[FairfieldLife] A Gigantic Hoax?
It's beginning to look like the news posted by MJ has some cracks in it (no pun intended). Although I used to read Rolling Stone and I was around when Jann Wenner founded the mag, I've always thought it was just a groupie rag. And Jan's editorial policy and his rejection of legalizing cannabis caused me to cancel my subscription, it looks like it's over for RS. There no credibility in it now. Rolling Stone apologizes for 'discrepancies' in UVA rape story: http://news.yahoo.com/rolling-stone-uva-rape-story-retraction-180722194.html /Journalists who contemplate such matters are now wondering whether the incredible Rolling Stone story about the gang rape of a University of Virginia student is just that: not credible./ Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax? http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/01/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax 'Rolling Stone whiffs in reporting on alleged rape' http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/12/02/rolling-stone-whiffs-in-reporting-on-alleged-rape/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gas Buddy
/A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas./ *Oil Shock Streaks Across Globe From Moscow to Tehran to Caracas. Ready for $40?* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-30/oil-at-40-possible-as-market-transforms-caracas-to-iran.html /*Petronic* 4030 Vance Jackson Rd Spicewood Dr. San Antonio, Texas $1.99 http://www.sanantoniogasprices.com//
[FairfieldLife] Modern Slavery
/The new estimate is based on a statistical analysis by the Home Office chief scientific adviser, Professor Bernard Silverman, which aims for the first time to calculate the dark figure of victim numbers who are not reported to the law enforcement agencies./ Theresa May says tens of thousands held as modern slaves in Britain The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/lsjbs5m
[FairfieldLife] Living the American Dream
All Americans are living the American Dream - it's not just an economic, class, or status idea. The American dream is stated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence: all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The people have the right of revolution but individuals do not. Everyone, rich or poor, is already living the dream! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream /All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient./ *The Constitution of Texas[37] also contains similar wording in Article 1, Sect 2: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Texas
[FairfieldLife] The Art of the Mask in Sub-Saharan Africa
*The Art of the Mask in Sub-Saharan Africa* In tribal societies of Sub-Saharan Africa, ceremonial masks serve many purposes. Their unique shapes and designs have special significance to each culture. Masks are used to connect the people with the spirit world, including the animal spirits as well as the spirits of dead ancestors. African masks have had a great influence on Western and European art, most notably in such styles as cubism, fauvism and expressionism, according to Denise Murrell writing in African Influences in Modern Art. The art of the mask plays a large part in the performance art by African shamans in which there is a ritual reeinactment of in which possession of the spiritual world is juxtaposed birth and death play a large part Possession by spirits, although documented in a great many shamanism contexts, does not seem to have been a primary and essential element. Rather, it suggests a phenomenon of degeneration; for the supreme goal of the shaman is to abandon his body and rise to heaven or descend into hell, not to let himself be possessed by his assisting spirits, by demons or the souls of the dead; the shaman's ideal is to master these spirits, not to let himself be occupied by them (Eliade 320). When wearing a ritual mask, the celebrant is not merely impersonating a deity; he becomes the deity in the eyes of his tribe. Wearing the mask transforms the wearer into another being, and causes him to speak and walk differently, and otherwise take on the qualities of the spirit being invoked. There are many reasons to masquerade: parades, dances, religious rituals, wars, planting and harvest, funerals, weddings, coming-of-age ceremonies, speaking with animal spirits, and the rites of secret societies. Masks are almost always worn by men only, since they are imbued with power that is considered dangerous at times. Ritual masks are made by special artists who have trained for years, learning carving techniques from their elders. In addition to his woodworking abilities, the artist must also be able to communicate the spiritual intentions of his tribe when the mask would be used; his work is valued for its spiritual symbolism, not for craftsmanship alone. Cathy Newman in her articel for The National Geographic, Tangible Spirits for The National Geographic, think the mask maker is not trying to create a realistic image of an animal or person. Instead, he is trying to express the essence of abstract concepts such as nobility, beauty, courage, fertility, strength, alertness, humility, and peace of mind, according to the Artyfactory web site. How is such a mask created? The most popular material for making masks is wood, although other materials are used, as well: metal, fabric, ivory, cardboard, shells, beads, bones, animal skin, straw, feathers, and paint are some of them. Generally, wood is chosen because it is plentiful in the forests, and because trees are thought to have living souls that can provide naturally comfortable homes for the spirits who will reside in the masks. It is customary for the mask maker to offer a sacrifice to the tree before cutting it down. After cutting, the tree spirit is given a day or so to move out as the author of Rebirth Collection African to a new tree before the artist gathers his needed supply of wood. Not only does the tree have a spirit, but also the artist's adze, the tool used to carve the mask. If an adze has been passed down from previous generations, it may also inherit the skills of its former owner. The style of a mask depends on both the needs and beliefs of the community and the style (and ability) of the individual artist. Composition, texture, color, pattern, symmetry, balance, shape and embellishment all play a role in conveying the meaning of a mask. In his book The Masks of God, Campbell makes this astute observation: /The artist eye has a mythical slant upon life; therefore, the mythological realm - the world of the gods and demons, the carnival of their masks and the curious game of 'as if' in which the festival of the lived myth abrogates all the laws of time, letting the dead swim back to life, and the 'once upon a time' become the very present - we must approach and first regard the artists eye/ (Campbell 21). Examples from a few tribes will serve to illustrate the complexity and variety of masks. For example, the mask of Guro is of origin, from the Ivory Coast. This mask represents the spirit of Gu, the wife of a supernatural being. Depictions of Gu are serene and elegant. She has almond shaped eyes, a small mouth, and a finely sculpted nose. Masks with elaborate hair or headdresses represent wealthy women who do not carry objects on their heads. These masks honor protective spirits. Figures 2 and 3, below, are examples of Puno masks, which come from central and western Gabon. The soul of an ancestor is indicated by the white face, which represents
[FairfieldLife] Bad Luck
/Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded --- here and there, now and then --- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as bad luck./ - Robert Heinlein
[FairfieldLife] Skaktipat
The term Shaktipat is the transference of psychic energy to another person either by means of an initiation, a sacred word or phrase, a mantra, a touch or even a thought or a mere glance. The question is, how or why did the Shankara Saraswati tradition adopt the shakti doctrine? According to this tradition, Shankara journeyed to Kamarup - the present Guwahati-in Assam and held a controversy with Abhinava Gupta, the Shakta commentator. Kamarupa is the site of an ancient tantric cult of the Shakti Kamakhya which is located in Assam. It is one of the main Shakti-pithas in the tanric Shakti cult. Shankara supposedly won an important debate with Abhinava. Shankara then went to the Himalayas and built a Mutt at Joshi and a Mandir at Badri and then he then proceeded to Kedarnath higher up in the Himalayas where he became one with the Shakti Devi in 820 A.D. in his thirty-second year. The Sharda Temple, which by tradition was visited by Shankara in his travels, is located in Kishanganga Valley just across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The meaning of this tradition story is that Shankara reached the peak of spirituality when he converted to Shaki worship. We can get an idea of his greatness from the fact that a person of just thirty had adopted the worship of Sri Vidya, which is similar to Kahmir Shivaism. As it is not possible to visit this shakti peetha, one can visit the famous Saraswathi temple in Basara in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. Basara is 200 km from Hyderabad. You can read more about the Shakti Pithas here: http://www.srinithyakalyani.org/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya Suggested Reading: *Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography* by Swami Muktananda, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and Paul Muller-Ortega SYDA Foundation, 1994 *Secret of the Siddhas* by Swami Muktananda SYDA Foundation, 1994 *The Doctrine of Vibration* An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski State University of New York Press, 1987 *Meditation Revolution* A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage by S.P. Sabharathnam and Douglas Brooks Agama Press, 1997
Re: [FairfieldLife] What a joke
On 12/6/2014 11:12 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: Do you ever do anything except bitch and complain and talk about others? Just curious. There are only a few informants left on this forum - so, who exactly are you posting this to, the lurking reporters? Are you suggesting that health problems are the result of practicing a simple relaxation technique? Following your logic, there must be billions of people all over the planet that have bad health because they held yoga pose for a few minutes or did some deep breathing. Can you cite any any double-blind scientific health studies that would indicate this? Maybe I should be directing this question the FFL resident science-writer. Barry? Given the number of TM practitioners I have known over the years who had all sorts of health problems this page is obviously a big ass joke. 6. Reimbursed by health insurance companies? http://tm-ireland.org/reimbursed-by-health-insurance/ image http://tm-ireland.org/reimbursed-by-health-insurance/ 6. Reimbursed by health insurance companies? http://tm-ireland.org/reimbursed-by-health-insurance/ Health insurers could make major savings by supporting people who want to stay healthy and heal themselves For over 40 years, hundreds of studies View on tm-ireland.org http://tm-ireland.org/reimbursed-by-health-insurance/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Curtis, was Until the Vicious Negativity is removed
On 12/6/2014 10:15 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: You know how powerful silence is right Buck? So I think your best move is to go into a deep silence of non posting here and the power of that silence is just sure to pull us all in with you. Maybe you should call in the thought-police to put a stop to Buck's speaking out, like Barry did. Maybe the cops could put Buck in a choke-hold and make him shut up. That technique seemed to work ell on Michael Brown. /Mr. Hamilton - Put you hands up! / *Protesters of Chokehold Death Rally Around Nation* http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/protesters-chokehold-death-rally-nation-27409181 You obviously have a need to become a leader, so this is your moment to lead us all into silence. Go deep. Go long. Don't despair if it takes a while for the power of your silence to work on us. Just keep your intense silence for days, then weeks, and months with fixity on your goal of getting other people to stop communicating what they want to each other on a public forum set up for that purpose. I can't imagine how my life would be without your benevolent control asserting itself over my life Buck. So please do us ALL a favor and show us the way into the silence you seek so earnestly. We all will soon follow you there I am just sure about that. Don't waste a second, start right now! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Dear Rick, Instilling an administrative no-fly zone of silence over FairfieldLife as a means of disengagement would be important moral leadership in changing the manifest wreckage of unkind tone that this battlefield of FFL has become. It is time to clear the FFL field spiritually. I would support you in this, -Buck, the Patriarch of Peace on FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Yep silence FFL, suspend it, unto Easter Sunday [April 5, 2015] symbolic to the resurrection of something anew and a new hope in the community that was FFL. Dear Rick, How about we take, at the least, the rest of the month of December and /_suspend_/ all posting at all to FFL?Start then with a kinder more gentle FFL anew with posting on January 1st. Take some time off to re-group. -Buck Rick, we know and understand that you are busy however; have you been reading any of the posts to FFL? Rick, Just scroll down through the subject lines if you don't have time to read the posts, they are appalling. -Buck Rick, the neganauts here are playing you now to see how far they can take it. Dear Rick, As an old Friend You see I really don't feel that you should yield FairfieldLife over to the methodical negativity that has overrun and overtaken our FairfieldLife [FFL] community on Yahoo-groups. Sincerely, -Buck Rick, FairfieldLife [FFL] has been way too important to communal Fairfield life in the past to just let it go to the aggressive dogs of unkind negativity as some mean and now narrowed successor group caliphate of hateful neganauts. The larger communal use of FFL that FFL could facilitate in communication: Rick, for instance this FFL post is an incredibly important post within the things going on right now in the Fairfield meditating community: 404986Re: FW: A Cultural Survey, Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/404986 Rick, Could reading the old FFL posts be kept open to scholarship whilst the posting function for everyone could be suspended? Like, being able to look at at these whilst posting is suspended? .. 406280*Hammond's Channel of Maharishi and the DC TM Meeting* https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/406280 Or, 402694*Re: An Old Index to FFL* https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/402694 68*Notes of the Hammond TM Lecture* https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/conversations/messages/68 Yes a general shutdown of posting to FFL but, One of the most urgent uses of FFL for scholarly purposes is research into mining of the archive of FFL. The amazing archive here tells a back-story of a community. Is there a way (?) to keep the search function of the archive and also the files section open whilst shutting off posting to FFL for a while in the FFL groups settings? WLeed3@... wrote : GOOD IDEA RICK BUCK Dear, Dear Rick; How about taking the month of December to suspend posting at all to FFL?Start anew with posting on January 1^st . Let thy people re-pattern their lives silent as a period of time to reflect elsewhere. Time for a re-groove, a retreading of the tires of the forum that is FairfieldLife. It should be better for everyone and for what FFL would be. With the Best of Regards, The FFL Patriarch Of Positivity -Buck in the Dome WLeed3@... writes : I will leave the form to much nasty hateful thought forms via here via: verbiage back biting
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WTF
On 12/6/2014 11:53 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: It was his idea, not mine. He is calling for silence and I am saying start us off, lead by example. I don't want anyone to be silent - this is a discussion group. Why are you guys so concerned with what anyone posts to this group, anyway? You guys are starting to sound like obsessed thought-police. Go figure. Linking this to tragic news events is seriously trollish and shitty Richard. What is your deal? I'll tell what's seriously trollish, Curtis - Barry calling in the cops to have us investigated for playing a word game, button-pushing contest that turned out to be a hoax. That's the point. What happened to your sense of humor - can't you even recognize satire anymore? And, I'll tell you another thing - I must have posted over 5,000 on-topic messages to this group without getting any responses from you or Barry, including at least 20 message about music meant for you specifically - and you failed to respond to a single one. So far, you're a real big disappointment in my book, not withstanding your talent as a singer. There's just no pleasing you guys - you wear your JELLOSE on you shirt sleeve. The only thing I can figure out is you're not only JELLOS but just plain prejudiced against Texans. Prove me wrong. So, I figured I'd come down to your discussion level and just post some loose talk for awhile. Is that alright with you, Curtis? Just for five or ten minutes? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 12/6/2014 10:15 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: You know how powerful silence is right Buck? So I think your best move is to go into a deep silence of non posting here and the power of that silence is just sure to pull us all in with you. Maybe you should call in the thought-police to put a stop to Buck's speaking out, like Barry did. Maybe the cops could put Buck in a choke-hold and make him shut up. That technique seemed to work ell on Michael Brown. /Mr. Hamilton - Put you hands up! / *Protesters of Chokehold Death Rally Around Nation* http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/protesters-chokehold-death-rally-nation-27409181 You obviously have a need to become a leader, so this is your moment to lead us all into silence. Go deep. Go long. Don't despair if it takes a while for the power of your silence to work on us. Just keep your intense silence for days, then weeks, and months with fixity on your goal of getting other people to stop communicating what they want to each other on a public forum set up for that purpose. I can't imagine how my life would be without your benevolent control asserting itself over my life Buck. So please do us ALL a favor and show us the way into the silence you seek so earnestly. We all will soon follow you there I am just sure about that. Don't waste a second, start right now! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Dear Rick, Instilling an administrative no-fly zone of silence over FairfieldLife as a means of disengagement would be important moral leadership in changing the manifest wreckage of unkind tone that this battlefield of FFL has become. It is time to clear the FFL field spiritually. I would support you in this, -Buck, the Patriarch of Peace on FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Yep silence FFL, suspend it, unto Easter Sunday [April 5, 2015] symbolic to the resurrection of something anew and a new hope in the community that was FFL. Dear Rick, How about we take, at the least, the rest of the month of December and /_suspend_/ all posting at all to FFL?Start then with a kinder more gentle FFL anew with posting on January 1st. Take some time off to re-group. -Buck Rick, we know and understand that you are busy however; have you been reading any of the posts to FFL? Rick, Just scroll down through the subject lines if you don't have time to read the posts, they are appalling. -Buck Rick, the neganauts here are playing you now to see how far they can take it. Dear Rick, As an old Friend You see I really don't feel that you should yield FairfieldLife over to the methodical negativity that has overrun and overtaken our FairfieldLife [FFL] community on Yahoo-groups. Sincerely, -Buck Rick, FairfieldLife [FFL] has been way too important to communal Fairfield life in the past to just let it go to the aggressive dogs of unkind negativity as some mean and now narrowed successor group caliphate of hateful neganauts. The larger communal use of FFL that FFL could facilitate in communication: Rick, for instance this FFL post is an incredibly important post within the things going on right now in the
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Americanizing of Europe
On 12/6/2014 11:55 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Good article in the Washington Post about US frankenfoods invading Europe and what else it brings with it: Oh my Gawd! What is the world coming to? The elite 1% over in Europe don't want to eat an American tomato. It's the end of the world for sure! What are we going to do now - stop exporting oil and gasoline to Europe so they have to pay $8 a gallon for Russian fuel just to keep warm. Woe is me! So, Barry where is the science? Can you cite a single double-blind scientific study that indicates any serious side-effect of eating GMO bowl of brown rice. Just one. Thanks. http://wapo.st/1BiKlzV
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe
On 12/6/2014 12:14 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I hadn't considered the effect on food but it's something people care about obviously so it might galvanise more into action. So, what happened to the science? /There is broad scientific consensus that food on the market derived from GM crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food./ Works cited: The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2012. American Medical Association. 2012. World Health Organization. 2012. United States Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2004. Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. European Union. 2010.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe
Foreign companies will be able to sue governments for not letting them practise business however they want, they will be able to disregard environmental and employment law for instance. Giving corporations this much power doesn't bode well, we are heading into a dangerous future I think. On 12/6/2014 12:47 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: This has already been going on in the US courtesy of NAFTA. /So, you're opposed to free trade? For the life of me I can't understand why you'd be opposed to the free trade of tobacco and/or cannabis in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Talk about cognitive dissonance - MMY thought GMO's were bad; you think GMOs are bad, but you also think MMY is bad and he was a liar. ///You're not even making any sense. Do you ever think these things through before you press Send? ///Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to sign NAFTA. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it.// // //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement/ *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 6, 2014 1:14 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe Thanks for that Bhairitu, it's another reason to hate this stupid TTIP trade deal. I hadn't considered the effect on food but it's something people care about obviously so it might galvanise more into action. Not that our beloved leaders listen to us, they are clearly convinced they have our best interests at heart. My biggest worry about it has been the proposed effects on law. Foreign companies will be able to sue governments for not letting them practise business however they want, they will be able to disregard environmental and employment law for instance. Giving corporations this much power doesn't bode well, we are heading into a dangerous future I think. I am heartened that a large majority oppose it though, I wasn't aware that most had even heard of it as the government are keeping very quiet about it, which surprises me considering the amount of opposition there is to the EU having control over UK law and here we are giving it away to people whose main concern is making money out of us. This puzzles me though: Even in Britain — a nation hardly known for the glories of its national cuisine. Are they suggesting there's something wrong with boiled ham and cabbage? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Good article in the Washington Post about US frankenfoods invading Europe and what else it brings with it: http://wapo.st/1BiKlzV
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe
I am heartened that a large majority oppose it though, I wasn't aware that most had even heard of it as the government are keeping very quiet about it, which surprises me considering the amount of opposition there is to the EU having control over UK law and here we are giving it away to people whose main concern is making money out of us. On 12/6/2014 1:49 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: Or Bubble n Squeak . Can you believe this, Mike: a guy that loves eating Fish and Chips is concerned about food quality. Go figure. /The average wining margin in the last ten Intelligence Squared U.S. debates was around 18 percentage points. The final vote also contrasts with what national polls say about how American feel about GM foods./ *In A Face-To-Face GMO Debate, The For Side Wins* Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/head-head-gmo-debate-win-gm-foods
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe
On 12/6/2014 2:51 PM, Bhairitu wrote: This sentence stood out for me: / //Many European critics also are taking aim at other aspects of the deal — with the most strident opponents insisting it could usher in an era of American-style capitalism to Europe that puts corporations and consumerism above all else./ Oh my Gawd - American-style capitalism where somebody might earn some money so they can pay their bills and get fuel this winter. What is this world coming to? It's just fucking outrageous! America has really become a fascist country where corporations rule the government and the people have less and less say. God damn America! ISIS has a billion dollars in cash and it's all George W. Bush's fault. On 12/06/2014 10:14 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Thanks for that Bhairitu, it's another reason to hate this stupid TTIP trade deal. I hadn't considered the effect on food but it's something people care about obviously so it might galvanise more into action. Not that our beloved leaders listen to us, they are clearly convinced they have our best interests at heart. My biggest worry about it has been the proposed effects on law. Foreign companies will be able to sue governments for not letting them practise business however they want, they will be able to disregard environmental and employment law for instance. Giving corporations this much power doesn't bode well, we are heading into a dangerous future I think. I am heartened that a large majority oppose it though, I wasn't aware that most had even heard of it as the government are keeping very quiet about it, which surprises me considering the amount of opposition there is to the EU having control over UK law and here we are giving it away to people whose main concern is making money out of us. This puzzles me though: Even in Britain — a nation hardly known for the glories of its national cuisine. Are they suggesting there's something wrong with boiled ham and cabbage? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Good article in the Washington Post about US frankenfoods invading Europe and what else it brings with it: http://wapo.st/1BiKlzV
Re: [FairfieldLife] We don't need no stinkun silence
On 12/6/2014 3:09 PM, emptybill wrote: The gap between thoughts is already silent. Without it we couldn't even produce two thoughts in succession. Our unconscious awareness of this already undermines our fascination with all these frenetic, agitated postings on FFL. Let the morality trackers stalk another group. The bar scene her at the FFL saloon is full of repeating indulgences but it is much preferred to the lap-dog declarations of the oh-so-enlightened over at The Peak. We don't need the artifice of TMO thought-police to suppress expression on the forum. Somebody should call the cops on these babies and tear them a new one! That will teach them to keep their big pie holes shut around here. We want some silence around here so we can get some wanking done. Woke me me up from a wet dream - goddamn those cunts!
