[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj's Cosmic Consciousness

2011-05-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: In peace we could arrange a meeting between the chief deniers on both sides? You know, meditation conflict resolution. Rick Archer manifestly is good at moderating. He knows the territory. In the name of a lasting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ..Atheists have no I told you so fantasies. There will be no in your face believers for us. There will just be the same non existence that existed for us before our birth about which Mark Twain wryly wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: ..Atheists have no I told you so fantasies. There will be no in your face believers for us. There will just be the same non existence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: This part of the discussion reminds me of the Kalam Cosmological Argument which goes like this: 1. Whatever begins to exist has a beginning. 2. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Navy Seals were on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden

2011-05-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: The team of US Special Operations Forces who killed Osama bin Laden in a pre-dawn raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, were led by elite Navy SEALS from the Joint Special Operations Command. Operators from SEAL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Omnisubjective

2011-05-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: There may be some jewels of wisdom in the Carlsen blogs, but maybe not. We'll see. Here's a new one I learned: Omnisubjective; which can easily be incorporated into the FFL lexicon of Spiritual jargon and MMY-talk, along

[FairfieldLife] Re: Acceleration of Change and Ever Expanding Flexibility

2011-05-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: Has anyone else lately been experiencing a significant acceleration of change lately? Things one is accustomed to suddenly evaporating,

[FairfieldLife] Re: A short lesson in logic for JohnR

2011-05-07 Thread PaliGap
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Barry Me and Curtis, not so much. We don't hold much of anyone's declarations to be Truth, just because they said them. Judy Curtis isn't questioning the premise that the universe had a beginning,

[FairfieldLife] Re: A short lesson in logic for JohnR

2011-05-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Barry Me and Curtis, not so much. We don't hold much of anyone's

[FairfieldLife] Re: A short lesson in logic for JohnR

2011-05-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@... wrote: Of course just when you think it's safe to dip your toe in the cosmological waters (quagmire?), something pops up to rock the boat. I saw a program recently in which Penrose put forward his idea of a cyclical universe I

[FairfieldLife] Poor doggie

2011-05-08 Thread PaliGap
http://youtu.be/nGeKSiCQkPw

[FairfieldLife] Re: A short lesson in logic for JohnR

2011-05-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Brain technology

2011-05-08 Thread PaliGap
Brain controlled cat ears: http://youtu.be/w06zvM2x_lw

[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube does Movies

2011-05-10 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: YouTube just launched their movie service which lots of movies to watch including some released the same day on DVD. Not sure if it is US only or not and if titles are also available in HD: http://www.youtube.com/movies

[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube does Movies

2011-05-10 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: YouTube just launched their movie service which lots of movies to watch including

[FairfieldLife] Strauss-Kahn The Stats of Rape Accusations

2011-05-20 Thread PaliGap
I have done an, admittedly crude, statistical analysis of rape and sexual harassment accusations of rich and powerful men in politics. I was not interested in whether the accusations were true (they almost always are), but whether upon hearing the charges, the intelligentsia cast scorn upon the

[FairfieldLife] If you're going to San Francisco...

2011-05-20 Thread PaliGap
...Don't try to get circumcised. More from good 'ole William Briggs: City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3913

[FairfieldLife] Big Day Tomorrow

2011-05-20 Thread PaliGap
The rapture flow chart: http://peasandcougars.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/will-you-be-raptured-flowchart/ http://goo.gl/gznkc

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Vaj and Barry, in their infantile fascination with themselves, haven't figured

[FairfieldLife] Re: Parallel Universes

2011-05-21 Thread PaliGap
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Here's an update to this concept. Parallel universes may be infinite. Hence, there may be infinite versions of you as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyrE9I8HNg John - just a thought. Do you conceive that there may be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are Tornados related to Global Warming?

2011-05-25 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: http://action.350.org/signup_page/connections Cumulative catastrophic weather events are being used to support the case for global warming action. Sorry Bill and Joe, but we need to look at each type of extreme event, in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Give peace a chance ...

