George Armstrong Custer wore a Stetson hat at The Battle of Little Big Horn.
He would have been better off stocking up on Winchester 73 repeaters. It seems
the Indians at his Last Stand had those but his troops had old-fashioned
carbines. Better at long range but no match for rapid fire.
. . . has just happened. Every time I sign off and one of those damned
messages appears saying Do not turn off your computer and Now downloading
new updates I think Ye gods. The next time I try and sign on I'll be locked
out.
Tonight I was suddenly signed off automatically in mid-flow and
Re the gnostics, that our awareness is imprisoned, and there are seven levels
to this prison and we have to escape each one before we are free.:
The ancient Gnostics had a wonderful myth that awakened souls after death
found themselves raised to the Moon (which gave the Moon its light and
You can set Windows to notify you when updates are available:
Thanks. How do I do that?
Re And for most, resolution of the experience, the way it settles in, the way
the implications take over one's life, takes some time, usually years,
regardless of whether one understood clearly what happened or was nonplussed by
the experience.:
Yes. I suspect that the difference between
I have a Vaillant combination boiler which feeds the central heating and
supplies the hot water. A few days ago it came up with error message F.22 and
stopped working. I did a Google and came across a short YouTube tutorial
showing me what to do. All I needed was a screwdriver. A few minutes
Re I used to sweat creating perfect Boolean search strings, but it almost
doesn't matter any more.:
Absolutely. What leaves me astonished (and humbled) is the sheer scale of the
free info and advice that's now available. We're talking about countless
numbers of people who freely give of
An amusing post I saw on a newspaper site recently was from some guy
complaining about the hypocrisy of the paper running an article about the
negative effects of modern porn when at the same time there were adverts for
sex-related services appearing alongside the piece.
Some helpful
Uruguay has become the first country in the world to make it legal to grow,
sell and consume marijuana.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25328656
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25328656
He's not one of the chaps who actually recorded the song. He was just paid to
be the one to go on the show. Funny way to make a living: pretend to whistle
for two minutes. A least you can't forget the words.
In the UK, it's against the law to buy or import an imitation firearm. You can
get away with a toy gun if it is obviously a toy - eg, coloured bright red or
blue, or is transparent.
The law was brought in as too many criminals were using imitation guns to
commit real crimes. I can't see
Re It's not likely this will replace the Big Bang Theory any time soon.:
There are a fair few theories contending with the BB. The BB idea was
originally suggested because of the red-shift in light from distant stars.
Longer wavelengths = stars travelling away from us. What if the geometry
According to Big Bang Theory all the matter in the Universe once fitted into a
space less than the size of a pin head.
Get hold of a pin. Take a good look at it. Now ask yourself: Do I really and
truly believe that the mass of between 1 sextillion and 1 septillion stars
(that's between
Re If time is an illusion, then would you consider space and illusion too? If
these are so, what is REAL?:
Consciousness? Brahman? The Absolute? The One?
Re S3, I haven't heard of this theory.:
That's not surprising. Peter J Carroll is a chaos magician! Albeit one who
studied
Re Obviously a very bright pin-head came up with the theory.:
Cute!
But someone who attempts to evoke and then send a servitor probe back to the
big-bang era would probably make an amusing dinner guest. And I still claim
that believing the mass of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars
If chaos magicians trouble you consider astronomer Fred Hoyle. He it was who
coined the term Big Bang (as a put-down). Although accepting that the
Universe was expanding he came up with his steady-state theory, ie, matter is
continuously being created in empty space and so forcing the universe
Fort Knox was last fully audited in 1953. The US government claims there is
5,000 metric tons of gold stored there. Conspiracy theorists at the more wacky
end of the spectrum claim that the vaults are empty.
What amuses me about this is that even if there is no gold there, as long as
Re Today, I wore a leather jacket, black; and a sweater underneath, blue; and
boots, brown; and a wooly cap, navy, pulled down over my ears. And, that's when
I was inside my home office.:
Why not turn up the heating? Then you could wear a silk shirt and linen slacks
and feel unrestricted.
A basic rule around here is to NEVER tell anyone that are carrying a concealed
weapon. Another basic rule of self defense around here is to NEVER show your
weapon until you are forced to use it. And, you should NEVER take a knife to a
gun fight at the OK corral. LoL!
