RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually that phrasing is ambiguous when it comes to something that's only speculative. It can mean either that you don't believe it exists, or that if it did exist, you'd be opposed to it. In the case of the death penalty, we know it exists, so I don't believe in it can only mean I'm opposed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!

2014-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It isn't a grudge, Barry, and it's hardly weird. There are quite a few of us here who feel exactly as he does about your behavior (as you may perhaps have noticed). It's not as if you'd turned over a new leaf since he left, is it, now? Nor is it as though you never attacked anybody except in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Heaven forfend that Barry should read the article at the link I posted, which reports on a recent Gallup survey showing that large majorities of Americans are in favor of various approaches to gun control. What Americans have is a political problem in which minorities and special interest

[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, America is overwhelmingly against any form of gun control. Oh, wait... http://www.gallup.com/poll/160085/americans-back-obama-proposals-address-gun-violence.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/160085/americans-back-obama-proposals-address-gun-violence.aspx ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And I'm back to America has a political problem, given that the overwhelming majority of Americans want stricter gun controls, but the appropriate legislation is consistently blocked by the minority who don't want any gun controls. Obviously that political problem has an impact on many other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
America also has a very different history from the Netherlands, one in which guns of necessity played a major role. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Not really my conversation, but I thought it was also mentioned that diversity plays a factor. Holland is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : And I'm back to America has a political problem, given that the overwhelming majority of Americans want stricter gun controls, but the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'll confirm this from my experience when I lived in NYC. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : You are extrapolating for about two hundred million of us (urban dwellers). There is no constant low level fear here. As usual, I don't know anyone who thinks the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comment below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm sick of your debating tactics, Curtis. Your response here is just more of same. I shouldn't have stuck with our theism discussion as long as I did. From now on, when you begin hauling out the old tricks, I'm gone. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sure didn't take long for the old Curtis to surface. But I'm not playing any more, sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : J: I'm sick of your debating tactics, Curtis. Your response here is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Who says they have to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Why? Because they can't let go of the idea that God doesn't exist. What do you think?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Let me try that again. Who says they have to let go of the idea that there is no God in order to transcend? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Judy, Nobody says they have to. And that's precisely why they can't transcend. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... I should also point out that you seem intent to portray anyone who *doesn't* believe in a God as lesser and on some lower plane of existence. Sorta like you portray anyone who DOES believe in a God. snips My continuing experiences of what he called

[FairfieldLife] Re: Uh oh...Nabby is gonna freak right out :-)

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nabs is a fan of Buddha, just not of Buddhists who don't practice TM. Opsie! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From an interview with David Lynch: David Lynch’s Heart Opened When… The director spoke of two times when he was shaken to his core. One was when he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, there's major scholarly disagreement with the translation within. Jesus was directly addressing the Pharisees, after all, not making a general statement; and he'd made it crystal clear that he thought they were corrupt inside and out. Just contextually, it's extremely unlikely he was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
P.S.: The complete sentence is, The Kingdom of God is within/among/in the midst of you--you meaning the Pharisees. You can't leave off the you without seriously misrepresenting what Jesus was saying. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Actually, there's major

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nope. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you (Luke 12:31). Matthew has Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness... (6:33). Again, Nabby, Jesus was talking to the Pharisees, who he thought were spiritually corrupt and incapable of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
But believe it or not, there is an Atheism for Dummies book. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I think it could be a great title for a book, Atheists Can't Transcend Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen a book in the series along the lines of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sure. And for all we know, similar sayings of Jesus to those in the Gospel of Thomas may have been redacted from the canonical Gospels. But in this case, he had a very specific point to make to the Pharisees about his identity and their inability to see him for who he was. He wasn't saying Look

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hmm, I always did wonder where Jesus learned English. Oh, Barry, you tiddlywink. I just want to hang you up by the collar of your little sailor suit and pinch those chubby pink cheeks. (No kidding, folks, Barry's said a lot of unbelievably stupid things here, especially recently. But this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You know, I missed this part: If you cannot, please explain to us why we shouldn't consider them mere examples of spiritual bigotry and hatred, spouted by someone anxious to impose his notions of an Old Testament God onto Maharishi's notions of Being and overwrite them...replace them with a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Who thinks of lucid dreaming as mystical or spiritual? I don't think I've ever heard that one before. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Another fascinating article presenting a different way of looking at experiences that many would call mystical or spiritual. To a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are 'visions of God' really just temporal lobe epilepsy?

