Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Guidelines for 2015

2015-01-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Whoever wrote this "TM Movement Going Forward" manifesto is either mentally unbalanced or a prankster.  I'm hoping it's a prankster as I'd hate to think that continuing my meditation sessions will lead me to this kind of delusiona

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why did Mother Divine repurchase property in Boone, NC and then again sell? [1 Attachment]

2015-01-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
an't tell if you are joking or not but I want to read the book if you ever publish it - will it come out in Dutch first? And which publisher does this? I am impressed with their willingness to make themselves accessible. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why did Mother Divine repurchase property in Boone, NC and then again sell?

2015-01-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What kinder good time? Heh heh. Wait until my book comes out. Actually, wait until I write it and find a publisher. I just have to comment on this because the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why did Mother Divine repurchase property in Boone, NC and then again sell?

2015-01-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What kinder good time? Heh heh. Wait until my book comes out. Actually, wait until I write it and find a publisher. I just have to comment on this because the other day I went with a friend into Amsterdam to have a five-minute si

Re: [FairfieldLife] New Guidelines for 2015

2015-01-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I assumed your comment was not serious, but my rap was not "needless," because there are people on this forum (and over on the loser forum who come back here for excitement when they need some) who wouldn't, and who would have actually agreed with your comments about George's version "sounding l

Re: [FairfieldLife] New Guidelines for 2015

2015-01-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm not going to comment on how insane this rap is, or how pathetic and guru-whipped anyone who believed it would be. I'll allow those who feel like going down that rabbit hole to do so. My only reply is to jamesalan735's comment that this blurb is "exactly as I remember Maharishi." I can't ag

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-01-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I rest my case. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC   Rick ; Now, they're trying again of the old abusive stump using the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-01-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Let me guess. You scored a bottle of that "I know what you're *really* thinking because I'm so psychic and you're not" hooch that Judy and Jimbo used to drink before posting, right?  :-) I mean, what I did was to state an opinion, present my reasons for holding that opinion, and then even propos

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Meditating Ccommunity...

2015-01-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A Meditating Ccommunity...   Oh what a joke! The Movement thrives off of judging others. Quite literally in at least o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series review: "The Man In The High Castle"

2015-01-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Glad you liked it. One of the things I like most about PKD is that his books -- although they are written in the 50s and 60s and are very much a product of the times he lived in -- *don't* feel "dated." Almost all other science fiction I read that was originally written in that era does.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-01-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I suggested what I did because Doug ("Buck") seems to have lost the ability to form short-term memories. He often can't even remember what exactly it is about a post he's replying to that made him angry enough to reply angrily, so he just trots out some old gripe from the past. This is to some e

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-01-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 9:49 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC   I think you know what to do Buck, you just do not do it. I think you prefer to ineffectually complai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-01-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC   I think p'raps Buck is suffering from PTSD from the vile and hateful posts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tangerine Dreaming, on such a Winter's day

2015-01-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"Thief" is one of my faves, too, both as a soundtrack and as a film. Willie Nelson's character in that film is great, and came as close to defining a workable credo as anyone in the history film: "Lie to no one. If they're somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger,

Re: [FairfieldLife] about maya and Optical Illusions

2015-01-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
These are wonderful. There isn't one I didn't like, but the last one knocked my socks off because it actually took me a few seconds to get it. That moment of snap! when you realize that what you're looking at isn't what you thought you were looking at. From: "email4you mikemail4...@yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Richard Dawkins says some very hateful things

2015-01-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard Dawkins Says Some Very Hateful Things(video) |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Richard Dawkins Says Some Very Hateful Things(video)That he can say such vile things with a smile on his face speaks volumes of his character. (Warning:NSFW or around children, or decent folk) | | | | View

[FairfieldLife] Tangerine Dreaming, on such a Winter's day

2015-01-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
All the leaves are brown but the sky is blue I've been on a walk cuz it feels so new I'm as safe and warm here as I'd be in L.A. Tangerine dreaming on such a Winter's day We've had a remarkably benevolent winter in Leiden this year. There has been only one small smattering of snow that burned of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?

