[FairfieldLife] One Oscar winner couldn't possibly have been more correct!

2015-03-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
When it comes to Academy Awards, we can always second guess the decisions, and lament about bad ones. For example, it is lamentable that this year they gave the Best Picture award to Birdman instead of the film that was clearly the best of the year, The Grand Budapest Hotel. But every so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com This is really the problem. If we had never heard of astrology and you were to propose it as a scientifically credible system now, what would the evidence look like? Would you say that everything we know about psychology is wrong and all psychosocial

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One Oscar winner couldn't possibly have been more correct!

2015-03-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm not a big Oliver Stone fan because of all of his misogyny and conspiracy-theory-weakmindedness, but I'll see this one because of JGL and Snowden. That said, what made the documentary Citizenfour so powerful was getting to see the man himself, sitting in that hotel room in Hong Kong,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If they Withdraw your Dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : As it turns out, my current badge to be in the Dome meditation and also go toour movement meetings expired yesterday. I had been re-admitted the Domemeditation three years ago on an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If they withdraw your dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : How does it feel to be an old fart now(as of the 10th)? I was going to respond to this earlier but I forgot, must be a sign of approaching dementia. My typing is getting worse too, with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : You certainly seem to have a high opinion of science. Science has given us many wonderful things but there are also many things it cannot explain. Can you give us an example of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I suspect that your suspicions have more to do with your inability to think outside the box you've been taught to think within than anyone else. I really have no need for a God, and don't see how *anyone* does. Similarly, having experienced most of the states that people seek and having found

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If they Withdraw your Dome badge again, Buck..

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It seems to me that you could have said all of this much more simply: The TM movement has realized that all that talk about 'invicibility' was bullshit and so now we're going to cower fearfully in our domes and never allow anyone who has demonstrated any curiosity ('the natural tendency of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your Dome badge again, Buck.

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Excellent point. Having a dome badge is the TMO counterpart of having a membership in an elite golf club, and thus feeling the right to look down upon everyone who isn't a member. And that is *exactly* what Buck has been doing on a regular basis since they gave him back his badge. His has been

Re: [FairfieldLife] The cannibal monks of Varanasi

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That's Hindus for you... From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 1:26 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The cannibal monks of Varanasi   Indian tribe feasts on human flesh, drink from skulls

[FairfieldLife] Pat Robertson: Smoking marijuana is 'slavery to vegetables'

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One wonders what he thinks about vegetarians. Pat Robertson: Smoking pot is ‘slavery to vegetables,’ but God can ‘set you free’ |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Pat Robertson: Smoking pot is ‘slavery to vegetables,’ b...Radio host: Black lawmakers should be ‘hanging from a noose’ for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Having a seizure during a skydive

2015-03-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Maybe they should just take a relaxing bike ride: http://digg.com/video/what-it-looks-like-to-absolutely-scream-through-a-hillside-mexican-town-on-a-downhill-mountain-bike From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   People subject to seizures should stick

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ...I took an FFL approach to watching it -- Take what you need and leave the rest. There were good parts, but I was left with a kind of icky feeling after watching the whole thing. The same

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Birdman director is TMer

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Clint is well-known in the industry as a filmmaker whose projects never go a day over schedule or a dollar over budget. That, plus his name recognition, keeps the projects flowing in. Suffice it to say that I didn't like American Sniper very much, mainly because the senility he displayed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com   I'm not sure what you mean by normal TM elitist. When I said that the astrologer Howard Sasportas also happened to be a TM teacher, I certainly did not mean that that automatically made him better than others. It was just a piece of information about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re this guru, one thing you have to say in his favor is that he's managed to identify a bunch of guys who are potential Darwin Award Winners and help them achieve their true potential by eliminating their DNA from the gene pool. Thus it can be argued that he has improved the human race.  :-) Re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good thing MMY didn't have this idea

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I will allow those who feel they can make a case for seminal retention as a path to God to do so.  :-) What I'll riff on is -- strangely enough -- the fact that this article and like discussions remind me a bit of what it's been like to watch the third season of House Of Cards. I've already

[FairfieldLife] TV series review: House Of Cards, season 3

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Slightly over 10 hours of my life I'll never get back. I'm just thankful that I was able to multitask and work on some things while watching it so that it wasn't a complete waste of my time. They allowed it to devolve into a soap opera set in the ickiness of American politics. But the problem

