operations were phased
  out once the heretical movements against which
  they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).
  
  The first Inquisition run from the top down was
  the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
  became the head of. It's said to have been the
  most benign of all of them.
  
  Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
  the sake of convenience, as if it were one
  continuous monolithic operation, when one is
  speaking in the most general terms; but that
  ignores the real (not artificial) historical
  distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
  terms of control.
  
  When one is referring to a single individual in
  modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
  behooves one to be more specific. It would be
  correct to say that, as head of the Roman
  Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
  investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
  been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
  (Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
  went after anything but heresy *within* the
  Church.)
  
  It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
  The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
  had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
  (and as if, indeed, that activity included the
  torture and executions that took place in earlier
  inquisitional phases).
  
  
  
   
   The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
   gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
   dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
   organization into parts they could focus on in
   their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
   believes that they can learn about the world 
   by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 
   
   Nighty-night, Jude. :-)
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[srijau]

reality check, you haven't got a clue about your own country

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bridge-collapse-anniversary-safe-drivers-now/story?id=16907710

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
   honey why do you even have to ask me that?
   
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html
   
   Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
   land. What can you expect?
  
  
  A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't
  fit into your hate-view og those darned Hindus.
 
 
 Reality check, Nabs. Here in first world, superpower America, bridges never 
 collapse, especially not major bridges on Interstate highways.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[srijau]

you have a real problem with basic ideas of logic, cause and effect and also 
gullibility, Im embarrassed that you are a TMer or think yourself a Vedic 
person spouting nonsense like this that Hitler was a vegetarian (long dis 
proven) or that the Post Master General is the real ruler of a country!!??

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
 today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the concept of Aryan 
 purity in his daily life.
 
 http://www.inquisitr.com/516342/hitlers-food-taster-fuhrer-had-terrible-table-habits-called-meat-broth-corpse-tea/

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

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog  wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@  wrote:
 
  That's nothin' - He called a mangy old dog that was lame, and blind in one 
  eye, Mom, once!!!
  
 
 Aww...that's sweet. That Barry, what a mench.  
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:
  
   He called you a cunt, Auth!!!  
   
   
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07ISfx_5b0
   
   
   
   -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
   


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
 
  See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
  RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
  amusement. :-)
 
 See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
   
None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
   
   Sez the person who claimed:
For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
been in continuous operation since it was established
in 1542.  
   
   The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
   running of the Inquisition was turned over to
   the Dominicans in 1232.
  
  Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.
  
  There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
  Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
  around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
  Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.
 
 There has never been anything *other* than The
 Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
 never changed since 1188, and the people running 
 it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
 was change the name periodically.

Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
was a series of local inquisitions that were run
by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
took them over. But these operations were phased
out once the heretical movements against which
they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).

The first Inquisition run from the top down was
the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
became the head of. It's said to have been the
most benign of all of them.

Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
the sake of convenience, as if it were one
continuous monolithic operation, when one is
speaking in the most general terms; but that
ignores the real (not artificial) historical
distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
terms of control.

When one is referring to a single individual in
modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
behooves one to be more specific. It would be
correct to say that, as head of the Roman
Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
(Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
went after anything but heresy *within* the
Church.)

It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
(and as if, indeed, that activity included the
torture and executions that took place in earlier
inquisitional phases).



 
 The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
 gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
 dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
 organization into parts they could focus on in
 their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
 believes that they can learn about the world 
 by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 
 
 Nighty-night, Jude. :-)

   
  
 

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

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba  wrote:
 
  He called you a cunt, Auth!!!

Badge of honour.
 
 Gee, that's nothing new. Where ya been?
 
 He has...uh...a limited repertoire of words referring
 to women, especially those who push his buttons.

And a mistaken notion that this does anything except make him look, er shall we 
say, kinda desperate. You know you've hit the Barry nerve when he trots out the 
old 'cunt' chestnut. It also means he has hit the limit of his perceived 
ability to be odious. Kind of like the last resort. I think we should all help 
him come up with something more cutting, more potent, more effective because he 
has clearly failed to discover the next level of retaliation. Shall we give him 
a hint? It begins with the letter 'D'.
  
 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07ISfx_5b0
  
  -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:

 See Barry. See Barry go crazy trying to prove himself
 RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a fool of himself for our
 amusement. :-)

See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper. :-) :-) :-)

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend  wrote:
  
   None of this rant, Barry, contradicts anything I've said.
  
  Sez the person who claimed:
   For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has
   been in continuous operation since it was established
   in 1542.  
  