2011-05-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Something seems wrong.Those first three are marked with devastating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis Natural stress relief?! and nuclear disasters. er.. praps not. From: merlin

[FairfieldLife] Plucky Spanish Sidha In Dome Pass Snafu

2011-05-30 Thread PaliGap
http://youtu.be/XXWZ3uAEKsw

[FairfieldLife] Foxy lady

2011-06-05 Thread PaliGap
Tatyana: http://goo.gl/2VXIZ My heart can't stand this...too much beauty ...the most beautiful music played by the most beautiful guitarist in the most beautiful way... Francos 1960

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie: A Somewhat Gentle Man

2011-06-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: I've also been watching episodes of the BBC crime drama Luther. To bad US TV networks can't do as well. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Luther/70175633 Luther is played by the excellent Idris Elba - Russell Stringer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie: A Somewhat Gentle Man

2011-06-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Luther was tremendous. I've heard rumors there may be a second season, but have seen nothing of it yet. If it appears, can you give me a heads-up? June 14th I believe. If you can get it, I would think you would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie: A Somewhat Gentle Man

2011-06-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Breaking Bad is coming up. Oh, dang. I really love that series, but I have a feeling that Channel 5 who ran it in my neck of the woods are dropping it. The Killing has been very good (a remake of a Danish series. I'll

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 6:05 PM, seventhray1 wrote: I mean actually what you are describing sounds like the path Vaj is on. And what do you know about the path I'm on? Fair comment. So why not just simply tell us?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: thx, on his stmt that everything is physical, consciousness is a product of brain functioning, etc; You think that's what it says? (The statement from MMY below). Isn't it more accurately summarized as everything has a physical

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: thx, on his stmt that everything is physical, consciousness is a product of brain

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie: A Somewhat Gentle Man

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: If you can get it, I would think you would find The Shadow Line better: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0111dqc; Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check it out. For me, two key ingredients are (a) great

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: thx, on his stmt that everything is physical, consciousness is a product of brain functioning, etc; You think that's what it says? (The statement from MMY below

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: I think I would say yes yes. Between asterix (asterixes?) Noes! Asterix the Gaul! Singular: asterisk. Plural: asterisks. (From the Greek *aster-iskos*, little star.) Thanks. Little star. Spot on!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: He found the presentation of scientific materialism useful as a marketing strategy, which he laid out explicitly in his SOB. (favorite acronym ever!) He did? It's a long time since I SOBbed ;-) But I did

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two completely atypical theoretical questions from Turq

2011-06-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Truthful Words for a Psychologist

2011-01-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Dear PaliGap, Welcome to FFL Live the breeding ground for Turq's turf wars. Trying to have a healthy discussion with the Trickster Turqster is like a dog chewing a bone for nutrition..:-) But seriously he's a wounded

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bud in a Bottle: New Marijuana Soda to Launch in Feb.

2011-01-25 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/25/bud-in-a-bottle-new-marijuana-soda-to-launch-in-feb/?hpt=T2 or http://tinyurl.com/4ftkovl ...designer Clay Butler, who said he has never used marijuana or smoked a cigarette That's

[FairfieldLife] 32 Fingered Harmony

2011-01-25 Thread PaliGap
...Or four guys just having fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghuyPxgt37s Beautiful. Check out the guitarist that plays cello-style!

[FairfieldLife] Thank you for not breeding

2011-01-27 Thread PaliGap
Gro Harlem Brundtland, the UN Chair for the World Commission on Environment and Development, worries that population growth is a ticking time bomb and that we may soon be facing a new famine on a scale dwarfing even Malthus's most pessimistic predictions. Gro Harlem Brundtland has FOUR

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thank you for not breeding

2011-01-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: [snip] Nonetheless, it is true that many poor countries are increasing more rapidly in population than the more affluent countries. In these countries, it would be appropriate to curb the growth to sustain its economy,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Distance and survival

2011-01-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgillam@... wrote: [snip] This post is more rambling and incoherent than I'd like, but I wanted to lump these three men together - Adler, Hurley and Ransom - with this idea that, in a crisis, some distance from one's travails may help one

[FairfieldLife] Re: What must it be like?

