[FairfieldLife] What a sane moderator of Fairfield Life would do at this point

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In four words (with no brackets or ellipses to pretend I'm not cursing when I am), given the events of the last few days what I believe a moderator of Fairfield Life would do if they were truly sane is:     SHUT THE FUCK UP Y'know...sorta like what

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What a sane moderator of Fairfield Life would do at this point

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for replying, Salyavin. You make excellent points, plus the fact that you have replied to my post makes it more difficult for someone to suddenly make it disappear if he turns out *not* to appreciate the fact that we're both *trying to help him*.  :-) The simple guideline I suggest

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The World is getting better?

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com snip to What happened to the Towers of Invincibility and all the yogi flying and yagya groups? Ah, the seductively simple solution, wouldn't that be great if that worked? Close your eyes and when you wake up the world is a better place. Magical. If I

How Did You Find FFL? (was Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The World is getting better?)

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com snip to What happened to the Towers of Invincibility and all the yogi flying and yagya groups? Ah, the seductively simple solution, wouldn't that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : This has really become too sad to get involved with. It's good fun though. You always got a lot of Bang for your Buck on FFL! No, it really ISN'T fun. It's horrifically sad. One can have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While you are entitled to your opinion, feste, I think you are forgetting what my post was drawing attention TO. That is, someone actually trying to DEFINE the moderation of an Internet forum by comparing it to being a cop dealing with an unruly crowd of rough looking people and being forced to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for pointing out the relevance of what I said in the offending post, Xeno. I'm going to paste it in below so that I can comment a bit further on its relevance -- not only to TM but to the person who reacted to what I said like a hysterical little girl. From: anartax...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This has really become too sad to get involved with. Rick, please do something to help Doug -- like removing him from his position as moderator. The responsibility and the genuine impossibility of the task have clearly caused him to become mentally ill. It was entertaining for a while when he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
All of what I say below said, and meant, I don't think I'm alone here in saying that if the poster banned for outing someone turns out to be Tedious Dickhead, we can consider Doug's short tenure as FFL moderator a total success.  :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Speaking of the Yahoo-Groups Guidelines, I just wanted to let you know that the 1,680-word rant that someone keeps spamming to Fairfield Life in violation of the guidelines has shown up

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Speaking of the Yahoo-Groups Guidelines, I just wanted to let you know that the 1,680-word rant that someone keeps spamming to Fairfield Life in violation of the guidelines has shown up again. Some hacker seems to have pasted it into your post, just after the announcement. Much of it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Yes it reads like continued harassmentand ranting at this point. It is getting time for folks to relinquishhere this antagonized feeling about the groups-guidelines and to moveforward in

[FairfieldLife] The REAL reason TM TBs want to moderate FFL

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buh By

2015-06-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for explaining that, Curtis. It adds credence to my intuitive inner feeling when I read Doug's announcement -- that by adopting the Royal we, he was trying to take credit for something that someone with more integrity than he has had done. Message received about not speaking ill of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Expletive vs Explicative

2015-06-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just goes to show you that there are people on this world so fragile that if they hear an expletive, it affects them so strongly that they lose the ability to be explicative. From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And thus, the formulae to grasp the secret of life is delineated. Secret of life, my ass. I find this post almost completely offensive, especially the next-to-the-last paragraph, which is as egregious an example of personalized insult as anything I've ever seen here on FFL. And just when we

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
topless in the city.  After all if guys can why can't women? America is a nation of issues.  And probably one of the benefits of getting FFL email is posts go out before deletion or censoring can even occur. ;-)   On 06/16/2015 08:54 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As much as I hate to admit it, as a writer I must admit that the version with all the [explicative deleted] and {phrase deleted} entries had better alliterative qualities than the unexpurgated version below. Go figure.  :-) From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry   You are obviously an idiot — that was a new post with new material. You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry   Om Dear Edg, yes by the way it would help bring us all (FFL) in to alignment

