[FairfieldLife] Re: One for MJ

2015-08-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : How many years have I missed that... Me too. And did Barry himself spot it I wonder? I also wonder if Barry could still be posting on FFL using a new pseudo . . . indeed perhaps "Bhairitu" IS Barry! Have they ever disagreed over any topi

[FairfieldLife] Dirt bike surfing

2015-08-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What will kids think of next . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzOF7Bcv0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzOF7Bcv0g

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Universe Could be Fake

2015-08-05 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Everything you know may just be part of a Matrix-style simulation": Yes - but how do those running the simulation (advanced humans, robots or aliens) know that they are not themselves part of a higher-level simulation? And as the argument would also apply to those other programmers, etc,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Universe Could be Fake

2015-08-05 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "The universe is digital and a simulation as designed by the Creator": I agree. That stops the regress and could well be the case. Of course if we are "simulated" we have no free will and so can't be held accountable for our actions. I tend not to hold with these Matrix-type scenari

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are These Humans?

2015-08-07 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The over-used word "evil" seems apt in these cases. I normally groan inwardly when I hear others claiming that people can become "possessed" by demonic entities but the depths of Islamic State's depravity gives me pause. In other news, today a Bangladeshi blogger known for his atheist views ha

[FairfieldLife] Going up?

2015-08-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Now a Canadian firm has been granted a patent for a ‘space elevator’ which will shoot cargo 12.4 miles into the stratosphere from where it can be launched more easily. According to Thoth Technology, the lift would cut the cost of space flight by around one third because shuttles would not need t

[FairfieldLife] The future of film

2015-08-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I like a current chocolate ad on British TV which features Audrey Hepburn - kinda. I had a debate with my sister the other day on whether the makers of the ad had used a look-a-like model (my belief) whereas my sister thought the footage was from a genuine old film featuring Hepburn. We

[FairfieldLife] Re: IS Beheads Syrian Archaeologist

2015-08-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So not a Muslim martyr - willingly facing death for an obscurantist, irrational, intolerant sect; perhaps in the vain hope of willing, nubile virgins in the afterlife. Instead he sacrificed his life to protect our precious, common heritage. I salute him. He even named his daughter after

[FairfieldLife] Re: Send Your Name to Mars

2015-08-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That amused me so that I have signed up! My "boarding card" tells me that my arrival site on Mars will be Elysium Planitia. That translates as "Plain of Ideal Happiness" . That's a name that could have come from Maharishi ! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Last call

[FairfieldLife] Re: Send Your Name to Mars

2015-08-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Congratulations! I haven't gotten my boarding ticket yet, although I've already applied. Are they playing favoritism to interested Brits? You don't get a hard copy. You should have seen a screen shot of the pass with your name. Go back and

[FairfieldLife] Dismaland

2015-08-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Clandestine street artist Banksy has opened a theme park like no other. Inside a derelict lido in Weston-super-Mare, Dismaland features migrant boats, a dead princess and Banksy's trademark dark humour. It's "unsuitable for small children" if you fancy a visit. http://tinyurl.com/o8vuwnt

[FairfieldLife] God Bless the US Marines

2015-08-21 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Gunman injures three after firing Kalashnikov on Amsterdam-Paris train: unarmed US Marines foil attack by Moroccan gunman and handgun . . . http://tinyurl.com/p8fu7l7 http://tinyurl.com/p8fu7l7

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the Cultural Libertarians

2015-08-25 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Let's hope they win this war. I should say we win rather than they win as "cultural libertarian" pretty much describes my position. In the presence of self-described left-wing libertarians I tend to feel like a right-wing libertarian; in the presence of self-described right-wing libertarians I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the Cultural Libertarians

2015-08-26 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In the US we like to say the libertarians are Republicans who like to smoke dope and have sex. I plead not guilty to some of those charges ;-) Republicans are what I had in mind when I said: "in the presence of self-described right-wing libertarians I tend to feel like a left-wing liberta

