Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Sal wrote: A better question for you to ask would be, why doesn't it happen to everyone if reincarnation is a common occurrence? Why to so very few? Maybe for the same reason we often don't remember our dreams after

[FairfieldLife] A short break from all the cult apologetics and mean girl sniping

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
This one goes out to the misogynist asshole who used to post here (I forget his name) who used to claim that women martial artists were pussies who couldn't hold their own in a real fight against real men. Meet Chloe Bruce, who demos what martial arts can look like without the CGI and the wires

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jai FFL!

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
Since you mention checking, why not team up with 4-5 TM-teachers and have the whole community checked. It's easily done in a few weeks and could radically turn around the narrow-mindedness about dress etc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Jai Guru Dev, These

[FairfieldLife] TV review: Mammon

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
For fans of Nordic Noir, there is another offering currently playing in the UK, and getting both good reviews and high audience ratings. Called Mammon, this one is from Norway for a change, and it's pretty good. Rather than the standard cop/politician/journalist fare, this one leaves out the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: !Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is Coming to Fairfield!

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
Can't help you with this one Buck and I admit to think it is more than silly to get upset or even question how people dress. Haven't you been abroad ? Do you get upset when you see an Egyptian or Indian dressed in robes ? Let people dress however they want and if someone has a problem with that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Seems to me that knowledge of

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: Mammon

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
Dang, I missed that one, and I do like my Scandi-noir. I see it's on More 4 which seems to show a lot of good stuff. It's an obscure channel originally designed to show things that compliment Channel 4 itself, which just shows a load of lowest common denominator crap now. They should swap

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God? ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Even though I happen to suspect

[FairfieldLife] documentary Brahmchari Ashutosh has made about the Vedic schools:

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
Brahmchari Ashutosh, also known as Urs Strobel from Switzerland Vedic Schools in the Himalayas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsw2vdhuano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsw2vdhuano

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread anartaxius
Anything one pulls out of memory is past, is past life. Anything one does not remember is the same experience as if it were never there. What is the need to fine tune what 'sort' of memory it is? Life is now, though it is nice to remember now and then. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
Just to follow up, Salyavin, what would you feel constituted sure-fire proof of something like reincarnation, or siddhis being performed? I can speak to the latter somewhat, taking for example the siddhi of levitation. Video wouldn't do it, because 14-year-olds can hack video these days to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
Xeno, I think and have experienced that the deep now is not limited to the surface now. I think it contains past and future and can be accessed depending on the clarity of one's nervous system, etc. On Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:06 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread anartaxius
Share, the surface and the depth are same, the mind conceptualises the depth, that is the illusion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Xeno, I think and have experienced that the deep now is not limited to the surface now. I think it contains past and future and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?   Xeno, I think and have experienced that the deep now is not limited to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Sal wrote: A better question for you to ask would be, why doesn't it happen to everyone if reincarnation is a common occurrence? Why to so very few?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
In the minds of a few on FFL, the only reason to defend a person (or group, or idea) that is being treated unfairly is that one fully supports that person (or group, or idea). Therefore, if one defends Maharishi or the TMO, one is ipso facto a cultist. If one defends theism, one is ipso facto a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Um, that would be ...on a Sunday morning. (But you can think about it on Monday morning too if you choose. ;-) ) Just something to think about on a Monday morning...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
At this point, I am not sure if you are making a declaration about this don't try to sell me anything, or you are pleading, even begging people to not try to sell you anything. Because its sort of become your calling card, and you play it more as a wild card, when anyone says something not in

[FairfieldLife] Feel-good story of the week

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
From a New York Times obituary this morning: Gene Estess worked on Wall Street for two decades and came to feel that he never had really good days. “I didn’t come home with stories to tell or satisfaction or a feeling I’d done anything to help anybody except myself and my family,” he said in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God? ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Anything one pulls out of memory is past, is past life. Anything one does not remember is the same experience as if it were never there. What is the need to fine tune what 'sort' of memory it is? Life is now, though it is nice to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Seems to me that knowledge of previous lives would be immensely useful, why do we forget it? Why do you think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
What sure-fire proof is all about for me regarding these reincarnation stories is simply making sure that the information the children hold cannot have been acquired any other way. If the Scottish boy was from a remote Hawaiian island with no TV I'd be more inclined to give his tale of life