[FairfieldLife] None Of That

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
More video commentary on the eternal question of who protects the rights of Art, when others are going around acting as if they have the right to censor that Art because it offends them.  None of That - Official |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | None of That - Official | | | | View on

[FairfieldLife] A Coded Message - What the Recent Moderation Is Really About

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is a fun rap to write in a way, because the audience that understands it will be almost by definition be limited to a small, self-selecting number of people on this forum. The others won't really get it, and I think we all know they won't do the homework necessary for them to *ever* get

[FairfieldLife] Journalism At Its Worst

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its WorstThe British Murdoch-owned paper publishes a report trying to exploit this mindset: If some anonymous government officials said it, and journalists

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 6:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry   This evidently is progressing.  As I read throughthis thread I feel you all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, in all seriousness, if what you say below is true, this should be the last time we hear from you on the subject of moderation, right? I mean, if no one is hurling personalized invective, there will be no one's posts to delete, and more important THERE WILL BE NOTHING FOR *YOU* TO COMMENT

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Coded Message - What the Recent Moderation Is Really About

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
  could probably write several seasons of a TV series based on the  the characters and events here. :-D Or at least it might make a half decent soap opera.  After all it already is one.   On 06/15/2015 02:35 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   This is a fun

Re: [FairfieldLife] Philae only playing possum

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This reminds me that I have to set up an evening out at the pub with a friend of mine here, who works for the ESA (European Space Agency) on two different projects that have gotten a mention here lately. First, and most immediately relevant, he was in charge of the database operations for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry

2015-06-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd be quite amused if the first person who bites the dust on the New, Moderated Fairfield Life does so for violating unwritten rule #407.1 - Unrepentent Abuse of a Drama Queen.  :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Confusion

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 7:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Confusion   Imagine my surprise... And mine, to log on this morn after a day away and find you here -- what a

[FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Place to watch Game Of Thrones tonight

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Two members of my extended family are going to be watching it from Kings Landing (Dubrovnik). Is that cool, or what?

[FairfieldLife] W.W.J.S.D.

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What would Jerry Seinfeld do? I mean, one of the oft-mentioned TM poster boys has been vocal lately about Political Correctness. He doesn't play college audiences any more because they've become so PC and faux-outraged at everything that he can't tell a joke there. Since it seems to fit in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Confusion

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 5:41 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Confusion   snip to Writing more generally, soon I am goingto start following Rick's lead on this and start to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Place to watch Game Of Thrones tonight

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've never been there, myself, but am looking forward to my friends' stories, because they might inspire me to visit there, too. Are you a follower of Game Of Thrones, Sal? This is what they turn Dubrovnik into as Kings Landing: From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

[FairfieldLife] An Honest Message from the Republican Party

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Already not looking forward to the horror that awaits us on FFL as America enters into its Silly Season and spends literally billions of dollars on election horseshit instead of fixing its many problems, I thought I'd pass along the only honest election message I've ever seen from the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 15-Jun-15 00:15:08 UTC

2015-06-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 2:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 15-Jun-15 00:15:08 UTC   Fairfield Life Post Counter

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, I want to thank you for finally breaking your silence and commenting on the things you will bear in mind when looking for posters to censor. Uh, I mean moderate, of course, because we all know that censorship would be BAD. But I think you're wrong about the reference value of the post

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
, this ass is not one of them. I hope he gets shut down in a time soon to come. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:00 AM Subject: Re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:19 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!   MJ, FFL being categorized withYahoo-groups as a spiritual group one would hope that people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Memory of Denali...and Paris

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Probably more than I do.  :-) From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 1:28 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Memory of Denali...and Paris   Does Paris have the Buddha-nature? ---In

[FairfieldLife] You can solve a problem with force, or with intent and simple gestures

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I *get* it that people don't feel that this *ostensibly* spiritual group is very spiritual. However, I think that the way some of them are going about trying to make it more spiritual is not going to achieve what they want. Take the issue of group behavior in Fairfield. For decades the TMO and

