[FairfieldLife] Re: A brawl worth watching
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: We're waiting for your Spiritualness and Justin Bieber post. Don't let Willy beat you to it with an All About Justin Bieber topic. :-D Ask and ye shall receive. :-) [https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/1507162_1015210812\ 6412808_1637306664_n.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?
Following up, because it's an interesting set of speculations: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: ... This broadens out into a wider debate on Egomaniac Godmen who had experienced selflessness. Why were so many of them such irritating self-centred arseholes? I personally associate it more with spiritual tradition than any particular cause and effect you could pin down or name. That is, I think it's the dynamics of the spiritual teacher role and its interaction with followers that has been passed down to us that is the culprit. Someone has some realizations -- major or minor -- and the first thing they've got to do is hang out a shingle and become a teacher. In that new role, they've got to deal with the focus of from dozens to thousands of students, all projecting their fantasies onto this new (and inexperienced) teacher, all gazing at them as if they were God and being told by past scriptures/books, etc. that the way to be around a spiritual teacher is to do everything they fucking say and never, ever doubt them. It's a scenario almost *designed* to charge up the teachers' egos and make them crazier than a loon. ... There's something horribly self-centred about the whole new-age trip that gives it that superficial, delusional character. It is *not* just the New Age. I suspect it has been like this at every point in human history in which there have been people claiming to be enlightened. We just see them fall off their pedestals more often these days, because of access and the media's fascination with fallen stars. I have speculated here before (although many may have mistaken it for being tongue in cheek because I've often presented it humorously, or tried) that what we think of as being enlightened may, in fact, be how people perceive a number of very common forms of mental illness. What you are discussing here, for example, is the prevalence of the classic symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in people who are perceived to be (at least by their followers) enlightened human beings. So what if the thing they *are* perceiving is just the overwhelming sense of ego and ego-importance of NPD? Most of the people one encounters are less sure of themselves, more given to doubts, and less likely to proclaim their POV as right and everyone else's as wrong. But that's just the daily, ho-hum routine of someone suffering from NPD. What if that sense of I am the center of the universe, and everything pretty much revolves around me is the thing that made *every supposedly enlightened being in history* appear to be enlightened? Another mental aberration that I believe is often confused with being spiritually evolved is mania. I don't think you were around when Ravi first showed up here on FFL, but it was pretty obvious from Day One that what we were dealing with there is someone who was going through a period of extreme manic depression, and who tended to post on his manic days. Now think about the supposedly inspired nature of many of the supposed saints' writings -- the sense that they are totally overwhelmed by their perceptions of the world around them, their feelings for God. Such saints are often described -- even by their followers -- as borderline emotional basket cases, given to breaking into tears when trying to describe the ecstasy of it all. Again, this is classic DSM-IV mania. Don't get me wrong...I'm not trying to convert you or anyone else here to my view of things, or to proclaim that enlightenment AS mental illness is the ONLY way to see things. I'm just making a case that it is ONE way of seeing things, and that as such, it is an avenue that should be explored. Some will react strongly to such a suggestion, getting their buttons pushed because they feel it demeans people they truly believe are enlightened or saint-like. But I think that the correspondences are something to be considered, and that they can be discussed without ego-battles, and without the hysteria of mania. :-) [https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/555809_101515642095\ 68331_438201452_n.jpg]
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?
This broadens out into a wider debate on Egomaniac Godmen who had experienced selflessness. Why were so many of them such irritating self-centred arseholes? Many don't even have to have any legitimate experiences of any kind. The article I posted here on the so-called godmen of the city of Ayodhya - these days people use the guise of being a spiritual leader to grab as much money and prestige as they can. On Tue, 1/28/14, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 7:33 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Coming back to Barry's post: 'I've seen a number of people have strong experiences of being enlightenment, and then afterwards back off and run away from any sadhana (spiritual practice, such as meditation) that would make being enlightenment come back. : Doesn't that apply to your Rama? I'd never hear of Rama till I encountered FFL but the fact that he was heavily into tranquillisers suggests he was suffering from acute anxiety. He got into Valium late in his life, as I understand it after it was prescribed for him after a sports injury. My personal feeling is that taking it was not in any way anxiety-related, but sensitivity-related, in that the Valium made pain go away. I have heard from people closer to him than I was that he felt physical pain a lot, and so he may have kept taking them after the injury was healed and then gotten hooked because of the insidiously addictive nature of the drug. Why so? Because he was unable to integrate his own spiritual experiences. I was not thinking about Rama when I wrote the line you quote. (I also see that Rama told his female followers that having sex with him would elevate them to a higher plane of consciousness. Are there really women that fall for that lame chat-up line?) More than you might imagine. Hey, Rama was at least tall, fairly good-looking, and charismatic as hell. Maharishi managed to get women to have sex with him, and he was a squat little toad. :-) This broadens out into a wider debate on Egomaniac Godmen who had experienced selflessness. Why were so many of them such irritating self-centred arseholes? I personally associate it more with spiritual tradition than any particular cause and effect you could pin down or name. That is, I think it's the dynamics of the spiritual teacher role and its interaction with followers that has been passed down to us that is the culprit. Someone has some realizations -- major or minor -- and the first thing they've got to do is hang out a shingle and become a teacher. In that new role, they've got to deal with the focus of from dozens to thousands of students, all projecting their fantasies onto this new (and inexperienced) teacher, all gazing at them as if they were God and being told by past scriptures/books, etc. that the way to be around a spiritual teacher is to do everything they fucking say and never, ever doubt them. It's a scenario almost *designed* to charge up the teachers' egos and make them crazier than a loon. I don't doubt that some of them - Muktanada and Osho, for example - had genuine experiences of loss of ego identity. But I've had such experiences (only short-lived) and although I had no way of piecing together my lost identity my character habits (my karma?) were still functioning. It did strike me then that genuine spiritual transformation would have to uproot those character habits - perhaps by spending two years cleaning the latrines in a leper colony. It wouldn't hurt. And at least the latrines would be cleaner, which is a more real accomplishment than many of the teachers managed. I suspect that people like Osho, Chögyam Trungpa, Muktanada and Rama had that ego-loss thing and falsely assumed it was the full enlightenment blow-out and so never realised what self-centred sods they remained. Another possibility, of course, is that there is no such *thing* as the full enlightenment blow-out. You don't seem to accept that as a possibility, but I do. I mean, take Osho's collection of Rolls-Royces: he wanted to have the largest collection in the world. How childish is that? Imagine that an authentic first-century manuscript was uncovered in the Vatican archives that proved Jesus of Nazareth had ten gold-plated chariots and was hoping to add to that collection to out-number the total of the Roman Emperor? Christianity would be finished as a world religion the very next day. Now you're just being naive. Christian TBs would find a way to rationalize it in a second. Osho's acolytyes came up with some baloney about his mania being a subversive attack on materialism - does anyone still believe
[FairfieldLife] RE: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
But let's not forget Aljazeera.com lists its address as a post office box in Dubai but has a London telephone number and has been criticized for it inflammatory comments by THE GUARDIAN and THE TIMES. I am only curious about the timing of the article . OTOH It seems to be the only topic they broadcast about MMY and nothing about Girish C.Varma Living almost my last third of my life in Eas Asia I like to rely for source info on personal contact (e.g. recent inquiring phone call to Bhopal Police++) and media info not only on the European and US ,not to forget on CCTV, RT and of course recently Aljazeera.com for diverse opinion and may say a means for survival , being sometimes in dangerous geographical spot for example. Since we talking about religion and Dawkin often.Here an interesting article about Professor Dawkins' assault on the existence of a divine being looks for evidence in all the wrong places called Blue whale in a bathtub . by Ghazi bin Muhammad H R H Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan(PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and Al-Azhar University, Cairo.) http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013181262030173.html http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013181262030173.html ++Dear Buck-dhamiltony2k5- gave you for your inquiring mind the addresses of the Shankaracharya in a different post For further inquiry in G.V.'case you may call SHRI SALEEM KHAN Tel.No.Office 2443205-338 and /or mobile phone 9425300081 Apologize ,you cannot give merudanda as a reference but Salim Khan,the City Superintendent of Police in charge of the case is a very friendlyguyand telling him about your Vedic background...and worries will certainly help. BTW our movement housing do have horse facilities , too..just in case you do want to come over to unifying-fieldesize the TMO -Hostage -Holder the Chancellor of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwa Vidyalaya (Madhya Pradesh) and Maharishi University of Managementand Technology (Chhattisgarh) Chairman Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools Group President Maharishi Institute of Management, India and Maharishi Institute of Information Technology,Director General Maharishi World Centre of Gandharva Ved and Maharishi World Capital of Peace, Brahmsthan of India and IHHO (in his humble opinion)MMY most beloved and blessed follower and according to G.V. in His divine (personal)guidance chief administrator and high priest of Maharishi Yagya technology for how many years? to Prevent the Danger that Has Not Yet Come Scientific Technology -.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Thanks for the link. Finally something rises out of the fourth estate to shed some light on TM India. The article in Al Jaseera it seems was some journalism probing for substance too. Truth should be able to hold up to that. -Buck
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
The al jazerra post was a cut down version of the Hi India full article that I posted earlier. Here is both the link for Hi India article and the full article - now find fault with them. http://hiindialive.com/?p=42868 Vedic Pandits go 'missing' in US, reports Hi India IANS Chicago, January 26, 2014 | UPDATED 16:36 IST In a shocking revelation, as many as 163 Indians, most of them brought to the US as teenagers from villages in northern India to be trained into Vedic Pandits by two institutions set up by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of transcendental meditation fame, appear to have gone missing over the last 12 months. Of the 1,050 young Indians brought to the Maharishi Vedic City and the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, 163 - some of them just 19 years old - have gone missing in the last one year, Hi India, a Chicago-based weekly newspaper for the Indian community, reported in its latest issue. Both the Vedic city and the university are owned by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's family. According to the report, the management running these places did not even care to trace the missing people. Even the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP), one of the many teaching centres set up by the India-born spiritual guru, does not know about the plight or flight of these Vedic scholars called 'world peace professionals'. They have jumped the fence for immigration purposes or for chasing their American Dream, the newspaper quoted the varsity bosses as saying. The GCWP runs a Vedic Pandit programme claiming to bring about peace on earth where there will be no war. Under the project to recruit Maharishi Vedic Pandits, publicity literature is distributed in Indian villages, mostly in Hindi speaking areas, among people living under the poverty line. Children are enrolled with the permission of their parents, who are promised that their wards would be given education up to 12th standard, after which they would be turned into Pandits or masters of the art of Hindu religious rites and services. After some 10 to 15 years, the qualified Pandits are supposed to have a choice to either remain with the organisation and make a living, or leave the centre and work outside on their own. Investigations by Hi India have found that the kids of the programme, enrolled at the tender age of five years, were rarely provided education beyond fifth standard. After investigation by the newspaper, it came to light that these Vedic Pandits were brought to the US from India and were kept in makeshift trailer homes to be guarded by round-the-clock guards. When contacted, most officials of the Maharishi's Fairfield complex refused to comment. Only one of them suggested that these students might have run away for immigration purposes. According to one Pandit, before the visa application at the US embassy in India, a contract is prepared and signed by the organization and the concerned Pandit for rules, regulations and compensation. The Pandits are initially sent to the US for two years, and thereafter, either their visa is extended for six more months or they are sent back and recalled for two more years. According to the report, a contract is drafted in English but the copy is neither given to Pandits nor is it translated or explained to the fifth-grader emigrants who do not even understand English. The contract states that they will be given $50 compensation while in the US and another $150 in India. This $150 is not given on a monthly basis to the families of the Pandits but, rather, is considered as bond money. If the Pandit 'behaves well', his so-called compensation for two years is given to him or his family on his return from the US. The contract is prepared in a way to obtain visa, the report said. According to the newspaper, if the management of the Vedic City finds out that some Pandits are desperate to leave the US, a mock travel plan is chalked out and the Pandits are taken in a van to Chicago's O'Hare airport and dropped at the entry gate. After asking them to wait till the aircraft arrives while the van driver goes around and comes back in a short while. According to one Pandit who was about to flee, some of the strong-willed Pandits run away from the airport for better prospects and the rest of them are picked up by the driver and taken back to the Vedic City. According to sources in the Indian consulate in Chicago, in a situation where an Indian passport holder is considered or presumed gone missing and his passport is left behind, it has to be returned immediately to the nearest Indian mission which has to also be informed about the circumstances in which the Indian citizen went missing. The Chicago consulate, however, says the GCWP has never returned or deposited any passport and neither has it shared any missing person information. According the sheriff's department and police department of Fairfield, Iowa, no missing person report has ever
[FairfieldLife] More on the Missing Pundits
