[FairfieldLife] Re: Educating Barry, Shemp, and MDixon

2006-09-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you imagine if the news media always gave both sides of any story they do, and do it fairly? Every issue would be like a trial on air and nobody would watch any news. Speaking as someone so weird he reads the news of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classic flaw in IQ test

2006-09-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the Tickle adverts that greet online readers of FFL showed a perfect example of a flawed IQ test question: Which doesn't belong? 1) Fly 2) Ant 3) Spider 4) Butterfly I assume they wanted spider

[FairfieldLife] EXPERIMENT: Does knowledge of one's posting habits affect those posting habits?

2006-09-14 Thread TurquoiseB
- 263 / 13.4% sparaig - 244 / 12.4% shempmcgurk - 145 / 7.4% turquoiseb - 136 / 6.9% Rick Archer - 110 / 5.6% new.morning - 89 jim_flanegin - 80 MDixon6569 - 78 curtisdeltablues - 58 off_world_beings - 54 Peter - 53 wmurphy77 - 52 Robert Gimbel - 50 Sal Sunshine - 47 Paul

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi desires to know intention of ALL his Governors and Sidhas

2006-09-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does MMY think we are his slaves or something? Actually, I suspect he does. If you think about it, MMY is a person who has only had one strong relationship in his entire life, with Guru Dev. And the nature of that rela-

[FairfieldLife] Re: Constant Ignoring or Ignorance of FFL Guidelines

2006-09-14 Thread TurquoiseB
Jim: it is unrealistic to think anyone is going to follow such a set of guidelines and/or enforce them. Absolutely. As nice it would be if FFL were a bit nicer, I think most of us here have been around the block enough times with the TMO to see that any attempt to *make* it a nicer place

[FairfieldLife] Re: EXPERIMENT: Does knowledge of one's posting habits affect those posting habi

2006-09-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Will those who post way too much reduce their posting frequency? Will those who don't post much start posting more? I don't know either...I just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Constant Ignoring or Ignorance of FFL Guidelines

2006-09-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reminding people that there are 15 existing guidelines, and asking how we can get back to the days when people spontaneously followed them -- how is that equivalent to the excesses [implied] of the TMO over the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Constant Ignoring or Ignorance of FFL Guidelines

2006-09-14 Thread TurquoiseB
% *** 19 / 15.2% (up 1.8%) 2. sparaig - 244 / 12.4% *** 15 / 12.0% (down 0.4%) 3. shempmcgurk - 145 / 7.4% *** 15 / 12.0% (up 4.6%) 4. new.morning - 89 / 4.5% *** 10 / 8.0% (up 3.5%) 5. TurquoiseB - 136 / 6.9% *** 5 / 4.0% (down 2.8%) 6. Rick Archer - 110 / 5.6% *** 4 / 3.2% (down 2.4%) Although as you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Constant Ignoring or Ignorance of FFL Guidelines

2006-09-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TOTAL POSTS** 10/1-13: 1960 *** 10/14: 125 Don't you mean 9/1-13 and 9/14? Or is this some vedic jyotish thing that I don't understand? :) Excellent point. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-15 Thread TurquoiseB
I agree. It was actually a very scholarly speech, delivered to a scholarly audience. Everything he said was well-quoted, and attributed to the people who said it; none of it was his ideas alone. That said, what the Islamic community is overreacting to is that the sources he quoted really took a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading MMY's comments on the BG it's obvious that intellectually understanding higher states is required, lest confusion should set in. And in many other traditions, they would say that for anyone who actually

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: The current conflict continues as long as the West thinks that by killing enough of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
Irmeli, I'm with you on the Pope having done nothing really wrong in this scenario, and that in fact he was trying to spread peace, not conflict. I think that one of the things that many people are missing is how *medieval* this whole tempest in a pisspot is. That is, they're missing the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Americans as a whole don't care whether the people in the Third World live or die. That's why they elect leaders who don't care whether

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 7:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What you're seeing in the Arab world, in my opinion, is not *just* religious fundamentalism, but a sense of rage at having been treated like the niggers

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Gotta agree. I currently live in France, which has MORE than its share of problems. They're *also* a remarkably Self Important culture. But one of the things

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:13 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: At least in the major cities, many if not most of the people you speak to *can* understand and speak English. It's just that unless their income is completely

