RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
Just to be picky, I don't believe in it can mean either I don't believe it exists or I'm opposed to it. If you're opposed to abortion, you might well say, I don't believe in abortion. Anyway, what I heard that he said was Reincarnation is for the ignorant, which is better than either.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
In case anybody was confused, I was not suggesting that Reincarnation is for the ignorant was the only way he said it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I have heard he said it many different ways. (snip) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
as humans. So there must come a time when it is no longer *necessary* to continue to come back here, or anywhere else, though quite possibly a choice remains, even then, to take any form at all, anywhere we choose to. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : In case anybody

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
is ignorant [of his basic nature] will continue, by necessity, to reincarnate, after which the ignorance is dispelled, incarnation may possibly continue to be an option. Is that what you meant?? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : I think by ignorant he meant not enlightened

Re: [FairfieldLife] calm the situation in Ukraine-you can help!

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
Jews do NOT have to register in the Ukraine. I already told you that. Why are you repeating it? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : and you are ignoring the violence inthe Ukraine, the fact that Jews now have to register and all that???

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread authfriend
Comments below... The flipside, of course, is why you care? I met you online what, 15-20 years ago? You weren't as anti-TM as you appear to be now, even though you made clear that you no longer practiced it. What changed? Nothing changed, because I wasn't anti-TM then, and am not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Weird, I was just having the same kinds of thoughts a few minutes ago while reading a piece in the NYTimes titled Cosmic Connections in the Deep Sea about the author's experience diving. It mentions the issue only in passing, but it triggered a Wait a minnit sort of response. It occurred to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
And others, of course, own their own computers and set their own work schedules. I don't recall ever having seen you mention them. For a very select few, all they have to do is get up early in the morning, brew some coffee in the kitchen, and then walk down the hall to their home office

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Of course, as far as Barry is concerned, all those who don't agree with him that human beings are insignificant have been and always will be fanatics whom history will remember as tyrants and killers. From: Share Long sharelong60@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Maybe so, but that wasn't my point and has nothing to do with my point. The point is, these fanatics are also lunatics. Most of these god-men are also mad-men. --- authfriend@... wrote : Of course, as far as Barry is concerned, all those who don't agree with him that human beings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Raising Net Neutrality from the Dead

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't spam; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimidate would-be posters who don't know any better into thinking they can only

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
If it says Spring Water or Artesian Water on the label, then it's required to be spring or artesian water, not tap water. There are many reasons to avoid bottled water, but not being able to tell whether it's tap water isn't one of them (assuming you can read). I love, love, love, love

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Raising Net Neutrality from the Dead

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Sounds like Buck might condone censorship of some kind. On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:55 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't spam; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spam, Spammers and Spamming the FFL list

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
, -Buck authfriend writes: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't spam; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimidate would-be posters who don't know any better

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spam, Spammers and Spamming the FFL list

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
authfriend writes: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't spam; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimidate would-be posters who don't know any better

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-05 Thread authfriend
Jason, don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote : --- authfriend@... wrote : I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term society. Some elements of society take

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-05 Thread authfriend
: --- authfriend@... wrote : Jason, don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Listen Grandma, I always felt all these years, that Barry is the only person who is rude, cantankerous, to pull people into argument loops. You seem to be guilty of the same. Everytime I try to reach out

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-05 Thread authfriend
Click Show message history, dumbass. That's what it's for. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/5/2014 7:19 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Jason, don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Would it be too much of a problem to indicate

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
Comments below... Because the thing is, humans, at a fundamental level, cannot prefer or value more highly, what they even unconsciously hold as detrimental. Nonsense. People do this all the time, continue behaviors that they consciously *know* are detrimental to them. Their position within

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : My guess is that having preferences or hierarchies is hard wired into us for survival value. I disagree. I see nothing wrong with preference or believing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
To demean points of view he disagrees with is high on Barry's list of personal values. Er, I mean, preferences... Rhetorical question. No need to reply. I was just amused that neither you nor Share can conceive of having a preference without the presence of some kind of hierarchy.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
Comments below... Bingo. One of the things that I don't think a number of theists or quasi-theists or theists-in-denial-that-they're-theists Oh, you forgot to list the nontheists, like moi. don't get on this forum is that what they call atheists barging into an otherwise pleasant

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
The Jewish registration story turns out to have been what amounts to a hoax, Michael. A flyer with the announcement that Jews must register was distributed in one town in the Ukraine by three masked gunmen, but nobody has been able to determine where it originated--certainly not from Putin. In

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for those few who can admit to having been Deadheads...