[FairfieldLife] It's All About Buck and Willytex, was Rick
TurquoiseB wrote: /Please bear in mind that I am old and partially-retired in the Netherlands and thus SO not a soft touch financially.../ Bhairitu wrote: /Hehe, for some reason when I think of Buck animated it might be more Yosemite Sam./ *Translation: * Gawd! Don't you just hate that Buck and that Willytex! One lives up in Iowa and manages a big farm making big bucks and the other lives down in Texas and doesn't have to work at all because he saved enough money to last him the rest of his life. Who the hell do they think they are? It's just outrageous - they should give us some of that money so we could spend all day making animated cartoons and watching pirated re-rune of movies. It's enough to make a guy want to wanker by himself all day. I just hate those bastards! Somebody should call the cops on them and put a choke-hold on them - living in Middle America like that and living the American dream! Goddamn fucking #$*5$#*%$$$!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe
Michael Jackson wrote: This has already been going on in the US courtesy of NAFTA. /So, you're opposed to free trade? For the life of me I can't understand why you'd be opposed to the free trade of tobacco and/or cannabis in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Talk about cognitive dissonance - MMY thought GMO's were bad; you think GMOs are bad, but you also think MMY is bad and he was a liar. ///You're not even making any sense. Do you ever think these things through before you press Send? ///Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to sign NAFTA. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it.// // //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement/ On 12/6/2014 3:29 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Your peers including Alex Jones hate NAFTA. Don't you remember H Ross Perot warning us about it in the Presidential Debates? He was right! Libertarians hate NAFTA. They also hate these new trade agreements. They aren't about free trade either. It's all about big corporate trade. Get a grip, Willie. You aren't making any sense. Go figure. Opponents like Alex Jones and Ross Perot rely on anecdotes to make their case, and when they use statistics, they are very selective. In the battle of sound bites and bumper stickers, NAFTA has become the short cut for venting anger about the alleged misdeeds of globalization. Go figure. According to what I've read, most economists regard NAFTA as a tremendous success, contributing to better jobs and higher income in the three partner countries, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. / //Trade among the North American partners is up more than threefold since the pact entered into force in 1994, and now totals about $900 billion annually. Canada and Mexico account for almost 30 percent of U.S. two-way merchandise trade. A rough calculation suggests that NAFTA has added about $60 billion annually to U.S. national income, about $200 per American./
[FairfieldLife] Two Stages of Samadhi
Samadhi has two stages: Samprajana samadhi - enstasis where there is still object-consciousness. Nirvikalpasamadhi - where there is no longer any object-consciousness. The purpose of yoga is to isolate bodily fluctuations and pass into samprajana samadhi, hence to total isolation of mental fluctuations aand then to pass into nirvakalpasamadhi where the Self is not hidden by external conditions of the body or the mind (citta). Asamprajnatasamadhi became known in later Vedanta circles as nirvikalpasamadhi. /The point to be noted about yoga is that its whole soteriology is based upon the suppression of mental fluctuations so as to pass firstly into samprajnatasamadhi and from there, through the complete suppression of all mental fluctuations, into asamprajnatasamadhi, in which state the Self remains solely in and as itself without being hidden by external, conditioning factors imposed by the mind (citta). - //Michael Comans/ *'The question of the importance of Samadhi in modern and classical Advaita Vedanta' * http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/comans.htm /Yoga citta vritti nirodha./ - Patanjali Y.S. I.1.2 /Yoga is the cessation of the mental turnings of the mind./ - Translation by Swami Venkatesananda Samadhi: 1. Sanskrit (Saúmaúdhi) n. Jap., sanmai or zanmai 2. Nirvana, Parinirvana 3. from the root word 'Sam', to establish, make firm. 4. A conscious experience that lies beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. 5. A meditative mental equipoise.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Skaktipat
According to tantric legend in a nut shell, /Shiva/ was married to /Shakti,/ the daughter of Daksha, but Daksha did not like Shiva for some reason, and Daksha did not invite Shiva or Shakti to a perticular sacrifice. Because of this, Shiva got really angry because Shakti threw herself on a fire because she was upset. Shakti was then transformed into the goddess /Tripura Sundari/, also called /Shodashi/. Shiva was grief-stricken at the loss of his wife Shakti so he put her body on his shoulders and vowed to keep it there. But, Vishnu sent his discus and cut Shakti's body into pieces, the various body parts numbering 51, fell at various places which came to be known a the 18 /Shakti-peethas/. The /Kamakhya Temple/ is a Shakti temple situated on top of the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam on the northern banks of the river Brahmaputra (the son of Brahma), India. It is the main temple in a complex of individual temples dedicated to different forms of the mother goddess as the Dasa Mahavidya, including Bhuvaneshvari, Bagalamukhi, Chinnamasta, Tripura Sundari and Tara. It is an important pilgrimage destination for general Hindu and Tantric worshipers. According to Swami Ageananda Bharati, the body part of Devi that fell here was the yoni. Go figure. Works cited: *The Tantric Tradition* by Swami Agehananda Bharati Samueal Weiser, Red Wheel Edition, 1975 *The Light at the Center' * by Swami Agehananda Bharati Ross Erikson, April 1976 The term Shaktipat is the transference of psychic energy to another person either by means of an initiation, a sacred word or phrase, a mantra, a touch or even a thought or a mere glance. The question is, how or why did the Shankara Saraswati tradition adopt the shakti doctrine? According to this tradition, Shankara journeyed to Kamarup - the present Guwahati-in Assam and held a controversy with Abhinava Gupta, the Shakta commentator. Kamarupa is the site of an ancient tantric cult of the Shakti Kamakhya which is located in Assam. It is one of the main Shakti-pithas in the tanric Shakti cult. Shankara supposedly won an important debate with Abhinava. Shankara then went to the Himalayas and built a Mutt at Joshi and a Mandir at Badri and then he then proceeded to Kedarnath higher up in the Himalayas where he became one with the Shakti Devi in 820 A.D. in his thirty-second year. The Sharda Temple, which by tradition was visited by Shankara in his travels, is located in Kishanganga Valley just across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The meaning of this tradition story is that Shankara reached the peak of spirituality when he converted to Shaki worship. We can get an idea of his greatness from the fact that a person of just thirty had adopted the worship of Sri Vidya, which is similar to Kahmir Shivaism. As it is not possible to visit this shakti peetha, one can visit the famous Saraswathi temple in Basara in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. Basara is 200 km from Hyderabad. You can read more about the Shakti Pithas here: http://www.srinithyakalyani.org/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya Suggested Reading: *Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography* by Swami Muktananda, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and Paul Muller-Ortega SYDA Foundation, 1994 *Secret of the Siddhas* by Swami Muktananda SYDA Foundation, 1994 *The Doctrine of Vibration* An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski State University of New York Press, 1987 *Meditation Revolution* A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage by S.P. Sabharathnam and Douglas Brooks Agama Press, 1997
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gas Buddy
On 12/6/2014 7:04 AM, Share Long wrote: Richard, horrifying to think that we can have a strong economy. But only by ruining the environment. Addressing the important issues! It's the cost of doing business and living. The idea is for the U.S. to become energy independent so we don't have to depend on Middle East oil. If the U.S. can become energy independent we won't be at the mercy of OPEC. We won't be forced to send more troops to fight in Iraq and Syria - it's a small price to pay if we can save the life of one single American soldier. You may not remember the oil crises of 1973 when OPEC put an oil embargo on Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States resulting in massive lines at the pumps. The whole world runs on oil, Share - you and I and everyone on the planet depend on oil. Without oil you would starve along with billions of other people. That's the reality of living in a modern world. Someday, we will be able to replace oil with renewable fuels - but at present we have to face the reality and survive in order to do the right thing in the distant future. The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), consisting of the Arab members of the OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974, the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to nearly $12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis We're dealing with the Bakken oil pipeline from ND here in Jeff Co. Here's what the NY Times has to say about Bakken: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/23/us/north-dakota-oil-boom-downside.html *From:* 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 6, 2014 6:22 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gas Buddy /A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas./ *Oil Shock Streaks Across Globe From Moscow to Tehran to Caracas. Ready for $40?* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-30/oil-at-40-possible-as-market-transforms-caracas-to-iran.html /*Petronic* 4030 Vance Jackson Rd Spicewood Dr. San Antonio, Texas $1.99 http://www.sanantoniogasprices.com//
Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Don't Panic! day review: The Newsroom
On 12/6/2014 6:27 AM, Share Long wrote: thanks, turq, I've been a fan of Sorkin since West Wing and am just about to run out of Castle reruns so am looking for some good TV. /You got a TV set and cable? Go figure./ *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 6, 2014 6:22 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Another Don't Panic! day review: The Newsroom */I've taken some shit here in the past for liking this show. I warn you in advance you that this has not diminished my affection for it, so I'm here to rave about it again. /* */ /* */*Other than* considering criticism of this show the petty sniping of less talented writers than Aaron Sorkin (uh...pretty much everybody), I've never really understood why people dump on it as much as they do. At least liberals. We all know why conservatives and neo-crypto-fascists dump on it. /* */ /* */I am a real fan of what Sorkin has done in the three and a half seasons this show has been on the air. I think the writing has been just fuckin' SUPERB, and that the direction and performances by actors have been of the same caliber. The American airwaves haven't seen this much fast, snappy dialogue since Moonlighting, and before that in the cinema, since the classic Tracy-Hepburn films. /* */ /* */As an unapologetic fan, I just wanted to post a short, drive-by thumbs up for this series, in case anyone feels inspired to check it out. /* */ /* */Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, and Sam Waterston just ROCK as the principal leads, and there is simply no finer cast of supporting players on television anywhere on the planet. I don't think there is a weak or uninteresting actor in their midst, and there is at least one veritable superstar. I tune in every week just on the off chance that the character portrayed by Jane Fonda will appear. Whenever she does, it's almost automatically an Emmy moment. /* */ /* */The writing is equally hang ten for me, both in terms of politics and writing excellence. The Newsroom is a veritable tour de force. If you hadn't noticed, Aaron Sorkin has been the principal writer of every single episode, in addition to his duties as showrunner. The latest episodes echo the very real pseudo-reality that journalists work within in these post-Snowdon days. I think he's doing incredible work, both as a writer and as a social activist. Your mileage may vary. This was the opening scene to the series. Many think it's gone downhill since then. I'm not one of them. /* */ /* */https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA/**/ /* *//* */ /*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Skaktipat
On 12/6/2014 6:23 PM, Bhairitu wrote: So can you, Richard, give shaktipat? Of course, but I don't usually give out that teaching for the simple reason that students can become dependent on it and thus fail to develop their own shakti. According to the other Barry, it's really no big deal - it's based on attention meditation. You develop kundalini every time you practice TM. /There are two principal types of kundalini. Kundalini is the essential energy of existence. Kundalini is prana as it passes through a human being; we call it kundalini then. Prana is the element of energy; energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much./ - Rama You can read more about kundalini rising here: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm03.html On 12/06/2014 03:07 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: According to tantric legend in a nut shell, /Shiva/ was married to /Shakti,/ the daughter of Daksha, but Daksha did not like Shiva for some reason, and Daksha did not invite Shiva or Shakti to a perticular sacrifice. Because of this, Shiva got really angry because Shakti threw herself on a fire because she was upset. Shakti was then transformed into the goddess /Tripura Sundari/, also called /Shodashi/. Shiva was grief-stricken at the loss of his wife Shakti so he put her body on his shoulders and vowed to keep it there. But, Vishnu sent his discus and cut Shakti's body into pieces, the various body parts numbering 51, fell at various places which came to be known a the 18 /Shakti-peethas/. The /Kamakhya Temple/ is a Shakti temple situated on top of the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam on the northern banks of the river Brahmaputra (the son of Brahma), India. It is the main temple in a complex of individual temples dedicated to different forms of the mother goddess as the Dasa Mahavidya, including Bhuvaneshvari, Bagalamukhi, Chinnamasta, Tripura Sundari and Tara. It is an important pilgrimage destination for general Hindu and Tantric worshipers. According to Swami Ageananda Bharati, the body part of Devi that fell here was the yoni. Go figure. Works cited: *The Tantric Tradition* by Swami Agehananda Bharati Samueal Weiser, Red Wheel Edition, 1975 *The Light at the Center' * by Swami Agehananda Bharati Ross Erikson, April 1976 The term Shaktipat is the transference of psychic energy to another person either by means of an initiation, a sacred word or phrase, a mantra, a touch or even a thought or a mere glance. The question is, how or why did the Shankara Saraswati tradition adopt the shakti doctrine? According to this tradition, Shankara journeyed to Kamarup - the present Guwahati-in Assam and held a controversy with Abhinava Gupta, the Shakta commentator. Kamarupa is the site of an ancient tantric cult of the Shakti Kamakhya which is located in Assam. It is one of the main Shakti-pithas in the tanric Shakti cult. Shankara supposedly won an important debate with Abhinava. Shankara then went to the Himalayas and built a Mutt at Joshi and a Mandir at Badri and then he then proceeded to Kedarnath higher up in the Himalayas where he became one with the Shakti Devi in 820 A.D. in his thirty-second year. The Sharda Temple, which by tradition was visited by Shankara in his travels, is located in Kishanganga Valley just across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The meaning of this tradition story is that Shankara reached the peak of spirituality when he converted to Shaki worship. We can get an idea of his greatness from the fact that a person of just thirty had adopted the worship of Sri Vidya, which is similar to Kahmir Shivaism. As it is not possible to visit this shakti peetha, one can visit the famous Saraswathi temple in Basara in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. Basara is 200 km from Hyderabad. You can read more about the Shakti Pithas here: http://www.srinithyakalyani.org/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya Suggested Reading: *Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography* by Swami Muktananda, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and Paul Muller-Ortega SYDA Foundation, 1994 *Secret of the Siddhas* by Swami Muktananda SYDA Foundation, 1994 *The Doctrine of Vibration* An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski State University of New York Press, 1987 *Meditation Revolution* A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage by S.P. Sabharathnam and Douglas Brooks Agama Press, 1997
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Americanizing of Europe
Michael Jackson wrote: This has already been going on in the US courtesy of NAFTA. /So, you're opposed to free trade? For the life of me I can't understand why you'd be opposed to the free trade of tobacco and/or cannabis in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Talk about cognitive dissonance - MMY thought GMO's were bad; you think GMOs are bad, but you also think MMY is bad and he was a liar. ///You're not even making any sense. Do you ever think these things through before you press Send? ///Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to sign NAFTA. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it.// // //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement/ On 12/6/2014 3:29 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Your peers including Alex Jones hate NAFTA. Don't you remember H Ross Perot warning us about it in the Presidential Debates? He was right! Libertarians hate NAFTA. They also hate these new trade agreements. They aren't about free trade either. It's all about big corporate trade. Get a grip, Willie. You aren't making any sense. Go figure. Opponents like Alex Jones and Ross Perot rely on anecdotes to make their case, and when they use statistics, they are very selective. In the battle of sound bites and bumper stickers, NAFTA has become the short cut for venting anger about the alleged misdeeds of globalization. Go figure. According to what I've read, most economists regard NAFTA as a tremendous success, contributing to better jobs and higher income in the three partner countries, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. On 12/6/2014 7:09 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Those economists wouldn't happen to hold court on FOX News, would they? No, I don't watch Fox News on TV, I read it on online. http://newswise.com/articles/view/541349/ http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/hufbauer-schott0808.pdf You so often seem to support the status quo. What have they done for you? There have been huge gains for the majority of U.S consumers through lower prices and increased variety. /NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement./ - President Bill Clinton
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Skaktipat [1 Attachment]
On 12/6/2014 7:49 PM, s3raphita wrote: Re Vishnu sent his discus and cut Shakti's body into pieces, the various body parts numbering 51, fell at various places: An intriguing parallel with the Egyptian myth of Osiris whose body was cut into 14 pieces and scattered throughout the land. Isis gathered up all the parts of the body, less the phallus (which was eaten by a catfish!) and bandaged them together for a proper burial. According to Sir James Frazer, the myth of Osiris was part of the death and rising gods myth, featured all across the Near East and is connected to the personification of vegetation and the yearly death an re-growth of plants. My theory is that the death and dying and rebirth of the tree spirit of ancient Indonesia, which became associated with the Mother Earth myth and was transported from Indonesian to South Asia and hence to ancient Egypt. Thousands of stone statues have been found in the area of the Indus Valley and at Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal, dating from 2500 to 1500 B.C.E. According to what I've read, the concept of Shakti, as both divine energy and as the goddess is of great importance within Tantric philosophy and practice, which places much reverence on the feminine principle of creation. In India the Sri Yantra, symbol of the Shakti energy, is central to all forms of Tantric Shaktism. See my essays on the /Sri Vidya/ and on /Eden in the East,/ concerning the dying and rising tree spirit. http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg337561.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg295131.html /Shri Yantra/ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Shakti ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : According to tantric legend in a nut shell, /Shiva/ was married to /Shakti,/ the daughter of Daksha, but Daksha did not like Shiva for some reason, and Daksha did not invite Shiva or Shakti to a perticular sacrifice. Because of this, Shiva got really angry because Shakti threw herself on a fire because she was upset. Shakti was then transformed into the goddess /Tripura Sundari/, also called /Shodashi/. Shiva was grief-stricken at the loss of his wife Shakti so he put her body on his shoulders and vowed to keep it there. But, Vishnu sent his discus and cut Shakti's body into pieces, the various body parts numbering 51, fell at various places which came to be known a the 18 /Shakti-peethas/. The /Kamakhya Temple/ is a Shakti temple situated on top of the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam on the northern banks of the river Brahmaputra (the son of Brahma), India. It is the main temple in a complex of individual temples dedicated to different forms of the mother goddess as the Dasa Mahavidya, including Bhuvaneshvari, Bagalamukhi, Chinnamasta, Tripura Sundari and Tara. It is an important pilgrimage destination for general Hindu and Tantric worshipers. According to Swami Ageananda Bharati, the body part of Devi that fell here was the yoni. Go figure. Works cited: *The Tantric Tradition* by Swami Agehananda Bharati Samueal Weiser, Red Wheel Edition, 1975 *The Light at the Center' * by Swami Agehananda Bharati Ross Erikson, April 1976 The term Shaktipat is the transference of psychic energy to another person either by means of an initiation, a sacred word or phrase, a mantra, a touch or even a thought or a mere glance. The question is, how or why did the Shankara Saraswati tradition adopt the shakti doctrine? According to this tradition, Shankara journeyed to Kamarup - the present Guwahati-in Assam and held a controversy with Abhinava Gupta, the Shakta commentator. Kamarupa is the site of an ancient tantric cult of the Shakti Kamakhya which is located in Assam. It is one of the main Shakti-pithas in the tanric Shakti cult. Shankara supposedly won an important debate with Abhinava. Shankara then went to the Himalayas and built a Mutt at Joshi and a Mandir at Badri and then he then proceeded to Kedarnath higher up in the Himalayas where he became one with the Shakti Devi in 820 A.D. in his thirty-second year. The Sharda Temple, which by tradition was visited by Shankara in his travels, is located in Kishanganga Valley just across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The meaning of this tradition story is that Shankara reached the peak of spirituality when he converted to Shaki worship. We can get an idea of his greatness from the fact that a person of just thirty had adopted the worship of Sri Vidya, which is similar to Kahmir Shivaism. As it is not possible to visit this shakti peetha, one can visit the famous Saraswathi temple in Basara in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. Basara is 200 km from Hyderabad. You can read more about the Shakti Pithas here: http://www.srinithyakalyani.org/index.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Art of the Mask in Sub-Saharan Africa [1 Attachment]
