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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
What interests FFLifers? (That's not a rhetorical question.) When I started
this thread yesterday I smiled to myself thinking that I had lit the blue touch
paper and now all I had to do was
I agree with Curtis here. Maharishi's We don't talk about our state of
consciousness routine was an *intentional* Nudge-nudge wink-wink
know-what-I-mean tactic that IMO *everyone* was in on. You believed it more
firmly because you'd been convinced that you *were* in on it.
He got to imply that
You must not have been reading most of my posts here in FFL. It means I revile
TM, the TMO and Liar Marshy.
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Hi Edg, kudos to you for saying all this. And a real good and funny read. What
you say resembles much of my thinking on this topic, so you save me the time to
formulate it myself ;-)
So according to some, we should not think? Or should not think about
metaphysical abstract topics? Or not about
about 36 minutes into the interview with Russell Brand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=8HZeyDn13mw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=8HZeyDn13mw#t=2201
What is interesting about this interview is how Brand looks and acts. He is
completely
But how much science is there, really?
Prominent contemplative scientists are expressing their concerns regarding the
hype. Brown University researcher Willoughby Britton told Tricycle magazine,
“Public enthusiasm is outpacing scientific evidence,” and that, “People are
finding support for what
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Nope.
Not at all. Depersonalization is an entirely different situation that arises
and has entirely different EEG patterns.
And in fact, depersonalization often arises due to trauma in childhood. Even
with PTSD that arises in adults, depersonalization is often/generally
associated with
What little I watched shows me that Bob Roth is a lying ass. He is talking
about how he wants the TM teachers to be able to raise a family on teaching TM?
When in the hell has that EVER been possible in 60 years of the Movement?
From: lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Obama Acting Like a Valet — Working for Communists, Terrorists, Lip-Syncers by
Charles Hurt http://www.breitbart.com/author/charles-hurt/18 Dec 2014
So this is what foreign policy by Beyonce looks like.
It’s been two years since the sultry and suave music power couple of Beyonce
and Jay-Z
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote :
That was interesting, thanks for posting it.
Oh, great that you liked it. That was enough reason for me to post it
He may be defining atheism differently than I do.
I'm sure he does, I think that's really the whole point
Eh.
The DLF hires TM teachers at a set fee and sends them to various places to
teach groups of people, such as all kids in a San Francisco school.
You know, this points up a certain hypocrisy on your part: you try your
hardest (and brag when you succeed) to make sure that kids cannot
Devoid of perception is how MMY describes it in one lecture available online.
And thought as MMY described it, referred to any kind of mental activity
that has a sensory referent, and which includes verbalizations, visualizations,
and, awareness of anything external, including body sense.
I remember him well.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
I recall back in the day having a one-on-one discussion with the local TM
teacher for Newcastle upon Tyne (he was a Yank and an excellent and committed
teacher) when he suddenly leaned forward and said to me
C: Excellent rap, it really made me think. I find your own views both more
comprehensible and more interesting than Derrida. I would enjoy him more if he
would dial back the pretentiousness in his presentation about 10 notches! I
have spent some time with philosophers and ideas do not have to
We can (and maybe should, that's not for me to say) hold all sorts of beliefs,
but when the rubber meets the road, are those beliefs reinforced or undermined
by experience as we live our lives micro second by microsecond? IOW, I take a
realist approach to the question re the existence of god:
Go ask any TM teacher from the last 60 years how much they made teaching TM.
Also ask the people who run the Movement how they justify asking the public to
fund this crap when the Movement has billions in assets. Take a look at the
palace Girish lives in and you'll have your answer.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, inmadison@... wrote :
We can (and maybe should, that's not for me to say) hold all sorts of beliefs,
but when the rubber meets the road, are those beliefs reinforced or undermined
by experience as we live our lives micro second by microsecond? IOW, I take
You need to improve your reading skills, Michael: a) you don't address L.'s
point, below, and b) Bob Roth was speaking about what he hoped could be
established in the future, not what it has been in the past. Your entire view
of TM and the TM movement might best be described as cartoonish.