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
And Barry, of course, is Oh-So-Superior to us poor benighted less-than-human losers who missed it. No hierarchy there, nope nope nope. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ...or human. These are a few moments of one of the unsung heroes of the Grateful Dead

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term society. Some elements of society take the position you describe, but others do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
Curtis, you way overstate the case. In this country, at least, there's oodles of criticism of biblical ideas, including ideas at the heart of Christian belief. Ever heard of the Jesus Seminar? And a currently popular book, How Jesus Became God, maintains that the idea of Jesus as God developed

[FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
Actually, this distinction is pretty elementary with regard to neuroscientific studies; it really isn't something that has just never occurred to the researchers. Libet's studies, for example, looked directly at the apparent time lag between decisions made on the unconscious level and when they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term society. Some elements of society take the position you describe, but others do not. And the negative reaction to criticism from atheists has a great deal to do with its hostility quotient. Simple disagreement doesn't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
Not to mention, we have no idea what the relative percentages are of TMers who commit suicide versus those in the general population. For all we know, the percentage of TMers could be smaller. Certainly suicidal TMers tend to draw more attention because it's so contrary to what TM promises. But

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
I hope you're not alluding to me, Curtis, because if you are, this would be a seriously misleading way of putting it. Verging on deceptive, in fact. A previous poster was also a big fan of trying to hold me accountable for Barry's perspective. What is with you guys? Can't keep yer eye on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Right. You just regularly barge into such discussions, announcing that there is no God and that anyone who believes there is is worse than a fool. Although I fully understand that some people get off on debating the existence of God and things like that, *nothing bores me more* these

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Nobody ever disputed this point with Barry, including those who believe in determinism. He could never quite understand how someone could believe in determinism and yet continue to act as if they had free will without serious cognitive dissonance. He was unable to grasp that believers in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
, mjackson74@... wrote : Christopher Hitchens would agree with him if Barry were to say such a thing. On Fri, 5/2/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating

[FairfieldLife] Re: Harris is a practicing transcending MEDITATOR afterall

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
What happened here?? - Harris: Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described “Buddhist” is to be complicit in the world’s violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree. - See more at:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
are you. Sorta like the way you're trying to barge into a pleasant conversation that doesn't concern you and trying to turn it into an argument of some kind? What a pathetic old hag you are, Judy. From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
discussion). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : I hope you're not alluding to me, Curtis, because if you are, this would be a seriously misleading way of putting it. Verging on deceptive, in fact. C: Sorry

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
FWIW, Maharishi said at one point, Bliss isn't blissful. By which he meant, I assume, that to experience blissfulness required some degree of waking-state consciousness. IOW, you wouldn't experience blissfullness in transcendental-consciousness-by-itself--but you would be in a state of bliss by

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
bullshit when it had something to do with Robin. But this was before my time here so I am conjecturing based on having read some old posts just previous to my showing up here. On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:20 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: I hope you're not alluding to me, Curtis

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
. But this was before my time here so I am conjecturing based on having read some old posts just previous to my showing up here. On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:20 AM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: I hope you're not alluding to me, Curtis, because if you are, this would be a seriously misleading way

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Comments below... From a sociological POV this question has vast implications, and always has, in how we approach society's sense of justice in our legal system. It wasn't long ago that we hanged an elephant for killing a man. Today we have people on death row who were not mentally able

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-30 Thread authfriend
I'm happy to report that I have never seen your dick, Barry, but if you say it's tiny, I'll take your word for it. Hey Jude...if your panties are this twisted, you and Ann might want to switch over to comments about how tiny my dick is. That would fit in better with you gals'

[FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Bob Hoskins

2014-04-30 Thread authfriend
Well, that would actually be all of your talk about such faces, Barry. BTW, below is a photo of Hoskins in his late 30s. With all of this talk recently of faces that show their age, it is sad to bid farewell to one that never did. Bob Hoskins was a journeyman actor, as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Bob Hoskins

2014-04-30 Thread authfriend
even state what the issue IS, your misogynistic pea-brain has been so thoroughly fried from having your buttons pushed umpty times in a row since you started this. But no need to wait; the photo you want is the very one you've been stupidly ragging on. :-) From: authfriend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Watch Dav i d Lynch’s hy pnoti c new video

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Er, Salyavin, there are plenty of David Lynch fans who aren't TMers. (Not to mention TMers who aren't David Lynch fans, like moi.) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Share, Nabby is motivated here by the fact that Lynch does TM. Whether you are on his

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Thanks, Steve. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Based on that picture of her, I'd say it's pretty accurate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Rather that admit the effects of all those years of cigarettes and seething

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nazi Cult Mentality

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Fascinating, Michael, that you would see this comment as describing TMers (presumably TB TMers). TMers generally are fairly well educated, first of all. And if they didn't question the world around them, they would be unlikely to become committed to TM to start with, given that TM is

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Actually, as you know, Richard, I did post a photo of my own face a few years ago (along with Barry's Fantasy Image of Judy). It's in the Members section. That's the one azgray is referring to. Apparently he believes he's the only one who can see it, so he feels safe in describing it as what he

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
unaware of it. That implies either never having looked in a mirror or being a vampire, and unable to see her own image in it. :-) From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nazi Cult Mentality

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
On Tue, 4/29/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nazi Cult Mentality To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 6:02 PM

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
. It says far more about them than it does about the object of their disapprobation. On 4/29/2014 1:23 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Actually, as you know, Richard, I did post a photo of my own face a few years ago (along with Barry's Fantasy Image of Judy). Sorry

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
looks like exposes a certain, well, deficit in the ability to come up with meaningful criticism of the person's participation. It says far more about them than it does about the object of their disapprobation. On 4/29/2014 1:23 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Actually, as you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
I wouldn't call his answers enlightened wisdom, but a lot of them are clever and funny. One would have to be a real sourpuss not to find them charming, even if one were a True Unbeliever. Barry hasn't had the chance to spill his bile for three whole days. Expect a veritable flood in the week

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
What a crashingly stupid paragraph. There were, of course (as Barry knows), umpty obits published after MMY died. As I recall, quite a few of them were posted or linked to here. Some were biased negatively, some were biased positively, some were nicely balanced. I probably did critique one of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
He probably didn't know what snake oil was, but I wouldn't put it past him to have been familiar with the term (he loved playing with idioms) and set the reporter up. If the reporter had defined it differently--Snake oil is a fake panacea--he'd have had a smart-ass response to that instead. One

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
Lenz may well have been interviewed by Hard Copy at some point, but the reporter in the wheelchair was crack journalist John Hockenberry interviewing Lenz on Dateline NBC. When I saw the tapes, I couldn't believe how phony Lenz came across. Just as an aside: If one isn't a terminal tightass,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
Clever is not another word for perfect, dumbass. In other words, it was perfect. I rest my case. :-) :-) :-) From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 6:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Questions for Rick

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
Except, of course, for the fact that Nabby is right. We've been hearing complaints about Amma here on FFL for years. I believe there's even an anti-Amma Yahoo Group. So it really is a little odd to see Rick saying Tredwell's is a lone voice. Maybe Rick didn't express himself clearly; perhaps

Re: [FairfieldLife] Questions for Rick

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
OK, looks like Rick was referring to Tredwell's specific claims, whatever they are. Still, to point out that Amma has a lot of critics is hardly to cast aspersions on her; it's just a matter of fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Except, of course, for the fact

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
You mean, this one? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/photos/albums/408557067/lightbox/1672927237?orderBy=ordinalamp;sortOrder=asc https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/photos/albums/408557067/lightbox/1672927237?orderBy=ordinalamp;sortOrder=asc ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
He knows that, Lawson. He's trolling. The Raj is in the USA. We're talking about the Maharishi AYurveda facility in India that the press says is worth $1.5 billion US. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/27/2014 4:29 AM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heaven on Earth for all Mankind

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
Not quite true, Alex. One of the males is featured here: http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html Doesn't sound like he's going to end up as veal chops, but perhaps he's the exception. At any rate, the text sounds very respectful and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heaven on Earth for all Mankind

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
a bull's balls and enslaving it as a draft animal truly be considered ahimsa? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Not quite true, Alex. One of the males is featured here: http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creationists thwart mammoth bid!

