Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good article

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 8:10 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It's a funny place for Barry to roll out his new initiative, this New Approach for Atheists in Dealing With Believers, but I guess it hi-lights the dearth of other places where he has any standing. You'd think this

Re: [FairfieldLife] The perfect fashion statement for theists [1 Attachment]

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/The perfect fashion statement for a Buddha-believer:/ /It's a turquoise Nehru jacket and white yoga pants./ On 10/27/2014 8:13 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Hint: It's white, and the arms are longer than you usually see in a dress jacket...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Good article [1 Attachment]

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 8:27 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: What people responding to atheists negatively are *really* upset about, in one graphic: /What people are *really* upset about is braggarts like Barry who claim to be able to suspend themselves in mid-air with no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are we really all alone?

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 10:55 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: He should go back to playing guitar. Hope he doesn't write computer code because his logic would be very flawed. /It doesn't take very much logic to write computer code, case in point. But, it takes talent to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More illegal aliens needed!

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 12:38 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: No ads seen on Thunderbird either. On Firefox I use the free BlueHell Firewall which even stops ads on streaming videos though those sites are getting wise to it. /There is no free lunch - you are paying for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are we really all alone?

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 1:13 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yeah, I read the article. But I know scientists who agree with me that intelligent life on our neighboring planets may not exist as we know it because conditions on those planets may have evolved life in a

Re: Photos of real aliens? [FairfieldLife] Re: More illegal aliens needed!

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 1:21 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It's kinda the same with people who make up fantastic stories like these. Once you've sussed out the vibe of one person who was making this kinda stuff up to get a little -- or any -- attention, you can recognize

Re: [FairfieldLife] The atheist atrocities fallacy exposed..

2014-10-27 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/27/2014 2:38 PM, salyavin808 wrote: The atheist atrocities fallacy exposed.. /You sound like you are on a bummer most of the time. Maybe you need to just shake off your depression. Just shake off the negativity. // // //Shake It Off// //http://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM/

[FairfieldLife] Addressing The Important Issues

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/The Ebola virus is highly contagious, but o//nly when you have a fever and are exhibiting symptoms. When treating an Ebola patient you have to wear protective suits and avoid contact with the patient's bodily fluids//. Everyone who has contacted the patient should be monitored for symptoms.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: GISELE BUNDCHEN ON TM [1 Attachment]

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/25/2014 8:31 PM, Duveyoung wrote: Oh for fuck's sake. Are you really presenting her testimony as relevant here? /You're sounding like a racist or something, just because she is //Brazilian and Hispanic//. You probably can't even read Spanish let alone meditate in half-lotus. Go

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

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 8:09 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Oh no no no no Sal! Haven't you read Share's gushing posts about what a grand effort the TMO is officially putting forth to combat suicides in Fairfield??? They certainly don't need to admit TM isn't the cure

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

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 8:27 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Shorn of the religious hyperbole the TMO might become a more realistic school of thought and might do more good in the world when it isn't scaring off anyone who doesn't like the sight of crowns and ranks of chanting Hindoo boys and teaching astrology

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

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 7:08 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: And I'm very much part of the Movement but never had the time nor the opportunity to do the rectification You are so full of shit - if you really were part of the Movement you would have gotten recertified -

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

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 5:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I'm really interested in your answer to the last question, because I've been contacted by someone in Europe who has offered to give me your real name and the real story of why you are no longer part of the TM

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

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 9:03 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Jeez, Michael, doubling down on your idiocy, doesn't somehow make you look clever, or smart. /It's starting to look like a FFL war on women. If Judy was still around she would have taken this rumormonger to task a long

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Scorpion Renegades

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 5:21 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Ah, flashbacks to when TM was actually fun. I used to teach a lot of residence courses, back in Toronto and all over the West Coast of the US, and before the TMO turned into the Reichstag and tried to turn

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Scorpion Renegades

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 5:21 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It really *was* nice arranging for good food, comfortable facilities, a *few* audio or video tapes, and then a number of prepared advanced lectures and discussions, plus plenty of time to enjoy the solitude, take

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Scorpion Renegades

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 6:41 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Do the MT'ers push the meditators to become siddhas like the regular TM'ers do? Non sequitur. It has already been established that the Rama cult members were pushed to become siddhas. On hundreds of occasions

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Scorpion Renegades

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Then the assholes in Seelisberg started trying to impose their Fascist ideas on everyone On 10/26/2014 6:54 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Wait a minute!! You mean the course structure you are describing was NOT the way it was done in the early days!?!?!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Scorpion Renegades