2015-01-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For the life of me I cannot develop the least bit of interest in the "Why?" of consciousness. No answer I can imagine would hold any fascination for me at all, or in my opinion be of any use in the day-to-day living of my life. The only real "of use" question I see about life is the one Buddha

[FairfieldLife] Meditating to music

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
News of the death of Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese at age 70 takes me back to the era in which we meditated to his music. Some -- almost ALL of whom have never actually tried the thing they put down -- don't think meditating to music is "real" meditation. All I can say is that "some" mi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
curity oftheir isolation. This is Jim's basic view of Barry (TurquoiseBee). Most spiritual progress is invisible to the outside world, and religion, which even in Maharishi's view represents a corruption of spiritual ideas (assuming he wasn't lying here), certainly needs l

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Speaking of finding a way to capture things perfectly in one's writing, deep bow for: "So I have every sympathy for Buck but I think he's got to face the facts and accept that FFL has evolved and left him behind." That really, really, really nails it. From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@ya

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Why not continue with your boat metaphor and call it "Liberty_Ship -- the forum with only room for one?"  :-) From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doncha think it's fascinating that Doug/Buck has so little faith in what Maharishi taught that he thinks a few people speaking their minds on an obscure Internet forum can "torpedo the ship" of the TM organization and bring it down? I mean, this IS the same group that claims to believe that TM an

[FairfieldLife] What do you get when you raise kids without religion?

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"High levels of family solidarity and emotional closeness between parents and nonreligious youth, and strong ethical standards and moral values that had been clearly articulated as they were imparted to the next generation." Too bad folks in religious families can't say the same. How secular fa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ah...."Justified" is back and all is well with the world...

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You'll really love it, Ultrarish. I've now watched the first episode twice, and then was so inspired that I went back and watched the first few episodes of season 1, just to refresh my memory. I highly recommend that, because the writers are *definitely* hearkening back to that first episode and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2015-01-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug and the rest of the old crew couldn't wait to jump ship and complain about the old one from on board their new vessel. But here he is back again, still pouring the same old whine. Sounds to me like over on the H.M.S. The_Leak, their new ride is living up to its name and they're already tr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rick's competition

2015-01-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yup. I wrote what I wrote because it was just so WEIRD to run into mentions of Tom Campbell again, literally 50 years after I'd first heard his name. When his name came up again here, I followed a bunch of links and found several that pointed to his time spent in SoCal with Steve Gillette and Li

[FairfieldLife] Brother-Sister Act of the Year Movie Review

2015-01-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Out of curiosity, and just to relax for a few minutes by celebrity-watching, I fast-forwarded through a recording of the recent Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Among all the well-dressed actors and actresses with their equally well-dressed significant others, at one table was sitting Maggie Gyllen

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Yagyas

2015-01-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : God Almighty! What a bunch of greedy sobs! I'm still laughing that they actually have a sanskrit phrase for getting you to cough up more if you've got it. It must be an undeniable part the guru tradition... Match donations to inc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Women more gullible than men - offical

2015-01-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Much better definition from Ambrose Bierce: - CYNIC, n. - A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. *In practice*, those who call others "cynics" are al

[FairfieldLife] Ah...."Justified" is back and all is well with the world...

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's such a pleasure to hear Elmore Leonard-inspired dialogue again and get to luxuriate in the Best  Characters On TV. Especially the women. Natalie Zea as Winona, Joelle Carter as Ava, and Mary Steenburgen as Katharine Hale. No more Alicia Witt as Wendy Crowe, sadly, but they didn't kill her

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Women more gullible than men - offical

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think the word "cynic" is often used inappropriately as an insult to mean "Someone I don't like because they have higher standards than I do." From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Most awesome photo ever taken?

