Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Brits

2015-01-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hilarious. Great one-liner. From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Brits   Apparently a stiff upper lip is not the only thing that Englishmen value. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Devil's Delusion

2015-01-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ...But many so called atheists today consider Dawkins to be one of the leading apologists for atheism.  Don't be an idiot, John. *No one* considers Dawkins a leading apologist for atheism because being an atheist requires

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL vs The Peak

2015-01-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL. Thanks for reposting all of this. It's pretty classic -- Jim transitions from enlightened poseur claiming to be all sweetness and light back to being on Interpol's cyberterrorist watch list in one day, all while trying to hide all of it from the people he's suckered into reading The_Leak. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subscrtibe to The Peak - An alternative to FFL

2015-01-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL. Steve's just acting out his new position as Jim Flanegin's toady and ass-kisser, that's all. He seems to have taken that position over from Judy after she left.  :-) From: laughinggull108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2015

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subscribe to The Peak - An alternative to FFL

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For the record, Jim, the Netherlands police and Interpol have been notified again of your renewed stalking attempts and breaches of Dutch law. They have now notified authorities in the U.S. You are now on record as having made these slanderous remarks on *two different occasions*, the second

Re: [FairfieldLife] MJ's head exploding in 3... 2... 1

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I am going to agree with James here, Michael. This TV report *was*, obviously, based on data provided to them by the TMO, which has a proven history of lying about data to present a better impression of its products than would be warranted by presenting real data. But to counter these claims,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Great clip on Maharishi Tower of Invincibilty

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Also known as a folly. Really. See definition #2 below. It *perfectly* describes Maharishi's Towers Of Invincibility -- costly, ornamental, and with no practical purpose. fol·lyˈfälēnounnoun: folly; plural noun: Follies - lack of good sense; foolishness.an act of sheer folly -

Re: [FairfieldLife] Too bad the corrector is gone

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Could we say that Maharishi's belief that his Towers Of Invincibility would make people remember him forever was a Phallus-y Fallacy?  :-) From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com The Adventures of Fallacy Man - Existential Comics || |||| The Adventures of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subscribe to The Peak - An alternative to FFL

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for the information. The history of your slandering me has been duly passed along to the right parties, as has information about the...uh...gender confusion that led you to pose as a woman here on FFL for many months. Good luck trying to get that security clearance renewed in the future. 

[FairfieldLife] Loser with a capital L

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Jim just can't help himself. Not only does he LOOK like Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future movies, he acts like him, too. And he wants people to believe he's enlightened. :-) The Many Insults of Biff |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | The Many Insults of Biff | | | | View on

[FairfieldLife] Creator of The Peak admits he can't live without FFL to crap on

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ironic, isn't it? The guy who threw a drama queen fit and tried to extort Rick into banning someone he didn't like (moi), and then when that failed threw another drama queen fit and stalked loudly off the forum to start his own supposedly moderated and insanity-free forum, claiming he'd never

[FairfieldLife] Sex With Babies

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sounds to me like the title of the tell all book Jim fears his former wives will write.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subscribe to The Peak - An alternative to FFL

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com We all know Turq and know that babies didn't refer to children but the behavior of some grown-ups on FFL.  We'll see how long Jim as a moderator tolerates the graffiti of the Williemeister and whining of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Plastic bag apocalypse

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm just going to comment on the WTF-ness of this rant for me.  I live in Europe, and have for some years. During most of those years I have neither had nor needed an automobile. Instead, I go out onto the streets -- via foot or bicycle -- and buy the things I need. To carry these things home,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sex With Babies

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Huh? I don't know what anyone else was talking about, but I was suggesting that Jim's ex-wives would be writing about what sex with *him* would have been like. What did *you* imagine? From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 31,

Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL vs The Peak

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Geez, Jim, what's going on with you? Seriously.  You left FFL with a post titled 'Rick: Until Barry is removed, Goodbye', and saying that FFL 'was no longer a healthy environment for anyone to participate in'. You

[FairfieldLife] Hope everyone had a lovely New Year's Eve party

2014-12-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And that it didn't go on too long...  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Ravi (was: The real nature of transcendence)

2014-12-30 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Interesting that Rick finally yanked the Ravi video. I remember we (Rick and I) had a discussion about it on FFL once, and I was a proponent of leaving it up, *as a cautionary tale* of how badly Rick could fuck up

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Subscrtibe to The Peak - An alternative to FFL

2014-12-30 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you may be suggesting, I think this phrase (carefully deleted in the second version of his invite) may be irrelevant, since almost all of the over-the-top insane people already left.  :-) From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Suppose we made up a fake and derivative religion, telling people that there is a field of force that we are immersed in, called 'Dada'. And we tell people it is possible to experience this field if we put all our

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hammond, Again.