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 7:07 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The new rules and regs began to be imposed upon American TM teachers in the mid-70s. That's the point at which TM residence courses began to be so structured as to leave no free time and from which as a participant

[FairfieldLife] Re: Addressing The Important Issues

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/Some people are going into a panic and close to hysteria about the Ebola outbreak. Now we've even got people in a panic about people being in a panic. //Go figure./ / // //At first there was neglect, then a panic, now it's an anti-panic situation. It looks like the average American is safe.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Amateur Art

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/Rita and I both attened art school Everything you can't do is called art. All art is amateur - because there is no art you can't do./ How's the Trikke biz these days? On 10/26/2014 07:13 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Here's my piece on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Scorpion Renegades

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 8:50 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Strange, your version of the ideal residence course, Barry, involves driving, going to restaurants, maybe having a beer, possibly getting high? Hey, whatever floats your boat. /According to what I've read, Lenz's idea

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the Machines

2014-10-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/26/2014 3:22 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: 01011001 01110101 0111 0011 /strcpy () is your enemy, strncpy () is your friend. / On 10/26/2014 10:46 AM, salyavin808 wrote: There are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand

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

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 7:40 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, you want something silly? I give you something silly. Barry is having a near panic attack, pleading, insisting that someone explain to him the importance of the experience of unbounded awareness. I guess he's

Re: [FairfieldLife] A must for anyone who ever did TM

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 10:26 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Gina Catena gave a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco - excellent, excellent talk, even the question and answer part where a couple shills for the TM Movement show what asses they are. /So, Gina is

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

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 7:31 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Ouch! When you encounter it? /Maybe he lives across the street from a paper mill, which would explain his condition of curled up lip. Or, maybe he has a chronic curled up lip condition because he is on social media most

Re: [FairfieldLife] Apocalypse Porn

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/25/2014 6:04 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: We've certainly seen a similar 'tude in the TM movement. Anyone who paid their dues and spent time as a TM teacher (meaning NOT Jim Flanegin, Lawson, Judy Stein, Richard Williams and those other poseurs) has been

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

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/25/2014 9:56 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, I agree that this was a pretty awful thing that turq said about you. The thing is, how can we stop these tsunamis of mean spiritedness? It takes at least two opposing people to keep them going. Why not just

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

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/25/2014 4:38 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: well, you are the foremost scholar on the movement, of course, no matter if you are 1500 miles and 15 years removed, you still appear to know what goes on on every level of the organization. /Apparently nobody knows

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Collins Complains

2014-10-25 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/25/2014 4:39 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: and, when again, did his indecencies occur? Forty years ago? No charges have been filed. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : He should just take the Alfred E. Newman way of What? Me

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Economists: tax the rich at 90 percent

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 10:42 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You're rationalizing. /Please ask Barry2 to explain to us how he would manage the IRS with just 200 employees. Thanks.// // //What we need to do is abolish the IRS and institute a flat tax. That way, we would

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 10:52 PM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: This is way over the line Buck. The violent imagery is disturbing and it is a creepy reaction to someone with a different POV on a movement HE was a part of himself and therefor certainly has a legitimate right to his

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/It was intersting to see how Xeno tried to enable Barry, by leaving out of the discussion all the interesting stuff Barry believes in - like karma and reincarnation. / // On 10/23/2014 10:21 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I do not have time to read

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/Xeno didn't even recognize the dissonance in Barry's preference for Bruce Cockburn songs. Everyone knows Cockburn is a born-again Christian. What about Barry's claim that a belief in God is a form of mental illness. / // On 10/24/2014 12:03 AM, blue_bungalo...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 3:54 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: Buck is right. The hate MJ represents is on the same level of extremity as any terrorrist. The only difference is he hasn't crossed the line into violence, yet. /He has made it very clear what he thinks, where he was born and lives, and that he is

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 1:18 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I'm glad Curtis said something because if he hadn't I would have. /Now this is funny - a guy that associated my name with terrorism and nuking wants to complain to Rick about Buck.// // //This is at least the

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
** I'm glad Curtis said something because if he hadn't I would have. I think we all know that Buck doesn't live anywhere even near to reality, but this is so over the top as to have to be dealt with by Rick. I think Buck should be thrown off the forum for essentially calling Michael a

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 4:49 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Please untwist the panties, boys. /Barry got one of his buttons pushed and his panties got in a big twist. Run to Rick, run to Rick!/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I'm glad