2014-04-26 Thread authfriend
Not clear whether Richard is just trolling, but of course Anglicanism is not subject to the pope. That's kind of its raison d'etre, in fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/26/2014 10:09 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: You do realize

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creationists thwart mammoth bid!

2014-04-26 Thread authfriend
Also, Episcopalianism in the U.S. is the same as Anglicanism in the U.K., except it isn't subject to the British monarch. Not clear whether Richard is just trolling, but of course Anglicanism is not subject to the pope. That's kind of its raison d'etre, in fact. You do realize

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creationists thwart mammoth bid!

2014-04-26 Thread authfriend
Actually, Episcopalianism (Anglicanism) is Protestant. But it looks too Catholic for some fundamentalists and other Protestants to be comfortable with it. My parents both came from long lines of Presbyterians. Although they weren't at all religious, they were scandalized when my father's

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
@... wrote : From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer Ooops. Looks like I pushed a few more of Barry's buttons. It makes him absolutely crazy

Re: [FairfieldLife] The poetry of motion

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Good one, Share! Wow! thanks, salyavin PS I'd say this is one way that balls can be used to prove the existence of God (-: On Friday, April 25, 2014 5:53 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Pendulum Waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ

[FairfieldLife] Re: When it isn't your time to go....

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Sorry, but Edg's right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM Courtesy snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp (Actually, the Snopes.com cite is courtesy one

[FairfieldLife] Re: When it isn't your time to go....

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Oh, OK, thought you were being sarcastic. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Sorry, but Edg's right: I know, that's why I said yeah... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Portia de Rossi Pregnant

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Most likely possibility: She isn't pregnant. This is a story from the National Enquirer. It's almost certainly just a dumb rumor, tabloid B.S. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Anything is possible in any marriage these days. Gay or straight.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Portia de Rossi Pregnant

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
? Only time will tell. If Ellen files for a divorce, then we can be certain something is wrong with their marriage. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Most likely possibility: She isn't pregnant. This is a story from the National Enquirer. It's almost certainly

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-24 Thread authfriend
. It's haunted his dreams ever since. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer Willytex

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-24 Thread authfriend
Barry's linked to that Barry's fantasy image of Judy photo at least a dozen times since I posted it (and at one point he did a Photoshop job making it appear to be a huge crop circle). Talk about obsession! Admittedly, the photo was an afterthought. If anybody wants to see what I look like

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-24 Thread authfriend
Ooops. Looks like I pushed a few more of Barry's buttons. It makes him absolutely crazy that I'm actually a fairly nice-looking dame rather than the hideous hag of his nightmares. In many cases what people say about your face is more devastating than turning it into a caricature. We see

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised?

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
For once I completely agree with Barry: the guy is positively icky. But then, that's what I thought about Fred Lenz too. (Maybe even ickier given that he was better looking.) Run away! Run away! When it comes to Girish Varma, IMO anyone who couldn't just look at photos of

Re: [FairfieldLife] ACTIVE Need for More Meditation, Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Better is death in one's own dharma; the dharma of another brings danger.--3:35, Maharishi's translation ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Buck, it isn't everyone's dharma to be meditating more and as it says in the Gita, the dharma of another, though higher,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised?