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/indian-consulate-looking-into-vedic-pandits-disappearance/article5625701.ece?ref=relatedNews Published: January 28, 2014 08:42 IST | Updated: January 28, 2014 10:20 IST Indian Consulate looking into ‘Vedic pandits’ disappearance Narayan Lakshman Consul General Ausaf Sayeed said none of the pandits had sought any assistance from the Consulate for their repatriation to India. The Indian Consul General in Chicago has said that no complaints or information has been received from either the Iowa-based Maharishi Vedic City, or from any one of the 130 “Vedic pandits,” or religious scholars brought here from India for studies and training, who have said to have gone “missing” in the last seven months. In an email to The Hindu Consul General Ausaf Sayeed said none of the pandits had sought any assistance from the Consulate for their repatriation to India, and “The Consulate has no information on the current whereabouts of the missing pandits and whether they are working elsewhere.” Dr. Sayeed further clarified, “The Maharishi University has also not deposited any passport of their missing employees with the Consulate.” Earlier, a Maharishi University official said that the missing pandits were “in violation of U.S. immigration law and it is therefore a federal matter, beyond the legal jurisdiction of local officials in Iowa or the Indian Consul General in Chicago,” however adding that, “The prior Consul General has visited the pandit campus in Iowa and expressed great pleasure at the program and facilities.” Although Dr. Sayeed said that the Consulate General was in the process of ascertaining full facts of the case, what is evident is that unprecedented numbers of R-1 visa holders have been vanishing from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi institutions since they began coming here for their training since 2006. In messages sent to The Hindu earlier, William Goldstein, Dean of Global Development and General Counsel to the Maharishi University of Management, based in Fairfield, Iowa, said that the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP), the U.S. organisation sponsoring the pandits’ R-1 visas and their stay in this country, had not received any prior communication from the scholars before they went “AWOL” (Absence Without Leave). Mr. Goldstein said that while they did not know for sure what they pandits were doing after their departure from the Vedic city, but suspected that many of them were “working simple jobs in restaurants as the ones who have returned or the few we have information on seem to have followed that pattern”. He added that it could be that, “Someone is misinforming them about the financial opportunities and the legal implications, and their prime motive appears to be to generate more money for their families,” and there could be an “organised racket brokering the operation”. Further, Mr. Goldstein said that few, if any, of the pandits spoke English at all, and allegations made by the Chicago-based Hi India newspaper that the pandits’ initial contract signed with the Maharishi institutions for travel to the U.S. had not been translated from English to Hindi were “untrue”. Mr. Goldstein also said, “I am the attorney who spent many hours before and after the project launched working with the U.S. State Department and Indian passport officials setting up the visas for the project.” The Hindu contacted the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding this matter, but their office in Minneapolis, which is dealing with the case, was closed owing to extreme weather conditions. An ICE official however noted that missing person reports were generally not filed with ICE, rather they had to be submitted to local law enforcement authorities and in the case of foreign nationals with the government concerned. Keywords: Indian religious scholars, Vedic pandits, R-1 visas, Maharishi Vedic City, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Printable version | Jan 28, 2014 7:17:46 PM | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/indian-consulate-looking-into-vedic-pandits-disappearance/article5625701.ece © The Hindu
Re: [FairfieldLife] Predator Bars
Actually , when I saw the title, I thought of a couple of falcons sitting at a bar having a Grey Goose and orange juice together. On Monday, January 27, 2014 12:18 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm laboring under a tremendous deadline this week. I have to produce *all* of the Web content for a client for February *before* February. So I have to finish about three times the number of articles, blogs, and press releases for them as usual. To turn the pressure into fun, I decided to try to not only make the deadline -- I *never* miss deadlines, and haven't in over 35 years as a professional writer and developer -- but to find some way to turn it into FUN. So I decided to finish early. I'm well on my way. Counting the number of pieces I have to write before Friday, I have to write six 600-to-800-word blurbs for them every day. Today I wrote nine. A good start, as they say, and as intended, it turned my day into FUN, rather than a chore. So I went out to celebrate. And so I find myself sitting here in a new bar for me in Leiden. It's more upscale than many of the places I usually hang out, downright Dutch 1% to be honest. Probably as a result, it took me less than a minute of scanning the room after I sat down at my corner table to figure out what kind of a bar this was. It's a Predator Bar. Be warned. The following is a cafe story that may not be in the *least* spiritual, that only Michael may like, and that may have no redeeming qualities. When many of you who saw the Subject line heard the term Predator Bar, you probably had ideas form in your heads about what that term meant. Some of you probably thought of the hookup/swinger scene, and envisioned hordes of predatory guys looking for love or whatever would pass for it for only one night. The women are their prey. Or, if you're a gal who frequented such establishments, just looking for nothing more than a one-night stand yourself, you might have thought of hordes of horny women looking the proverbial a hard man is good to find. :-) But that's not quite what I had in mind when I used the term Predator Bar. That term I made up when I was still living in Santa Fe but commuting several days a week to my consulting gig near Detroit. During this phase of the gig, I didn't actually live in Detroit but in a way upscale suburb called Birmingham. Its residents were pretty much auto executives and their trophy wives. It wasn't exactly my kinda place, but it was occasionally entertaining. This particular night, out for a night of entertainment with two of my co-consultants on the assignment, I allowed them to drag me with them to a bar there in Birmingham. These guys were far more talented than I was as programmers, but I rocked at tech writing and training, so I was part of their team. Anyway, they were both in their thirties, making screamingly good money, full of hubris and ego and above all testosterone, and hot to trot. I was in my fifties, making as much money but with my testosterone levels somewhat brought into balance by the passage of time. I had gotten over being horny without an object some years back. Nowadays it really took the physical presence of an attractive (and real) woman to get my yang up and get me thinking about what it would be like to fuck her. These guys were younger, and more testosterone-impaired; they would have fucked mud, and even imaginary mud. So we walk into this bar, and it's just *full* of attractive, dressed-to-the-nines women. *Seriously* attractive women. They're hanging out in small herds, but the herds are clearly not so exclusive that guys feel reluctant to walk up and hit on them. And there is hittin' on going down all around us. Pretty much every guy in the bar -- including me -- gets hit on several times during the evening. My coworkers *loved* this place. They just couldn't *wait* to go back. They kept raving for days about the attractiveness of the women, and how hot they were. They even spoke about going back there and looking for a relationship, not just a one-night stand. I was flabbergasted. Speechless. It had taken me less than the minute after we walked in to nail this place as what it was, a Predator Bar. And the prey were the *guys*, not the gals. It was a no-brainer. Almost without exception, the guys in this bar were upscale, and made shitloads of money. Almost without exception, the hot women in this bar were not, and did not. They were there because they were from some...uh...lesser area of Detroit and they'd heard that rich men hung out in this bar. So they were there lookin' not for a one-night stand but for a husband. And it was not as if this was a lame strategy. From what I heard around town when in Birmingham, many of its current residents (the trophy wives) had met their future husbands at this bar. When I floated this idea of Predator Bar past my younger colleagues a few days later, they shook their heads
[FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
Ohh there are over 2,600 panditsover there, (only)about five per cent have gone AWOL (absent without leave) Goldstein told PTI in an email. What kind of an argument! Seems someone read FFL's 10% headline http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Black Hats and White Hats
Bitcoin Millionaire Charlie Shrem Arrested: A coalition of U.S. prosecutors from the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. attorney general's office arrested him today. The prosecutors allege that Shrem, along with a co-conspirator Robert Faiella, schemed to sell over $1 million in Bitcoins to criminals bent on trafficking narcotics on the dark web drug site Silk Road. Read more: 'Bitcoin Millionaire Charlie Shrem Arrested' https://www.vocativ.com/bitcoin-millionaire-charlie-shrem-arrestedhttps://www.vocativ.com/01-2014/bitcoin-millionaire-charlie-shrem-arrested-money-laundering/ Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced as open source software in 2009 by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a cryptocurrency, so-called because it uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money. Conventionally Bitcoin capitalized refers to the technology and network whereas lowercase bitcoins refers to the currency itself. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: 'The US Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against the people allegedly behind two popular Android piracy websites, Snappzmarket and Appbucket. Both sites offered large catalogs of free app downloads, giving pirates a way to avoid paying for premium apps on Google Play.' Read more: 'Justice Department files its first criminal charges against mobile app pirates' http://www.theverge.com/android-app-pirateshttp://www.theverge.com/2014/1/25/5345182/justice-department-files-charges-against-android-app-pirates On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: RAMNICU VALCEA, Romania -- It's easy to tell which kids in this town have helped to make it a global center for criminal hacking and Internet scams. They're the pupils who come to school wearing the best clothes and gold jewelry in a region of Romania where chickens are raised in yards and roads are full of potholes... 'U.S. data thefts turn spotlight on Romania' USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/credit-card-hacking-romaniahttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/13/credit-card-hacking-romania/4456491/ On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Bitcoin: Last year, the Austin resident and former UT law student posted plans for a 3D-printed plastic handgun online along with a video demonstrating the weapon. He took the plans down days later, after the State Department ordered them removed. Now, Wilson has moved into another realm growing increasingly popular among tech-centric libertarians. He and six other coders are working on software that would further encrypt bitcoins, an increasingly popular quasi-anonymous online currency. Read more: 'Cody Wilson announces bitcoin venture' Dallas Morning News: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/cody-wilson-bitcoin-venture.html/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/3d-gun-advocate-cody-wilson-announces-bitcoin-venture.html/ Bitcoin has proven to be a pretty great medium of exchange, it's value has swung wildly over the course of its history. In a recent blog post at The Verge, Adrianne Jefferies questions whether this really is a problem. She writes... Read more: Bitcoins -- Why Paul Krugman is Right to Hate Them http://business.time.com/bitcoin-paul-krugmanhttp://business.time.com/2014/01/03/bitcoin-paul-krugman-is-right-to-hate-them/ On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: This hack has all the earmarks of a middle-man conspiracy: On Friday, a Target spokeswoman backtracked from previous statements and said criminals had made off with customers' encrypted PIN information as well. But Target said the company stored the keys to decrypt its PIN data on separate systems from the ones that were hacked. 'Target's Nightmare Goes On: Encrypted PIN Data Stolen' New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/targets-nightmare/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/27/targets-nightmare-goes-on-encrypted-pin-data-stolen/?_r=0 On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: This hack has all the earmarks of an inside job: Target confirmed on Monday that the company is partnering with Secret Service to investigate the breach, and said its point-of-sale terminals in U.S. stores were infected by malware, or malicious software. Target said it was restricted in the amount of information about the investigation it could share. 'Target Discusses Breach With State Attorneys' http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304020704579276901918248632 On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Addressing the important issues! According to what I've read, the NSA doesn't even know how many
[FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
Friends; Shrinkage naturally happens in any organization. Certainly not every person needs to belong to or is suited to every organization. That some of these people would jump the fence could be expected given the amazing opportunity in life that America offers otherwise with its material freedoms in bills of rights and due process presenting to immigrants. That is in all of our collective histories. These articles and these posts arriving on FFL are just muck-racking by haters. Talk about vultures, this research project in consciousness is a long ways from dead and over. But like life itself this larger inquiry in to the sound value of Vedic chanting as scientific and valid human spiritual practice for the cultivation of collective coherence and peace will adjust and re-group to circumstance. Adversity goes with life in the world. Not even the loss of Girish Varma from this work will set this larger project of high-minded human endeavor back but instead give us further resolve to push ahead and complete the research towards what is an evident much greater spiritual good of all in science. Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in the Dome Merudanda writes: Ohh there are over 2,600 panditsover there, (only)about five per cent have gone AWOL (absent without leave) Goldstein told PTI in an email. What kind of an argument! Seems someone read FFL's 10% headline http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: What People Are Doing
Snapchat Here's a good app for some of our nerds out there that don't have much to do with their time: you can take a selfies of your self on your mobile phone and then send them to your friends, or if you don't have any friends, send them to yourself. Then, in just ten seconds they disappear. So much to do, so little time. Go figure. [image: Inline image 1] When you open the app, the phone's camera is already turned on. So you're right in message-sending mode and can take a photo or video in seconds. You choose whom you're going to send it to afterward. Read more: 'Why I Use Snapchat: It's Fast, Ugly and Ephemeral' http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/why-i-use-snapchat-its-fast-ugly-and-ephemeral/?_php=true_type=blogspartner=yahoofinance_r=0 On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Social Networking According to what I've read, in a 2011 survey it was found that 47% of American adults use a social networking service. Go figure. [image: Inline image 1] Facebook is a great utility if you want to stay in touch with friends and family, share photos, and see what other people are up to in their lives. It's free to use, of course, but that doesn't mean it comes without a price. If you're using Facebook, you're giving the company a ton of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another. Read more: 'How To See All The Companies That Are Tracking You On Facebook -- And Block Them' Yahoo News: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/see-companies-tracking-facebook-block-022700747.html Chinese computer security agency says almost half of cyber-attacks originated overseas, including nearly 15% from US. Read more: 'China victim of 500,000 cyber-attacks in 2010, says security agency' The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/09/china-cyber-attacks The World Map of Social Networks: http://www.techinasia.com/the-world-map-of-social-networks-pic/ List of Social Networking Sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites Social networking service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: In new media, it's difficult to find anyone who can boast a full night's rest. http://krick.3feetunder.com/jobsucks.htm
[FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema [image: Inline image 1] '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
Richard, imho a home theater should be snack friendly. I realize that the Romans loved to lounge and munch, but I personally find upright seating better for eating popcorn, Raisinets, etc. And definitely better for imbibing Mug Root Beer (caffeine free), Aquafina, etc. On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:07 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
[FairfieldLife] It's Just All About Beaver
On 1/28/2014 2:05 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: We're waiting for your Spiritualness and Justin Bieber post. Don't let Willy beat you to it with an All About Justin Bieber topic. :-D */Ask and ye shall receive. :-)/* So, it's all about the Bieber. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?