[FairfieldLife] Re: It Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

2015-08-27 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Values of men and women according to The Bible. Leviticus 27 1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value, 3 set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and s

[FairfieldLife] Nazi gold up for grabs

2015-08-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A train loaded with Nazi gold has been found in Poland. It's been buried underground since 1945. As Adolf Hitler's last surviving relative I shall be claiming ownership. The rest of you will have to be satisfied with one of those gold-plated "perfect all-metal authentic replicas" availa

[FairfieldLife] Nasa Mars experiment

2015-08-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Six people are about to shut themselves inside a dome in Hawaii for a year, in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans - a pilot, an architect, a docto

[FairfieldLife] India's misogyny . . .

2015-08-29 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . . just keeps astonishing me. from The Telegraph: Two sisters in India - one aged only 15-years - are to be raped as "punishment" for their brother running away with a married woman from a higher caste. Meenakshi Kumari, who is 23, and her younger sister, will then be paraded naked

[FairfieldLife] Is anybody there?

2015-08-31 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Are you a psychic, a witch or a clairvoyant? If so you could find work with the British police. A consultation document from the College of Policing, which is the official source of professional practice on police work, has said that information from mediums should not be dismissed. Ar

[FairfieldLife] Wes Craven gone . . .

2015-08-31 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . . but not forgotten. The horror film maestro - best known for A Nightmare on Elm Street - has passed beyond the veil himself. He did a very creepy film, The Serpent and the Rainbow, set on the Voodoo island of Haiti and based on the real-life experiences of an American Harvard anthr

[FairfieldLife] The earliest Koranic texts

2015-08-31 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Fragments of the world's oldest Koran, found in Birmingham last month, may predate the Prophet Muhammad and could even rewrite the early history of Islam, according to scholars. http://tinyurl.com/o3p4x8h http://tinyurl.com/o3p4x8h

[FairfieldLife] Julian Assange in fancy dress

2015-09-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Three years ago when Julian Assange first took sanctuary in London's Ecuadorian Embassy I suggested that the embassy could hold a Julian Assange look-a-like party on the premises and so Jules could sneak out with the rest of the revellers in the wee hours. It seems that the embassy staff had the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wes Craven gone . . .

2015-09-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And speaking of The Serpent and the Rainbow, life imitates art as three people are thought to have stolen millions from unsuspecting victims by blowing scopolamine, a powerful "hypnotic" drug, into strangers' faces. Something similar happens in the movie . . . http://tinyurl.com/otb2645 http:/

[FairfieldLife] Autonomous sensory meridian response

2015-09-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Something new for you to lower your stress levels. ASMR is the latest You Tube craze. There's an example (you need to use headphones) . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRQ1iYZJNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRQ1iYZJNA . . . and an intro video here (maybe a bit creepy?)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Migrants in Hungary

2015-09-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Iranians are not Arab, they consider themselves Persian.": Not just "consider themselves" - they are Persian. The dominant ethnic group is Aryan(!) and not Semitic. Re "jr_esq "migrants from Europe, the government should settle them in cities/states with dwindling population or low po

[FairfieldLife] Re: Migrants in Hungary

2015-09-05 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
(A) You're in a Catholic country sitting in a cafe. There are some Christians nearby discussing their faith. You interrupt them to say: "I don't know why you waste your time with all that crap. The only thing The Bible is good for is emergency toilet paper". (B) You're in an Islamic country s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Migrants in Hungary

2015-09-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Top cartoon!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Migrants in Hungary

2015-09-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : B, I'd say. THAT IS THE CORRECT ANSWER. YOU OBVIOUSLY KEEP AN EYE ON CURRENT NEWS. For those saying "What century?": The 21st century - and certainly for the lifetimes of your children and grandchildren. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co

[FairfieldLife] Re: Migrants in Hungary

2015-09-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I don't think anyone is suggesting they can't be who they are. The east is east and the west is the west...The conversation has been centering on which of these two regions is more violent. My point is that Christianity is by nature, a non viol

[FairfieldLife] Re: Queen Elizabeth II to Set a Record?