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-03-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You can posture all you want. I'll stick with my first reply. If you want to claim that God -- not gods, not devas, not minor deities -- exists, prove it. I'll wait. Until you can, you're just spouting hot air, the same as every other religious nut in history. From:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-02-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On the contrary, I will step up to the plate and give Feste a detailed (and long) answer from my POV, largely because I think he was trying *not* to be mean...just a normal TM elitist. (We can't help it if these skeptics don't know as much as we do.)  :-) From: Michael Jackson

Re: [FairfieldLife] Recently in Vlodrop

2015-02-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Great writeup. Thanks. I doubt that I'd be able to get in to the Vlodrop buildings if I went; it's just been too many years since I left the TMO for it to have any easy way of figuring out who I was and that I actually went to TTC in 1972 and took my Sidhis course in 1977. Besides, I don't have

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'International Conference for Re-establishing Vedic India' / HIGHLIGHTS

2015-02-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com even The Dalai Lama sent his greetings and full support for reaching the conference goals It's a pity Nabby isn't here any more. It would be fun to watch his head explode while watching the TM movement try

Re: [FairfieldLife] Birdman director is TMer

2015-02-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: sri...@ymail.com sri...@ymail.com yet another brilliant film director is a TMer That almost makes sense, because although it's creative, Birdman is BY FAR the most narcissistic film I've ever seen. ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de... - Meditación Trascendental Perú | Facebook |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-02-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 3:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?   Of course godexists. Prove it. I'll wait.  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] What conservatives have in common with religious fanatics and cultists

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
that this is not a tactic used by liberals as well. LOL.   From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Especially the religious fanatics and cultists on Fairfield Life. Some less brainwashed person says something they don't like because it causes them to realize

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If they withdraw your dome badge again, Buck..

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I don't get it, what have I missed? It's Ammachis swami, the main guy in Ammachis organization. For some time

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
made yourself a laughing stock to anyone who knows astrology with that statement.  Show you know shit about astrology and proves my point.  Another beer? :-D On 02/27/2015 09:06 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Exactly. It's the fact that he believes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Asking what kind of astrology a person practices is like asking someone who believes that the moon is made of green cheese what kind of knife astronauts should use to slice themselves off a chunk of moon to serve for dinner.  :-) From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
.  It sounds like he practices western astrology though not vedic.  That's why I kidded Sal to go ask him. :-D On 02/27/2015 08:54 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Asking what kind of astrology a person practices is like asking someone who believes that the moon

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: If they withdraw your dome badge again, Buck..

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
King Tony, seeing other teachers.  :-) From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com I don't get it, what have I missed? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Show the this picture. Best carry it always with you, and show it as necessary.  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Live long and prosper and R.I.P

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Never a great actor, but a strong and entertaining personality who made the most of the roles he was given. It may not be a compliment per se, but his were the *only* performances from the original Star Trek cast I could watch these days without wincing.  From: Bhairitu

Re: [FairfieldLife] How Netflix treats their employees

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Don't know -- or care -- how Netflix treats its employees, but then that may be influenced by the fact that I have all of the episodes of this third season of House Of Cards already and have watched the first two, all without their help. If you're in touch with them, thank them for me for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating subject for a scifi story

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Actually, I would like to see if he can succeed in his bravado.   Theologians can determine the significance of this event later in terms of spiritual meaning.  Ahem. Theologians determine nothing. They just talk

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a related article from that occasional font of wisdom, Cracked.com. Check out #3 and #2 in this list of lingering superstitions with global impact -- in China, your astrological sign can cost you your job or your life. 5 Harmless Superstitions With Horrifying Global Consequences |   | |

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Great poll numbers about dinosaurs...both ancient and modern

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You saw the recent statistics Alex posted about Maharishi School in Fairfield, right? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/410998 In most local schools, vaccination rates were between 86% and 93%. But at Maharishi School, 47%. That strikes me as almost more

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating subject for a scifi story

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : You get your head grafted onto a new body. And hate it. The living forever thing is nice, but what if you really, really hate the body you got given to carry your head around?  :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com On 02/26/2015 10:40 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Can't you *ever* drop the superiority thing? LOL! It *is* a recognizable trend, dude, and has been for years

[FairfieldLife] Schroedinger's Cat TV show

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Only the question is not so much Are the occupants of the box alive? but Did they have a good time?  :-) “Sex Box”: It’s a TV show where people have sex inside a box! |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | “Sex Box”: It’s a TV show where people have sex inside a...Or do they?! This new

[FairfieldLife] What conservatives have in common with religious fanatics and cultists

2015-02-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Especially the religious fanatics and cultists on Fairfield Life. Some less brainwashed person says something they don't like because it causes them to realize that their beliefs or their spiritual teacher are kinda silly, and rather than react to the criticisms themselves, they attack the

Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the high they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain

[FairfieldLife] Great poll numbers about dinosaurs...both ancient and modern

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The best commentary I've seen on this article is the teaser line: It's all a conspiracy by the powerful natural history museum.  :-) 49 percent of Republicans do not believe in evolution |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | 49 percent of Republicans do not believe in evolutionIt's all a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can God lie?