  The Inquisition was first formed in 1188. The 
  running of the Inquisition was turned over to
  the Dominicans in 1232.
 
 Not the Inquisition that Ratzinger headed.
 
 There have been four major Inquisitions: the Medieval 
 Inquisition (actually a series of them that began
 around 1188), the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese
 Inquisition, and the Roman Inquisition.

There has never been anything *other* than The
Inquisition. Its basic nature and charter has 
never changed since 1188, and the people running 
it have never changed since 1232. All they did 
was change the name periodically.
   
   Au contraire, Pierre. The Spanish Inquisition was
   established by Ferdinand and Isabella and was run
   independently of the Holy See. The Grand Inquisitors
   of the Portuguese Inquisition were members of the
   royal family. The Medieval Inquisition, as noted,
   was a series of local inquisitions that were run
   by local Catholic authorities until the Dominicans
   took them over. But these operations were phased
   out once the heretical movements against which
   they were directed were eliminated (Cathars, etc.).
   
   The first Inquisition run from the top down was
   the Roman Inquisition, the one Ratzinger eventually
   became the head of. It's said to have been the
   most benign of all of them.
   
   Of course one can refer to The Inquisition for
   the sake of convenience, as if it were one
   continuous monolithic operation, when one is
   speaking in the most general terms; but that
   ignores the real (not artificial) historical
   distinctions chronologically, regionally, and in
   terms of control.
   
   When one is referring to a single individual in
   modern times as having led The Inquisition, it
   behooves one to be more specific. It would be
   correct to say that, as head of the Roman
   Inquisition, Ratzinger brought back some of its
   investigatory and disciplinary practices that had
   been abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
   (Of course it's been awhile since the Inquisition
   went after anything but heresy *within* the
   Church.)
   
   It is *not* correct to say Ratzinger brought back
   The Inquisition! as if all inquisitorial activity
   had ceased and Ratzinger revived it single-handedly
   (and as if, indeed, that activity included the
   torture and executions that took place in earlier
   inquisitional phases).
   
   
   

The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
organization into parts they could focus on in
their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
believes that they can learn about the world 
by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 

Nighty-night, Jude. :-)
   
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[Alex Stanley]

My comment was facetious. The bit about major bridges on Interstate highways is 
an obvious reference to the Minnesota bridge collapse.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@...  wrote:

 reality check, you haven't got a clue about your own country
 
 http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bridge-collapse-anniversary-safe-drivers-now/story?id=16907710
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
   
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
honey why do you even have to ask me that?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html

Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
land. What can you expect?
   
   
   A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't
   fit into your hate-view og those darned Hindus.
  
  
  Reality check, Nabs. Here in first world, superpower America, bridges never 
  collapse, especially not major bridges on Interstate highways.
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

[srijau]

where was the obvious part?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:

 My comment was facetious. The bit about major bridges on Interstate highways 
 is an obvious reference to the Minnesota bridge collapse.
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@  wrote:
 
  reality check, you haven't got a clue about your own country
  
  http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bridge-collapse-anniversary-safe-drivers-now/story?id=16907710
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley  wrote:
  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
   


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

 To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there...
 honey why do you even have to ask me that?
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html
 
 Primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive
 land. What can you expect?


A bridge collapsed. Guess that could happen everywhere but doesn't
fit into your hate-view og those darned Hindus.
   
   
   Reality check, Nabs. Here in first world, superpower America, bridges 
   never collapse, especially not major bridges on Interstate highways.
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler was a Vegetarian?

[srijau]

there is no causality as you imagine here, karmic or otherwise, even if just  
one guy who was a mass murder was a  vegetarian does not prove or mean anything 
that you seem to imagine it does, you need to take some kind of basic course in 
logic.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John  wrote:

 If that's the case, eating meat cannot be blamed for violence in society 
 today.  FWIW, Hitler was apparently trying to maintain the concept of Aryan 
 purity in his daily life.
 
 http://www.inquisitr.com/516342/hitlers-food-taster-fuhrer-had-terrible-table-habits-called-meat-broth-corpse-tea/

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

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
(snip)
 The supposed different Inquisitions Judy 
 gloms onto above are artificial distinctions
 dreamed up by scholars to classify an ongoing
 organization into parts they could focus on in
 their dry historical papers. Only a person who 
 believes that they can learn about the world 
 by Googling would ever have thought otherwise. 

This is pretty funny, actually. What would Barry
propose as an alternative for learning enough
about the world to support his contention that
the Inquisition was monolithic and that the 
distinctions historians make are artificial?
(Leaving aside the question of whether that's
true.)

A time machine, perhaps?