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Shit. I had my eyes closed. Can they take it again? From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Most awesome photo ever taken?   One of them anyway. You have to scroll down and watch it on video as it's a

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Lawson, WHY do you keep using this "12,000" figure for the number of people who learned TM in 2012? I've already pointed out several times that according to the PDF you linked to the actual number was 9,566 people who learned TM that year. It's like you get caught in some kind of OCD loop and ha

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And as we've said and you still obviously cannot comprehend, you're saying that the purpose of doing "group TM + TM-sidhis" is to keep doing a group practice whose efficacy has never been demonstrated. :-) From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Yagyas

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What has always amazed me is how many people believe that the beings they consider "gods" and "goddesses" (and even in the case of Western prayer "God") are so petty and human-like that they can be bribed and cajoled by just offering them enough money and attention. If I were a god, I think I'

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tiny alternate realities

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
SimCity is so yesterday. Or so the gamers in my family (Roland and Maya) tell me. These days they are into Minecraft. I sit amazed as this just-turned-six-year-old creates entire castle complexes out of nothing. They are nothing short of amazing, spreading over acres of virtual area, filled with

[FairfieldLife] Yagyas Of The Rich And Famous (was always been TM rip offs...)

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 What I'd like to know is what percentage of people ordering yagya's comes from newbies who joined up recently and how much is from the established crowd. I don't think you have to wonder about that. What sane p

[FairfieldLife] Tiny alternate realities

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Check into a Tiny Paradise Resort |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Check into a Tiny Paradise ResortYou already know I dig miniatures but another thing I particularly love is bonsai trees, so when you throw the two together, I'm going to get a little over | | | | View on www.messynessychi..

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
ounder's behavior and POV very truthfully and succinctly. Kudos. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and peo

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 I can't disagree with any of your history of the TMO's evolving cosmology and its associated "technologies" but I wonder if you are right about whether it will die out as the old guard wander off? They are teaching a lot and while it seems implausible to me that many people a

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I can only roll my eyes at all of this. I bailed from the TM movement decades before this level of craziness set in, and simply cannot conceive of anyone so unintelligent and gullible as to believe that paying their "non-religious

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]"   As I said, the yagyas are expressly used as a fund-raiser for the 9,000 yogic flyer-pandits to be living in teh Brahmasthan. How much was or is being skimmed off the top, I don't know. And as we've said and you still obviously cannot comprehend, you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Women more gullible than men - offical

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As the old joke goes, their sense of discrimination is all fucked up because for most of their lives they've been told by men that four inches is really ten inches.  :-) From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I can only roll my eyes at all of this. I bailed from the TM movement decades before this level of craziness set in, and simply cannot conceive of anyone so unintelligent and gullible as to believe that paying their "non-religious" organization large sums of money to chant to gods and goddesses

[FairfieldLife] What Parisians think of FOX News and its fear of Paris

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"Oh mon dieu...a couscous!!!" French Comics Totally Troll Fox News |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | French Comics Totally Troll Fox NewsDon't mess with Paris. Fox News is learning the hard way that insults to the City of Light will not go unchallenged. The network has already been threatene

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique   You have your interests, I have mine. This is true, and all that needs to be sa

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" You're looking at gross revenue (which includes expensing donations and crediting revenue to make up the difference for scholarships and grants) and what was actually paid to the TM teachers, which is found in Schedule 'O' at the very bottom of the fil

Re: [FairfieldLife] Big Bang!

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: salyavin808 Ha! Shaun the sheep. Excellent. You do watch some quality TV, or is it your daughter's favourite? Shaun is a favourite of the entire family, adults and kids alike.  Same here. I always liked quality animation, s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Big Bang!

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 Ha! Shaun the sheep. Excellent. You do watch some quality TV, or is it your daughter's favourite? Shaun is a favorite of the entire family, adults and kids alike. For the Shaun-deprived, this is what we're talking about: Shaun The Sheep Full Episodes best Collection ♥♥♥ Shaun

Re: [FairfieldLife] always been TM rip offs and people who imitate the technique

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Uh, Lawson, your figures below are inaccurate. If you read sections 4a, 4b, and 4c of the PDF you linked to, during 2012 the reporting organization taught: -- TM in venues open to the general public to 8,093 people, for $9,354,895     ($1,155.92 per person) -- TM to students in public and private

Re: [FairfieldLife] Big Bang!