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL. As if it weren't embarrassing enough to believe in God, now he believes in... Could it Be. |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Could it Be. | | | | View on www.youtube.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   | :-)   From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating subject for a scifi story

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Methinks John is terrified that the procedure might work. If so, there goes the notion of human soul right out the window, cuz identity would then have been proven to reside entirely in the brain. From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the high they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words

[FairfieldLife] Just sayin'...

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Now that it has become painfully obvious that News broadcasters -- from Brian Williams to Bill O'Reilly -- really have no ability to tell fact from fiction, what on earth makes you believe that the News you watch every night is fact?

Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
narrow and sheltered focus of TM.  And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
there was no moodmaking involved.  Just because you have no experiences of enlightenment doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't.  Better luck next lifetime. ;-) On 02/26/2015 09:28 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Can God lie?

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have no problem with this question because -- of course -- God does not exist. Those who believe He, She, or It does might want to read this article before replying. How science made an honest man of God – Dallas G Denery II – Aeon |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | How science made an

[FairfieldLife] Fascinating subject for a scifi story

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You get your head grafted onto a new body. And hate it. The living forever thing is nice, but what if you really, really hate the body you got given to carry your head around?  :-) First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | First full body

[FairfieldLife] For all those who didn't believe in Woo Woo

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Magic is now officially available via SMS messaging. Can't wait until some TMer texts them a message asking for enlightenment. The one thing we know for sure is that whatever they wind up charging him, it'll be less than the TMO would have charged.  :-) Magic - Get whatever you want on demand

[FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the high they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to keep the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: world empress gets celebratory shawl

2015-02-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Excellent point, and good catch. Girish Varma, who tried to set himself up as the head of the TM movement in India (before having his photo all over the newspapers being arrested for rape) is nowhere to be seen in any of these photos. Could this whole thing be an attempt on the part of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue

2015-02-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Although I have never read anything about this practice, I can imagine where it came from -- self-created holy relics. Religious nuts in Asia were as crazy about relics as their Western counterparts. Think back to the booming business in pieces of the true cross and the bones of Jesus. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue

2015-02-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   I wonder what companies pander to religious relics, for example could there be the Coprolites of God Mint, which makes gold-plated casts of the turds of saints? This psychology is certainly not confined to religious

Re: [FairfieldLife] world empress gets celebratory shawl

2015-02-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Do you think anyone would notice if I ate this bell? It's a long time until lunch. Day 3, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Day 3, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing ...Re-Establishing Vedic India posted

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series first impression review: Bosch

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
of the cards in the deck against you trying to insure you can't. Good series. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 10:28 AM Subject: Re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series first impression review: Bosch

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  I watched the pilot episode last night and thought it was okay.  I got a kick out of Amy Aquino (who resembles Edie Franco) as she played a witch in the final two seasons of Syfy's version of Being Human. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What's funniest in a way is that IBM used to be the makers of Lenovo computers until they spun of the PC business to some Chinese company. As a result, all IBMers use Lenovo laptops. So it appears that for the last few months (as long as this adware has been present) a company that one can

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series first impression review: Bosch

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm hooked, as much for Annie Wersching's hot redhead co-cop as for Titus Welliver's lead. I'm not familiar with the books, but so far the TV show made from them makes me want to read them. From: ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,

Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Don't start this denial crap, Lawson. Maharishi presented Tony Nader as the ultimate celibate purusha for *years*, all while hiding the fact that he was married from everyone. Even Nader's closest friends didn't know he was married. This was a lie that lasted well over a decade, and was told to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jamesalan735@... wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students | | | | | | Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Pro... Last year, Harvard was among dozens of schools the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Question for TM teachers from the 1960's

2015-02-23 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I wasn't a teacher in the 1960s but learned in 1967. My TM teacher was Jerry Jarvis and his intro was pretty much the same as I learned on TTC in 1972, but without the scienc-y (as opposed to real science) charts. From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] TV series first impression review: Bosch