2011-02-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: To have the only person to stand up for you be Jim Flanegin? ( Visible from Message View. ) It must be like having the only person to take your side in a street fight be a drama queen taking on the cops and going all

[FairfieldLife] Re: We're Better off Than Egypt -- Right? Let's Take a Look.

2011-02-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: [snip] The guy was also concerned that Eqypt would go Muslim. What does he think they are now? God these people are dumb. Maybe the founding fathers were right about giving the vote only to the educated. I can see

[FairfieldLife] Our Inner Pain (was Watch the Egyptian Riots Live)

2011-02-02 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: [snip] * * * Personally, I generally find boredom to be a function of my own failure to see what's really going on... [snip] * * * We are in agreement there; as I said, too much of any one flavor habituates the taste-buds.

[FairfieldLife] The Amazing Invisible Paper Clip

2011-02-02 Thread PaliGap
Scientists are a step closer to creating a Star Trek-style cloaking device after making an object visible to the naked eye disappear for the first time. The research works by using a naturally forming crystal called calcite which has extraordinary light bending abilities. In the past

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi (Brahmarishi) Mahesh Yogi-no one ever greater

2011-02-02 Thread PaliGap
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: MMY should have walked on water, heal the sick, raise the dead, performed miracles, and rise from the dead. That would have ended all doubts from all nonbelievers. MMY does a press conference. See, it is easy? I am walking on

[FairfieldLife] The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect

2011-03-07 Thread PaliGap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCaA5o18 Our minds create the medicine - and THAT is pretty freakin' weird (Sounds like Dr. Robert Chase narrating)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: Japan like the Germans of the Nazi Era, committed many atrocities and 'Crimes Agains Humanity'... What is happening in Japan, is perhaps due to karma from that time... Besides the Mayor of Tokyo, said that, it was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) More like, how greedy is it, to build a nuclear power station in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: Karma is not a notion of any particular movement or religion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: For me Karma is not a theory but an intimate spiritual principle for self improvement that teaches feminine spiritual qualities such as faith and acceptance and I definitely disagree with PaliGap and Robert

[FairfieldLife] Kinect Self-Awareness Hack

2011-03-16 Thread PaliGap
OK, it's college humor... http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1949248 But tickles me!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mac attack

2011-03-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:16 PM To: Yahoo Group Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mac attack OK, everyone~~I want some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judith Bourke: my comments on Bob Roth

2011-03-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: ...by people not fully in on the higher end justifies the means damn the torpedoes, higher purpose. Just curious Do you think the end justifies the means is always false?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judith Bourke: my comments on Bob Roth

2011-03-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: Maybe Sandy Crowe crossed paths with Judith in Mallorca (1971-72), but not after. Memories are funny things. I remember some people, did not

[FairfieldLife] Re: The lives of TM critics - a research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi.

2011-03-28 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis

2010-02-19 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Sweetheart post of the week award Raunchy. Thanks with a big hug! I love Jimi. Like many guitarists my age I started playing a

[FairfieldLife] Re: PSA: Remedial education for the climate change / denier battles this week

2010-02-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Climate change worriers wondering how to how to gracefully handle climate change deniers need go no further than this short training film created by the Second City comedy troupe. It proposes a kinder, gentler approach

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wow! power of prayer!to WHO(M)!!!!!

2010-02-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I mean, it *IS* an interesting event. A minaret in Morocco falls on people who are on their knees worshiping the deity it was erected to honor. So is the deity good or bad as a result of drop- ping the minaret on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Blog

2010-02-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Can anyone see the beginnings of a blog here?: http://batgap.com/ DNS is propagating to 98.130.9.219 at my end. But your hosting provider has not set you up yet at their end I suspect! I see an ix web hosting portal page +

[FairfieldLife] Re: Blog

2010-02-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: Not yet here in the Mid Atlantic. Which blog are you using. I need on that I can embed in my Websites. I've heard that wordpress is better if you don't want it on their host like blogspot. Wordpress

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra's TM has 108 mantras, TM only 11 or 12