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry just hates it when people laugh at his button-pushing attempts. That's why he snipped this from his quote of Ann's post: He was posting this to imply that visionaries or those who have had spiritual or revelatory experiences were most likely diseased in some way. I wonder if he was

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My understanding has been that witnessing dreams is just that, witnessing them, not trying to change what's happening in them. No? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote : From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 1:04

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ann has had Barry's number virtually from the beginning of her time here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Ann, Well said. You're a very intelligent woman. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Be interesting to compare EEG measurements of lucid dreaming vs. witnessing dreams, see if they're similar or distinct. I've witnessed dreams, but there was never any impetus to interfere with them; and I've had a few lucid dreams in which becoming lucid was the trigger for changing them. For

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Judy, Jesus said many mysterious ideas in his teachings. IMO, he was conveying the idea of consciousness as the basis of everything to ignorant people, including the apostles, at that time. I'm not contesting

[FairfieldLife] Re: A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Have you ever considered the possibility that those who believe in free will are just too dull to imagine the world they see around them any other way? Fish in a barrel, baby... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Have you ever considered the possibility that

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FWIW, determinism and predestination are two different things. Predestination is the doctrine that everything that happens has been destined to happen from the beginning. Determinism is the doctrine that every action is determined by the previous action. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes, I do know, but actually, I was responding to Bhairitu, not Barry. Really just a point of possible general interest for anyone following these discussions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-13 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Uh-oh, Barry's having another ego-crisis. 600-plus words' worth. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : My thanks to both Judy and Ann for responding on cue to my one-liner, and thus proving that *they* live in a deterministic universe of their own making. :-) That

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-13 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Couple comments below... That was the point of my post, after all. I just thought up the line, considered it funny, and posted it intentionally using the word determinist because I knew that Judy would feel she had to respond to it by ragging on me. And she did. Because *she*

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-13 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, you're a disgrace. You inveigh against spam but you don't even know what it is. And it's hard to believe the dishonesty of referring to Alex as A ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Ranchydog could certainly attempt to give some spiritual or FFL context

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Question is, why would you want to suss out someone's trigger words? Why would you want to make a person your puppet? What kind of sick ego/power trip is that? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : As a more serious reply, the effect of language on people is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck hasn't won anything but the Pain in the Butt Award, IMHO. It's dishonest of him to claim Alex took what he quoted out of context. What's out of context is the single sentence Buck quoted, given that what Alex quoted specifies the sorts of topics that that sentence potentially includes.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
EFT has no useful effect as a therapy beyond the placebo effect or any known-effective psychological techniques that may be used with the purported 'energy' technique, but proponents of EFT have published material claiming otherwise. Their work, however, is flawed and so unreliable:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Non Sequiturs 'R' Us... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Of course destroying words is no solution at all. But just think how the word *cancer* can affect people, making their heart race, causing all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Have you really never read or heard any of the arguments against abortion? That's hard to believe. BTW, abortion is not necessarily always a personal tragedy to those who have one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Lawson, I admit I'm flummoxed by peoples'

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Beyond True and False

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sam Harris insists that free will is just an illusion, so this would be an excellent topic for Rick to ask about when he interviews Harris, no? http://www.samharris.org/free-will http://www.samharris.org/free-will I even suspect that this irrelevance of true/false might be at play

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It isn't a matter of whether you agree with it (that's a non sequitur, as are eating meat on Fridays and the Inquisition), it's why you wouldn't understand that people who believe abortion involves murdering innocent, helpless human life are so appalled by it and feel it's their duty to help