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just learned to say hi and thank you in the languages of the different Asian communities I live with. I always had good luck with the phrase, We've come for your daughters, Chuck. When properly translated,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Maps Vlodrop

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fehwp It looks like the Corleone Family compound on Long Island. You do know that the Corleone compound on Lake Tahoe, the one

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope's speech on Faith and reason

2006-09-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a 25 hour work week (or whatever the maximum hours the French unions have negotiated for themselves) is NOT a basic human right, Barry. 35 hours, Shemp. But you have the origin of this shorter work week

[FairfieldLife] Re: Margarine = Global Warming Fearmongering

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New.morning, do less thinking for yourself and just adopt my point of view on all things. Life will be much easier for you. It's finally happened...Shemp has become Maharishi... :-) To subscribe, send a

[FairfieldLife] Re: this....just in from a THMD gal

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today it was announced on the Invincible America Course that Dr. Howard Settle has agreed to cover the scholarships of those who need it for the Invincibility Course. This day will always be celebrated as a special

[FairfieldLife] Re: this....just in from a THMD gal

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, larry.potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It does call MMY's bluff on the whole thing. Let's see what hitting his numbers actually can do. good point, however even if we

[FairfieldLife] Re: this....just in from a THMD gal

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: Today it was announced on the Invincible America Course that Dr. Howard Settle

[FairfieldLife] Re: this....just in from a THMD gal

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not convinced they'll hit the numbers. But if they do, I'm convinced of the long- term effects on the 2000 losers who do take them up on this offer. Make that I'm *concerned about* the long-term effects

[FairfieldLife] Re: this....just in from a THMD gal

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: Today it was announced on the Invincible America Course that Dr. Howard Settle

[FairfieldLife] Re: this....just in from a THMD gal

2006-09-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, larry.potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It does call MMY's bluff on the whole thing. Let's see what hitting his numbers actually can do. good point, however even if we can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that TM teachers in the 60's and 70's were heavy into drugs before deciding to become TM teachers. and that THAT is what all the legends spring from: super-heavy unstressing of heavy dopers. Detox isn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember: this is the guy who told Andrew Skolnick that TM teachers were taught to lie. And this is Sparaig, who *still* hasn't gotten that what this admission means, if true, is that *his* teachers were taught to lie to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember: this is the guy who told Andrew Skolnick that TM teachers were taught to lie Was it your experience of TTC that leads you to challenge that statement about what teachers were taught? Neither

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Remember: this is the guy who told Andrew Skolnick that TM teacherwere taught to lie Was it your experience of TTC that leads you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: Remember: this is the guy who told Andrew Skolnick that TM teachers were taught

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Absolutely. About the contents of the puja, What was the lie you were taught to tell about the puja? Several: -- When asked, Are the names of any Hindu gods mentioned in the puja? -- answer No. This is obviously not true. -- When asked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a history of Castrati singers man's casual attitude towards another man's manhood is dark. This verse inspired a whole cult which swept through prisons in the South US to take him at his word. I am

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for pitching in Turq. As we both know, there are no number of examples that will be considered proof. And if one believer teacher comes up to lie to protect daddy MMY, that will be considered the final

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's hugely ironic for Barry, who is a documented chronic, incorrigible liar, to take such a tough stance on people who say things not quite the way he would say them and declare them to be liars. And it must be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither Sparaig nor Judy Stein ever attended TTC. The things they parrot here as if they were Great Cosmic Truths are things that were taught to them by people just like us, who had been trained to lie to them by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: I approved everyone who ever applied at the centers I worked at. Several of them were blackballed by other teachers, for greivous sins like reading off-the-program books, living together while

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: TM is not that unique in its process. It is called yogic meditation in other circles. The actual use of the bijas particularly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Debbie henning -- keep anonymous

2006-09-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: [...] When are you *ever* going to see a Nablus showing up for a course, or a Sparaig, or a Peter Klutz, or a Judy Stein? They just talk. That's all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Curtis Blues Video

2006-09-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my hat for the music video ring. It took me a while to ride my video software to pull this off. Check it out: http://www.curtisblues.com/videos.htm Very nice. I'm not a big blues afficionado, but my

[FairfieldLife] Re: effortlessness

2006-09-20 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to follow new.mornings posting inspirations, i've started a new thread instead of intjecting this into the old one :) Good plan. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: effortlessness