But is it OK to carry
Re Foil an attacker with your car key using it to slit their throat.:
Crikey! Look, the point of the convincing replica handgun is that no one gets
hurt. You point the toy at the attacker, say Feeling lucky punk?, and then
casually walk away with a sneer. What's not to like? It's cheap, it
Re And get a big heating bill next month . . . As it is the house is set for
65 degrees.:
Mine is set for 20 degrees celsius (68 in your measure). You Yanks have
dirt-cheap fuel bills thanks to fracking. Make the most of it.
One of the biggest causes of disputes in shared households is
Nah, our heat pump decides that.
Heat pumps - what the hell are they? Don't you have central heating? Don't
let the machines boss you around; they should be our servants.
Re The present is now and should be the only thing that's important for
human beings.:
Amen to that. The non-stop onslaught of advertising saying we really should
have the products they're pushing if we're to find fulfilment has to be the
single most important factor in the spiritual
Re I have heard of ways people managed to stay out of the Dome using
subterfuge.:
What's the story here? In Fairfield it's not compulsory to go to the Dome is
it? Aren't people keen to get in turned away? The way self-important bouncers
decide who is hip enough to get into a popular night
Re It was dark and disturbing, although the tune wasn't bad. I was channeling
S3raphita's seeming interest with the deviant psyche (sorry S3raphita).
However, I'm too sensitive; I don't see horror movies either.:
Horror is one of my favourite genres. However, it's the atmospheric stuff I
Re Off the top of your head (without looking at the Internet) please define
communism:
You keep posting this challenge. We all know what Communist states were like -
and we all know we sure as hell wouldn't want to live there. If you mean cuddly
communism with a small c it boils down to
When I say Wayne County was disturbing I should have added he was also
hilarious. It's the darkest of black humour but his performances in the punk
venues in London were always packed out.
When I was in Watkins booksellers today (which specialises in new age, occult
and eastern religions) an old geezer walked in, took one look around, and
announced loudly to we customers: Too many words! Far too many words! and
then took his leave.
Paying my respects to this awakened one I
“Mediation in Meditation” It worked before with the Soviets to drop the Iron
Curtain and bring down the Wall.
What worked was that the USSR became bankrupt trying to compete with US
military muscle. Their ballistic submarines were the biggest drain on the
public purse.
If you want
I followed the link.
Re It is that everybody feels that if the society succeeds, I succeed, I
don’t get left behind.:
I second that. But in itself that wouldn't be communism - small-c. I'm in
favour of small-c communism in small communities like artists' colonies where
people have come
The UK TM site listing meditating celebs mentions that Oprah Winfrey meditates
twice daily with *all* her staff members at Harpo studios. Does that mean it is
a requirement to get a job at Harpo Productions to be a meditator? Isn't that
like insisting everyone must be Roman Catholic?
Re The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three
types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed
by many animals; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only
by humans; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life
Love it! I'm buying one.
Reminds me that I hate it when in an unfamiliar area of town I stop to consult
a street guide posted up by the local authorities and it *doesn't* have one of
those You Are Here arrows on it. If I knew where I already was I wouldn't
need the map.
Yes that's a cute duo piece.
I reckon The Paris Sisters' version of I Love How You Love Me cuts deeper.
(Another Phil Spector masterstroke.)
http://tinyurl.com/nqqu65x http://tinyurl.com/nqqu65x
Talking about Austin City: did you ever see The 13th Floor Elevators? They
intrigued me because they pioneered both the raw garage approach to recording
and the psychedelic soundscape. They're one of those bands most people today
won't know but who were amazingly influential over the long term.
I'm assuming I have a return ticket? If not forget it; I couldn't bear to live
somewhere without modern bathrooms.
I might go for the Crucifixion of a first-century rabbi - and stick around the
tomb over the next few days to see if I noticed anything odd.
A previous suggestion of the
You must not have a smart phone with a GPS on it.
No I don't. But that's a good point. From here on in, everyone will have GPS
and will no longer need street guides. People will no longer enjoy the fun of
getting lost.
Terra Mater is a Viscious Bitchious with no heart:
That's no way to speak of your mom.
She gave us our hearts, consciences and intelligence. We didn't arrive here
from some other reality.
