Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM Commencement

2015-05-23 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Or actually, I hope Barry will spare us the next time he has a bed partner, or claims to at least. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : There might be less painful ways for you to maintain your celibacy, Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On the other hand, MUM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM Commencement

2015-05-23 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Social engineering is a theme that comes through often in what you write, sal, and Barry as well. Those true colors do bleed through. But, let's face it, your and Barry's real sphere of influence is Michael, so I guess it doesn't make much difference. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why no on wants to live in Texas

2015-05-23 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That matters not to Michael. It's a low bar he operates under. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I can guarantee you that is not the bill that passed. Might have been proposed at one time. From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroup

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM Commencement

2015-05-23 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Really, Michael, the bar is set pretty low in terms of the accuracy of anything you post here. Most, if not all of the "content" we get from you and Barry is agenda based. Barry will post a few links here and there for cover, so he can claim that he delivers some other type of "content"

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those who don't believe in conspiracies

2015-05-23 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I am not sure what other conclusion you can come to. I mean, Barry left this movement some forty years ago, and each year he finds a way to knock it down a few notches, but each year he spends more time talking about it. So, how do you go about reconciling that without coming to the conclu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Eastwood Rise from the Sepulchre

2015-05-22 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, there's one thing we know for sure. Michael Jackson has hours a day to pour into his anti-TM addiction. That, I find fascinating in itself. And it's always curious to see someone whose passions are only against something. Because, we know what it says. It says, *that* person do

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is essential is invisible to the eye

2015-05-22 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, it's nice you can be proud of something. Funny, I always enjoyed going to the theatre with my daughter, to mingle with people, maybe get some popcorn, enjoy the previews, and watch the movie on a movie size screen, instead of 14" laptop with lousy sound. Or maybe you'll wear headphon

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those who don't believe in conspiracies

2015-05-21 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I can't help reflect on it Richard. I would say that as far as Barry, Salyavin and Michael area concerned, it is, all about "Buck". It's the FFL version of groundhog day. Buck posts the same comment every day, and these three, along with anataxius respond to it, as if it's the first ti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Money for Nothing....

2015-05-21 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sal, do you realize that you tell this same story at least a couple times a week. I think we all got it. Granted, Michael would like to hear it every day, but most everyone else has the gist of it by now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

2015-05-21 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What I find most amusing, and why I can't resist commenting, is when Barry gloats about a comment made by a reader of an article who said "TM, people are still talking about it?" Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that is about the only thing he talks about. Or, at least the main

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those who don't believe in conspiracies

2015-05-21 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes, we get to hear the same sermon which Barry has delivered 2000 times before. The self appointed anti cult czar. This is what constitutes "content" for Barry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : At least Doug is inspiring interesting replies, which partially accounts for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

2015-05-20 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
thanks for noticing (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You guys act like a trio of cranky old men who've been locked up in a mental institution. Oh that's right this is the Funny Farm Lounge though some of the prior inmates have been moved to another ward. ;-) Derek will

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thugs in Costume

2015-05-20 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
But, who are you continuing to talk about day after day, for hours? This what fascinates me. And two of yas continue to practice the technique. Pray. Pray for some iota of self reflection. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Excellent question. I have never understood

[FairfieldLife] Re: Zambia Creative Intelligence

2015-05-20 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Idiots? Do you hear yourself. Pray. Pray for some drop of self reflection. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/zambia-to-lift-ban-hunting-lions-leopards-big-cats#img-1 I wouldn't be at all surprised if the idiots who came up with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

2015-05-20 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My God, it drives you nuts to have people thinking in a way you consider inappropriate. How, oh how, did you find yourself in this predicament? Maybe one day, you'll come off the sidelines complaining about everything and engage in a meaningful way. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

2015-05-20 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ringside Announcer: In this corner, from Northern California, of average height and weight, with a fondness for certain dairy concoctions, is...John R. Esq. *applause* “And in this corner, we have the fearsome threesome hailing from two different continents, with knowledge span

Re: [FairfieldLife] Job for life...