On 12/6/2014 8:06 PM, Share Long wrote: Fascinating, Richard, thanks for posting. Of course what caught my attention was the fact that women were not allowed to wear masks. BTW, I enjoyed several of your knowledge posts today. Thanks. Most of the credit for this essay goes to Rita, the real brains in the family. Rita graduated /summa cum laude/ from the University of the Incarnate Word - she can read and write Greek. Go figure. We visited the /San Antonio Museum of Art/ today to do some of this research for this report. A longer version of this essay was commissioned by one of our students on the /Live Expert/ site where we are tutoring students via distance learning. /The San Antonio Museum of Art on the San Antonio River/ *From:* 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 6, 2014 11:16 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] The Art of the Mask in Sub-Saharan Africa *The Art of the Mask in Sub-Saharan Africa* In tribal societies of Sub-Saharan Africa, ceremonial masks serve many purposes. Their unique shapes and designs have special significance to each culture. Masks are used to connect the people with the spirit world, including the animal spirits as well as the spirits of dead ancestors. African masks have had a great influence on Western and European art, most notably in such styles as cubism, fauvism and expressionism, according to Denise Murrell writing in African Influences in Modern Art. The art of the mask plays a large part in the performance art by African shamans in which there is a ritual reeinactment of in which possession of the spiritual world is juxtaposed birth and death play a large part Possession by spirits, although documented in a great many shamanism contexts, does not seem to have been a primary and essential element. Rather, it suggests a phenomenon of degeneration; for the supreme goal of the shaman is to abandon his body and rise to heaven or descend into hell, not to let himself be possessed by his assisting spirits, by demons or the souls of the dead; the shaman's ideal is to master these spirits, not to let himself be occupied by them (Eliade 320). When wearing a ritual mask, the celebrant is not merely impersonating a deity; he becomes the deity in the eyes of his tribe. Wearing the mask transforms the wearer into another being, and causes him to speak and walk differently, and otherwise take on the qualities of the spirit being invoked. There are many reasons to masquerade: parades, dances, religious rituals, wars, planting and harvest, funerals, weddings, coming-of-age ceremonies, speaking with animal spirits, and the rites of secret societies. Masks are almost always worn by men only, since they are imbued with power that is considered dangerous at times. Ritual masks are made by special artists who have trained for years, learning carving techniques from their elders. In addition to his woodworking abilities, the artist must also be able to communicate the spiritual intentions of his tribe when the mask would be used; his work is valued for its spiritual symbolism, not for craftsmanship alone. Cathy Newman in her articel for The National Geographic, Tangible Spirits for The National Geographic, think the mask maker is not trying to create a realistic image of an animal or person. Instead, he is trying to express the essence of abstract concepts such as nobility, beauty, courage, fertility, strength, alertness, humility, and peace of mind, according to the Artyfactory web site. How is such a mask created? The most popular material for making masks is wood, although other materials are used, as well: metal, fabric, ivory, cardboard, shells, beads, bones, animal skin, straw, feathers, and paint are some of them. Generally, wood is chosen because it is plentiful in the forests, and because trees are thought to have living souls that can provide naturally comfortable homes for the spirits who will reside in the masks. It is customary for the mask maker to offer a sacrifice to the tree before cutting it down. After cutting, the tree spirit is given a day or so to “move out” as the author of Rebirth Collection African to a new tree before the artist gathers his needed supply of wood. Not only does the tree have a spirit, but also the artist’s adze, the tool used to carve the mask. If an adze has been passed down from previous generations, it may also inherit the skills of its former owner. The style of a mask depends on both the needs and beliefs of the community and the style (and ability) of the individual artist. Composition, texture, color, pattern, symmetry, balance, shape and embellishment all play a role in conveying the meaning of a mask. In his book The Masks of God, Campbell makes
Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Don't Panic! day review: The Newsroom
On 12/6/2014 8:21 PM, Share Long wrote: Richard, I have a TV set but no cable. I have a public library 2 blocks away with a great collection of movies and TV series to borrow for free. That's how I discovered West Wing. But I like it so much I got my own set, the whole 7 season series. I read somewhere that the Josh Lymon character was based on Rahm Emmanuel who was Obama's first Chief of Staff and is now Mayor of Chicago. My favorite episode is one called The Supremes, about putting new judges on the Supreme Court. Great stuff! Also learned a lot about how our govt works. Nice, just be careful what you watch - it can be addicting. Currently we are watching all the episodes of /The Big Bang Theory/. LoL! /Stay away from most popular entertainment. Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap./ - Epictetus *From:* 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 6, 2014 8:06 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Don't Panic! day review: The Newsroom On 12/6/2014 6:27 AM, Share Long wrote: thanks, turq, I've been a fan of Sorkin since West Wing and am just about to run out of Castle reruns so am looking for some good TV. /You got a TV set and cable? Go figure./ *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, December 6, 2014 6:22 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Another Don't Panic! day review: The Newsroom */I've taken some shit here in the past for liking this show. I warn you in advance you that this has not diminished my affection for it, so I'm here to rave about it again. /* */ /* */*Other than* considering criticism of this show the petty sniping of less talented writers than Aaron Sorkin (uh...pretty much everybody), I've never really understood why people dump on it as much as they do. At least liberals. We all know why conservatives and neo-crypto-fascists dump on it. /* */ /* */I am a real fan of what Sorkin has done in the three and a half seasons this show has been on the air. I think the writing has been just fuckin' SUPERB, and that the direction and performances by actors have been of the same caliber. The American airwaves haven't seen this much fast, snappy dialogue since Moonlighting, and before that in the cinema, since the classic Tracy-Hepburn films. /* */ /* */As an unapologetic fan, I just wanted to post a short, drive-by thumbs up for this series, in case anyone feels inspired to check it out. /* */ /* */Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, and Sam Waterston just ROCK as the principal leads, and there is simply no finer cast of supporting players on television anywhere on the planet. I don't think there is a weak or uninteresting actor in their midst, and there is at least one veritable superstar. I tune in every week just on the off chance that the character portrayed by Jane Fonda will appear. Whenever she does, it's almost automatically an Emmy moment. /* */ /* */The writing is equally hang ten for me, both in terms of politics and writing excellence. The Newsroom is a veritable tour de force. If you hadn't noticed, Aaron Sorkin has been the principal writer of every single episode, in addition to his duties as showrunner. The latest episodes echo the very real pseudo-reality that journalists work within in these post-Snowdon days. I think he's doing incredible work, both as a writer and as a social activist. Your mileage may vary. This was the opening scene to the series. Many think it's gone downhill since then. I'm not one of them. /* */ /* */https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA/**/ /* *//* */ /*
Re: [FairfieldLife] hey swine here is the pearls
Often symbols can be a superior form of communication other than mere words. Before the invention of writing In India symbols were employed for teaching the nature of the ultimate reality. For example, the bindu is a symbol in/Sri Vidya/ and is sometimes mistaken to mean a symbol for the 'point of return' - for the shakti. However, the bindu is actually the point of origin in Sri Vidya based on the /Sri Yantra/, the ancient wheel symbol. Read more: SBS and the Shri Yantra: http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg328204.html On 12/6/2014 9:12 PM, sri...@ymail.com wrote: Abstact-KAMAKHYA TOLD AMRITA http://gurujiamrita.tripod.com/KAMAKHYA_TOLD_AMRITA.htm image http://gurujiamrita.tripod.com/KAMAKHYA_TOLD_AMRITA.htm Abstact-KAMAKHYA TOLD AMRITA http://gurujiamrita.tripod.com/KAMAKHYA_TOLD_AMRITA.htm Amrita Home Contact Devi's Ratham Future Vision SIGNUP for Email UPDATES Amrita's writings Amritopanishad Some impressions on ... View on gurujiamrita.tripod.com http://gurujiamrita.tripod.com/KAMAKHYA_TOLD_AMRITA.htm Preview by Yahoo https://mbasic.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=692205680845749id=437829876283332set=a.581740751892243.1073741825.437829876283332refid=13
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 2:24 PM, Duveyoung wrote: I maintain that these faint nuances at the bleak end of my moral spectrums can be found in Richard in all their fullest expressions of corrupt manifestation, and, additionally, I think he identifies with this low-dog status, and this accounts for the glee he obviously feels to present himself to others -- he glories in being exactly as depicted below: /Did I provoke these people by intentionally pushing their buttons? You betcha. I wanted to put their reactivity -- and the nature of it -- on display./ - TurquoiseB, 11/26/2014
Re: [FairfieldLife] Peak - y
On 12/4/2014 5:33 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I am a little bit bilious at the moment - spent a few minutes perusing the post over at the Peak - its a goddamn vedic love fest, with everyone praising everyone else, even to the point of soft peddling the Hammond thing, avoiding saying he's lost his mind. So, you've been doing a little stalking and lurking. One thing is for sure: /YOU WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO SEND A SINGLE MESSAGE TO JIM'S YAHOO GROUP!/
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
On 12/4/2014 4:22 PM, jr_esq wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A country the size of China can't produce very much without oil, John. It may not be even capable of feeding it's own people in the next few years. It is an open question what will happen to Algeria, Iraq, and Libya if oil prices hover at half the budget break-even costs for a year or two, given the extreme fragility of the region and political risk of cutting subsidies. A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas. According to what I've read, oil below $70 is already playing havoc with budgets across the global petro-nexus. The fiscal break-even cost is $161 for Venezuela, $160 for Yemen, $132 for Algeria, $131 for Iran, $126 for Nigeria, and $125 for Bahrain, $111 for Iraq, and $105 for Russia, and even $98 for Saudi Arabia itself, according to Citigroup. 'Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes' The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/pw5dgfs It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html image http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 6:52 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: Re-read Rick's original description of the group - its not all about Fairfield Iowa. Yeah, I guess that's why Rick called his Yahoo group *Fairfield Life*, Moron. *From:* dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 7:18 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye The Fairfield FFL meeting should proly just be a small working steering committee of older meditators from Fairfield to look after the larger communal welfare of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Like Rick, Dick Mays and me as patricians of FFL. And, Alex for the sensibility of his long-time moderating technical support. Most everyone else are new-comers by comparison. The Patriarch of Positivity, -Buck in Fairfield Yes hold a face-to-face in Fairfield, a meeting over some strong black coffee or Vata and Pitta tea, a conference amongst ourselves in Fairfield, Iowa to take back the brand of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. It is time, -Buck in Fairfield We should have a peace and reconciliation conference here in Fairfield for FFL. At the least, peace proly needs to start with a dis-engagement, like a cease-fire. Suspending FFL for a good while should be a place to start in a reconciliation process with all these negative people that caused such fragmentation as the separation of good people from the FFL community at Yahoo-groups. Rick could initiate this peace by instilling a period of silent reflection. Let there be peace on FFL; let there be total silence on FFL for a period of time, -Buck Like those Jews of old looking back across the River Jordan I hope for a better time for FFL, -The Old FFL Patriarch Of Positivity, Buck in the Dome Dear jamesalan735whoever you are; you seem a recent arrival here. There is a manifest bitterness in the people left here on FFL, the place has been overtaken. It is a very sad situation for what was the community of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. What was a culture here has been overrun. There is a refugee camp, however. A safe-keep. I would invite you to a New Jerusalem, over on The_Peak. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/conversations/messages jamesalan735 writes:Buck, For crying out loud, will you just let it go already? The Apostle of Kindness, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... writes : I have to also add that when I first arrived on FFL I was much, much more charitable towards both M and his Movement. A lot of my current point of view was shaped from conversations I had and read here, information I gained from so many posters here, the info Rick has collected on Marshy's escapades and even more so by the ridiculous defenses put up by TM defenders towards indefensible behavior on the part of the Movement and its founder. Also in that mix was the picture that emerged on the part of certain posters who just can't bring themselves to deal openly and honestly with the past and present of the Movement so that they won't feel they have wasted a good portion of their lives. Lastly, the pitiful state that some long term TM'ers come to like George Hammond have shaped my current assessment and view of Marshy and the TMO. So on balance it has been the sycophants, the Marshy sez people, the raving lunatics and other people who won't face reality about TM, Marsy and all things Movement that have contributed to my becoming a neganaut. As much as anyone [ with his slavish insistence that yagyas and the Marshy Effect will one day save the world have helped me jump into neganaut status, and I wear it proudly too! *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:24 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye Om Son, the way you and your IS-like terrorists have overtaken it here on FFL and thus driven a whole cultural exodus over to The_Peak, the FFL forum that is left remaining here is extremely vile, oppressive and all the more difficult to get hardly any spiritual positivity in edgewise between all this angry bitterness of these mean people in apostasy that has laid siege to this board, our old home. FFL.. “in a sea of sceptisism and irony”. DearNablusoss, you meant to write /septisism/? I think that if you stop whining and read what we actually post here (except Willytex obviously) you'll see nothing vile or oppressive. So where do you get it from and, more importantly, why don't you join the exodus if you prefer it there? Things change, it's the nature of life. Sorry we aren't all True Blue
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 3:22 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */You can't *get* much more real world than asking for real-world proofs of things, rather than relying on subjective claims./* So, can you spell cognitive dissonance, Mr. Wright? /Over the years, I saw him levitate, as in sitting in lotus and just lifting up off the chair and hovering there in midair for minutes at a time, sometimes telling a joke the whole time. Or in the desert, he'd just step up off the sand and onto a staircase that wasn't there, and just climb up and down it for a while, several feet above the ground./ - TurquoiseB
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 6:59 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */It is also not a group for TM True Believers, and has never been. Fairfield Life was created to give people who *were not allowed to express their doubts or questions about TM-related things* in Fairfield or in the TMO a place in which they could do so. /* Maybe so, but I'm not convinced that Rick intended his discussion group to be a porn site that sucks and one that features gender bias cartoons, Barry. */Read the description on the FFL Home Page. If there is anyone who is guilty of co-opting or taking over the newsgroup and trying to change it into something it wasn't designed to be, it's the TM fundamentalists. /* /This group has long maintained a thoughtful and considerate tone. Please refrain from personal attacks, insults and excessive venting. Speak the truth that is sweet is a worthy aspiration. If angry, take some time to gain composure before writing or pushing the send button./ - Rick Archer, FFL Rule #1 /Try no to be a cunt./ - Salya, 11/30/2014 /**/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 4:28 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Fundamentalism is /truly/ believing you are right and as adherents of religions always seem to go through a phase every now and again it seems inevitable that it isn't ever going to be a way to bring peace and progress. So, can you spell cognitive dissonance, Sally? /I've seen him project the double, as described in the Castaneda books. One of him was standing a few feet in front of me and another one was up on top of the mountain we were in front of, waving./ - TurquoiseB Cognitive Dissonance: /...the discomfort experienced when simultaneously holding two or more conflicting cognitions: ideas, beliefs, values or emotional reactions./ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Instant trance induction - a handy trick for thieves
