A belief is not evidence of anything. I have beliefs too. They are not evidence
either. Humans cannot observe the results of a double slit experiment directly,
their sensory apparatus is too crude to see anything of this sort. The role of
humans is in interpreting the readouts of machines that p
The attached image (message-history.gif) shows as of today, the relative
posting to Fairfield Life and The Peak. The drop in postings to Fairfield Life
as a result of the migration to The Peak is plain enough. In my opinion the
reduction in diversity has resulted in fewer posts all around, and o
Any meditation system has certain potential dangers with certain kinds of
people. The people who have really bad reactions to mindfulness, to
transcendental meditation, seem to be rare. Those that can have disturbing and
unpleasant reactions seem to be more frequent, but they are not necessarily
Is the author in saying we are the 'first cause' saying anything different from
saying 'consciousness is the basis of the universe and reality'?
A materialist would say consciousness is an emergent property of evolution,
while an idealist would say the reverse, that the material world is depen
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What do you conceive the spiritual process to be? As far as I can see everyone
is following it to a lesser or greater degree, unconsciously or consciously,
lackadaisically or with focus. It seems to me Turq focuses on the pitfalls of
the process, the things that lead one astray, he does not talk
Being overly critical is a malady similar to being overly gullible. Being
straightforwardly critical however is the only way to navigate any situation,
to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, the useful from the bullshit.
You have to examine carefully what others tell you, and you have
Prices are not rising faster than inflation, the rising prices are inflation.
The government formulas have been revised over the past 30 years or so to show
less inflation. This allows less payout for government services based on
changes in inflation, but these formulae do not reflect real chang
When there are opposed groups, each is out of harmony with the other, but even
so, no matter which group you are in, you are sitting in the same pie, and
without a good reason, that is, a reasoned argument for the contumely, there is
not much from which to choose one or the other side. Saying th
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]"
No, the levels of your anti-TM discourse is the ad hominem that meditators are
demented and categorically unethical.
OK, asshole...prove what you just said. You will be unable to find any example
I could not agree more.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote :
I agree, I was a most dedicated TMer for many years. I wore it as a badge of
pride that I'd never missed a prog in 10 years! But it felt like a necessity at
the time, I'm not sure if that was pure hunger for the
I think this is a good recommendation. Meditation is not a cure-all for the
effects of ageing though it can help. People age at different rates. As I said
I experience this myself. And a few people in my family and relatives showed
all sorts of cognitive decline as they approached 90 years old,
I get an error message in Neo whenever I try any kind of a search by date. The
Yahoo groups archive still works however, but it seems that only the previous
10 years of posts are searchable, perhaps the posts before that have been
deleted, or made unsearchable to cut down on storage and CPU time
I usually meditate about an hour, but sometimes longer, three times a day more
or less. My meditations are a mix of mindfulness, some TM, and whatever it
strikes my fancy to invent. I don't follow a rigid schedule, I don't care if I
miss a meditation, basically I just like to sit quietly now bec
Buck
You realise this is not a TM study. It has been shown that mindfulness
meditation thickens the frontal cortex, so a result such as this might be
expected. The study says the meditators 'were recruited from various venues in
the greater Los Angeles area', so the study likely has a mix of
One to three percent of the population are thought to be sociopaths. There are
degrees of this. Psycopaths are the extreme end of the spectrum, sociopaths are
milder and generally fit in with the 'normals' much more easily. A general
characteristic is a lack of empathy and aggressive goal settin
One of the 'features' of awakening is everything is as it is. You do not see
activity in terms of individual will. In this sense it is in 'accord with the
laws of nature'. This does not mean you are more intelligent, or that the
thoughts one thinks are any more correspondent to reality than befo
In the past day or so there have been 30 posts to FFL and 8 to the Peak. Since
I am on both forums, I redid my email, sorting them into FFL and Peak folders,
and one particular poster also on both goes directly to the trash, so these
figures here represent everyone else. The intellects here are
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Salyavin:
Another early humanoid from Ethiopia. If only consciousness could fossilise we
Buck, I do not think this was an ad hominem. Barry was not saying your argument
was wrong because you have a certain characteristic. He is saying he finds what
you are saying is almost impossible to understand, and positing an hypothesis
as to why that might be so.