2015-09-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "But the queen will not "retire." Queen of England is not a position that you can retire from. ": What about Edward VIII's abdication (1936) - after his involvement with that woman Wallis Simpson? "Not a position that you can retire from" is what they said about popes, until Benedict

[FairfieldLife] Re: Queen Elizabeth II to Set a Record?

2015-09-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Did you fall asleep, s3raphita? I plead guilty! I blanked that sentence out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If you read my post, you will see that I mention, in the very next sentence after the one you quote. the example of Edward VIII. Did you fall asleep, s3raphita?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Let's Take a Look

2015-09-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Two stats for you from Sweden (2015): Muslim males make up only 2% of the population. 75% of all rapes are committed by Muslim males. The contrast between women's subordinate position in patriarchal Islamic societies and the freedoms taken for granted by western women is guaranteed to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 9/11: Maharishi's prediction?

2015-09-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Can't find MMY's prediction but it's ironic that The Maharishi Fund wanted to build a record-breaking tall skyscraper in Dallas but the FAA scuppered the plans because the building would have impeded aircraft flight paths. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Where can I find Maha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whoa!

2015-09-17 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Of course, deciphering the meaning of that sentence gives rise to a multitude of sects. But yes, school students in America being mad

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was It Planned to Go Viral?

2015-09-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of course they are right. I posted the following on FFL-2 yesterday: When I first heard the story of that Muslim teen, Ahmed Mohamed, bringing a ticking device to his school and being arrested I knew immediately that the whole thing was a set-up. He was detained for having what his teach

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was It Planned to Go Viral?

2015-09-21 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dawkins also stated that originally he had been “among the many fooled” by the clock-boy's story. I wonder how long it will take him to realise that he was “among the many fooled” initially by the story of scientific materialism and naturalism as an adequate account of our universe ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: 29% of Americans Would Support a Miliary Coup

2015-09-21 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Two days ago a senior serving general said that the British Army could stage a mutiny if Corbyn (the new Labour Party leader in the UK) ever becomes Prime Minister. From a news source: Speaking anonymously to The Sunday Times, he said Mr Corbyn's victory has been greeted with 'wholesale di

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stampede

2015-09-24 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The pilgrims work themselves up into a frenzy and when the mob mentality takes hold so does a tendency to panic (mass hysteria). Given that Islam has a horror of paganism it's interesting that the word "panic" comes from antiquity and is a tribute to the ancient God, Pan. Those old pagan god

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stampede

2015-09-24 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The pilgrims work themselves up into a frenzy and when the mob mentality takes hold so does a tendency to panic (mass hysteria). Given that Islam has a horror of paganism it's interesting that the word "panic" comes from antiquity and comes from the ancient god, Pan. Those old pagan gods wil

[FairfieldLife] Britain: it's a free country isn't it?

2015-09-26 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's not looking good. Three stories have surfaced during the past couple of days show how the UK is becoming a fearful place . . . 1) Maryam Namazie – a secular campaigner and founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims – has been blocked from speaking at the University of Warwick, because she “co

[FairfieldLife] Soccer - not all it seems

2015-09-30 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Eight of Iran's women's football team are actually men awaiting sex-change operations, it has been claimed. The country's football association was accused of being "unethical" for knowingly fielding eight men in its women's team. Mojtabi Sharifi, an official close to the Iranian league, tol

[FairfieldLife] Is death optional?

2015-09-30 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If injecting yourself with 3.5 million-year-old bacteria could keep you looking and feeling youthful and healthy without having to fork out for a gym membership, would you do it? Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov, head of the Geocryology [the study of frozen rock, soils, and ground] Depar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deaths During the Hajj a lack of CONSCIOUSNESS & there time was up Karmic wise!