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote BBC Crimewatch tonight showed CCTV footage of a man robbing a store after hypnotising the shop owner and then brazenly picking his pocket and walking off with the day's takings. This could be a useful way of supplementing your cash now that the Christmas spending spree is almost upon us. On 12/5/2014 1:21 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I would just like to state on the record that that isn't me despite what I said recently about using mesmerism to commit crimes. /So, have you ever spent much time in Rotherham, Sally? / So no sneaky calling the hotline with information to get the reward. /Curtis says everyone should call the police and give them information if you think crimes have been committed, especially if children are involved. The question is, what did you know about the crimes in Rotherham, and when did you know it?/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 6:28 AM, Share Long wrote: turq, I think the phrase sloppy thinking is itself an example of sloppy thinking. How can thinking actually be sloppy?! I bring it up because it's one of those phrases which suggests a lot and prejudices a lot but ultimately is not useful. IMO better to say that only a small portion of someone's brain is firing, or something along those lines. /This is a good observation, Share. How could anyone in their right mind, believe that Fred Lenz was The Last Incarnation of Lord Vishnu? If Turq wants to talk about sloppy thinking maybe we should ask him to explain his belief that Fred was the last incarnation - there might in fact be other reincarnations after Fred killed himself, for example. / The Official List of Reincarnations - Fred Lenz: /1531-1575, Zen Master, Japan; 1602-1771, Head of Zen Order, Japan; 1725-1804, Master of Monastery, Tibet; 1834-1905, Jnana Yoga Master, India; 1912-1945, Tibetan Lama and Head of Monastic Order, Tibet; 1950-1998, Self Realized Spiritual Teacher and Director of Spiritual Communities, United States./ http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Rama/09.chap-15-16 *From:* TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 4:46 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? *From:* jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:53 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? Yahweh is IAMWHOAM and does not have a manifested body although It is known by the Hebrew prophets. On the other hand, Shiva has a manifested form and is known to have a wife in Parvati. */JohnR, I'll follow up on this because it raises the very issue I just posted about to Lawson. You're using the language of *assertion*, as if the things you are asserting are FACT. Why shouldn't that be considered the very Fundamentalism you've suggested /**/*/in other contexts /*isn't a good thing? /* */ /* */Don't you think that in the interest of fairness you should refer to all of these characters as what they are -- fictional? Or at the very least you should probably specify that what you are talking about are things that some people *believe*, but that do not come anywhere near the definition of fact. If you disagree that these characters ARE fictional, you know that all you have to do is show them to us. Right?/* */My point -- as it often is -- is that sloppy language is an indication of sloppy thinking. /*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 6:44 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */Share, sloppy thinking is exactly that. For example, being too lazy to read a chart and thus reading its results completely backwards before spouting off about one's *completely wrong* interpretation of those results is sloppy thinking. So is using language the way JohnR just did, portraying matters of belief as if they were statements of fact./* /So, in fact can you //spell //cognitive dissonance, Turq?/ /* */ */ /* */Pretending that such thinking is permissible is NOT a favor to the people indulging in such sloppy thinking. Another word for the sweet truth you seem to prefer is a lie that allows us to continue being such sloppy thinkers./* /There was lots of stuff, from filling a room with golden light to opening up portals to other dimensions and letting us see what was on the other side. It was really neat./ - TurquoiseB/* */
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 9:07 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: Excellent point Share! But let's not forget that Marshy included lots of women in his younger days - they just had one purpose though, and it wasn't anything that required clothes. I guess Buck has forgotten that one point FFL was the place where Rick gathered and disseminated all the info that could be gathered on Marshy's sexual proclivities. /I'm not convinced that the MUM cook would be permitted into the Maharishi's bedroom, so do you have any proof that you witnessed any of the Maharishi's sexual proclivities? How exactly, did you manage to sneak in, when even Charlie Lutes had to wait out in the hall? And, what exactly were you doing in there?/ *From:* Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 7:59 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye Buck, I think these days, in order for a group to be full and rich and thus thrive, it has to include women, especially in the decision making process. In fact I'd say this is a major problem in the TMO. *From:* dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 6:18 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye The Fairfield FFL meeting should proly just be a small working steering committee of older meditators from Fairfield to look after the larger communal welfare of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Like Rick, Dick Mays and me as patricians of FFL. And, Alex for the sensibility of his long-time moderating technical support. Most everyone else are new-comers by comparison. The Patriarch of Positivity, -Buck in Fairfield Yes hold a face-to-face in Fairfield, a meeting over some strong black coffee or Vata and Pitta tea, a conference amongst ourselves in Fairfield, Iowa to take back the brand of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. It is time, -Buck in Fairfield We should have a peace and reconciliation conference here in Fairfield for FFL. At the least, peace proly needs to start with a dis-engagement, like a cease-fire. Suspending FFL for a good while should be a place to start in a reconciliation process with all these negative people that caused such fragmentation as the separation of good people from the FFL community at Yahoo-groups. Rick could initiate this peace by instilling a period of silent reflection. Let there be peace on FFL; let there be total silence on FFL for a period of time, -Buck Like those Jews of old looking back across the River Jordan I hope for a better time for FFL, -The Old FFL Patriarch Of Positivity, Buck in the Dome Dear jamesalan735whoever you are; you seem a recent arrival here. There is a manifest bitterness in the people left here on FFL, the place has been overtaken. It is a very sad situation for what was the community of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. What was a culture here has been overrun. There is a refugee camp, however. A safe-keep. I would invite you to a New Jerusalem, over on The_Peak. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/conversations/messages jamesalan735 writes:Buck, For crying out loud, will you just let it go already? The Apostle of Kindness, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... writes : I have to also add that when I first arrived on FFL I was much, much more charitable towards both M and his Movement. A lot of my current point of view was shaped from conversations I had and read here, information I gained from so many posters here, the info Rick has collected on Marshy's escapades and even more so by the ridiculous defenses put up by TM defenders towards indefensible behavior on the part of the Movement and its founder. Also in that mix was the picture that emerged on the part of certain posters who just can't bring themselves to deal openly and honestly with the past and present of the Movement so that they won't feel they have wasted a good portion of their lives. Lastly, the pitiful state that some long term TM'ers come to like George Hammond have shaped my current assessment and view of Marshy and the TMO. So on balance it has been the sycophants, the Marshy sez people, the raving lunatics and other people who won't face reality about TM, Marsy and all things Movement that have contributed to my becoming a neganaut. As much as anyone [ with his slavish insistence that yagyas and the Marshy Effect will one day save the world have helped me jump into neganaut status, and I wear it proudly too!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 10:19 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */The realignment you speak of has already taken place. The troublemakers, trolls, and whiners left, with only two exceptions -- you and Willytex. /* / So, what's wrong with whining and trolling and causing trouble in a discussion? You've been doing it since at least 1994. Why shouldn't we be able to bitch and complain because you won't tell us how Rama was able to levitate? I mean, if I could levitate I could charge big bucks from people like you just meet in the desert or in a rented lecture hall and watch me do a few stage tricks to impress people. Go figure. * */ */The people who are left wish that you two would go hang out with others of your ilk and whine all you want to there, leaving the rest of us free to have comfortable, intelligent conversations without you butting in with your incessant drama queenery. /* /Not all of the member who subscribed to Jim's group are troublemakers, trolls, and whiners, Barry./ /* */ */You lost. Accept it and move on./* /Does that include Alex and Share? Do they have to move on - and who exactly appointed you the new moderator of FFL? Who appointed you the be the newsgroup cop? For all we know, you perpetrated a button-pushing contest on FFL just to get angry responses, and when you succeeded you called in the feds. And, apparently it was all just a hoax - there's no Dutch police investigating FFL! You pulled a neat trick and scared off the other informants, but it didn't scare off me, Share and Buck. ///Not for nothing did Judy call you a liar. /You suck, Barry!/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 11:47 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Buck is about to get his own dungeon in my FFL folder on Thunderbird since he's joined the ranks graffiti artists. /You sound really scared. What would you do at the meeting, overturn a few tables, do some shouting, and then stalk out and do back to your basement dungeon and send a message to an online discussion group threatening to make a filter in your Thunderbird email program?/ On 12/05/2014 08:54 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The best thing I could do for a meeting on campus is bring a big pot of braised lamb shacks for the malnourished masses that live there. Iowa's Sutliff hard cider is excellent for braising. As always, in tune with all the Laws of Nature, Alex ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : That is fine. I am confident that you would come to the meetings when Rick asks for help on this problem. Craig Pearson is doing an awesome and quite a fair-minded job moderating the extremely anxious community meetings of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance. Rick, we should ask him if he could help mediate our FFL steering committee meetings even hosting them on campus somewhere like in the Board of Directors' Room. It would be nice to meet somewhere symbolically in between the Global Country up in Vedic City and the Fairfield meditating community. The student union might be a good place. -Buck j_alexander_stanley writes : I would not attend such a meeting, as I'm content to leave well enough alone. It strikes me that Rick is also content to leave well enough alone, so your continued complaining is only so much pissing into the wind. The Peak exodus has put an end to much of the squabbly bullshit, and IMO, that's a good thing. Perhaps, you should focus your energies over there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : The Fairfield FFL meeting should proly just be a small working steering committee of older meditators from Fairfield to look after the larger communal welfare of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Like Rick, Dick Mays and me as patricians of FFL. And, Alex for the sensibility of his long-time moderating technical support. Most everyone else are new-comers by comparison. The Patriarch of Positivity, -Buck in Fairfield Yes hold a face-to-face in Fairfield, a meeting over some strong black coffee or Vata and Pitta tea, a conference amongst ourselves in Fairfield, Iowa to take back the brand of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. It is time, -Buck in Fairfield We should have a peace and reconciliation conference here in Fairfield for FFL.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 12:06 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */I'm starting to think that with both Doug/Buck and Richard/Willytex it may be early-onset Alzheimers./* /I'm starting to think you're getting your buttons pushed by Buck, and that now you're exhibiting your true nature and reacting just like he thought you would - so everyone can see what you really think and the kind of guy you really are. That's what I think./
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 3:20 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: Ha ha ha ha ha! Like those asses who administer the University would allow me in the student union! /You might be able to get into the student Union and eat a bite or two, as long as you stay out of the kitchen!//LoL!/ And how can the community meetings for the mental health alliance be extemely anxious that flies in the face of the teachings about TM - you know that it makes people calmer and all that jazz? Plus the fact that the meetings are in Fairfield, where them Domes are, Marshy Effect not workin' too good these days, eh?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 3:28 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: [Attachment(s) #TopText from Michael Jackson included below] Looks like with today's DNA testing they could figger out who Jesus's descendants are. /Well, first Michael, you have to have a body - you know what I mean? And, then you have to have some descendents, like his wife and his offspring./ I mean, all they would need is to get the DNA off of that there Shroud of Turin or maybe get a piece of the one true cross - I hear tell they got a lot of vendors in the Holy Land who sell 'em. *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 3:58 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : Sal, the Romans didn't require anybody to travel for the census. That was a Jewish *thing*.Families thought they should be counted from their ancestrial homes. It was a matter of pride. Joseph's ancestrial home was Bethlehem, from where the House of David came(more prophecy). BTW, Jews did not accept Jesus as the messiah because He didn't fulfill *all*of the requirements of messiah, which were more political in nature, becoming King, throwing the gentiles out of Israel, yada yada yada. However, many of the older rabbis beleived that messiah would come twice, once as a suffering servent, as Jesus came and taught (humility, humbleness, forgiving[letting go and taking it as it comes] and submission to His will , You shall not see me here again until you have learned to cry and later to rule as King. You may well be right Mike, in which case I bow to your superior knowledge. I got the info from a fascinating prog on TV that got the owners of the channel into trouble and they have had to stop broadcasting their alternative-Christmas message. *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 4:39 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Real mince pie, with suet and mutton and so on? Mutton? I hope not! Inline image Not an American thing? *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 3:04 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : S3, Among the Jews, Yahweh is still unmanifested although they're still waiting for the messiah to come. I thought Jesus was the messiah, but they just didn't like him much because he told them to follow their faith rather than greed and corruption so they had him nailed to a tree rather than mend their ways. Oops. After that it was a bit embarrassing for his followers still to claim he was special so the whole rebirth through resurrection thing was invented so there was still some sort of point to his life. And the only reason the story about his Ma and Pa travelling to Bethlehem was invented was to fulfill an old testament prophecy that the messiah would be born there. The Romans would not have required people to travel to take part in the census' they were way more organised than that. Hmm, all this has put me in a festive mood. Time for a mince pie! Among the Christians, Jesus is considered to be the Son of God. So, a theology has developed stating that the Divine has a triune quality in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But the Muslims, although they claim to have the same tradition as the Jews, believe that the true God is Allah. Thus, we're having the turmoil regarding religion that is destroying Iraq and Syria today. I don't suppose any of them are going to stop and ask if god could help them out like he used to, and if not why not? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Re Yahweh is I-AM-WHO-I-AM and does not have a manifested body: Ever hear of a chap called Jesus? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Yahweh is IAMWHOAM and does not have a manifested body although It is known by the Hebrew prophets. On the other hand, Shiva has a manifested form and is known to have a wife in Parvati.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 3:38 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Barry, If you've read any parts of the Old Testament, you will find that Yahweh described Himself/Herself/It as IAMWHOAM in Genesis. Generations of Jews believe that the Torah was handed to them by their ancestors. As such, the prophets actually existed in history. /You have to realize who you're dialoging with. Barry is not a well-read historian, obviously. We're talking about a guy that butted into a discussion on alt.religion.gnostic and tried to convince Kater that the Cathars were not Gnostics and that he had read over 200 books on the Cathars, BUT NOT A SINGLE BOOK ON THE GNOSTICS! LoL!/ Also, historians and theologians have found that Moses and the prophets existed in history. It's obvious that Moses and the prophets died. Therefore, they can't appear before you. But, even if they could, why should they appear before you? But apparently you have not done your homework. You should read the Old Testament and the historical analyses regarding the personalities in them. For example, it is accepted by historians and researchers that Moses existed and wrote the first five books of the Torah. You should think before you write. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : *From:* jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:53 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? Yahweh is IAMWHOAM and does not have a manifested body although It is known by the Hebrew prophets. On the other hand, Shiva has a manifested form and is known to have a wife in Parvati. */JohnR, I'll follow up on this because it raises the very issue I just posted about to Lawson. You're using the language of *assertion*, as if the things you are asserting are FACT. Why shouldn't that be considered the very Fundamentalism you've suggested /**/*/in other contexts /*isn't a good thing? /* */ /* */Don't you think that in the interest of fairness you should refer to all of these characters as what they are -- fictional? Or at the very least you should probably specify that what you are talking about are things that some people *believe*, but that do not come anywhere near the definition of fact. If you disagree that these characters ARE fictional, you know that all you have to do is show them to us. Right?/* */My point -- as it often is -- is that sloppy language is an indication of sloppy thinking. /*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 4:04 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */John, I'm including a few suggested edits below, in the hope that you learn a little something about sloppy language leading to sloppy thinking./* /Bogumils are derivbed from Paulicans, Paulicans from Manicheans, Manicheans from Gnostics. thus Cathars are derived from Gnostics. Moggers can understand this simple fact, 'cletantra can't./ - Klaus Schilling /* */ *From:* jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 10:38 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? Barry, If you've read any parts of the Old Testament, you will find that */[according to some believers, most of whom (including probably JohnR himself) do not know the language the book was originally written in] /*Yahweh described Himself/Herself/It as IAMWHOAM in Genesis. */[According to some who like to make huge generalizations,] /*Generations of Jews believe that the Torah was handed to them by their ancestors */[a point for which there is little dispute, because OF COURSE it was handed to them by humans, who were the ones that wrote it] /*. As such, */[they believe that] /*the prophets actually existed in history */[although of course there is no evidence that this is true] /*. Also, */[unnamed] /*historians and theologians have found */[they believe in their heads] /*that Moses and the prophets existed in history */[although again is presenting no evidence even of this claim]/*. It's obvious that Moses and the prophets died */[as does everyone else...big whoop]/*. Therefore, */[John says, creating a false impression that I asked for it] /*they can't appear before you. But, even if they could, why should they appear before you */[says John, again creating the false impression that I or anyone else asked dead people to appear before us to give testimony. No one ever asked that...he was just being a drama queen. If I were to ask for proof it would be in the form of historical NON-RELIGIOUS documents affirming the existence of the people in question and placing them definitively in the area of the world they were supposed to have lived in] /*? But apparently you have not done your homework */[translation: you don't believe what I believe, so there is something wrong with you] /*. You should read the Old Testament and the historical analyses regarding the personalities in them */[because I say you should]/*. For example, it is accepted by */[some] /*historians and researchers */[whom John has not named and whom no reasonable person would believe if he did] /*that Moses existed and wrote the first five books of the Torah. You should think before you write.*//* */And you should learn to think, period. /* */ /* */Listen...I don't care what religious claptrap you believe. Just don't claim that I or anyone else should believe it. /* ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : *From:* jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:53 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva? Yahweh is IAMWHOAM and does not have a manifested body although It is known by the Hebrew prophets. On the other hand, Shiva has a manifested form and is known to have a wife in Parvati. */JohnR, I'll follow up on this because it raises the very issue I just posted about to Lawson. You're using the language of *assertion*, as if the things you are asserting are FACT. Why shouldn't that be considered the very Fundamentalism you've suggested /**/*/in other contexts /*isn't a good thing? /* */ /* */Don't you think that in the interest of fairness you should refer to all of these characters as what they are -- fictional? Or at the very least you should probably specify that what you are talking about are things that some people *believe*, but that do not come anywhere near the definition of fact. If you disagree that these characters ARE fictional, you know that all you have to do is show them to us. Right?/* */My point -- as it often is -- is that sloppy language is an indication of sloppy thinking. /*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 3:23 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: Reckon how long Bucky is gonna keep whippin' this dead horse? Maybe we should start a betting pool on it. /How much would you be willing to wager?/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YhWh is Shiva?