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Economists: tax the rich at 90 percent

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 11:18 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: When the working class have less money to spend the economy goes into the dumps. /The one sure way to get more money into the hands of the working class in the U.S. is to stop the government from taxing our

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 8:44 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: This sounds like a pretzeling moment /It seems dirt simple to me. We are all bound by karma, which means actions, past and present. If a person does good deeds, he or she will be reborn in a better life. ///On the other

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 7:03 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I quite agree with what Curtis has said to Buck. He conveyed clearly. Now, take a look at your reply. /In psychology this kind of behavior is termed cognitive dissonance - a discomfort experienced by an individual who is

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 7:52 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It's one thing to actually believe the delusional crap he seems to believe about Maharishi and the non-existent ME. That's just a senile person refusing to let go of the delusions he glommed onto as a youth. /The

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 7:53 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Awww, I don't think Rick should boot him from FFL. I think he and Nabby provide good reminders of what bizarre mind sets TM can lead to. Plus, if Rick did kick him off, given his past ass booting the Movement

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 7:55 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: HA ha! that was a typo - I was attempting to type I have NO hate not I have to hate. /It's too late - your message is already in the FFL archives - you have to hate. You just have to hate ///bank robbers with

Re: [FairfieldLife] It's OK...no one will miss NYC anyway...

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
*/no one will miss NYC anyway... /*On 10/24/2014 9:57 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Wow, turq, really?! It sounds like you're saying that it would be ok with you if all the people in NYC die from ebola. Is that what you're saying? /Most of the world is in

Re: [FairfieldLife] It's OK...no one will miss NYC anyway...

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Salyavin, how did you interpret Turq's Subject line in the context of the article? On 10/24/2014 11:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote: With humour. A guy who has presumably been trained about how to deal with a deadly disease chucks his

Re: [FairfieldLife] It's OK...no one will miss NYC anyway...

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/Sometimes it's just amazing how people will cover for Barry and enable his sick jokes - no one will miss NYC? It looks like we've got a few informants whose sense of humor is strange to say the least. Go figure./ / /On 10/24/2014 12:32 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I'll tell

Re: [FairfieldLife] Russell Brand

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 3:07 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I might would do it if Sal and Barry would do guests spots - Sal could take the astrology crowd on. /Maybe I could do a guest spot and take the karma and reincarnation crowd on./

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 3:28 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: I might add: As far as we know. /He is posting to FFL using an alias - what does that tell you?/ Buck is right. The hate MJ represents is on the same level of extremity as any terrorrist. The only difference is he hasn't crossed the line into

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I might add: As far as we know. Buck is right. The hate MJ represents is on the same level of extremity as any terrorrist. The only difference is he hasn't crossed the line into violence, yet. On 10/24/2014 5:23 PM,

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

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 1:37 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Life long atheists cannot commit apostasy for there never is, nor was, anything for them to abandon. /When a person professes a belief in Buddhas, karma and reincarnation, and at the same time,

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 3:33 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: ** For me as time went on such experiences tended to damp out, everything kind of flattened out, until one day on a walk there was this shift in which the world, as it always had been, was identical with what I had

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 5:04 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Well said Barry - and I agree with every word /You failed to answer Barry's main question: what is the value of the spiritual life?/

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Well said Barry - and I agree with every word On 10/23/2014 5:59 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It's NOT that I'm saying that seeking spiritual experiences ISN'T valuable. I'm just pointing out that almost no one in history has ever stepped up to the plate

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 7:14 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Could it be that we're simply compelled by neural pathways in our brain that want to be activated? /According to MMY it is the nature of the mind to want to enjoy - it's only natural for anyone to want to be free

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 9:02 AM, inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You are very good at quoting scripture and contents of text books (and there is a value to that), but when you look to the honesty of your moment to moment experience - What do you find? /Teachers and textbooks are like

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Power Places of Central Texas

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 9:05 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I thought Lost Pines burned down a couple years ago durring the drought. /Yes, unfortunately there was a fire at the Lost Pines at Bastrop, but there was no fire in the main Piney Woods, which is about 100 miles

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
and meditating?/ Zen Buddhism: A History Volume 1 by Heinrich Dumoulin MacMillan, 1994 pp. 160-163 http://www.absolutoracle.com/Notezen/Articles/koan1.htm On Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:11 AM, 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: On 10

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Economists: tax the rich at 90 percent

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 10:09 AM, marty...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The title of the article was quite inflammatory, as usual, being HuffPo and all. It used the fact that many Americans don't understand Marginal Tax Rates to create hysterical click bait. /There are very few average

