[FairfieldLife] Re: Dubya's Artworks

2014-04-04 Thread authfriend
I hate to admit it, but they're not bad, IMHO. He has a good eye, if not a brilliant technique. Interestingly, what seems to me to be the least successful portrait in this series is the one of his father, which barely even resembles him. The best one, I think, is of Blair. It reveals

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and the Scorpion Nation

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Sez Barry, making his first mistakes for today because he was so eager to take another shot that he didn't bother to read what Buck wrote: That doesn't mean much of the 'deadwood' isn't not loyal and many go to assemblies etc. IOW, the deadwood were NOT all people who came to their senses and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
BTW, here's the transcript of the tape: http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/soma2.shtml http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/soma/soma2.shtml Answering my own question below: It's definitely the Trancenet writer's image, not Maharishi's, as you'll see if you read the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
and ten or twenty non lethal shootings in addition. On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:10 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: This is a bit misleading, Mike. Rates of aggravated assault and rape decreased significantly from what would have been expected over the period of the study. Robberies

Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
it. On Thu, 4/3/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, April 3

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Actually, as I recall, they were planning to do some studies to see whether soma could be detected. Whether they ever did them, with no result, or called them off, I don't know. You are hilarious! I recall someone on the sidhi preps asked something like that - a nurse I think she was and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Actually, they wouldn't have to do endoscopies on hundreds of sidhas. Why would you need that many? Remember, what they'd be looking for is an unfamiliar substance never before documented to exist in the human stomach. All you'd need would be a few samples of the substance. Then you'd have to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
, April 3, 2014 9:56 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Actually, they wouldn't have to do endoscopies on hundreds of sidhas. Why would you need that many? Remember, what they'd be looking for is an unfamiliar substance never before documented to exist in the human stomach. All you'd need

Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
want to fall back on the old TM standby of It was a bit of unstressing then you have to accept that the rapes and murders that did happen wouldn't have happened if the TMO weren't there. I dub it BS until there is Heaven on Earth. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
You mean, anyone who has read the Ninth Mandala in the translation TM uses will know that's how the Ninth Mandala in that translation describes soma. But they won't necessarily know to what degree that description is symbolic/poetic/metaphorical rather than literal, or even whether the original

Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
). If you want to fall back on the old TM standby of It was a bit of unstressing then you have to accept that the rapes and murders that did happen wouldn't have happened if the TMO weren't there. I dub it BS until there is Heaven on Earth. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
Bit of a problem responding intelligently, eh, Salyavin? Are you for real? You mean, anyone who has read the Ninth Mandala in the translation TM uses will know that's how the Ninth Mandala in that translation describes soma. But they won't necessarily know to what degree that

[FairfieldLife] Libration: A Song

2014-04-03 Thread authfriend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHTVWtx2rooamp;amp;feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHTVWtx2rooamp;amp;feature=youtu.be (The composer, Matthew Schickele, is the son of Peter Schickele, a.k.a. P.D.Q. Bach http://www.schickele.com/. The lyrics have been fact-checked by two

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are TMers Oxytocin Junkies?

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
This is an outstanding example of Barry's asserting something he doesn't actually believe. Or at least you have to hope that's what it is, because if he really does believe it, he's in far worse mental shape than even I thought. The obvious problem with his thesis is that while oxytocin

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Riddle of the Scorned Stalker

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Barry is incoherent with rage, positively incandescent with it, at having fucked up and gotten caught so many times yesterday. Every time he got his nose rubbed in one of his humiliating booboos, he'd be so beside himself with fury, he'd almost immediately make another

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
on the planet is fully developed. For me, in the context of FFL, I find that I guess about how developed someone is by the TONE of MOST of their posts. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:49 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: No, it doesn't. Did you not read the Wikipedia article I linked

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
don't think anybody on the planet is fully developed. For me, in the context of FFL, I find that I guess about how developed someone is by the TONE of MOST of their posts. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:49 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: No, it doesn't. Did you not read