Anyway, mothers always want their offspring to do better for themselves so she
would be
Even punched out Jim Morrison once
Care to elaborate?
I followed the Jim link. So you have touched the flesh of a demi-god!
Rock gigs in those days could be pretty violent places. Too much testosterone,
booze and drugs.
Re: As an afterthought, The Doors were *by far* the worst band of the era.
Ray Manzarek could play an acceptable
As your rules don't allow one to change the future, I wouldn't want to go back
and meet an earlier version of myself. Not being able to offer advice or change
the odds behind the scenes would be cruel.
If youth only knew: if age only could. - Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520)
Curiously, I didn't become aware of him until his son Jeff became popular. I
don't know why I missed him - the trouble is there was just too much good music
around during that period and you were spoilt for choice.
Re The Romans were horrified by the practice of human sacrifice which they
found during their conquests.:
Including the Romans' arch-enemy Carthage. Carthaginians were notorious for
child sacrifice. They may have roasted babies to death on a heated bronze
statue.
It would be simpler if Barry and Richard listed the bands they *haven't* seen.
And you caught the acts when they were fresh and surprising - lucky you. And
before bands had moved on to giving performances in vast stadiums - something
else I loathe.
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils were popular among my set in the north east of
England in the late 70s. A real fun band. You Made It Right is simple but
perfect laid-back country rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8NPdyVw5XE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8NPdyVw5XE
Re The URLs are in the correct order; the videos are not. :
One time a group of us went to see the French film Lacombe Lucien (director
Louis Malle, 1974). Based on Malle's own experiences it tells the story of a
teenage boy during the German occupation of France in World War II. He wanted
Something similar in the UK: well-meaning old dears who have prepared food for
the needy have been unable to deliver their home-baked cakes and what-have-you
as the local councils can't guarantee they're up to the food standards demanded
by health and safety legislation and won't risk being
Re Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf (1700-1760):
He founded the Moravian school (and utopian community) I attended in England.
I only learned years later that Zinzendorf's theology was sometimes
controversial to his contemporaries. And why would that be? Well he encouraged
followers to
I'm responding to emptybill's: The Romans were horrified by the practice of
human sacrifice which they found during their conquests. They not only banned
it but also persecuted anyone found practicing it.
Read the thread from the top down.
That's one of the main reason I'm still in Central Texas - Austin is the live
music capital of the world.
I'll have to visit. Here in the UK I was a big fan of the pub-rock scene in
the 70s/80s which despised big-ego stadium bands and concentrated on rockers
like Dr Feelgood and Steve
Re All I can feel is Jim's darkness and twistedness:
I suspect it's possible for both men and women to be *too* good-looking. Jim
did look like a Greek Adonis and pride comes before a fall.
William S Burroughs was one of those who always found the death of Jim from a
heroin overdose very
I reckon that if Jim had lived he would have turned to writing and film and
left music to the up-and-coming generation. He did experiment with poetry and
film studies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
Re [Jim] was an alcoholic/drug addict and he died of it.:
The puzzling question is why? Most people lead lives of quiet desperation and
go to the grave with the song still in them. We dream of having it all -
critical and popular acclaim; devoted, attractive lovers; money no problem; . .
.
No one responded to my post about The Paris Sisters' version of Dream Lover. I
claimed there was something almost perverted about the Phil Spector production
- love *sickness* as pathology. Underground film-maker Kenneth Anger clearly
agreed as he used it for a 3-minute clip Kustom Kar
A ghoulish footnote: April Stevens and Nino Tempo's Deep Purple was Number 1 in
the charts when President Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago.
Re Actors who achieve fame sacrifice their privacy . . . for me, that would be
too big a price to pay. I like to walk around anonymously.:
Emily - we are twin souls. I'd hate not being able to wander around a
bookstore lazily browsing the latest titles without having everyone whispering
to
A nation that has atom bombs could always simply use a bog-standard
conventional submarine which could surface one dark night off the eastern or
western seaboard of the USA, deposit a device on the coast and set it to
explode an hour later. That would cause devastating damage - physical and
Re At least, 3% of the total budget should be allocated to political parties
as subsidies.:
WTF! I don't want one cent of my money to go to a political party. Let them
pay for their own propaganda.
Extremist parties wouldn't arise if mainstream parties actually pursued
policies that were
Emily, have you never been curious to learn TM?
