Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Bullshit - Holier than Thou
Bavunnaanu iranitea gaaru - meeru ela vunnaaru? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:59 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Bagunnara, Ravi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, chivukula.ravi@... wrote: I had to come out of lurkdom to thank you for this beautiful video dear Seraphita. I have long railed against Gandhi, Teresa and Dolly Lama and I totally enjoyed this video, it is a good summary of these three pseudo-spiritual icons. That Gandhi was sexually perverted and slept with girls was a well known fact to me in India and my generation had no fascination for Gandhi. So I was quite baffled by the adoration of Gandhi by liberals and I know I pissed off quite a few with my statements on Gandhi. I recently had a chance to read this article on the Independent - enjoy. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/thrill-of-the-chaste-the-truth-about-gandhis-sex-life-1937411.html Ravi. HI RAVI, GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, s3raphita@... wrote: Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama get the Penn and Teller treatment in this hilarious and foul-mouthed rant. http://tinyurl.com/nv68blw
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM and the Tree of Knowledge
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: One lapel pin I'd like to have is the Global Country of World Peace pin, the one with the graphic of the rising sun with its Golden rays. Two of my favorites:
[FairfieldLife] Immortality Courses
I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Immortality Courses
Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
[FairfieldLife] Merit
“Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying.
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: MUM and the Tree of Knowledge
the wish-yielding tree that symbolizes the effortless ability to fulfill desires from the level of Natural Law. On the cover of a textbook for the Ideal Girls School: The cover, designed by Heather Hartnett, depicts the Kalp Vriksha, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: One lapel pin I'd like to have is the Global Country of World Peace pin, the one with the graphic of the rising sun with its Golden rays. A little bit before LB Shriver passed away he gave me his SRM lapel pin, the intricate one with the face of Guru Dev Brahmananda Saraswati embossed on it and the words “In God Consciousness Peace Energy Happiness Jai Guru Dev SRM . I wear it along with my National Network to Freedom pin on my Quaker vest lapel. I'd add the Global Country pin if I had one. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Zoar [Ohio] prospered for 80 years. A seven pointed star of Bethlehem was chosen as the emblem and the acorn from which the mighty oak grows was their symbol of strength. The emblem of the separatists, a huge star in red, white and yellow. Members wore similar emblems on their shoulders to distinguish themselves from strangers visiting the village. [The emblem was really cool and obviously had a lot of symbolism in it. I looked all around the gift shop and bookstore to try to buy one or get a picture or postcard and there was none to be had as I recently visited Zoar.] ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: SHAKER TREE OF LIFE This Shaker drawing, known as the Tree of Life, is the most famous of the all Shaker gift drawings. To the Shakers, fruit-bearing trees represented the unspoiled loveliness of the Garden of Eden. It was painted at Hancock Shaker Village in 1854. This is a limited edition serigraph (silk screen print) of the original. It is framed under glass in a solid cherry wood frame. Frame is finished with hand-rubbed oil and wax. Framed size is 26 wide x 21 high. Ready to hang. Made in USA. City of Peace Monday July, 3rd 1854. I received a draft of a beautiful Tree pencil'd on a large sheet of paper bearing ripe fruit. I saw it plainly; it looked very singular and curious to me. I have since learned that this tree grows in the Spirit Land. Afterwards the spirit shew'd me plainly the branches, leaves and fruit, painted or drawn upon paper. The leaves were check'd or cross'd and the same colors you see here. I entreated Mother Ann to tell me the name of this tree: which she did Oct. 1st 4th hour P.M. by moving the hand of a medium to write twice over Your Tree is the Tree of Life. Seen and painted by, Hannah Cohoon. This Shaker drawing is known as the Tree of Life. Each Shaker spirit drawing was preceded by a heavenly vision which was transferred to paper in meticulous detail. The Tree of Life was seen and painted by Sister Hanna Cohoon at the Hancock community in the summer of 1854. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: The center piece of Zoar is the 3 acre religiously significant formal garden featuring the center tree of life. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: What connection, if any, does the story of the three wise men presenting gifts to the infant Jesus, have to do with the fact that even today we decorate trees during our most Holy Day of the year, just like it was the same Asian Tree of Plenty? A cargo cult? Also, is it a coincidence that the emblem for MUM is the Tree of Knowledge which is akin to the Bodhi Tree of the historical Buddha? Three motifs loom large on the stage of world mythology; the dying and rising tree spirit, the tree of life, the waxing and waning of the moon, and the cast-skin. The myth of immortality can be traced back to Neolithic times and had it's origin in Southeast Asia well over 5000 years ago. These myths through a process of diffusion and human migration have spread out in more complex combinations in Western mythology. In Asian mythology the fruit of the Tree of Plenty was discovered by children through experimentation. Their parents decided to cut the tree down to get the fruit. In this myth, the cutting down and destruction of the sacred tree acts as a trigger, or is necessary to the general distribution of its product (Eden in the East 356). The myth of the Sacred Tree in Genesis and the Great Flood myth mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh could be versions of two of
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses
Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read it right here on FFL in a post from Barry (#360950): In other contexts, a great recent quote was that the Republican Party has made satire redundant. Because nothing that people can dream up to say about them is as bad as the stuff they really do. I would suggest that sponsoring Immortality Courses that promise you'll never die if you take them and charging a fortune for them falls into the same ballpark re the TMO. Michael is ready to believe anything, but this description should have clued him in that Barry made it up (as I noted in my response). You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome Michael wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Merit
Buck wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying. You aren't going to correct this, are you, Buck?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* Enlightenment Courses, held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the million dollar course with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, people I knew who attended these courses have since died. Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it and Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. One of his quotes would have been a great tag line for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, This way to see the egress. Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to disc TM, he may be right about that as well. [http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-\ Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg] http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-S\ creen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-\ Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg
[FairfieldLife] RE: Merit
Only a few generations have been granted the role of defending Freedom and promoting Spirituality as we do today in places like [meditating] Fairfield, I do not shrink from this responsibility I welcome it in every meditation, -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying.