On 1/27/2014 5:48 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: No no no, Little Stevie. We all know Robin switched from irony to seriousness. Everyone knows that Robin switched from irony to seriousness and then to parody - a parody of the Judy. Now that's ironic, but was Robin serious. I think Robin was being really serious. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?
On 1/27/2014 7:34 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: *No, Little Stevie, you never observed any little traps.* This message itself is a little trap - a trap to get your attention, Steve. Robin is the most famous trappist on the forum (followed closely by Curtis and Barry). My question is, was this the Hindu Robin, the Islamic Robin, or the Catholic Robin writing all these messages? Go figure. Prime example of a message trap: The rudeness, the arrogance, the insulting manner of my approach was to deliver perhaps enough of a shock to make her utter something other than her daily New Age affirmations. - Masked Zebra
[FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Friends; Shrinkage naturally happens in any organization. Certainly not every person needs to belong to or is suited to every organization. That some of these people would jump the fence could be expected given the amazing opportunity in life that America offers otherwise with its material freedoms in bills of rights and due process presenting to immigrants. That is in all of our collective histories. These articles and these posts arriving on FFL are just muck-racking by haters. Talk about vultures, this research project in consciousness is a long ways from dead and over. But like life itself this larger inquiry in to the sound value of Vedic chanting as scientific and valid human spiritual practice for the cultivation of collective coherence and peace will adjust and re-group to circumstance. Adversity goes with life in the world. Not even the loss of Girish Varma from this work will set this larger project of high-minded human endeavor back but instead give us further resolve to push ahead and complete the research towards what is an evident much greater spiritual good of all in science. Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in the Dome Buck in the Dome:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Predator Bars
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I thought this was a brilliant piece of writing Barry. Thanks, I guess. It was pretty much stream of consciousness, written fast and off the top of my head, and then posted without even an edit pass. So it might be weak in many ways, and it could almost certainly be shorter. But as some writer famously said, I'm sorry this is so long...I didn't have time to make it shorter. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Predator Bars
Actually , when I saw the title, I thought of a couple of falcons sitting at a bar having a Grey Goose and orange juice together. and chuckling over their brethren's attack on the Pope's doves, shown on a continuous loop, on the big screen TV, with the soundtrack to Bye Bye Birdie, playing in the background. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote: Actually , when I saw the title, I thought of a couple of falcons sitting at a bar having a Grey Goose and orange juice together. On Monday, January 27, 2014 12:18 PM, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: I'm laboring under a tremendous deadline this week. I have to produce *all* of the Web content for a client for February *before* February. So I have to finish about three times the number of articles, blogs, and press releases for them as usual. To turn the pressure into fun, I decided to try to not only make the deadline -- I *never* miss deadlines, and haven't in over 35 years as a professional writer and developer -- but to find some way to turn it into FUN. So I decided to finish early. I'm well on my way. Counting the number of pieces I have to write before Friday, I have to write six 600-to-800-word blurbs for them every day. Today I wrote nine. A good start, as they say, and as intended, it turned my day into FUN, rather than a chore. So I went out to celebrate. And so I find myself sitting here in a new bar for me in Leiden. It's more upscale than many of the places I usually hang out, downright Dutch 1% to be honest. Probably as a result, it took me less than a minute of scanning the room after I sat down at my corner table to figure out what kind of a bar this was. It's a Predator Bar. Be warned. The following is a cafe story that may not be in the *least* spiritual, that only Michael may like, and that may have no redeeming qualities. When many of you who saw the Subject line heard the term Predator Bar, you probably had ideas form in your heads about what that term meant. Some of you probably thought of the hookup/swinger scene, and envisioned hordes of predatory guys looking for love or whatever would pass for it for only one night. The women are their prey. Or, if you're a gal who frequented such establishments, just looking for nothing more than a one-night stand yourself, you might have thought of hordes of horny women looking the proverbial a hard man is good to find. :-) But that's not quite what I had in mind when I used the term Predator Bar. That term I made up when I was still living in Santa Fe but commuting several days a week to my consulting gig near Detroit. During this phase of the gig, I didn't actually live in Detroit but in a way upscale suburb called Birmingham. Its residents were pretty much auto executives and their trophy wives. It wasn't exactly my kinda place, but it was occasionally entertaining. This particular night, out for a night of entertainment with two of my co-consultants on the assignment, I allowed them to drag me with them to a bar there in Birmingham. These guys were far more talented than I was as programmers, but I rocked at tech writing and training, so I was part of their team. Anyway, they were both in their thirties, making screamingly good money, full of hubris and ego and above all testosterone, and hot to trot. I was in my fifties, making as much money but with my testosterone levels somewhat brought into balance by the passage of time. I had gotten over being horny without an object some years back. Nowadays it really took the physical presence of an attractive (and real) woman to get my yang up and get me thinking about what it would be like to fuck her. These guys were younger, and more testosterone-impaired; they would have fucked mud, and even imaginary mud. So we walk into this bar, and it's just *full* of attractive, dressed-to-the-nines women. *Seriously* attractive women. They're hanging out in small herds, but the herds are clearly not so exclusive that guys feel reluctant to walk up and hit on them. And there is hittin' on going down all around us. Pretty much every guy in the bar -- including me -- gets hit on several times during the evening. My coworkers *loved* this place. They just couldn't *wait* to go back. They kept raving for days about the attractiveness of the women, and how hot they were. They even spoke about going back there and looking for a relationship, not just a one-night stand. I was flabbergasted. Speechless. It had taken me less than the minute after we walked in to nail this place as what it was, a Predator Bar. And the prey were the *guys*, not the gals. It was a no-brainer. Almost without exception, the guys in this bar were upscale, and made shitloads of money. Almost without exception, the hot women in this bar were not, and did not. They were there because they were from some...uh...lesser area of Detroit and they'd heard that rich men hung out in this bar. So
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
On 1/27/2014 2:36 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: What are you going to say to some of the families when the mom's and dad's come to FAirfield looking for their missing boys? So, you're one of the missing boys. Anyone that mumbles a phrase from the Hindu Vedas for at least two years is a pandit where I come from. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Assuming your mom and dad didn't give a rat's ass what you did, if they asked me I would have told them that their son ran off to join a religious school up in Iowa and that he got brainwashed into working for room and board and living in a pod for two winters - and didn't enroll for a single course because he was too busy chasing girls and smoking pot. But, because he didn't like his boss, the pundit boy MJ jumped the fence and went back to NC so he could - chase more girls and smoke more pot. The only question is, why didn't MJ move to Weed, CA or down to Jamaica - instead of moving back in with his parents in NC? Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Predator Bars
I thought this was a brilliant piece of writing Barry. On Tue, 1/28/14, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Predator Bars To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 2:16 PM Actually , when I saw the title, I thought of a couple of falcons sitting at a bar having a Grey Goose and orange juice together. On Monday, January 27, 2014 12:18 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm laboring under a tremendous deadline this week. I have to produce *all* of the Web content for a client for February *before* February. So I have to finish about three times the number of articles, blogs, and press releases for them as usual. To turn the pressure into fun, I decided to try to not only make the deadline -- I *never* miss deadlines, and haven't in over 35 years as a professional writer and developer -- but to find some way to turn it into FUN. So I decided to finish early. I'm well on my way. Counting the number of pieces I have to write before Friday, I have to write six 600-to-800-word blurbs for them every day. Today I wrote nine. A good start, as they say, and as intended, it turned my day into FUN, rather than a chore. So I went out to celebrate. And so I find myself sitting here in a new bar for me in Leiden. It's more upscale than many of the places I usually hang out, downright Dutch 1% to be honest. Probably as a result, it took me less than a minute of scanning the room after I sat down at my corner table to figure out what kind of a bar this was. It's a Predator Bar. Be warned. The following is a cafe story that may not be in the *least* spiritual, that only Michael may like, and that may have no redeeming qualities. When many of you who saw the Subject line heard the term Predator Bar, you probably had ideas form in your heads about what that term meant. Some of you probably thought of the hookup/swinger scene, and envisioned hordes of predatory guys looking for love or whatever would pass for it for only one night. The women are their prey. Or, if you're a gal who frequented such establishments, just looking for nothing more than a one-night stand yourself, you might have thought of hordes of horny women looking the proverbial a hard man is good to find. :-) But that's not quite what I had in mind when I used the term Predator Bar. That term I made up when I was still living in Santa Fe but commuting several days a week to my consulting gig near Detroit. During this phase of the gig, I didn't actually live in Detroit but in a way upscale suburb called Birmingham. Its residents were pretty much auto executives and their trophy wives. It wasn't exactly my kinda place, but it was occasionally entertaining. This particular night, out for a night of entertainment with two of my co-consultants on the assignment, I allowed them to drag me with them to a bar there in Birmingham. These guys were far more talented than I was as programmers, but I rocked at tech writing and training, so I was part of their team. Anyway, they were both in their thirties, making screamingly good money, full of hubris and ego and above all testosterone, and hot to trot. I was in my fifties, making as much money but with my testosterone levels somewhat brought into balance by the passage of time. I had gotten over being horny without an object some years back. Nowadays it really took the physical presence of an attractive (and real) woman to get my yang up and get me thinking about what it would be like to fuck her. These guys were younger, and more testosterone-impaired; they would have fucked mud, and even imaginary mud. So we walk into this bar, and it's just *full* of attractive, dressed-to-the-nines women. *Seriously* attractive women. They're hanging out in small herds, but the herds are clearly not so exclusive that guys feel reluctant to walk up and hit on them. And there is hittin' on going down all around us. Pretty much every guy in the bar -- including me -- gets hit on several times during the evening. My coworkers *loved* this place. They just couldn't *wait* to go back. They kept raving for days about the attractiveness of the women, and how hot they were. They even spoke about going back there and looking for a relationship, not just a one-night stand. I was flabbergasted. Speechless. It had taken me less than the minute after we walked in to nail this place as what it was, a Predator Bar. And the prey were the *guys*, not the gals. It was a no-brainer. Almost without exception, the guys in this bar were upscale, and made shitloads of money. Almost without exception, the hot women in this bar were not, and did not. They
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
You are still an idiot and weak minded to boot, or at least have reading comprehension problems or a poor memory. I have never lived in North Carolina, except when I worked for the Movement up there, I am South Carolina born and raised and my parents always lived here as adults. On Tue, 1/28/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 4:12 PM On 1/27/2014 2:36 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: What are you going to say to some of the families when the mom's and dad's come to FAirfield looking for their missing boys? So, you're one of the missing boys. Anyone that mumbles a phrase from the Hindu Vedas for at least two years is a pandit where I come from. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Assuming your mom and dad didn't give a rat's ass what you did, if they asked me I would have told them that their son ran off to join a religious school up in Iowa and that he got brainwashed into working for room and board and living in a pod for two winters - and didn't enroll for a single course because he was too busy chasing girls and smoking pot. But, because he didn't like his boss, the pundit boy MJ jumped the fence and went back to NC so he could - chase more girls and smoke more pot. The only question is, why didn't MJ move to Weed, CA or down to Jamaica - instead of moving back in with his parents in NC? Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
