[FairfieldLife] Apostates

2015-07-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I hear our moderator, a TM apostate now, was up visiting one of the non-approved Indian saints up in Chicago. As one of FFL's biggest spammers and generally non-interactive complainer, he has been relatively silent now that he holds the moderator button. In particular with that complete lack of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PROVIDER OF KNOWLEDGE

2015-07-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have not been to the World Trade Center area since 2001. About three months after the attack, I walked around the entire complex, which was boarded off, except for the egress road where they were carting debris out of the area. An endless stream of large trucks carrying beams and concrete and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PROVIDER OF KNOWLEDGE

2015-07-05 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for the invitation, but I have other obligations. I deleted my post as I tend not to have any photos I have taken remain on the Internet in a public space for very long. I live about a 60 mile drive out of the City, and tend to avoid going into the City unless I have to. Normally I drive

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: We Were at this Place Today [1 Attachment]

2015-07-04 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The one time I was at the Cloisters, my camera died. I was photographing a wooden statue of Jesus, and the camera's life came to an end, unrepairable. What can you expect from a Jesus dummy. As the ticket also included the Met museum as well, I went there next. I took an image of an Egyptian sta

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can AI Machines Know Ethics?

2015-06-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Empty seems to be replying to the digest version of FFL. This does not supply a means to duplicate the message you are responding to. To do that you have to manually copy the content of the message and paste it into the response, which otherwise starts as a blank slate with just the title of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra an enigma, a paradox (Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines)

2015-06-27 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 8:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra an enigma, a paradox (Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines)   Uncle Tantra was really a complex character. One

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

2015-06-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Duveyoung To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 2:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines   Heh, gotta ask, "what's the actual risk of Doug?"  Will he bounce others?   I don't think so.  Look at this scurvy's crew's

[FairfieldLife] Freedom of Speech

2015-06-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
'What is freedom of speech anyway? There is the joke told years ago by the Russian comedian Yacov Smirnoff. He was confronted by an American bragging about freedom of speech. Smirnoff retorted: "Big deal! We also have freedom of speech in Russia. What we don’t have is freedom after speech."' Ju

Re: [FairfieldLife] Doing full justice to something magnificant

2015-06-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 1:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Doing full justice to something magnificant   I can't even comment on this right away. I just want it to sink in for the readers. Tak

[FairfieldLife] Ethics and Driverless Cars

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies? 'Right now, ethicists have more questions than answers. Should rules governing autonomous vehicles emphasize the greater good -- the number of lives saved -- and put no value on the individuals involved?' Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Live

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Query, not the first line of a joke, or maybe it is?

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
ey are all "imaginary." On 06/25/2015 09:52 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   How do you distinguish an imaginary god from a real one?  #yiv2592264090 #yiv2592264090 -- #yiv2592264090ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family

[FairfieldLife] A Query, not the first line of a joke, or maybe it is?

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How do you distinguish an imaginary god from a real one? 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of course you did not say it. I was pretending I know what your are thinking and what you are feeling when you post something. Now when you post, what do you do? From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 3:40 PM Subjec

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick, Time to shut down FFL (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This place may just fade into the woodwork. It does get tiresome. I am pretty sure Barry was feeling wearisome about it. He did post many marvellous things. His not being here seems the result of a personal vendetta at the hands of the moderator. The problem with power is it reveals one's corrup

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And (continuation of post #417750), the authfriend clone is the other one who always knows what others are thinking and why. From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 4:48 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ah. The master projector oracle speaks. I know, she says, exactly what everyone is really thinking and why. From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:00 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

Re: And talk about Turq's personality too Re: [FairfieldLife] Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thank you Ravi. And yes, I am happy. I do not feel all that dissonant. I do not feel obsessive, it just kind of oozes out. It is hard to philosophise when you are insane, but guys like Charles Manson made interesting attempts. Keep trying. I hope your grandmother's passing was an easy one.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 3:58 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 3:44 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug   I am in disagreement with xeno's assertion that he (Barry) was just too clever in his arguments such

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
, so I was going to try it even before I heard a lecture, so I really did not listen that carefully, or care who or what taught me. It was like, teach me, and I'll see if it works. I had a very non-TM mindset when I learned, and it never completely went away. From: "X

