Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PROVIDER OF KNOWLEDGE

2015-07-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have not been to the World Trade Center area since 2001. About three months after the attack, I walked around the entire complex, which was boarded off, except for the egress road where they were carting debris out of the area. An endless stream of large trucks carrying beams and concrete and

[FairfieldLife] Apostates

2015-07-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I hear our moderator, a TM apostate now, was up visiting one of the non-approved Indian saints up in Chicago. As one of FFL's biggest spammers and generally non-interactive complainer, he has been relatively silent now that he holds the moderator button. In particular with that complete lack of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PROVIDER OF KNOWLEDGE

2015-07-05 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for the invitation, but I have other obligations. I deleted my post as I tend not to have any photos I have taken remain on the Internet in a public space for very long. I live about a 60 mile drive out of the City, and tend to avoid going into the City unless I have to. Normally I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: We Were at this Place Today [1 Attachment]

2015-07-04 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The one time I was at the Cloisters, my camera died. I was photographing a wooden statue of Jesus, and the camera's life came to an end, unrepairable. What can you expect from a Jesus dummy. As the ticket also included the Met museum as well, I went there next. I took an image of an Egyptian

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can AI Machines Know Ethics?

2015-06-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Empty seems to be replying to the digest version of FFL. This does not supply a means to duplicate the message you are responding to. To do that you have to manually copy the content of the message and paste it into the response, which otherwise starts as a blank slate with just the title of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra an enigma, a paradox (Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines)

2015-06-27 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 8:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uncle Tantra an enigma, a paradox (Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines)   Uncle Tantra was really

Re: [FairfieldLife] Doing full justice to something magnificant

2015-06-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 1:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Doing full justice to something magnificant   I can't even comment on this right away. I just want it to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines

2015-06-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 2:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines   Heh, gotta ask, what's the actual risk of Doug?  Will he bounce others?   I don't think so.  Look

[FairfieldLife] Freedom of Speech

2015-06-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
'What is freedom of speech anyway? There is the joke told years ago by the Russian comedian Yacov Smirnoff. He was confronted by an American bragging about freedom of speech. Smirnoff retorted: Big deal! We also have freedom of speech in Russia. What we don’t have is freedom after speech.'

Re: And talk about Turq's personality too Re: [FairfieldLife] Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thank you Ravi. And yes, I am happy. I do not feel all that dissonant. I do not feel obsessive, it just kind of oozes out. It is hard to philosophise when you are insane, but guys like Charles Manson made interesting attempts. Keep trying. I hope your grandmother's passing was an easy one.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ah. The master projector oracle speaks. I know, she says, exactly what everyone is really thinking and why. From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:00 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick, Time to shut down FFL (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This place may just fade into the woodwork. It does get tiresome. I am pretty sure Barry was feeling wearisome about it. He did post many marvellous things. His not being here seems the result of a personal vendetta at the hands of the moderator. The problem with power is it reveals one's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And (continuation of post #417750), the authfriend clone is the other one who always knows what others are thinking and why. From: awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 4:48 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of course you did not say it. I was pretending I know what your are thinking and what you are feeling when you post something. Now when you post, what do you do? From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Query, not the first line of a joke, or maybe it is?

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
are metaphors so they are all imaginary. On 06/25/2015 09:52 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   How do you distinguish an imaginary god from a real one?  #yiv2592264090 #yiv2592264090 -- #yiv2592264090ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font

[FairfieldLife] A Query, not the first line of a joke, or maybe it is?

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How do you distinguish an imaginary god from a real one? 

[FairfieldLife] Ethics and Driverless Cars

2015-06-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies? 'Right now, ethicists have more questions than answers. Should rules governing autonomous vehicles emphasize the greater good -- the number of lives saved -- and put no value on the individuals involved?' Should a Driverless Car Decide Who

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)   None

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 3:44 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Time to come clean Doug   I am in disagreement with xeno's assertion that he (Barry) was just too

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 3:58 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WHAT THE HELL? (Great Beyond Dispatch #2)

2015-06-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
None of us are perfect, and there does seem to be a narrowing of one's focus on certain things as we move into older age. I wasn't on FFL in the early days, but sniping back and forth did seem to be increasing, it's basically a lower brain function. Maharishi seemed to be in much better form

[FairfieldLife] A Final Last Message?