The very fact that you have a group of people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire should tell you more than the pipe dream of TMSP Created World Peace - but I reckon you just ain't gonna believe nothin' till you die, get to Heaven and find out that Marshy has taken Saint Pete's job but he won't let you in till you give him a bribe and provide him with a whore. How's that for some top shelf TM blasphemy? On Tue, 1/28/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 2:50 PM Friends; Shrinkage naturally happens in any organization. Certainly not every person needs to belong to or is suited to every organization. That some of these people would jump the fence could be expected given the amazing opportunity in life that America offers otherwise with its material freedoms in bills of rights and due process presenting to immigrants. That is in all of our collective histories. These articles and these posts arriving on FFL are just muck-racking by haters. Talk about vultures, this research project in consciousness is a long ways from dead and over. But like life itself this larger inquiry in to the sound value of Vedic chanting as scientific and valid human spiritual practice for the cultivation of collective coherence and peace will adjust and re-group to circumstance. Adversity goes with life in the world. Not even the loss of Girish Varma from this work will set this larger project of high-minded human endeavor back but instead give us further resolve to push ahead and complete the research towards what is an evident much greater spiritual good of all in science. Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in the Dome Merudanda writes: Ohh there are over 2,600 panditsover there, (only)about five per centhave gone AWOL (absent without leave) Goldstein told PTI in an email. What kind of an argument! Seems someone read FFL's 10% headline http://www.rediff.com/news/report/only-five-per-cent-of-vedic-pandits-have-gone-missing-in-us/20140128.htm
[FairfieldLife] Elisabet Sahtouris: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 01/28/2014
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[FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: The very fact that you have a group of people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire should tell you more than the pipe dream of TMSP Created World Peace - but I reckon you just ain't gonna believe nothin' till you die, get to Heaven and find out that Marshy has taken Saint Pete's job but he won't let you in till you give him a bribe and provide him with a whore. How's that for some top shelf TM blasphemy? I can do better. It's a *million dollar whore*, and as with the people who paid that much for a one-month course that promised enlightenment but didn't deliver, when you get her to your room there in Heaven, you find that she doesn't have a pussy. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
Thanks, Share, now that we've got the fundamentals down, we can get to the details. I went to Haverty's Online and designed this chair for the viewing room - that pretty much says it all. Maybe I should design a love seat for me and Rita. Now that's better! [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard, imho a home theater should be snack friendly. I realize that the Romans loved to lounge and munch, but I personally find upright seating better for eating popcorn, Raisinets, etc. And definitely better for imbibing Mug Root Beer (caffeine free), Aquafina, etc. On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:07 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema [image: Inline image 1] '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits
that's too rough even for me! On Tue, 1/28/14, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 4:47 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: The very fact that you have a group of people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire should tell you more than the pipe dream of TMSP Created World Peace - but I reckon you just ain't gonna believe nothin' till you die, get to Heaven and find out that Marshy has taken Saint Pete's job but he won't let you in till you give him a bribe and provide him with a whore. How's that for some top shelf TM blasphemy? I can do better. It's a *million dollar whore*, and as with the people who paid that much for a one-month course that promised enlightenment but didn't deliver, when you get her to your room there in Heaven, you find that she doesn't have a pussy. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] The new guru domain
How could I not be jealous of your erudition, wisdom and illimitable awareness? Isn't that why you're known as Mr. TrikaVijñanavad? I feel that's the only explanation of why no one ventured to pony up the $$ to help fund your registration fees for your dot.guru domain. They are just in awe of you and too over-whelmed to say so. For my part, I don't know which domain name you prefer - maybe this: MrTrikaVignanavad.guru (easier to spell for those Westerners). Maybe you could be entitled VladGuru for short.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema Inline image 1 '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
[FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: that's too rough even for me! :-) On Tue, 1/28/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: The very fact that you have a group of people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire should tell you more than the pipe dream of TMSP Created World Peace - but I reckon you just ain't gonna believe nothin' till you die, get to Heaven and find out that Marshy has taken Saint Pete's job but he won't let you in till you give him a bribe and provide him with a whore. How's that for some top shelf TM blasphemy? I can do better. It's a *million dollar whore*, and as with the people who paid that much for a one-month course that promised enlightenment but didn't deliver, when you get her to your room there in Heaven, you find that she doesn't have a pussy. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
Who didn't figure that once that MMY kicked the bucket that the TMO would start falling apart? Happens with lot of organizations once the leader dies. On 01/28/2014 08:23 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: The very fact that you have a group of people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire should tell you more than the pipe dream of TMSP Created World Peace - but I reckon you just ain't gonna believe nothin' till you die, get to Heaven and find out that Marshy has taken Saint Pete's job but he won't let you in till you give him a bribe and provide him with a whore.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
LOL and good point noozguru about the snoozability of comfy chairs. Maybe one could keep the ambient room temperature low. That'll keep everyone awake! On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:04 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
Richard, imho this chair needs cup holding and snack holding indentations on the arms...or little ledges where trays can be hooked a la the drive in places of my youth (-: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:53 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Share, now that we've got the fundamentals down, we can get to the details. I went to Haverty's Online and designed this chair for the viewing room - that pretty much says it all. Maybe I should design a love seat for me and Rita. Now that's better! On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard, imho a home theater should be snack friendly. I realize that the Romans loved to lounge and munch, but I personally find upright seating better for eating popcorn, Raisinets, etc. And definitely better for imbibing Mug Root Beer (caffeine free), Aquafina, etc. On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:07 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
If you're not going to get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN85S9-85-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00CMEN95U http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN85S9-85-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00CMEN95U You may as well just skip the whole home theater altogether. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/ http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
RE: [FairfieldLife] The new guru domain
My domain has been rwilliams.us since ten years ago. Before that it was willytex.org. - Pundit Sir -Original Message- From: emptyb...@yahoo.com emptyb...@yahoo.com Sent: 1/28/2014 10:26 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The new guru domain How could I not be jealous of your erudition, wisdom and illimitable awareness? Isn't that why you're known as Mr. TrikaVijñanavad? I feel that's the only explanation of why no one ventured to pony up the $$ to help fund your registration fees for your dot.guru domain. They are just in awe of you and too over-whelmed to say so. For my part, I don't know which domain name you prefer - maybe this: MrTrikaVignanavad.guru (easier to spell for those Westerners). Maybe you could be entitled VladGuru for short.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
Don't miss the Questions and Answers section... If you're not going to get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN85S9-85-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00CMEN95U http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN85S9-85-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00CMEN95U You may as well just skip the whole home theater altogether. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/ http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
15 years ago a home theater was the domain of the yuppies and uber rich. Nowadays anyone can afford a home theater especially if you cut the cable so you aren't paying those exorbitant monthly cable TV fees. Without that in a few months you've paid off all that gear. But you're an old fart, Alex, according to the kids who prefer to watch shows on their 5 phones and not 85 TVs. BTW, when is Amazon delivering that 85 set to you? On 01/28/2014 09:31 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: If you're not going to get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN85S9-85-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00CMEN95U You may as well just skip the whole home theater altogether. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema Inline image 1 '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
My home theater also sports an exercise bike so one can watch shows that way. On 01/28/2014 09:27 AM, Share Long wrote: LOL and good point noozguru about the snoozability of comfy chairs. Maybe one could keep the ambient room temperature low. That'll keep everyone awake! On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:04 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema Inline image 1 '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
[FairfieldLife] Original Post on Missing Pundits
Here is the original article on the missing pundits, posted Jan 24th in Hi India - it is more comprehensive and has more quotes from university officials. Some pics of the crown wearing rajas with the pundits as well. From what I experienced of life at MIU, I think the paper is pretty close to the truth at least with regards to the lack of compensation for the pundits. http://hiindialive.com/?p=42525 PENNIES FOR PANDITS : THEIR WHERE ABOUTS AND WELL – BEING IS UNKNOWN Hi India Team CHICAGO: The temperature is below sub zero, walking conditions on roads of Chicago treacherous with snow blizzard and knee deep snow. One thinly clothed 19 years old, with no jacket, no head cover, no hand gloves and no socks, approached Hi India reporter on Devon Avenue and asked for directions to any nearest Gurudwara where he can get some shelter, clothes and food. Further inquiry and probe by Hi India revealed a pathetic and sad story of Vedic Pandits – their plight and flight from Maharishi Mahesh’s family controlled outfit at Fairfield, Iowa came upon. It is a story was that of human exploitation, illegal employment and under payment of wages, child labor , human trafficking and grueling conditions of employment. This is also the story of missing 163 Pandits and remaining 350+ Pandits still at the Vedic City. THEIR WHERE ABOUTS AND WELL – BEING IS UNKNOWN As many as 163 of the 1,050 young Indian Vedic Pandits, as young as 19 years of age, who have so far been brought to the US and lodged at the camp – Maharishi Vedic City and the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, have done the disappearing act in the past 12 months. But shockingly enough, the managers of the great seer’s heirs and their $300-million assets in the US have not stirred a finger to trace them. Nor do the authorities at the yogi’s Global Country of World Peace (GCWP), a country without borders set up in the year 2000, know about the plight or flight of these Vedic scholars called ‘world peace professionals’. 