I myself find many of your
Feste's comment:
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.
However, this does not mean that those things are untrue or false. There are
more things in heaven and earth, as Hamlet famous
Welcome back to the insular world of the human species Buck, not that you ever
escaped.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
On 02/28/2015 06:19 AM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
My experience with astrology is it always seems to work for people post-hoc,
but not ex-ante, that when astrologers have to work in a double-blind or even a
My experience with astrology is it always seems to work for people post-hoc,
but not ex-ante, that when astrologers have to work in a double-blind or even a
blind situation, they cannot determine anything. In astrological reading
settings, people reveal a tremendous amount of detail about themse
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Nonetheless, most Christian theologians believe that God cannot perform evil.
He knows that it exists, but he allows others to actually perform the evil deed.
Theologians are noted for sloppy thinking. If they believe god cannot perform
evil,
Being does not create, it simply is. 'The world is illusion, only Brahman is
real, the world is Brahman' — deception through and through. Passing the buck
to what is alleged to make all liars does not abrogate the responsibility to
that which made a fallen angel. An omniscient creator knows exac
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 nuts. People buy
relics left over from a motion picture production. I wonder who
'I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers
which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and
different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not
absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything
Even hybrid seed producers use a tactic of creating seeds that do not perform
well if the seeds from the crop are used, protecting their investment. The
problem with poorer countries with GMO crops is just this — sharing seeds, or
using seeds harvested from GMO crops. However GMO seeds from GMO
They modified the plant to stop producing an enzyme that makes the apple to
turn brown. Just think, if we could do that to people, we could stop
discrimination based on skin colour. I would not worry though, humans are
exceptionally creative in finding things for disliking other people. There ar
An anagram of the words 'Maharishi Tower of Invincibility' is
'Hi, ironic is it, if blameworthy, vain.'
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 'enlightenment',
the only thing that stands as a gift of 'total knowledge' is an
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Regarding this story, the East Coast has had an unusual series of Winter
storms. While the Boston area got the brunt of it all, two seasons worth of
While Valentine's Day has become heavily commercialised, it was not created by
a commercial entity, unless you consider the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
Churches to be commercial entities.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
For me, Valentine's Day can be any day. I'm not limited
Natural Progressions
... > animism > polytheism > monotheism/panthesism > agnosticism > atheism >
igtheism > ...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
See, this is why I tend to avoid interactions with theists. Suggest that God
doesn't exist (or in this case that no God is necessa
This is pretty much a standard way karma is interpreted.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
She's barking mad of course. But isn't what she is saying more or less what
belief in karma actually entails?
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Outrage as Shirley MacLai
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'Skwerl'. A short film in fake English. As seen on QI. A film by Brian & Karl:
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From the attached chart, which shows Earth from a viewpoint 17,000 km above the
Leiden Observatory at 22:00 GMT, about an hour after I post this, I can predict
that it will probably be night a bit longer where you are Barry, but I will be
damned if I can predict anything else from this, except t
Brief comments in your text...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]"
While I have no memories of past lives that I would consider valid, death does
seem like it would be an interesting experience to face, experiencing
While I have no memories of past lives that I would consider valid, death does
seem like it would be an interesting experience to face, experiencing what
comes up as it approaches, if it does not come unexpectedly, in which case
anticipation or curiosity would be rendered moot. I am finding as t
In the context of my comment, looking forward to a 'next' is certainly possible
even if there is no 'next'. Expecting there to be a result from this though,
would have no result if there was no 'next'. I was thinking of Wittgenstein's
comments on death:
'At death the world comes to an end.'