2015-09-30 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thus it is Saudi Arabia's top religious leader said about the Hajj stampede: "Fate and destiny are inevitable." -Original Message- From: jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] To: FairfieldLife Sent: Wed, Sep 30, 2015 5:40 pm Subje

[FairfieldLife] The Right stuff

2015-10-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Trump is leading the polls in Iowa according to the latest results. Is this The Maharishi Effect at work? Donald Trump = 24 percent Dr. Ben Carson = 19 percent Carly Fiorina = 8 percent Jeb Bush = 7 percent Ted Cruz = 6 percent Marco Rubio = 6 percent Bobby Jindal = 6 percent

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Right stuff

2015-10-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Why on earth would you be thinking the Maharishi Effect would be favoring Trump for president in the first place?": I was being cute. My (ironic) point was that the (alleged) Maharishi Effect should surely have Trump bottom of the poll! Mind you, MMY's pronouncements on politics sugge

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gay Controversy at the Synod

2015-10-05 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In this case the issue of homosexuality is a red herring. To be a Catholic priest is to take a vow of celibacy. As this tiresome exhibitionist is openly cavorting with his lover - and wants to get married - he clearly hasn't the vocation for the role he is in. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Katie Hopkins Claims to be the 'New Jesus'

2015-10-14 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Has anyone ever heard of her (Katie Hopkins)? Russell Brand has - and doesn't like what he's heard . . . Katie Hopkins Gets Her Dead Immigrants - Happy Now? Russell Brand The Trews (E302) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=884RCxG61K4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=884RCxG61K4 Katie

[FairfieldLife] PC is a mental issue

2015-10-14 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If you want clear proof of what a pathetic nation the UK has become read this letter issued by Annie Teriba, a black female student, when she stepped down from several high-profile activist roles at Oxford University after admitting she failed to obtain full consent before having sex with someon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Katie Hopkins Claims to be the 'New Jesus'

2015-10-14 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Katie in action (one-minute clip) . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Hhqqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Hhqqg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler and Lenin...

2015-10-22 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Belgian researchers examine DNA samples of 39 Hitler relatives, say he had Jewish, African roots": Don't we all have African roots? If you go back far enough. There was some excitement a few years back when it was claimed that we humans are all descendants of one "Eve". (No! Not the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation

2015-10-22 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Speaking as someone who is emphatically not enlightened or awakened and is almost certainly not going to make that elevated grade in this life . . . And as I am rather dubious that there are any other lives for S3 (or any of us) to follow this one (either via reincarnation or in some post-mortem

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Jesus Said No Longer Applies?

2015-10-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Secular people in the USA have gone past The Bible, full stop. What are they replacing it with? 1) A mindless hedonism. 2) The worship of the almighty dollar. There is no longer an intellectual culture worthy of the name in The West. Just "safe spaces" in universities (where controversy,

[FairfieldLife] Education: too little, too late

2015-10-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A musing I just posted on FFL-2 in response to Sal talking about concerns growing in India that the country’s tradition of religious tolerance is being eroded : "There must be a solution based on education": I hear that kind of talk a lot. But thinking about it I recollect that . . . 1) N

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Supreme Court is Destroying Our Democratic System

2015-10-29 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yep. It's "judicial activism". I hate being told what to do by priests, politicians or policemen. I'd rather all changes in the law were decided by me. As that isn't going to happen my second preference is that changes are decided by democratic mandate. One of my favourite politic

[FairfieldLife] The greatest political pop song

2015-11-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What would be your choice? Maybe . . . This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie (1940) Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger (1961) The Times They Are a-Changin’ - Bob Dylan (1964) God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols (1977) (All political pop seems to be left-leaning.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The greatest political pop song

2015-11-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "How about The Who's *Won't Get Fooled Again* ": One of the best. When I listened to the song when it was first released I took it for a pro-revolutionary, counter-culture piece of agitprop. We'll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet And the morals that they

[FairfieldLife] Re: The greatest political pop song

2015-11-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Part of the Union": Another great song. But I could virtually repeat what I just now posted about The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" in reference to The Strawbs' hit. When I heard it at the time it came out I took it as a straight piece of pro-union power, lefty agitprop. Since t