This is one of the silliest articles I have ever read.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote :
Obama Acting Like a Valet — Working for Communists, Terrorists, Lip-Syncers by
Charles Hurt http://www.breitbart.com/author/charles-hurt/18 Dec 2014
So this is what foreign
In the 1970s. When I became a teacher the idea was working
professionals who taught TM on the side. Then about a year after my TTC
the MIU graduated it's first students and then we got the announcement
we were to give over teaching to the MIU grads. That's when TM lost a
lot of teachers as
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
Hi Edg, kudos to you for saying all this. And a real good and funny read. What
you say resembles much of my thinking on this topic, so you save me the time to
formulate it myself ;-) Thanks. Gets me in the feels.
So
Mr. Bill, right wing commentators probably aren't the best political
scientists. Castro wanted set up a democracy but Che Guevara warned
against. It was probably a reasonable idea to set up a socialist state
for awhile as a democracy could have been quickly corrupted. And I
suspect that Che
Some people believe that beauty exists. I find no basis for such a belief.
Peers and role models in our formative years, our specific culture,
advertising, branding, aesthetic criticism are all a type of mahvakaya
whispered in our ears overtime that have organized our experience to view
I thought the first graduating class of MIU was mostly older teachers. My
class in 75 (graduated in 79) was the first class with some actual college age
students in it. Interesting to hear how the movement screwed the teachers in
the field. We got screwed another way. We went through phase
Well, I responded because I span both the entertainment industry and the
tech industry in my career. So the story interests me as well as the
political implications. I even remember when Team America made a big
kerfuffle when it came out.
What may also come out of this is the Hollywood
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seerdope@... wrote :
Some people believe that beauty exists. I find no basis for such a belief.
C: Other than strict Platonists, I don't ever hear people talking about beauty
this way. For most of us it is seen as a personal evaluation based on all
I didn't have time to check yesterday but I see at least VUDU has
episodes 1 and 2 for free so I can see if I agree with your assessment.
But I probably will agree given what I've seen Syfy doing lately. They
also did this with episode 1 of Z Nation which I watched on Amazon
which
I wouldn't call it great, but it was more enjoyable than most recent SciFi for
me. My mini-review below was mainly a suggestion to not find out much about it
beforehand, so as thus to preserve the surprises.
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
That's awful that you had to redo those phases. Hell the whole thing
could have been taught in one month as they originally were. The rest
was mostly indoctrination.
A lot of the teachers at our SIMS center were college students, some of
them post graduate. They related well to other
I don't care what L wrote -I was not addressing what he wrote, I was addressing
what Roth said in part of the tape when Brand surprisingly addressed the high
cost of TM.
The Movement IS a cartoon peopled by a lot of whacked out characters that
believe a lot of superstitious nonsense. It would
HuluPlus has the first three episodes up for web only (not mobile or TV)
but with ads and no lock on them. If it is locked then you can only
watch if you have a TV provider.
American Horror Story isn't going on hiatus except for the next two
weeks since the episode would fall holiday nights.
Most of the TM teachers I knew were broke ass True Believers who beggared
themselves and alienated their families to pursue enlightenment through
following Marshy and doing TM.
There were a few who already had money and the others lived in their shadow in
one way or another. I never met a TM
Did it occur to you that the advice to not get Phase 3 during summer break was
deliberate on Marshy's part? When they saw how much money they were to lose by
having you not pay I am sure he did it on purpose, to line his coffers.
Just another story illustrating how Marshy was not enlightened,
Check, because the first three episodes may be all of it. According to Wiki
and IMDB the series consists of six one-hour episodes, but it was really
broadcast on three consecutive nights as Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, in
two-hour (1 hour, 20 minutes without commercials) segments. So Hulu may be
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote :
Did it occur to you that the advice to not get Phase 3 during summer break was
deliberate on Marshy's part? When they saw how much money they were to lose by
having you not pay I am sure he did it on purpose, to line his coffers.
I like the Wrestling Babe too and she is a good actress and carries the
role well. Zhu Zhu, who plays the Blue Pricness, is a Chinese actress
who was an MTV China host. She was also in Cloud Atlas.
