Salyavin posted to the quote, and Judy responded 'Sorry Salyavin...' if that is
not addressing someone, I do not know what is.
It is true the atheists do not tend to deal with the more abstract conception
of god that theists use, but they also tend to address the way the average
person think
And there is this phrase in the Gospel of John:
'But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to
become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the
flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.'
No. There are many ways to do this, that do not involve Jesus, but if that
worked for you, I have no complaints.
In posting this quotation, where did Salyavin say or even imply this was 'an
argument in favor of believing in Brahman'? There may be a category error in
this quotation, but there is a significant context shift in the point you are
making and the point Salyavin was making. Roberts' argument seem
Well, during that thirty year period I just mostly lost interest in spiritual
things. I became more interested in outside things. When experiences returned,
I got intensely interested again, but only because of a need to find an
intellectual understanding for what happened. Once an understanding
In considering how the Wikipedia entry for quantum defines 'quantum' one
wonders how it could be stretched to attempt to explain so many odd ideas"
QUANTUM: In physics, a quantum is the minimum amount of any physical entity
involved in an interaction. Behind this, one finds the fundamental not
For me, certain visual or auditory experiences came and went before strong
witnessing developed, which then went away for about three decades, buy then
eventually returned in a new guise and a new understanding and that was stable
for a few years and then became unstable again without being comp
For me, there is consciousness, but it is not a state. It can be intellectually
and roughly catagorised as having three basic sequential characteristics:
sleeping, dreaming, and waking. Waking contains the whole world we call the
universe, which includes the mind which in thinking mode interpret
SECURITY BELIEFS
Some of us may recall the author Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he
is very probably wrong.
The only way
Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers
of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price. I can get Organic coffee
10oz for about $7.00 at the local supermarket instead of 8 oz for about $13 for
'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the cost, a typical movement
overcharge. Exactly what do the Vedas say about coffee? I bet nothing
I knew John Knapp , but not well, and it was before he left the TM movement by
a number of years, so he was still a 'good little boy' then. My knowledge of
him therefore does not have relevance to Carol's situation which I am glad
seems to have been resolved in her favour, though she still has t
te later.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Xeno, my feelings are hurt that you think turq has a better sense of smell
than I do. Happy Valentine's Day (-:
On Friday, February 14, 2014 3:21 PM, "anartaxius@..." wrote:
No. Barry and I have no private c
No. Barry and I have no private conversations. I have no knowledge of his
private e-mail address or addresses, or of his current residence, though I have
seen a depiction the general area he lives in, in the Netherlands, on a map and
on Google Earth, since he described it in a post some time ago
Thank you for this autobiographical post:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
A new psychology paper
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 studied the
personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as
"pushing buttons") on the Inter
Thank you for this autobiographical post!
authfriend wrote:
'll tell you why I wrote what I did, Bar, once you've posted the following:
__
Barry's Confession
1. I lied when I said I never read Judy's posts.
2. Judy has never lied about me (or anybody else), but I've told hundreds of
lies about her (and Ann and Robin a
Archaeology and religion never seem to agree, and the evidence that the
religious conception of the history of Palistine seems to be more and more
unlikely. One site that the religious would probably find particularly annoying
has the hypothesis that the Persians basically created Judaism.
Ju
Not disappointed. For some reason I did attempt to check your quote of Barry's.
Normally I do not check anyone's quotes. Yahoo's Neo was simply giving me an
error message. I logged in to an AT&T account which seems to have a connexion
to Yahoo through a server without Neo. It took a while to pin
No, I have not addressed the issue you raised. By the way your comments on the
CBO report seem to be accurate.
http://www.factcheck.org/2014/02/the-aca-losing-job-vs-choosing-not-to-work/
http://www.factcheck.org/2014/02/the-aca-losing-job-vs-choosing-not-to-work/
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogro
No it is not odd. I am old enough now that I just do not really care that much
about what people say. Lying and deception drive whole populations to behave in
certain ways, whether something is true or not does not mitigate the effects.
We live the effect of untruth all day long. It's in our bra
Since 1994 the Bureau of Labor Standards has excluded the long term unemployed.