2015-02-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I stumbled upon this as I was cruisin' the Pirate 'verse yesterday. I saw the title of the series, IMDB'd it enough to learn that it was an L.A. cop/detective story (my favorite), and downloaded all ten episodes, just on a hunch. I've since learned that it's a new series released all at once by

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV series first impression review: Bosch

2015-02-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
| | | |   | From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] TV series first impression review: Bosch   I stumbled upon this as I

Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife

2015-02-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101

2015-02-22 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What I wonder is if whether IBM, the original progenitor of of Lenovo (before they spun it off as a separate business) has realized that the Lenovo computer they distributed to all IBM employees for the last few years were full of spyware.  From: ultrarishi no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 4:27 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links   Meaning is a human invention, and one that as far as I can

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your f*ing heroine unmasked.

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hillary was then and is now an upholder of the status quo. Absolutely nothing would change if she became president. Elizabeth Warren I'm not so sure about. I'm not convinced she would be able to change anything either, but unlike Hillary at least she'd try. From: Bhairitu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Exactly. I honestly don't understand how someone would be upset at hearing from some supposed scientific authority that life has no meaning, when the only reason they believe that it *does* have meaning is that they've been told that it has by supposed religious authorities. Hearsay and empty

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ammachi's swami is also there

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
*Of course* the TM movement is a cult. What other type of organization would feel it had the right to tell its members who it can and cannot see at a public conference? And what type of people other than cultists would do what they were told? From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 2:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links   Re How lame would a person have to be to even *think* like that,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
BTW, if you like pondering such stuff, you might enjoy the new TV series 12 Monkeys. It's much more involved than the movie was, and flits between multiple realities and timelines a lot. Plus, I like Aaron Stanford (previously Seymour Birkhoff in Nikita) as Cole much more than I did Bruce

Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong!

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What's fascinating is that srijau is so out of it that he doesn't realize that given the description below, HE is the crank. The number of people who believe in the blissninny Maharishi nonsense he does is remarkably small and getting smaller every day, while the number of his contemporaries

[FairfieldLife] Meaning

2015-02-21 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One man meets another on a battlefield. They recognize each others' uniforms and realize that they are enemies. One soldier's God (or people claiming to be His representatives) told him to kill the other soldier, who was in turn told exactly the same thing by his God (or His representatives).

[FairfieldLife] Desert Island Books, Planet Earth edition :-)

2015-02-20 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is a fabulous thought experiment that is a spinoff of the Long Now project -- if you were creating a library of books with which to rebuild the world, which books would you include? Which would you purposefully exclude as being counterproductive to rebuilding a civilization worth living

[FairfieldLife] Perfect living arrangements for Buck

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Those On The Program TMers who want to be prepared for *either* the coming Age of Sat Yuga *or* the Apocalypse (whichever comes first) should consider buying one of these condos. Only 1 hour and ten minutes from the Brahmastan of the US at Lebanon, Kansas.  They've already got a pee in the

[FairfieldLife] Wonderfully wise words about learning one is dying

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Eloquently written by Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. This is a class act, on all levels. Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal CancerI am now

[FairfieldLife] Statistics on measles

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Lest anyone be taken in by the holier-than-thou anti-vax propaganda being disseminated to the world (and occasionally embraced on this forum), here are some actual statistics about measles. WHO | Measles |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | WHO | MeaslesWHO fact sheet on measles providing key fact,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While I'm certain all of this is fascinating to those who are fascinated by such things, I find myself reacting similarly to the way I did when you brought up the fellow who wanted to spend his last moments before dying rectifying the mistakes he'd made in the past. That just does not compute

[FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Talk about a sitcom drawn from the headlines: Indian Bride Marries Wedding Guest After Groom Has Epileptic Fit |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Indian Bride Marries Wedding Guest After Groom Has Epil...It's like something that would happen in a movie, not in real life - an Indian bride has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For many, it wasn't any big deal. For others, quite the opposite. Here is the most eloquent portrayal of the opposite I've yet found. From 1988. Read Roald Dahl's Powerful Pro-Vaccination Letter (From 1988) |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Read Roald Dahl's Powerful Pro-Vaccination Letter

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect living arrangements for Buck

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I just keep thinking that there's a movie of the week in this somewhere. I mean, a properly perverted writer could do wonders with the idea of these Luxury Condos Of The Rich And Famous as a kind of self-selecting hell, similar to Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. You pay your million+ bucks