The Beatles tried it. Maybe it's like a mini-acid trip . . .
Nice selection Richard. But re Pink Floyd: it's their pre-Dark Side albums that
appeal to me. The track Echoes on their Meddle album is the pinnacle of rock as
art.
You've missed out one of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Doors:
http://tinyurl.com/o27gqfq
What always amused me was the way the TM movement sold the technique as a
stress-coping mechanism. I mean, you have to be a very unfortunate young man
or woman to be worrying about stress. When you're young you can take a lot of
knocks and you just roll with it. You're still supple. Stress is
What do you consider to be the core commitments of a healthy epistemology?
1) An understanding that the way to improve the human condition is through
reason, rationality, and science.
What about intuition? Insight?
2) The willingness to revise one’s beliefs.
How many new atheists are willing
Re Seems a book just full of gossip. So what. I haven't read it. It is on my
book shelf.:
How can you be a keen TMer and not have read Nancy's book? It's not gossip.
She was actually there when the events she recounts took place. She belonged to
the first wave of Americans who were
Re The Maharishi's directions on how to meditate were incorporated into The
Doors' song Take it as it Comes:
Fantastic! The first two Doors albums were always my favourites.
The cover of Strange Days is also a classic. What I liked was that when you
looked at the front you thought, Yeah,
I know the topic header is 100 Great Rock Artists but I also like the more
pop side of music. I recall one time at school when I said to a boy that I
really, really liked The Beatles' new release The Ballad of John and Yoko and
he turned up his nose and said: That's the commercial side! The
Re Capitalist governments shouldn't be bailing anybody out . . . If the
government takes the risk out of the equation by offering a bailout, any fool
could run a business and risk everyone's investments in it with no lessons
learned.:
Precisely my point. You can argue that we should move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MIKHUZAsUc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MIKHUZAsUc
-elected.
On Sunday, December 1, 2013 7:33 PM, s3raphita@... s3raphita@... wrote:
Re American capitalism has created more wealth than any other economic
system and with that wealth has lifted more people out of poverty than any
other system.:
That is undeniably true. The problem
, you run out of other peoples money to spend. American
politicians have over- spent the wealth capitalism has produced in order to
get re-elected.
On Sunday, December 1, 2013 7:33 PM, s3raphita@... s3raphita@... wrote:
Â
ReAmerican capitalism has created more wealth than
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcLVDhS8fM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcLVDhS8fM
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re Socialist programs such as bailing out the big banks:
Bailing out failing businesses isn't capitalism red in tooth and claw
of the Saudi sands, the oil fields will glow in the
night without external lights. It'll make a pretty sight from the space
station.
Life will soon return to some type of normalcy and FFL will have more to
discuss than what was for dinner.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote
Re On occasion, he would levitate into the air.:
Anyone bother to take a photograph?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero@... wrote:
rightfor some. The official RC party line would be that all Eucharists
are equal in their supposed Transubstantiation component; but
From The Independent: A pioneering study has shown for the first time that the
brains of men and women are wired up differently which could explain some of
the stereotypical differences in male and female behaviour, scientists have
said. Researchers found that many of the connections in a
When listening to a political discussion programme on radio or TV have you
ever heard a contributor say to an opponent: That's a good point. I shall now
revise my opinion. Thank you for helping me see more clearly into the nature of
the problem?
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,
Does China have a similar entitlement? If so, maybe American and European women
should give birth in China. The Chinese are cash rich and the US and a good
slice of Europe (including the UK and Mediterranean countries) are technically
broke.
When I say technically I don't mean something a
in a sentence, such as He the
man, which could refer to the past, present and future. The use of this
sentence could also show that you're hep to the street language in big cities.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
It's not a *personal* gender pronoun but they has
, for specific
organizations, there are several style manuals that are used.
http://www.calstatela.edu/library/styleman.htm
http://www.calstatela.edu/library/styleman.htm
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re I don't believe they as a single pronoun would pass
Re American capitalism has created more wealth than any other economic system
and with that wealth has lifted more people out of poverty than any other
system.:
That is undeniably true. The problem is that you (Yanks) now have debt equal
to $17 trillion. There is no way you can pay that
Re People that post here anonymously are not real people.:
Real enough. They pay taxes; have their hearts broken; suffer; rejoice; feel
guilty; have children . . .