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
Of course it isn't hypocritical, since, as Barry knows, she'd gotten over her anger at Robin long before she ever showed up here 25 years later. Looks like Barry's still in a state of serious mental disarray and is likely to make at least as many nitwit mistakes today as he did yesterday.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
that I guess about how developed someone is by the TONE of MOST of their posts. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:49 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: No, it doesn't. Did you not read the Wikipedia article I linked to? But my question stands even if we use your definition: Are you

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
. Your grasp of semantics is very poor, which is why you always try to cover up your mistakes by obfuscating rather than clarifying them. The Corrector has spoken. On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: You didn't understand the implications

[FairfieldLife] Re: HAPPY IN MARRAKECH

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
Do you think maybe you could limit these posts to, say, five a day? 457 with a population with more than 1,ooo,ooo, so you have something to look forward to :-) I meant cities. Oh dear 196, and thanks to the Blessings of the Masters of Wisdom all are enjoying rising happiness.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Were you there Sal?

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
I don't have a link, but I read a couple of days ago that the Yellowstone geologists have said the swarms almost certainly do not presage a volcanic eruption. (I know, I know, it's a conspiracy to keep the truth from us so we won't try to flee and will just die.) Okay then, is the Ring of

[FairfieldLife] Re: HAPPY IN MARRAKECH

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
It's not grumpy, it's just a request. Don't be so grumpy :-) Do you think maybe you could limit these posts to, say, five a day? 457 with a population with more than 1,ooo,ooo, so you have something to look forward to :-) I meant cities. Oh dear 196, and thanks to the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
This is a bit misleading, Mike. Rates of aggravated assault and rape decreased significantly from what would have been expected over the period of the study. Robberies stayed about the same. And the homicide rate (around 10 per week) over the eight weeks of the study was also about the same as

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
. For me, in the context of FFL, I find that I guess about how developed someone is by the TONE of MOST of their posts. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:49 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: No, it doesn't. Did you not read the Wikipedia article I linked to? But my question stands even

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
of FFL, I find that I guess about how developed someone is by the TONE of MOST of their posts. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:49 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: No, it doesn't. Did you not read the Wikipedia article I linked to? But my question stands even if we use your

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
developed. For me, in the context of FFL, I find that I guess about how developed someone is by the TONE of MOST of their posts. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:49 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: No, it doesn't. Did you not read the Wikipedia article I linked to? But my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Soma and the Gods

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
The unforgettable image of ravening Gods jostling each other to feed at the stomachs of TMers around the world to get their share of the mythical Soma--is this Maharishi's image, or the image of the guy who wrote this essay, Michael? (I've read the transcript of this tape, by the way, so don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Group Meditation Can Reduce Crime Rates

2014-04-02 Thread authfriend
the details but that it was a national concern at the time on all the national news programs. It sure seems that there were more than just ten homicides. Might have been ten homicides and ten or twenty non lethal shootings in addition. On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:10 PM, authfriend

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
Share, do you know what apologist means? Steve, since you asked me what I think (-: I think we all have apologist tendencies to some degree. Meaning that we all have parts of our brain that are still developing and maturing, are not yet fully developed. Because you seem to be saying here

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
I've never seen any statistics compariing the rate of suicides or attempted suicides among TMers with the rate in the general population, have you, Michael? For all we know, rates may be the same; or there might even be a lower rate among TMers. In any case, without some intensive study, we

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
based on HER behavior? From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield Barry's insulting caricatures of the people here he doesn't like (his critics) are not, in fact, even

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
worth based on HER behavior? From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield Barry's insulting caricatures of the people here he doesn't like (his critics

Re: [FairfieldLife] TM Mantras - Source?