2015-01-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm happy to see that science is finally giving Bitzer the attention he deserves: Oh. You said "Blitzars," not Bitzer. Never mind. I guess he has to go back to tending the sheep. From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:09 AM Subject: [Fa

[FairfieldLife] Success Story

2015-01-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
5. This Guy (reposted from my fave Paris blogger, Messy Nessy Chic) Meet Mason Wartman. Mason left his job on Wall Street to start up his pizza business in Philly.Mason sells a slice of pizza for $1 in his restaurant. His customer’s started paying it forward by paying for a slices of pizza for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rosie Screws the Movement

2015-01-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Such a hilarious nightmare for the movement! I felt my old TM teacher hairs stand up listening to such a hodge podge of meditation information that contradicted how we taught it. I wonder if Nancy teaches it this way or if Rosie

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rick's competition

2015-01-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"   Evita is very easy on the eyes. :-D Information Machine: Tom Campbell | The Nature of Reality, Consciousness & Evolution Part 1, January 15, 2011 BTW, Campbell started his quest into spirituality with TM when he was a grad student. B

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rosie Screws the Movement

2015-01-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While I appreciate the many levels of humorous irony at work here, I'm gonna pass on watching the video because -- let's face it -- anyone who is going to go to Rosie O'Donnell to learn to meditate kinda deserves what they get. If I were to pick a "TM celebrity" from whom I'd be willing to lear

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series review: "The Man In The High Castle"

2015-01-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The fascinating thing from my point of view is that the TV series' portrayal of life under the oppression of its Nazi rulers appears very little different from things we see on the news every day -- police able to kill people without fear of anything happening to them, everybody being surveiled

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ha ha! I knew it!

2015-01-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bhairitu and Lawson are obviously still pretending that they didn't bow down to Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva when they learned TM.  :-) From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [F

[FairfieldLife] White Actors Shut Out At Blacademy Awards

2015-01-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Fascinating how a tiny change in perspective can change everything, isn't it? White Actors Shut Out At Blacademy Awards |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | White Actors Shut Out At Blacademy AwardsAccording to a Blacademy spokesperson, "It's not that white actors weren't good enough ... It's just that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Be there or be square

2015-01-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Saw her many times.Sorry to burst your bubble, but she was...uh...uneven in her performances. Meaning often slightly off-key, or so stoned as to forget lyrics. But it was the 60s, so nobody noticed...  From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent

Re: [FairfieldLife] The gun that won the West

2015-01-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My guess is that nearby they'll find a human skeleton and a bunch of fossilized bear poop. The guy really shoulda taken his rifle with him when he went to take a dump...   :-) From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series review: "The Man In The High Castle"

2015-01-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
S3raphita, so far the TV show is deviating in minor ways from the novel, which means that it's gonna "be its own thing" rather than even *try* to be completely faithful to the original. It's PKD, so a lot of the appreciation is going to be found in the details of how he describes things, and thu

[FairfieldLife] TV series review: "The Man In The High Castle"

2015-01-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So far, this "series" may consist of only the pilot episode, released (I think) yesterday via Amazon. I get conflicting reports on it, depending on what article I read -- some say it's a 4-part special, some say it's a "teaser" to see if they have enough of an audience to justify a full series,

[FairfieldLife] Be there or be square

2015-01-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ticket of the year. The surviving 4 original Dead members, Bruce Hornsby, Trey Anastasio from Phish, for three nights in the last stadium they played with Jerry. In all seriousness I expect scalper prices for these tickets will set new records. It's a real "Either you're on the bus or you're off

[FairfieldLife] War, the aftermath

2015-01-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Very powerful article (in two parts) from National Geographic, possibly of interest to some here because it's about what constitutes "identity" when you've had a catastrophic brain injury. Like having a bomb blow up in your face. To help rehabilitate soldiers who have PTSD after such an event, o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Origin of the Universe and Species