As I've said before, who wants to post on-line using their real name when
anyone (including their enemies) can then Google
The Pope said “some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which
assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably
succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This
opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a
would understand the importance of hierarchies.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
We've all seen the wonders of trickle down economics. It's why the rich
call us peons.
On 11/30/2013 06:00 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote:
The Pope said “some people
It's not a *personal* gender pronoun but they has distinguished precedent as
a singular pronoun. It grates a little bit but if even Shakespeare and Jane
Austen used it I can feel relaxed about following suit.
And they is definitely preferable to he or she and him and her both of
which kill
Re And I could cite a busload of Jesus' expressions of concern for the poor
and oppressed. Plus one in particular about how hard it is for the rich person
to get into Heaven.:
I'm with him on the rich! Some things never change.
But Jesus was a first-century rabbi so could have no idea of
Best riff of all time. And awesome lyric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
ZZTop
ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure (Live In Texas):
http://youtu.be/ZHRHc5HmFHg
@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
It's not a *personal* gender pronoun but they has distinguished precedent as
a singular pronoun. It grates a little bit but if even Shakespeare and Jane
Austen used it I can feel relaxed about following suit.
And they is definitely preferable to he or she
, s3raphita@... wrote:
Best riff of all time. And awesome lyric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
ZZTop
ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure (Live In Texas):
http://youtu.be
need a Ph.D. in economics to make use of that
information.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re And I could cite a busload of Jesus' expressions of concern for the poor
and oppressed. Plus one in particular about how hard it is for the rich person
to get
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkcU2_Vs7Xw
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Another all-time great riff is on Venus by Shocking Blue (fantastic band
name!). They stole the riff from The Big 3's The Banjo Song but who remembers
them?
http
fine, as far as I'm concerned.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re The Pope doesn't need a Ph.D. in economics to make use of that
information.:
Unfortunately he does!
Look, this from Wiki: Singapore has a market-based economy - one of the freest
and most
.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re Ha ha ha...never seen that. She is so surreal looking!:
When I first saw Shocking Blue I assumed they were into drugs and black magic
and God-knows-what but they were actually quite sober and provincial in their
lifestyles
@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re The Pope doesn't need a Ph.D. in economics to make use of that
information.:
Unfortunately he does!
Look, this from Wiki: Singapore has a market-based economy - one of the freest
and most business-friendly. According to the Corruption Perceptions
Wilson and Keppel, Sand Dance. 1934.
You had to make your own entertainment in those days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFaMsUawi4
to a lesser or greater
extent, a lie.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re This is redundant Buck. You are the unified field, you cannot look to it.
Are you by any chance in that last stage of delusion known as GC?:
Excellent comment!
But is the next level, Unity
You're not trying to pull a Zeno on us are you?
The series you list tends to zero so you do finally make it to Antelope
Freeway.
Asymptotic lines never touch while ever-increasing-blessedness is never
sated.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Confirmation bias is a tendency to favour information that confirms beliefs.
People display this bias when they gather information selectively, or when they
interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged
issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
So how does it
beautiful women in
the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU1brBVMBkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU1brBVMBkM
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@ wrote:
Re I found myself in Southern California at that most opportune of times,
the beginnings of the Hippie
Re This is redundant Buck. You are the unified field, you cannot look to it.
Are you by any chance in that last stage of delusion known as GC?:
Excellent comment!
But is the next level, Unity Consciousness, the last stage? Isn't Brahman
Consciousness then the new goal? Jesus! Does it
Re I found myself in Southern California at that most opportune of times, the
beginnings of the Hippie Revolution. It didn't turn out to be all that much of
a revolution, but it sure as hell was fun to be part of.:
You didn't have to be there. I remember one time dropping acid in Paris and
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXimuzHv6Ek
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Re I found myself in Southern California at that most opportune of times, the
beginnings of the Hippie Revolution. It didn't turn out to be all that much of
a revolution, but it sure as hell was fun
Boney M.
Funnily enough, lead singer Bobby Farrell died in 2010, in a hotel in Saint
Petersburg.
Oh those Russians . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avn34o2Ksw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avn34o2Ksw
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
Thanks for posting
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