[FairfieldLife] Black Hats and White Hats
Let's see, on the one hand we have the personal privacy advocates, like Edward Snowden and Wikileak's Julian Assange, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And, on the other hand we have social networking sites like Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and micro blogging sites like Evan Williams's Twitter. And, in the middle we've got the FBI, IRS, CIA, NSA, ATF and the HS. And, you got your black hats and your white hats; you got your hackers and pirates; and you've got your worms and trojan horses. There's a PC on every desk, all running Microsoft Windows software. So, now Obama wants you to log on to a government site and enter all your personal data. Go figure. It also represents a dangerous normalization of ‘governing in the dark,’ where decisions with enormous public impact occur without any public input. 'Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia' New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/snowdenhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took-no-secret-files-to-russia.html?_r=0
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. [image: Inline image 1] Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert [image: Inline image 1] Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: ** You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL! [image: Inline image 1]
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Merit
Judy, to my horror, it seems that even countless offenses of incorrect spelling and grammar are annihilated by meditating! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying. You aren't going to correct this, are you, Buck?
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses
The Movement does promise immortality at least obliquely along with promising everything else - so the idea of an Immortality Course is not too much of a stretch On Sat, 10/19/13, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:56 PM Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read it right here on FFL in a post from Barry (#360950): In other contexts, a great recent quote was that the Republican Party has made satire redundant. Because nothing that people can dream up to say about them is as bad as the stuff they really do. I would suggest that sponsoring Immortality Courses that promise you'll never die if you take them and charging a fortune for them falls into the same ballpark re the TMO. Michael is ready to believe anything, but this description should have clued him in that Barry made it up (as I noted in my response). You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome Michael wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses
Thanks Barry - I was just interested in the thing to have a full picture of the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 1:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* Enlightenment Courses, held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the million dollar course with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, people I knew who attended these courses have since died. Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it and Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. One of his quotes would have been a great tag line for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, This way to see the egress. Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to disc TM, he may be right about that as well. http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Merit
Did you have something you wanted to tell me, Share? Share wrote: Judy, to my horror, it seems that even countless offenses of incorrect spelling and grammar are annihilated by meditating! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying. You aren't going to correct this, are you, Buck?
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses
For some value of at least obliquely and of too much of a stretch. Michael wrote: The Movement does promise immortality at least obliquely along with promising everything else - so the idea of an Immortality Course is not too much of a stretch On Sat, 10/19/13, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:56 PM Buck wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. He read it right here on FFL in a post from Barry (#360950): In other contexts, a great recent quote was that the Republican Party has made satire redundant. Because nothing that people can dream up to say about them is as bad as the stuff they really do. I would suggest that sponsoring Immortality Courses that promise you'll never die if you take them and charging a fortune for them falls into the same ballpark re the TMO. Michael is ready to believe anything, but this description should have clued him in that Barry made it up (as I noted in my response). You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome Michael wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses
Michael, I think to have a full picture of the TMO these days, a person has to visit Fairfield for a few days, talk with people, attend a concert, stroll in the town square, etc. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:53 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Barry - I was just interested in the thing to have a full picture of the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 1:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* Enlightenment Courses, held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the million dollar course with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, people I knew who attended these courses have since died. Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it and Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. One of his quotes would have been a great tag line for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, This way to see the egress. Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to disc TM, he may be right about that as well. http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield! On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:37 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Here#39;s a whale that Girish missed.