2014-12-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Exactly. Hammond's message from beyond only appeals only to those with a fear of rapidly-approaching death, plus a fear that they have wasted their lives in the pursuit of spiritual goals that never seemed to work out as they expected them to. From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com

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

2014-12-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
With all due respect, the only person thrashing around in the water claiming to be drowning at sea is YOU, Buck. Everyone else seems to be having a pretty nice and agreeable time here on the new, improved FFL. YOU, on the other hand, are so desperate for someone to put down that you've been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have never considered, even for a moment, posting on The_Leak. About once a week -- under the advice of my cop friend here in Leiden -- I do a quick search of the forum for my name and scan the list of posts at the top level to make sure neither Jim nor Nabby are continuing their illegal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Him and Ravi Chivukula. Virtual supernovas in the celestial panorama of consciousness. From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 5:32 PM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interesting that Rick finally yanked the Ravi video. I remember we (Rick and I) had a discussion about it on FFL once, and I was a proponent of leaving it up, *as a cautionary tale* of how badly Rick could fuck up and be taken in with regard to who is enlightened and who is not. I suggested

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Like as not, a lot of people ARE in CC (whether via the practice of TM, or just because) but don't see it as a big deal because, as MMY points out, it is merely normal. Of course, the sine qua non of CC is that one has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Um...here's a question for you, Lawson. In subjects who self-report as experiencing 24/7 witnessing, did this physiological measurement you call pure consciousness or PC appear when they were meditating? If so, did it *also* disappear when they began thinking other thoughts and transitioned

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Chinese Food Day!

2014-12-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Chinese restaurant scene - Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Chinese restaurant scene - Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra | | | | View on www.youtube.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   | From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ragnorak

2014-12-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Terrible film. Low budget (which isn't always bad) and uninspired (which is). Obviously, for Sofia Helin it was a way to make a quick thousand bucks before she got famous for The Bridge.  From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Interview

2014-12-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  I drove up to the top of the hill where my local theater is and the parking lot was full but hard to say if it was mostly for The Interview since it has 8 screens and they had originally booked The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I really don't know, either. I never developed sufficient fluency in French to master them all. But a scan of Yahoo Answers tells me there are 24 verb tenses in French. It's just that when you're trying to learn them it seems like thousands.  :-) From: lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com S3: What you (B..) miss is that the story of the Virgin Birth is simply one of a series of miraculous births that crop up in other myths across cultures.       Including, among many, King Janaka (of Upanishadic and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Crimbo! [1 Attachment]

2014-12-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Perfect. And far less fattening than the chocolate iPad I got.  :-) From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 8:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crimbo!   Merry Christmas y'all! #yiv9028023245 #yiv9028023245 --

Re: [FairfieldLife] Funny video

2014-12-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
We should try this method on the people who *make* the news, now that its efficacy has been demonstrated on those who report it. From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 11:26 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Funny video

[FairfieldLife] A Social Media First Christmas

2014-12-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Mary and Joseph on Facebook - Social Media Christmas |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Mary and Joseph on Facebook - Social Media Christmas | | | | View on www.youtube.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Social Media First Christmas

2014-12-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I tip my hat to whoever created this, for several reasons: * It's perceptive, in that it gets the dynamics of Facebook and how relationships play out on that social medium. * It's wise, in that it gets the complex emotional relationships between the various Facebook Friends involved in this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Much better reply. I'm not going to argue with any of it, because I'm really NOT into arguing, especially about subjects that are purely a matter of opinion/belief and can never be resolved. The only reason I replied earlier was my surprise at you characterizing my posting of Valerie's article

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I can't say that this held my attention long enough to finish it, but I did like his insight that the nature of desire -- especially in the context of desiring enlightenment -- was to perpetuate desire itself. From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yup. The TMO was selling access to something that *is going on at all times, for everyone*, and marketing it as if it were something new. To me, transcendence simply means looking past the distractions that we have invented to convince ourselves that total silence is NOT present at every

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real nature of transcendence

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
me that silence (transcendence) was always already present was a stick of dynamite exploding. Since I already wrote this up a couple of years ago, I won't bother rewriting it now: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/316629 From: TurquoiseBee turquoi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tenses in English vs....