On 12/5/2014 4:12 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Besides, you dolt, you completely ignored the fact that in your original statement you presented the existence of Shiva (and his supposed wife) as if that were a fact. /* Yeah, you dolt - everyone knows that Rama was the last reincarnation of Lord Vishnu! /* */ */It's not. It's a belief. Clearly you do not know the difference. THAT was my original point -- you're a sloppy thinker./* /* *So our field trips, then, are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power. Also the Intensives. Occasionally at a Center Meeting, not that often, every couple of months, I'll break down and demonstrate a little mystical kundalini. - Rama http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm03.html * */
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 10:43 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I believe Alex's vivid image of you pissing in the wind on your attempt to ascend into a position of control of this group is apt. You just don't seem to get it, Curtis. You're the guy that got brainwashed into selling us the snake-oil and the nonsense gibberish for a living. You're guy that was put in a trance-induction state for 20 years. You will probably never get over your cognitive dissonance. You ARE the TMO and the True Believer. The only way is could happen would be if a lot of people really, really wanted you to. Not by you mounting what seems to be a coup attempt through whining. You have been throwing an adult tantrum in your posts since I first started reading your posts as that other guy you have inside that you seem in conflict with. You are attempting to control other adult's expressions here, and within the legal boundaries we are all constrained by, this is not gunna happen dude. It shouldn't happen. Because no matter what high levels you have pumped your self regard, you would not be trustworthy in any position of judgement here. You have convinced yourself that because you believe something so much, you should be able control other people. Get off the power trip delusion. No one wants you to be in charge of anything here. Follow the rest of the trouble makers to your new Jerusalem and regale them with your faux Old Testament, Burning Bush assumptions about reality. You can pat each other on the back to your hearts content about how virtuous and spiritual you are. And by virtue of the collusion of agreement, no one will worry your pretty little head with any intellectual challenges. Want to post about aliens making circles in the grass, no problem, about George interviewing a dead but very talkative Maharishi? No one will ask you to support ANYTHING you claim. It was built for you whose reaction to intellectual challenges is to whine that it just isn't fair to have people disagree with stuff you are emotionally invested in. This is a forum for thinkers, not dogma slingers. If you make an outrageous claim here expect that someone will call bullshit, and this is NOT being negative. It is respecting truth and having good reasons to support beliefs over superstitious blather. You have the same mentality as the people who kicked you out of the dome and you can't see it. I guarantee you, your first move as supreme leader of FFL would be to try to ban me. And you would try to silence me because you can't give a reasoned argument to support your beliefs here that I challenge. So now you want to try to silence critics by fiat. You are a couple centuries too late for that routine. There already is a forum built exclusively for guys like you. With your buddy Jim at the helm you will be so happy there. Maybe he could give you some kind of rank in the organization and let you wear a special hat. I think you would be so happy if you could just wear a special hat, don't you? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : That is fine. I am confident that you would come to the meetings when Rick asks for help on this problem. Craig Pearson is doing an awesome and quite a fair-minded job moderating the extremely anxious community meetings of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance. Rick, we should ask him if he could help mediate our FFL steering committee meetings even hosting them on campus somewhere like in the Board of Directors' Room. It would be nice to meet somewhere symbolically in between the Global Country up in Vedic City and the Fairfield meditating community. The student union might be a good place. -Buck j_alexander_stanley writes : I would not attend such a meeting, as I'm content to leave well enough alone. It strikes me that Rick is also content to leave well enough alone, so your continued complaining is only so much pissing into the wind. The Peak exodus has put an end to much of the squabbly bullshit, and IMO, that's a good thing. Perhaps, you should focus your energies over there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : The Fairfield FFL meeting should proly just be a small working steering committee of older meditators from Fairfield to look after the larger communal welfare of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Like Rick, Dick Mays and me as patricians of FFL. And, Alex for the sensibility of his long-time moderating technical support. Most everyone else are new-comers by comparison. The Patriarch of Positivity, -Buck in Fairfield Yes hold a face-to-face in Fairfield, a meeting over some strong black coffee or Vata and Pitta tea, a conference amongst ourselves in Fairfield, Iowa to take back the brand of FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. It is time, -Buck in Fairfield We should have a peace and reconciliation conference here in Fairfield for FFL.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/5/2014 1:13 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I've long thought that Willytex was autistic - that's an observation and not a value judgement, I'm sure you all understand - he just has such odd responses, like he's oblivious to normal human interaction. I can't imagine spending the hours he does online and never learn how to do it differently. But he has never changed the routine in the ten years I've known him! /Just for the record, you're the guy that lived in a TM Academy for a decade. Doing what? Go figure./ Whatever the reality is it seems about time for a retirement. There must be a Vedic rest home for them so they can take it easy with blanket over their legs and watch old Maharshy tapes. Does the TMO make provision for this? Bit of an oversight if they don't. /I mean, you have to be pretty screwed up in the head to live in a TM Center for a decade and then get kicked out on the street. What happened - all you had to do was meditate for twenty minutes twice a day. Why was that so difficult?/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 5:19 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: He bitched the last time I asked a farming question of him - said it warn't spiritual enuff. / Maybe he just wants to talk about farm science - can you cite any scientific studies that support your anti-GMO hypothesis?/
Re: [FairfieldLife] America is Now No. 2
On 12/5/2014 4:05 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, It's obvious that China is doing fairly today and in the past few years. We really can't predict with certainty what will happen in the global market in the next few years. As far as I'm concerned, it's good for me and the US to have cheaper gas prices in the gas station. More likely, Saudi Arabia and the OPEC countries would cut down their oil production in order to get better prices in the world market. But the US has its own worries and responsibilities. Specifically, how can we reduce the national debt? Who's going to pay for it? The rich or the poor? /Oil and gas provide 68 percent of Russia’s exports and 50 percent of its federal budget. Russia has already lost almost $90 billion of its currency reserves this year, equal to 4.5 percent of its economy, as it tried to prevent the ruble from tumbling after Western countries imposed sanctions to punish Russian meddling in Ukraine. The ruble is down 35 percent against the dollar since June. / Oil Shock Streaks Across Globe From Moscow to Tehran to Caracas. Ready for $40? http://tinyurl.com/kbu5szm ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 12/4/2014 4:22 PM, jr_esq wrote: But I'm not sure if that's good or bad. With it's population of a billion or more, China can produce and sell more to increase its economic output. A country the size of China can't produce very much without oil, John. It may not be even capable of feeding it's own people in the next few years. It is an open question what will happen to Algeria, Iraq, and Libya if oil prices hover at half the budget break-even costs for a year or two, given the extreme fragility of the region and political risk of cutting subsidies. A world already unsettled by Russian-inspired insurrection in Ukraine to the onslaught of Islamic State in the Middle East is about be roiled further as crude prices plunge. Global energy markets have been upended by an unprecedented North American oil boom brought on by hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting shale rocks to release oil and gas. According to what I've read, oil below $70 is already playing havoc with budgets across the global petro-nexus. The fiscal break-even cost is $161 for Venezuela, $160 for Yemen, $132 for Algeria, $131 for Iran, $126 for Nigeria, and $125 for Bahrain, $111 for Iraq, and $105 for Russia, and even $98 for Saudi Arabia itself, according to Citigroup. 'Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes' The Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/pw5dgfs It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html image http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html It’s official: America is now No. 2 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. View on finance.yahoo.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html Preview by Yahoo
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/3/2014 9:28 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Yes Richard I have posted here and had conversations with people who don't have a 10 years old's sense of fixation on words like boner. This group belongs to Rick Archer who is the moderator - you and Barry need to stop trying to take over and trying to turn this discussion into a despicable button-pushing contest. /This group has long maintained a thoughtful and considerate tone. Please refrain from personal attacks, insults and excessive venting. Speak the truth that is sweet is a worthy aspiration. If angry, take some time to gain composure before writing or pushing the send button./ - Rick Archer, FFL Rule #1 /Posting of adult material, either text or photos, or links to such materials, is prohibited. Violation of this guideline may result in expulsion from the group./ - Rick Archer, FFL Rule #8 I remember that exchange and who I was trying to make laugh with that reference. That is why I know what I wrote and what I did not in that paragraph. But you don't. You put quotes on it and signed my name to all of it as if I wrote it all because you are a dishonest troll. So, let's check that quotation you posted to Ruth again: /I have dear, dear friend who is on extreme medication who meditates regularly. Once, I found her running in circles immediately after meditating, screamign that she was having an anxiety attack. I literally tackled them, wrestled her to the floor and made her lay quietly with her eyes closed for 30 minutes. Is it really s wrong that this description gave me a boner? - /curtisdeltablues http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html Are you making a point that I used the term boner and ball gag in jokes here as people do in even prime time TV these days? Is that what you are shaming me for? Do you think that people who hire me would be shocked if they knew that a blues artist used the term boner in a humorous communication with other adults in a forum? My point is that minors may be reading this forum. Apparently you need to be reminded that you sent an adult text to Ruth on a family-oriented forum. When you and Barry post button-pushing messages concerning deviate behavior you may get angry responses. Not everyone is as liberal as you are - there are lots of folks out there that maintain strong family values. Go see a sex therapist, a psychiatrist or a cult exit counselor. So what exactly are you trying to get on my case about troll, Non sequitur. I do not make the rules and I do not enforce them. You already know that. what is your issue that compels you to type about me? At times you can write like a scholar and you can sing like a professional, but you spoil everything with your split personality. My advice to you as a professional is to clean up your act. Are you trying to say that you don't like what I write and don't think I should write it? There are many things I like about your writing but I don't appreciated being called a perv. Don't call me Shirley. Is that clear? Too bad, don't read it. Everyone is reading it, Curtis, including my grand children - it's a public forum. If you don't agree with Rick's rules, you should join another group or start your own - and take Salya and his c word cartoon captions with you. It's not complicated. But this dig up posts within exchanges out of context game you are playing is pure malicious troll routine. Non sequitur. Your faux prudery isn't gunna get any traction here troll. Non sequitur. So keep posting things I said years ago within a context today if you want. Non sequitur. I know everything I write here is forever and I am fine with that. But every time you pluck my writing from the past, put it together with other people's writing, put quotes around it as if I said it all and then sign my screen name to it at the end in a malicious deception, I will defend myself. It that the dance you are seeking? Let's see who tires first. Let's look at the quotation once again - did I leave anything out or put it with anyone's writing? Are you curtisdeltablues, a professional singer and player? http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html You are not supposed to be posting adult material to FFL. That's what 4chan is for. You and Barry and Salya need to just stop posting adult text, graphics, and adult links to FFL - that's what has caused the whole crises. Seven members have quit the forum because of Barry's malicious button-pushing. If Judy was here she would probably take both of you to task. Just apologize for calling me a liar and don't do it again. Thanks. Nice contribution to human thought Richard. Well done. Non sequitur. P.S. You are not supposed to be advertising yourself on Yahoo Groups in the first place - that is considered to be spam and
Re: [FairfieldLife] A Texas Troll
/Prejudice is a judgment toward people or a person or group based on their place of birth, religion, race, nationality, gender, social class, age, disability, sexuality, language, or other personal characteristics./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice On 12/3/2014 9:28 PM, noozguru wrote: Texas Troll https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN image https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN Texas Troll https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN A Texas troll sez hello. View on flic.kr https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN Preview by Yahoo Sound familiar?
Re: [FairfieldLife] A Texas Troll
On 12/3/2014 9:50 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Well done./* /Prejudice is a judgment toward people or a person or group based on their place of birth, religion, race, nationality, gender, social class, age, disability, sexuality, language, or other personal characteristics./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice *From:* noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:28 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] A Texas Troll Texas Troll https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN image https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN Texas Troll https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN A Texas troll sez hello. View on flic.kr https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN Preview by Yahoo Sound familiar?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Texas Troll
On 12/3/2014 9:33 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Thanks brother, I needed that! /Prejudice is a judgment toward people or a person or group based on their place of birth, religion, race, nationality, gender, social class, age, disability, sexuality, language, or other personal characteristics./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Texas Troll https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN image https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN Texas Troll https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN A Texas troll sez hello. View on flic.kr https://flic.kr/p/q1ecWN Preview by Yahoo Sound familiar?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/3/2014 9:53 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */In all compassion, it's obvious that Doug/Buck is realizing that HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY other than bitching about other posters and pretending to be superior to them./* /* */Non sequitur. */He's freaking out now that he has nothing to bitch about and is stuck on a forum that won't let him run his superiority number./* What are you going to do about it, Barry, send a private email to Rick and call in the Fairfield police? /You have now officially been added to Interpol's Watch List, Raunchy./ - Barry Wright, 11/29/2014
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
-In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Xeno, if you check your folders, fluffy and otherwise, you'll discover that indeed Curtis has written 2 posts about this in the last 24 hours. I simply referred Richard to them. On 12/4/2014 1:54 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Share, read what Curtis actually said and how he tried to engage Tex and then see how any attempt at discussion was rebuffed in favour of mailcious abuse. So, you posted a despicable cartoon to Share of a Buddha using the c word as a caption, but I was being malicious and abusing Curtis. Go figure. I know you try and see the good in everyone but surely even you can tell now that Willytex is just here to cause trouble. It's all he's ever done, as far as I can see he has no redeeming features whatsoever. Non sequitur. There is no good to be gained by exhibiting gender bias. Do you honestly think that kind of message would be appreciated by Share, Ann, Raunchy or Judy? What is wrong with you? I'm starting to see why they kicked you out of the TM Academy. If Judy was still around she would have probably taken you to task and made you feel like a low-brow piece of slime. She was real good at that - one of her pet peeves was gender bias. You should apologize to the entire group and delete the offensive image, or at least get Rick or Alex to do it for you. Can you therefore stop encouraging him. He's a troll, he's got nothing constructive to say and he should join the gang at JimboWorld if he dislikes us so much but I doubt they'd want him as all he does is try and piss people off. Some life of spiritual development huh? Non sequitur. /If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up?/ - Xenophaneros Anartaxius
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/4/2014 2:24 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */I have to agree with Salyavin here, Share. /* Oh, so NOW you want to dialog with Share. Go figure. /* */ */If you really can't see what's going on with Richard after these recent exchanges, there actually may be something seriously wrong with YOU./* /* */Hey, Barry, let's start a war on women. - we could play a word game, button-pushing contest with a little help from Salya and Curtis. Uh, oh - I forgot, Share is the only female left on FFL. Go figure. /* */ */ /* */Sal's phrase he has no redeeming features whatsoever may be the key to it. He has been a troll from Day One, when he first appeared on alt.meditation.transcendental. Over there he did exactly the same thing -- posting excessively and intentionally trying to disrupt any conversations just as they were starting to get interesting. /* /See dumb cunt. Digging herself in deeper./ - TurquoiseB http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/msg269972.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg269972.html /* */ */I developed a theory about him back then, which I still hold today. He's JEALOUS of the good conversations, because he's afraid that he can't really participate in them. Back on a.m.t. he was always horrifically jealous of TM teachers because he'd never become one, and was pissed off that because of the hierarchy of the movement they always treated him as lesser than they were. I don't think he ever got over that. /* /This is all about me calling her a cunt, and her reacting by proving how much of one she is./- TurquoiseB http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg190746.html */ /* */Judging from the stories he's told over the years, and how they contradict one another, I don't think he's EVER managed to study with a real, live spiritual teacher or be part of any organized spiritual teaching. He's always been a loner whose spiritual path was only in his head, driven by JEALOUSY of the people who were accepted into such groups when he never was and had actual real spiritual adventures. /* Non sequitur. */He feels inadequate to really join in with sophisticated discussions here because he feels he doesn't have the real background to do so. (And in this he is correct.) So what he does instead is find stuff on Wikipedia or elsewhere on the Internet and post it as if he wrote it, and use that to imply that he *would* know enough to participate, if he really cared to. In reality, he never engages because he knows that if he did everyone would figure out that he's a spiritual know-nothing within a few posts./* Non sequitur. */So because he feels shut out of these conversations, he does everything he can think of to derail them and take them off-line into personality conflicts and irrelevant crap. He's *panicking* right now, because almost all of the people he'd fooled into thinking there might be something to him besides vindictive jealousy are leaving this forum. He knows that he would never fit in over on The_Peak because he would be expected there to actually have something intelligent to say, and he really doesn't. He knows that they'd figure out very quickly what a spiritual lightweight he really is, so he doesn't dare participate. /* Non sequitur. */So he's having a meltdown here -- making literally hundreds of posts, trying everything he possibly can to disrupt things. I honestly don't understand how Rick has stood for this as long as he has, but it's his forum so it's his call, and there is nothing the rest of us can do about it but to try to ignore Richard and carry on. /* Non sequitur. */That's my current plan. All of his posts are still routed directly to my Trash Bin. Every so often I scan through the list of posts on Neo and through quotes of his in other people's posts that other people cite, just to see whether he's crossed the line from merely crazy and abusive to outright libel (and thus criminal action). The day he does that -- calling me or other people here something that is intended to harm them in the real world -- I will have the cops on his ass so fast it will make his head spin. Until then, I can't really do anything but ignore him and suggest to other people that they do the same. /* Non sequitur. */He really isn't sane. Pity him if you want, but don't be taken in by his game. EVERY time in almost twenty years someone has done that and gotten somewhat close and friendly with him, he has just waited a few weeks or months and then turned on them, too. He'll do that with you, too, Share. Curtis and I are trying to warn you about a train wreck that we can see coming and you can't. /* Non sequitur.
[FairfieldLife] It's All About Willytex, was Nabby's Exit
On 12/4/2014 2:24 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Judging from the stories he's told over the years, and how they contradict one another, I don't think he's EVER managed to study with a real, live spiritual teacher or be part of any organized spiritual teaching. He's always been a loner whose spiritual path was only in his head, driven by JEALOUSY of the people who were accepted into such groups when he never was and had actual real spiritual adventures. /* You are mistaken - I have studied with numerous /real live spiritual teachers/ over the years. My teachers have included a Zen Master, a Shaman , a Yogis, and two Lamas, one a Tibetan Tulku, not including a dozen gurus at a local community college. Confessions of a Taco Eater: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/confessions.htm
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 4:08 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I can't resist - its a good indication that TM does not work as advertised. Line on air, anyone? /It's not anyone's fault except your own that you are unable to sit still for twenty minutes with your eyes and mouth closed./ *From:* jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:26 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye Buck, For crying out loud, will you just let it go already? Rick is reading and posting to FFL, and he's not getting involved. And, who the hell is the we in your we know and understand that you are busy...'. spiel? Since when did you start referring to yourself as we. There's no we in Buck! You're coming across like a 2-yr old who's not getting his way. Please Rick, please Rick, please Rick... Give it up. You're not getting your way. Geez, after 40 years of meditation, surely you can just meditate, settle down, and drop it.
Re: [FairfieldLife] India's Water
On 12/4/2014 6:14 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: What! You mean the sattva of all the wandering saddhus, untold number of temples, presence of TM Movement, practice of innumerable yagyas hasn't negated the resistance bacteria? How puzzling. /Prejudice is a judgment toward people or a person or group based on their place of birth, religion, race, nationality, gender, social class, age, disability, sexuality, language, or other personal characteristics./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice ‘Superbugs’ Kill India’s Babies and Pose an Overseas Threat http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/asia/superbugs-kill-indias-babies-and-pose-an-overseas-threat.html?hpaction=clickpgtype=Homepagemodule=second-column-regionregion=top-newsWT.nav=top-news_r=0 image http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/asia/superbugs-kill-indias-babies-and-pose-an-overseas-threat.html?hpaction=clickpgtype=Homepagemodule=second-column-regionregion=top-newsWT.nav=top-news_r=0 ‘Superbugs’ Kill India’s Babies and Pose an Overseas Thr... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/asia/superbugs-kill-indias-babies-and-pose-an-overseas-threat.html?hpaction=clickpgtype=Homepagemodule=second-column-regionregion=top-newsWT.nav=top-news_r=0 Researchers say a significant share of the bacteria in India — in its water, sewage, animals, soil and even its mothers — are resistant to nearly all antibiotics. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/asia/superbugs-kill-indias-babies-and-pose-an-overseas-threat.html?hpaction=clickpgtype=Homepagemodule=second-column-regionregion=top-newsWT.nav=top-news_r=0 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/4/2014 6:16 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Why not say NOTHING? This isn't Facebook -- The Internet for Idiots -- it's a group in which no one deserves a reply just because they wrote something. /* /Translation: Shut up Share - I'm the boss here now!/ *From:* Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 1:08 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit salyavin, if you check, I did stop encouraging Richard. Because I did read what Curtis wrote and found it both reasonable and kind. I told Richard simply that I think he should read it. Now that Richard has replied to Curtis, I have been searching for what to say that is reasonable and kind without being enabling. *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, December 4, 2014 1:54 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Xeno, if you check your folders, fluffy and otherwise, you'll discover that indeed Curtis has written 2 posts about this in the last 24 hours. I simply referred Richard to them. Share, read what Curtis actually said and how he tried to engage Tex and then see how any attempt at discussion was rebuffed in favour of mailcious abuse. I know you try and see the good in everyone but surely even you can tell now that Willytex is just here to cause trouble. It's all he's ever done, as far as I can see he has no redeeming features whatsoever. Can you therefore stop encouraging him. He's a troll, he's got nothing constructive to say and he should join the gang at JimboWorld if he dislikes us so much but I doubt they'd want him as all he does is try and piss people off. Some life of spiritual development huh? *From:* Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 2:46 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up? It was past history. They can stay over on that other namby pamby forum, with its phallic symbol (a peak). He could not resist one last chance to spread his paedophile interests. This site is for the nitty gritty of spiritual growth, not for esoteric mystical nonsense. A wise decision to unsubscribe, this place is not for weak minds, the emotionally overwrought, and those that see snakes for ropes at every turn. You are as you obsess. Except for Share and Richard, the subject would seem to be closed here days ago. *From:* nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 4:36 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Butt-Fucking-Babies who's idea was concieved in the sick mind of the Turq and written in a post here on FFL caused many to leave. Later he tries to wriggle himself out of the net by making ridicelous claims that Dutch police is investigating or watching American and German posters on an American blog. The fact is that these posters didn't want to be on the same list as a pervert and left. It would be to insult the intelligence of others here to believe that they buy the idea that Dutch police have the time or interest of investigating foreign nationals when the sick poster is living in Holland, right in their midst. The Turq is lying about the so-called cop in the same way as he has been lying about lurking reporters and a host of other issues. But who's to blame him, he's living such a pityful excistence that he has to make things up to appear as ANYTHING else than the scumbag he is. As expected some posters here have tried to bury the fact that the Turq posted what he did, Sally in a sea of sceptisism and irony, Bhairitu in a sea of self aggrandisement, anartaxius in a sea of words and Michael Jackson in a sea of profanity. As expected. As was the fact that Rick Archer did nothing so far. After all it was his idea to create a forum for dumping on all things TMO and with most of the sane people gone he certainly got what he wanted. That he has allowed pedophiliac ideas to be expressed on this forum without taking any action will be his cross to carry. He'll probably make some joke about that sentence in a future comment. But sarcastic, threatening or ironic comments by anyone will not be read as I'm happily unsubscribing.
