[FairfieldLife] Golden Globe Nominations

2011-12-15 Thread turquoiseb
Those in the know pay much more attention to the Golden Globe nominations than they do Oscar or Emmy nominations. Historically, the taste of the group that calls itself the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is MUCH better than the taste of Oscar or Emmy voters. Besides, unlike the Oscars, the Gol

[FairfieldLife] Re: Golden Globe Nominations

2011-12-15 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > So where is "Melancholia"? I'm not upset to not see it there. I enjoyed it, but it didn't strike me as particularly award- worthy. > Agree on "American Horror Story" which has it's > season finale next week. Never got into it. > Won

[FairfieldLife] Re: Solid State Drives

2011-12-16 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason wrote: > > BTW, I reached the age of 40 this month.  I don't think > there is any need for me to address anybody as 'Sir' or > 'Madam' anymore.  I hope there is no misunderstanding > regarding this in this forum. Speaking only for myself, I feel no n

[FairfieldLife] Re: Good bye Christopher

2011-12-16 Thread turquoiseb
Very nice essay. Not as succinct as W.C. Fields' announced inscription for his tombstone, "I'd rather be in Philadelphia," but it cuts to the chase just as well. Doesn't the story of what the interviewer did to him at the Christian radio station remind you of FFL? The incredible nastiness of i

[FairfieldLife] The "How To Deal With A Street Crazy" technique and mantra

2011-12-17 Thread turquoiseb
As a public service, might I remind people of the proper, approved spiritual technique for dealing with a street crazy? You know, one of those angry bag ladies or gnarly old guys who suddenly jump out at you as you're walking peacefully down the street and then rant at you? Some might be tempte

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-17 Thread turquoiseb
Much more eloquent than my simple "Whatever," while conveying the same sentiment. Sorry to hear about the virus thang. But it led to you creating and posting the perfect metaphor for what it's like to deal with this shit, so the virus may have been dharmic. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "

[FairfieldLife] Happy Calvin and Hobbes Christmas

2011-12-18 Thread turquoiseb
Goin' out on my birthday to participating and lurking FFLers everywhere, in the hopes that your Christmas is as cheerful as Calvin's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8iyhMFLYE

[FairfieldLife] A Christmas haiku from Whole Foods...

2011-12-18 Thread turquoiseb
...that reminded me of Fairfield Life: 'Tis the season to have your life choices mocked at the dinner table. Passive aggressive comments , decades old grudges, with festive cheese spread.

[FairfieldLife] Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TURQU-EY DUDE

2011-12-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PBwLavASaA > [:D] > man(ly) on the train > Man on the Train > http://www.hdcinebonus.com/man-on-the-train.html > [:)] Since you (I think) were the one who recommended the original French "Man On The Tra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday Barry

2011-12-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > To a great example of a life in progress and process at any age. > I'm sure this year will as full of discovery for you as for the > elfish little girl who lives in your house. Keep sharing what > you notice in this world wit

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > This is along the lines of something I was thinking about as > I was driving home from more errands. For the most part, I > think Vaj does reply to his critics. And why should he? I'll wait. > Exceptions would be you and Jim. And

[FairfieldLife] TV yawns, plus TV kudos

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/18/smash-extended-preview-spielberg_n_1155709.html Steven Spielberg or not, little in life bores me more than "musical theater," so I'll allow those who like those sorts of things to follow this series. May it somehow find a place in your life in between the o

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > wrote: > > > > > > This is along the lin

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV yawns, plus TV kudos

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 9:02 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > But for real drama (as opposed to the faux kind), my > > kudos go to "Dexter" and "Homeland" for the season > > finales of the year. Dext

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV yawns, plus TV kudos

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:01 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > On another note (and I assume because you didn't comment > > on it that you haven't been following the series), I was > > quite taken with "H

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV yawns, plus TV kudos

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > On Behalf Of turquoiseb > > > > The person we are concerned about is (sorry, Rick) not > > the first person I've met who became somewhat unhinged > > after a hug from Amma. I knew

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV yawns, plus TV kudos

2011-12-19 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:15 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Is it the same thing, or something different? Beats me? > > I am no neuroscientist, or even a trained behavioral > > scientist. All I know is that if

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ > wrote: > > > > > > People will draw

[FairfieldLife] Re: Time Flies but not Beetles!