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
Barry seems to be fantasizing that Lawson is a continuous presence on FFL, when in fact he only drops in once in a while for relatively short visits. As to starting discussions elsewhere and then inviting FFLers to participate, he's done that exactly twice that I can recall. As to whether

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
I may (or may not) get to the rest of this post of Barry's later, but I just can't resist highlighting this bit, because it gave me such a belly laugh: What have her *accomplishments* been in those 70+ years? It seems to me, based on what she has posted here and on other forums, that they

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
BARRY IS A LIAR. He knows none of this is true. His rage is truly out of control today. Ann's just a born stalker. She stalked Robin to FFL after what...20 years of NOT getting over him. And now she'll continue to stalk anyone else who blows her off and refuses to interact with her. It's

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
mentality to me. Please spin it a different way...if you can... As for rage, I shall allow lurkers to decide who sounds more enraged -- you and Ann, or moi... :-) From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 8:12 PM Subject: Re

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
almost always try to insist that the person saying things about them that don't fit their inner image is lying, because that's easier for their fragile egos to accept than accepting the fact that this is how someone actually sees them... From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife

RE: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
Well said. It's also black-and-white thinking to accuse anyone who says anything less than 100 percent negative about the TMO/MMY of being a cult apologist. Ironically, Barry and Michael are guilty of this sort of thinking more than are most of the TMers on FFL. To say that “black and

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
7:13 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Share, do you know what apologist means? Steve, since you asked me what I think (-: I think we all have apologist tendencies to some degree. Meaning that we all have parts of our brain that are still developing and maturing, are not yet fully

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-04-01 Thread authfriend
on HER behavior? From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield Barry's insulting caricatures of the people here he doesn't like (his critics) are not, in fact, even

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
Er, Michael, more likely the New Age got It's all the Self from TM. The Self has always been a TM thing. It's what you're said to experience when you transcend, remember? Boy, you are really out in left field here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Oh my God! Its

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
No kidding. Let's see if he can acknowledge his error. (He probably didn't even look at the Web site to see what it was all about.) The MJ-fellow seems to have forgotten what Maharishi's central theme was from day 1 :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
Judy. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Er, Michael, more likely the New Age got It's all the Self from TM. The Self has always been a TM thing. It's what you're said to experience when you transcend, remember? Boy, you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
! On Monday, March 31, 2014 9:23 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 3/30/2014 4:19 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Still at it...snicker Apparently Judy has never seen an episode of Dr. Who - if she had, she would know that Dr. Who is constantly running

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
, March 31, 2014 9:44 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Hey, Share, why don't you just make up some stuff out of thin air and pretend you're actually saying something meaningful? I guess that's the only way you can convince yourself you look smart. (BTW, apparently you aren't aware

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
Barry, your insults would be ever so much better if they were at all connected to reality. You've become so out of it you can't even come up with a meaningful insult, just as Share can't. (Love the way you're into citing your own posts over and over these days as if they were Received

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
What's wrong with you, Michael? Maharishi is all over that Web site. Come on Steve, be real - you know damn good and well they are distancing themselves from the Hindu roots and from Maharishi himself - if you can't see how disingenuous that is then you are a truly sheared TM sheep.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Self Course Fairfield

2014-03-31 Thread authfriend
Barry's insulting caricatures of the people here he doesn't like (his critics) are not, in fact, even remotely accurate. Nor, BTW, does the practice of TM have anything whatsoever to do with what he doesn't like about us (our propensity to criticize him). Haven't you ever noticed that he has

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-30 Thread authfriend
too. On Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:35 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 3/29/2014 9:30 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: See what I mean? No. What do you mean? In the TV show Dr.Who, the TARDIS is quite often tardy. Go figure. Origin of TARDY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
As you know, Richard--because you quoted Barry's post saying so--according to Barry, he saw Lenz levitate in many different situations, not just lecture halls or places where he might have had help staging an illusion. It's fine to make Barry look foolish by questioning what it was that Barry

[FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
What we all need to understand about Share is that for her, avoiding acknowledging reality is a WIN; that's what she enjoys. It makes her feel SMART to mislead, to be disingenuous, to twist words, to obfuscate, even to lie outright. What she doesn't realize is that she's not very good at it, so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
to understand your opinion, Judy?! And even if we do, what then?! On Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:28 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: What we all need to understand about Share is that for her, avoiding acknowledging reality is a WIN; that's what she enjoys. It makes her feel SMART

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
Why do we all need to understand your opinion, Judy?! And even if we do, what then?! On Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:28 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: What we all need to understand about Share is that for her, avoiding acknowledging reality is a WIN; that's what she enjoys

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
need to understand your opinion, Judy?! And even if we do, what then?! On Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:28 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: What we all need to understand about Share is that for her, avoiding acknowledging reality is a WIN; that's what she enjoys. It makes her feel

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
, March 29, 2014 10:55 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: We know better how to deal with you when we know what drives you. We don't expect you to behave like a normal person who doesn't stand on their head to avoid reality, who doesn't think it's fun to mislead and obfuscate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
No, it doesn't, and furthermore, you know it doesn't. More dishonesty. Keep at it, Share. The more you say, the more you prove what I said about you. Ok, thanks turq and Mr. Twain. Judy does claim to be an editor so I guess that explains her continual use of we when posting on FFL. On

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
Translation: No, Emily, I can't. But I'll pretend I can, because that's how I do things. Emily, Richard's main insight, imo, is that he enjoys life and doesn't take FFL arguments seriously. On Saturday, March 29, 2014 12:47 PM, emilymaenot@... emilymaenot@... wrote: Re: We are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
reading when your words are right here to see and read. Nor is it mind reading when I ask you what use of we means?! On Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:44 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Share, I've told you before, your mind-reading abilities are not up to snuff. (And you're

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What We Did Today

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
As you know, Share, nothing Barry said applies. Keep it coming. More dishonesty, please. (But I don't really need to ask, do I?) Ok, Judy, then I hope you get rid of your tapeworms sooner rather than later. On Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:29 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
She did look it up after her first response about Richard's insight didn't quite make the grade. But she didn't read far enough. Richard, I'm still hung up on the fact that they call the time machine Tardis, you know, like tardy! You might wonder what's in a name. Then again, you might

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-29 Thread authfriend
See what I mean? Name and form, Richard, name and form. Does one really want a time machine whose name TARDIS evokes the idea of tardiness?! On Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:07 PM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 3/29/2014 4:27 PM, Share Long wrote: I'm still hung up on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
Lawson, I think it's less confusing if you talk about pure-consciousness-by-itself rather than the 'pure' state of PC. It looks to me as though Salyavin is describing first PC-by-itself, and then witnessing during meditation, in which PC coexists with sensory and/or mental perception (as it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
Ever seen Lenz on videotape? There are some very interesting clips of his interview with John Hockenberry for Dateline NBC. Here's a post with a bunch of URLs to those clips (some are just of Hockenberry talking to Lenz's former followers):

Re: [FairfieldLife] IS TM and Effortless Practice?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
For me, the answer to Barry's question would be a definite No. (In fact, I think it would take a bit of effort not to go back to the mantra.) For me, the whole issue of whether TM is effortless comes down to how its adherents would answer the question: Does it take effort -- when you

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Experiment.

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
The TMO doesn't have a shoot the messenger philosophy. That's really how the TMO shoot the messenger philosophy is taught: That's just how things are done around here. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:47 PM

Re: [FairfieldLife] IS TM and Effortless Practice?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
I should add that for me, realizing I'm not thinking the mantra and going back to it are virtually simultaneous. The realization instantly evokes the mantra--as if, in some sense, the realization were the mantra. For me, the answer to Barry's question would be a definite No. (In fact, I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: IS TM and Effortless Practice?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
, March 28, 2014, 2:12 PM On 3/28/2014 8:41 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Where did you take this essay from, Michael? From Honest John?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
But, but, but Xeno says that having an idea and checking it out is not how to do science. In fact, he compares it to what fundamentalist Christians do. Are you saying he's (gasp) wrong? BTW, this whole exchange, and most of Lawson's recent posts, all very much demonstrate the wish to find