2015-05-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, really, thank you for this kind of entertainment. You've really boxed yourself in, ala, the Judy/Xeno thing. What are you going to do, now that you've sworn off Doug, (and me, for that matter) Maybe this nibbling around the edges will suffice. At any rate, it is good theater

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Domes, 20 and 30 years on

2015-05-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The dutiful acolyte replying "amen", or "yes sir" to anything the master says. Talk about taking orders from above. Sheesh! Funny, how that works. God bless you Sal. You've hitched your wagon to a funny star. Hope it gets you where you want. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Domes, 20 and 30 years on

2015-05-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, please, if you don't mind, blame me for the narcissistic abyss you've fallen into. Honestly, I had nothing to do with it. This is where a tad of self reflection is useful. Yes, can be painful at first, but then you begin to see things as they really are. Below is you, being

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...

2015-05-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
and there comes a point when we transition from this life and we come face to face with the thoughts, words and actions of the life we have just left. and at that time, there is no one we have to impress by trying to be "hip". we don't have to claim we have no interest in whether there is,

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Price Of Enlightenment

2015-05-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
you're on tonight Richard. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : He had one job to do: get enlightenment in 5-7 years; produce one single enlightened student. We got two decades of talking about TM. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I suspect, Richard, that is one p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Set faces to stunned...

2015-05-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
nice one, Richard ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You've just described The Maharishi Effect. Now can you spell cognitive dissonance? Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Rama guy I spent some time with had some interesting theories, some of which I

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Price Of Enlightenment

2015-05-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I suspect, Richard, that is one post Barry would have liked to get back. Or maybe he pushed the "send" button too soon. I mean, here is someone who has written about TM three or four times a day, seven days a week for the last 15-20 years, and he notes a comment that says, "TM, People st

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Price Of Enlightenment

2015-05-16 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
pssst, Barry. do you know who is the world's most foremost writer about TM? I'll give you a hint. His initials are B.W. this guy writes incessantly about it. I know, I know. It doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense to me either. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault

2015-05-15 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It sounds like like a interesting approach. And I think it defines the positive parts of Barry's interaction, or rather,the interaction we, (or at least, I) used to see. But, there comes a point, (IMO), where you can stray off course, and the combat which was there to produce some enligh

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the "Neo-Advaita" phenomenon

2015-05-15 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think, what you are saying, is that the spiritual path is full of traps. And, nothing, in my opinion, could be more accurate. You take your eye off the ball for a moment, and you get beaned in the head. Much of this site is devoted to pointing out each other's perceived faults. If

[FairfieldLife] Re: For those interested in the "Neo-Advaita" phenomenon

2015-05-15 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, Has it ever occurred to you, how "obsessed" you are with NPD? Do you think that says something? I'd say it's one of the great loves of your life, along with Judy Stein. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Here's an interesting "apology" letter from one of the most e

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see with Barry is his own fault

2015-05-15 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, you are fuckin' crazy? Admit it, you live for this stuff. Any sane person would simply ignore posters they don't like. But, you? You become fully engaged. Seriously, my friend, try to find something of interest besides Jim Flanegin and The_Peak. No matter what anyone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault

2015-05-14 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nobody read it Barry. Your fan boy may have skimmed it. But, nobody read it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yeah but look who he was saying it about. :-) But I understand...some people have short attention spans, and can't read more than 30 words. This post is for t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault

2015-05-14 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Jesus, Barry. Just come off it for a change. Give it a different slant. But, if really, if you want to stake a claim to your brand of spirituality, then so be it. But damn, I wish you'd have the courage to raise it up the flagpole, and see if anyone salutes. P.S. It ain't "con

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault

2015-05-14 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sal, look, the simple solution is to find a new home for all your fascinating "content" But, we all know why this won't happen, because your content is all about complaining about those, who are complaining about you, complaining about them. And plus, I find it sort of fun to push the but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault

2015-05-14 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I guess at some point, the hunter, becomes the hunted, so to speak. He has bought in so heavily to this meme as Barry Wright, "Cult Detective" that this has, sort of overtaken his personality. His posting "content" consists of longer, and shorter versions of he same story. I suppose he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the whiny hysteria we see on FFL is Maharishi's fault

2015-05-14 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
certifiable at this point? if anyone even reads it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : For some time now (over a year, and escalating after one particular person took a powder from the forum and essentially told everyone here to fuck off and die), the primary characteristic of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Story of Wayne Wirs

2015-05-14 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
weird, just plain weird. agenda driven content for the "kids". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The quality that IMO most distinguishes the "Neo-Advaitans" (and some lesser dweebs like the ones we've run across on FFL before they ran away to form their own groups/religions) is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Have you had an experience of higher states of consciousness? Please FORWARD!