2015-06-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
_ I received a rather cryptic message from TurquoiseBee, in which he merely mentioned as possibly a 'last message' and all it is is a link to a video. I normally don't watch videos because they take too much time. I think he is using the song in this video to communicate a message; he had

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Everything is Information

2015-06-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 3:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Everything is Information   Xeno, No. The point is that the universe functions as information in a virtual

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Great Beyond Dispatch #2

2015-06-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, he doesn't appear to be a psychopath. If anything, I am closer to being one than him. His career path, and the people he lives with probably would not have worked out that way if he were a psychopath. Psychopaths tend to be ingratiating, they have an ability to make you like them. Turq does

Re: [FairfieldLife] What is a single thought?

2015-06-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice post. You might be interested in some Taoist benchmarks concerning enlightenment: Normal State — Wandering mind. Some will often have 3-6 (or more) threads/dialogs of thought jumping around.Temporary One Thread — In meditation, one quiets to one focused thread (as in mantra or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The birth of computer consciousness?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
First of all the idea 'heart chakra' has to be discovered as a physical construct rather than being conceived as a metaphysical imaginary entity. What is missing so far in artificial intelligence is awareness. What is consciousness that a computer could be conscious? One of the scientific

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, what were your reasons for removing Turq from the group? I know there have been many complaints about him from spiritual cretins as to why they wanted him removed, but you have been silent about it, even though you seemed vocal about it in a general way prior to being appointed moderator.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Alex, can you post a question to the forum for me?   This post is almost entirely irrelevant to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 7:41 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Why Does Time Exist?   Sean Carroll, a physicist, discusses the various aspects of time but does not cover the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Experimenting

2015-06-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Experimenting   I've been away for a while and thought it might be interesting to test the waters here

[FairfieldLife] Dark Medieval Consciousness

2015-06-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It would appear a dark, medieval consciousness is beginning to take over Fairfield Life, in the likeness of the Transcendental Meditation Organisation's tyrannical manner. Medieval 1. of or relating to the Middle Ages. 2. Informal, very old-fashioned or primitive. Synonyms:  antique  archaic  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I like Lynch's films too. They are dark for the most part, and in the view of people I watched them with, sick. He seems to have a preference for head injuries. My favourite is still his first major foray, Eraserhead. Although I suspect the non-linear character of many of them lead some to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That was helpful, I do not think I ever noticed that. But when I am using e-mail it is a bit more difficult as there is no box. Usually a post number is not mentioned. That the word message# is in grey reduces its visibility. Part of ergonomic software design is to test a population of typical

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
in the headers emails from Yahoo Groups. It is the second part of the Newman-Id: X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 3920196-m417027 417027 is the message number for your post below.  Not sure if that helps any but that's where it's given in the message header. On 06/17/2015 07:34 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

Re: [FairfieldLife] On Gratuitous invasions of privacy

2015-06-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
- person doesn't care if real name is used - person's real name is posted by person somewhere in e-mail (deliberately) Sincerely, Xenophaneros Anartaxius From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show

2015-06-08 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It would appear authfriend can correctly spell 'cognitive dissonance'. You are holding two or more contradictory beliefs and thinking everything is OK? From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Astrology Science?

2015-05-29 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:14 PM, Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:   Anartaxius, you ignorant slut.  So, in replying to my criticism you are consorting with prostitutes and those of dim and unlearned intelligence? Seems like a good fit. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Astrology Science?

2015-05-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 10:44 PM, Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:   Seems to me that since a single photon of light hitting a dark-conditioned retina can trigger a change in the flow of consciousness -- a single photon could possibly be a tipping point's final

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines?

2015-05-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:24 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: #yiv4548411469 -- #yiv4548411469ygrp-mkp {border:1px solid #d8d8d8;font-family:Arial;margin:10px 0;padding:0 10px;}#yiv4548411469 #yiv4548411469ygrp-mkp hr {border:1px solid

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

2015-05-21 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Doug, if I may pull a Judy on you, I said that (in slightly different words) the changes that occur in society seem to not turn out the way the drivers of change intended. I did not use the word 'millenarians' because most who have been the fount of ideas for change seldom used a 1,000 year

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

2015-05-21 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
At least Doug is inspiring interesting replies, which partially accounts for FFL having at least 3 times the number of posts as The Peak since about May 17. The contrast of viewpoints is the driver of inspiration in some and displeasure in others. In scientific discussions, people argue and