This guy could've been taken for millions. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/19/david-birnbaum-jeweller-philosopher
[FairfieldLife] RE: Meditation of Merit
Hmmm. thou : nominative? thee: objective? thy: possessive? ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Wow, did nobody ever teach the old meditators grammar? “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying. That's worse than Barry's attempts at Olde English.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses
Fairfield is not necessarily representative of the Movement - when I spent two years there I had no idea what the people in India and Europe were doing except through the dubious filter of Bevan who would tell us Lord Marshy's will for the people of MIU - I still remember him telling us in a staff meeting to lead a simple life, a pure life - he never did define pure. On Sat, 10/19/13, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 3:05 PM Michael, I think to have a full picture of the TMO these days, a person has to visit Fairfield for a few days, talk with people, attend a concert, stroll in the town square, etc. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:53 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Barry - I was just interested in the thing to have a full picture of the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Immortality Courses To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 1:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* Enlightenment Courses, held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the million dollar course with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, people I knew who attended these courses have since died. Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it and Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. One of his quotes would have been a great tag line for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, This way to see the egress. Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to disc TM, he may be right about that as well.
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique
According to the Orthodox, Ancestral Sin caused the reversal of paradisaical deathlessness by creating the consequential mortality that we all inherited. Obviously a mythologized explanation but this is how they explain why humans are prone to concupiscence and deviance of will. Better yet is this explanation of the Orthodox view of original sin. http://oca.org/questions/teaching/st.-augustine-original-sin http://oca.org/questions/teaching/st.-augustine-original-sin ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Thanks, this is great. For the moment, one question: The expulsion from the Garden and from the Tree of Life was an act of love and not vengeance so that humanity would not 'become immortal in sin.' What does immortal in sin mean, and how would that happen? emptybill wrote: Read this and then see if you have questions. http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/articles/ancestral_versus_original_sin
[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Immortality Courses
As usual, the flea criticizes the tiger. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Son you got it wrong, you are barking up the wrong tree of life. There never was an immortality course, it was an enlightenment course. It must have been a misnomer that you read on one of those neganaut internet blogs full of misimformation that try to disc TM. You already got an immortal soul you just need to wake up to It. Hence the Enlightenment course. -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I have searched all over and can find no mention of the Immortality Courses once offered by the TMO - as an historical piece of info I would like to know what these were - if anyone knew of them, of what they promised and the cost of them I would appreciate it if you could post that info here. Especially anyone who actually took the course or courses. Buck may be right about this. There definitely *were* Enlightenment Courses, held in the Netherlands, that promised enlightenment as a result of your one-month stay and one million dollar course fee. At one point Rick (I think) posted that for their million bucks, the course participants never even got to see Maharishi, except over 2-way TV. As for the promised results, well. someone posted here in the past that David Lynch attended one of them, so there you jolly well are, aren't you? If he's not enlightened, no one is. I may have conflated the notion of the million dollar course with tales of other latter-day TM courses I heard about through the grape- vine or on some Net forum, whose purpose was purported to be the attainment of physical immortality. I honestly don't remember where I heard these rumors, but they were accompanied by the line, people I knew who attended these courses have since died. Presumably these people were Off The Program. I admit to being less interested in the details of the courses than the mindset of the people who paid for and took them. We *know* that there were TM TBs who paid a million dollars for a one-month course that promised them enlightenment. There *may have been* people who paid for TM courses that suggested or promised them physical immortality. Either way, that level of gullibility on the part of the participants overshadows for me any culpability on the part of those who offered the courses. As that great sage Paramahansa Trotakacharya Barnum is rumored to have once said, The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it and Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. One of his quotes would have been a great tag line for the Enlightenment Courses. He once was trying to clear the crowds out of one of the tents in his traveling circus/zoos/tent shows so other paying customers could enter, so he grabbed a megaphone and announced, This way to see the egress. Everyone followed him. :-) As far as Buck's claims that people are trying to disc TM, he may be right about that as well. http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg http://www.covershut.com/cd_covers/Its-Kind-Of-A-Funny-Story-2010-Wide-Screen-Cd-Cover-50447.jpg
RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
I love these. Yelp is often the lowest common denominator, which is not always a bad thing. I think it's good for those who consider themselves above the masses to find out what the masses think of them and their taste. You should see some of the reviews of some of the supposedly swanky places to eat in Paris. :-) Written by food cretins, admittedly, but still...funny food cretins. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
[FairfieldLife] In Argentine Nazi Refuge Bariloche
Given the history of this town, one wonders if Adolf Hitler once lived here. http://news.yahoo.com/argentine-nazi-refuge-bariloche-silence-rigueur-192654462.html http://news.yahoo.com/argentine-nazi-refuge-bariloche-silence-rigueur-192654462.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