2015-05-13 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
God Damn, if it isn't the same boring "content" from two biggest whiners this site has seen since its inception. Doug posts something, and then the scrum begins. Barry: Sal, what we need here is "content". Content, I say, with a capital "C". Sal: Yes, "content" is what is needed. Ple

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Content"

2015-05-11 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes, Richard. The FFL Echo Chamber (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It's not the content, Steve, it's the context and comment. You need to realize that some of the informants posting here aren't really interested in a dialog - they just want to be heard, to get your attent

[FairfieldLife] "Content"

2015-05-11 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One of the criticisms most commonly leveled against me is that I don't provide, "content". Every once in a while, when not castigating Doug Hamilton, (directly,or indirectly) Barry will post a link to some cartoon, or music video, and this constitutes."content" Michae

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On visiting FFL from The Peak

2015-05-11 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
and the results speak for themselves. Ain't no one here, hardly, anymore. (-: Call it, "The Wright Effect", I'd say. (-: You're either a member of the church, and abide by the rules, or you're "politely" shown the door. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : One wo

[FairfieldLife] Re: On visiting FFL from The Peak

2015-05-10 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
what you choose to ignore, taxius, is how many individuals who used to participate in online discussion groups or even hosting them, have dropped out altogether, because of.trolls. Of course, a troll is often defined as anyone who disagrees with you, but the point

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-10 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for your lengthy and thoughtful reply. Arya, we simply have what I'd call a difference of opinion about things. And not to belabor or the point, and to try to tip toe around the ad homenims you accuse me of, I'll point out a few things. Take MJ for example. I don't agree with

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-09 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Look Aryavazhi, It's not problem if you have some inherent desire to argue. The fact that you so desperately wish to point out difference that don't exist, says a lot. Most everyone here has an interest in spiritual development. Among most here is a liberal, or libertarian bias. Cu

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-09 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, I would say, rather, it shows something different. Here you have people, who for the most part have similar beliefs, politically, culturally, spiritually, and yet after a decent interval of tolerant discourse, it has become toxic, and one group blames the other for its demise. D

[FairfieldLife] Re: World's most advanced tank?

2015-05-09 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Awesome! Doug, your realize that you have become the glue that holds FFL together. Barry made his grand declaration a mere 72 hours ago, (I think) that he done!, through!, absolutely finished!, responding to or about Doug Hamilton. Lo and behold, it's all he's been posting about

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-08 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As Winston Churchill once said: if you are young and not idealistic, you haven't got a heart. If you are old and not a realist, you haven't got a brain. That pretty much sums it up. Most of us got over the idealistic phase pretty quickly. And you know, the other saying, about taking

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Culture of Organizational Groups/Sociology

2015-05-08 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And yet, Doug is who you continually write about. And your social interaction is primarily on the internet, in front of a television, or sitting alone at a bar drinking a beer. A frustrated writer stuck in a rut writing variations of the same theme to get a rise out of people, out of the m

Re: [FairfieldLife] Message for Jim at the Peak

2015-05-05 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You've been the number two poster here for, like twenty years, and today we learn that the "main" reason you're still here is for the benefit of others? Barry, I think your narcissism has just ratcheted up a notch (or two) And you are going to blame me, BLAME ME, for not staying away from t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CERN Again?