If those are factored in, the unemployment rate in the United States is about
23%. The unemployment figures you hear on the news are the more restricted
measures.
U1: Percentage of labor force unemployed 15 weeks
Barry does not seem to aspire to the kind of precision you enjoy. He seems
mostly to rely on his writing skills and memory when posting on FFL. And we all
know human memory is exceptionally pliable. He posts things he is interested
in, occasionally replies to people, and there is a certain categ
That December 9, 2011 post by Barry is discussing suicide in relation to Ravi,
not Robin. Robin, as maskedzebra, was also a part of the thread. My comment
here is only in relation to this one item in this post.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
This post is a superb example of why
What, I, Xeno did here, using the old Yahoo Groups interface, was tally those
posts. They were not read, so Judy is correct about that point. I did not
mention or was interested in what the posts were. It was a mere collection of
statistical information. Original posts defined here as all posts
Posts from 1 February 2014 to 10 February 2014 4:00pm EST
authfriend
143 replies, 4 original posts (although 2 had the same title)
turquoiseb
53 replies, 16 original posts
Wow, what a nice photograph. Looks like it was professionally lit.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
The palace is actually kinda gaudy. But this is cool.
http://content.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/underversailled.jpg
Seen here are the underground resevoirs un
'Rectification', when applied to any situation, hypothesis, calculation, or
theory is an indication that something is wrong, that some piece of information
or knowledge is missing from the system under consideration, because the
expected result did not appear. In science this usually means going
Happy Birthday Buck. Live long and prosper.
They they sing for the 'already enlightened' Buck, and was that true for you?
By the way, as you are younger than I am, you can stop calling me 'son'. That
will save you time. I give you the gift of time. The problem with that is, time
brings chan
from Wikipedia concerning the quantum Zeno effect mentioned in the article:
The quantum Zeno effect (with its own controversies related to the problem of
measurement) is becoming a central concept in the exploration of controversial
theories of quantum mind consciousness within the discipline
How much do you propose the tax should be, and how long must the tax operate to
pay off the debt? It is much more complicated than this. Among other things, it
would reduce the income of people who rely on pensions, and that would reduce
tax income in other areas. It would have unexpected ripple
Does this mean that the phrase 'Nothing I post is to be taken seriously' in
post #368186 should not be taken seriously?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
As Richard himself admitted in post #368186, nothing he says is to be taken
seriously.
<< Professional editors don't usu
Maybe Nabby meant that an 'apostrophe' will shake the world on February 15.
Buck wrote:
Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite
topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this
place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post? Some writers
should rightfully be embarrassed.
-Buck
An e
American sports fans do get excited about competition, but to them Buck, it is
not stupid, it is a glorious annual ceremony, like high Mass at the Vatican.
Having seen various versions of Pride and Prejudice in film or video, I
decided to read the book. It is interesting to see how movie mak
Yes, scientists often fail at being scientists, they do have passions, they
make mistakes and have biases. Keeping these at bay is one of the marks of a
top scientist. Richard Feynman is one of my favorites.
No, I am not British. The family mythos has it that I was born in Larissa,
Greece, b
'The lady doth protest too much, methinks.' Judy makes great show of pointing
out her integrity, honesty, and fairness, but there are character defects that
undermine this theatrical performance. Repeatedly making such a show is a
characteristic of those that have mendacious tendencies. No one
through a crucible of scepticism before it is considered
respectable.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Dear Dear Anartaxius,
Somehow we must deal with this “Cognitive Inhibition” problem which so
evidently is at the root of so much skepticism around some certain things so
go
All I did was cut and paste Yahoo guidelines, as Buck had mentioned them. What
does that have to do with what Judy wrote to Buck? I was curious about the
Yahoo guidelines because I had never read them until now. As text, the format
of the guidelines did not paste in well, but they are still read
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Yahoo! Groups Guidelines
Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas
with each other. Just like a real community, you may have different opinions
than other Yahoo! Groups users. The Yahoo! Groups experience is best when
people remember a few rules. Yahoo! se
Oh, I enjoy your humour. I have shown examples of your writing to someone who
is very into TM and they thought you were a good writer. But if the subject
matter you selected for a particular post encroached on the sanctity of belief,
they would shun it. From my perspective creativity and craft (
Good!