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
None of us are perfect, and there does seem to be a narrowing of one's focus on certain things as we move into older age. I wasn't on FFL in the early days, but sniping back and forth did seem to be increasing, it's basically a lower brain function. Maharishi seemed to be in much better form whe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Great Beyond Dispatch #2

2015-06-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, he doesn't appear to be a psychopath. If anything, I am closer to being one than him. His career path, and the people he lives with probably would not have worked out that way if he were a psychopath. Psychopaths tend to be ingratiating, they have an ability to make you like them. Turq does

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Everything is Information

2015-06-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 3:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Everything is Information   Xeno, No. The point is that the universe functions as information in a virtual reality.  It also means that Con

[FairfieldLife] A Final Last Message?

2015-06-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
_ I received a rather cryptic message from TurquoiseBee, in which he merely mentioned as possibly a 'last message' and all it is is a link to a video. I normally don't watch videos because they take too much time. I think he is using the song in this video to communicate a message; he had nothin

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is a single thought?

2015-06-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice post. You might be interested in some Taoist benchmarks concerning enlightenment: Normal State — Wandering mind. Some will often have 3-6 (or more) threads/dialogs of thought jumping around.Temporary One Thread — In meditation, one quiets to one focused thread (as in mantra or concentration

Re: [FairfieldLife] Experimenting

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Experimenting   I've been away for a while and thought it might be interesting to test the waters here now that the dynamic is altere

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 7:41 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?   Sean Carroll, a physicist, discusses the various aspects of time but does not cover the various theories of the Big Ban

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, what were your reasons for removing Turq from the group? I know there have been many complaints about him from spiritual cretins as to why they wanted him removed, but you have been silent about it, even though you seemed vocal about it in a general way prior to being appointed moderator.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?   This post is almost entirely irrelevant to the current situation on FFL.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
First of all the idea 'heart chakra' has to be discovered as a physical construct rather than being conceived as a metaphysical imaginary entity. What is missing so far in artificial intelligence is awareness. What is consciousness that a computer could be conscious? One of the scientific theor

[FairfieldLife] Dark Medieval Consciousness

2015-06-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It would appear a dark, medieval consciousness is beginning to take over Fairfield Life, in the likeness of the Transcendental Meditation Organisation's tyrannical manner. Medieval 1. of or relating to the Middle Ages. 2. Informal, very old-fashioned or primitive. Synonyms:  antique  archaic  fe

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

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
mails from Yahoo Groups. It is the second part of the Newman-Id: X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 3920196-m417027 417027 is the message number for your post below.  Not sure if that helps any but that's where it's given in the message header. On 06/17/2015 07:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

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

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I like Lynch's films too. They are dark for the most part, and in the view of people I watched them with, sick. He seems to have a preference for head injuries. My favourite is still his first major foray, Eraserhead. Although I suspect the non-linear character of many of them lead some to consi

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

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That was helpful, I do not think I ever noticed that. But when I am using e-mail it is a bit more difficult as there is no box. Usually a post number is not mentioned. That the word message# is in grey reduces its visibility. Part of ergonomic software design is to test a population of typical u

Re: [FairfieldLife] On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
al name appears in older posts - person doesn't care if real name is used - person's real name is posted by person somewhere in e-mail (deliberately) Sincerely, Xenophaneros Anartaxius From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-08 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It would appear can correctly spell 'cognitive dissonance'. You are holding two or more contradictory beliefs and thinking everything is OK? From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] R

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Astrology Science?

2015-05-29 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:14 PM, Duveyoung wrote:   Anartaxius, you ignorant slut.  So, in replying to my criticism you are consorting with prostitutes and those of dim and unlearned intelligence? Seems like a good fit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :On

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Astrology Science?