You really made the TMers in Fairfield look stupid today, with their 'Immortality' courses', although you fibbed about it, good work! Did anyone notice that Barry didn't deny he was living in a food desert most of the time? Why do you think he spends so much time in cafes instead of at grocery stores? LoL! On 10/19/2013 1:21 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: I love these. Yelp is often the lowest common denominator, which is not always a bad thing. I think it's good for those who consider themselves above the masses to find out what the masses think of them and their taste. You should see some of the reviews of some of the supposedly swanky places to eat in Paris. :-) Written by food cretins, admittedly, but still...funny food cretins. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is not as pedestrian friendly as the route to the local health food store is. I even read that in the US only San Francisco has more restaurants per capita than FF! On Saturday, October 19, 2013 1:53 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: You really made the TMers in Fairfield look stupid today, with their 'Immortality' courses', although you fibbed about it, good work! Did anyone notice that Barry didn't deny he was living in a food desert most of the time? Why do you think he spends so much time in cafes instead of at grocery stores? LoL! On 10/19/2013 1:21 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: I love these. Yelp is often the lowest common denominator, which is not always a bad thing. I think it's good for those who consider themselves above the masses to find out what the masses think of them and their taste. You should see some of the reviews of some of the supposedly swanky places to eat in Paris. :-) Written by food cretins, admittedly, but still...funny food cretins. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique
It seems obvious that the stories and myths gathered in the Bible were assembled from immortality and fertility myths which were in common circulation at that time, that is, about 3000 years ago. Stephen Oppenheimer, writing in Eden in the East notes that many of these same mythic elements are still to be found in lands stretching from Egypt to India, Southwest Asia, Melanesia, and America. This Levantine creation myth is closely allied to other older myths concerning creation, and as Harris points out, every known culture expresses social values and religious views through myth (Harris 101). A clear reference to human creation is in the Austronesian cultures of Southeast Asia where the idea of creation from clay or red earth is also used as totemic prop for mythic drama (Oppenheimer 356). Work Cited: Oppenhiemer, Stephen, M.D., Eden in the East. London: Phoenix, 1998 On 10/19/2013 11:56 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: According to the Orthodox, Ancestral Sin caused the reversal of paradisaical deathlessness by creating the consequential mortality that we all inherited. Obviously a mythologized explanation but this is how they explain why humans are prone to concupiscence and deviance of will. Better yet is this explanation of the Orthodox view of original sin. http://oca.org/questions/teaching/st.-augustine-original-sin ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: *Thanks, this is great. For the moment, one question: The expulsion from the Garden and from the Tree of Life was an act of love and not vengeance so that humanity would not 'become immortal in sin.' What does immortal in sin mean, and how would that happen?* *emptybill wrote:* Read this and then see if you have questions. http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/articles/ancestral_versus_original_sin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Places to Live That Suck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is not as pedestrian friendly as the route to the local health food store is. I even read that in the US only San Francisco has more restaurants per capita than FF! Ahem. You must have been confusing your backwater town of Fairfield, IA with Fairfield, CT. Let this serve as a lesson to you not to believe things told to you by Ru's that you'd *like* to believe because it inflates your ego and you sense of center-of-the-universenessitude, and a reminder to search for the truth instead: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_173\ 5091.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_17\ 35091.html P.S. The same thing was said by Santa Fe, NM, and every other town I've lived in that wanted visitors to think it was more interesting than it really was. P.S.S. Every town in the universe is interesting, if you're just weird enough. P.S.S.S. No town in the universe is interesting if you're not.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique
Richard, do other cultures have a myth about the fall of humanity that centers around acquiring some forbidden knowledge? And in other cultures is the fall blamed on the women? On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:04 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It seems obvious that the stories and myths gathered in the Bible were assembled from immortality and fertility myths which were in common circulation at that time, that is, about 3000 years ago. Stephen Oppenheimer, writing in Eden in the East notes that many of these same mythic elements are still to be found in lands stretching from Egypt to India, Southwest Asia, Melanesia, and America. This Levantine creation myth is closely allied to other older myths concerning creation, and as Harris points out, every known culture expresses social values and religious views through myth (Harris 101). A clear reference to human creation is in the Austronesian cultures of Southeast Asia where the idea of creation from clay or red earth is also used as totemic prop for mythic drama (Oppenheimer 356). Work Cited: Oppenhiemer, Stephen, M.D., Eden in the East. London: Phoenix, 1998 On 10/19/2013 11:56 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: According to the Orthodox, Ancestral Sin caused the reversal of paradisaical deathlessness by creating the consequential mortality that we all inherited. Obviously a mythologized explanation but this is how they explain why humans are prone to concupiscence and deviance of will. Better yet is this explanation of the Orthodox view of original sin. http://oca.org/questions/teaching/st.-augustine-original-sin ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Thanks, this is great. For the moment, one question: The expulsion from the Garden and from the Tree of Life was an act of love and not vengeance so that humanity would not 'become immortal in sin.' What does immortal in sin mean, and how would that happen? emptybill wrote: Read this and then see if you have questions. http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/articles/ancestral_versus_original_sin
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Places to Live That Suck
Oh, that is kind of funny. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:13 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is not as pedestrian friendly as the route to the local health food store is. I even read that in the US only San Francisco has more restaurants per capita than FF! Ahem. You must have been confusing your backwater town of Fairfield, IA with Fairfield, CT. Let this serve as a lesson to you not to believe things told to you by Ru's that you'd *like* to believe because it inflates your ego and you sense of center-of-the-universenessitude, and a reminder to search for the truth instead: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091.html P.S. The same thing was said by Santa Fe, NM, and every other town I've lived in that wanted visitors to think it was more interesting than it really was. P.S.S. Every town in the universe is interesting, if you're just weird enough. P.S.S.S. No town in the universe is interesting if you're not.