Re: [FairfieldLife] A high dharma talk from a teacher who once impressed Turq

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
| | | |   | From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 11:26 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A high dharma talk from a teacher who once impressed Turq   Really. You guys

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:15 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!   OK, my bad. I managed to get all dyslexic while typing in the post

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just out of interest though, what do you think the term spiritual actually means? I haven't seen Doug's answer to this, but thought that the question deserved *some* response, so here's one from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, discussing that very question: What is spirituality? The Four

[FairfieldLife] A high dharma talk from a teacher who once impressed Turq

2015-06-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Really. You guys have been complaining about FFL not being spiritual enough for you, right? Well, here's some spirituality. This fellow -- Khyentse Norbu -- once impressed my socks off, the one time I got to meet him in Santa Fe. He is the director of the *excellent* film The Cup, and was in

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rama Trip

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think I missed the part where he got fucked over. It sounded to me like he ran into someone charismatic, fell for their spiel, and now years later is trying to find some way to pretend that he didn't make the decisions he made. For the record, some of the things he says about Randy, his

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: George Harrison - Om Hare Om Gopala Krishna

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just so I don't forget to reply to this (and so you don't feel as if you are the only person who has ever felt this), I interject a big Me, too! Back in the day, as all this was still happening, I always felt that George quickly became the *least* interesting Beatle, because he (as I experienced

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rama Trip

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
would think of this all - just happened to see it on someone's facebook page. I sort of looked askance at that hypnotism business too. Thanks for giving your take on this. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] R.I.P. Christopher Lee

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What a face. What a voice. What a career. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/christopher-lee-dead_n_7560232.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Historical insults and put-downs Mark Twain: The trouble ain't there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ...For example there is a wide range of intelligence here. Now somebody, we are not saying

[FairfieldLife] In Memory of Denali...and Paris

2015-06-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a nice video posted by a Facebook friend today. The sentiment at the end made me think of my dog Paris and how much I miss him: When someone you love walks through your door, even if it happens five times a day, you should just go totally insane with joy. That's Paris below the video

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Computers Contain Filth: Pope

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 1:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Computers Contain Filth: Pope   I think Pope Frank needs to stop judging all computers with the stuff

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just thought I'd respond to mention that I like this story (below). As it turns out, this is exactly what my strategy was when I was still competing in martial arts competitions (non-contact karate back in the 60s). I would just watch and wait, and then respond only when the other person had

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!   And if I could write I'd love to have the sort

[FairfieldLife] Overlooking the obvious -- if we can terraform, why not terraform EARTH?

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Why don't we just terraform Earth? |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Why don't we just terraform Earth?If we're planning to transform Mars' atmosphere, then why don't we do the same to combat climate change? NASA scientist and researcher Chris McKay tells us we're ... | | | | View on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ...For example there is a wide range of intelligence here. Now somebody, we are not saying who, must be the stupidest person on FFL, though in all fairness, they may have all moved over to The Peak, that phallic symbol

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines   If you really are the Guardian

[FairfieldLife] Fodder for the ongoing AI / Robotics discussion

2015-06-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Can a robot be trained to perform Iaijutsu as well as an Iaijutsu master? Iaijyutsu Master Faces Off Against Sword-Swinging Robot Arm |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Iaijyutsu Master Faces Off Against Sword-Swinging Robot ...Meet Isao Machii. He's a master of swordplay and  a five-time

[FairfieldLife] Recent published scientific theory was created by an AI

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, *that* horse is out of the barn. A recent paper published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology was completely developed by an Artificial Intelligence, and solves a mystery that humans have previously been unable to explain. Computer independently solves 120-year-old biological

[FairfieldLife] David Lynch and the wisdom of his book Catching the Big Fish

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Lynch, whose intellect and ability to deal with deep concepts seems to be as challenged as Deepak Chopra's, says in his book Catching the Big Fish, Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   If this wordy, badly written, convoluted, and incoherent paragraph below is a sign of what's to come - and I think it is exactly what we can expect - then let the fun begin! Hell and Handbasket come to mind. I've

Re: [FairfieldLife] Genius and insanity...