When you pass out drunk, you transcend self, but not consciously. Drug effects
can give great, or not so great experience, but do not as a rule result in any
sense of advancement. As for the meditation transcendence, that is a metaphor,
one of the more effective carrot-on-the-sticks to
People drink to transcend self, to get away from the image of themselves. So in
that sense, that activity is the same as transcending in TM. The small self is
transcended when you pass out, the activity of drinking ceases.
If an automobile comes to rest and stops moving, does that make it mor
And, were I to become an alcholic, and not use any other whiskey than Jack
Daniels, would that make me the most self-sufficient drunk among drunks?
One phrase in movement jargon is 'self-sufficiency'. I find it interesting that
when it comes to 'self-sufficincy' on the movement's spiritual path, it is a
bad word. It means you are on your own. It doesn't mean ego, but it does mean
that eventually you have to give up the herd, herd mentality,
Heinz Rudolf Pagels, Ph.D. (1939-1988) Physicist. Was executive director and
CEO of New York Academy of Sciences; President of the International League for
Human Rights"
"My summary opinion, as a theoretical physicist specializing in the area of
quantum field theory, is that the views expre
Well, there is existence, at least there seems to be. It is a question of
whether there is any ownership involved.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Re "Question of the day: how do you know you exist?":
This is elementary. I know I exist. That is only thing of which I am
*abso
Brahman Consciousness:
waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dreaming
waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dreaming
waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dreaming
waking sleeping dreaming waking sleeping dre
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Xeno,
"We have enough fantasies in life when we are awake, so why add fuel to the
fire by claiming significance for a state of experience that is far more
disjointed, wandering, and uncoordinated?"
We really don't have a choice in the m
nough to come to any
medically useful conclusions, though the cosmetic industry seems to have made
it one of its poster child products.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Xeno, aloe vera gel...
On Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:19 AM, "anartaxius@..." wrote:
Buc
Hawking is just revisiting what he has done before and finding holes in his
previous ideas. Currently he seems to be considering that the 'event horizon'
of a black hole is not fixed but can shift, and that therefore perhaps we
should not call them black holes anymore, they are more complex and
Buck, I agree with Turq. Card's posts are in their own little world. Most of
them are incomprehensible to me, including the request this thread is about.
Card actually reduced the jargon a bit by putting a portion of his request in a
slightly less technical form parenthetically, but it still did
In regards to this, a few weeks ago I was listening to videos on YouTube from
various spiritual teachers, and someone had posted a short video of Adyashanti
which was titled 'When Self Obsession Falls Away', although from the talk
posted itself I would have called the segment 'The Day of Awakeni
I think dreams are much more incoherent than they seem on recall in waking.
Sometimes during dreaming I can focus on text, a piece of paper with text that
appears in a particular dream. When I focus on the text, it is totally
incoherent, nothing is readable, but in the general course of a dream
If Michael J has pointed out things M really said, this does not reflect on you
Buck as a love of truth. Maharishi did really seem to have a totalitarian
mindset, a top down, there is a king, under whom there are subjects, subject to
the will of the king. If M praised Hitler and you would desire
I enjoyed this movie too. I think it may have been a special challenge for Emma
Thompson to play someone so uptight, so closed in. I did not know that Travers
was even worse as a human being than as Thompson played her out.
One of my earliest spiritual epiphanies occurred in the parking lot o
Nabby, those others also talk extensively about spiritual experience and
enlightenment. Maybe some who have experiences talk about them, and some do
not. I just thought it was a peculiar generalisation you made. My experience
about people who talk of their own experiences is it creates a resonan
You mean like, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, Yogananda,
guys like that?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
People with few or weak experiences of a spiritual nature tend to speak/write
more about it than others.
I would agree that spiritual experiences are not part of a contest, but still,
I do not recall ever having heard Judy talk of hers while I have been on FFL.