2015-05-05 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And this, my friends, is the "high level" of discourse that has come to characterize FFL. The same "rant" we hear, (and have heard) from Barry, (and now others), some 20 times a day, for the better part of 20 years. Of course, with Barry, (in particular) we get the extra treat of misrepre

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ATTN RICK (was Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye)

2015-05-04 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My friend Barry, what you don't realize is that people will comment on what they see as your obsessive behavior in the same way you comment, to the tune of 40 posts a week, on what you see as their obsessive behavior. It's not complicated. In a subsequent post, you talk about having a convers

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: Nepal earthquake report from TM Center in Kathmandu

2015-05-04 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, lighten up a bit, James. Yes, I own my own business. Yes, I guess this caused me to come in about five minutes later than I may have normally come in. Yes, I am at work now. And yes, I try to be conscious of my blind spots to the extent I am able. Good stuff that trying to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: Nepal earthquake report from TM Center in Kathmandu

2015-05-04 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Look, Barry, let me work with you for a minute. It may make me late for work, but that's okay. Do you realize that you act like a dog that has to lift his leg and take a piss on every fire hydrant, every tree it goes by on it's daily walk. I guess your brain works like this: "Is this a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: Nepal earthquake report from TM Center in Kathmandu

2015-05-04 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Damn Barry, people expressing opinions you don't agree with. How very annoying. And, Jesus, you're really escalating this Doug situation to a capital offense. Did it ever occur to you that you bounce from one obsession to a different obsession. Chill. Just chill. It's all good.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's our common ground here? I'll start . . .

2015-05-03 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nicely put ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : My position, and the position of most idealistic transcendentalists, is that we infer, from the fact of being conscious, that we exist - we have self-consciousness. In order to avoid an infinite regression, we postulate that Conscious

[FairfieldLife] COW

2015-05-01 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry: This meeting of the COW, (Church of Wright) will now come to order. Do we have old business. Xeno, do you have a report of how to increase posting numbers? Xeno: Yes sir. We're trying visiting some of your old haunts on the Rama sites, letting the folks there know that you're now

Re: [FairfieldLife] To whom should Rick give FFL?

2015-05-01 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Uh oh, Doug. You've finally done it, and Barry's putting his foot down. I don't know what's in store for you, but it doesn't sound good. You've exceeded Barry's patience, and are seriously off the program. The gauntlet has been laid down, and you now risk becoming tomorrow's main su

RE: [FairfieldLife] To whom should Rick give FFL?

2015-04-30 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
James, If my analysis doesn't make sense to you, so be it. If you break it down, Buck makes his predictable posts, which Barry, Xeno, Salyavin and MJ respond to as it it's the first time they've heard it. This constitutes about 40% of FFL. Another 15% is MJ with his tired name call

RE: [FairfieldLife] To whom should Rick give FFL?

2015-04-30 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
hey, for a guy who seems to like to quantify things, I guess its convenient to ignore numbers when they go against ya. Take Richard away, and it's Barry, MJ, you, Buck and Lawson who make up bulk of posts, with Bharitu coming up the rear. The monthly posting totals haven't been this low si

RE: [FairfieldLife] To whom should Rick give FFL?

2015-04-30 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
numbers dude. they tell the story. then look at your posting history it doesn't really show much interest in the place just sayin' (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Tell me: Who are these "most other observers" and how do you know what they think? ---In Fairfiel

Re: [FairfieldLife] To whom should Rick give FFL?

2015-04-30 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What's rather amusing, is that in a matter of ten minutes Edg you could start a new site, and install yourself as moderator, or recruit someone else. I think you could pull it off. Of course you do have the reputation of showing a lot of bluster, without much follow up. And of course,

RE: [FairfieldLife] To whom should Rick give FFL?

2015-04-30 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ha! The obligatory positive exit comment. Ain't gonna happen. Barry is in charge here. And his saving grace is Buck and John, and Lawson, giving Barry an opportunity to burnish his "self proclaimed" reputation as a cult slayer, often by his gift of creating straw man arguments. It

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-29 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes, Richard, pretty revealing comment by Sal. He's a few fries short of a Happy Meal, I'd say. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Isn't that just like a thug or a bully - say something they don't like or don't agree with and they try to get you banned from the group. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-28 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Guys, really I think you're giving this situation short shrift. Don't you think a minute by minute breakdown of this three day posting period by Judy might be in order? I mean after you finish patting each other on the back for this brilliant accomplishment on your part. Go figure!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
you guys just crack me up, with your juvenile humor. do you really want to know what it sounds like? it sounds like you have no female influence in your lives to speak of. now, of course, that's been pretty evident for a while, but, hearing you guys talk, I feel like I'm back in the 7th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
you sound panicked, sal. the tremble in your voice is coming through. I picture you trying to hold your cup of coffee, but with your hand shaking so bad, it getting all over the table. easy, boy. easy. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Strange, just strange. The only thing Barry gets passionate about, is something he hasn't done. The only feather in his cap, the only thing he can "crow" about, is something that he hasn't done, or won't do. Really, rather revealing. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : sni