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, vajradhatu108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Effortless in TM spin was merely a way of saying it was easy. Later it became an amalgamated as part of the dogma--and we all simply believed. And yea the dogma became more important than the easiness, and yea the

[FairfieldLife] Re: How many of you agree with Chavez

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So tonight on the news I saw Venezuelan President Chavez call Bush the Devil, claim he smelled sulphur from Bush being there from the previous day and then Chavez -- quite seriously -- crossed himself. I've heard

[FairfieldLife] Re: effortlessness

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking you know how TM is supposed to work in any given moment is just another Buddha to be slain (JABTBS). And yet YOU are the one who goes a little insane every time someone suggests that a little subtle intention

[FairfieldLife] Re: effortlessness

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: OF COURSE there is some subtle effort in TM. But don't tell the Duh folks here (Sparaig and Judy), because it's MUCH more fun watching them jump

[FairfieldLife] The TB mantras: UNIQUE and SUPERIOR

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
Something Sparaig said in another thread just solved the mystery of his posts for me. It's been so obvious for so long, and yet I just now got it. His compulsive participation here and on a.m.t. can be completely explained as having one simple source: the need to feel special. IMO, he and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Current MUM Review

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Medieval science at its best. I also find very funny how tony very conspicuously leaves out any mention of the genitals in mapping the body and the veda. Remember the recent threads about castration? These illustrations

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TB mantras: UNIQUE and SUPERIOR

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: It's a relief in a way to have finally figured all this out. It's been obvious for quite a while, but I kept searching for some more noble reason

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TB mantras: UNIQUE and SUPERIOR

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
or so ago: authfriend - 263 / 13.4% sparaig - 244 / 12.4% shempmcgurk - 145 / 7.4% turquoiseb - 136 / 6.9% Rick Archer - 110 / 5.6% Interesting arithmetic there, Barry. Good point. I was thinking of this past week, the period since I posted the first top poster statistics

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TB mantras: UNIQUE and SUPERIOR

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: It's a relief in a way to have finally figured all this out. It's been

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TB mantras: UNIQUE and SUPERIOR

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy, it would be far more interesting to do a word count for all posts, minus quotations or quoted articles, and I'm sure Turq will exceed both of you easily. Hey! No fair! If you weed out other people's quotes from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now Its (Sadly) REALLY Official: FFL is AMT

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
Hey new.morning, I actually agree with you. But let's get more specific here. Since you're the one who wanted to set guidelines and enforce them, how many posts do YOU think I should limit myself to per day? Should I hold myself to your standard? During the month of September (so far) you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now Its (Sadly) REALLY Official: FFL is AMT

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
Hey new.morning, I actually agree with you. But let's get more specific here. Since you're the one who wanted to set guidelines and enforce them, how many posts do YOU think I should limit myself to per day? Should I hold myself to your standard? During the month of September (so far) you sent

[FairfieldLife] Re: The TB mantras: UNIQUE and SUPERIOR

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: So much? Yes, so much. Make a comparision of word counts. Ok. I responded to a post of yours with 10 lines of text and 92 words, which included

[FairfieldLife] When does it become dominating the forum?

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The rest of us can talk all we want about cutting down the number of egoranters who dominate the group, but these two are just going to keep

[FairfieldLife] Re: When does it become dominating the forum?

2006-09-21 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: [...] On alt.meditation.transcendental it took Judy ten years to make 17,337 posts. On Fairfield Life, in only a little more than a year, she has

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate 55%off FFL Posts by Three Posters. Give them time-outs?

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
months in a row, suspend their posting privileges permanently. Simple, effective, and fair. Speaking as someone who has posted WAY too much in the past, I would have NO PROBLEM abiding by such a policy. Unc/Barry/TurquoiseB To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate 55%off FFL Posts by Three Posters. Give them time-outs?

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
Oh, having realized what would happen if you guys decide to implement a solution like the one I just proposed, I add an addendum to it at the end: So I'd vote for a solution similar to what he [new.morning] proposed: -- Given an appropriate start date (say the beginning of a calendar month)

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate 55%off FFL Posts by Three Posters. Give them time-outs?