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Exactly. And also why they want abortion to be illegal. Why that should be hard to understand, I can't imagine. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : They consider it MURDER. Not just rhetoric; that is how they really see it, as the murder of a child.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Did you miss the word allegedly, Barry? It is not a synonym for I believe... Well, there's floating during TM-SIdhis pracice, and then there's floating during daily activity. Allegedly someone fully in Unity could perform any and all TM-SIdhis at any time, in any circumstance. And you

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Buck

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nobody is spamming us, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Yes, and Om may the Unified Field of our forum community guidelines and our FairfieldLife community list owner and moderators protect us all from the spamming spammer who spams us. -Buck in the Dome

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You left something out, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : “Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and finders) of truth and liberation everywhere.” Yahoo forums guideline: “Stay on topic. Although all groups are different, most groups

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You'll wait forever, given that Lawson never said he believed it. The rest of us will just laugh at you and go on about our business (so you can strike the we and just use I). Just as an additional point, haven't you seen the reports that many of these statements about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, not spam. Alex deletes spam whenever it's posted, so you have nothing to worry about. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Yes, Pretty much any topic is fair game. But Not Spam. -Buck authfriend writes: You left something out, Buck. “Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: A polite request...

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Is there any possibility that you could simply refrain from reading the posts you aren't interested in instead of demanding self-censorship from us poor unfortunate Americans? Oh, and who are the those of us besides yourself? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't think you mean thoughtcrime, Buck. Are you a mind-reader? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Yep, and this FFL is a moderated list particularly around the thoughtcrime of the posting of spam. As a protection to the life of the group we have a policy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This time Barry missed and excited on another. Of course, the wish to find out in and of itself doesn't mean no possibility of sadness or disappointment any more than it means no possibility of excitement. What's sad is the person who is so emotionally repressed as to suggest either.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I also strongly disagree with Jim's thesis. However... This time, Barry missed cancer cannot get a foothold--i.e., cannot flourish and replicate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Thank you for the clarity, Curtis, and for taking on this particular meme, and form

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... Especially coming from one of the Maharishi enlightened. What if what has been described as enlightenment in the past has *absolutely nothing* to do with personality or behavior? What if, just as those who described it in the past have said, it is purely about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Isn't that something? Yes, I've said the same thing. I wonder if he remembers it. I stumbled on it some time ago when I was looking for something else on alt.m.t, saved it, then forgot I had it until I stumbled over it in my own files a couple days ago. I suspect it was intended as a putdown of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think what Barry means by what [they] do in their posts is the spin he puts on what they say, whether that's what they intended or not--e.g., if you or I say something negative about Barry, it's because we're trying desperately to force him to respond to us. Of course, that cuts both

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cafe Zen

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's good that you're taking a break from demonstrating your spiritual advancement by trying to get those who disagree with you, Barry. While others on this forum demonstrate their spiritual advancement by trying to get those who disagree with them, you'll have to forgive me if I prefer to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I suspect Richard is referring just to your posts, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Whoa, TM/MIU/MUM are a sacred posting ground here. The TM/MIU/MUM postings to FFL are well grandfathered on to FFL as a kind of fact based postulate and original thought.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good for Sam Harris. Anyone without a solid understanding of this elementary truth is not going to get anywhere studying the nature of consciousness. According to Sam Harris, to say that consciousness may only seem to exist is to admit its existence in full—for if things seem any way at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, according to the dictionary, meditation can mean several different things depending on the context. You can use the term in an everyday sense to mean to think things over, but it doesn't simply mean that, and that isn't what it means when we use it on FFL or in the context of a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you know, Knapp hasn't been associated with TM-Free for several years. Mike Doughney runs it now. You already did this, over on TM-Free, for John Knapp.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you know, minet.org is Mike Doughney's Web site. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/16/2014 9:55 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: As you know, Knapp hasn't been associated with TM-Free for several years. Mike Doughney runs it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Witnessing

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The first paragraph here is a good example of what Maharishi meant by Knowledge is structured in consciousness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : While alive, everybody has experience, consciousness. So 'something' is making the content of experience visible. There

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why did TM *really* become so popular (for a while)?