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 10:36 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Two travelers are on a road, looking for Ixtlan. They ask a passing bird for directions. He gives them, then flies off. Do the travelers go in the direction he pointed them to, or not? Whatever their choice, do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Economists: tax the rich at 90 percent

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 2:21 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: I guess you just like to live in a world where you bow down to the landed gentry. That's where we're headed now. I'd rather stick a pitchfork in them. You want to stick a pitchfork in your landlord instead of

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

2014-10-23 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: That was a great read, thanks! /It was intersting to see how Xeno tried to enable Barry, by leaving out of the discussion all the interesting stuff Barry believes in - like karma and reincarnation. // // //What

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 9:49 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yeah, I've seen $cientologists like this in action, and for the life of me can't tell any difference between them and Richard, Ann, Jimbo, and She Whose Holy Work They Are Continuing In Her Absence. Uber-cultists, the whole

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 7:32 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Jesus, salyavin, I gotta tell you, from what I know about you, and what I know about Ann, count me in the Ann camp. On the other hand, maybe there's just not a hell of a lot for you to hang your hat on. A lot of deep

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 6:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ** Well, before I started moving Ann's messages to the Deranged Stalkers From Hell folder, /It looks like

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
See what I mean about religion being a form of mental illness? Here you have a person who chooses to excuse her stalking behavior and obsession on one particular person she hates by claiming it's her religious duty to act like this. This religious fanatic not only admits to being a

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : There are many non-physical phenomena that on one hand, cannot be proven, by physical means. On the other hand, if we take them out of the equation of life, life then makes less sense, and becomes less enjoyable. An

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 12:54 PM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I enjoyed your response till you went its all about Barry on my ass Richard. /So, you don't want to talk about Barry and Sam Harris and their belief in Buddhas, karma and reincarnation. Go figure./ I am not on

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 5:36 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : *From:* anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com As to the first question, mental illness

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

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 9:01 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You forget, JR claimed that according to Judy's jyotish she had met with some horrible accident. /This is a case in point. Never pass up a tragedy if you think it will help you win a religious debate. Thanks,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New version of If I Had A Rocket Launcher

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 8:44 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I mean, what does this say about someone who wants to share something, but can't do so, without a gratuitous slam. /You need to realize, Steve, that we are dealing with a clear case of cognitive dissonance. // //

Re: [FairfieldLife] Economists: tax the rich at 90 percent

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 11:23 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: I'm sure we'll hear from the taking other people's money crowd here but I've thought this would be a good idea for years. Doubt if we have any multi-millionaire US citizens here so we would all get a tax break. And

[FairfieldLife] Consciousness Is The Ultimate Reality, was Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 10:20 AM, inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I've been around FFL a while... /There are a few things you may not realize: Most of the informants on FFL are idealists of the Advaita Vedanta persuasion. It is interesting to note that Advaita Vedanta is non-theistc in

[FairfieldLife] Liberation, was Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 9:37 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Buddhists aren't really concerned about HOW things got to be the way they are, only THAT they are the way they are, and how to make the best of that. /The purpose of Buddhist Yoga is liberation - freedom from

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Consciousness Is The Ultimate Reality, was Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 3:07 PM, inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: This may be above my pay-grade, but if one is a transcendentalist/idealist, then belief in classic cause and effect is incompatible with that belief . . . or one has to significantly qualify what is meant by cause and effect.

[FairfieldLife] Consciousness Is Awareness, was Belief in God is a form of mental illness

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:02 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: On 10/21/2014 12:07 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com mailto:sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Curtis, I just had a lunch of veggies and salmon so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: At The Center Of The Universe [1 Attachment]

2014-10-22 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/22/2014 9:50 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: /I hope you get the lease on this place - I can feel it already./ /Maybe we should buy a lottery ticket - I'm starting to feel lucky. Rita was thinking we could move to the beach at Malibu, CA - like on that show Two and

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 3:23 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Wow. 200 messages in this thread, just so far. Since it started with absolutely no comment from me, just the graphics pasted in below, I suspect that its...uh...popularity must have something to do with a few

Re: [FairfieldLife] A child is killed on this planet every five minutes

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 3:38 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: A child is killed on this planet every five minutes /Some people will sink to just about any level in order to win a religious debate. This message of Barry's is just creepy! / And just think...only a few days

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thanks for the heads-up, lurking reporter