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Indeed. I simply cannot comprehend those who feel threatened when something challenges their beliefs. I've had things I had believed in blown out of the water so many times that I've actually come to enjoy it. Forget being

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Anything one pulls out of memory is past, is past life. Anything one does not remember is the same experience as if it were never there. What is the need to fine tune what 'sort' of memory it is? Life is now, though it is nice to

[FairfieldLife] Re: documentary Brahmchari Ashutosh has made about the Vedic schools:

2014-04-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Very nice. Looks like our money has been honestly spent. That is re-assuring. I like all the traditional folk singing too. -Buck Brahmchari Ashutosh, also known as Urs Strobel from Switzerland Vedic Schools in the Himalayas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsw2vdhuano

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
My declaration is, essentially, What could *possibly* be dumber than arguing with people you've never met on the Internet? And the answer to this koan, of course, is, Arguing with people on the Internet about shit that can never *possibly* be resolved, such as belief in a God.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Putting it in an evolutionary context,

[FairfieldLife] Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
E-cellent essay by a current MUM student - those who aren't afraid of the truth, click the link and read on! The photos are quite interesting. http://mumosa.com/mum-stories/mum-residential-irony.html MUM Residential Irony A student of Maharishi University of Management, I’m bothered

[FairfieldLife] Re: documentary Brahmchari Ashutosh has made about the Vedic schools:

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
Dear Buck, it's run by Urs and his friends in the TM movement in Switzerland. They never asked for a penny from the Movement :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Very nice. Looks like our money has been honestly spent. That is re-assuring. I like all the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
Did anyone ever run up to Rama and pass their hands underneath him when he was floating to make sure he wasn't tricking everyone in some fashion? On Sun, 4/20/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
But if you ascribe to certain models of theoretical physics that postulate that all events in the universe (or universes) happen simultaneously then you are not talking about the past at all, and the idea that Big Shot Marshy always espoused past is a lesser state of evolution goes out a south

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
Well, as you know, there is an easy solution to both those things. But that still was pretty funny. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : My declaration is, essentially, What could *possibly* be dumber than arguing with people you've never met on the Internet? And the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
This student's critique is hardly entirely fair. I have a number of friends who live in Utopia Park and love it. Many have lived there for years creating their own real nice domiciles. It works good for some quite by choice. The campus facility is work in progress all the time that takes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?   Did anyone ever run up to Rama and pass their hands underneath him when he was floating to make

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Excellent post, Salyavin. FWIW, this is what I mean when I say I don't rule something out: Can minds affect and influence each other at a distance? I still actually keep an open mind to it, but I don't believe it. Also: Regarding proof, I think it doesn't matter whether everyone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
In a similar vein, do people in vastu buildings get insurance for tornadoes or earthquakes? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : E-cellent essay by a current MUM student - those who aren't afraid of the truth, click the link and read on! The photos are quite

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
he is a married Navy veteran On Sun, 4/20/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 2:25 PM

[FairfieldLife] Lurking and Searching FairfieldLife on Yahoo [ FFL ]

2014-04-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Any Technique to share? How do folks search the Fairfieldlife @ yahoo-groups archive now given the change with YahooNeo? The old search engine worked great with searches to get you to within an area of posts to be able to quickly scroll up and down to follow threads. This new engine sucks

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
salyavin, this person does NOT present the WHOLE truth! For example, there is vastu housing for both students and faculty on campus. Where are the photos of that?! And where are the photos of the beautiful parts of campus? And Buck is right about Utopia Park. Some people have enjoyed living

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Then Double shame on him, he is old enough to know better.. . Make waves, but make waves when they can help, or he is just cranky by nature and just makes waves and troubles for others regardless. http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/purpose http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/purpose -Buck ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Putting it in an evolutionary context, the vast majority of people that ever lived were hunter gatherers. I think it would be highly useful to automatically know how to find water, how to avoid leopards etc. we are born