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Almost 900 words devoted to an attempt to make TMers feel bad about themselves. This, of course, is how Barry makes himself feel Special these days--by attributing to TMers the fantasies of Specialness that he himself entertained about TM. Ultimately it didn't work out, so he moved on to Rama

Re: [FairfieldLife] The transition from BC to the state that comes after it

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Has anybody else noticed how obsessed with dicks Barry is lately? (BTW, Barry, Viagra didn't come onto the market until long after you'd beat feet from the TMO.) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Because I was once a teacher, and have no wish to lead prospective

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As I believe was mentioned here not long ago, as far as DSM-IV is concerned, dissociation is to be considered a disorder only if it bothers the person who is experiencing it. As should not be a surprise, I completely agree with you that the science of dissociative disorders pretty

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On what basis do you think this? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Richard, I think the soul enters the body at 3 months. I'm not sure what should be done after that.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And he would have known this how, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Judy, opening a can of worms, I think this because I heard through the grapevine that Maharishi said it. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:53 AM, authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Life on Mars

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hoagland, whose conspiracy theory it is, appears to be something of a crackpot. Look at the last of the links at the end, about India's moon mission: http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-81.htm http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-81.htm I'm highly dubious about the conspiracy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And where would this ancient source of wisdom have gotten it from, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Judy, important to repeat that I did not myself hear Maharishi say this. But it makes sense to me and if he did say it, I'd say he got it from an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That isn't a problem with Harris's definition, it's a problem of inadequate understanding of the nature of the practice (possibly the result of poor instruction). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Richard, the problem with Sam Harris' definition is that it might

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And these wise and ancient women would have known this how, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Judy, ancient source of wisdom would get it from wise and ancient women... On Saturday, May 17, 2014 11:25 AM, authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think everyone understands the word he used, nonjudgmental. And it fits right in with New Age thinking about avoiding judgment. Destroyed makes no sense. You can't destroy a word. Plus which, Sam Harris was born in 1967, right at the beginning of the New Age. And finally, I doubt anyone is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And they perceived and observed the accuracy of this idea how, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Judy, from their own experience and that of other women they experienced as being mostly accurate in their perceptions and observations. On Saturday,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clay and Silk

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Anybody have any idea what she means by old Yahoo format? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Buck, herein I'm responding from Neo rather than old yahoo format. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:20 PM, dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clay and Silk

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Michael's posts have always looked just fine to me on the Web site. Maybe the problem is on your end, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : No, MJ it is odd and unique. It is something [bad and unconventional] with you. -Buck mjackson74 writes: I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just for da record... I don't need to go into any detail here but just can mention that subjective experiences were never evaluated separated from behavior. I believe that Maharishi got that right. I don't need to say any more about that because you provided more than enough information for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Roller Girl

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Excellent point, Richard. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/17/2014 9:42 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Just a non-sequitur, sitting in this cafe, enjoying the sunny day. It is triggered by the vision of a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clay and Silk

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, so you're not talking about the Web site at all. I see. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Judy, first of all, I read FFL posts in my yahoo email inbox. BUT...I have a choice. I can either read and reply in what yahoo calls Basic format or in what they call Full

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Just for da record... I don't need to go into any detail here but just can mention that subjective experiences were never evaluated separated

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of course your question wasn't nonsensical, Share. It was perfectly reasonable, a good question, in fact. Barry is apparently so eager to diss TMers that he misread it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : turq wrote: If TM cost less, and were not taught by a cult

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I know nothing about Rymer, but what you describe of his interactions with Maharishi was also true of Robin. There was no conflict between Robin and Maharishi until he showed up with his group (of mostly TM teachers) in Fairfield--seven years or so after he had first claimed enlightenment--and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interestingly, neither of you addressed my point about Xeno's paragraph, much less refuted it. Xeno is obviously not a TM-TB. When he describes his own experience, he's clearly not rehashing Maharishi's teaching. But the paragraph I quoted from his post (below) is an instance of Knowledge is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Wrong by what criteria? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : There are many things that still surprise me about the things that long-term TM TBs believe and that I no longer believe, but I admit to having been somewhat taken aback yesterday at Lawson's seemingly