[FairfieldLife] Re: The greatest political pop song

2015-11-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If like me you loathe both the left and the right this song could appeal. (You need to be still hanging on to your youthful idealism!) Lovers of the world unite You alone know what is right People all should feel this way Needing someone every day Keep the fire of dreamers bright Lover

[FairfieldLife] Relaxation - a modern obsession

2015-11-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
BBC article on the rise of concerns about relaxation in the modern age. MMY and Herbert Benson both get mentions. I liked this quote: In 1966 a young psychiatrist at Harvard named Lee Birk undertook an extraordinary experiment. Birk allowed himself to be administered a dose of curare, th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation

2015-11-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "in Western culture there’s a common experience of self-judgment and self-hatred that will arise for people when they’re doing spiritual practice—an unworthiness that will arise": That wouldn't be my problem! Sounds like a version of that self-loathing that infects those attracted to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Farewell on the Ganges

2015-11-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
At the time of his death I think the footage of MMY's cremation by the Ganges had a powerful impact. I suspect that even those who had long since fallen away from the TMO and whose take on MMY was that he was little better than a charlatan found it moving. Why so? Because MMY had such an imp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation

2015-11-07 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Chogyam Trungpa commented . . . our common human nature renders us essentially flawed": Chögyam Trungpa was too much a drunk, aggressive lech for my taste. All that “crazy wisdom” master crap cuts no ice with me. I think those who argue we are fallen creatures (western tradition) or

[FairfieldLife] For *True Seekers* only

2015-11-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Meister Eckhart (Dominican c. 1260 – c. 1328). A seer - and the genuine article. There is a large selection of quotes from which someone could pick and choose which show Eckhart's awakened state. But here's one problematic passage that has always intrigued me . . . You need to know that E

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation

2015-11-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "How many selves do you have? My angel side, my demon side? My spiritual side, my worldly side?": How many selves? One! Each of us is that One Self. It's the identical One Self that is incarnating right now as emptybill and S3raph and every other sentient being - including the lost c

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation

2015-11-10 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No wonder you need to claim an Emerson quote. Damn yanks were always confused but it must make perfect sense across the pond in the local parish. The quote was from Walt Whitman. But Emerson could have supplied a choice sentence. As could Thoreau or William James or Emily Dickinson. All Yank

[FairfieldLife] Re: Explosions in Paris

2015-11-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "You can call them "Syrian" or "ISIS" or "Muslim" but that is far from the whole picture.": They're Muslims - deal with it. Talking about a WWII atrocity would you make the statement: "You can call them "Nazi" or "fascist" or "racist" but that is far from the whole picture"? It's not

[FairfieldLife] Canine vastu shastra?

2015-11-14 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ever wondered why dogs often spin round and round before they poop? According to research by Czech scientists, dogs appear to have some sensitivity to the Earth’s magnetism and prefer to do their business while facing north! Nobody seems quite certain how or why they do this. Dogshaming

[FairfieldLife] Re: Explosions in Paris

2015-11-14 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "The banal stupidity of thinking your way of life is superior": Although there are admirable features of Islamic culture (eg, greater respect for the elderly) just ask yourself if you would prefer to live in a Muslim-dominated society rather than a western liberal democracy. No, I didn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Good Ol' Deepak

2015-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What Deepak is promoting is a philosophy - a theology, maybe - or perhaps "a metaphysics" is a better term. I don't have any problem with that. His views could be wrong of course but to demand that all explanations of life, the universe and everything must conform to scientific methodology is si

[FairfieldLife] Re: French Ghost Signs

2015-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
An evocative collection of photos. This is one of the (many) things the French have got right and the British completely wrong: our town centres are dominated by the same chains and franchises which have squeezed out most of the independent, family-owned businesses. That wouldn't be so bad if