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 10 reasons why Judy quit FFL and why she returned

2015-04-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, who envisioned himself as a gifted creative writer, but who found binge TV watching an easier go, and then, instead of his oft professed intention to write about the Cathars, found it easier to just bash the TMO several hours a day on an internet forum. Yes, the organization he left over

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

2015-04-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Stick with this characterization, Barry. You'll sleep better at night. There may not be a grain of truth to it, but, as I said, if it helps you sleep better at night, then god speed. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : As a parting shot, the biggest problem I see with t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, okay. Thanks for your reply. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : xen, since you've asked, let's cut to the chase. let's take today's distortion, (imo), Do you think Rick believed Ravi's alleged claim that he was/is enligh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
xen, since you've asked, let's cut to the chase. let's take today's distortion, (imo), Do you think Rick believed Ravi's alleged claim that he was/is enlightened? Or is this a distortion on Barry's part of what Rick believes? Or is it, perhaps, some kind of "bait" for either for Rick

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, you go around like a manic person plastering this label on anyone who disagrees with you. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "jason_green2@... [FairfieldLife]" Relax Steve. None of the discussions here can actualy change reality. If you have disagreements, attack

[FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for your advice Jason. I'm sorry if you don't care for the content of my posts. And again, you have a knack for proving the points I am trying to make. I get it that individuals here find fault in the TM Organization. I find plenty of faults myself. But for those who have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Jason, I guess you realize that you are proving my point. Yes, Rick acts in good faith, Whether he "believes" someone is enlightened is immaterial to the discussion. It is a distortion by Barry, evidently accepted by you. Rick's interviews are from people who are on some stage of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A typical distortion. Never takes long. Take away Barry's distortions, what have you got? A few clever links now and then. But the distortions? That's his own "clever" way to draw you into a meaningless discussion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : As I've said

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-25 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, you are far too modest. Let your hair down a little and declare to the world the great service you provide as "Cult Slayer". Never mind you must distort most opposing points of view to make your point. I would say a more accurate term for what you do are is, "Reaction Vampire"

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-24 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Rick, FYI, there's one guy who runs the show here. He doesn't post, the place goes dead. Very few people like him, but they play off one another, as each serves some interest the other has, but all under the umbrella of "TM Bad", and disagreement with this conclusion will get you mocke

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantifying Obsession

2015-03-23 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, your research is brilliant, simply brilliant, as usual. Give yourself a much deserved pat on the back! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Just to point out the interesting difference between perception and reality, as part of an experiment I have been conducting since Mar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I recall you saying, that your main activity with Maya was watching movies on Saturday mornings. That, of course, does not surprise me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Jesus Christ, I finally got what I wanted, a comprehensive explanation. Thank you for that! I am going to stop right now, as I have to finish some work stuff, and let this percolate a little. I appreciate you taking the time to flesh this out a bit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
well, then your statement stands alone, and remains a mystery to me. to paraphrase: "misrepresenting something about another person, intentionally, or unintentionally is a good way to find out what they are all about" I can think of a number of ways to find out what makes a person tick with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually Barry, it's because you are fascinating in your own sort of way. Just as you can't stop posting about what you see as the cult mentality, I am sort of fascinated by the mechanics of how one can start off as a seeker, and end up a complete narcissist obsessed with an organization he la

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The phrase, by the way, was "Solve the age old problems of mankind, in this generation" Yes, it's advertising, and I don't really know of anyone who really figured it could really transpire, but it was a slogan to motivate the troops. And I was one who bought into it, and it did have a tran