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Whoa, Nellie. If the recent measles resurge goes as some pessimists think it might, who knew that the Maharishi School might be viewed in future eras (if there are any) as kinda the Typhoid Mary of its time? From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Perfect living arrangements for Buck

2015-02-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
have one thing in common - they are prepping for the end of the world. Visit IMDb for Photos, ... | | | | View on www.imdb.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   |   On 02/19/2015 05:35 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   Those On The Program TMers who want

[FairfieldLife] Movie mini-reveiw: The Salvation

2015-02-18 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Imagine a classic Western, but shot in South Africa by a Danish director. Now imagine that it's really good, up there with John Ford's greatest Westerns, or on a par with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. That's The Salvation. The cinematography is superb, as is the acting, especially by the two

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US

2015-02-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I remember both of my times in Oregon fondly. There was a level of GREEN there that I haven't found elsewhere since. I mean Green in terms of foliage, not politics, but it was always pretty Green on that level, too. Whether by law or by politically-correct mutual agreement, GMO foods here in

Re: [FairfieldLife] YAMA

2015-02-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The thing I found most interesting is that the L.A. Times went for this article rather some others (for example, anything about TM) because of mindfulness' Lack 'O Woo. Mindfulness has at this point out-mainstreamed TM, big-time.  :-) From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fifty shades of Glasgow...

2015-02-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
with a great woman and having a great time, the Tuschinski just rocks. Anyone who takes his or her date to a movie at the Tuschinski and can't score afterwards is...uh...dead. :-)  Some more photos: From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fifty shades of Glasgow...

2015-02-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I posted the photos of the Tuschinski that I did partly to remind people whose experience of what a movie house can be has been buggered senseless by modern low standards that there are...uh...higher standards. I have seen movie houses that rival the greatest opera houses in the world. Some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: m a h a r i s h i t o w e r o f i n v i n c i b i l i t y

2015-02-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Boy, this is really going to be useful for creating enlightened human beings. Monuments that say, 'Look what we might have done, but instead we built these buildings at the lowest cost per square foot'.  In terms of

Re: [FairfieldLife] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO RE-ESTABLISH VEDIC INDIA

2015-02-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, goody! Maybe by re-establishing Vedic India they'll lower the average lifespan to what it was then, less than thirty years.  From: email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: Email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015

Re: [FairfieldLife] Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US

2015-02-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good ideas. And barely scratching the surface of possibilities. For example, if they had been able to genetically engineer Maharishi to have a bigger dick and a smaller ego, none of those damned Maharishi Towers Of Invincibility would ever have been necessary.  :-) From: Xenophaneros

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fifty shades of Glasgow...

2015-02-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Michael, I don't know about the UK, but one can have a drink (alcoholic) in most movie theaters I've been to in the rest of Europe. Some of the theaters even have full bars that are so nice that people come to them to socialize and have a drink with friends even if they're not seeing a movie.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US

2015-02-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Where do you live in Oregon? I lived in Eugene twice -- once back in 1969-70 and once a few years later when I got stuck being TMO State Coordinator for Oregon and Washington. Loved it, except for the constant rain, and now I live in the Netherlands...with near-constant rain.  :-) From:

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Marshy Effect?

2015-02-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Marshy Effect?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : You can bet your bottom raam the Movement will take

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Marshy Effect?

2015-02-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I hate to shatter Feste's dreams that he wasn't part of a cult that tries to take credit for pretty much *everything* that can be seen as positive, but here's the scoop from the top 'o the page at Global Good News: http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=142403213127980678 On 15

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, some of my subjective experiences lead me to believe that reincarnation is not sequential but simultaneous, with the conglomeration of components we think of as ourselves incarnate at many different points in time simultaneously. Thus it's not that we have memories of a life in a past

Re: [FairfieldLife] Second Pauli exclusion principle!

2015-02-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A similar effect was noted around Bill Gates, who for years couldn't give a demo of a new product release without crashing it. The most famous was when he was introducing Win98 on live TV and managed to make it display the famous BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). He finally started letting other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A movie review for those who think mine are too low-vibe

2015-02-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   oh this review is ever so much better - take 2 minutes to watch it. Lisa Wilkinson's Review Absolutely Destroys 50 Shades Of Grey |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Lisa Wilkinson's Review

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Leiden Now (approx.)

2015-02-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com I can see the steam rising off Turq's morning coffee. Or is that the milky way? It's steam rising off the foreheads of theists who can't handle people not believing in the same things they do.  :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

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