[FairfieldLife] Re: French Ghost Signs

2015-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
An evocative collection of photos. This is one of the (many) things the French have got right and the British completely wrong: our town centres are dominated by the same nationwide chains and franchises which have squeezed out most of the independent, family-owned businesses. That wouldn't b

[FairfieldLife] Re: A request for the TM teachers reading Fairfield Life

2015-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Myself I couldn't care less whether I keel over tomorrow or when I'm 92 or 302": There are only four groups of people who are indifferent to the thought that they could die tomorrow: (A) Those who have achieved enlightenment and are established as The Witness. To them everything el

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transpiritual Experiences

2015-06-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for the recommendation. I've always (since I was a teen) had a soft spot for worldviews that suggest there is in reality only One Self which appears to "us" as many separate selves. So the basic plot device in which the division between individuals starts to break down could be a parable

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris on Islam....

2015-06-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re “If you go and read the Koran, sit back, afterwards, then honestly ask yourself: what would Muhammad want?” says Harris.": If Islam had remained a small cult in Mecca and someone today became curious about their beliefs and so read through The Koran (I've read it twice) the impression lef

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris on Islam....

2015-06-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A PBS documentary on Islam: Thanks - have bookmarked it to watch later. Islam: Empire of Faith. Part 1: Prophet Muhammad and rise of Islam (full; PBS Documentary) https://youtu.be/yX3UHNhQ1Zk https://youtu.be/yX3UHNhQ1Zk Islam: Emp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you smarter than a (Hong Kong) six year old?

2015-06-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No - I'm not smarter than a Hong Kong six year old. The answer (which I discovered via Google) is that we're looking at the numbers upside down. The car drivers would see them as 86 87 88 89 90 91. Geddit? Kids haven't yet had their lateral-thinking ability "educated" out of them.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re : "But as I was finishing my book on The Great Escape ": I asked you a short while back if you were a professional writer as you do post polished prose in your messages. You said you weren't! You also seem to have lived in a lot of TMO mansions! You don't have a golden crown at home do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!

2015-06-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "I experienced it, in states of mind that were as high and clear as I have ever experienced in this incarnation": Barry - apologies if you've answered this query in past posts - do you still today engage in any "spiritual" practices? Could be meditation (TM even?); self-flagellation; ritua

[FairfieldLife] Re: People Born in May the Healthiest?

2015-06-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A quote from your article: "The months most associated with asthma (October and July babies) . . . ": Aleister Crowley was born in October and suffered severely from asthma throughout his adventurous life (for which he was prescribed heroin with predictably disastrous consequences !). Coincide

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!

2015-06-10 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re " I would have said "Guy Wilson's book on the Great Escape."": Excellent! I must get into the habit of dropping into my conversation lines like: "As I was finishing my monograph on The Latin Alexander Trallianus: the Text and Transmission of a late Latin Medical Book . . . " before quic

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:

2015-06-10 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re my own post: I think my estimation of President Obama would rise considerably if he were to appear at a Presidential press conference; pull out a soft pack of Marlboro smokes; shake out a cigarette; flip open a Zippo lighter; take a long pull on his cancer stick; slowly breathe out with a loo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:

2015-06-10 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Michelle said when they moved to the White House she needed to get him to stop.": Not a good idea to have someone suffering withdrawal symptoms when they have a finger on the nuclear trigger. Here in the UK the authorities are just now debating whether to ban smoking in mental institution

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Harrison - Om Hare Om Gopala Krishna

2015-06-10 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Haven't heard that one for a while - thanks. Is it just me or does any one else think that after Harrison took up with Indian ways - and after the Beatles' break-up and him producing his solo albums - his music did come across as a bit - what's the word? - a bit of a downer? He's supposed to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Gateway Drug to Addiction:

2015-06-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interesting list. The one labelled "self-deprecation" (fear of being great) intrigues me. When you consider what a miracle it is that each of us is alive in the first place; and when you add in the truly astonishing powers we each have (such as the ability of our nervous systems to create the bo