2015-05-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 10:44 PM, Duveyoung wrote:   Seems to me that since a single photon of light hitting a dark-conditioned retina can trigger a change in the flow of consciousness -- a single photon could possibly be a tipping point's "final straw" and so, an infant's-

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-21 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, Johnson got a lot of legislation passed. He knew how to deal and had the leverage to do it. He did not use the concepts of transcendent or dharma in that speech. He never struck me as a spiritual person and his use of the word 'God' in the speech seems the perfunctory inclusion that seems

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-21 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, if I may pull a Judy on you, I said that (in slightly different words) the changes that occur in society seem to not turn out the way the drivers of change intended. I did not use the word 'millenarians' because most who have been the fount of ideas for change seldom used a 1,000 year cycl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those who don't believe in conspiracies

2015-05-21 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
At least Doug is inspiring interesting replies, which partially accounts for FFL having at least 3 times the number of posts as The Peak since about May 17. The contrast of viewpoints is the driver of inspiration in some and displeasure in others. In scientific discussions, people argue and even

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault

2015-05-15 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
We are all crazy. Who in their right mind would spend so many years in pursuit of 'the absolute' whose description (no qualities) is exactly the same as nothing. Admittedly, it has been a lot of fun. At the core of everything, a vast blank to which we attribute all. Because to talk about it we h

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the "Neo-Advaita" phenomenon

2015-05-15 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Narcissistic tendencies are at the heart of ego. We all have them. We all know how great we are in spite of THEM. What we tend not to know is how our tendencies fit into the world at large. Gurus in particular have a propensity to get caught in a bubble of adoration and those narcissistic tenden

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Have you had an experience of higher states of consciousness? Please FORWARD!

2015-05-13 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hallucination is really the crux of the matter. The basic premise of 'enlightenment' is we are somehow not experiencing reality but some kind of hallucination. Once we get that idea in our head we become a seeker, looking for a way out of the hallucination, but the basic problem here is we are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 10 reasons why Judy quit FFL and why she returned

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The subject she seemed most interested in near the time she quit FFL was classical theism. But I have no idea if she was really interested in the subject, she seemed interested in it, but of course she had no confidence in my powers of perception to divine what her real motives were for anything

Re: [FairfieldLife] Free Coffee

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
zation" only worksif the globe wants what you're sellin'... From:"anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" To:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent:Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:54 AM Subject:[FairfieldLife] Free Coffee  Ihappened to be at a Starbucks today,and the registers had just st

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   Nope, has nothing to do with the "tactic" you invented and falsely attribute to TM support

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   Nope, has nothing to do with the "tactic" you invented and falsely attribute to TM support

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   For the sake of there beingmaterial divergent view represented on FFL given the hostil

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, I can understand, if you are emotionally sensitive that you might feel hurt as a result of some the of things posted here on FFL, but 'ruinous' is another matter. That means disastrous or destructive. Obviously if a person thinks idea A is false and persuasively explains why he/she thinks

Re: [FairfieldLife] Xenu Porn [2 Attachments]

2015-04-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The term engram pre-dated Hubbard's use of the term, appearing in the early 1900s having the meaning 'the means by which memory traces are stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain (and other neural tissue) in response to external stimuli'. It was a scientific hypothesis. In Hubb

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You're kidding, right? From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   I was once in a class with this lady who was teac

Re: [FairfieldLife] ~~~~~~~~~~ about TMO friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~

2015-04-13 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
of the Rajas evidentlybailed in various ways. A meditator communityobserver here with a valid Dome badge watching their meetings andvideos comments, 'they should look and see if anyone is following'. By contrast, I was up at Mayo Cliniclast week. Consistently rated at the top in healthca

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~~~~~~~~~ about friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~

2015-04-10 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~ about friendship ~~~   Pretentious, moi? Re "If you are going to name things that cannot be conceptualised, why no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM reaches the Orient...

2015-04-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
much-anticipated followup to Lynch's "Twin Peaks" will never happen. The reason it will never happen is that Lynch will come up with excuse after excuse after excuse for why he can't supply the contracted-for scripts and will finally bail from the project. You heard it here

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Could it be...Satan?

2015-03-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yeah, I know, but I have some time to kill. There was one hour segment on CNN last night on atheists, not very in depth, but evenly presented. Examining the stigma of atheism - CNN Video |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Examining the stigma of atheism - CNN VideoCNN's Kyra Phillips examines

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Could it be...Satan?