This would not work if there is no next.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
The notion of spending my last moments concerned what others thought of me and
hoping for them to forgive me doesn't appeal to me. What I hope for at the
moment of death is a sense of expectation and looki
I really do not define it. One could metaphorically say it follows me around,
so it is not necessary to look for it. I do like quiet most of the time. At the
moment there is a somewhat messy desk, with a computer, speakers (because I am
listening to music), some rechargeable batteries and a char
What do you say if disaster strikes?
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Look what happened when we became sentient. This is just dumb. These machines
suck dust on the floor, so if you lie on the floor, if it is not one with laser
guidance, it will either bump into you which clues it in to find another route
and make a note it cannot go this way, or it will pick up s
My cardiologist has me on 81mg of aspirin every day. Apparently that dose is
more effective for the health of arteries than a full dose, and small enough
not to cause problems with the stomach for most people. Aspirin is also given
as an emergency drug for heart attacks as it reduces clotting. A
I think I was fortunate in that I never really gave into the various weird
medical practices that spiritual folk seem to get engulfed in; if there wasn't
a clear rational explanation for why something might work, and evidence that it
would, I generally just was not interested in it.
There wa
Anyone notice Alex has stopped running the post count?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
... I have a good friend who tried to get me all excited about Sheldrake's
ideas just the other day. I had to remind him of the running joke that his
friends tell about him every time he comes bounding in with some new Woo Woo
that he's all excit
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This is not necessarily so. Comments in your text.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Xeno, let's use a little logic here. If you existed before
you were born, you will continue to exist after you die.
If you didn't exist before you were born, you will not exist
after you die.
I certainly agree about that. I always try to find the original paper if I can,
or at least the abstract, so I can evaluate how much the writer is glossing
over or whether they are giving it a particular slant, or exaggerating what was
found. That is in addition to lower level scientists who are
While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO
promoted science as a matter of course. TMO promoted science is about 1%
reliable based on various reviews of study size, controls, and experimental
design. It's the dumbing down effect of religious memes that prevent
res
They could always feast on the body and blood of Christ if food is in short
supply. Instead of the symbolism, they could try the real thing without having
to pretend bread and wine is transubstantiated. And Protestants who do not
believe in that could try it out for the first time. Except, accor
Odin's wife, Frigg (or Anglicised, Frigga) is the source of the English day of
week Friday. This article you linked to seems to have been written by a
Christian bent out of shape by the fact of Norwegians naming their oil
platforms after Norse gods.
'We have heard talk enough. We have listene
Share & Jason
Share, I do believe you never consider anything as a statement of logic.
Settling for the sense of it on resonance, which is really a subtle sense of
feeling allows one to bypass figuring out what it might mean. If beyond thought
and feeling, that puts it beyond understanding. I
That is of course Share, a logical contradiction; hence, false. A statement
like this acts as a metaphor for a certain way of understanding how the
universe runs, provided you can penetrate the metaphor for its real
significance. What has determinism? What has free will? Since they are
diametri
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
No, I'm not converting to Judaism. I just reacted to the words written by
Bhairitu based on the issues raised by Carde recently and the cosmological
models that have been discussed here for the past week or so.
But it is interesting to know what
The TM community there, having purchased or built homes got screwed by the
movement's shenanigans because they expected Purusha and Mother Divine to be in
their neighbourhood. Don't know what Shankar is doing.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
First thanks everybody for answerin
Carrots for sale, and my watch says 25:00 hours.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Are you machinelike or random?
I suppose our best response is not to comment on his posts. Perhaps Alex or all
of us could write Rick that his resumption here was under false pretences as
per Salyavin's comment below (in red).
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
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According to Campbell Thomas, sitting watching wrestling on TV while drinking
beer, increases bodily mass.
Quantum Entanglement seems to show that a pair of particles at great distance
from each other are somehow instantly connected. It may not be that information
is being transmitted however
I saw Shatner on Broadway in a one man show called Shatner's World. This was
about his life, and it was one of the most entertaining shows I have ever seen.