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Enjoy your coffee, xeno. yes, Barry does post other content, than the "usual". on the other hand, I feel his positive contributions are overshadowed by that other, "usual", content. I mean, Barry has stated on numerous occasions that what he likes to do, what he feels is his mission, i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Michael, I'm wishing you the best. I hope that other pursuits may fill your day other than your obsession with TM. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : TM should solve all problems. I am afraid to inform you that it does not. which means that idiot Steve is admitting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can learn something from it. This notion that if people are challenged in an unreasonable way it can turn into a "teaching moment" On the other hand, maybe you have a point, and really I am not trying to be duplicitous h

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, please, please, answer me. (-: Are you delusional? TM's reputation is being harmed among the ten people who post here, a couple of lurkers, and your all important lurking reporter? Is he compiling evidence for some kind of treatise, yet to be publlished, because his output has be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
oh, that I had the time to do a search combining "turquoiseb" with the phrase, "cult", or "cult apologist". tens of thousands hits by now? maybe, I don't even want to know. it's rather sad to see this level of obsession. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I suspect a LOT o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
can you say, bulls-eye, on both counts? I think you can! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is not a joke MJ. Barry is hope for many, the losers of the world. People who don't have a successful career, people who haven't ever had a healthy relationship, people who liv

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just to follow up on this. Yes, xeno, you can still have difficult days, even if you practice TM, which I try to do once a day. Perhaps you struggle under the assumption, as some others here do, that TM should solve all problems. I am afraid to inform you that it does not. However,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for sharing your perspective. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You have had a difficult day? Gosh, what is meditation coming to? I am not holding Jim to any standard. I am just pointing out he said one thing, but did another. If I had the power to hold him to some standar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : As I pointed out in another post awhile back, being accused of something one did not do has a tendency to push peoples buttons. It does not matter if the misconception was deliberate or not. With your permission, I'd like to call this "Xeno's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
First, thank you xeno for giving a me a smile and a chuckle in what has been an otherwise difficult day. Second, I certainly can't argue with you. On the other hand, (and maybe I'm not able to give you comments sufficient thought), the world operates better when we give one another a litt

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
xeno, fyi, to the rest of the world, what Jim did was just correct a misconception. for you and Barry, and perhaps a few others to interpret this as "interacting" with Barry makes for a rather weak case. maybe you are trying to run the routine you did with Judy, on which she bit so har

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, Really, is there anyone smarter than you? I know you imply it often enough, but it is heartening when you actually come out and admit it. Are we even worthy? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : For the record, I don't know who ak_ak_0828 is, either. I just fig

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just look what you wrote, Sal. The problem with making authoritative statements when you are just speculating, is that oftentimes they are wrong. Please don't pin it on me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rather typical, I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Rather typical, I think, of the way Sal operates. Thinks he knows more than he does, and not ashamed of pushing it out there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What IP addresses? People who show up with the no_re...@yahoogroups.com email address are anonymous, with email and IP

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, it's okay, IMO opinion to have given up on the spiritual game. Very understandable in fact. But to replace it with the degree of pettiness to which you've descended? Re-evaluate man. Re-evaluate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sure, Jimbo. "Having no desire to int

Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world

2015-03-18 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, I think you have more than the "touch" of narcissism, that you've admitted to. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sounds to me as if Jim Flanegin, concerned that the number of posts made each day in the last week on The_Leak is less than half of the number of registered me

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM never does harm

2015-03-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
We all know the context in which those long rounding courses took place. We all knew it was a wild time, and that those wild times launched many a spiritual journey. It is unfortunate now, to have someone take those experiences out of their context for the purposes of trying to implicate T

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You know, a lot of weird shit happens as the growth in consciousness takes place. And you know what else is weird, is that last time Curtis was posting here there was a lot of discussion about how certain liberties we take when we talk informally with one another were being twisted into malev

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.

2015-03-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, you know, that's pretty interesting. My lifestyle is also changing as I only have one kid left at home, and she'll be departing shortly. So, yes, my wife and I are entering a different phase. I was never one to watch much in the way of sports on TV, but I see that as a possibilit

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM never does harm

2015-03-17 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Geez Barry, carry on with the misrepresentations. Yes, for a period of about two months, I had a slight twitching of my neck during meditation, which was accompanied by head pressure. I also had physical sensations in various part of my body. They went away, and there was never anything

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   >