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Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem to use family recipes so you can have a little difference between places. I found Indian restaurant so-so in Fairfield and I also ate at a California style pasta restaurant which indeed reminded me of many of the pasta restaurants around here except for the ones run by expatriate Italians. We have one really good Trattoria about 2 miles from here that I like to take out-of-town folks to. On 10/19/2013 10:16 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly.It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd.Absolutely awful food.It's dirt cheap for a reason.I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: *Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis?* * * *It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis.* * * *Share wrote:* Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
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that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique
Re the doctrine of creation ex nihilo is a whole lot older than modern Christianity.: Indeed, the doctrine was dismissed by Parmenides in the 5th centruy BC with his remark Nothing comes from nothing. Can't fault that logic! There is a whole shed load of doctrines a whole lot older than modern Christianity; the problem is modern Christians are still stuck with them. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: One can see how others might see this or that without necessarily going along with it oneself, especially when it comes to what Christ realized and taught, given that we have no historical record of same. Plus which, any exposition of nondualism in plain speech is automatically highly suspect, words being, you know, dualistic. And when you find yourself talking about Advaita positions, things get really dicey. Oh, and the doctrine of ex nihilo is a whole lot older than modern Christianity. Seraphita wrote: Re The writer is making a distinction between (Eastern) Orthodox Christianity and Western Christianity and how and why they diverged after the first roughly four centuries following Christ's death (and presumably his Resurrection).: Yep - and I'm making a distinction between what Christ himself realised and taught and what the Church (east and west) later came to teach. Jesus *obviously* saw the truth of the Advaita position - I and My Father Are One - and once you see that you also see that Original Sin and the Forgiveness of Sins are two sides of the same coin - that there is One Self (Christ Consciousness) which each of us is at root. The reason modern Christians can't acknowledge that blindingly obvious fact is that they have to maintain the fiction that each soul was created ex nihilo. Only what isn't created is eternal. And what is eternal is the One Self. Read the Gospel accounts and you have to really work overtime not to see what Jesus was pointing to! The theological argy-bargy in the linked article isn't a problem IF you see that it is expressing in mythological terms what the non-dualists set out in plain speech. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Seraphita wrote: Who is on those pictures, Daddy? He replied, The Virgin Mary and Jesus. She picked up the icon, kissed it and hugged it to her chest exclaiming, Oh, daddy, they love you so much! Then, he told me, We understood. It's all about affection. If it's really all about affection who needed Christianity? People have been affectionate to their friends and family since time immemorial. And one can't be *affectionate* to one's enemies! Odd that you didn't quote the very next sentence: Love, in fact, is the heart and soul of the theology of the early Church Fathers and of the Orthodox Church (emphasis added). That would be God's infinite love and compassion, not ordinary human affection. The writer is making a distinction between (Eastern) Orthodox Christianity and Western Christianity and how and why they diverged after the first roughly four centuries following Christ's death (and presumably his resurrection). You'll need to read the rest of the essay to understand what that distinction is all about. Your other points are something of a straw man where Eastern Christianity is concerned, as you'll find if you read the rest of the essay. No version of Christianity can be really consonant with TM metaphysics, but it appears to me that there are some elements of Eastern Christian theology that are more resonant with TM than those of Western theology. (emptybill, corrections/reflections solicited.) Here's the simple alternative. If you look at the basic Advaita-Vedanta outlook isn't it saying that there is in reality only One Self. It is only in appearance that there are many of us. If therefore any one individual sins we've all sinned as there is no difference between us *in reality*. One man slips up - Adam - and we all take a pratfall. No man is an island. But if you recognise that there is just the Self as the one actor how can any one man be guilty? - that is precisely to imagine oneself apart from the whole. The forgiveness of sins balances Original Sin.