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > http://irinawerning.com/bttf2/back-to-the-future-2-2011/ Cute. Nice concept. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. [http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/5705/follies2.gif]

[FairfieldLife] Movie mini-review: "Perfect Sense"

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
This one will be "mini" not because I don't have enough to say about it, but because I have too much. But I'm still reeling from the film, so I can't quite get the words out. I came to this film knowing nothing about it other than it starred a beautiful woman, Eva Green. I would watch a dish soa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie mini-review: "Perfect Sense"

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > This one will be "mini" not because I don't have enough > to say about it, but because I have too much. But I'm > still reeling from the film, so I can't quite get the > words out. > > I ca

[FairfieldLife] Re: You 'll think me a fool,..(but)you gave me my greatest joy

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
I've seen "Monsieur Hire" and agree that it's fascinating. I also loved Leconte's "The Widow of Saint-Pierre" and "Girl on the Bridge." The latter stars the wonderful Daniel Auteuil and Johnny Depp's squeeze, Vanessa Paradis. Johnny has good taste. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda

[FairfieldLife] Coupling, and other pleasures

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
Because I'm in a "share cinema adventures" mood today, and since I just discovered a treasure trove of clips on YouTube, I'll pass a few along. Those of you in the US will probably know nothing of the British TV series "Coupling." If you saw the American remake of the series, believe me, you didn'

[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO renews "Enlightened"

2011-12-20 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Even though it was a low rated series it got renewed. "Hung" > which I find actually funny and had a larger audience did not > get renewed. Go Figure. > http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118047762 Go figure, indeed. "Hung" was very fun

[FairfieldLife] Do more, accomplish more

2011-12-21 Thread turquoiseb
Occasionally I poke fun at those who have invested heavily in butt-bouncing for world peace, *not* because I wouldn't like to see a nicer world, but because I don't believe in the basic premise of the "ME." It seems based on Maharishi's prescription for lazy living, "Do less and accomplish more;

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do more, accomplish more

2011-12-21 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Occasionally I poke fun at those who have invested > > heavily in butt-bouncing for world peace, *not* > > because I wouldn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do more, accomplish more

2011-12-21 Thread turquoiseb
ve one this year. Last year we expected to be able to find them in stores and belatedly realized that the Dutch just don't do turkey. No snow yet, but there was a little sleet yesterday, so anything is possible. Last year this time, just having moved here, we were under two feet of snow.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do more, accomplish more

2011-12-21 Thread turquoiseb
xperience for me walking around town as this video is. It's taught me that even remembering to smile at a stranger is an act of kindness. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "marekreavis" wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do more, accomplish more

2011-12-21 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "marekreavis" wrote: > > > > I'll be inland on Christmas day this year, so I won't get > > to celebrate it in the waves, but with the solstice arriving

[FairfieldLife] Re: Big thumbs up on "Midnight in Paris"

2011-12-21 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" is indeed a very delightful and > imaginative film. I've always liked his films and this is one of > his best. So glad you liked it. I agree. Whatever his shortcomings as a person, I agree with Roger

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > The deal is, Vajihad, > > I'll have to ask Judy, if her invention of Vajihad was > inspired by my use of 'Love Jihad'? I will now refer > to Vaj as Vaji or better Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-22 Thread turquoiseb
Let me guess...the new game afoot here is to try to mimic MZ's style of writing, right? :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > Well she was a Jewish girl who's beauty was in her intelligence. > > That's all I da

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > Indeed there are some posts here, that one can only endure with > a sense of irony, don't you think? Either that, or with the help of a powerful antiemetic. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > I was hoping that "Enlightened" might be FFL on TV which > would make for either a great comedy or an insane thriller. > But that didn't happen. Have no fear. Watch "Salvation Boulevard" instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYiYHf

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-22 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 12/22/2011 01:17 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > > I was hoping that "Enlightened" might be FFL on TV which > > > would make for either a great

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Image

2011-12-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > It isn't that it is outfoxing science. It is a work of art > by any standard and it isn't cool to destroy it because of > a superstition. Science came through on dating it, so > unless Jesus lived in the middle ages, it isn'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Image

2011-12-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > The whole idea fascinates me in a different way. It is a > window into human beliefs. Since it came from an age of > relics being sold, it has the mystical credibility of a > sideshow three headed dog in a bottle of formaldehyde

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Image

2011-12-23 Thread turquoiseb
I just knew there had to be one of these out there. Jesus's flatpick: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/lifestyle/kerusso-pick-jesus-necklace <http://www.musiciansfriend.com/lifestyle/kerusso-pick-jesus-necklace> :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > ---

[FairfieldLife] Prometheus trailer

2011-12-23 Thread turquoiseb
Ridley Scott is a sometimes great filmmaker, but he got his start in advertising, so he is a genius at trailers. Here's his first trailer for the upcoming prequel to "Alien," which manages to entice without giving away any of the plot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftuxbvGwiU Turn it up to 720