2015-01-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"   I am sure there are other summaries of the rise and fall of the Roman empire. Languages change over time, some vanish, some hang on in niche markets. Latin is used at the Vatican, in medicine and biology. Sanskrit is not spoken any more except b

[FairfieldLife] Duh...that's why they call it "Malarkey"

2015-01-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
'Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Says He Made It All Up |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | 'Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Says He Made It All UpA bestselling Christian book that claims to detail a boy's trip to heaven and his return to Earth is being pulled from stores after one of its co-auth

Re: [FairfieldLife] Welcome to the new age

2015-01-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think it's spelled "Anthropobscene." From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 3:08 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Welcome to the new age   A new epoch known as the Anthropocene began when the first atomic bomb w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Origin of the Universe

2015-01-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Re "How did God acquire the male sex ('Him')?": Can't you guess? Re "Russell and co., certainly did not care for metaphysics of the scholasticism sort, but I doubt the arguments about being would have scared him": Funnily enough Russell himself once r

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: AOL wants to make changing your religion illegal in India.

2015-01-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well said. We'll get real chefs and good food, too, while the non-sane religious nuts eat only kale. From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: AOL wants to make changing your religion illegal in India.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Anime review: Your lie in April

2015-01-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" Anyone who has ever been through the biting-your-hands-til-they-bleed, head-pounding, hand-cramping, practice-until-you-collapse from exhaustion and/or lack-of-food, OCD behavior mandated to become a professional classical musician, can appreciate the

[FairfieldLife] The Competitive Foursome: Music As Soap Opera

2015-01-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just sayin'... https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152094507698546

[FairfieldLife] Charlie Hebdo

2015-01-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Because I am almost certainly the only person on this forum able to hold an actual copy of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo in their hands, I guess I should comment on it. I think it's pretty respectful, overall, and of almost all parties involved. (Some deserve no respect.) It's a combinatio

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Snowmen deemed anti-Islamic...

2015-01-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The madness is now unstoppable. Schoolbook authors have been told not to write about sausages or pigs for fear of causing offence. Guidance from leading educational publisher the Oxford University Press prohibits authors from incl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Origin of the Universe and Species

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 5:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Origin of the Universe and Species   A few thoughts that may lead nowhere . . . At least some of the experiences we have, for example lo

[FairfieldLife] The question every American Ex-Pat has to deal with

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And a really good answer to it, from an ex-pat living in Norway: Is the U.S. Crazy? |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Is the U.S. Crazy?Inquiring minds from around the world want to know. | | | | View on www.alternet.org | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From my best friend in Paris

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cool. Thanks, Alex. I'll have a real one to look at later tonight because my friend actually stood in the line I posted a photo of earlier and scored a copy. But I like that this Redditer took the trouble to scan and post it specifically to keep people from profiting from it on Ebay. I have th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From my best friend in Paris

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If you really have to have one, you can get a copy for a few hundred dollars on Ebay. Seriously. Go to Ebay and search for Charlie Hebdo. There's one for £530! Is that a gross prophet margin or what? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogro

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: R. Crumb on Mohammed's ass

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Your post reminds me of one of the best books I've ever read, "My Name Is Red," by Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk. It's a murder mystery set in 16th century Istanbul. Each of its chapters is narrated by a different author, some of whom are not human. It's brilliant. Oh, and the murder mystery i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From my best friend in Paris

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: aryavazhi   Great photo. It also shows the difference between America and France: In America you get people lining up for the latest Iphone or Ipad, in France for a satyrical magazine. Good point, and really true. In France they still respect the intellect. But to be accurate, I thin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From my best friend in Paris

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've often felt that the best thing God -- in this case in His guise as Allah -- could do to prove His existence to us doubting-Thomas atheists would be to consider anyone who believes that killing heretics in His name would earn them a bunch of virgins in the afterlife "pre-martyred," just for