Re: [FairfieldLife] to Richard
On 12/4/2014 6:44 AM, Share Long wrote: Richard, I think Curtis wrote at least 2 reasonable and kind posts to you recently. Let's review what Curtis wrote: /You are acting as a malevolent prick toward me, and I reject everything you are attempting. It is unfriendly, stupid and immature./ - curtisdeltablues 12/3/2014 /You are a liar and a troll Richard./ - curtisdeltablues 12/3/20014 /Richard is a well known internet troll./ - curtisdeltablues 12/2/2004 /You are a dishonest malicious troll and I wish you would join the rest of your kind on the other site./ - curtisdeltablues, 12/2/2004 One of your replies was to bring up something he wrote in 2008! It seems like you're still upset about that and some other stuff written a really long time ago by various people. Eight years is a long time to wait for an apology from someone that is still posting here today and still calling me Shirley - fourteen years in the case of Barry. All Barry and Curtis have to do is offer a simple and sincere apology to me - is that too much to ask? There are several things you need to take into consideration, Share. Most of what Curtis wrote are just weasel words - he didn't address my main concerns at all: 1. Barry posted an indecent comment to the group. 2. Barry called the cops on the group for responding./ /3. Barry did not delete the malicious words from the archives./ /4. Eight respondents left the group in disgust./ / I understand being upset, but I'm 99.9% sure that how you're handling that upset is neither helping you or anyone else. I wish that you may find peace about all this. Not for nothing did Judy label Xeno, Curtis and Barry liars. Judy does not lie, Share. In my opinion they each stand self-condemned by their own words. The bottom line is that this is NOT a group of nice individuals - the remainders are prejudiced, hypocritical and abusive. Not one of the eight members that left the forum has ever said an abusive word to me. Go figure. /This group has long maintained a thoughtful and considerate tone. Please refrain from personal attacks, insults and excessive venting. Speak the truth that is sweet is a worthy aspiration. If angry, take some time to gain composure before writing or pushing the send button./ - Rick Archer, FFL Rule #1
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 7:24 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I think that if you stop whining and read what we actually post here (except Willytex obviously) you'll see nothing vile or oppressive. Can anyone say cognitive dissonance? /Try no to be a cunt./ Salya, 11/30/2014 /Share, unless you are intentionally trying to appear dumber than a bucket of hammers.../ - TurquiseB /What exactly is a tosser other than being like Willy?/ - Mjackson 12/1/2014 /A bunch of poseurs -- including Buck, WLeed, Share, and YOU, feste -- *claimed* to have left, but it would seem you're all still here, still whining, still complaining, and still trying to get your own way. What's up with that? Aren't any of you honest enough to leave and actually *stay* gone?/ - TurquoiseB 12/2/2014 /Richard is USING your naivete and Pollyanna blissninnyness to FUCK UP FFL./ - TurquoiseB 12/1/2014 / //He has been a troll from Day One./ - TurquoiseB 12/3/2014 /I'm atypically replying to this post from Richard because it's a blatant LIE, and indicative of what an unconscionable troll he is./ - TurquoiseB, 12/3/2014 /He's a troll, he's got nothing constructive to say and he should join the gang at JimboWorld./ - Salya, 12/3/2014 /You are acting as a malevolent prick toward me, and I reject everything you are attempting. It is unfriendly, stupid and immature./ - curtisdeltablues 12/3/2014 /You are a liar and a troll Richard./ - curtisdeltablues 12/3/20014 /Richard is a well known internet troll./ - curtisdeltablues 12/2/2004 /You are a dishonest malicious troll and I wish you would join the rest of your kind on the other site./ - curtisdeltablues, 12/2/2004
Re: [FairfieldLife] A Texas Troll
On 12/4/2014 10:07 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: You might want to brush up on your concept reading comprehension. Here is the hint to focus on: Pre /Can anyone say bat-shit crazy? Get a grip, Curtis, I posted a satire - everything I post to FFL is satire, nothing I say should be taken seriously. Lighten up, and take a chill-pill. You dumb shit. LoL!/ You are attempting to subvert this socially loaded buzzword concept into a personal shield for your behavior here by ignoring that any judgement coming your way is post not pre. It is based on your behavior, not where you come from apriori. The issue about prejudice is not that someone is being judged by their actions, it is that they are judged before their actions. That is the key aspect of the concept that gives it meaning and value. /Non sequitur. / What Bhairitucreated was a caricature of you for the purpose of satire. By focusing on a single indemnifying characteristic about you, he was able to artistically represent a POV. If he were to do the same thing to me, he might have picked out a guitar or some other iconic blues image that would immediately identify the person with a visual cue. Unless you are so embarrassed about being a Texan, so that anything that identifies you as one, such as a cowboy hat, is a pejorative, there is nothing even judgmental about using a hat as a symbol to identify you in an art piece. /Non sequitur. / What you are attempting to do, by unsubtly shifting the time of when you are being judged from pre to post, is to try to deflect the parody by posturing as a victim. /Non sequitur. / It is bullshit. /Non sequitur. / I am using this as my morning writing prompt because I have been giving some thought to why it is that you had to search 8 years ago for examples of words like boner and ball gag in my writing. Also what went down when Barry created a creative term on the fly and the bullshittery that ensued. /Non sequitur. / I realize that my writing had been shaped by what I call, having to remove the troll handles in my writing. As I read the posts you dug up, I realized that I was a much less careful writer then. I was more apt to feel the creative flow and let images fly off the top of my head as Barry did. I used to post more. /Non sequitur. / Barry said something interesting about that phrase. (Side note. I just realized that Nabbie put that term in a heading as a last grenade, hoping it would cause the group problems with Yahoo. There was no other reason to use it as a heading.) Barry said he chose it for its alliterative properties. He didn't send it through the troll handle editing process I put my writing through before I post. I remember writing more freely here like that. Just letting creative thoughts fly. Now I rarely use any curse word or even image of too risque a nature because I know it is a troll handle that will distract from my meaning. But it also makes my writing a lot less enjoyable for me and less interesting to read for non trolls I'll bet. It is not the words that matter, it is the process that generates them. I edit as I write defensively here. /Non sequitur. / Being careful about posts has its values for me. But it also comes at a creative price. With the defection of some of the worst troll handle grabbers gone, I am looking forward to reevaluating how I post here. I may not have to think about the 15 posts hyperfocusing on some throw away image I created on the fly and distorting my meaning into something that makes me look badly here with no basis in fact from what I wrote. I am looking forward to writing something and NOT getting ad hominem responses trying to shift the discussion of ideas into one of my perceived faults as a person. That anti-intellectual agenda is about dead here, and good riddance! /Non sequitur. / Richard you have a habit of making a big deal about little things in what someone writes while missing and often distorting their point. In this response you attempted to make it look as if Bhairitu was doing something universally condemned, acting on prejudice when in fact he was just judging you by your trollish actions and being creative with it. You reacted to it as a troll does. Hyperfocusing on a distortion of meaning and intent. /Non sequitur. / Maybe you should stop acting like a troll here if you don't want people to judge you as one. /Non sequitur. / I plan to write more in this climate cleansed of some of the worst trolls. I am going to reexamine how I write to see if I am maximizing the creative freedom I feel when everything I post is not followed by two thousand personal attacks. I'd say you are the last of them left Richard. (Buck is in a different category. He can appear trollish but that is not his primary function. His primary function is to promote the image of himself as a victim of something outside himself that he seeks to control.) /Non sequitur. / So
Re: [FairfieldLife] A Texas Troll
On 12/4/2014 11:18 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */EXCELLENT POST, Curtis. In it you have touched on many things I have felt, but never allowed into conscious thought, or put into words. I'll comment more inline below, but for now allow me to give you a standing ovation for nailing the horrific barrier to creativity Fairfield Life has become for us the last few years. /* So, it's all about Richard. */Those who have never been on the receiving end of harassment and stalking by Judy, Richard, Ravi, Robin, Nabby, Jim, and a few others *really don't know what that FEELS LIKE*. The trying to be a creative person trying to have fun in an environment in which you know that almost by definition *anything* you write is going to be attacked and twisted in an attempt to get you is downright painful at times. /* But, can you levitate, Mr. Wright? Can you levitate? */Like you, I am hopeful about an era in which that doesn't exist as much here on FFL. More below.../* But, can you levitate, Mr. Wright? Can you levitate? / I've seen him -- so help me -- move the fucking stars around in the sky, shift whole constellations, draw smiley faces with them. That's a real corker to digest, because you know that physically they weren't moving around, at least in this dimension, or a bunch of astronomers would've had a hissy fit. Yet they moved around. I saw it, and hundreds of other students saw it./ - TurquoiseB http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg12287.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 11:21 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I sure would like to know Jerry Jarvis' feelings about the Hammond presentation - he has yet to reply to my friend Bill's e-mail requesting just such a thing. Why don't you just call Jerry on the phone and say /This is Michael Jackson. What's up?/ LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 12:34 PM, jamesalan wrote: Hello Buck. I know that you did not like what I wrote to you earlier, but I appreciate the fact that you are noble enough to reflect on what I wrote (and, no doubt, on what others have written as well). While I was not asking you to be silent in terms of FFL, I think a period of silence is a good idea for you, and I wish you well during this period. And to take on a period of silence until Easter 2015 (about 4 months away?) is particularly impressive. Yeah, Buck, who do you think you are? Just because you live in Fairfield, IA; and just because you're one of the first members to respond on this forum; and just because you are Ricks friend; and just because you practice TM meditation in the dome every day; and just because you've been meditating for 40 years; and just because you knew MMY personaly; and just because you are a colleague of Bevan Morris, John Hagelin, and Robert Kieth Wallace - what gives you the right to post anything to this Yahoo Group about the mechanics of consciousness?
[FairfieldLife] It's All About Richard, was Rick
On 12/4/2014 2:24 PM, Duveyoung wrote: Given all the protests against the cops shooting unarmed people, maybe that's a tell that nationally we are as a culture approaching the cleaning-up-all-the-shit tipping point for a spectrum of issues. Maybe we should call in the cops, or a lawyer or a reporter, or Interpol or the Dutch police in order to tamp down this forum. Here at FFL, some of the cops just took off -- why? Cuz the likes of Curtis etc. were finally nailing the trolls hides to the wall with point by point by point deconstruction of the mindset of the trolls. We are not going to take this shit anymore. If they hound us, we hound them back with truth. Could work! Meanwhile, take a trip down Memory Lane: here's one of my early attempts to rub Mean Dick's face in his own doo-doo. Richard wrote: Total abortions in the United States since 1973: 48,589,993, all man-made murders on a massive scale and not a single word of objection from Mr. Ed. Okay, gang, Richard wants a public beating, again, so I'm going to deliver it. It's poetry time. As a legal protection, let me point out that all my opinions are opinions and not statements of proven truth. To the extent that I am projecting, sue me, but note that just because I can find these dark corners of evil represented in my psyche and amplify them into text doesn't invalidate my summations of him. Richard can also have these attributes, and -- OPINION STARTS NOW -- I maintain that these faint nuances at the bleak end of my moral spectrums can be found in Richard in all their fullest expressions of corrupt manifestation, and, additionally, I think he identifies with this low-dog status, and this accounts for the glee he obviously feels to present himself to others -- he glories in being exactly as depicted below: Richard J. Williams is an unmitigated prick. Richard J. Williams is an evil-supporting, war-mongering apologist for killing children for oil -- ample proof of his having approximately the I.Q. of a rehydrated wad of prehistoric coprolite. Richard J. Williams pretends to have spiritual acumen but is merely a cut-and-pasting plagiarizing sham with less status than a defrocked jailed priest. Richard J. Williams pretends to think important thoughts, but even the world's friendliest dog would tuck its tail and run from his vile presence. Richard J. Williams is a never-learned-shit-from-any-guru-or-scripture, smarmy, marauding, deranged, Internet troll. Richard J. Williams has all the immediate appeal of reeking turd shot out of a truck-smashed diseased snake. Richard J. Williams pretends to be holy and learned and wise by creating Web pages filled with delusions and lies and egoic puffery that any true-hearted person can instantly recognize as the dreck, the drivel, and the defective drainage of a doomed mind. Richard J. Williams' only intent when he posts is to annoy anyone in any thread so that he then gets anger directed at himself, and in this fashion he tries to publicly flagellate and abuse himself as a sick expiation of his spiritual effrontery. Richard J. Williams would change places with Bevan Morris in a heartbeat, and the world would never notice the difference. Richard J. Williams is the type of person that would immediately begin spasming in writhing agony and deep physical unstressing if he were to be in the presence of anything with the least bit of innocence -- even a plastic fake flower would do the triggering. Richard J. Williams would be the first person to go nuts in a foxhole and endanger the others. Richard J. Williams would think he was the logical choice to be captain of a lifeboat, but everyone at FairFieldLife knows he would be the first to be tossed overboard by a 100% vote of everyone else -- even a crippled, 87 year old, 96 pound, skeletal gaped mouthed person in a coma with one more day to live would be kept aboard rather than him. Richard J. Williams had the world handed to him by being born with elitist credentials that 99% of the world would envy but he has spent his lifetime being a simple jerkoff who leaves only failure, anger, and foul memories in his wake. Richard J. Williams is the type of person who romanticizes being a real terrorist who does really bad things, but if he did ever try for that great leap forward in his evolution, he would be immediately captured. Of course, he would never be waterboarded since even a short-bus chimpanzee could easily see him for the pure bullshitter that he is and that he's not even worth the price of the helicopter gas to get him into a rendition facility. Richard J. Williams will never recognize that he is a lurching clown at Rick's party who, wig askew, with vomit stains on his costume, would scare any child within 200 feet and is registering a 9.5 on Richter's creepy scale. Richard J. Williams is erotically charged by identifying with the persona of a lost pathetic deluded malevolence. I would suggest standing back a few feet from
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/4/2014 2:48 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I'm by no means a professional profiler but you missed the number one thing about Richard that I have determined over the years: he's a masochist! So you just made his day by spanking him. Ouch! You really hurt my feelings, Barry2 - do you still beat your wife? On 12/04/2014 12:24 PM, Duveyoung wrote: Given all the protests against the cops shooting unarmed people, maybe that's a tell that nationally we are as a culture approaching the cleaning-up-all-the-shit tipping point for a spectrum of issues. Here at FFL, some of the cops just took off -- why? Cuz the likes of Curtis etc. were finally nailing the trolls hides to the wall with point by point by point deconstruction of the mindset of the trolls. We are not going to take this shit anymore. If they hound us, we hound them back with truth. Could work! Meanwhile, take a trip down Memory Lane: here's one of my early attempts to rub Mean Dick's face in his own doo-doo. Richard wrote: Total abortions in the United States since 1973: 48,589,993, all man-made murders on a massive scale and not a single word of objection from Mr. Ed. Okay, gang, Richard wants a public beating, again, so I'm going to deliver it. It's poetry time. As a legal protection, let me point out that all my opinions are opinions and not statements of proven truth. To the extent that I am projecting, sue me, but note that just because I can find these dark corners of evil represented in my psyche and amplify them into text doesn't invalidate my summations of him. Richard can also have these attributes, and -- OPINION STARTS NOW -- I maintain that these faint nuances at the bleak end of my moral spectrums can be found in Richard in all their fullest expressions of corrupt manifestation, and, additionally, I think he identifies with this low-dog status, and this accounts for the glee he obviously feels to present himself to others -- he glories in being exactly as depicted below: Richard J. Williams is an unmitigated prick. Richard J. Williams is an evil-supporting, war-mongering apologist for killing children for oil -- ample proof of his having approximately the I.Q. of a rehydrated wad of prehistoric coprolite. Richard J. Williams pretends to have spiritual acumen but is merely a cut-and-pasting plagiarizing sham with less status than a defrocked jailed priest. Richard J. Williams pretends to think important thoughts, but even the world's friendliest dog would tuck its tail and run from his vile presence. Richard J. Williams is a never-learned-shit-from-any-guru-or-scripture, smarmy, marauding, deranged, Internet troll. Richard J. Williams has all the immediate appeal of reeking turd shot out of a truck-smashed diseased snake. Richard J. Williams pretends to be holy and learned and wise by creating Web pages filled with delusions and lies and egoic puffery that any true-hearted person can instantly recognize as the dreck, the drivel, and the defective drainage of a doomed mind. Richard J. Williams' only intent when he posts is to annoy anyone in any thread so that he then gets anger directed at himself, and in this fashion he tries to publicly flagellate and abuse himself as a sick expiation of his spiritual effrontery. Richard J. Williams would change places with Bevan Morris in a heartbeat, and the world would never notice the difference. Richard J. Williams is the type of person that would immediately begin spasming in writhing agony and deep physical unstressing if he were to be in the presence of anything with the least bit of innocence -- even a plastic fake flower would do the triggering. Richard J. Williams would be the first person to go nuts in a foxhole and endanger the others. Richard J. Williams would think he was the logical choice to be captain of a lifeboat, but everyone at FairFieldLife knows he would be the first to be tossed overboard by a 100% vote of everyone else -- even a crippled, 87 year old, 96 pound, skeletal gaped mouthed person in a coma with one more day to live would be kept aboard rather than him. Richard J. Williams had the world handed to him by being born with elitist credentials that 99% of the world would envy but he has spent his lifetime being a simple jerkoff who leaves only failure, anger, and foul memories in his wake. Richard J. Williams is the type of person who romanticizes being a real terrorist who does really bad things, but if he did ever try for that great leap forward in his evolution, he would be immediately captured. Of course, he would never be waterboarded since even a short-bus chimpanzee could easily see him for the pure bullshitter that he is and that he's not even worth the price of the helicopter gas to get him into a rendition facility. Richard J. Williams will never recognize that he is a lurching clown at Rick's party who, wig askew, with vomit stains on his costume, would scare any child within 200 feet and is registering a 9.5 on
[FairfieldLife] Finking, was Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - GoodbyeJ
On 12/3/2014 1:13 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */I will weigh in on this long enough to thank Curtis for not allowing Buck and others to perform revisionist history on why Jim Flanegin left and formed his new group. /* /* */Maybe you should just keep your big pie hole shut for awhile and stop finking on people. */While I wish him well with it (and hope fervently that he and a few early members love it so much that they stay there forever and never darken my door again), it is important to remember that the incident that *inspired* him running away from FFL to form his new group WAS, in fact, a particularly grevious instance of his *own* name-calling. /* */ /* */He and Nabby (and a few others) overreacted to a phrase I used in the spur of the moment and primarily for its alliterative value by calling me a child molestor. They then refused to drop this nonsense, and instead actually tried to encourage people on FFL to call the Dutch police to report me for being one, and to call Social Services to protect the family I live with. /* */ /* */This was over the line, so I took the advice of a cop friend here and reported *them* to the Dutch police, who placed their Internet communications under watch, to determine whether they were *continuing* to break Dutch law by doing such things. Rather than just STFU and act like a civilized human being, Jim chose to pretend to be the victim in this scenario instead of the aggressor and stalked off in a snit to form his new group. Nabby soon followed. /* */ /* */I wish both of them well with it, and I wish anyone who goes there well with their experience on this supposedly moderated-to-prevent-negativity group. It's only when members of that group come back *here* to FFL to bitch and complain because they can't do it there that I'll speak up. That's exactly what Doug is doing, and people who value truth should be glad that Curtis busted him on it. /* */ /* */As for FFL and its future, I would *love* for it to become a forum on which we could have intelligent conversations again. It hasn't been -- for me -- in well over a decade, because *every time I posted*, no matter about what or in what tone of voice, one of the people who had taken a dislike to me (Jim, Judy, Ann, Nabby, and more recently Steve Sundur) were there ready to pounce and try to turn it into another Get Barry fest. I for one would love to see what the forum can be like without their drama queen influence, and look forward to finding out. /*
[FairfieldLife] Finking, was Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/2/2014 8:36 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I don't know what you are talking about Buck. /Maybe so, Curtis, but Jim didn't call the police and fink on anyone. Do you have any comments on that?/ Jim was one of the worst negative name-callers on the forum for years. The place is wy better off without him. Same with Nabbie. The post you posted on below is a blatant lie meant to hurt the reputation of another poster through distortion of his intent. It was way beyond trolling and along with Nabbie represented a line that should not have been crossed. I'd say he left just in time because he was escalating to an actionable level as Barry defended himself legally. And you seem to be going along with that. Why? Because you are a name caller and a negative influence constantly framing other points of view in the weird language of religious fundamentalist ignorance. Your insincere persona is part of the problem IMO. You are not showing up here authentically, so I don't know who you are or what you really represent. I believe you yourself are confused and conflicted. I don't know what you deem healthy discussions but I have rarely seen you instigate or participate in one. You are a slogan slinger, not a careful thinker. How about the discussion of George's overthrow of Maharishi's teaching? You heard the guy. You know what Maharishi taught. Do you believe that Maharishi and Jesus have not seen God? That is what he claimed in the questions. That NONE of the luminaries in his band of spiritual gypsies on the other side has seen God. So basically all GC is bullshit. Did you consider that as you put Barry and I down for speculating that perhaps we need another explanation for why George was making such claims than that he really IS BRIGHU? And this is all in terms of the teaching itself, not my POV on reality. You pretend to be such a solder for the cause of Maharshi's vision, but you can't speak up about a guy literally ripping the teaching to shreds in a public forum with old time Maharishi leaders high fiving him. And you think that Barry or me voicing our disagreements with Maharishi's claims are the biggest problem right now. You are not keeping your eye on the ball Buck. Rome is burning and you are watering your plants. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Dear Rick, I feel really sorry for you that you are left with just this cesspool of negativity from the recent separation in the FFL membership. This is not what we had hoped for with the forum as we started FarifieldLife these many years ago at Yahoo-groups. It is not too late to re-think this forum as a place for healthy discussions to occur. I hope for a better future here, -Buck in the Dome fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Rick, I am sorry, but a forum where anyone is allowed to suggest sexual violence AGAINST children, is not someplace I want to be. I am truly sorry things have degenerated to this point. I am local to the Yahoo corporation, and am considering a detailed notice to the Yahoo administrators, including screen names, of this current activity. Barry makes one excuse after another, about using this foul, sexually perverted, and unbalanced voice, and is clearly not well. This is no longer a healthy environment for anyone to participate in. I am all for differing opinions on here, but you have allowed one individual's mental illness to co-opt what could be a fun place to hang out, and I guess I am one of the casualties. See ya!!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
dhamiltony wrote : In its fragmentation Yes, sadly FFL at Yahoo-groups it seems now is Mostly Left to the /Angry People/. The migration from FFL to The_Peak also at Yahoo-groups seems to be going well, over to a /New Jerusalem/ at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info On 12/3/2014 1:21 AM, salyavin808 wrote: You keep saying you're going but I can't help noticing you are STILL HERE. /We are still here to warn everyone about posting to FFL. They do so at their own risk because everyone that posts here is now on the Dutch police porn Watch List. You do realize that they've seen the cartoon you posted with the c word caption, right? And, I guess you realize they have your name, phone number, and IP address, right? Or, maybe you don't. Go figure./
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
The migration from FFL to The_Peak also at Yahoo-groups seems to be going well, over to a /New Jerusalem/ at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info You keep saying you're going but I can't help noticing you are STILL HERE. On 12/3/2014 1:25 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */And still trying to stir up the very negativity you claim to be against. WTF?/* /Stir up negativity? /Let me be clear: you are a serious case of cognitive dissonance. / // You called in the Dutch police, Interpol, and a lawyer to prosecute three members of this forum for posting satire. You got your buttons pushed back and you went bat-shit crazy. Is that clear, Barry? Now do you realize why seven members of this forum left to form a new Yahoo Group? Do I have to spell it out for you?/ *YOU WENT BAT-SHIT CRAZY, BARRY! *
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
In its fragmentation Yes, sadly FFL at Yahoo-groups it seems now is Mostly Left to the /Angry People/. The migration from FFL to The_Peak also at Yahoo-groups seems to be going well, over to a /New Jerusalem/ at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info You keep saying you're going but I can't help noticing you are STILL HERE. */And still trying to stir up the very negativity you claim to be against. WTF?/* On 12/3/2014 1:55 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I think they are operating on a my enemy's enemy is my friend as far as Jim goes. Look, Sally, I knew you were dumb, but not this dumb. You need to get some smarts: you are now on the /Interpol /child porn watch list because Barry reported you to the police and brought the heat on the whole group. You posted a pornographic image to a family-oriented discussion group. That was a big mistake, but not as big a mistake as Barry reporting you to the Dutch police. If I were you, I'd at least try to explain to the group why you posted the porn. Go figure. I seem to remember him being rather critical and abrasive quite often, not to mention the superior attitude! But I guess that's OK as long as he's fighting on their side, as if it was all about sides to begin with! Non sequitur. Willytex is the same, but they'd need to develop some self-awareness to see themselves how others see them. Can't have that in a spiritual life ;-) Non sequitur.