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The Fall of Man myth is a universal story that teaches by means of a confidence trick. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever... therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden ... (Genesis 3:22-3). And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:16-17). Clearly, humankind did not die on that day of the Fall, but instead became mortal. We can see how the creation of man from clay, as related in the Jehovistic account of Genesis, belonged to one branch of the world's universal clay-man myths springing from Southeast Asia. According to Oppenhiemer: In these stories a malign creature, originally either a devil or snake, interfered with the attempted animation of the clay models by the creator. A a clear reference to human creation is in the Austronesian cultures of Southeast Asia as totemic props for mythic drama (Oppenheimer 356). Work Cited: Eden in the East The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia. By Stephen Oppenheimer, M.D. Phoenix 1998 p. 355-382 On 10/19/2013 2:14 PM, Share Long wrote: Richard, do other cultures have a myth about the fall of humanity that centers around acquiring some forbidden knowledge? And in other cultures is the fall blamed on the women? On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:04 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It seems obvious that the stories and myths gathered in the Bible were assembled from immortality and fertility myths which were in common circulation at that time, that is, about 3000 years ago. Stephen Oppenheimer, writing in Eden in the East notes that many of these same mythic elements are still to be found in lands stretching from Egypt to India, Southwest Asia, Melanesia, and America. This Levantine creation myth is closely allied to other older myths concerning creation, and as Harris points out, every known culture expresses social values and religious views through myth (Harris 101). A clear reference to human creation is in the Austronesian cultures of Southeast Asia where the idea of creation from clay or red earth is also used as totemic prop for mythic drama (Oppenheimer 356). Work Cited: Oppenhiemer, Stephen, M.D., Eden in the East. London: Phoenix, 1998 On 10/19/2013 11:56 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com mailto:emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: According to the Orthodox, Ancestral Sin caused the reversal of paradisaical deathlessness by creating the consequential mortality that we all inherited. Obviously a mythologized explanation but this is how they explain why humans are prone to concupiscence and deviance of will. Better yet is this explanation of the Orthodox view of original sin. http://oca.org/questions/teaching/st.-augustine-original-sin ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: *Thanks, this is great. For the moment, one question: The expulsion from the Garden and from the Tree of Life was an act of love and not vengeance so that humanity would not 'become immortal in sin.' What does immortal in sin mean, and how would that happen?* *emptybill wrote:* Read this and then see if you have questions. http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/articles/ancestral_versus_original_sin
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Places to Live That Suck
Every town and village is interesting but most cities like Paris suck - if you live downtown you're probably living in a food desert. The existence of numerous cafes and restaurants notwithstanding. Most poor people, which is almost everyone who lives in a city, don't eat their main meals at fancy, expensive restaurants. Let's review the definition of a food desert: A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, especially those who do not have a means of transportation like a car. There are food deserts in rual areas and in cities where low-income communities don't have access to supermarkets so they can get their food at reasonable prices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert On 10/19/2013 2:13 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is not as pedestrian friendly as the route to the local health food store is. I even read that in the US only San Francisco has more restaurants per capita than FF! Ahem. You must have been confusing your backwater town of Fairfield, IA with Fairfield, CT. Let this serve as a lesson to you not to believe things told to you by Ru's that you'd *like* to believe because it inflates your ego and you sense of center-of-the-universenessitude, and a reminder to search for the truth instead: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091.html P.S. The same thing was said by Santa Fe, NM, and every other town I've lived in that wanted visitors to think it was more interesting than it really was. P.S.S. Every town in the universe is interesting, if you're just weird enough. P.S.S.S. No town in the universe is interesting if you're not.
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Merit
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. --- Andrew Jackson http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andrew_jackson.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Judy, to my horror, it seems that even countless offenses of incorrect spelling and grammar are annihilated by meditating! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Buck wrote: “Though thou perform the meritorious deed of meditation but once, thee annihilate forever the countless offenses thy hast piled up.” -Old Meditation saying. You aren't going to correct this, are you, Buck?
[FairfieldLife] A hole in the head - the solution to your problems?