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: I'm not complaining personally about TM. I figured I was always fortunate, as I always had teacher-approved, textbook experiences. TM-Sidhi too. But then again I'd already been having experiences since I was a kid. Who knows,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pure, innocent Vajina casts the first stone

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: I have alot of close friends who are psychiatric and psychological professionals. Because of that, I've been able to go through batteries of conventional testing. It turns out, I'm unusually balanced and sane. Go figure,

[FairfieldLife] Re: ATT: Hugo--brain and transcendence

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: With reference to Huxley's reducing valve theory of the brain, a new study of brain cancer patients: I find this reducing valve theory fascinating (though not sure I really grasp it yet). This study seems very, very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, Bongo, but sea levels NOT rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: I think once people get emotionally involved in an issue, they don't like to find out their *investment* is or could be wrong, so they defend it to the end. You got to know when to hold'm, know when to fold'm. Of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, McJerky, but sea levels ARE rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Apparently when it comes to denying AGW, Mr Poli-Carp supports 'dowsing' as a credential for a fellow AGW denier who has been exposed as misrepresenting himself by the current president of the scientific body he once

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, McJerky, but sea levels ARE rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: I may be related to the pleasant-sounding Poli-Carp, but this other person is surely someone your are communicating

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, McJerky, but sea levels ARE rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
associated with the questioning of religious orthodoxy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, Bongo, but sea levels NOT rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: snip I don't know much about dowsing but isn't that the way people used to locate water underground? Did it work? Of course

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, Bongo, but sea levels NOT rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Sounds like those that support global warming. If it's hot,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, Bongo, but sea levels NOT rising

2010-02-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: snip I don't know if dowsing works or not. But I don't write it off so out of hand myself. A more acid test would be if it can be used for commercial gain

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry, Bongo, but sea levels NOT rising

2010-02-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: And then there's Men Who Stare at Goats...I'm waiting eagerly for that to come out on DVD (currently scheduled for late March, at least for Netflixers). Have you seen the trailer? I got several belly laughs out of it. Hope

[FairfieldLife] Re: Let's hear it for Jerry+Any particular question lingering for the last 30 years

2010-02-26 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Qu7a2lbkw 'scuse my ignorance, but who was that speaking? I'm sticking my head above the parapet here - but I thought he did a fine job. And was that substantial chap reading his magazine

[FairfieldLife] Re: Let's hear it for Jerry+Any particular question lingering for the last 30 years

2010-02-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 6:54 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?

2010-03-10 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: [snip] But in the case of the karmic thoery and its social manifestation in the caste system the numbers are reversed. We have millions of people who believe in this thoery outside India who may not be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did you have this experience in India ? If so how did it influence you ?

2010-03-11 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: [snip] I AM in favor of challenging the content of religious claims just as we have successfully done with witchcraft with has fallen out of favor in society as a serious intellectual option. [snip]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mental sinking and TM

2010-03-11 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: From Adam [snip] TM definitely induces and extremely relaxing state of body and mind, Many seem to agree but it induces mental fogginess. Not my experience, or that of most I've encountered. The effect of TM on me was

[FairfieldLife] Chesterton the intolerance of religion

2010-03-12 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: Some original quotes by G. K. Chesterton: A man who refuses to have his own philosophy will only have the used-up scraps of somebody else's philosophy; which the beasts do not have to inherit; hence their happiness. Men

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pragmatism's Advantage

2010-03-16 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Stanley Fish discusses a new book by Joseph Margolis, Pragmatism's Advantage. Fish's essay may or may not have relevance to the comments of Chesterton in his essay The Revival of Philosophy--Why? that was mentioned and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Extraordinary People

2010-03-19 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: Here's a documentary of a young man with a gift for calculating numbers. He was able to memorize the pi to the 20,000th place after the decimal point. He's considered a savant but not an idiot.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?