163 Pandits missing – Nobody Knows – Nobody Cares -their Plight or Flight at Mahesh Yogi Institute at Fairfield, Iowa “They have jumped the fence for immigration purposes or for chasing their American Dream,” is all the varsity bosses would say to Hi India when questioned about these men on the run. The GCWP, one among the countless teaching centers and hundreds of colleges, universities and schools created by the man whom the electronic media called ‘giggling guru’, runs a Vedic Pandit program claiming to ‘bring about peace on earth where there will be no war’. Under the project to recruit Maharishi Vedic Pandits, the publicity literature is distributed mostly in Indian villages with a Hindi-speaking population living around the poverty line. Children are enrolled with the permission of their down-at-heel parents who are promised education up to 12th standard for their wards who would then be turned into Pandits or master the art of Hindu religion rituals. After some 10 to 15 years, the qualified Pandits will have a choice to either remain with the organization and make a living, or leaving the center and working outside on their own. Investigations by Hi India have, however, nailed the lies of the GCWP. It was found that kids for the Pandit program are enrolled at the tender age of five years and are rarely provided education beyond fifth standard. What’s more, they are shown the ropes of the religious rituals only to later turn them into money-spinners. The compensation of Pandits less than 75 cents an hour After all, the elaborate sacred ceremonies are performed by these young Vedic scholars for a hefty fee from God-fearing devotees or other persons seeking the blessings of God to ward off their troubles or drive away the evil spirits affecting their life. However, the truth is that after the Vedic Pandits are brought to the United State from India, they are lodged in makeshift trailer homes in barricaded/fenced enclosures with round-the-clock patrolling by guards lest the tormented youngsters play the vanishing trick. Many of the 163 Pandits who have been missing from the organization either have disappeared from Chicago’s O’Hare international airport or have vanished into thin air from the barricaded/fenced, ill-equipped dwellings. On January 5, Hi India’s team tracked down some stranded Pandits who were discovered to be living a dog’s life: penniless, shelter-less, without food, clothes and direction, shivering in biting cold after a violent snow blizzard with frost bites, with reality staring them in their faces. But those in charge of Maharishi’s Fairfield complex turned a cold shoulder when Hi India told them about the pitiable conditions of their former breadwinners. While one excused himself after saying that he had ‘no idea’, another said with disdain: “They have jumped the fence for immigration purposes.” According to one Pandit in
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
Funny you should mention that, because just a few days ago, I moved my exercise bike from the living room, where it sat unused in front of the 50 Sony, to my office. Since I mostly watch stuff on my office PC, I figured I'd be more likely to use the bike in there. The bike noise kinda drowns out the speakers, so I listen through noise-cancelling headphones, which works really really well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: My home theater also sports an exercise bike so one can watch shows that way. On 01/28/2014 09:27 AM, Share Long wrote: LOL and good point noozguru about the snoozability of comfy chairs. Maybe one could keep the ambient room temperature low. That'll keep everyone awake! On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:04 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/ http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
On 1/28/2014 10:20 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I have never lived in North Carolina, except when I worked for the Movement up there Correction: MJ is the missing boy pandit who now lives in S.C. So, your parents didn't try to find you when you were working for the religious school in IA. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
On 1/28/2014 10:23 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire The pandit boys could walk out the front gate if they wanted to - they would not have to go over the fence. From what I've read, the fence was to keep the girls from the nearby middle school OUT of the pandit compound. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
I have a rear surround right behind the bike so I can just set the AVR to send all audio out that. On 01/28/2014 10:59 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: Funny you should mention that, because just a few days ago, I moved my exercise bike from the living room, where it sat unused in front of the 50 Sony, to my office. Since I mostly watch stuff on my office PC, I figured I'd be more likely to use the bike in there. The bike noise kinda drowns out the speakers, so I listen through noise-cancelling headphones, which works really really well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: My home theater also sports an exercise bike so one can watch shows that way. On 01/28/2014 09:27 AM, Share Long wrote: LOL and good point noozguru about the snoozability of comfy chairs. Maybe one could keep the ambient room temperature low. That'll keep everyone awake! On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:04 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net mailto:noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A TayVay and DayVayDay player? You're so retro Richard. You need a good panel HD set, a Blu-Ray player with wifi and maybe a Chromecast or a Roku box. But then don't forget the surround system with good speakers. I have a set of Klipsch speakers. Oh and you have to have a house so the subwoofer doesn't disturb neighbors. If the chair is too comfy at our age we'll never finish a show snore. On 01/28/2014 07:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema Inline image 1 '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ideal Home Theater
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Funny you should mention that, because just a few days ago, I moved my exercise bike from the living room, where it sat unused in front of the 50 Sony, to my office. Since I mostly watch stuff on my office PC, I figured I'd be more likely to use the bike in there. The bike noise kinda drowns out the speakers, so I listen through noise-cancelling headphones, which works really really well. I had a friend who built himself a cool geodesic dome up near Lake Tahoe. He, like me, liked movies and the occasional TV show. He had abundant electricity in the dome and more than enough money to pay for it, and a huge collection of videos, but for health reasons he didn't want to retire to paradise and then turn into a non-exercising couch potato. So, being a former engineer, he converted his stationary bike into an electric generator, and hooked it up to his TV and (then) VCR player. That was the only thing they were plugged into. The only way he could watch them was to sit on his exercise bicycle and pedal.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Minilogue -- a lovely video about creativity and making music
On 1/27/2014 2:42 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: the two Swedish members of the electronic music group Minilogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BHEAleNHs Thanks for the link, Turq - I think I'll add it to my Electronic Music thread. The Ultimate Techno Tracks: https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/FairfieldLife/371160 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/371160 We recently went to see Morton Subotnick in San Antonio celebrating his 80th birthday with a residency and performance at the Urban 15 studio. We've been fans of Subotnick ever since we met him in San Francisco at the Art Academy. I didn't know you were into electronic music. Go figure. Me, I'm into Industrial Techno and some EDM (electronic dance music). Any good venues over there in Amsterdam NE? It's weird to call electronic music bleep music, but before the digital age of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) that's what it was. 'Legendary musician to perform at Urban 15 Studio' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Legendary-musician-to-perform-at-Urban-15-Studio http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Legendary-musician-to-perform-at-Urban-15-Studio-4269327.php
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
my daddy was dead and momma knew exactly where I was On Tue, 1/28/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 6:58 PM On 1/28/2014 10:20 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I have never lived in North Carolina, except when I worked for the Movement up there Correction: MJ is the missing boy pandit who now lives in S.C. So, your parents didn't try to find you when you were working for the religious school in IA. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
you're still an idiot - the pundit compound did not initially have a fence or guards - MUM put them in plae AFTER the first so-called pundits hit the bricks and headed for parts unknown or at least the closest bar - they claimed when Oprah asked about the fence and guards it was for the protection of the pundits so no one could harm them. Like anyone in Fairfield would. Go figure as you love to say. On Tue, 1/28/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 7:04 PM On 1/28/2014 10:23 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire The pandit boys could walk out the front gate if they wanted to - they would not have to go over the fence. From what I've read, the fence was to keep the girls from the nearby middle school OUT of the pandit compound. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Techno Tracks
Mortin Subotnick We recently went to see Morton Subotnick in San Antonio celebrating his 80th birthday with a residency and performance Feb. 21-23 at the Urban 15, 2500 S Presa St. We've been fans of Subotnick since we met him in San Francisco at the Art Academy. I didn't know you were into elctronic music. Me, I'm into Industrial Techno EDM - electronic dance music. It's weird to call electronic music bleep music, but before the digital age of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Go figure. [image: Inline image 3] Morton Subotnick at Urban 15. Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts where he taught for many years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Subotnick Silver Apples of the Moon http://youtu.be/9HoljsO22qA [image: Inline image 1] 'Legendary musician to perform at Urban 15 Studio' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Legendary-musician-to-perform-at-Urban-15-Studiohttp://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Legendary-musician-to-perform-at-Urban-15-Studio-4269327.php 'Legendary Subotnick in town' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Legendary-Subotnick-in-townhttp://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Night-Lights-Legendary-Subotnick-in-town-4295183.php Spotlight: Early electronica' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Spotlight-Early-electronicahttp://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Spotlight-Early-electronica-4275164.php Minilogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BHEAleNHs On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Example of a professional production environment: [image: Inline image 1] FX - Test Tone - Techno Trax - Volume 1 Part I http://www.youtube.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNXWCfJ-N8feature=sharelist=PL7rwDSLdOxlcsEtfFbqQ5J_jAs7C84oC3index=1 Die Anfänge - Techno Trax - Part I http://www.youtube.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6N-bNyAgAfeature=sharelist=RDTr6N-bNyAgA [image: Inline image 2] Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey' by B. Brewster F. Broughton Avalon, 2006
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits fencing
As I recall initially the pundits were housed next to the MUM campus NOT Vedic city there homes WSERE surrounded by fences to keep people from visiting the pundits we were told or disturbing them. No guards However there own pundit watchers or there senior pundit men there usually near or present, on there side of the fence. They were housed there till Vedic city homes were made ready 4 them with kitchens etc. In a message dated 1/28/2014 2:45:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mjackso...@yahoo.com writes: you're still an idiot - the pundit compound did not initially have a fence or guards - MUM put them in plae AFTER the first so-called pundits hit the bricks and headed for parts unknown or at least the closest bar - they claimed when Oprah asked about the fence and guards it was for the protection of the pundits so no one could harm them. Like anyone in Fairfield would. Go figure as you love to say. On Tue, 1/28/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 7:04 PM On 1/28/2014 10:23 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire The pandit boys could walk out the front gate if they wanted to - they would not have to go over the fence. From what I've read, the fence was to keep the girls from the nearby middle school OUT of the pandit compound. Go figure. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Ideal Home Theater
Shucks! just when I was all set to move my mini trampoline in front of the TV (-: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:15 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Funny you should mention that, because just a few days ago, I moved my exercise bike from the living room, where it sat unused in front of the 50 Sony, to my office. Since I mostly watch stuff on my office PC, I figured I'd be more likely to use the bike in there. The bike noise kinda drowns out the speakers, so I listen through noise-cancelling headphones, which works really really well. I had a friend who built himself a cool geodesic dome up near Lake Tahoe. He, like me, liked movies and the occasional TV show. He had abundant electricity in the dome and more than enough money to pay for it, and a huge collection of videos, but for health reasons he didn't want to retire to paradise and then turn into a non-exercising couch potato. So, being a former engineer, he converted his stationary bike into an electric generator, and hooked it up to his TV and (then) VCR player. That was the only thing they were plugged into. The only way he could watch them was to sit on his exercise bicycle and pedal.