A Hole in the Head is an hour-long documentary about trepanation - the process of boring a hole in the skull. It examines the development of modern trepanation as used by people in the UK, the USA, and the Netherlands for the purpose of attaining a higher level of consciousness. This procedure, used by the ancient Egyptians, Incas, and others, is believed by the voluntarily trepanned to allow for renewed brain pulsations that increase brain blood volume and thereby improve brain function. Interviews regarding the history and efficacy of the procedure are also held with some of the world's most respected neurosurgeons and anthropologists. There's an appearance by Countess Amanda Feilding. Twice Amanda stood for Parliament in Chelsea, London, as an independent on a manifesto with a singular topic - trepanning for free to everyone on the National Health Service! In 1979 she polled 40 votes, and in 1983 she managed 139. John Lennon tried (unsuccessfully) to persuade the other Beatles to undergo the procedure. If he'd succeeded maybe all those who followed the Fab Four from LSD to TM would now be treppaned! Ye gods! How boring and conformist modern society seems in comparison to those heady sixties. Does the procedure do what it is claimed? How about some enterprising FFLifers volunteering to undergo the operation and then reporting back to the forum on the benefits? I've seen the film and one of the sadder interviewees is a young woman who, following an accident, had a hole in her skull . She was very chirpy and upbeat when first seen. Her doctors advised her to have the hole sealed with surgery. An interview at the end of the film shows her after the operation and she is strikingly depressed! Is trepanation a fast-track to enlightenment? A newspaper article about the countess is here: http://tinyurl.com/y38drfk http://tinyurl.com/y38drfk The trailer for the DVD is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoU_-ru8yEc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoU_-ru8yEc
[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope Francis technique
Re And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:16-17). : Precisely! Man didn't die so God was telling porkies! (Spare me the bollocks of saying man dying spiritually.) The early Gnostics were right in seeing the Serpent as the true friend of mankind. The Serpent wanted us to see that we are immortal (we're *really* the One Self - Christ Consciousness) but God wants us to remain slaves. Of course, we're using mythological language here, but the God of present-day Christians still doesn't want people to become seers - ie, those who see clearly. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: The Fall of Man myth is a universal story that teaches by means of a confidence trick. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever... therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden ... (Genesis 3:22-3). And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:16-17). Clearly, humankind did not die on that day of the Fall, but instead became mortal. We can see how the creation of man from clay, as related in the Jehovistic account of Genesis, belonged to one branch of the world's universal clay-man myths springing from Southeast Asia. According to Oppenhiemer: In these stories a malign creature, originally either a devil or snake, interfered with the attempted animation of the clay models by the creator. A a clear reference to human creation is in the Austronesian cultures of Southeast Asia as totemic props for mythic drama (Oppenheimer 356). Work Cited: Eden in the East The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia. By Stephen Oppenheimer, M.D. Phoenix 1998 p. 355-382 On 10/19/2013 2:14 PM, Share Long wrote: Richard, do other cultures have a myth about the fall of humanity that centers around acquiring some forbidden knowledge? And in other cultures is the fall blamed on the women? On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:04 PM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: It seems obvious that the stories and myths gathered in the Bible were assembled from immortality and fertility myths which were in common circulation at that time, that is, about 3000 years ago. Stephen Oppenheimer, writing in Eden in the East notes that many of these same mythic elements are still to be found in lands stretching from Egypt to India, Southwest Asia, Melanesia, and America. This Levantine creation myth is closely allied to other older myths concerning creation, and as Harris points out, every known culture expresses social values and religious views through myth (Harris 101). A clear reference to human creation is in the Austronesian cultures of Southeast Asia where the idea of creation from clay or red earth is also used as totemic prop for mythic drama (Oppenheimer 356). Work Cited: Oppenhiemer, Stephen, M.D., Eden in the East. London: Phoenix, 1998 On 10/19/2013 11:56 AM, emptybill@... mailto:emptybill@... wrote: According to the Orthodox, Ancestral Sin caused the reversal of paradisaical deathlessness by creating the consequential mortality that we all inherited. Obviously a mythologized explanation but this is how they explain why humans are prone to concupiscence and deviance of will. Better yet is this explanation of the Orthodox view of original sin. http://oca.org/questions/teaching/st.-augustine-original-sin ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Thanks, this is great. For the moment, one question: The expulsion from the Garden and from the Tree of Life was an act of love and not vengeance so that humanity would not 'become immortal in sin.' What does immortal in sin mean, and how would that happen? emptybill wrote: Read this and then see if you have questions. http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/articles/ancestral_versus_original_sin http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/articles/ancestral_versus_original_sin
[FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Every town and village is interesting but most cities like Paris suck - if you live downtown you're probably living in a food desert. The existence of numerous cafes and restaurants notwithstanding. Most poor people, which is almost everyone who lives in a city, don't eat their main meals at fancy, expensive restaurants. Let's review the definition of a food desert: A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, especially those who do not have a means of transportation like a car. There are food deserts in rual areas and in cities where low-income communities don't have access to supermarkets so they can get their food at reasonable prices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert On 10/19/2013 2:13 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Well Richard there are some nifty cafes too in FF: Revelations, Cafe Paradiso and 2nd St. Cafe, just to name a few. Plus the Iowa grocery chain Hy Vee has a pretty good health food section in its FF store. I think it would take me close to thirty minutes to get there on foot and the route is not as pedestrian friendly as the route to the local health food store is. I even read that in the US only San Francisco has more restaurants per capita than FF! Ahem. You must have been confusing your backwater town of Fairfield, IA with Fairfield, CT. Let this serve as a lesson to you not to believe things told to you by Ru's that you'd *like* to believe because it inflates your ego and you sense of center-of-the-universenessitude, and a reminder to search for the truth instead: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/san-francisco-restaurants_n_1735091.html P.S. The same thing was said by Santa Fe, NM, and every other town I've lived in that wanted visitors to think it was more interesting than it really was. Riddle: What does Barry and every other town (he's) ever lived in have in common? Answer: Barry's statement above: They both want visitors (us) to think it (Barry) was (is) more interesting than it (Barry) really was (is). P.S.S. Every town in the universe is interesting, if you're just weird enough. P.S.S.S. No town in the universe is interesting if you're not.