Obviously if someone did not have experiences, they might be a bit shy about
it. But Judy never appears to be shy. Here is an example of
There is a fourth possibility, that the term 'support of all the laws of
nature' has an essential meaning that is different from what assumes: a meaning
such as 'you gain control over those laws'. You can experience that the laws of
nature support your little body and the world and the universe,
Yeah. Eventually the distinction between spiritual and not-spiritual just goes
away. But you do have to pay some attention to what you do because nature does
what it does. For example, walking behind a horse might inspire a little more
caution than usual.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
." Otherwise it is line on water
and it would be so cool if everyone else at least experienced this.
On 01/22/2014 02:50 PM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... wrote:
Bhairitu wrote:
'There's that old saw: "before enlightenment you chop wood and carry wa
Of course I get it. It is just game with me though. After all, initially you
tried to weasel out of not responding, but then seem to think the better of it.
And referring to me in the third person doesn't really disguise intent either.
I regard Barry as an independent agent. If our responses see
You said you would not have a discussion with me, but did attempt to respond by
making a 'comment', once. It is not necessary to have a discussion with me to
provide data; all you have to do is post references and remove any content that
I wrote, borrowed, or stole. I have been attempting to not
Bhairitu wrote:
'There's that old saw: "before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water and
after enlightenment you copy wood and carry water."'
'I find it interesting to watch the world falling apart. Our old systems no
longer work and the unenlightened materialistic elite are
Post numbers? (So we can read them) You must have recalled some of these things
you wrote and about when you wrote them.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Barry, sweetie-poops, I've actually written quite a bit here about my
spiritual experiences. You're the guy who's squirming be
Yeah, but Barry did not mention Robin at all in his post, so why bring up a
tangential topic? It is very difficult for spiritual teachers to avoid some of
these traps because when surrounded by adoring wanna be disciples it is
difficult to avoid being forced into a very strange bubble that isola
I would agree with this. In my own life, from childhood on, the tendency to
invoke metaphysical explanations steadily declined, until now everything is
immediate, direct, no need for an explanation of something out-of-sight. That
is for experience. As far as the rational mind is concerned, there
There are a few splinter Christian churches that do not follow the idea that we
are inherently sinful, but are instead, inherently good. One such church is the
Unity Church of Practical Christianity. On the other hand the majority of
Christian flavours do indeed seem to regard our species as bas
While the trip would seem instantaneous, assuming the travelers were still
alive to experience it, from a viewpoint outside of the ship, it would still
take a long time, and all the radiation striking the leading end of the craft
would seem to the occupants to hit them all at once. All the radia
The main problem is radiation. As you approach the speed of light any
radiation coming at you in the direction of travel increases in frequency and
energy due to your velocity. You would quickly die of radiation exposure. The
experience of motion is relative. If you were traveling at 1,000 ti
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote [with
corrections applied]:
After these words the Mason leaned on his elbow on the back of the sofa and
closed his eyes, as though weary of prolonged talking. Pierre gazed at that
stern, immovable, old, almost death-like face, and moved his lips wi
by hiding the truth even from yourself, way
down deep in parts of your mind that you never allow to surface. That's what I
think is going on when any TM Teacher these days claims that the TMO is not a
religious organization. They're not necessarily lying to you; they're lying t
'Apostasy is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a
religion by a person. One who commits apostasy is known as an apostate.'
As I never was the member of any religion, I cannot ever be correctly accused
of apostasy. As the TM org claims it is not a religion, so no
By berating them in this way Buck, you give them no chance to grow. Not
everyone succeeds with enlightenment, and in particular necessarily succeeds
with a particular system of practices and pointers, and they having failed
along one path, why not allow them the courtesy of finding another? For
Mankind's propensity for irrational violence seems to rest substantially on
insane metaphysical systems that infect its members. Islam is not based on
service to Allah, it is based on service to the ideas in a book about something
that in that book that is called 'Allah'. As with many other simi
The temperature here (Brewster, NY) is 10F (-8C) with a wind chill of -8F
(-22C). Tomorrow morning it is expected to be -8F (-22C) without wind chill
factored in, but the wind is expected to be almost nil by then.
This is not so bad. Currently at the summit of Mt. Everest, it is -18F (-28C)
wi
For me, the question of Jesus' resurrection is rather like the resurrection of
Sherlock Holmes. But if in fact he did exists as a person, I would say he
experienced enlightenment, taught others, and then died, perhaps not so nicely.