[FairfieldLife] Karzai Gambles with the Taliban
In spite of his current position, he might still be the first in the chopping block when the US leaves Afghanistan. He'd be a fool to think otherwise. Also, there appears to be a common perception that the government of Afghanistan cannot hold its own against the Taliban when the Americans leave. This further begs the question: what have the Americans accomplished after all these years of war in that country? http://news.yahoo.com/karzai-gambles-taliban-104500532--politics.html http://news.yahoo.com/karzai-gambles-taliban-104500532--politics.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Karzai Gambles with the Taliban
Tough shit. America had absolutely no business there though apparently our oligarchs need their heroin trade protected. Talk about protecting American Interests. On 01/28/2014 12:01 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: In spite of his current position, he might still be the first in the chopping block when the US leaves Afghanistan. He'd be a fool to think otherwise. Also, there appears to be a common perception that the government of Afghanistan cannot hold its own against the Taliban when the Americans leave. This further begs the question: what have the Americans accomplished after all these years of war in that country? http://news.yahoo.com/karzai-gambles-taliban-104500532--politics.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists
Bonnie Raitt [image: Inline image 1] Bonnie Raitt plays Austin City Limits in 2002, photo Scott Newton http://www.glidemagazine.com/bonnie-raitt-mavis-staples-on-austin-city-limits/http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/televised-tune-bonnie-raitt-mavis-staples-on-austin-city-limits/ Bonnie Raitt on Austin City Limits http://youtu.be/XK7bvVpkYmI Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player. Raitt has received ten Grammy Awards. She is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time[1] and number 89 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt http://www.guitargirlmag.com/artist-bios/bonnie-raitthttp://www.guitargirlmag.com/artist-bios/bonnie-raitt--the-making-of-her-new-album-slipstr I Can't Make You Love Me - with Bruce Hornsby Live http://youtu.be/KgtfInCjWCE Nick of Time - Video HD http://youtu.be/es60unGCGKw [image: Inline image 3] Nick of Time Released in the spring of 1989, Nick of Time went to the top of the U.S. charts following Raitt's Grammy sweep in early 1990. This album has been voted number 230 in the Rolling Stone magazine list of 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Something to Talk About - Video HD http://youtu.be/mJ58TVYNFro Thing Called Love - Video HD http://youtu.be/krF6LpUXODc Runaway - Live 1997 http://youtu.be/HPzcZNgVfpA Love Sneakin' Up on You - Live http://youtu.be/ZiDG985CccA On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Powerful stuff - that's what I'm talkin' about! Powerful Stuff - Jimmie Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds http://youtu.be/CaEHFxlmf-k From the album, 'Powerful Stuff' http://youtu.be/Ow-e4QQBKoY Live in Dallas Texas 1986 http://youtu.be/JC4geMPc6pA Wrap it up - Jimmie Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds http://youtu.be/51270i8F3mU Tell Me Live from Austin Nov. 26th 1986 http://youtu.be/-vxDjjTiqyY The Fabulous Thunderbirds are: Jimmie Vaughan Lead Guitar, Kim Wilson harmonica vocal, Preston Hubbard bass, Fran Christina drums and Junior Brantley keyboards. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Jimmy Vaughan [image: Inline image 1] The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff, live on Austin City Limits http://youtu.be/gqc3jWtE2CY Jimmie Vaughan, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, has played with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and BB King, and many others during the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival. Vaughan has been awarded four Grammy Awards. The song Tuff Enuff was a Top 40 hit, peaking at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986. Since 1997 Fender has produced a Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster. One of my favorite albums: Powerful Stuff, 1989. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Vaughan The Fabulous Thunderbirds: On the evening of February 16, 2000, The Fabulous Thunderbirds made history, becoming the first band ever to be broadcast on the Internet using high-definition cameras. The band's first four albums, released between 1979 and 1983, are ranked among the most important 'white blues' recordings. There have been numerous personel changes in the band; the band started out in 1976 with Kim Wilson performing vocals and harmonica; Jimmie Vaughan on guitar; Keith Ferguson on bass; and Mike Buck and Fran Christina on drums. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Thunderbirds Jimmie Vaughan loves classic and custom cars, and is an avid car collector. Vaughan has had many of his customs and hot rods displayed in museums, as well as featured in rodding and custom magazines. Read more: Street Rodder Magazine January 1985 p. 55 Rod Custom Magazine April 2000 pp. 88-91 On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Oh, yeah! The Elevators, with Roky Erikson and jug player Tommy Hall, who used to play at the old Vulcan Gas Company in Austin back in 1965 - that's where I met my ex-wife, Sally Mann. I also met Janis Joplin at the Vulcan on South Congress Street. Before I split up with Sally we saw the Elevators at The Fillmore West and The Avalon Ballroom when we moved out to San Francisco. They were a very cool band to dance to live, but like a lot of other guys, really hooked on ecstasy or something, probably weed. Go figure. Thanks for the memories! [image: Inline image 1] 13th Floor Elevators - Youre Gonna Miss Me http://youtu.be/47SI1FddVqY Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Floor_Elevators On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:29 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Talking about Austin City: did you ever see The 13th Floor Elevators? They intrigued me because they pioneered both the raw garage approach to recording and the psychedelic soundscape. They're one of those bands most people today won't know but who were amazingly influential over the long term. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14
Re: [FairfieldLife] The outside and the inside meet at the door (It's NOT Buddhist mood-making :-)
or maybe, Richard, it's biggest where inside and outside meet? On Monday, January 27, 2014 9:15 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It's bigger on the inside. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:29 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hagelin; Maharishi, what is that door ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-I8FRYHUE (It's not Buddhist mood-making :-)
[FairfieldLife] Walking to the edge of the universe
OK, this is officially one of the coolest and oddest things I've run across in quite some time: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/edge-of-minecraft_n_4676047.htm\ l http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/edge-of-minecraft_n_4676047.ht\ ml A guy named Kurt J. Mac has been doing a walk for charity for the last three years, and raising a shitload of money for a cool group called Child's Play in the process. And he's not just walking, he's *exploring*, traversing never-before-seen and uncharted territory, and blogging about it (complete with visuals) on a YouTube channel that now has over 300,000 subscribers. His goal is to walk to the edge of the known universe. So far he's only walked 700 kilometers, and math nerds have calculated that at his current pace, it'll take him 22 years to get to his destination, but this doesn't bother him because for him the journey is more important than the arriving. I can identify; the frontispiece for Road Trip Mind was this quote from Lao-tzu: A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving And the cool thing is that all of this is virtual. The end of the universe that Kurt is trying to reach is called the Far Lands, and it exists -- if, in fact it exists at all -- inside a computer game called Minecraft. Read the article. This man's journey is a virtual throwback to the days of intrepid adventurers walking the earth, like Caine in Kung-fu, only in cyberspace. Yes, it's folly. But it's controlled folly, in the Castanedan sense, and the payoff from his YouTube blog has enabled him to quit his day job and continue exploring full-time. Go figure. I mean, really...go figure. Le monde est fou, fou, fou...mais merveilleux.
[FairfieldLife] Zero Theorem
The trailer for Terry Gilliam's new movie: http://digg.com/video/the-trailer-for-terry-gilliams-zero-theorem-has-fi\ nally-arrived http://digg.com/video/the-trailer-for-terry-gilliams-zero-theorem-has-f\ inally-arrived
[FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update
http://www.vedicpandits.org/emailing/images/bsflh-header.jpg Dear Supporter of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit program, We want to let you know of some unfortunate press reports that have recently come out regarding the Pandit project in Maharishi Vedic City. Over the weekend, a defamatory and wildly inaccurate article about the Vedic Pandit program appeared in a weekly Chicago Indian newspaper and was republished in part by other Indian media in the US and abroad. The article attempts to cast blame on the Global Country of World Peace for the plight which some adult Pandits now find themselves in. These are Pandits who have left the Pandit campus and program and apparently are seeking employment, unlawfully, in the US. Some of the Pandits have returned, realizing this was a foolish thing to do, and their airfare has been covered to return to India. Others have not yet come to this realization and are likely being manipulated by unscrupulous employers who take advantage of their innocence. We are working with the press to correct this matter and already are getting a positive response from responsible journalists which may result in some positive publicity for the Global Peace Initiative. We have been dealing with a challenge in recent months where a few of the Pandits who have completed their 2-year stays or who say they need to go home to India for some reason are taken to the airport in Chicago. They then leave the airport without boarding the plane, in violation of the terms of their agreement with the Movement and apparently with the intention of violating the terms of their US visa. As you know, we always provide airfare to the Pandits when they come to the US and return to India, and our staff from the Pandit campus and volunteers from the community take the Pandits to Chicago and help them until they go through airport security. On a few rare occasions, Pandits have checked in for their flights and have gone through security and passport control — and then tried to leave the airport. In recent months, two such Pandits were stopped by authorities, but were released. This encouraged some other Pandits to try to leave in Chicago or even to slip off the campus. The law is that neither Global Country of World Peace that sponsors the Pandits in the US nor airport authorities can force these adult Pandits to board a flight. The Vedic Pandits seem to be doing this because they have heard stories that they can make what sounds to them like vast sums of money ($1,800 a month is often mentioned) working in low-level jobs at restaurants and other businesses. They seem to be dazzled by the idea of making a few thousand dollars, but they do not understand what it costs to live in the US or the legal implications of being in violation of the immigration law that result from their leaving the program. Most of the Pandits have been on Maharishi Vedic Pandit campuses in India in residence since ages 12 or 14, where they are honored and respected and all their needs are provided for. We want you to know that we are doing everything we can to address this problem—from possible legal and investigative action with the press and those who have been manipulating the Pandits, to reporting relevant information we have to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to educating the Pandits about the serious consequences they can face. As always we all appreciate so much having the Maharishi Vedic Pandits here and the Pandits’ comfort and happiness is our #1 priority. It has been almost 7 ½ years since Maharishi sent the first group of his Vedic Pandits to help create invincibility for America. Since then 2,600 Pandits have come, and the vast majority—95%—have enjoyed their stay here and many have signed up to extend or return after their initial term is up. The problem we are facing is with only a small 5% of the Pandits. We are hopeful this fad will promptly fade as the reality of the situation dawns. If you have any questions or recommendations or any information about Vedic Pandits who have left the program, please call Sandy Crowe at (641) 209-3885 or send her an e-mail at scr...@globalpeaceinitiative.org mailto:scr...@globalpeaceinitiative.org . Thank you again for all your support over the years for this very successful program that will continue to bless America with invincibility. Jai Guru Dev, Raja John Hagelin
Re: [FairfieldLife] Zero Theorem
Gilliam has to be thanking God for green screen (or chroma key) and CG. He says this is the lowest budget film he's made in 30 years. The conceit also makes the CG work for the film. Looking forward to it. On 01/28/2014 01:16 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: /*The trailer for Terry Gilliam's new movie: */ /*http://digg.com/video/the-trailer-for-terry-gilliams-zero-theorem-has-finally-arrived */
[FairfieldLife] The Gutless Wonder - by Kilgore Trout
It was about a robot who had bad breath, who became popular after his halitosis was cured. But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground. Trout’s leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. And then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?