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Image

2011-12-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > Did Maharishi's sandals ever sell? For how much? > > According to this: > > http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10169223 > > The lot passed, i.e., it didn't sell. If t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Measuring the Great Soul of an Atheist

2011-12-23 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > "Man is not Judged by what he believes but by what he Practices". > - BillyG Xmas 2011 "Seems to me that sentiment is better expressed to those who claim enlightenment but don't deliver." - Turq Xmas 2011

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-24 Thread turquoiseb
Well said. Comments interspersed. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > I don't get off on eastern spiritual superlatives, sorry. > > In any case, you have the same propensity for fence sitting > > an issu

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Mystery - YouTube

2011-12-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Zodh2siHI Nice. Some, I'm sure, will find it banal. Then again, such a person probably feels no mystery, because they're convinced that they know the "answer" to that mystery. How sad for them.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Image

2011-12-24 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > I know, how dare I! As I told you I did answer it in detail > before my computer got thrashed. I am still working on that > so I have to type on a mushy Ipad. When I considered going > back to recreate it all I realized tha

[FairfieldLife] Turq's Christmas Mea Culpa

2011-12-25 Thread turquoiseb
It has come to my attention, scrolling through a post written by someone I do read and thus having to scroll past comments made by someone I normally don't, that my biggest fault is perceived as not treating true-blue TMers on this forum as if they were intelligent human beings. Mea culpa. W

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq's Christmas Mea Culpa

2011-12-25 Thread turquoiseb
ers will be. :-) > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > It has come to my attention, scrolling through a post > > written by someone I do read and thus having to scroll > > past comments made by someone I normally don

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq's Christmas Mea Culpa

2011-12-25 Thread turquoiseb
knowing* how weird they are, and thus being able to laugh at the beliefs, and at oneself for holding them. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > It has come to my attention, scrolling through a post > > written by someone I

[FairfieldLife] Remake rap for merudanda and other movie freaks

2011-12-25 Thread turquoiseb
Yesterday, to get the taste of Guy Ritchie's latest insult to the memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ("Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows") out of my eyes, I watched two versions of the same film, "Insomnia." The first was a Norwegian film, directed and co-written by Erik Skjoldbjærg and starring St

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq's Christmas Mea Culpa

2011-12-25 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba wrote: > > > > > > Merry Christmas solstice dark time. > > > > You have

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > According to Maharishi and according to tradition this > [losing Unity Consciousness] is not possible. In this > case it wasn't fully established. Either that or it never happened in the first place. That is, from everything that ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Blood Orchestra 2011

2011-12-26 Thread turquoiseb
Nice. Thanks. Peter himself doesn't look that good, but it's nice to hear the music in a different setting. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > Some Christian thoughts, for the day. > > From my favorite concert in 2011. > > Red Rain > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8A59tErh

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 12/26/2011 04:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > >> According to Maharishi and according to tradition this > >> [losing Unity Consciousness] is not

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-26 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 wrote: > > > > > > According to Maharishi and according to tradition this >

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Kingdom of Bhutan inspires new centre at MUM

2011-12-27 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > Don't you just hate it when genocidal countries inspire a new > centre at Maharishi University of Management. Every filthy act of murder, torture and ethnic cleansing deserves a filthy apologist! > On Dec 27, 2011, at 9:25 AM, merlin wrote:

[FairfieldLife] "Hoist with his own petard"

2011-12-27 Thread turquoiseb
Posted apropos of nothing in particular, but just because I was thinking about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard If a petard [a small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications] were to detonate prematurely due to a faulty or short slow match, the engineer would

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote: > > From my years of experience, I am of the opinion that you/Barry > have made some critical and major errors in judgment and should > have preceded your diagnostic conclusions with a well-researched > "fatal flaw analysis," at the very l

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
several other people on this forum, who strike me as fairly "high functioning" psychopaths, there are two I think are losing their ability to function. I have named them, and applied what I think are the approp- riate psychiatric labels to their behavior. You don't seem to like the

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
Emily, if you feel that Robin is sane, and coherent, please explain this (which I looked up after being alerted in email that RWC had lost it so heavily that he no longer even knew who he was talking to on this forum). In this particular tirade, he launches into an abusive analysis *of the wrong pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2011, at 6:11 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > What I see is the same pattern that was established and > > legally censured in Iowa courts -- a disconnect with reality > > that involves becoming highly

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Christmas Letter to Barry Wright from Masked Zebra

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2011, at 10:11 AM, maskedzebra wrote: > > > Do you understand me, then, Barry? It means that this very > > letter to you affects you primarily in only one sense: > > "Robin thinks he is saying something important and significant >