On 12/19/2014 11:12 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/Check,
Everything you write here confirms my point.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote :
I don't care what L wrote -I was not addressing what he wrote, I was
addressing what Roth said in part of the tape when Brand surprisingly addressed
the high cost of TM.
The
I thought that I had responded but I guess I didn't. I've really been looking
forward to that flick. I loved Pineapple Express and thought this could be
pretty funny. I think Rogen and Franco make a pretty good comedy duo. I'm
pretty annoyed with the idea that Sony whimped out.Somebody aught to
Can they claim they work for Satan, who was once an angel in heaven?
Franciscan Order On Verge Of Bankruptcy After Financial Fraud Uncovered
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/order-of-friars-minior-fraud_n_6355532.html
Curtis: Other than strict Platonists, I don't ever hear people talking about
beauty this way. For most of us it is seen as a personal evaluation based on
all the factors you list below.
SD: I am saying that there is no such thing as a beautiful woman, a beautiful
sunset, beautiful art, even
You are just still trying to not admit that Marshy and the TMO are and were con
artists because if you did you would have to reassess your time at MIU/MUM.
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 3:13 PM
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seerdope@... wrote :
Curtis: Other than strict Platonists, I don't ever hear people talking about
beauty this way. For most of us it is seen as a personal evaluation based on
all the factors you list below.
SD: I am saying that there is no such
No no, not at all. I don't accept your view. I had a great time at MIU. I
wasn't conned for a moment. It was intellectually and spiritually rewarding. I
don't regret a single minute of it. We had some terrific students in those
days, and deep and serious idea were discussed. It was wonderful
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
I remember him well.
Was that a dig about the ubiquity of embarrassing TM teachers or do you really
recall my Newcastle Yank? (I think his name was Mike . . ?)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@...
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Curtis: Other than strict Platonists, I don't ever hear people talking about
beauty this way. For most of us it is seen as a personal evaluation based on
all the factors you list below.
SD: I am saying that there is no such thing as a beautiful woman, a beautiful
sunset, beautiful art,
No, I do remember him. Mike Tompkins, a Yank who found himself up there in
Geordieland, where the vowels are short and the winters are long. I never knew
how he got to be there, but he did a good job. He was usually very serious but
he had a good, deadpan sense of humor.
---In
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
No, I do remember him. Mike Tompkins, a Yank who found himself up there in
Geordieland, where the vowels are short and the winters are long. I never knew
how he got to be there, but he did a good job. He was usually very
Just discovered her - I'm way behind - she has an interesting voice - I like
it; it grows on you. She sings the most *beautiful* (smile) version of In my
Time of Dying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6dj8PfdHoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6dj8PfdHoU
And, although I am finally
What you don't seem to understand is that MJ is the Universal Grand Arbiter of
Absolute Reality. Therefore, what you think your personal experience was at MIU
is completely invalid.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
No no, not at all. I don't accept your
Duveyoung, I was replying to this and Yahoo managed to not save most of my
draft, so I am having to reconstruct about 2/3 of what I had already written in
response, and I had a business trip this afternoon, so my memory is no longer
fresh, so if you expect a reply from me, you will have to wait
This is one of the silliest articles I have ever read.
Another acute political-cultural analysis by Festus.
Don't worry. Marshal Matt Dillon said he wouldn't shoot
as long as your hands are in the air.
Hands Up - Don't Shoot!
I got my man in the alley and he's got all the loot.
What Cuba is today is due to US sanctions. Basically it's the US that created
the authoritarian government there though it's rather a joke that the Cubans
don't take very seriously.
Said like a true red-diaper baby.
You've just toked too many with
Frank Marshal Davis and his lap-dog -
No, it's all your fault. You created this universe and we're all stuck
in it.
On 12/19/2014 07:25 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
What Cuba is today is due to US sanctions. Basically it's the US
that created the authoritarian government there though it's rather a
joke that
It sounds like you were there a little earlier than I was. I knew Mike Tompkins
in Durham. The Eleanor you recall was Eleanor Burns, I think her last name was;
she married David Laird; I think they may still be up in the northeast. I
Since I do not know who you are I do not know if we ever
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