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

2015-05-21 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, Johnson got a lot of legislation passed. He knew how to deal and had the leverage to do it. He did not use the concepts of transcendent or dharma in that speech. He never struck me as a spiritual person and his use of the word 'God' in the speech seems the perfunctory inclusion that seems

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

2015-05-15 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
We are all crazy. Who in their right mind would spend so many years in pursuit of 'the absolute' whose description (no qualities) is exactly the same as nothing. Admittedly, it has been a lot of fun. At the core of everything, a vast blank to which we attribute all. Because to talk about it we

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

2015-05-15 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Narcissistic tendencies are at the heart of ego. We all have them. We all know how great we are in spite of THEM. What we tend not to know is how our tendencies fit into the world at large. Gurus in particular have a propensity to get caught in a bubble of adoration and those narcissistic

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

2015-05-13 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hallucination is really the crux of the matter. The basic premise of 'enlightenment' is we are somehow not experiencing reality but some kind of hallucination. Once we get that idea in our head we become a seeker, looking for a way out of the hallucination, but the basic problem here is we are

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

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   Nope, has nothing to do with the tactic you invented and

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

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   Nope, has nothing to do with the tactic you invented and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Free Coffee

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I was meeting someone at Starbucks, at a location convenient to us both, and there are many Starbucks around where I live, and few alternatives within a reasonable driving distance. I usually make my own coffee. Also American coffee tastes are different than those of Europeans, though I used to

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

2015-04-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The subject she seemed most interested in near the time she quit FFL was classical theism. But I have no idea if she was really interested in the subject, she seemed interested in it, but of course she had no confidence in my powers of perception to divine what her real motives were for

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

2015-04-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count   For the sake of there beingmaterial divergent view

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

2015-04-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, I can understand, if you are emotionally sensitive that you might feel hurt as a result of some the of things posted here on FFL, but 'ruinous' is another matter. That means disastrous or destructive. Obviously if a person thinks idea A is false and persuasively explains why he/she thinks

Re: [FairfieldLife] Xenu Porn [2 Attachments]

2015-04-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The term engram pre-dated Hubbard's use of the term, appearing in the early 1900s having the meaning 'the means by which memory traces are stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain (and other neural tissue) in response to external stimuli'. It was a scientific hypothesis. In

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

2015-04-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You're kidding, right? From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

Re: [FairfieldLife] ~~~~~~~~~~ about TMO friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~

2015-04-13 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I was talking to a well-placed governor a few years ago, and the concern he expressed was in the old days, people just wanted to hang out around Maharishi, but now of course that is impossible, and people have a different attitude toward both learning and going on courses because the draw of an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~~~~~~~~~ about friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~

2015-04-10 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~ about friendship ~~~   Pretentious, moi? Re If you are going to name things that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM reaches the Orient...

2015-04-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This was in Washington D.C. Think it was about 1985, I do not recall exactly. His comments were specifically related to the claim that Ayurveda could cure diabetes. As you recall, there was a time that TM was supposed to cure everything, the solution to all problems. At time went on, Chopra the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Could it be...Satan?

2015-03-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This discussion seems more about what you consider your moral compass to be, and that I should adopt your ideas about good and evil. While I have some sense of ethics, I have no moral compass. Good and Evil are in the eye of the beholder who thinks these ideas are real. I hold they do not exist

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Could it be...Satan?

2015-03-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yeah, I know, but I have some time to kill. There was one hour segment on CNN last night on atheists, not very in depth, but evenly presented. Examining the stigma of atheism - CNN Video |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Examining the stigma of atheism - CNN VideoCNN's Kyra Phillips examines

Re: [FairfieldLife] For you film buffs out there: 2001 in 70 mm

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I saw 2001 in 1968 in San Francisco. I rather liked the film because it was largely visual. Kubrick was deliberately cool, showing how the human race, after a vigorous beginning, had all of its fervour sapped by its own technology, it had become jaded. One reviewer at that time said the film

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

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world   Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really,

[FairfieldLife] FFL/The_Peak

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Since 18 March to now. FFL, 122 posts The Peak, 24 posts (figures are minus the skewing factor of Richard's irrelevance)

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

2015-03-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world   Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really,

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

2015-03-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The X-Originating-IP only tells us where the message first arrived, it seems. As for koans, here is one: 'A nun who was searching for enlightenment made a statue of Buddha and covered it with gold leaf. Wherever she went she carried this golden Buddha with her.Years passed and, still carrying

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

2015-03-18 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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 standard, he would not be able to break his word. The fun is people are erratic. It means you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Meet the Ancestor!