Re Egomaniac Godmen who had experienced selflessness: I've seen a lot of DVDs of Osho's talks and although I would never have dreamt of becoming a disciple I did find I agreed with most of what he said and he was clearly talking from personal experience (and not just book-learning - though he was famously well-read). He clearly had a genuine enlightenment experience. I suspect that whereas my own dips into egolessness were always of short duration, in Osho's case it was a permanent shift which left him in a state of superconsciousness. My suggestion is that he (perhaps naturally) took that radical shift as evidence he was now fully awakened. He would have benefited from having a Zen roshi or Christian abbot to congratulate him on his accomplishment but then add that now the serious work was about to begin. Because Osho was a lone wolf he became complacent and then once he became a rock star amongst spiritual masters he found himself imprisoned in a glittering jail of his own devising. The fact that his original spiritual emergence was genuine and permanent makes what he had to say well worth listening to. The fatuous, preening aspect of his cult only really affected his close disciples. We can simply ignore that side. Incidentally, Osho (like Rama) was also heavily addicted to Valium. Like Rama it was also initially prescribed for pain relief. Osho then became a daily user of laughing gas in his later years (to be fair, partly for pain relief) and that is almost certainly what killed him. He had classic symptoms of nitrous oxide poisoning at the end. All he had to do was take vitamin B12 supplements and he would have been fine.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update
I notice that its not a press release but rather targeted to those who are giving money to the Movement to support the pundit program. On Tue, 1/28/14, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 9:19 PM Dear Supporter of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit program,We want to let you know of some unfortunate press reports that have recently come out regarding the Pandit project in Maharishi Vedic City. Over the weekend, a defamatory and wildly inaccurate article about the Vedic Pandit program appeared in a weekly Chicago Indian newspaper and was republished in part by other Indian media in the US and abroad.The article attempts to cast blame on the Global Country of World Peace for the plight which some adult Pandits now find themselves in. These are Pandits who have left the Pandit campus and program and apparently are seeking employment, unlawfully, in the US. Some of the Pandits have returned, realizing this was a foolish thing to do, and their airfare has been covered to return to India. Others have not yet come to this realization and are likely being manipulated by unscrupulous employers who take advantage of their innocence. We are working with the press to correct this matter and already are getting a positive response from responsible journalists which may result in some positive publicity for the Global Peace Initiative.We have been dealing with a challenge in recent months where a few of the Pandits who have completed their 2-year stays or who say they need to go home to India for some reason are taken to the airport in Chicago. They then leave the airport without boarding the plane, in violation of the terms of their agreement with the Movement and apparently with the intention of violating the terms of their US visa. As you know, we always provide airfare to the Pandits when they come to the US and return to India, and our staff from the Pandit campus and volunteers from the community take the Pandits to Chicago and help them until they go through airport security. On a few rare occasions, Pandits have checked in for their flights and have gone through security and passport control — and then tried to leave the airport. In recent months, two such Pandits were stopped by authorities, but were released. This encouraged some other Pandits to try to leave in Chicago or even to slip off the campus.The law is that neither Global Country of World Peace that sponsors the Pandits in the US nor airport authorities can force these adult Pandits to board a flight.The Vedic Pandits seem to be doing this because they have heard stories that they can make what sounds to them like vast sums of money ($1,800 a month is often mentioned) working in low-level jobs at restaurants and other businesses. They seem to be dazzled by the idea of making a few thousand dollars, but they do not understand what it costs to live in the US or the legal implications of being in violation of the immigration law that result from their leaving the program. Most of the Pandits have been on Maharishi Vedic Pandit campuses in India in residence since ages 12 or 14, where they are honored and respected and all their needs are provided for.We want you to know that we are doing everything we can to address this problem—from possible legal and investigative action with the press and those who have been manipulating the Pandits, to reporting relevant information we have to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to educating the Pandits about the serious consequences they can face.As always we all appreciate so much having the Maharishi Vedic Pandits here and the Pandits’ comfort and happiness is our #1 priority. It has been almost 7 ½ years since Maharishi sent the first group of his Vedic Pandits to help create invincibility for America. Since then 2,600 Pandits have come, and the vast majority—95%—have enjoyed their stay here and many have signed up to extend or return after their initial term is up. The problem we are facing is with only a small 5% of the Pandits. We are hopeful this fad will promptly fade as the reality of the situation dawns.If you have any questions or recommendations or any information about Vedic Pandits who have left the program, please call Sandy Crowe at (641) 209-3885 or send her an e-mail at scr...@globalpeaceinitiative.org. Thank you again for all your support over the years for this very successful program that will continue to bless America with invincibility. Jai Guru Dev,Raja John Hagelin
Re: [FairfieldLife] Zero Theorem
I'll check it out but I bet it's not a patch on Darren Aronofsky's first full-length feature Pi with a mathematician trying to unlock the universal patterns found in nature. Gilliam always leans too hard on his art directors and set designers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo18VIoR2xU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo18VIoR2xU
Re: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update
And again how ya gonna keep them down in Fairfield after they've seen the strip clubs in Iowa City. :-D On 01/28/2014 01:53 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I notice that its not a press release but rather targeted to those who are giving money to the Movement to support the pundit program. On Tue, 1/28/14, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 9:19 PM Dear Supporter of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit program,We want to let you know of some unfortunate press reports that have recently come out regarding the Pandit project in Maharishi Vedic City. Over the weekend, a defamatory and wildly inaccurate article about the Vedic Pandit program appeared in a weekly Chicago Indian newspaper and was republished in part by other Indian media in the US and abroad.The article attempts to cast blame on the Global Country of World Peace for the plight which some adult Pandits now find themselves in. These are Pandits who have left the Pandit campus and program and apparently are seeking employment, unlawfully, in the US. Some of the Pandits have returned, realizing this was a foolish thing to do, and their airfare has been covered to return to India. Others have not yet come to this realization and are likely being manipulated by unscrupulous employers who take advantage of their innocence. We are working with the press to correct this matter and already are getting a positive response from responsible journalists which may result in some positive publicity for the Global Peace Initiative.We have been dealing with a challenge in recent months where a few of the Pandits who have completed their 2-year stays or who say they need to go home to India for some reason are taken to the airport in Chicago. They then leave the airport without boarding the plane, in violation of the terms of their agreement with the Movement and apparently with the intention of violating the terms of their US visa. As you know, we always provide airfare to the Pandits when they come to the US and return to India, and our staff from the Pandit campus and volunteers from the community take the Pandits to Chicago and help them until they go through airport security. On a few rare occasions, Pandits have checked in for their flights and have gone through security and passport control — and then tried to leave the airport. In recent months, two such Pandits were stopped by authorities, but were released. This encouraged some other Pandits to try to leave in Chicago or even to slip off the campus.The law is that neither Global Country of World Peace that sponsors the Pandits in the US nor airport authorities can force these adult Pandits to board a flight.The Vedic Pandits seem to be doing this because they have heard stories that they can make what sounds to them like vast sums of money ($1,800 a month is often mentioned) working in low-level jobs at restaurants and other businesses. They seem to be dazzled by the idea of making a few thousand dollars, but they do not understand what it costs to live in the US or the legal implications of being in violation of the immigration law that result from their leaving the program. Most of the Pandits have been on Maharishi Vedic Pandit campuses in India in residence since ages 12 or 14, where they are honored and respected and all their needs are provided for.We want you to know that we are doing everything we can to address this problem—from possible legal and investigative action with the press and those who have been manipulating the Pandits, to reporting relevant information we have to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to educating the Pandits about the serious consequences they can face.As always we all appreciate so much having the Maharishi Vedic Pandits here and the Pandits’ comfort and happiness is our #1 priority. It has been almost 7 ½ years since Maharishi sent the first group of his Vedic Pandits to help create invincibility for America. Since then 2,600 Pandits have come, and the vast majority—95%—have enjoyed their stay here and many have signed up to extend or return after their initial term is up. The problem we are facing is with only a small 5% of the Pandits. We are hopeful this fad will promptly fade as the reality of the situation dawns.If you have any questions or recommendations or any information about Vedic Pandits who have left the program, please call Sandy Crowe at (641) 209-3885 or send her an e-mail at scr...@globalpeaceinitiative.org. Thank you again for all your support over the years for this very successful program that will continue to bless America with invincibility. Jai Guru Dev,Raja John Hagelin
Re: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update
I don't fault 'em for doin' damage control - I would too if somebody was screwing around with my gravy train. I'll pay you next week. The check's in the mail. Baby I swear to God I had a vasectomy! The doctor did such a good job you jist can't see the scars no more! On Tue, 1/28/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 10:08 PM And again how ya gonna keep them down in Fairfield after they've seen the strip clubs in Iowa City. :-D On 01/28/2014 01:53 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I notice that its not a press release but rather targeted to those who are giving money to the Movement to support the pundit program. On Tue, 1/28/14, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 9:19 PM Dear Supporter of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit program,We want to let you know of some unfortunate press reports that have recently come out regarding the Pandit project in Maharishi Vedic City. Over the weekend, a defamatory and wildly inaccurate article about the Vedic Pandit program appeared in a weekly Chicago Indian newspaper and was republished in part by other Indian media in the US and abroad.The article attempts to cast blame on the Global Country of World Peace for the plight which some adult Pandits now find themselves in. These are Pandits who have left the Pandit campus and program and apparently are seeking employment, unlawfully, in the US. Some of the Pandits have returned, realizing this was a foolish thing to do, and their airfare has been covered to return to India. Others have not yet come to this realization and are likely being manipulated by unscrupulous employers who take advantage of their innocence. We are working with the press to correct this matter and already are getting a positive response from responsible journalists which may result in some positive publicity for the Global Peace Initiative.We have been dealing with a challenge in recent months where a few of the Pandits who have completed their 2-year stays or who say they need to go home to India for some reason are taken to the airport in Chicago. They then leave the airport without boarding the plane, in violation of the terms of their agreement with the Movement and apparently with the intention of violating the terms of their US visa. As you know, we always provide airfare to the Pandits when they come to the US and return to India, and our staff from the Pandit campus and volunteers from the community take the Pandits to Chicago and help them until they go through airport security. On a few rare occasions, Pandits have checked in for their flights and have gone through security and passport control — and then tried to leave the airport. In recent months, two such Pandits were stopped by authorities, but were released. This encouraged some other Pandits to try to leave in Chicago or even to slip off the campus.The law is that neither Global Country of World Peace that sponsors the Pandits in the US nor airport authorities can
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?
In the 1980s I was back living in my old home town. A former local farmer stopped by for a visit. He had become a distributor for fruit and vegetables and his main customer was Osho's ashram near Antelope, Oregon. Fast forward a few years later and one of the women at the software company I worked was my rudraksha beads and told me she grew up at Osho's ashram where her mother was a disciple. A couple months later I chatted with her mom at a company picnic. My tantra guru knew Osho and thought he was nuts. He gave him a tour of his India ashram and said he was going to give the people what they wanted: sex. On 01/28/2014 01:43 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Re Egomaniac Godmen who had experienced selflessness: I've seen a lot of DVDs of Osho's talks and although I would never have dreamt of becoming a disciple I did find I agreed with most of what he said and he was clearly talking from personal experience (and not just book-learning - though he was famously well-read). He clearly had a genuine enlightenment experience. I suspect that whereas my own dips into egolessness were always of short duration, in Osho's case it was a permanent shift which left him in a state of superconsciousness. My suggestion is that he (perhaps naturally) took that radical shift as evidence he was now fully awakened. He would have benefited from having a Zen roshi or Christian abbot to congratulate him on his accomplishment but then add that now the serious work was about to begin. Because Osho was a lone wolf he became complacent and then once he became a rock star amongst spiritual masters he found himself imprisoned in a glittering jail of his own devising. The fact that his original spiritual emergence was genuine and permanent makes what he had to say well worth listening to. The fatuous, preening aspect of his cult only really affected his close disciples. We can simply ignore that side. Incidentally, Osho (like Rama) was also heavily addicted to Valium. Like Rama it was also initially prescribed for pain relief. Osho then became a daily user of laughing gas in his later years (to be fair, partly for pain relief) and that is almost certainly what killed him. He had classic symptoms of nitrous oxide poisoning at the end. All he had to do was take vitamin B12 supplements and he would have been fine.
[FairfieldLife] Old Nun to be Sentenced for Sabotage
Was she pushing her religious belief to the extreme? http://news.yahoo.com/83-old-nun-sentenced-sabotage-164618949.html http://news.yahoo.com/83-old-nun-sentenced-sabotage-164618949.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?