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   I think tenses could be reduced for present-centred people. She is/isn't singing. Because there is memory and in dealing with life there is the need to anticipate sometimes, there are two variants: In memory she

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I just stumbled upon this article about virgin births, and figured I just had to post it, given the thread so far. It contains at least one shocking statistic: The virgin birth, despite its impossible paradoxes, is still very much with us. According to a recent longitudinal study published in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Now we know why NEO is so bad

2014-12-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Although I am a college grad (B.A. in English), your post made me think back to a time at ILOG in France in which some HR geek from the company pointed out to me at a large convention (with some derision) that I was the only person in the company without a Ph.D. I got a chance to remind him

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   I see you're in troll mode today. Me? YOU are the one replying to a post that wasn't sent to you, just so you can dump on me.  :-) Re Reposted it in case someone had anything intelligent to say about it. Too bad you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com || || || https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-... | | | View on fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.aka...|Preview by Yahoo | ||   It may be a basic flaw in my character, but somehow the thought that I might be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: aryavazhi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period   You know that was tongue-in-cheek, right? You never can tell around here. :-) I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ragnorak

2014-12-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for this recommendation. As you knew I would, I had to look it up in the IMDB and as a result You had me at Sofia Helin.  :-)  Already downloaded, and I'll try to watch it sometime during this Xmas vacation period. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period   I

[FairfieldLife] The Atheist Ten Commandments

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interesting article, one that I'm sure a few people with rather in the box ideas about who and what atheists are will skip without even reading, so I'll post the winning ten after the link, just for them. :-) Atheists Rewrite Ten Commandments, MythBusters’ Adam Savage Judged New Commands |   |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good response. I have to work today so don't have time to dive into the translation of the German article or reply in depth (and may not have anything to say when I do have time), but your mention of the political and social forces that influenced the different books of the Bible reminded me of

[FairfieldLife] Sump'n Claus

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A holiday message for those who no longer feel comfortable believing in that Santa Claus guy with all his naughty or nice rule-based, dualistic thinking. Finally there is a hipper, more humanist guy, the Claus for the rest of us: Sump'n Claus - Saturday Night Live |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
monotheist religions, or their scriptures. Given how all three have turned out over these last 2-3 millennia, I'm not exactly drawn to them as a source of wisdom.  :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Greatest saint in ten thousand years

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  For the record, I've met a number of Indian mystics who wouldn't share the opinion either.  But we do have to keep in mind that Indians tend to have a bad habit of hyperbole. Tell me about it. If TM TBs

Re: [FairfieldLife] Views on Gita (was Love and God)

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 6:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Views on Gita (was Love and God)   Turquoise:  Exactly. At its heart, the Gita is the story of Doing What You're Told

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

2014-12-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm down with this. It's got lots of numbers in it, so it must be true. From: jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 6:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV hint: Ascension

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
be the future that they may consider selling off their TV stations and just going streaming. On 12/19/2014 11:12 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Check, because the first three episodes may be all of it. According to Wiki and IMDB the series consists

Re: [FairfieldLife] Lesbianism comes to American children's TV...

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You are correct that I wasn't watching this, nor was my five-year-old partner-in-cinema-crime Maya, cuz neither of us have ever been particularly turned on by Japanese anime. I'm just commenting because your take on the lesbian reveal is IMO an almost uniquely *American* take on it. Here in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Lesbianism comes to American children's TV...

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I didn't mean to offend. I associate the phrase Japanese anime with a certain *style* of animation. I don't know how to describe it except as comic book-y. Scroll through examples (I assume screen shots) of what I mean here: Pictures Photos from The Legend of Korra (TV Series 2012– ) |   | |  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Lesbianism comes to American children's TV...