2015-03-05 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In the past day or so there have been 30 posts to FFL and 8 to the Peak. Since I am on both forums, I redid my email, sorting them into FFL and Peak folders, and one particular poster also on both goes directly to the trash, so these figures here represent everyone else. The intellects here are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US

2015-02-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
They modified the plant to stop producing an enzyme that makes the apple to turn brown. Just think, if we could do that to people, we could stop discrimination based on skin colour. I would not worry though, humans are exceptionally creative in finding things for disliking other people. There

Re: [FairfieldLife] Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US

2015-02-16 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Even hybrid seed producers use a tactic of creating seeds that do not perform well if the seeds from the crop are used, protecting their investment. The problem with poorer countries with GMO crops is just this — sharing seeds, or using seeds harvested from GMO crops. However GMO seeds from GMO

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While I have no memories of past lives that I would consider valid, death does seem like it would be an interesting experience to face, experiencing what comes up as it approaches, if it does not come unexpectedly, in which case anticipation or curiosity would be rendered moot. I am finding as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?

2014-12-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Duveyoung, comments in your text, below. From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?   Anartaxius -- gunna devil-advocate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How does one decide if a person's testimony is valid?

2014-12-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Duveyoung, I was replying to this and Yahoo managed to not save most of my draft, so I am having to reconstruct about 2/3 of what I had already written in response, and I had a business trip this afternoon, so my memory is no longer fresh, so if you expect a reply from me, you will have to wait

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick - Until the Vicious Negativity is removed - Goodbye

2014-12-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, a common definition of the word insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting it to come out differently. This phrase has been attributed to various people such as Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. However, whoever wrote it, it does seem to apply to your clinical

Re: [FairfieldLife] Nabby's Exit

2014-12-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If the subject was so despicable, why do people keep bringing it up? It was past history. They can stay over on that other   namby pamby forum, with its phallic symbol (a peak). He could not resist one last chance to spread his paedophile interests. This site is for the nitty gritty of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™

2014-12-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I heard that Francis Knight was asked to add M's image to the existing painting (while he was still alive) which I think she also painted, but if someone knows more, let me know. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Richard and Share

2014-12-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Share, I did not listen to the Hammond event. I have been reading Curtis' reports. I am basically ignoring Hammond because I do not think he is all there. Richard however is pointlessly prolonging this thing about Barry, already long past. Like Barry has expressed, I think Richard has sucked

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Wed 26-Nov-14 00:15:11 UTC

2014-11-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Share wrote: 'So Xeno, now that you've been corrupted into writing short posts, would you deem them also thin?'  Because the universe may be perceived in pieces, all is corruptible; no thing is immune from being demeaned, truncated,  belittled, debased, degraded,  despised, disparaged, abased,

Re: [FairfieldLife] All Beings Enlightened

2014-11-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hey Nabby I do not know if someone became enlightened whether that would shake Turq's core beliefs. We are not really certain of what his beliefs are, in particular because he claims he is only presenting opinions. Also Maharishi said techniques can only take you to what he called god

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Wed 26-Nov-14 00:15:11 UTC

2014-11-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Wed 26-Nov-14 00:15:11 UTC   Snipping out of respect for your forwarded dissertation on brevity: From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Whether or not you like what Barry writes, his output

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: All Beings Enlightened

2014-11-25 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, Buck, this is not what it means, it means people are directly seen as being in the enlightened state, not necessarily realised however. If this makes no sense, maybe some day it will. From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: All Beings Enlightened

2014-11-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No. Did MJ say that? I am having trouble connecting to FFL or my email about half the time. If it is spring, and the sun is shining and the birds are singing and were there apple trees bearing fruit (not likely in spring), and Jim did happen to walk on the sidewalk in that situation, then that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Most Absurd Rumor

2014-11-19 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think this brings up an interesting point. How does one define 'enlightenment'. The most overreaching attempts include the entire universe as a connected unity, and that would imply simply that all that exists is what enlightenment is about. If you include everything you cannot define

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

2014-10-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
These are really nice photos here. The composition is good. This is one of the first things poor photography lacks. These are also technically competent, which is fortunately much easier to achieve these days. I have put up a few snapshots occasionally but I tend to delete them after a while. I

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

2014-10-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Life long atheists cannot commit apostasy for there never is, nor was, anything for them to abandon. Apostasy (/əˈpɒstəsi/; Greek: ἀποστασία (apostasia), a defection or revolt) is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person. One who commits apostasy

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

2014-10-23 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental illness From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com From: TurquoiseBee turquoi

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

2014-10-22 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are Aliens too Distant for Contact?