[FairfieldLife] Re: SECOND Open [non-performance] Letter to Ravi Chivukula

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Maybe Vaj has been interested in posting on this TM oriented > forum for years and years and years because he had personal > experience as a teacher of TM and has since changed his > perspective on its value like most of us he

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Calamity of U.G. Krishnamurti

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > As far as it known U. G. Krishnamurti always wanted to talk > with someone in U.C.--it never happened Why would it have mattered to him to have had this conversation? I mean, we've had conversations with several people on this forum who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stormy Weather in TM Celebrityville

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > If I had the option to hang out in Hawaii away from my ex > wife in our first year of marriage, I never would have > lasted the year! The odds are so stacked against them. > Right about now Russell would rather watch a midge

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Calamity of U.G. Krishnamurti

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > > > As far as it known U. G. Krishnamurti always wanted to talk > > with someone in U.C.--it never happened > > Why would it have ma

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Calamity of U.G. Krishnamurti

2011-12-28 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Just don't understand. > > We know that by now. Humbled to be in the presence of people who claim that they *do* understand. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Is the Internet mindset antithetical to spiritual life?

2011-12-29 Thread turquoiseb
I've been wondering about this lately, because so many forums I'm a part of have been invaded by hordes of what I tend to call ( for want of the proper Sanskrit term :-) attention sluts. You know the type of person I'm talking about. Insecure, not many real-life friends, and seriously in need of at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is the Internet mindset antithetical to spiritual life?

2011-12-29 Thread turquoiseb
ys on time. It's the one thing I can't get back, and I tend not to want to waste it on reading or participating in conversations that in retrospect are going to turn out to be a waste of time for all concerned. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > I&#

[FairfieldLife] Re: New UFO page

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
Nabby, is this "New UFO page" you speak about only for *new* UFOs? Where is the Web page that provides listings of *old* UFOs available for sale? It seems to me -- the world economy being in the state it's in...even given the benevolent intervention of our beloved Space Brothers -- that a Web page

[FairfieldLife] Re: New UFO page

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > If I get one, I promise to do a flyover in your neighborhood, > > so that you can finally say you've seen a UFO. > > Don't worr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > Speaking of video gaming, I just learned of international > competitions in a game called Star Craft 2. Lots of money > to be made if you win. The best players on the planet are > young Koreans, who actually spend every waking moment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
s were invented for?" She cracked up, and so did I. She dialed, and he answered, no problem. As Marshall McLuhan said so wisely, "Man shapes his tools, but thereafter his tools shape him." > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In F

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Responds to Iran Threat

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > Well said, and I agreed with everything up to the point of > > separating Maharishi's spiritual power from how he treated > > people. For me these are one and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: New 'Synthetic' Marijuana

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > This is something new. So far, it's legal. But not for long. > > http://news.yahoo.com/synthetic-marijuana-problem-us-military-082100931.html Expect more of these designer drugs. There is money to be made in creating them, so they will be

[FairfieldLife] Re: New 'Synthetic' Marijuana

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > There is a show called Weed Wars about life at the biggest > dispensary in California. The body buzz weed is higher in > CBD r

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > Please consider an unrestricted gift of $25, $50, $100 or > > more to MUM's December fundraising appeal. You'll discover > > that your generous support will help ins

[FairfieldLife] Happy New Year, and fireworks for everybody!

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
The Netherlands goes fireworks crazy at New Year's. They started at 9:00 am this morning and have con- tinued non-stop since then, and it's only 5:00 pm here. My normally sleepy Dutch town has sounded like an enormous popcorn popper all day. For a few days each year, temporary fireworks stores op

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > If they find the value of human flesh eating in one of the > > obscure Kali worship scriptures they can start feeding the &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy New Year To FFL

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Happy New Year Marek. Amazing videos. Have a great year in > the waves. Indeed. Have the best of all new years, dude, both in the water and out of it. Great wipeouts. That must be what it feels like to try to come across as

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Here is a video that I know you will enjoy. It has some very > subtle points that you will relate to I'm sure. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=-j8ZMMuu7MU BTW, did you notice that there is now an *O

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > Here is a vid

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
n wrote: > > > > > > Barry, are you sure it's the "do not read list?"  I think it may be the > > > "do not respond list" - safer that way, isn't it? > > > > > > > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "futur.m

[FairfieldLife] Star Trek gender flip

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
OK, as a parting gift to those with a still-functioning sensayuma after this trying year, a short parody of "Star Trek" from the Carol Burnett Soow. Happy New Year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-WBKah3uwg