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
they want to say in 150 to 200 posts is not just socially unacceptable, but approaching sociopath status. Unc/Barry/TurquoiseB To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit

[FairfieldLife] Vote here for the Aliens solution

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: It appears that the people who overpost are not stepping up and saying

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vote here for the Aliens solution

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Given Sparaig's reply and the incredibly adolescent hostility behind it, and given Judy's failure to acknowledge that the number of her posts

[FairfieldLife] The C word (was Re: Vote here for the Aliens solution)

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who have joined FFL within the past year, FFL has always had ups and downs, wild posters, characters flaring up, overposters etc -They stay for a few months, seem to recover, continue on at FFL or leave and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vote here for the Aliens solution

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
Just one last statistic, because it's relevant to Alex's solution -- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Knowing Rick's moderation style, the likelihood of him booting any of you guys is nil. However, during your [Barry's] last little vacation, things

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vote here for the Aliens solution

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/22/06 8:52 AM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry, I appreciate your honesty about dealing with your role in all of this. Thank you. You need to ignore the others, though. You so obviously

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vote here for the Aliens solution

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/22/06 10:46 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess as to who will be her replacement targets will be Shemp and Vaj (of course), Paul, geezerfreak, you, Sal, and pretty much anyone else she

[FairfieldLife] Vote here for the new.morning solution

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus I suggest: * a limit of 70 posts for any 7 day period. Thats 10 posts per day. * voluntary monitors. Thus it would not take any of the moderators time -- other than to pull the plug on someone, and reinstate

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM - video on YouTube

2006-09-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0smU-7FHzyE This is a video she did for her anthropology class, the explanation tells us. The theme is: is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Guru Papers by Kramer

2006-09-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Posted a few years ago but worth reading again. Excerpt from The Guru Papers: Most cults follow a predictable progression of two distinct stages, which indicates that what is involved is more a function of how

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Domes Revisited

2006-09-23 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Oh my God, her! She's an immature mood-maker supreme who wears army boots. I tried three times to get through it. Just couldn't do it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Domes Revisited

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for her article in the Source, I happened to overhear someone in a restaurant here in Fairfield--an out-ot-town visitor—talking on his cell phone about this article and how he had been inspired by it. So not everyone

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Domes Revisited

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Fine. I'm sure knowing her in person is differewnt than knowing her through her posts. I do have one question, though. Why did she change her

[FairfieldLife] Great Pope controversy one-liner :-)

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Pope Benedict offered these words of apology: We're sorry that people felt bad. That's known in Vatican terminology as a mea-kinda. It's a time-honored tradition in the Catholic Church dating back to the Inquisition when Pope Innocent IV said, We deeply regret the fact that so many non-

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Domes Revisited

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and people also filter out this stuff out and do just go because they have an experience with the spiritual practice of it that is not necessarily the TMorg or MMY but is a lot of people meditating in

[FairfieldLife] What do the domefolk think about their low numbers?

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However what you are saying evidently has a lot of merit in the whole story of how it has gone here in FF for MMY and the TMorg. What is the number, 27K governors or tm-sidhas were taught? About a million TM

[FairfieldLife] Fairfield Restaurants WAS Re: The Domes Revisited

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vashti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: As for her article in the Source, I happened to overhear someone in a restaurant here in Fairfield--an out-ot-town

[FairfieldLife] Any Firefly / Serenity fans?

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Firefly was a short-lived TV series that ran for only a year on -- of all places -- the Fox network. Partly because of a carryover fan base from the Buffy and Angel series (also produced by Firefly's creator Joss Whedon), it developed a fanatical following, but was canceled mid-season by Fox.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Any Firefly / Serenity fans?

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I watched the series on DVD a couple years ago. I would say it is a space western. Exactly. The movie Serenity however didn't do as much for me (I saw it in a theater). I thought it was better than the series.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Any Firefly / Serenity fans?

2006-09-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Firefly was a short-lived TV series that ran for only a year on -- of all places -- the Fox network. Yup, great stuff. I'm actually starting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Doomsday Message From Raja John Konhaus today

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the TBs of TM are, without a shred of doubt, living in a cult. I agree, but I'll add another dimension to it. As you say, the point is not in recognizing that one has been part of a cult, but in getting *past* the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Doomsday Message From Raja John Konhaus today

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh it does, your highness. I've even changed my mantra to cuntanada. The bliss is overflowing! Tomorrow I'll change it to Sri Sri Cuntanada Namah Namah! Unity is mine at last!! Now you've done it, and given

[FairfieldLife] Remember the overposting discussion?