2010-03-19 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: She Shot Him 6 Times

2010-03-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Barry, it wasn't meant to make you feel *all warm and fuzzy*. That would have taken the perp walking up and shoving money *into* the waitress's purse, IMHO. That waitress deserves an award of some kind for saving

[FairfieldLife] Re: origin of tm mantras

2010-03-24 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: There's a sucker born every minute, I guess. Go figure. It is very human to be overconfident about the surety of our knowledge. Every time

[FairfieldLife] Re: The History of Om

2010-03-25 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Here is the web-address of Feuerstein's article on the History of Om. It puts to rest the usual misrepresentations - Om is Tantric not Vedic. http://www.traditionalyogastudies.com/TheSacredSyllableOM.pdf Should be:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

2010-03-31 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: What if M was going on and on about the vacuum state or quantum field of all possibilities as PC and Max Plank appearing and saying, What you say is preposterous. You know nothing of my work. Or perhaps something quite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

2010-04-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: What is the hang up between trying to make a connection between these two, and using the terms consciousness and quantum mechannics in doing so? Yes! No, wait a minute... no? Thinking about this (and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

2010-04-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: IMO, one of the best proofs of the fact that individual consciousness is subjective experience of some quantum mechanical (or possibly deeper) phenomena is that Erwin thought so? Wiki: Schrödinger stayed in Dublin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

2010-04-01 Thread PaliGap
? The interest of many of the early quantum theorists in mysticism isn't at all surprising. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: IMO, one of the best proofs of the fact

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

2010-04-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [snip] The interest of many of the early quantum theorists in mysticism isn't at all surprising. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: But luckily there are many new ways of interpreting it

[FairfieldLife] Self Supporting Ontological Identities - was Deepak Chopra failed etc

2010-04-02 Thread PaliGap
anatol_zinc@ wrote: Existence itself is your own direct experience in the here and now. curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: It is a concept, a conclusion we draw from our actual perceptions and sensations and mental awareness. It is not a self supporting ontological identity like matter.

[FairfieldLife] Worlds and worlds, forever and ever, amen (was Sam Harris)

2010-04-02 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: The many worlds? That's as if to say the cat in the proverbial quantum mechanical box is BOTH dead AND alive at the same time, no? No. The many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self Supporting Ontological Identities - was Deepak Chopra failed etc

2010-04-02 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: anatol_zinc@ wrote: Existence itself is your own direct experience in the here and now. curtisdeltablues@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: A dailymail.co.uk article from Bill Led

2010-04-05 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Read http://www.grist.org/article/antarctic-sea-ice-is-increasing Arctic ...Antarctic...so easy to confuse when getting one's *rebuttals* in quick! From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra Blames Own Meditation for Baja Quake - AOL News

2010-04-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: [snip] it is hubris to believe that your state of mind affects the world. [snip] Huh? My state of mind goes I don't get that, I'll post my puzzlement; The world changes. Myriads of bits and bytes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alien Civilizations could be One Million Years Ahead of Earth

2010-06-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: Amongst all the staggering coincidences and apparently rare requirements that common organic molecules have to go through in order to become complex life forms I forgot to mention that the trigger (for their always is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alien Civilizations could be One Million Years Ahead of Earth

2010-06-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Amongst all the staggering coincidences and apparently rare

[FairfieldLife] Being Nothingness

2010-06-23 Thread PaliGap
I sat at Television last night. There was a priest from the new religion - an intermediary between us simple neophytes and those white-coated ascetics and monks that abide close to The Fount Of All Knowledge, lost in their unintelligible ecstasy of Mathematics. What he had to say was quite

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote:. Gotta agree with Sal's assessment here. Judy not only (as you suggested, Curtis) tried to divert attention away from the real topic (Maharishi and

[FairfieldLife] Re: How do YOU view Maharishi?

2010-08-05 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: So what do you now claim to know about the bardo? You just read this shit in a book, even though you only believe in direct experience. You don't believe anything written in books - remember? ;-) What fun! (But I think

[FairfieldLife] Re: How do YOU view Maharishi?

2010-08-05 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: We all deeply care about who MMY was for us. Love him, hate him or anything in between we've never experienced anybody like this. Quite so. I have my little list though. Jimi 'nuff said George Best

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