2015-03-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This discussion seems more about what you consider your moral compass to be, and that I should adopt your ideas about good and evil. While I have some sense of ethics, I have no moral compass. Good and Evil are in the eye of the beholder who thinks these ideas are real. I hold they do not exist

[FairfieldLife] FFL/The_Peak

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Since 18 March to now. FFL, 122 posts The Peak, 24 posts (figures are minus the skewing factor of Richard's irrelevance)

Re: [FairfieldLife] For you film buffs out there: 2001 in 70 mm

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I saw 2001 in 1968 in San Francisco. I rather liked the film because it was largely visual. Kubrick was deliberately cool, showing how the human race, after a vigorous beginning, had all of its fervour sapped by its own technology, it had become jaded. One reviewer at that time said the film was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world   Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can learn something

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world   Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can learn something f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You have had a difficult day? Gosh, what is meditation coming to? I am not holding Jim to any standard. I am just pointing out he said one thing, but did another. If I had the power to hold him to some standard, he would not be able to break his word. The fun is people are erratic. It means you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The X-Originating-IP only tells us where the message first arrived, it seems. As for koans, here is one: 'A nun who was searching for enlightenment made a statue of Buddha and covered it with gold leaf. Wherever she went she carried this golden Buddha with her.Years passed and, still carrying he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Meet the Ancestor!

2015-03-05 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

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

2015-02-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

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

2015-02-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
e getting a tad over-irritated? I know my response is the trigger, not the cause of your over-the-top reaction, but still...relax. Yep, I could have been clearer. So, here's my corrected response to anartaxius' comment: You have not defined what it means for 'looking forward'

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

2014-12-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Duveyoung, comments in your text, below. From: Duveyoung To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?   Anartaxius -- gunna devil-advocate on yer buns.  Gun

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

2014-12-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
if a person's testimony is valid?   Anartaxius -- gunna devil-advocate on yer buns.  Gunna be snarky N "the worm turns" funzies.  Just to see what I can getcha to pony up about why your authority in these matters, well, matters.   You speak as I do when I'm really doing

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

2014-12-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, a common definition of the word insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting it to come out differently". This phrase has been attributed to various people such as Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. However, whoever wrote it, it does seem to apply to your clinica

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™

2014-12-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I heard that Francis Knight was asked to add M's image to the existing painting (while he was still alive) which I think she also painted, but if someone knows more, let me know. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit

2014-12-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
ea of sceptisism and irony, Bhairitu in a sea of self aggrandisement, anartaxius in a sea of words and Michael Jackson in a sea of profanity. As expected.As was the fact that Rick Archer did nothing so far. After all it was his idea to create a forum for dumping on all things TMO and with most o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Richard and Share

2014-12-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Share, I did not listen to the Hammond event. I have been reading Curtis' reports. I am basically ignoring Hammond because I do not think he is all there. Richard however is pointlessly prolonging this thing about Barry, already long past. Like Barry has expressed, I think Richard has sucked you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Wed 26-Nov-14 00:15:11 UTC

2014-11-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
unt Wed 26-Nov-14 00:15:11 UTC   Snipping out of respect for your forwarded dissertation on brevity: From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" Whether or not you like what Barry writes, his output is more coherent and well thought out than F

Re: [FairfieldLife] All Beings Enlightened

2014-11-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hey Nabby I do not know if someone became enlightened whether that would shake Turq's core beliefs. We are not really certain of what his beliefs are, in particular because he claims he is only presenting opinions. Also Maharishi said techniques can only take you to what he called god consciousn

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Wed 26-Nov-14 00:15:11 UTC

2014-11-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Share wrote: 'So Xeno, now that you've been corrupted into writing short posts, would you deem them also thin?'  Because the universe may be perceived in pieces, all is corruptible; no thing is immune from being demeaned, truncated,  belittled, debased, degraded,  despised, disparaged, abased, an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: All Beings Enlightened

2014-11-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
nt: Monday, November 24, 2014 4:15 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: All Beings Enlightened   Yes,in what we now know as spiritual 'field effect'.   Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in the Dome anartaxius writes : One of the things mentioned about Buddha's enlightenment is that at that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: All Beings Enlightened

2014-11-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No. Did MJ say that? I am having trouble connecting to FFL or my email about half the time. If it is spring, and the sun is shining and the birds are singing and were there apple trees bearing fruit (not likely in spring), and Jim did happen to walk on the sidewalk in that situation, then that w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Most Absurd Rumor

2014-11-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think this brings up an interesting point. How does one define 'enlightenment'. The most overreaching attempts include the entire universe as a connected unity, and that would imply simply that all that exists is what enlightenment is about. If you include everything you cannot define enlight

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Hating Turq and Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
uld have separated the four at the bottom and put my name on, just in case ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 10/27/2014 12:38 PM, anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: > >>>> >>I read somewhere on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Life long atheists cannot commit apostasy for there never is, nor was, anything for them to abandon. Apostasy (/əˈpɒstəsi/; Greek: ἀποστασία (apostasia), "a defection or revolt") is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person. One who commits apostasy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
m [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental illness From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" From: "TurquoiseBee

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental illness From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are Aliens too Distant for Contact?