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A good topic, one that has been discussed elsewhere with both insight and humor: http://www.cracked.com/article_16559_7-eccentric-geniuses-who-were-clearly-just-insane.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_illness Given our history as a species and the sheer *number* of people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show   And you [steve] are on the playground complaining about what? I find this all rather

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have *absolutely no problem* with such seeming contradictions. If you do, I would suggest that they just might be *your* problems.  :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show   Does the term 'unkindness' ever refer to a dead person? Great opening line. It's a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Excellent. A few years ago, before we actually moved from Spain to the Netherlands, my odd extended family and I spent a month living in Amsterdam in a house we'd rented there. It was a really cool house, with multiple floors and a grand piano and a great kitchen, but at the same time there

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. What I'm saying is that *something* fairly extraordinary happened, and that until someone proves to me exactly what it was, I'm going to go easy on myself for not getting all anal about what is real and what isn't. That real enough for you, dude?   :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, Now that you have achieved your life's dream of becoming the Fairfield Life moderator, can I ask for your assistance in helping to rid the forum of spam? It would seem that someone has been posting the same 1,680-word message (below) over and over and over and over and over on this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!   Re I experienced it, in states of mind that were as high and clear as I have ever experienced

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com I'm thinking over here that having had an experience does not validate as necessarily true the thoughts that arise afterwards.  We see most folks here thinking otherwise -- that is: they think that their thoughts MUST be resonant with the ultimate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Barry's method, it seems to me, was similar to the way one would handle dealing with ISIS effectively. I am all for ISIS being neutralised. Exactly. organizations like ISIS -- and individual narcissistic psychopaths

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show   In moderation at this point I feel “the past is a lesser state of evolution” and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are you smarter than a (Hong Kong) six year old?

2015-06-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It took me only a couple of seconds, so curious, I asked six-year-old Maya, and she got it just as quickly. From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:08 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Peek behind the Curtain

2015-06-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 4:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Peek behind the Curtain   I'm saying ... You stridently strutted outta here professing your independence and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sad news. Might I propose, before Doug starts banning people, that you and Rick insist on a few guidelines for *him* when he does this. I'm suggesting this because I think everyone here is aware that Doug is...uh...not quite in touch with reality these days, and tends to see things that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transpiritual Experiences

2015-06-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have the luxury of having a whole weekend off with no work I have to do, so I admit to having binge-watched this series (Sense8) a bit. I did this even though as Michael said the Wachowskis have only made one good move, a few mediocre movies, and a few really, really awful movies. And I must

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Manhattan Fortuneteller Cost Him Fortune After Fortune

2015-06-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is amazing. You read through this and you think, How could anyone possibly BE so gullible as to fall for this? But then you think about people like David Lynch, who was so gullible he paid Maharishi a million dollars so that he could attend an Enlightenment Course, and then Maharishi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Xeno, you've been doing such a good job of explaining yourself and bringing clarity to these murky topics that I haven't felt any need to add anything. But I did want you to know that I've been reading what you have been writing and appreciating it. I especially like the distinction you make

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transpiritual Experiences

2015-06-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
this summer probably after it finishes on the USA cable network.  Perhaps like Continuum Netflix invested money in it. On 06/07/2015 03:13 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   I have the luxury of having a whole weekend off with no work I have to do, so I

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Peek behind the Curtain

2015-06-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bingo. From: emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 12:16 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A Peek behind the Curtain   Jim From the very beginning of this pseudo-issue, your FFLreaction appeared to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transpiritual Experiences

2015-06-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
enjoying this series so far. On 06/06/2015 09:36 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   I'm on episode 2. I'm amazed that I'm giving it a chance, because their latest flick before this (Jupiter Ascending) has to be one of the biggest piles of shit I have ever had

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transpiritual Experiences

2015-06-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm on episode 2. I'm amazed that I'm giving it a chance, because their latest flick before this (Jupiter Ascending) has to be one of the biggest piles of shit I have ever had to wade through. So far, this one's kept my attention. And I'll probably keep watching, if for no other reason to see