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 4:29 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Barry brings up the 'lurking reporters', Barry is the lurking reporter planting messages in order to elicit information for his magazine or ramalila.net web site. He is obviously an informant - we just don't know

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 4:33 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Funny, you accusing me of losing something, that you never had, in the first place. lol. /This is not funny - a guy that has believed in Buddhas for a decade has apparently lost it - lost his faith in karma and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A child is killed on this planet every five minutes

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 4:47 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Wow, Barry, how incendiaryyawnz. I see your new tactic is to bore us all to death... /Following Barry's logic, it's all Jim's fault - because Jim realized he has been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: An Old Index to FFL

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 7:55 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: For Researching purposes, /The person levitating or flying through the air was a guy named Frederick Lenz, who also called himself Rama./ - TurquoiseB, 2007

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Share

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 7:09 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Ann, I hear Limbach is allergic to colloidal silver so I'm all set! /A child is killed by violence every day in America and your risk of catching Ebola is far less than your risk of dying from the flu, which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Good news for John and Jim

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 2:52 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Finally, they can try to actually get some payoff from their beliefs by trying to sell their imaginary friend on eBay. One guy sold his for $2750, so who knows...John might be able to sell his imaginary friend God

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/20/2014 11:43 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Xeno, I'm flabbergasted at the statements you just said. In the physical existence of human beings here on earth, everyone has to have a mother and a father. Were you not created by your father's sperm that impregnated your

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
** I think the reason this happens is that Jim and other spiritual/religious types don't realise their beliefs are emotional rather than logical and insult any contrarians in an accordingly similar way to how they feel they've been slighted. On 10/21/2014 3:09 AM, TurquoiseBee

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A child is killed on this planet every five minutes

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
What I find funniest is how Barry always compares his cretinous intelligence to the rest of us, in a boastful way - very entertaining. On 10/21/2014 9:05 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, I must admit bawee is the funniest one here, on a sort of perverse and twisted

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 8:27 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: You seem to be just trolling. /Now that's a thought-stopper!/ Do you practice TM? /Non sequitur.//TM has not been defined./ I was talking about things that spiritual practices advertise they can bring into one's

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 10:42 AM, inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: there seem to be 2 questions running through this thread: 1) is a belief in God a mental illness and 2) is a belief in God justifiable. /There are actually three questions running through this thread:// // / 1. /Is

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Everyone in the forum is invited to participate in this discussion to ask Xeno about his revelations regarding his physical existence. /Everyone on this forum seems to believe in causation - that for every event there is a cause. The question is if everything that

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 12:07 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Curtis, I just had a lunch of veggies and salmon so maybe my brain is a little more up to respond. Maybe! Definitely not as good as Sam Harris (-: According to Sam Harris consciousness is the only thing that

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

2014-10-21 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/21/2014 1:57 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, Your points are excellent. It's good that you reminded us of Aristotle's idea regarding the first cause and principle. But it appears that there are some people here who will disagree with you on this point. /So

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

2014-10-20 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/19/2014 6:59 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I have asked Curtis about his support or evidence for disagreeing with the statements in the Kalam Cosmological Argument. But he just gave me a lot of song and dance about his opinions without providing the evidence for his

Re: [FairfieldLife] Thanks for the heads-up, lurking reporter

2014-10-20 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
You don't read their stuff, but i figured it would make your day to learn that Jim and Ann (both who claim that they are not obsessed with you) have been bragging about having read A WHOLE BOOK about Rama (the same one you told us about) so that they can obsess on you even more while trying

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thanks for the heads-up, lurking reporter

2014-10-20 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
NOTICE Barry isn't mentioned in Mark Laxer's book /Take Me For A Ride, /if that's what you're thinking. That's because Barry, contrary to his claims, was probably NOT a member of the inner circle of the Lenz group. What I want to know is why is Barry trying to make us think he was a big

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

2014-10-20 Thread pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
We need to be aware of the fact that there is physical causality and there is philosopical causality. In Buddhist philosophy, karma is the theory of action and result based on the theory of interdependent co-arising or dependent origination which states: everything arises in dependence upon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thanks for the heads-up, lurking reporter

2014-10-20 Thread pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Are you now like Richard, creating more than one account for yourself? One account, several aliases. It helps me keep track of my postings. When I make a really serious post I always use may alias the Master_Pundit.

[FairfieldLife] It's All About Football [1 Attachment]

2014-10-20 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
/Peyton Manning breaks Brett Favre's TD record/ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300413952/article/peyton-manning-ties-brett-favres-touchdown-record

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