2014-10-09 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is what Zen masters call 'selling water by the river'. We end up embroiled in a spiritual path because we think it will eliminate our dissatisfaction with life, but the dissatisfaction comes from the way we construe life to be. Life can indeed be horrible, and there are certain things that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Some of the embarrassing things believers pray to their God FOR

2014-10-07 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. —Ambrose

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yes, Barry, there is no need to believe in God

2014-10-07 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't know what Barry does when he is alone, but he is living with others according to his own account, so how much aloneness he experiences seems a bit difficult to determine from across the pond; how much he drinks is also difficult to determine. He posted a photo of a glass of red wine,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Welcome back Pluto!

2014-10-06 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The red giant start Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse) in the constellation of Orion fits within a 10x10 pixel area in the Hubble telescope. Betelgeuse has a diameter that is approximately 1,000 times that of Earth's Sun. it is 643±146 light-years distant from us. Most stars would appear much smaller

Re: [FairfieldLife] Welcome back Pluto!

2014-10-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
New Horizons just crossed the orbit of Neptune. It then will go into hibernation for 99 days. The photo is a painting or a digital painting, an artist's rendition of what they think it will be like. Right now Neptune is imaged as just a few pixels, Pluto is just a single pixel. It's still 284

Re: [FairfieldLife] Saying Bye Bye to Haters and Hate Speech on FFL

2014-10-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As meditators of the TM persuasion are, at least in their minds, marshalling the support of all the laws of nature, persecution should not be much more than batting away slightly annoying gnats. However real persecution requires a bit more machinery than a single individual can really bring to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Research on Cosmic Consciousness... more detail

2014-10-03 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cosmic consciousness (à la Maharishi) is not that complicated. It is an optimised duality. One experiences oneself as silent awareness, and everything else is walled off from the silence. Kinda feels like being underwater looking up at the world through the surface of the water. Other than than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My take on Waking Up by Sam Harris

2014-10-02 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The discussion is the conclusion, the typical end of any scientific paper. If this section is missing, what was the point of the paper? This part of the paper tells the reader what the researcher considers the conclusion drawn from the results of the study, often suggesting further lines of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony's Pedigree

2014-10-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have reproduced some paragraphs below that describe the relationship of a student to the teacher and a spiritual teaching from one of the books of Zen-trained Adyashanti. This seems somewhat different than what is expected in the TMO. 'There is no such thing as riding the coattails of an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony's Pedigree

2014-10-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That book was a big help to me, as it contained advice that no TM teacher I knew seemed to have a clue about. From: danfriedman2002 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Astral and Celetial

2014-09-30 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So, Share how do you determine whether the astral and the celestial actually exist, and then, if they do, how do you determine their vibrational spectrum? How do you determine they have a vibrational spectrum; what is that anyway? —An ignorant bystander. Now there are some who think there is

[FairfieldLife] Privacy

2014-09-29 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In this electronic age, if someone wants something to be private, then they have to be the only one who knows that something. Share and beware.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: 'There is no God'

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is perhaps not a matter of proof. Matter and energy are defined as physical. They are tokenised by the mind as such. Then the mind can manipulate them as such. You could just as well tokenise them as consciousness, and see where that leads in musing about the world. It is not a matter of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: 'There is no God'

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
According to the current theories, time and space did not exist before the universe. Space-time simply emerged. Therefore asking what happened before makes no sense, because there was no time. And because space did not exist, there was nowhere for what could not have happened before, to be. But

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: 'There is no God'

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How could you know the universe had an end, if it's still here? When are you? Did you mean 'has'? From: jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 4:58 PM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] First Genetically Modified Babies

2014-09-28 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Graduate High School This Year | TechCrunch The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Gradu... Remember the sci-fi thriller GATTACA? For those who never saw the film and/or eschewed all pop culture in the late 90's for

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