Re My tantra guru knew Osho and thought he was nuts.: Don't all gurus bad-mouth the opposition? At Oregon, Osho had withdrawn from public appearances (apart from drive pasts in his Rollers), he was already heavily into Valium - up to 300mgs a day - way above a regular prescription dose, and he was dictating books while under the influence of laughing gas. He did make a partial recovery after he was expelled from the States - his humiliation there seems to have stripped him of some of his illusions and concentrated his mind. His last talks (back in Puna) are quite affecting as he obviously knew he was making his final bow. Re said he was going to give the people what they wanted: sex: It's still selling like hot cakes. The sex aspect is worth a brief look. Osho thought that people's experience of orgasm was the closest most would come to having a transcendental experience. (Colin Wilson had similar ideas!) He also had no time for the puritanical Indian mindset and wanted to import western liberal attitudes. Is an orgasm a pointer to an experience of expansion of spirit? I think the answer to that must vary considerably from one individual to another but the importance of fantasy in so much sexual activity suggests that for many a sexual climax intensifies their sense of self rather than releasing it. Tricky subject to discuss though! Especially on a public forum. Although I think that for a few people sex could initiate an awakening it is clearly open to abuse and there is no shortage of low-lifes happy to simply exploit the freedom on offer. I doubt if in Osho's wildest dreams he anticipated the sexual license that was a feature of his (first) Puna ashram as he attracted a lot of ex-hippie types. (There was a lot of drug use then.) Being a man - and the dominant male - he took full advantage in that rather sad and sordid way that failed gurus take their pick of the nubile females. At Oregon people were too tired and over-worked for too much hanky-panky and drugs were banned - and then AIDS reared its ugly head. And the Puna site today sells typical, bland new-age nostrums and sounds boringly respectable. At the end Osho came to believe that sex was a dead end as a route to enlightenment and only meditation was of any use.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?
Well I thought everbody knew he was killed by the long-time effects of the injection the FBI/CIA gave him when he was 24 hrs in prison before he left the USA. That's what Osho himself claimed. I remember two comments Maharishi made about Osho. First was sometime late '70ies He (Osho) is very intelligent but not enlightened. Which, as it happens, correlates well with Mr. Benjamin Creme statement that Osho at the time of leaving the body had a point of evolution of 2,30, which is highly evolved but not enlightened. Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, Emile Zola, Augustine, Hector Berlioz, En Lai Chou, Eugene Delacroix, Rene Descartes, Euclid, Giorgione, Frans Hals, Hans Holbein, Joshua, Mark, Martinius, John Locke, Moses, amongst others, are among the few individuals having reach such a high level of development and Initiation. http://www.share-berlin.de/list_of_initiates.htm#LinkR http://www.share-berlin.de/list_of_initiates.htm#LinkR The second comment is from memory, a few days after Rasjeesh left the USA and Bevan somehow triupmhantly gave Maharishi the news and Maharishi said, no, no, this could happen to all of us. He also at one time commented that He (Rajeesh) is really surrounded by CIA As if the problems the Movement had had with the said org. was nothing compared to what Rajneesh had to face.
[FairfieldLife] Post Count Wed 29-Jan-14 00:15:03 UTC
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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ideal Home Theater
We went back to Haverty's Online and designed this love seat for our home theater room. Rita wants to have tables at each end of the love seat to put our drinks and snacks on. The seat cushions feature 1.8-density foam made of a revolutionary soy-based material designed to mold to your body. An independent spring seating system isolates the movement on each seat, so you can relax without disruption. The arms are feather-filled and the banded bases are finished with self-welting to reveal tapered legs with a walnut finish. Kiln-dried hardwood with laminate supports give the frames a sturdy build. Sweet! [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard, imho this chair needs cup holding and snack holding indentations on the arms...or little ledges where trays can be hooked a la the drive in places of my youth (-: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:53 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Share, now that we've got the fundamentals down, we can get to the details. I went to Haverty's Online and designed this chair for the viewing room - that pretty much says it all. Maybe I should design a love seat for me and Rita. Now that's better! [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard, imho a home theater should be snack friendly. I realize that the Romans loved to lounge and munch, but I personally find upright seating better for eating popcorn, Raisinets, etc. And definitely better for imbibing Mug Root Beer (caffeine free), Aquafina, etc. On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:07 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The ideal home theater room will have a TV set and a DVD player and a comfy chair to relax in. First, some definitions: Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theater, refers to home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment in or outside a private home. Home Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_cinema [image: Inline image 1] '15 Cool Home Theater Design Ideas' http://www.digsdigs.com/15-cool-home-theater-design-ideas/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More on the Missing Pundits
On 1/28/2014 1:45 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: Oprah asked about the fence and guards it was for the protection of the pundits so no one could harm them. Like anyone in Fairfield would. Go figure as you love to say. So, why would you want to harm some poor Hindu pundit boys? That's what I can't figure out.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Old Nun to be Sentenced for Sabotage
I should have her sentenced to community service meditating at a TM Mother Divine facility. That would be science-based rehabilitation and certainly effective in the service of peace. Would serve her right. -Buck
Re: [FairfieldLife] The outside and the inside meet at the door (It's NOT Buddhist mood-making :-)
On 1/28/2014 2:44 PM, Share Long wrote: It's bigger on the inside. Share: or maybe, Richard, it's biggest where inside and outside meet? Or, maybe it's smaller on the outside.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. - Will Rogers On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.- Will Rogers On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. - Will Rogers
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?
Nablusoss; Maitreya alert. Today I bought some old statuary here in Fairfield, Iowa. The tag on it said 'Maitreya'. Cast in metal in a combination of brass and dark metals. It's about the size of a gallon of milk. Seated in lotus, fabulous mudras with the hands. Heavy with cool ornamentation. With this pyramidal prismatic- like thing rising over of his head behind. Is this your guy, the one Benj Creme talks about? Looks kind of buddhist. Has a lot of evident inward silence inside it. What do I do with it? Seems it is not just some statue. Mantras or slokas that are appropriate? I am just a farmer in Iowa, -Buck
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?
Yes, good example Richard. Of course now Judy will coming rushing in, out of breath, to set the record straight. What a little mischief maker she is! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/27/2014 7:34 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: No, Little Stevie, you never observed any little traps. This message itself is a little trap - a trap to get your attention, Steve. Robin is the most famous trappist on the forum (followed closely by Curtis and Barry). My question is, was this the Hindu Robin, the Islamic Robin, or the Catholic Robin writing all these messages? Go figure. Prime example of a message trap: The rudeness, the arrogance, the insulting manner of my approach was to deliver perhaps enough of a shock to make her utter something other than her daily New Age affirmations. - Masked Zebra
[FairfieldLife] Speaking of PTSD
I stumbled across this little documentary about horses and war veterans. It is worth a look, there are some moving moments during the 27 mins. http://www.hrtv.com/videos/saratoga-warhorse-/ http://www.hrtv.com/videos/saratoga-warhorse-/
[FairfieldLife] RE: The Historic Meissner-like Effect [ME] of Peace:
1978,, Discovery of the “Extended Maharishi Effect” -square root of one percent of the population practicing the TM and TM-Sidhi program together in one place produces coherence in collective consciousness promoting positive and progressive trends in society. Maharishi tests this formula by sending Governors of the Age of Enlightenment to the most troubled spots on earth to calm the violence and turbulence. Again scientific research validates the success of this program. 12 January 1977 Creating an Ideal Society: . .people currently practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique are constantly intensifying the Maharishi Effect and contributing to the Age of Enlightenment. The dawn is rising to the day. The influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that even one per cent of the people in society practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole. The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME]. Considering the [Maharishi] Meissner-like Effect of Increasing Coherence in systems. “Sudden sharp changes from relatively disordered to much more ordered states may be considered 'phase transitions' as described in the physical sciences. For instance, water changes from a less orderly arrangement of molecules in the liquid state to a highly ordered crystalline structure when the temperature is lowered to 0 degree C. Physicists are now beginning to explore the possible applications of phase transition models to sudden sweeping changes in individual and social systems . . Transitions to more orderly configurations are frequently mediated by the influence of a few individuals from within a population. Such effects are observed in developing systems of many sorts. For instance, in the embryo prior to the formation of any organs, a small cluster of cells is known as 'The Primary Organizer'. These few cells determine the developmental fates of the multitude of undifferentiated and unordered cells comprising the rest of the embryo.” Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of City Life Through the Trancendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., West Germany, MERU Press, 1976 As more and more cities rose to one percent of the population practicing Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found that not only did crime decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative trends also decreased, and positivity increased. Research scientists named this phenomenon the 'Maharishi Effect' in honor of Maharishi. As early as, “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM technique.” Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of City Life Through the Trancendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., West Germany, MERU Press, 1976 12 January 1972 Maharishi inaugurated the World Plan to “eliminate the age-old problems of mankind in this generation.” Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars. In 1974 these predictions were validated by scientific studies showing that in cities where one percent of the population learned the transcendental Meditation technique there was a sudden decrease in crime rates. By 1974 more than one million people throughout the world had learned the practice of Transcendental Meditation and were experiencing higher states of consciousness. With this, world consciousness was already becoming increasingly purified. Furthermore, people everywhere were experiencing the practical benefits of the development of higher states of consciousness in all aspects of their daily life,
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?
How's that, Little Stevie? People tell lies, and I correct them, and I'm the mischief maker? I'm not sure you quite thought that one through. And of course, as you know, what Richard quotes isn't at all the sort of trap you were talking about. So it just all falls apart into an incoherent mess, as most of your sallies do these days. It's really too bad. You used to be so much brighter a few years back. Yes, good example Richard. Of course now Judy will coming rushing in, out of breath, to set the record straight. What a little mischief maker she is! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/27/2014 7:34 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: No, Little Stevie, you never observed any little traps. This message itself is a little trap - a trap to get your attention, Steve. Robin is the most famous trappist on the forum (followed closely by Curtis and Barry). My question is, was this the Hindu Robin, the Islamic Robin, or the Catholic Robin writing all these messages? Go figure. Prime example of a message trap: The rudeness, the arrogance, the insulting manner of my approach was to deliver perhaps enough of a shock to make her utter something other than her daily New Age affirmations. - Masked Zebra
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?
God bless you Judy. God bless you. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: How's that, Little Stevie? People tell lies, and I correct them, and I'm the mischief maker? I'm not sure you quite thought that one through. And of course, as you know, what Richard quotes isn't at all the sort of trap you were talking about. So it just all falls apart into an incoherent mess, as most of your sallies do these days. It's really too bad. You used to be so much brighter a few years back. Yes, good example Richard. Of course now Judy will coming rushing in, out of breath, to set the record straight. What a little mischief maker she is! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/27/2014 7:34 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: No, Little Stevie, you never observed any little traps. This message itself is a little trap - a trap to get your attention, Steve. Robin is the most famous trappist on the forum (followed closely by Curtis and Barry). My question is, was this the Hindu Robin, the Islamic Robin, or the Catholic Robin writing all these messages? Go figure. Prime example of a message trap: The rudeness, the arrogance, the insulting manner of my approach was to deliver perhaps enough of a shock to make her utter something other than her daily New Age affirmations. - Masked Zebra
[FairfieldLife] RE: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?
Thank you. It really opened my eyes to the potential that a horse can have in helping to heal lives that have been broken. And what a moment that must be when the horse lowers its head and signifies acceptance. I can see where they could have a profound effect on someone. And it was a nice thing to see individuals in the racing thoroughbred world, whom you might picture more as stuffy 1%ers, using their resources to support such a worthwhile program. Thanks for sharing.