[FairfieldLife] Re: IS TM and Effortless Practice?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
Where did you take this essay from, Michael? Wouldn't be from here, would it? http://transcendental-meditation-honestly.blogspot.com/2009/09/lies-of-tm-1-effortless-lie.html http://transcendental-meditation-honestly.blogspot.com/2009/09/lies-of-tm-1-effortless-lie.html Would

Re: [FairfieldLife] IS TM and Effortless Practice?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
He knows that. He's just being disagreeable. And there's only one typo, not a couple as he says. It was supposed to read Is TM an Effortless Practice? Note that the subject of this thread 'IS TM and Effortless Practice' is nonsensical because of a couple of typos. The first part

Re: [FairfieldLife] IS TM and Effortless Practice?

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
As Xeno knows, all-caps are often used for emphasis in Web comments. No, I was having fun, but I was unaware of Michael's situation at home. The first typo is 'IS' instead of 'Is' and the second typo is 'and' instead of 'an'. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : He

Re: [FairfieldLife] What We Did Today

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
Translation: If you think I'm going to acknowledge being inconsistent right here in front of God and everybody, you've got another think coming. What a nerve! Emily, that's a very interesting perspective. On Friday, March 28, 2014 1:56 PM, emilymaenot@... emilymaenot@... wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] What We Did Today

2014-03-28 Thread authfriend
Opsie-Share. You left a word out of that quote there, didn'cha? How dishonest is that? OTOH, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, etc. Translation: If you think I'm going to acknowledge being inconsistent right here in front of God and everybody, you've got another

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc It'll cost you $30 to see the text of either the Editor's Comment or the study itself; the abstract of the study you can see on the site. The editor's worldview wasn't shaken in the slightest, nor was he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
to is the illusion we have that our sense of self is somehow qualitatively different from everything else that is going on in there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : She needs first to realize she's making a gigantic cognitive error in saying consciousness and the sense

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Politician Bites the Dust

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
Yee is the third Democratic senator to face charges this year. Sen. Rod Wright was convicted of perjury and voter fraud for lying about his legal residence in Los Angeles County, and Sen. Ron Calderon has been indicted on federal corruption charges. Wright and Calderon are taking a voluntary

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
sentence of the article. That sentence indicated more than just *tightening up* the scientific method. On Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:32 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc It'll cost you $30 to see

[FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
else that is going on in there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : She needs first to realize she's making a gigantic cognitive error in saying consciousness and the sense of self are an illusion. She can't possibly get anything else right (including TM pure

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
or wrong. Anyway, I remember the last sentence as being very dramatic, something along the lines of: if such an idea can be supported by the scientific method then we need to question the scientific method itself. On Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:10 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
Valkyries don't have horned hats, sorry. Salyavin, who/what has this illusion? You. Who is being deluded? You. Unless there's someone else in their you haven't told us about LOL. The mind boggles at the possibilities of postulating the various alternate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
. On Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:42 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Yes, he meant fix the holes in it so it doesn't let studies like this get through. It isn't stringent enough, IOW. (BTW, how is it that your interpretations can neither be right or wrong?) Judy, from

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
Time series analysis is right (and Box-Jenkins analysis, whatever the hell that is). I'm short on time right now; I'll try to get back to this tonight sometime. There are some interesting angles to it. http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
Well, in any case, Valkyries had winged helmets: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valkyrie_bearing_Hero_to_Valhalla.jpg (The guy she's hanging onto is dead, slain in battle, BTW. She isn't kidnapping him. Presumably he'll be revived once they get to Valhalla.) Oh,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Steven Seagall to Help Putin

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
Hilarious. Talk about obsession! I agree Seagall is out of shape in this picture. But Putin is still thinking of the martial artist actor that Seagall was many years ago. Maybe a lot of Russians have been awed by Seagall's movies. I understand. Many people still imagine Maharishi as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Steven Seagall to Help Putin