2014-10-09 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is what Zen masters call 'selling water by the river'. We end up embroiled in a spiritual path because we think it will eliminate our dissatisfaction with life, but the dissatisfaction comes from the way we construe life to be. Life can indeed be horrible, and there are certain things that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yes, Barry, there is no need to believe in God

2014-10-07 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
rt, after following spiritual teachers for decades. No wonder you sound hurt, and bitter. Try TM. It works. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 5:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Some of the embarrassing things believers pray to their God FOR

2014-10-07 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. —Ambrose Bierce

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Welcome back Pluto!

2014-10-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The red giant start Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse) in the constellation of Orion fits within a 10x10 pixel area in the Hubble telescope. Betelgeuse has a diameter that is approximately 1,000 times that of Earth's Sun. it is 643±146 light-years distant from us. Most stars would appear much smaller th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Research on Cosmic Consciousness... more detail

2014-10-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cosmic consciousness (à la Maharishi) is not that complicated. It is an optimised duality. One experiences oneself as silent awareness, and everything else is walled off from the silence. Kinda feels like being underwater looking up at the world through the surface of the water. Other than than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Saying Bye Bye to Haters and Hate Speech on FFL

2014-10-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As meditators of the TM persuasion are, at least in their minds, marshalling the support of all the laws of nature, persecution should not be much more than batting away slightly annoying gnats. However real persecution requires a bit more machinery than a single individual can really bring to b

Re: [FairfieldLife] Welcome back Pluto!

2014-10-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
New Horizons just crossed the orbit of Neptune. It then will go into hibernation for 99 days. The photo is a painting or a digital painting, an artist's rendition of what they think it will be like. Right now Neptune is imaged as just a few pixels, Pluto is just a single pixel. It's still 284 da

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My take on "Waking Up" by Sam Harris

2014-10-02 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The discussion is the conclusion, the typical end of any scientific paper. If this section is missing, what was the point of the paper? This part of the paper tells the reader what the researcher considers the conclusion drawn from the results of the study, often suggesting further lines of rese

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony's Pedigree

2014-10-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That book was a big help to me, as it contained advice that no TM teacher I knew seemed to have a clue about. From: danfriedman2002 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony's Pedigree

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony's Pedigree

2014-10-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have reproduced some paragraphs below that describe the relationship of a student to the teacher and a spiritual teaching from one of the books of Zen-trained Adyashanti. This seems somewhat different than what is expected in the TMO. 'There is no such thing as riding the coattails of an enli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral and Celetial

2014-09-30 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So, Share how do you determine whether the astral and the celestial actually exist, and then, if they do, how do you determine their vibrational spectrum? How do you determine they have a vibrational spectrum; what is that anyway? —An ignorant bystander. Now there are some who think there is an

[FairfieldLife] Privacy

2014-09-29 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In this electronic age, if someone wants something to be private, then they have to be the only one who knows that something. Share and beware.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: 'There is no God'

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Its nice speculation. Let's wait. But the scientific discussion of this subject probably will not reference the concept of god. From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [F

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry email to John sent on Sunday

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually Richard, it was only I who did that. And I redid it a few days ago to put most of the most recent posters each in their own folder. This makes it easier to skip or read what a particular person is responding to or is posting something new. In the past few hours I gotten 45 FFL emails. Y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa Suicides

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Iowa Suicide Iowa Suicide Discover Suicide rankings for all Iowa counties and all magor causes of death. View on www.worldlifeexpect... Preview by Yahoo From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yah

[FairfieldLife] First Genetically Modified Babies

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Graduate High School This Year | TechCrunch The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Gradu... Remember the sci-fi thriller GATTACA? For those who never saw the film and/or eschewed all pop culture in the late 90's for

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