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : salyavin, this person does NOT present the WHOLE truth! I guessed that. The question is a good one though; do people in vastu buildings get insurance for tornadoes and earthquakes? For example, there is vastu housing for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
What did you expect, a balanced individual when he's an acquaintance of the MJ ? :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Then Double shame on him, he is old enough to know better.. . Make waves, but make waves when they can help, or he is just cranky by nature

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
Well salyavin, in all my years here, we've only had one earthquake and it's epicenter was over in Illinois across the Mighty Mississip, a river which supposedly has a fault line running down it. I'll have to ask some vastu dwellers about the homeowners insurance. PS btw, speaking of good

Re: [FairfieldLife] A short break from all the cult apologetics and mean girl sniping

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 1:23 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: This one goes out to the misogynist asshole who used to post here (I forget his name) who used to claim that women martial artists were pussies who couldn't hold their own in a real fight against real men. Meet Chloe Bruce, who demos what martial arts

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lurking and Searching FairfieldLife on Yahoo [ FFL ]

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
One workaround is if you find a message you want to read on the list of search hits, instead of left-clicking on the link to the message to open it directly, right-click on it, then click Open in New Tab (this is in Windows 7 using Chrome; not sure if there's a Mac equivalent, but as I recall

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
I once read about a study in which a large number of subjects (at least a thousand) were hypnotically regressed to past lives. Only a handful, apparently, remembered lives in identifiably historical times. The great majority recalled lives as brown-skinned people working in the fields. (A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Well salyavin, in all my years here, we've only had one earthquake and it's epicenter was over in Illinois across the Mighty Mississip, a river which supposedly has a fault line running down it. I'll have to ask some vastu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 5:05 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Even though I happen to suspect that there may be something to the reincarnation thang, I see no need to provide proof of it because it's just a belief, and I don't much give a shit what others believe about my beliefs. So, Barry is a True Believer,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Did anyone ever run up to Rama and pass their hands underneath him when he was floating to make sure he wasn't tricking everyone in some fashion? I think we can safely assume that no one did that MJ. First of all, it would be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread curtisdeltablues
-In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Ah Curtis yes, it's the fellow that with big letters proclaimed himself an ARTIST, C: You'll get no argument from me here Nabbie. I have been lobbying for years to get people to refer to me in their contracts as Mojo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 6:32 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: I always look for the ways in which things can't work but remain curious as it's one of those things that I'd take to be sure-fire proof that we don't know anything about what's going on here at all. And that would be cool indeed. Indeed. I simply

[FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : This student's critique is hardly entirely fair. I have a number of friends who live in Utopia Park and love it. Many have lived there for years creating their own real nice domiciles. It works good for some quite by choice.

[FairfieldLife] Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread Mike Dixon
Just checked the Falcon cam and three chicks have hatched and mother is feeding them! One more egg to hatch! http://www.pacast.com/players/falcon.asphttp://www.pacast.com/players/falcon.asp PAcast   Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 7:06 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: Anything one pulls out of memory is past, is past life. Anything one does not remember is the same experience as if it were never there. What is the need to fine tune what 'sort' of memory it is? Life is now, though it is nice to remember now

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : -In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Ah Curtis yes, it's the fellow that with big letters proclaimed himself an ARTIST, C: You'll get no argument from me here Nabbie. I have been lobbying

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
turq, I find some parts of these discussions very enjoyable. If I make a point that makes sense to me, but then someone makes an opposite point that also makes sense to me, it's as if my brain stretches or something. That's quite wonderful actually even if the topic could never be resolved.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ishtar?

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 9:43 AM, Share Long wrote: Richard, what a wonderful post, a beautiful picture and fascinating knowledge. Thanks, Share, but I have some bad news: Richard Dawkins was telling a big fib - there is no historical connection between Easter and Ishtar. When was the last time you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
What you say makes sense to me, Xeno. OTOH another way I could say it is that there are times when physically I feel more settled energy wise. That tends to be when I feel deep. On Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:38 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:   Share, the surface and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ishtar?