[FairfieldLife] Informants, was The real world versus the virtual world
Re Sometimes nice gets in the way of getting to the bottom of philosophical differences.: On 12/2/2014 11:31 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Like you, I think that in the thought experiment situation I concocted most everyone would get along just fine and have a good laugh about their past squabbles. It would clear the air and FFL would be sweetness and light for the following weeks - before the lack of real human contact would bring back the cold sneering! /Addressing the important issues! In the real world, anyone that calls the cops and informs on people would be ostracized from the community and shunned, and/or the rat would be forced to move out out of the neighborhood. In the virtual world you might get away with finking on your friends, because you're dealing with fictional people posting under an alias. But, the same rules apply - unless the forum is populated with other informants who lack any kind of integrity or balls. Nobody seems to want to talk about Barry calling in the International Police on the forum. I thought at least one person would acknowledge this fact and want to discuss it. It looks like I was mistaken. There's not going to be any sweetnes and light on this forum, as far as I'm concerned, until Barry calls off the cops. YMMV./ Maybe FFL should have regular Skype-type conference calls to re-calibrate FFL members back to fully functioning human level . . . /There's only one solution to this situation: Barry must apologize to the entire group and leave the group and never to return. His name is FINK all over the internet. Do you really want to be his enabler, Seraphita?/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
On 12/3/2014 6:14 AM, Share Long wrote: yoohoo, hi salyavin, I'm still here too. Practicing a little bi-location (-: Anyway, enjoying the humor from you and turq. Plus the NASA photo of aurora borealis, cool! OTOH, enjoyed Richard's comment too and will now reply to that. Go figger! Nobody seems to want to talk about the the big white elephant in the room. Go figure. So, I guess that's because most of the other respondents left in protest. Apparently the ones that remain don't realize that Barry now owns this forum. It may take awhile for the remainders to realize the ramifications of the present situation. In a button-pushing contest, all is fair up to but not including calling in the police when you post a satirical comment in response to their button-pushing - that pretty much indicates the end of the contest. According to the rules of netiquette, one of the most egregious activities is to post pornographic text or images to a moderated family-oriented discussion group during a debate. In most instances, on Yahoo or Facebook, this would result in an immediate banning from the group, or at least a stern warning and/or suspension from the group moderator. But by far, the most heinous button-pushing tactic of all time would be to call in a lawyer and a news reporter, inform the police, and threaten to have a debating opponent prosecuted and arrested - for whatever reason. Now that's a thought-stopper! We all agreed that this forum was not to be taken seriously - we all agreed that pushing buttons was just a form of satire. We did NOT agree that when you got your buttons pushed back that it was acceptable to call the /International Police/ - when a few simple emails sent privately would have been sufficient! /e·gre·gious adjective 1. outstandingly bad; shocking. a. He made an egregious abuse of button-pushing. synonyms:shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous./ *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 1:21 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : In its fragmentation Yes, sadly FFL at Yahoo-groups it seems now is Mostly Left to the /Angry People/. The migration from FFL to The_Peak also at Yahoo-groups seems to be going well, over to a /New Jerusalem/ at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/info You keep saying you're going but I can't help noticing you are STILL HERE. # Dear Yahoo-Groups Guideline Police: I have long pleaded for a higher power to come in here and help clean this place up. I welcome your arrival. Hopefully you can help us mediate and even help revive all that was once really good about FairfieldLife as a Yahoo-group community. I am one of the longest surviving original members of this forum and well know its ways. I am actually on of the few FFL member participants on the ground here in Fairfield, Iowa and I should be glad to be of administrative assistance for you if you need help controlling this out-of-hand group. -Buck in Fairfield, Iowa Dear RD; Good Point RD, the ruse of these apostates trying to come back 'to save' people reads much more now like the harassment of a people who are otherwise comfortable having dealt with their own moral dissonances within their own community in their own terms to their own spiritual ends. Who are these neganauts to interfere with the internal affairs of others any way? It seems incredibly arrogant on their part to come in here and try to methodically disturb people's peace. It seems now quite a hateful and shocking harassment to use such defamatory language the way they do. Having learned their own particular histories as they have related them on FFL through time then sympathetically when considering these guys as sources of anything spiritual they are quite pitiable really. It is a shame that their abuse of the unguarded cultural openness of this community has allowed them to take over the flower that was FFL with their negativity and erode off our our more seasoned reasoned and experienced membership. -Buck in Fairfield, Iowa raunchydog wrote : Barry, your recent use of crude language and imagery for the sake of pushing buttons is just an escalation of your usual MO, which I usually respond to by making fun of you. What I find funny is your delusion that inventing an offensive straw-man (offensive to any normal human being) in order to push true believer buttons will somehow expose and perhaps liberate them from TMO/MMY delusions. You never seem to get is how people respond to you is about your offensive behavior, period. Apart from the fact that IMO you are a narcissistic, self-righteous, self-aggrandizing
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
On 12/3/2014 6:42 AM, turquoiseb wrote: I'm atypically replying to this post from Richard because it's a blatant LIE, and indicative of what an unconscionable troll he is. You are not even making any sense, Barry. / /Everyone knows you tried to push buttons by posting a salacious comment. We all realize that if the moderator had stepped in he could have nipped this whole crises in the bud by suspending you from posting further comments and/or demanded that you apologize to the group. Rick or Alex could also have posted a warning to the others not to escalate the button-pushing. /None of these actions were taken.// / The only two people on FFL who have been reported to the cybercrime unit of the Dutch police are Nablusosos1008 and Jim Flanegin (fleetwood_macncheese). They were reported because they were posting libel about me that could have harmed me and my family. You really need to stop the fibbing, Barry. Now you me an apology! /You have now officially been added to Interpol's Watch List, Raunchy./ - Barry Wright, 11/29/2014 You could have sent a few simple emails to the parties concerned and to the moderator with a complaint and a warning not to continue with the button-pushing. You also could have responded to my objection about your original message. You did not, so why are you trying to blame others for your mistake now?/ / Neither the Dutch police nor Interpol have any interest in 1) Fairfield Life as a whole, 2) other people who post on it, or 3) even Richard J. Williams. Despite what Richard is LYING about here, no one is monitoring your conversations any more than they were before. No one was *ever* being monitored as part of a Dutch porn watch list. Jim and Nabby were (and still are) being monitored because they BROKE DUTCH LAW by claiming that I was a child molestor and child pornographer and urged other people to take illegal actions about that libelous claim. Instead of being reasonable, you flew off the handle and called in a lawyer, a reporter, the Dutch police and Interpol. That was wrong of you - you did a very bad thing, Barry. What's even worse, you jeopardized the security of your entire family by the original message and then by informing the authorities you put yourself in jeopordy - everyone knows you've posted many messages to the group over the last decade that were in poor taste and contrary to FFL rules, up to and including a pirated photo of rodents in coitus, inferring that I was guilty of fucking prairie dogs. It wasn't even funny - it was juvenile, in poor taste, and showed your prejudice. Everyone knows this. If you want to play with fire you should be prepared to get burned. You know and everyone else knows that you are an inveterate button-pusher. Now you've brought the heat on everyone in the forum. I wouldn't be surprised if all the comments posted to FFL are now in a database file being read by detectives in the vice squad at The Hague! If I were you, Barry, I would be wearing shades and hiding out incognito somewhere in an alley in Amsterdam and just hoping that my friends would tell the police I never heard of the guy. Even RICHARD has not been reported to Dutch and international police...YET. I've got a clear conscious so I've got nothing to hide and so I'm not alarmed. But, I can't speak for others. You know and I know there's not a person on the planet that would be willing to debate with you now with under the threat of a legal prosecution. Unless they are dumb, real dumb. You performed the ultimate thought-stopper, Barry. Now you own this forum - after a decade of button-pushing you finally won the religious debate. I just wish Judy was still around to take you to task. Now Share is left as the only person on the forum that is trying to talk some sense into you. For all practical purposes, you are finished as a debater on this forum - it's all in the FFL archives now. There seems to be *no question* that he's going to continue lying about me and other people on this forum, as he has done for years. Unfortunately we can't stop that...only Rick can. But I'm not going to put even *him* on the cybercrime watch list unless his lies step over the line and break Dutch law, as Jim's and Nabby's did. You just don't seem to get it - you've got a deep-seated cognitive dissonance, or some mental problem. You need to face the consequences of your own actions; you are a devious button-pusher, cultist, informant, a hypocrite, poser, and if you did not call the police, you are a liar. Deal with it. If I were you, I would just post an honest apology to the remaining members and to Rick and Alex - and then, I would just keep my big pie-hole shut and take care of your family. They probably don't need this kind of stress to be dragged into the FFL cesspool. What you have been doing is mean, vindictive and mean-spirited and now you're just making everything worse by not
[FairfieldLife] It's All About Richard J. Williams, was The Lying Sack-Of-Shitting of FFL
On 12/3/2014 9:19 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Just thought I'd change the title of this thread to better reflect Richard J. Williams' contributions to it./* It looks like Barry got his buttons pushed, now he hates me. Go figure. But, this was kind of funny: /Like most Texans, he probably believes that while going to SM clubs, dressing in black leather tie-me-up-and-fuck-me outfits (complete with ball gag), and being whipped by Miss Kitty while listening to Waylon Jennings records./ - TurquoiseB http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/246688
[FairfieldLife] Fucking Rodents, was something else...