Re: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:06 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning   WTF is this world coming to!  Tell me about it. The next heretical insult that the West perpetr

[FairfieldLife] From my best friend in Paris

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The line this morning to buy a copy of Charlie Hebdo.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: R. Crumb on Mohammed's ass

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : >From an interview with a reporter onthis event, the guys who attacked may have >never even read theKoran.  They were just stupid fools who wanted to get their >namesin the history books and maybe get those virgins sooner.  This isa >problem that it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: R. Crumb on Mohammed's ass

2015-01-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The cover of the latest edition of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been published in French media, and depicts the Prophet Muhammad. The cover shows the Prophet holding a sign rea

Re: [FairfieldLife] Snowmen deemed anti-Islamic...

2015-01-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yep, as I was saying a few days ago when Feste was urging us to "respect" Muslims' religious beliefs, how exactly are we supposed to feel anything but disgust for a group that really believes it's permissible to order a hit on anyone who creates an image of a human being? I know that the Guard

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re,member, no matter how badly your day is going...

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Steve's just being protective, because other than himself Emily is the only member of the old Mean Girls Club who still comes to FFL to do "Get Barry" drive-bys. Steve liked the MGC days, because it was a perfect cover for never having anything intelligent to say. All he had to do was wait for

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV review: "Babylon"

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
us. I've downloaded but not yet seen "Transparent," and clearly I must watch it, because it's obviously a real phenomenon. Of course I'm jazzed by them recognizing Maggie Gyllenhaal for "The Honourable Woman." On 01/11/2015 11:46 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re,member, no matter how badly your day is going...

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 6:01 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re,member, no matter how badly your day is going...   Well, had to click on this.pretty cute cow, I'd say. Barry, what *are* you in

[FairfieldLife] Re,member, no matter how badly your day is going...

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
...at least you're not stuck in a fence being laughed at by a cow.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well said. The very notion that meditation is something one "has" to do, without fail, twice a day -- and the same way every time -- is contrary to the entire concept of what meditation is and what it's for. In this sense, a case can be made that Maharishi was far more of a drug pusher than he w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If it needs any clarification, I meant they were ill-advised to publish those cartoons and I wish they hadn't. There is such a thing as abuse of free speech. From what I have seen of what this mag

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Heh. My impression is that FFL is stronger and more vibrant than ever. Lots of people are having in-depth discussions about things that actually interest them, free for once from the constant terrorism of people like Jim and Nabby trying to silence them. Me, I'm rarely interested in these topi

[FairfieldLife] Stanley Kubrick's Boxes

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a documentary that will be more fascinating for fans of Stanley Kubrick than it was for me, cuz I'm not one. I think he was a voyeuristic filmmaker who very probably suffered from Asperger's and didn't have any feeling for what it is to be human. So he -- dare I say it -- had his staff ta

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French   I was very into spirituality when I came across Maharishi'

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French

2015-01-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While I can appreciate Feste's feelings about TM ("I've been SAVED!!") I can't share them, because when I started TM I *wasn't* a drug-addicted mess headed for self-destruction like so many on this forum claim to have been. I'd been there, done that with drugs, given them up, and had already tri

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV review: "Babylon"

2015-01-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
day which is a Spanish sci-fi film with Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Automata/70304989 On 01/11/2015 11:05 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   This is theoretically a Sundance Channel production (I think), but on the othe

[FairfieldLife] R. Crumb on Mohammed's ass

2015-01-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Great interview, great points of view, great honesty. That's really the Robert Crumb I knew... Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in ...The ex-pat artist Robert Crumb, who has lived in

[FairfieldLife] TV review: "Babylon"

2015-01-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is theoretically a Sundance Channel production (I think), but on the other hand it's being shown on Channel 4 in the UK and is so accent-intensive that most Americans might not be able to understand 80% of the dialogue, so I really don't know where you can actually see it. That said, it's r

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Americans have got to stop projecting their own FEAR onto the French

2015-01-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
x27;s just projecting his fear of and dislike of people being able to say what they want about TM onto the French situation. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife]

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