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Yeah, there's a fave about three blocks from here. Lots of Buddhist art and really good food. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Especially when we have some VERY GOOD Thai restaurants in the SF Bay Area. And I think a lot of Thai restaurants seem to use family recipes so you can have a little difference between places. I found Indian restaurant so-so in Fairfield and I also ate at a California style pasta restaurant which indeed reminded me of many of the pasta restaurants around here except for the ones run by expatriate Italians. We have one really good Trattoria about 2 miles from here that I like to take out-of-town folks to. On 10/19/2013 10:16 AM, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
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Isn't it spelled with a 'C'? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield! On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:37 AM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote: There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and Circle A-Z'. It's all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of placement and positioning. You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four. A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to obtain, except by a automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no place to go. LoL!
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Cracked me up! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: that was great Doc! and in my opinion this quote If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road is what most of the world thinks of MUM and the Movement. On Sat, 10/19/13, doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... mailto:doctordumbass@... wrote: Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Places to Live That Suck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:48 PM Mango D. - LOL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: OMG, this is hilarious! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you Doc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I decided to check out the FF food scene, using Yelp. This set of reviews is hilarious: Thai Deli 120 West Broadway Fairfield, IA Review from Mango D., Las Vegas, NV 9/16/2006 5.0 star rating This stuff is like crack when we come to town. Make sure you come in when it is fresh. (After dome is good) We cant get enough of the creamy coconut potato dish. And the tofu and squash dish as well. They both go great mixed with the fried rice. The noodles are good sparingly when super fresh. I cannot find anything like this in California. Sigh... Fairfield, must you taunt me so! Review from Nicholas J. San Francisco, CA 1/12/2010 1.0 star rating. The reason you'll never find a Thai restaurant like this in California is because you can usually find actual Thai people voluntarily living in the coastal regions of the country, and very few of them are likely to express an interest in consuming the watered-down Grandy's buffet slop this dismal little cafeteria tries to pass off as an exotic Asian experience. If I were forced to explain their longevity, I would have to say that I believe they remain in business primarily because of the cult school up the road--an institution which seems to supply them with a steady stream of stoned Dave Matthews fans, all of whom would be lucky to successfully locate Thailand on a map after hyperventilating through the magic levitation classes their hippie parents pay for just because John Lennon told them to in a dream. Review from Max S. Fairfield, IA 5/24/2009 2.0 star rating It's dirt cheap but man does the food blow. Review from Will M. Seattle, WA 7/23/2010 1.0 star rating They nickname this place Thai Smelly. It's small town Midwest buffet meets new age crowd. Absolutely awful food. It's dirt cheap for a reason. I mean honestly, I don't know how this place survives - I wouldn't eat here if it was free. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Richard first mentioned the food deserts concept on Tuesday. It took you until today, Saturday, to decide that Fairfield was a food oasis? It's funny, because even though I don't live in Fairfield, it would have taken me about two seconds to figure out it was a food oasis. Share wrote: Richard, I've been thinking about this concept of food deserts since you first posted it. I think we have an oasis here in FF! I could definitely walk to our local health food store though it would take about 15 to 20 minutes. There is another one on campus just outside the women's Dome so that's also a possibility. We have a locally owned convenience store/gas station, Logli's and Iowa has a chain of them called Kum N Go. Oh and Farmers Market twice a week so people can buy fresh, buy local. Yay Fairfield!