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
Richard, why would Dawkins do that?! I think we need to lure him into the Funny Farm Lounge (-: On Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:51 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   On 4/20/2014 9:43 AM, Share Long wrote: Richard, what a wonderful post, a beautiful picture and fascinating

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 8:34 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Indeed. I simply cannot comprehend those who feel threatened when something challenges their beliefs. There are all sorts of people in the world who hang onto their beliefs, you included, but you always address your same old, same old

[FairfieldLife] Defending what are the *benefits* of the Unified Field Transcendent

2014-04-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Fair points, Authfriend. By example in Marek Reavis, I always admired his comments here about his career and experience as a Public Defender attorney giving voice and representation on behalf of those who can not or are not able. I often admire your work here too that way. There is a lot of

[FairfieldLife] It helps to speak out (sometimes)

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
General Mills Reverses Itself on Consumers’ Right to Sue By STEPHANIE STROM APRIL 20, 2014 General Mills, one of the country’s largest food companies, on Saturday night announced in a stunning about-face that it was withdrawing its controversial plans to make consumers give up their right

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV review: Mammon

2014-04-20 Thread Bhairitu
It might run on Hulu which Fox also has an interest in but possibly after the US version runs. The first season of original Bridge has run on Hulu but only after the US made season. Have you seen the Fargo TV series pilot with Billy Bob Thorton and Martin Freeman. I haven't bought the first

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 8:37 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Anything one pulls out of memory is past, is past life. Anything one does not remember is the same experience as if it were never there. What is the need to fine tune what 'sort' of memory it is? Life is now, though it is nice to remember

Re: [FairfieldLife] Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/20/2014 9:02 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: E-cellent essay by a current MUM student - those who aren't afraid of the truth, click the link and read on! The photos are quite interesting. You forgot to post a photo of the rent house where you are currently living. How much better is it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ishtar?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Richard, why would Dawkins do that?! He probably googled it. It's hardly an uncommon belief. The web seems split down the middle I would say. I love the sculpture of Ishtar It's in the British Museum and it's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ishtar?

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
salyavin, I think owls are also associated with Athena. Anyway, Ishtar looks a bit disgruntled. I'd be too if that were my Easter bonnet (-: On Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:32 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
Well, at least it makes it easy to see why you regard anyone who disagrees with you a cult apologist. It looks like the only reason you view this as an excellent essay is because it trashes something you don't like. Sort of like what Judy was discussing earlier. There is no issue of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Hard to guess how much of this from Curtis is self-deception, and how much of it is an attempt to deceive readers here. I must admit I completely missed that Curtis's objection to Feser is Feser's opposition to gay rights rather than to Feser's support for classical theism per se. But it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
salyavin, I think both believing in God, reincarnation, etc and not believing has the same benefit: making a person feel secure as they navigate through life. What's fascinating to me is that some people feel better believing in God and other people feel better not believing. When I really

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Heartland Co-op

2014-04-20 Thread Sharalyn Pliler
OK, we meet at City Hall tomorrow at 8:00 am (before the opposition does), and we should be on our best behavior. See Raja John Hagelin's message below. Original Message Subject: Heartland Co-op Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:17:13 -0400 From: Raja John Hagelin

[FairfieldLife] Imp. Message from Dr. Hagelin re the grain co-op project

2014-04-20 Thread Sharalyn Pliler
Dear Friends, I’m writing to bring you up to date on the Heartland Co-op project, and the latest efforts being made to discourage them from building their industrial grain distribution colossus in Fairfield. Dean Draznin, owner of a global PR/marketing firm, has been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Happy Easter Birthday for these chicks! Very appropriate timing. I looked a couple of times but haven't seen her feeding the chicks yet. For awhile there was what looked as though a whole egg had somehow rolled out from under her and was sitting at a little distance all by itself. I just

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
according to the article, the folks who are TM TB'ers don't believe a tornado will ever hit Fairfield - and if it does, its because of low Dome numbers - that part's not in the post, but you know that's what they'd say. On Sun, 4/20/14, salyavin808