Really funny. This narcissist was able to make fun of his life in a well
structured show. His almost inescapable tendency to overact served
Seeing the wide diversity of strange life forms just on Earth, why would we
assume that an intelligent alien species, if it exists, would be 'humanoid?'
Just based on the evidence we have, it would seem unlikely it would resemble
us, except in the matter of intelligence required to figure out co
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Hi, is this a topic that has already been discussed on this forum? Some years
ago I heard that Mother Divine repurchased their original campus in Boone,
North Carolina, some later the news was that they had a gain sold it. This
seems a really stran
This is perfect. It's not about what happens, it is about how the mind
perceives what happens. What happens is always what happens. That one and
others are going to 'improve' as a result of meditation simply does not happen.
There are just hidden changes in the manner in which one understands th
Not bad Buck. I we were terrorists, you would no longer exist because we know
where you live. By the way an ad hominem argument would be that whatever
reasoning a person uses would be declared wrong because that person has such
and such a characteristic. Ad hominem is not a slur, it might make u
Yes, 75 percent would be good, but Jyotish basically scores worse than chance
guessing. So if you want to find out about the future, you should do the
opposite of what it says.
The US National Weather Service super computer also did not do so well on the
current storm prediction. I am in the
I think you are wrong about this. Here are links to two papers by Metin Gurcan,
who is an academic at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He is a Turkish
military analyst, and he outlines in the two papers I linked to below his
breakdown of the ISIS military strategy. The view you are presenti
That is a very interesting hypothesis. I notice Buck is now reposting older
material.
My mother's memory declined substantially as she got into her late 80s and
early 90s. She stopped initiating conversations. I would test her memory of
various things, she could name people in photos etc. an
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Self-selected samples prove nothing. Of course, I was discussing ideas, things
one could possibly test scientifically, and pitfalls in experimental design. As
for the President of Mozambique, Chissano is no longer the President of that
country.
Yes, but as per your other post [to Xeno], this is not a suitably designed
study, so the results are scientifically meaningless.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I was referring mostly to the effects of TM on the president and the people
who were meditating and how their meditat
Yes, but then they insinuate themselves within the local populations, so if the
US bombs them, there is a lot of collateral deaths. ISIS is quite well
organised and change their tactics. Building by building searches and fighting
might be the only way to root them out, that is, soldiers on the g
I have never seen any decent evidence that astrology is predictive. I always
seems to work fine post hoc, but fails utterly in predicting real events and
trends except by chance. This is the difference between pseudo-science and
science.
The news stations are having fun with the blizzard. Gov
Meditation and Moral Behaviour
TM claims this, but it definitely does not appear to be true: look what it did
to the people on FFL and even those that left to go to The Peak. My thoughts on
this are the universe has no moral characteristics at all, and meditation TM or
otherwise cannot provid
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I don't have anything against Chalmers. Actually, he makes the field of
philosophy like a rock concert when he's around. It must have been his long
hair, beard and black leather jacket. But he's recently cut his hair and
beard. Can he keep his
Everyone here is awaiting what the United States National Weather Service calls
'an historic' East Coast storm, which will dump unprecedented amounts of snow
and have high winds. While such a storm is unusual for where I live, the city
of Buffalo, NY, routinely gets large amounts of snow fall gr
There is some interesting news, some scientists have found a method to modify
organisms they are testing for crops with a genetic patch that requires the
plant to require a synthetic nutrient to live in addition to the features they
are trying to create. If it escapes into the wild, they cannot
I think you know what to do Buck, you just do not do it. I think you prefer to
ineffectually complain. Actually join in on a discussion, or stay on The Peak;
those are pretty much the only options open to you here; if you simply complain
or spam us nobody is interested, you are a voice crying in
An enlightenment technique that results in the experience of 'unity', that is,
experiencing the world as a timeless, connected whole, undivided as unbounded
awareness, leaves only one 'thing' in its wake. If measurements of the brain of
people having this sort of experience are divergent, then t
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
In Yahoo-groups guideline: Don't threaten.
in FairfieldLife Post #409764
Anartaxius threatens:
“This means real bullets.”