[FairfieldLife] Re: R.I.P. Christopher Lee

2015-06-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
His fave role (and my fave also) was as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man. (Never, ever make the mistake of watching the dire remake with Nicolas Cage.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HeTdkItUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HeTdkItUQ

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Memory of Denali...and Paris

2015-06-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Does Paris have the Buddha-nature? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Here's a nice video posted by a Facebook friend today. The sentiment at the end made me think of my dog Paris and how much I miss him: "When someone you love walks through your door, even if it happens five

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Harrison - Om Hare Om Gopala Krishna

2015-06-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Amen to everything you say here. By the way, re the "Old Brown Shoe" track I posted: Back in the day I said to a friend once, "I really, really like that new Beatles' single "The Ballad of John and Yoko". Her face curled into a sneer and she said to me: "That's the commercial side." The B-si

[FairfieldLife] How deceitful are FFL posters?

2015-06-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A 15-minute personality test http://hexaco.org/questionnaire_quiz, called the Hexaco Personality Inventory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEXACO_model_of_personality_structure, allows anyone to determine, scientifically, just how Machiavellian they are by answering 100 hypothetical questions.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Smartest Person

2015-06-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re the comment: "I do object to any claim that these states somehow reveal the reality of life. To my profound disappointment Sam Harris seems to have absorbed this assumption also.": If I understand what you are saying here I think that you read a different book of Sam Harris's than I did!

[FairfieldLife] Philae only playing possum

2015-06-14 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November. It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fancy that!

2015-06-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Gary Larson is one of my all-time favourites. To constantly and consistently turn out those surreal cartoons of his that catch one off guard and leave you chuckling in a good frame of mind show that he has a hotline to the Creative Intelligence running the show. This one (below) is on the office

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sage advice...

2015-06-18 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The tip that says: "Do not urinate in a tiger’s territory" could be a tricky one to follow when faced with those snarling jaws! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Always first with handy lifestyle tips, The Grauniad has provided a cut-out-and-keep guide to surviving Tiger a

[FairfieldLife] Of sound mind

2015-06-18 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
At the TM introductory lecture, the mantras are said to be ``meaningless sounds whose effects are known''. Setting aside the vexed question of how meaningless they actually are (personally I like the idea that they are the vibration bodies of gods and goddesses), I always found the absence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

2015-06-18 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Not sure, but I think OM was used for monks and nuns that learned TM. Aha! I didn't know that. Makes sense - if MMY really believed that it was only suitable for recluses. I think it's been mentioned before on this site that the TMO line

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

2015-06-18 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a thought: these bīja - "seed syllable" - mantras though not having precise meanings are said to carry connections to spiritual principles. Look again at our TMO mantras "whose effects are known". Take one example. I won't mention the syllable (!) but one of the mantras used is that o

[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

2015-06-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "With ideas like 'heart chakra' you have to provide real demonstrable confirmation of the existence of this feature": Does everything have to be validated by scientific, objective standards? Can't subjective experience count as evidence for an individual who has experimented with activat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

2015-06-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re my post: " . . . "one of the mantras used is that of Saraswati. She is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning. So surely someone who was given this bija and used it during TM would gravitate towards a life centred on science or the arts? . . . ": No one responded

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Of sound mind

2015-06-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "overstimulated intellects": That doesn't strike me as a common problem in today's world! This is the age of dumbing down. Do you know if TM teachers were ever taught that - beyond the general stress-reducing effects of TM and talk of transcending and contacting pure consciousness - sp

[FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

2015-06-21 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re your comment: "I read somewhere that the placing of thoughts and emotions is cultural": I read somewhere a thought experiment that questioned our placing of the centre of consciousness in our brains/heads. The philosopher asked us to imagine a world just like ours but in which our eyes wer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Flag Flap

2015-06-22 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "That damned flag.": This one's for you . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZOozDHL0LA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZOozDHL0LA ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Don't forget. The 2nd Amendment was pretty much a compromise with the slave owners who needed permissio

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