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
We all live in our own little worlds I think. To have the siddhi for actually experiencing someone elses worldview in it's entirety would be amazing I think. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : salyavin, I think both believing in God, reincarnation, etc and not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
as usual, your mind works on the same inept and fractured level that WillyTex's mind works on. I am not this man's acquaintance, I have merely read his blog - if you don't like what he's saying, tell him so - the blog is available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
Go to his blog and ask him. It's mumosa.com On Sun, 4/20/14, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
Now that WOULD be an excellent idea, thanks for suggesting that! On Sun, 4/20/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
hey, I lived there when they had the pods - I bet I would have loved one-a those double wides in those days. I do like the juxtaposition of the pundits living quarters that look like the photos of the old Nazi stalags next to the Utopia Park - and the man raises some fair points, which you who

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : One reason I don't rule paranormal stuff out is that I'm not convinced science knows how to test for some of it. I could not possibly disagree more strongly with the notion that only what is measurable is real. Actually,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
awoelflebater, I certainly wasn't after dealing any kind of personal blow, I simply got fed up of the HUGE feathers when in reality the fellow can't sing. He does put forward a lot of energy though, he is trying very, very hard, agreed. And that's the sign of an amateur at work. All hat no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Comments below... One reason I don't rule paranormal stuff out is that I'm not convinced science knows how to test for some of it. I could not possibly disagree more strongly with the notion that only what is measurable is real. Actually, measuring (in the broadest sense) is the only

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
and you think Donovan can sing??? - I haven't heard you say squat about him and he is bad even for a has been. On Sun, 4/20/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ishtar?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Hate to say it, Salyavin, but it looks like somebody messed with your gal. Here's a photo of the same British Museum sculpture from Wikipedia: She doesn't look at all disgruntled in this photo. Wha' hoppen? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread nablusoss1008
At least he is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Well salyavin, in all my years here, we've only had one earthquake and it's epicenter was over in Illinois across the Mighty Mississip, a river which supposedly has a fault line running down it. I'll have to ask some vastu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
Michael, the issue is not whether or not to read your posts. That is what they call a red herring. And you're tactic of labeling everyone with whom you disagree as a cult apologist has, frankly, gotten a little old. The issue is whether or not you feel some obligation to take a look at what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Oh, she's feeding them, right this instant! Hubby must have brought some grub. Shame there's no microphone; it would be fun to hear their peeps. They look like they're making quite a racket. Little pure white puffballs! http://www.pacast.com/players/falcon.asp

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Share Long
salyavin, in this day and age, however could a person join a utopian cult without realizing it?! Sounds to me like someone who didn't do their due diligence. And if it's really as bad as the blogger claims, wouldn't he have noticed the trailer park etc. when he first arrived. Plenty of time

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
I know the UK has Skelmersdale and the other vastu place whose name escapes me at the moment, but do you not have some institution of higher vastu vedic TM-ish learning like some sort of Marshy University, perchance? On Sun, 4/20/14, salyavin808

[FairfieldLife] Russian cosmonaut on crop circles, and stuff

2014-04-20 Thread cardemaister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePHyCsLOHIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePHyCsLOHIo 10:00 The son (OR sun?) of the creator comes!! ??? (Sanskrit)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Mike, a minute ago she scooted out of the nest carrying something fairly substantial in her beak that she apparently deposited outside somewhere. Couldn't see what it was; could it have been the remains of the carcass she was feeding the chicks? Was she housecleaning? Dinnertime's over;

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : salyavin, in this day and age, however could a person join a utopian cult without realizing it?! Sounds to me like someone who didn't do their due diligence. Yep, didn't he read the brochure, was my first comment on it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
Well one could say you are knee jerk reacting, or that you are pot calling kettle black, or one could say you just dislike anything I say since I don't fawn all over Marshy and Company. I mean, do you not see Buck and Nabby's posts as being extrmly biased? Nope, since they love to love

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
Oh and it was one of the most ridiculous post you have ever made, this one. Of course I think what I post here has merit, why else would I post? On Sun, 4/20/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Jackson
You must be living with your head in the sand Share - the TMO masks a great deal of what it does from the outside observer including those who are prospective students. I have told the story of how I just a few months ago had a good talk with a young man and his mother. The boy was intent on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More

2014-04-20 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Well one could say you are knee jerk reacting, or that you are pot calling kettle black, or one could say you just dislike anything I say since I don't fawn all over Marshy and Company. No Michael, as I've said before, I think

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