On 12/3/2014 10:55 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Just as a last question, Nabby, doesn't putting the very phrase you're complaining about in your Subject line where it will be seen by everyone in every possible FFL view make *you* even more guilty of spreading pedophiliac ideas than you claim I was? Mine was a one-time usage, buried in a post. Your use of the offending phrase is much more in *everyone's* face./* /* */Maybe we should count how many times Barry has insinuated that Richard has sex with rodents. By the way, where are the vice squad police and why haven't we been sent any cease and desist letters from your attorney, Barry? Just answer the question./* */ *//* */As for you unsubscribing...uh...don't let the door hit you in the gluteus maximus on your way out, y'hear?/* /* */There sure is a lot of butt talk on the forum these days. Go figure./* */
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Big F'n Baby
On 12/3/2014 11:03 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Says the guy who uses the objectionable phrase in his HEADING! Nabbie you are not the friend of truth. I don't know why you took such a weird turn here, but good by and good riddance (who else know that was spelled that way? I had to resort to spell check. I guess I have never written it!) But you earned it because you are in the wrong here.I am glad you are in another group and I hope you never try to attack someone online in this repugnant way again. You demean the serious issues with your twisted agenda. If there were a hell, it would have a special place for people who misuse such an important problem for a personal trollish agenda to hurt others. You are a stranger to truth and integrity and I am glad you are not posting here anymore. Yes butt, is anyone denying the fact that the original phrase came from the mind of the TurquoiseB - it was just a Barry button-pushing statement directed at Share, right? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : who's idea was concieved in the sick mind of the Turq and written in a post here on FFL caused many to leave. Later he tries to wriggle himself out of the net by making ridicelous claims that Dutch police is investigating or watching American and German posters on an American blog. The fact is that these posters didn't want to be on the same list as a pervert and left. It would be to insult the intelligence of others here to believe that they buy the idea that Dutch police have the time or interest of investigating foreign nationals when the sick poster is living in Holland, right in their midst. The Turq is lying about the so-called cop in the same way as he has been lying about lurking reporters and a host of other issues. But who's to blame him, he's living such a pityful excistence that he has to make things up to appear as ANYTHING else than the scumbag he is. As expected some posters here have tried to bury the fact that the Turq posted what he did, Sally in a sea of sceptisism and irony, Bhairitu in a sea of self aggrandisement, anartaxius in a sea of words and Michael Jackson in a sea of profanity. As expected. As was the fact that Rick Archer did nothing so far. After all it was his idea to create a forum for dumping on all things TMO and with most of the sane people gone he certainly got what he wanted. That he has allowed pedophiliac ideas to be expressed on this forum without taking any action will be his cross to carry. He'll probably make some joke about that sentence in a future comment. But sarcastic, threatening or ironic comments by anyone will not be read as I'm happily unsubscribing.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
On 12/3/2014 7:12 AM, Share Long wrote: turq, I meant all human who are online. Yes, very special group! So, it was just a silly button-pushing contest. There's no baby, no family, no Dutch police, Interpol, lawyer or lurking reporter. It was all just a joke? But, Curtis thought it was real and that Raunchy really meant to hurt Barry and his family? When it turns out that Barry hoaxed his own family, assuming they read this. Where is Dr. Pete when we need him? Go figure. /You have now officially been added to Interpol's Watch List, Raunchy./ - Barry Wright, 11/29/2014 */That reply was a joke, Share, just as she claims the post I was replying to was. /* */ /* */As for anyone from the world of government or law enforcement wanting to watch you or anyone on this group just because they're on this group, that's just self-important paranoia from cultists, as usual. /*
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
On 12/3/2014 7:08 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */That reply was a joke, Share, just as she claims the post I was replying to was. /* So, you were just joking around and pushing some buttons, trying to get an angry response and to put one over on Curtis. /* */ */As for anyone from the world of government or law enforcement wanting to watch you or anyone on this group just because they're on this group, that's just self-important paranoia from cultists, as usual. /* /* */So, you didn't really call a lawyer and the lurking reporter, or the Dutch police or Interpol - you were just joking around trying to push some buttons. There's no baby or family and you don't even live in a house Leiden, NE - and you were never in a Rama cult or even learned TM. Go figure. Troll - /A person who sends duplicitous messages to get angry responses./ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll /* */ *From:* Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 1:55 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL turq, you replied to Raunchy that she's now on Interpol watch. Also, I think we're all being watched anyway, so all this being watched business is nothing new imho. That ship has sailed a long time ago!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
On 12/3/2014 6:55 AM, Share Long wrote: turq, you replied to Raunchy that she's now on Interpol watch. /You have now officially been added to Interpol's Watch List, Raunchy./ - Barry Wright, 11/29/2014 Also, I think we're all being watched anyway, so all this being watched business is nothing new imho. That ship has sailed a long time ago! According to Barry, you Share, are just a paranoid cultist and a True Believer; hoaxed into seriously believing Barry called the cops on us. But, Richard is the liar. Go figure. I'm atypically replying to this post from Richard because it's a blatant LIE, and indicative of what an unconscionable troll he is. The only two people on FFL who have been reported to the cybercrime unit of the Dutch police are Nablusosos1008 and Jim Flanegin (fleetwood_macncheese). They were reported because they were posting libel about me that could have harmed me and my family.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
On 12/3/2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu wrote: TM'ers are sheltered and don't know even the basics of Indian tradition especially how one becomes a swami or an acharya. From what I know of MMY he was never an acharya so it would be considered inappropriate for him to be in the holy tradition or a guru dev himself. I've never even read if he was ever given a swami title which can be granted at an earlier stage. In the Indian religious tradition the term /acharya/ means a highly learned man or teacher or founder of a sect. A /swami/ is an ascetic who has been initiated into the religious monastic order founded by a religious teacher such as the Adi Shankara. A /yogi/ is a practitioner of yoga, specifically used to refer to /Siddhas/ and to refer to practitioners of meditation. It also depends on how the Shankara tradition hands out titles. In the Advaita Vedanta tradition a Swami initiates the student with a puja ceremony and imparts a /bija mantra/ or seed syllable for the sadhak to meditate on. In the Saraswati tradition of SBS, it is incumbent on every chela to mediate on the bija mantra of Saraswati twice daily. It's not complicated. According to MMY, /Swamis suffer; yogis enjoy./
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/3/2014 2:46 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up? It was past history. They can stay over on that other namby pamby forum, with its phallic symbol (a peak). He could not resist one last chance to spread his paedophile interests. Maybe he just wanted to remind you that this is why you read all his messages - for the despicable part. This site is for the nitty gritty of spiritual growth, not for esoteric mystical nonsense. This may be a true statement by Xeno and if so, maybe we should ask him why he likes it so much. Xeno? A wise decision to unsubscribe, this place is not for weak minds, the emotionally overwrought, and those that see snakes for ropes at every turn. You are as you obsess. Except for Share and Richard, the subject would seem to be closed here days ago. Maybe we should ask Curtis why he wrote such a long post about the subject. Curtis?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/3/2014 4:13 PM, Share Long wrote: Xeno, if you check your folders, fluffy and otherwise, you'll discover that indeed Curtis has written 2 posts about this in the last 24 hours. I simply referred Richard to them. Maybe we should shut our pie holes about this, Share. Curtis seems to be really upset that somehow his professional reputation might be sullied or something, working with kids in schools and all. /I have dear, dear friend who is on extreme medication who meditates regularly. Once, I found her running in circles immediately after meditating, screaming that she was having an anxiety attack. I literally tackled her, wrestled her to the floor and made her lay quietly with her eyes closed for 30 minutes. Is it really so wrong that this description gave me a boner? - curtisdeltablues/ http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html *From:* Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 2:46 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up? It was past history. They can stay over on that other namby pamby forum, with its phallic symbol (a peak). He could not resist one last chance to spread his paedophile interests. This site is for the nitty gritty of spiritual growth, not for esoteric mystical nonsense. A wise decision to unsubscribe, this place is not for weak minds, the emotionally overwrought, and those that see snakes for ropes at every turn. You are as you obsess. Except for Share and Richard, the subject would seem to be closed here days ago.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Sacking of FFL
On 12/3/2014 9:49 AM, Share Long wrote: Richard, I thought Curtis made some really reasonable points to you this morning and he wasn't inflammatory at all. Why not read his posts and make your peace with the situation as it now is? Curtis did make some good points in his rather long post, although he didn't respond to my main point about Barry's imaginary baby and family in Leiden. It looks like the entire incident was a planted message in order to get some angry responses. Barry is now saying it was all a joke, that he planted the message in question, and then made up the threat to call the police. The whole thing was a hoax - there's no call to a lawyer and lurking reporter; no Dutch police watch list; no Interpol; and no real outrage at all. Go figure. It was all just a button-pushing contest set up by Barry in order to garner some support from Curtis, Salya and Xeno. They probably feel real dumb now and used - so they don't want to talk about it anymore - because it is so embarrassing to have a ruse pulled on them. Go figure. /That reply was a joke, Share, just as she claims the post I was replying to was. As for anyone from the world of government or law enforcement wanting to watch you or anyone on this group just because they're on this group, that's just self-important paranoia from cultists, as usual./- TurquoiseB, 12/2/20014
[FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Richard J. Williams, was The Lying Sack-Of-Shitting of FFL
As long as we are reviewing contributions to FFL we should also include this little gem from Curtis: /Yes, as long as it is between consenting adults it is none of my business what you use in your bedroom. I've always assumed you were a zippered leather face hood wearing kind of guy Richard, but that hasn't gotten in the way of our chummy chats has it?/ - curtisdeltablues http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/msg133174.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg133174.html On 12/3/2014 9:19 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Just thought I'd change the title of this thread to better reflect Richard J. Williams' contributions to it./* It looks like Barry got his buttons pushed, now he hates me. Go figure. But, this was kind of funny: /Like most Texans, he probably believes that while going to SM clubs, dressing in black leather tie-me-up-and-fuck-me outfits (complete with ball gag), and being whipped by Miss Kitty while listening to Waylon Jennings records./ - TurquoiseB http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/246688
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
On 12/3/2014 12:51 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL. /* /* */Correction: ...up to the point when I got kicked out of the TMO. Let's try to be a little more accurate, Barry.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/3/2014 5:48 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Taking a peek at The Peak Maybe you are doing a little stalking and lurking. Richard hasn't posted since the first day. Maybe we should check the Peak membership list and see how many went over to the new forum. I didn't see your name on the list. If Jim would let you in, do you think you could do more than try to get me to define the word acharya? Everyone already knows that. Maybe Jim booted him already. Maybe I'm communicating with Jim by private email or on Facebook. Maybe I've got nothing to report. Maybe you have a lot of time on your hands. Maybe I should double up on FFL so you have something to read. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It's All About Richard J. Williams, was The Lying Sack-Of-Shitting of FFL
On 12/3/2014 6:29 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Decided to focus your troll routine on me have you Riichard? You seem to be really taking this seriously - it's all about Richard, not Barry. Go figure. On the heels of me treating you decently by entering into a discussion with you? OK OK, since we both work in schools, lets discus how decently you've treated me: /Yes, as long as it is between consenting adults it is none of my business what you use in your bedroom. I've always assumed you were a zippered leather face hood wearing kind of guy Richard, but that hasn't gotten in the way of our chummy chats has it?/ - curtisdeltablues This was selected out of an interesting discussion about power and sex. Like a giggling ten year old, you insist on taking the whole discussion out of its intellectual context and focus on certain words and phrases used in faux prudery in your attempt to make it look as if the discussion was on your own idiotic level instead of what the adults on the forum were talking about. You seem very uptight about discussions about sex, and always gravitate to the weirdest possible interpretation, fixating on some childish notion of what is being discussed. Alright, lets talk about power and sex: /Exempted with be dog collars worn as is traditional by submissives, as long as they are accompanied by their masters. (all ball gags should be rubber only)./ - curtisdeltablues I am comfortable with my own sexual nature and have good boundaries about he sexual behaviors of others. By inappropriately putting my old quotes out of context within a discussion of illegal and abhorrent abuse acts, you are trying to smear me with the stink of association. I will not let you do it. You want to go this way with me Richard? I am up for it. But don't think for a second that your agenda is not plain to me. You are acting as a malevolent prick toward me, and I reject everything you are attempting. It is unfriendly, stupid and immature. My agenda is real simple - humiliate posers and hypocrites using their own words. /Any statement, when taken to extremes, will be found to be self-contradictory./ Share understands this, why can't a philosophy major with a degree from MUM understand it? It's a classic debating theme going back to Socrates and Nagarjuna. My reference to a scene in Pulp Fiction below was an attempt to joke you out of your troll routine. But I see that being nice to you only eggs you on for your attack. Everything I said below I meant. I am liberal about people's sexual choices and you come off as a person who is very uncomfortable about the subject. So, it's a joke. Why can't I make a joke, Curtis? You dumb shit - I'm trying to cheer you on! What you said WAS funny, until you got all serious on us yesterday. /What you thought I was gunna miss a chance for a ball gag joke? Not a chance!/ - curtisdeltablues You come off as squirrelly and untrustworthy. You appear to be hiding something about your nature. I have no idea what it is, and can only resort to metaphors to describe how your focus on the weirdest part of any sexual reference here makes my skin crawl. Cut the bullshit, Curtis - and just fess up to your own metaphors! /Yes, as long as it is between consenting adults it is none of my business what you use in your bedroom. I've always assumed you were a zippered leather face hood wearing kind of guy Richard.../ - curtisdeltablues Barry is such a large target I just can't see how he put one over on a smart guy like you. Do you have any comments to make about why and how Barry hoaxed you big time with the recent button-pushing contest? It sort of looks like it was a joke Barry pulled on Raunchydog. /That reply was a joke, Share, just as she claims the post I was replying to was. As for anyone from the world of government or law enforcement wanting to watch you or anyone on this group just because they're on this group, that's just self-important paranoia from cultists, as usual./- TurquoiseB, 12/2/20014 I understand what Barry wrote and why he wrote it. I do not understand you. It sounds kind of complicated what Barry did - posting a joke and then escalating it to the point where he may have put his whole family in actual danger, just so he could lord over everyone here with the threat of police action if they don't like what he said. It's the ultimate thought-stopper. I'm not at all against a neighborhood watch and reporting perverts in the playground, but social media is probably not the place to trick us by planting false flags just to get angry responses. As for me, it's not very complicated. It was kind of funny and it is fun to quote people in order to point out their cognitive dissonance, especially when they attack me for no apparent reason or because of my birth circumstances. But, don't we agree that Barry went over the line? We are not even supposed to be posting adult graphic
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/3/2014 5:43 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Richard, I don't appreciate your adding quotes to old posts to make it look as if I said things I did not. YOU SAID IT and signed your professional name to it, now you own it, so just take responsibility for your own words or explain why you posted the nasty gender biased messages in the first place. It's not complicated. I didn't appreciate you calling me a perv and I don't appreciate it from Barry either, no matter how long ago it was. You two never have never apologized to me in 9 years after I complained to Rick. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but you, Barry, Salya and MJ are abusive to women - that's what I think. It's not about me - it's all about the hoax Barry pulled on Raunchy. So, why are you talking about this so much? You are a dishonest malicious troll and I wish you would join the rest of your kind on the other site. Don't be a hypocrite - you and Barry are as nasty with the perverted sex jokes as Lord Buckley! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckley ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 12/3/2014 4:13 PM, Share Long wrote: Xeno, if you check your folders, fluffy and otherwise, you'll discover that indeed Curtis has written 2 posts about this in the last 24 hours. I simply referred Richard to them. Maybe we should shut our pie holes about this, Share. Curtis seems to be really upset that somehow his professional reputation might be sullied or something, working with kids in schools and all. http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html *From:* Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 2:46 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up? It was past history. They can stay over on that other namby pamby forum, with its phallic symbol (a peak). He could not resist one last chance to spread his paedophile interests. This site is for the nitty gritty of spiritual growth, not for esoteric mystical nonsense. A wise decision to unsubscribe, this place is not for weak minds, the emotionally overwrought, and those that see snakes for ropes at every turn. You are as you obsess. Except for Share and Richard, the subject would seem to be closed here days ago.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye
On 12/3/2014 7:55 PM, dhamiltony wrote: Rick, we know and understand that you are busy however; have you been reading any of the posts to FFL? That's what I'm talking about, Buck! Are we going to let the snakes take over the garden and run us like scared rabbits to the other side of the field, or we going to stand up for our rights and fight them off with a stick? Whose funny farm discussion is this anyway? So, I say poke them, poke them hard in the ass and see what they are made of; see if they can take the same shit they dish out (no pun intended). Let's see if they can fight like a she-bear with cubs. I say let's set the hounds on them and give them some Roundup. Pump them up real good so everyone can see their dark underbelly. But you can probably just forget Rick - Judy is gone - you are our only hope and it looks like we are on our own - we need to fight them off with pitch-forks, otherwise it's a rodeo where the cowboys lose their spurs to the Gabby Hayes clowns. There's no police - it was all a hoax perpetrated by Uncle Tantra and his porno pals in order to get rid of Share, Ann and Raunchy. They don't like good looking country gals playing their game and winning, making them look like city-boy wankers at a frat party. Keep up the good work and get those sheep trimmed and lambs suckled! You may look like a farmer, but you're a lover! You can't judge a book by looking at the cover. http://youtu.be/5yipVhZfcIw Rick, Just scroll down through the subject lines if you don't have time to read the posts, they are appalling. -Buck Rick, the neganauts here are playing you now to see how far they can take it. Dear Rick, As an old Friend You see I really don't feel that you should yield FairfieldLife over to the methodical negativity that has overrun and overtaken our FairfieldLife [FFL] community on Yahoo-groups. Sincerely, -Buck Rick, FairfieldLife [FFL] has been way too important to communal Fairfield life in the past to just let it go to the aggressive dogs of unkind negativity as some mean and now narrowed successor group caliphate of hateful neganauts. Rick, for instance this FFL post is an incredibly important post within the things going on right now in the Fairfield meditating community: 404986Re: FW: A Cultural Survey, Maharishi on Not Speaking Ill of Others https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/404986 Rick, Could reading the old FFL posts be kept open to scholarship whilst the posting function for everyone could be suspended? Like, being able to look at at these whilst posting is suspended? .. 406280*Hammond's Channel of Maharishi and the DC TM Meeting* https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/406280 Or, 402694*Re: An Old Index to FFL* https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/402694 68*Notes of the Hammond TM Lecture* https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the_peak/conversations/messages/68 Yes a general shutdown of posting to FFL but, One of the most urgent uses of FFL for scholarly purposes is research into mining of the archive of FFL. The amazing archive here tells a back-story of a community. Is there a way (?) to keep the search function of the archive and also the files section open whilst shutting off posting to FFL for a while in the FFL groups settings? WLeed3@... wrote : GOOD IDEA RICK BUCK Dear, Dear Rick; How about taking the month of December to suspend posting at all to FFL?Start anew with posting on January 1^st . Let thy people re-pattern their lives silent as a period of time to reflect elsewhere. Time for a re-groove, a retreading of the tires of the forum that is FairfieldLife. It should be better for everyone and for what FFL would be. With the Best of Regards, The FFL Patriarch Of Positivity -Buck in the Dome WLeed3@... writes : I will leave the form to much nasty hateful thought forms via here via: verbiage back biting not enough re Fairfield IA few good vibes, I agree with Buck. Col Wm D, Leed IV, best in all till it may be cleaned up Rick all. Of late on FairfieldLife it feels like that sweep of IS across Syria has spread and happened over FFL as an open forum. It is now time for meditation on FFL, -Buck Dear Rick, I feel really sorry for you that you are left with just this cesspool of negativity from the recent separation in the FFL membership. This is not what we had hoped for with the forum as we started FarifieldLife these many years ago at Yahoo-groups. It is not too late to re-think this forum as a place for healthy discussions to occur. I hope for a better future here, -Buck in the Dome fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Rick, I am sorry, but a forum where anyone is allowed to suggest sexual violence AGAINST children, is not someplace I want to be. I am truly sorry things have degenerated to
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit
On 12/3/2014 8:15 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: What you have done is to cut quotes out of context combining things I said with things I did not say and putting quotes around all of it signing my screen name to it as if I had. Don't call me Shirley!!! http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg133174.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg131280.html You are a liar and a troll Richard. Now you are making more accusations about me below attempting to get a rise out of me. What you will get every time you write lies about me and misquote me and dig up quotes out of context to make me look bad is me saying this: So, why are you talking about this so much? You sound really serious. What happened to your sense of humor? Didn't you have fun calling me a perv? Go figure. Richard is a well known internet troll. He is dishonestly attacking me for his own twisted agenda of getting strangers to reply to him to defend themselves. /That reply was a joke, Share, just as she claims the post I was replying to was. As for anyone from the world of government or law enforcement wanting to watch you or anyone on this group just because they're on this group, that's just self-important paranoia from cultists, as usual./- TurquoiseB, 12/2/20014 On 12/3/2014 5:43 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Richard, I don't appreciate your adding quotes to old posts to make it look as if I said things I did not. YOU SAID IT and signed your professional name to it, now you own it, so just take responsibility for your own words or explain why you posted the nasty gender biased messages in the first place. It's not complicated. I didn't appreciate you calling me a perv and I don't appreciate it from Barry either, no matter how long ago it was. You two never have never apologized to me in 9 years after I complained to Rick. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but you, Barry, Salya and MJ are abusive to women - that's what I think. It's not about me - it's all about the hoax Barry pulled on Raunchy. So, why are you talking about this so much? You are a dishonest malicious troll and I wish you would join the rest of your kind on the other site. Don't be a hypocrite - you and Barry are as nasty with the perverted sex jokes as Lord Buckley! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckley ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote : On 12/3/2014 4:13 PM, Share Long wrote: Xeno, if you check your folders, fluffy and otherwise, you'll discover that indeed Curtis has written 2 posts about this in the last 24 hours. I simply referred Richard to them. Maybe we should shut our pie holes about this, Share. Curtis seems to be really upset that somehow his professional reputation might be sullied or something, working with kids in schools and all. http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg125676.html *From:* Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 2:46 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up? It was past history. They can stay over on that other namby pamby forum, with its phallic symbol (a peak). He could not resist one last chance to spread his paedophile interests. This site is for the nitty gritty of spiritual growth, not for esoteric mystical nonsense. A wise decision to unsubscribe, this place is not for weak minds, the emotionally overwrought, and those that see snakes for ropes at every turn. You are as you obsess. Except for Share and Richard, the subject would seem to be closed here days ago.
[FairfieldLife] Cognitive Dissonance, was All Beings Enlightened
TurquoiseB wrote: *//* *//* */The only sense that I can make of it is that Jim had a total mental breakdown during that period, and actually believed he *was* a woman. /*/I've always been a closet lesbian, and proud of it.../ - Uncle Tantra https://groups.google/alt.meditation.transcendental/ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.meditation.transcendental/13PyYkZo7ao/DqT4nCmCPr4J
[FairfieldLife] Barry's Teaching, was Guru Dev's teachings and those of Maharishi
TurquoiseB wrote: */ Tormod, it may interest you to know that the person who has been giving you such a hard time while posting anonymously as Nablusos1008 also lives in Norway./* /I've been sitting three feet in front of him and seen him go invisible, to the point where you could see stars through the outline of his body, and then no outline. I've seen him do the same trick from the feet up, leaving only a Cheshire Cat smile before it went pop! and disappeared, too./ - TurquoiseB http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/msg12287.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg12287.html
[FairfieldLife] Something About MJ, was Something About Babies
On 12/3/2014 12:02 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: If only you would unsubscribe. Before you do I challenge you to re-post the sea of profanity I used to excuse Barry's posts. Why don't you do it - Rick is online reading FFL tonight. I challenge you - do you have the balls? We'll wait. *From:* nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:36 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Butt-Fucking-Babies who's idea was concieved in the sick mind of the Turq and written in a post here on FFL caused many to leave. Later he tries to wriggle himself out of the net by making ridicelous claims that Dutch police is investigating or watching American and German posters on an American blog. The fact is that these posters didn't want to be on the same list as a pervert and left. It would be to insult the intelligence of others here to believe that they buy the idea that Dutch police have the time or interest of investigating foreign nationals when the sick poster is living in Holland, right in their midst. The Turq is lying about the so-called cop in the same way as he has been lying about lurking reporters and a host of other issues. But who's to blame him, he's living such a pityful excistence that he has to make things up to appear as ANYTHING else than the scumbag he is. As expected some posters here have tried to bury the fact that the Turq posted what he did, Sally in a sea of sceptisism and irony, Bhairitu in a sea of self aggrandisement, anartaxius in a sea of words and Michael Jackson in a sea of profanity. As expected. As was the fact that Rick Archer did nothing so far. After all it was his idea to create a forum for dumping on all things TMO and with most of the sane people gone he certainly got what he wanted. That he has allowed pedophiliac ideas to be expressed on this forum without taking any action will be his cross to carry. He'll probably make some joke about that sentence in a future comment. But sarcastic, threatening or ironic comments by anyone will not be read as I'm happily unsubscribing.