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show   While I consider Richard a troll, I do not consider Barry, you or Jim a troll. Barry is the very

Re: [FairfieldLife] Transpiritual Experiences

2015-06-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
last night, and turned it off as I swore off the Bros forever. The only thing they did that was worth a crap was the original Matrix followed by the painfully pitiful 2 sequels. Jupiter Ascending makes David Lynch's films look good by comparison. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: reverse_arch...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 5, 2015 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show   How do you know no one here is a child molester? Since, for you Xeno, it doesn't qualify

Re: [FairfieldLife] Down the pan....

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com I wonder how many people will read this and head for the nearest drain to try and score for the weekend? It certainly puts a new spin on the old pick up line Hey baby...want to go out back and snort some shit?  :-) There is more cocaine in London's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Horoscopes

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Another entry in the category of Horoscopes with an actual basis in fact       From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com #yiv0622475975 #yiv0622475975 -- #yiv0622475975ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family:Arial;margin:10px 0;padding:0

Re: [FairfieldLife] Horoscopes

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a horoscope obviously written by Internet trolls trying to start trouble.  :-)    From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   #yiv5980855528 #yiv5980855528 -- #yiv5980855528ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good Ol' Deepak

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
THIS is why Chopra and other nutcases like him (including several on this forum) still exist. The audiences they preach to don't have the intelligence to figure out they're being preached to (and taken advantage of) by idiots. (cf. recent bogus research about light)  Facebook conspiracy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, here is a question for you. What would you suggest is the proper way to deal with someone on a Yahoo group who not only baselessly calls a fellow member of that group a child molestor, but who then goes further, and urges other members of the group to call or write to authorities in this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, reverse_archery@... wrote : Moderation ain't working, Doug, or haven't you noticed? There basically is NO moderation on this forum. Rick has encouraged us all to ponder these deep questions, but when it attracts

[FairfieldLife] Excellent trailer for what promises to be Oscar's Best Film Of 2015

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
See The Origins Of Feminism At Work In... - The Huffington Post | Facebook |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | See The Origins Of Feminism At Work In... - The Huffington Post | FacebookSee how far women's rights have come in the first trailer for one of the year's top Oscar contenders: Suffragette,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 5, 2015 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show   Thanks. From the very start, FFL was intended as a free speech zone. When Rick asked

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of consciousness again. I'm not surprised to see Jim and his minions continuing to plague FFL so they can

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I know they're trying to start up their old Mean Girls Club Hate Barry sessions again, but I'm trying to ignore them so that they don't drag FFL back into the gutter of their own state of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Peep Show

2015-06-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com I think they just all secretly love our wit and wisdom and can't face the day without finding out the latest from the world of dinosaur research. Who can blame them? Indeed. One of my fave dinosaur news items pointed out that scientists have

Re: [FairfieldLife] GQ and the TM family tree.

2015-06-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
PR led is very accurate. What I found fascinating is that the writer really doesn't *know* that he's already parroting the things he was told, without putting them in quotes as if they had been told to him by a TM teacher, yet often using the exact same phrases they used. I particularly like

[FairfieldLife] More Rubik's Cube wonder

2015-06-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Remember the post a little while back that posted a video featuring a guy who solved three Rubik's Cubes at the same time...while juggling them? That led to a fascinating (at least to me) discussion with Salyavin during which we expressed our mutual awe of people who can solve three-dimensional

[FairfieldLife] French Ghost Signs

2015-06-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a great resource stumbled upon by my still-favorite Paris blogger, Messy Nessy Chic. It's a stash of really cool photos documenting forgotten ghost signs, shop fronts, vintage typography and general nostalgia of bygone French patrimony.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Warning....

2015-06-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The installation probably failed because of a virus, the same one that has infected the Netherlands. It's still cold, windy and rainy here, too. I sometimes get the feeling that if I blink I could miss summer entirely. :-) From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

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