The full quotation Buck is:
'Of course Michael, you just have no tact, not that tact has any effect on
certain kind
Of course Michael, you just have no tact, not that tact has any effect on
certain kinds of minds. With certain kinds of minds, it's shoot first, and you
don't have to ask questions later. This means real bullets.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Don't you guys get it!?!?!?!??!?!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Just saw this over on The Peak. Fleet is needing to put the knife in again.
Fleetwood: So, to be in the presence of what I call an ego-maniac, is to
witness someone who tears down any sign of external spiritual progress, attacks
religion,
Buck, guidelines are guidelines, not absolute rules. I do not think you have
followed the guidelines either. One of the guidelines is keeping content
relevant to the group. Mosts of your posts lately have been a complaint about
the group. The subject matter here is rather diverse, but the main p
I did find a copy of the Ribhu Gita online. Interesting document. Earlier that
day I was reading Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung which
deals the nature of thought and its relation to the world and experience.
His one sentence summary of his little book (written when he
Buck,
In my experience, while the universe seems to move and change, there does not
appear to be a hand on the handle of the rudder. But it always seems that among
the species homo sapiens there are those who feel they should be allowed to
steer the direction of change. In spiritual terms,
I have SimCity5. I have experienced some of the natural disasters built into
the game. An earthquake, but the most devastating ones were several rounds of
zombies, which reduced the population overnight by about 50%. I did play the
game long ago (Version 1, 1991? ) on an IBM OS/2 port of the gam
Ego is never really lost, it just becomes more peripheral. It becomes more
'manageable', but I think you are right in that an unusual situation may
unexpectedly bring it back, at least for a moment, to centre stage. The number
of 'buttons' that cause ego-centred behaviour become less with time,
Sometimes, I play a computer game called SimCity. I usually do not have much
time to do this, and I am not very good at it. While it is possible to create a
busy metropolis, I usually seldom get much beyond creating small towns with
lots of trailer trash (attached images). The player of the game
There are always time share yagyas, but the effect is diluted, unless you order
extra potent. I like the mobile/cell phone idea. The Dial-a-God Vedic Phone,
with pre-sets for various conditions.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
There must be a phone app in here somewhere. I'm
The human mind, for all its complexity is basically a molecular machine. I
suggest to get a yagya to work at a more subtle level one could first try
recorded yagyas on a silicon-based computer, which more directly works on the
level of the electromagnetic field than does the human brain. A speec
Lawson,
I think this is 'incorrect'. My experience from practising TM exclusively
until very recently had the following effects: First there was an increase in a
sense of abstract self, kind of like being empty space, a very inward
experience. However the abstract nature of it is not the sens
Aryavazhi:
I certainly agree with you about conditioning, spiritual techniques moderate
or eliminate some kinds of conditioning, but certainly not all. Enlightened or
not, conditioning lasts life long. Whenever I pass a large amount of chocolate
on the market shelves, it is clear my mind is
Yes, you found what is surely the original article which had been around on the
site since August 2007. Nobody else seemed to have referred to it until the
blog ripped it off last year in March.
Some years ago I rented a home from some Hindus, and they did not refer to
what they did as a phi
There is no dating information on the page you provided a link to, though a
server header seems to indicate it was modified on 16 January 2015, but it is
on a Christian web site that seems well organised. The article appeared in a
blog a month before the Hindu Times lifted it:
What is Transce
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One has to be careful quoting physicists when trying to use such arguments to
support spiritual concepts. Susskind's first book written for popular
consumption (non-physicists) is called
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
Such a title does not lend
I am sure there are other summaries of the rise and fall of the Roman empire.
Languages change over time, some vanish, some hang on in niche markets. Latin
is used at the Vatican, in medicine and biology. Sanskrit is not spoken any
more except by a few scholars, except for pundits who probably d
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