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness, for one. The animation is more realistic, not 2D as in Japanese woodcuts or the examples from Korra I just posted. And faces are fully animated, with realistic expressions. Several movie series: the Toy Story series, of course. The Madagascar and Shrek

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
All these superintelligent 'bots out there in the universe, and we got stuck (for a time) with the Willybot. Karma, dudes...   :-) From: emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:23 PM Subject:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A movie for those with questions

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Watch the film -- all of it -- and not only might you have more of the answers to the questions you ask without having to ask them, you might actually be worth discussing such answers with. :-) From: seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To:

[FairfieldLife] Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's not, after all, as if anyone asked for Mary's consent when knocking her up, right? Why rape is so intrinsic to religion |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Why rape is so intrinsic to religionStories like the virgin birth lack freely given female consent. It's telling how ready we still

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating essay to read during this Christmas period

2014-12-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I merely found an interesting and provocative article, and reposted it in case someone had anything intelligent to say about it. Too bad you didn't. From the article: Many Christians are surprised when told that nowhere in the Bible, either Old Testament or New, does any writer say that a

[FairfieldLife] A castle Jimi Hendrix would have lived in

2014-12-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I love this. I've always liked ephemeral art. Temporary art, meant to be appreciated in the moment and not necessarily last past that moment. Like the creation of Tibetan sand mandalas. They can take weeks to complete...after which they are prayed over and celebrated, but then blown away.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Damn. Bad guys won - Mia Farrow

2014-12-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : What interests FFLifers? (That's not a rhetorical question.) When I started this thread yesterday I smiled to myself thinking that I had lit the blue touch paper and now all I had to do was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Some Fairfield, Iowa Age of Enlightenment News:

2014-12-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I agree with Curtis here. Maharishi's We don't talk about our state of consciousness routine was an *intentional* Nudge-nudge wink-wink know-what-I-mean tactic that IMO *everyone* was in on. You believed it more firmly because you'd been convinced that you *were* in on it. He got to imply that

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV hint: Ascension

2014-12-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
/2014 07:50 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   If you have never heard of this new mini-series (6 episodes, seemingly all playing this week), my suggestion is to keep it that way, and find out absolutely nothing about it before starting to watch it. I had

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV hint: Ascension

2014-12-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
on the west coast. On 12/18/2014 07:50 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   If you have never heard of this new mini-series (6 episodes, seemingly all playing this week), my suggestion is to keep it that way, and find out absolutely nothing about it before

[FairfieldLife] If Nabby hadn't left...

2014-12-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
...this would be for him: Minions - PUPPY |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Minions - PUPPY | | | | View on vimeo.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   |

[FairfieldLife] And for the rest of you...

2014-12-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To my atheist friends on FFL

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How people use -- and react to -- the word atheist reminds me of the famous story of Malcolm X. In the version I heard, he was speaking somewhere and a distinguished, well-dressed black gentleman stood up, introduced himself as Professor so-and-so from such-and-such university, and took him to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Civil Society vows to end 'terrorism'

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think we all know that this is a prelude to Buck claiming that anyone who speaks their mind on a forum created *especially for people to speak their minds on* is a terrorist that real spiritual types (by which I think he means himself) need to get tough on. Just wait for it... From:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Some Fairfield, Iowa Age of Enlightenment News:

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think it's worth drawing a parallel between the recent action of militant hackers from (it is widely assumed) North Korea against the Sony corporation. These hackers didn't like what they'd heard was going to be portrayed in an upcoming movie. So they did whatever they felt was necessary to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Yes, no longer mutually exclusive. I think it is basically a teaching technique. Thanks for finally putting it so succinctly. Pondering such things as the supposed difference between awareness and consciousness is BY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just wanted to step in and thank you once again for the clarity of your posts, Salyavin. Back in the Bad Old Days when reading this form was for me always combined with the idea that doing so would force me to wade through dozens of posts trying to get me personally to get to the occasional

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To my atheist friends on FFL

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just for *your* information, I didn't mean to suggest that there was any ill intent on your part. My posts on this subject last night and today have been based on past actions/reactions on this forum, coming primarily from people who are (with one exception) no longer present. I live in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
! :-D This poses a bit of a koan. In which of these incarnations is he slumming?  :-)  On 12/18/2014 02:03 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Just wanted to step in and thank you once again for the clarity of your posts, Salyavin. Back in the Bad

Re: [FairfieldLife] Awareness versus Consciousness

2014-12-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice post. I particularly liked So when we come across a phrase, as in Nisargadatta, that awareness is not equivalent to consciousness, the mind is led on its merry way... That captures my feelings about the lack of worth of getting lost in abstractions that have no relevance to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Awareness versus Consciousness

2014-12-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com snip to The secondoutcome though results in people trapped in a world offantasy so deeply entrenched it leads to a leastannoyance to the the fairly well balanced types, andsometimes to death, as in the case in the past few

Re: [FairfieldLife] How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?