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Steven Seagall to Help Putin Hilarious. Talk about obsession! I agree Seagall is out of shape in this picture. But Putin is still thinking

Re: [FairfieldLife] What We Did Today

2014-03-27 Thread authfriend
See that little kid at the end of the table? She's a genius. Share, this is where geniuses hang out; it is a genius bar. LOL, that's all I have to say. What kind of place is it, Richard? On Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:07 PM, Pundit Sir punditster@... wrote: Today, we went to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Post Count Fri 21-Mar-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
if she goes over them each night before beddybye. That might explain some things. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : And left dangling is your failure to chastise either Barry or Steve concerning their vile speculations about DoctorDumbass's marriage. Talk about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Mantra will cure willfully arrogant stupidity

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
It's a floor wax! No, it's a dessert topping! Michael, Hinduism is far, far too complex and elaborate to insist that it's either one or the other, a religion or a philosophy. It has elements of both. Rather than just screeching at people like a fundamentalist preacher, why don't you ask

Re: [FairfieldLife] Non-Celebrity TM Endorsements

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
How do you think lurkers perceive you, Barry? Just curious. Do you think they perceive your own behavior as repetitive, and what you focus on as largely unchanging? BTW, you didn't actually make the point you thought you made, because your profiles didn't come close to accurately

Re: [FairfieldLife] Non-Celebrity TM Endorsements

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
Barry, I asked you this earlier this morning, but I haven't seen a response: How do you think lurkers perceive you? Do you think they perceive your own behavior as repetitive, and what you focus on as largely unchanging? Or not? This shouldn't be difficult for you to answer. Share,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Mantra will cure willfully arrogant stupidity

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
Michael: Do you not understand the phrase elements of both? Try to engage here with what people are telling you. Otherwise you sound like the most rigid fundamentalist True Believer. This issue isn't cut-and-dried, yes/no, black/white; it's complicated. And it isn't only a TM issue by any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No Mantra will cure willfully arrogant stupidity

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
You aren't an authority on Hinduism, but you know for a fact that a billion Hindus agree with you? You aren't an authority on Hinduism, but you know exactly what you're talking about? Oopsie. Michael, you're really crashing and burning here, making it all too clear how closed

[FairfieldLife] Re: question about hoopla

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
Hey, I have a terrific idea. Why don't you call your local library and ask? I just heard about hoopla. Does anyone know why a library would not have it? Does it cost the library money? Time and attention?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Non-Celebrity TM Endorsements

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
Nobody said it was a reply button, Lawson. This is a link (not a button) saying Show message history in the lower left-hand corner of the Reply window. It doesn't give any options. It just shows what post you were responding to when you click on it. except that different reply buttons

[FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
Who has the false idea of the persisting self? Who is deluded by this illusion? Susan Blackmore has a new essay about consciousness research on her website. Food for thought: Consciousness is not some weird and wonderful product of some brain processes but not others. Rather, it is an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Celebrity TM Endorsements

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
WAY out of line, Michael. Shame on you. Nappy is a thinly veiled Nazi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Non-Celebrity TM Endorsements

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Nobody said it was a reply button, Lawson. This is a link (not a button) saying Show message history in the lower left-hand corner of the Reply window. It doesn't give any options. It just shows what post you were responding to when you click

Re: [FairfieldLife] Non-Celebrity TM Endorsements

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
stupid, or perhaps they've fixed the issue. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Nobody said it was a reply button, Lawson. This is a link (not a button) saying Show message history in the lower left-hand corner of the Reply window. It doesn't give any options

[FairfieldLife] Re: Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

2014-03-26 Thread authfriend
in the brain without any content to be alert about. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Who has the false idea of the persisting self? Who is deluded by this illusion? Susan Blackmore has a new essay about consciousness research on her website. Food for thought

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