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
Just a Monday Morning Update... Remember how you hoped that those who overpost might actually catch a clue from the feedback being given to them, and cut down on their babbling a little bit? Remember new.morning's suggestion for what a sane posting limit might be -- 70 posts in 7 days?

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why Is It Important To Make TM Into a Cult?'

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why it is important to some to make TMO into a cult; And then try to inform others to save them from making their own decisions, concerning their relationship with Maharishi, and the movement. Everyone

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why Is It Important To Make TM Into a Cult?'

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) The Iranians diss the Jews, and he get so terrified that he advocates nuking them here on FFL. A few folks describe the TMO differently than he'd like the group described, and he gets so fearful and

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why Is It Important To Make TM Into a Cult?'

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, larry.potter larry.potter@ wrote: since Barry is not his body, i guess he wouldn't mind if anyone of us would blow his head off. :) Larry, please don't give him ideas

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Why Is It Important To Make TM Into a Cult?'

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Snip) But as far as trashing Maharishi or his movement; That just isn't my cup of tea, sorry... But I won't hold it against you; Your just a member of the 'Crow Tribe', I reacon You can't help it- you live to mock

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Many Cults Do you / Did You Belong to?

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turq, Were TM and Rama your only cults. No others? Then Or now? I count about ten for me. About 8-12 for others I know. Either I am way cultier than you, or you have yet to face the reality of your cult past and

[FairfieldLife] Future News Today

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
19 Year Old Diebold Technician Wins US Presidency http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=281 :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: Free Rounding!: 'Boomers Vs. Gen- XYZ...'

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've worked in the games industry for many years. One interesting thing is that many of the game programmers don't play games. I personally find them boring and a waste of time and wince when I actually have to

[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. nixes 2000 pundits

2006-09-25 Thread TurquoiseB
He emphasized that we MUST get enough flyers here (or meditators who want to become flyers) to get the super-radiance number for USA. Musterbation makes you go blind. Call me cynical, but isn't it a lot like the entire resources of the TM organization have been mobilized to provide the

[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S. nixes 2000 pundits

2006-09-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: Sending the mayor an incorporated American city is slightly more official-sounding then someone from the TMO asking for the same thing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Many Cults Do you / Did You Belong to?

2006-09-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of calling the TMO a cult, personally I find its far more meaningful in terms of discussion and communication to say: The TMO is a strongly top-down organization, making moderate claims of being a unique path

[FairfieldLife] Re: Test of Brahmin Consciousness

2006-09-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffia1120 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend from out of town who is in the domes 7-8 hours a day. She told me last night that in the Monday morning meeting, people were being asked to call their friends to try to get them to come to the course.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Olbermann video today

2006-09-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.alternet.org/ Wow. Edward R. Murrow would be proud. Who is this guy? Does he actually have a forum on broadcast TV? (You have to remember that I live in France and don't get American TV unless it's been put

[FairfieldLife] Re: gross...

2006-09-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The oddest thing I ate recently (last summer in Austin, TX) was rattlesnake- just an appetizer-sized dollop. It was pretty tasteless except for the spices in it, but I swear I could feel this sickly green aura

[FairfieldLife] Re: Upcoming CIC Schedule, Costs

2006-09-28 Thread TurquoiseB
Full lotus? I know my inerest reflects my ordinary unenlightened state, but for guys like me the physical world is dominant. Thanks. Grasshopper, you are right on the verge of satori. Actually I am on the verge of using spell check to correct my inerest to interest. I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: gross...

2006-09-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The oddest thing I ate recently (last summer in Austin, TX) was rattlesnake- just an appetizer-sized dollop. It was pretty tasteless except for the spices in it, but I

[FairfieldLife] Re: gross...

2006-09-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No man, peaty is bliss. Peaty is flavor. It is deep. Peaty is deep flavor. I agree. Yet another reason to respect Johnny Depp. :-) If I ever run into him (which is not out of the question because he has a

[FairfieldLife] Re: MAHARISHI HANDS TRANSITION TO US

2006-09-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He has handed the responsibility of continuing the transition and creating of a new era of peace and progress to us, to Dr. Bevan Morris, the Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, to our Rajas

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