2014-12-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com  What can I do to test these statements?   NisargadattaThe scriptures say so, but I know nothing about it. I know myself as I am; as I appeared or will appear is not within my experience. It is not that I do not remember. In fact there is nothing to

Re: [FairfieldLife] How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?

2014-12-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for trying to be civil. Not completely successfully, but it's a big improvement over the other day, and I do thank you for it. I was honestly asking the questions I asked because I honestly don't get it. I'm just not drawn that way. I don't believe that there IS such a thing as truth.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To my atheist friends on FFL

2014-12-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have so few doubts about the non-existence of god that I couldn't make it through this guy's rap. :-) On the other hand, like him I would never say, I am an atheist, simply because I know that in doing so I would be talking to people who would interpret my statement by pigeonholing me as ONLY

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Message From Advaita State

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A Message From Advaita State   A Message From Advaita State (ASSES) || |||| A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Ya talkin' about WillyTex?  Looks likehe now pestering The Peak. :-D  How deeply joyous for both of us, 'tis indeed the season of glad tidings! The question of how long he can last there

[FairfieldLife] TV reviews: Marco Polo

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm still making my way through this series, and even kinda enjoying it in a prurient way, but I do feel the need to pass along a more critical article that kinda nails its failings (below). As I remember, the person who first mentioned this new series on FFL mentioned it in the same breath

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Message From Advaita State

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A Message From Advaita State   But awareness is not consciousness has more validity than anything I've ever seen you post, and that's the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bill Burr: Emails from Psychotic Women

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I can't find it in me to even finish this one. Sorry, but there is something in the tone of his voice (not to mention the things he says) that just screams Misogynist to me. I could be wrong, and he could be one of those radio guys who only badraps women for the ratings, but I'm so turned off

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV reviews: Marco Polo

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   I'm still making my way through this series, and even kinda enjoying it in a prurient way, but I do feel the need to pass along a more critical article that kinda nails its failings (below). As I remember, the person who first mentioned

[FairfieldLife] First meetings with MMY (was Re: Marco Polo Arrives)

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in 1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I was by something he said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant. What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience got up and asked a

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV reviews: Marco Polo

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
of the original except for the ending.  That's a bit controversial given that the series wasn't renewed though there is a second season of Broadchurch starting in February. On 12/16/2014 09:01 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Yes, both series can be considered

Re: [FairfieldLife] Humor and Self-Deception

2014-12-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for your reply. What? You were expecting more? No, that's it. Thanks for your reply. What were you hoping for? From: emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:54 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Humor and Self-Deception

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: seerdope@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ...In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not (Yogi Berra)   In

[FairfieldLife] What Kind of Day Has It Been?

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One of screenwriter/director/showrunner Aaron Sorkin's conceits is that he has given the last episode of the last four series he's created this title. So since he has posed the question again in the last episode of The Newsroom, I think I'll spend a few minutes answering it. The day starts at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Youse guys gunna ever listen or not?

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Take it up with Thesaurus.com.  I don't really care. Synonyms for consciousness noun  - alertness - apprehension - awareness - recognition - sensibility - care - carefulness - cognizance - concern - heed - heedfulness

Re: [FairfieldLife] What do FFLers who don't get it get?

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This book for Christmas?   :-) The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World: Amazon.co.uk: Alexander Armstrong, Richard Osman: 9781444762075: Books |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World: AmazonBuy The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
15, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives  And episode 3? ;-) On 12/13/2014 11:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   The nekkid kung-fu battle in episode 2 was definitely worth watching.  :-) From: Bhairitu noozg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Better to be a dick than to stand around waving one.  :-) But to correct Edg, it's not just him that's not worth arguing with. It's everyone. Arguing about meaningless shit is for fools. And, obviously, dick-wavers.  :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  Ya talkin' about WillyTex?  Looks like he now pestering The Peak. :-D Nah. Edg has always disliked me because I've never taken him and his posturing seriously. Never. Not even once. Never will. WillyTex

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Edg seems to have caught something from Buck.  Old age? :-D Drama queen-itis. On 12/15/2014 10:00 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marco Polo Arrives

2014-12-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  The best is yet to come. Claudia Kim (wrestling babe) is in the new Avengers movie. Joss Whedon always finds just the best women ever to be in his movies.  :-)

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