Some of his followers caught on to what he was doing, but most
I suppose the question of the nature of the soul would be valuable, if the soul
exists. I do not see any reason to suppose why something called a soul exists,
or whether something like an aetheric body exists either. If these have no
observable characteristics, then they have the same characteri
As Paul's letters are generally considered to have been written before the
Gospels, he was likely referring to various prophesies in the Jewish scriptures
that 'foretell' the Messiah.
http://jewishroots.net/library/anti_missionary_objections/on_the_third_day.html
http://jewishroots.net/libr
I find it interesting that religious writings are considered history because
they contain historical references. But they were written for an entirely
different purpose.
As a case in point there are four known earliest more or less complete
manuscripts of the Christian Bible. Codex Sinaiticu
To do the corpse pose properly Share, you have to die. Most find this more than
they can handle. Also you have to use methods that allow getting into the
proper form prior to expiration.
---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, wrote:
LOL but Richard I have heard that the corpse pose is actually
Unless you know another's personal email you cannot do that now Buck. You used
to be able to privately send a message to someone unless they specifically
forbade it, but the Neo interface as it stands does not allow it.
Yahoo's Neo seemed to have some trouble today in message view, I could get only
the first and last messages in the thread to show up. This seems to have been a
glitch in JavaScript or CSS, as posts in the thread load but are hidden from
view (looking at the source code of the page showed that mo
Perhaps this is one of those cases of irony we have missed here, and therefore,
we should be deadly serious about what Richard says. Irony is best used in
small doses, Robin's use of irony was quite extensive, and basically used as a
tool for manipulation.
My question Buck, is what is 'quite fair enforcing a posting limit'? All you
have to do is make sure nobody posted over a specified limit, and lock them out
for the specified penalty. It is mechanical, fairness is not involved. From
your past statements here one can conclude you have more censor
While I do not think posting will be reimposed, I liked the 50 post limit. But
I would give Richard an extra 50 per week as a bonus for his accomplishment.
Don't see the faults of others; examine yourself - discover the areas that are
lacking, and try to improve them... Never dwell on the faults of others. When
we find fault with others, we pollute our own inner instrument in the process -
this is not beneficial to us at all... When we deell on the
Herbal Supplements are not what they seem:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements-are-often-not-what-they-seem.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements-are-often-not-what-they-seem.html?_r=0
I thought we spiritual geeks were supposed to have passed beyond the need for
birthdays, you know, no rebirth, for if you are reborn, you have FAILED,
utterly and miserably.
If this really is your birthday Barry, wishing you great happiness
nonetheless. You certainly do seem to be able to re
Share,
Naturalnews.com is not necessarily a source of unbiased opinion. There are
clearly some things wrong in this article that was cited. Vitamins are fat or
water soluble chemicals that the body needs in limited amounts. If you take
more than the body needs, it just excretes them, or in s
Because wireless routers (there is one about 2m away from me right now) emit
microwave (radio) radiation, this is very likely the case that there is a
biological effect. The study you cited was done by 9th graders. That does not
mean the study should be dismissed
Here is the result of anothe
Thanks for all your posts recently Richard, informative and interesting.
Hey, I'm going out to shovel snow. You need to do some research Share. The
remainder of you can remain and shovel whatever Judy is dishing out.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Anyone, what the heck is a Xeno Caveat?!
It is really the Neo interface. I lose messages all the time. After you hit
reply, the Reply button is still there, up at the top, and the Send button down
at a location near the bottom where it is less likely to be seen, so it is easy
to accidentally hit Reply and erase the message. After all r
dr Dumbass:
Your last messages do not contain information to whom you are replying. If you
are replying to me, the last time I experienced what would be called CC was
over three decades ago. Maybe this is indicative of the total failure of TM, or
maybe TM succeeded, but I do not experience t
Emily who is not emily:
Because there is this body, there is always some sense of a 'me', that is, a
location within a larger context, but the sense of a 'personal identity' the
'real' D--, er, emilymaenot is a convenient fiction that describes the
relationship between the processes that go
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