[FairfieldLife] Wired.com debunks lucid dreaming study

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Psychologists Give People Control of Their Dreams Using Brain Stimulation. Really? | Science Blogs | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2014/05/psychologists-give-people-control-of-their-dreams-using-brain-stimulation-really/?cid=social_20140512_23745144

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The reason you get attacked, Barry, is that you're so fucking nasty in sharing your great wisdom with us. You make all kinds of gratuitously demeaning assumptions about the TMers here, many if not most of which are simply not true; and you consistently exalt yourself as superior. Plus which,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One more time: What if what has been described as enlightenment in the past has *absolutely nothing* to do with personality or behavior? What if, just as those who described it in the past have said, it is purely about consciousness, having the ability to directly perceive eternality 24/7,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Demeaning the TMO is one thing. Demeaning the TMers here is quite another. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Funny thing this, I do TM twice a day and have never felt demeaned by a Barry rap on the TMO, in fact I agree with a lot of it as I worked there

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I wasn't commenting on what Barry had previously said on other forums You didn't know that he had said this. - I was and am addressing what he said here, today. And if you want to throw down on someone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Jeez. Talk about a river in Egypt. Talk about a guilty conscience. Talk about projection. Talk about shooting the messengers (good point, Steve). Talk about out-of-control reactive! This rap is for those long-term FFL members who claim that their continuing *personal attacks* against

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Somehow I don't think Ann was listing what she thought were attacks on her livelihood. Somehow I don't think Barry thinks that either. Ann was presenting Steve with a list of Barry's attacks on her that apparently don't bother Steve. And that embarrasses Barry, as well it should after

[FairfieldLife] Re: When people can't tell the difference...

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't recognize B as representative of any criticism you've ever made, Barry. Yours almost always include insulting comments about the person you're addressing. A. I think that you are a low-life, scum-sucking, dog-humping bastard. B. I think that the spiritual teacher / celebrity /

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As if you never wrote insulting screeds about me or Ann in an attempt to get FFL members to dislike us because you dislike us. Talk about hypocrisy... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: authfriend@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Missed this second bit of incredible hypocrisy, from the dude who wrote almost 750 words of screeching complaint earlier today about TMers attacking and insulting him: (Goodness knows I could compile a much longer list of Barry's insults, including attacks on my livelihood.) And you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry has demeaned my livelihood many times. I can't recall ever demeaning his. And how is this not what you're referring to? (BTW, do you know who Squeaky Fromme was?) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Sure, calling people names is just juvenile.* Coming

[FairfieldLife] Re: We need to ask

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If that was a dome announcement, Buck should be able to tell us what it was about. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Fromme was also a member of the Manson Family, BTW. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Sure, calling people names is just juvenile.* Coming after one's family, or demeaning one's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, well, no, I haven't, actually. I've done that very rarely. What an imagination you have! I have said I think his writing skills mask his lack of depth, but that's a criticism of his thinking ability, not his writing ability. He has certainly many times asserted that I can't write. Which

[FairfieldLife] Re: One Hundred Meditators! The Light Brigade Deploys to Ukraine

2014-05-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Did you miss Xeno's post, Buck? The charge of the Light Brigade was a disaster. They were mistakenly sent against a force they were not equipped to fight and were mowed down in great numbers. They had to retreat with no military gain. Even though it was obvious they were headed for ignominious

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Vigilantes

2014-05-21 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, I don't know, I suppose decent is as good a term as any. Just not special. Better than most of the posters on FFL. But he's a hack writer, not an artist. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Oh, okay, thank you for making that distinction. I guess what is

[FairfieldLife] Re: One Hundred Meditators! The Light Brigade Deploys to Ukraine

2014-05-21 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Uh, Buck, that the charge of the Light Brigade was a disaster rather than a triumph isn't exactly a detail. It's a tragic story about foolish, mindless bravery that resulted in unnecessary suffering and death and didn't accomplish anything. It's about the worst model for a TM mission to Crimea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Maharishi Laughing (sound only)

2014-05-21 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Your link is unclickable, Dick. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dickmays@... wrote : Maharishi laughing about the “merry-go-round” of life!

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