[FairfieldLife] Turq's final TV review of the year

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
[ Waiting for the cheers to die down. ... Still waiting. ... OK. :-) ] Because I had time off from work and time to myself, I decided to pursue a train of thought implanted in my brain by a guest visiting from the UK. We got to talking about television, and he said, "Have you seen the second seri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq's final TV review of the year

2011-12-31 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 12/31/2011 12:38 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > > [ Waiting for the cheers to die down. ... Still > > waiting. ... OK. :-) ] > > > > Because I had time off from work and time to myself, > > I decided to pu

[FairfieldLife] Cults aren't always benevolent

2012-01-01 Thread turquoiseb
Ringing in the new year, a reminder that people who proclaim their enlightenment are not always to be trusted, nor are the personality cults they build around them. The real chiller in this article is the last sentence. Aum Shinrikyo cult fugitive surrenders to Japan policeA former member of Japan

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin's Complete Five Part Post to Curtis

2012-01-01 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Wow, I feel as though a Roshi just whacked me on the back > with that Zen whacking stick after six months of F'ing up > my knees on a hard floor, and eating overcooked rice with > seaweed in it day after day. > > I get up, to

[FairfieldLife] Sherlock, season 2

2012-01-02 Thread turquoiseb
For the Brits among us, or the pirates, here's a quick review of the first episode of BBC1's "Sherlock." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFHeTaS9ew For fans of Conan Doyle's NPD detective, "Sherlock" is everything that Guy Ritchie's recent "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows" is not -- intellige

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sherlock, season 2

2012-01-02 Thread turquoiseb
groups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > For the Brits among us, or the pirates, here's a quick > review of the first episode of BBC1's "Sherlock." > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFHeTaS9ew > > For fans of Conan Doyle's NPD detective, "Sherlock" is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The problem Atheists have

2012-01-02 Thread turquoiseb
Excellent rant, sir. You definitely stuck the landing from my POV. Interestingly enough, I've been thinking about this same subject, but from a slightly different perspective. I think that some people just react badly to someone suggesting to them that they don't really "know" the things they thin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy new year to everyone !!! (And more love bombing..)

2012-01-02 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "marekreavis" wrote: > > It's not my habit, at least for the last year or so, to > interject my opinion into an ongoing thread, but following > FFL for the last month or two, it's amazed me to observe > the willingness of some folks here to glorify and enco

[FairfieldLife] Things to be thankful for, now that 2012 is here

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
* Being able to choose one's battles or, more important on this forum, choose to avoid them. Some people cannot. They are so locked into their obsessions and their grudges that they are doomed to a life of perpetual pettiness. * Message View in the Yahoo Web reader. Without it, I might have ha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Things to be thankful for, now that 2012 is here

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
* Wind in your face. This, I understand, is a subjective thing. Some people really don't like the wind. Me, I love it, so today is just My Kinda Day in the Netherlands. It's cold, but not overly so -- 8 C / 46 F. But the wind is just tremendous -- a steady 40 mph gale, with gusts up to 70-80 mp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Things to be thankful for, now that 2012 is here

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > * Message View in the Yahoo Web reader. Without it, I > might have had to read 237 posts since this year began; > with it I bothered to read only 42. You who read them > all, or worse got sucked into arguments about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Woman sues Honda over bogus mileage claim on hybrid

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
This is great! This is what clever lawyers are really for. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > Woman takes unique road to sue Honda over mileage > By LINDA DEUTSCH | AP – 20 mins ago > > TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to > be her dr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy new year to everyone !!! (And more love bombing..)

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > Out of all of this I am looking forward to a 2012 with zero > "you need to scold other people for things they say to me" > posts. > > Zero. As much as I enjoyed your rant, dude, I'd have to say that this is about as likely to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Star Trek: The Sexed Generation

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
LOL indeed. Jean Luc's iconic "Make it so" takes on new, and disturbing, meanings. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > LOL > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOw_2f4lpY&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLA856AF51F5DD4007 >

[FairfieldLife] Believing that you know what God wants

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy new year to everyone !!! (And more love bombing..)

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > From #300483 > Judy: > "Kiss-kiss-KISS!! That picture of Ravi IS hot." > > #300136 > Judy: > > Ravi!! SO glad to see you back. Kiss-kiss. > > Very cool video, this one. If I may ask, how the heck did > you get the car to bounc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy new year to everyone !!! (And more love bombing..)

2012-01-03 Thread turquoiseb
his head the Ravster seems to believe he's a real rock star, but in reality his biggest groupie probably has to remove her false teeth before giving him a blowjob. :-) > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "c

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