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Oh, for crying out loud, Michael. This is just as extreme, and just as laughably unrealistic, as the effusions of the blissninniest TM TB. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Nope this WAS the plan all along - to use the idea of enlightenment and whatever else

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Share, were you in the Reply window when you tried to do the edit? What's File Edit? I have no trouble editing in Neo. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Richard, I just attempted to edit your post in Neo. I highlighted what i wanted to edit. When I hit

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Willytex is only pretending, but I certainly am an ET. Just ask Barry. Why do you think I freak him out so badly? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I am perfectly willing to believe that WillyTex and possbily Judy are indeed ET's.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Hey, Salyavin, you and I were talking about paranormal research in this exchange, remember? You brought God into it, not me. BTW, the light green type you're using now is so faint it's really hard to read. Please pick something darker. Again, speaking just for myself, I have no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Barry has always been...uh...metaphysically challlenged. ;-) Hey, Bar, metaphysical ultimacy isn't an argument, unprovable or otherwise. It's just a technical term. Relax. You mean unprovable arguments like metaphysical ultimacy? I'm sorry, but that strikes me as a made-up phrase

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Me in blue... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Hey, Salyavin, you and I were talking about paranormal research in this exchange, remember? You brought God into it, not me. I think God

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Barry was taking a shot at me because he assumed I'd started the God argument in this exchange (not having read the whole thing, as usual). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Hey, Salyavin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Bar, you have NO IDEA how transparent your mind is. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Just out of curiosity, Barry, when have I tried to appear technical without having a clue? Let's have an example. You're pulling a Judy, Share, and trying to appear technical while having nary a clue.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Actually, the fire hydrant analogy is a perfect one for Barry's near-total ignorance of metaphyics. (As well as of Robin.) Discussions of God and theology make Barry very nervous; that's why he's especially irritable and gratuitously nasty this morning. But what do you think of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
: authfriend@... authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea? Actually, the fire hydrant analogy is a perfect one for Barry's near-total ignorance

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Projection, as I just pointed out. This is a person who actually believed Robin Carlsen was bright and charismatic and worth following as a spiritual teacher. As opposed to Barry who actually believed Fred Lenz was bright enough to turn huge halls golden and worth following as a spiritual

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
This sounds like one of Barry's paranoid fantasies--that Steve, by his own admission, wants to force atheists to be uncomfortable. There's zero indication of that in what Steve wrote. He lists some possible future scientific developments that he speculates might make an atheist uncomfortable

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
Summary! my own summery

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
More comments below (in blue). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : Comments below... One reason I don't rule paranormal stuff out is that I'm not convinced science knows how to test

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
Xenosophistry: you can't beat it. Metaphysical ultimacy = divine simplicity. Being Itself. Doesn't get much simpler than that. Quantum mechanics, most successful theory in the history of science. And the simple formula that everyone can understand is...? “Do not keep saying to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
In the minds of a few on FFL, the only reason to defend a person (or group, or idea) that is being treated unfairly is that one fully supports that person (or group, or idea). Therefore, if one defends Maharishi or the TMO, one is ipso facto a cultist. If one defends theism, one is ipso facto a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Um, that would be ...on a Sunday morning. (But you can think about it on Monday morning too if you choose. ;-) ) Just something to think about on a Monday morning...

[FairfieldLife] Feel-good story of the week

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
From a New York Times obituary this morning: Gene Estess worked on Wall Street for two decades and came to feel that he never had really good days. “I didn’t come home with stories to tell or satisfaction or a feeling I’d done anything to help anybody except myself and my family,” he said in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Excellent post, Salyavin. FWIW, this is what I mean when I say I don't rule something out: Can minds affect and influence each other at a distance? I still actually keep an open mind to it, but I don't believe it. Also: Regarding proof, I think it doesn't matter whether everyone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lurking and Searching FairfieldLife on Yahoo [ FFL ]

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
One workaround is if you find a message you want to read on the list of search hits, instead of left-clicking on the link to the message to open it directly, right-click on it, then click Open in New Tab (this is in Windows 7 using Chrome; not sure if there's a Mac equivalent, but as I recall

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
I once read about a study in which a large number of subjects (at least a thousand) were hypnotically regressed to past lives. Only a handful, apparently, remembered lives in identifiably historical times. The great majority recalled lives as brown-skinned people working in the fields. (A

[FairfieldLife] It helps to speak out (sometimes)

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
General Mills Reverses Itself on Consumers’ Right to Sue By STEPHANIE STROM APRIL 20, 2014 General Mills, one of the country’s largest food companies, on Saturday night announced in a stunning about-face that it was withdrawing its controversial plans to make consumers give up their right

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