[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-12 Thread Richard J. Williams
Barry has an agenda, to discredit TM and TMers; his attacks on India and Hinduism and Hindus are a function of that agenda. Would he express the same attitude if he didn't have the agenda? Barry's agenda is to discredit Judy, and anything she supports. If that means putting

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Dear Barry baby, There's certainly truth in your opinion that these are primitive practices. However as most posters here already know your opinions lack any sense of dispassionate analysis. Your opinions are tainted, corrupted by your paranoid, delusional, narcissistic tendencies, this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread navashok
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: You could have also presented examples of the camaraderie , the joy, love, sacrifice, friendship, kinship that people experience during this event, the oneness, connection to the higher energy people feel. All religious

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Ann
Ravi, you are one hard-hitting, potent guy when you want to be. And I loved every word of this, not because you were taking out Barry, but because what you said (and Share will love this) had the good old support of nature. Or, as Robin might conjecture, it contained more reality and thus more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: (snip) I stand on my original statement -- primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive land. If such a spectacle as the Kumbh Mela were taking place in Africa, worshiping tribal river gods who were portrayed in *their*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Bhairitu
My nephew drove over that bridge about 1/2 hour before it collapsed. Talk about car-ma. On 02/10/2013 08:10 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: My comment was facetious. The bit about major bridges on Interstate highways is an obvious reference to the Minnesota bridge collapse. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: (snip) I stand on my original statement -- primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive land. If such a spectacle as the Kumbh Mela were taking place in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: (snip) I stand on my original statement -- primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Ravi Chivukula
Thanks dear Ann-a - ironically, I am on the same side of Barry on this. If someone would ask me about Kumbha Mela, I would go - what's so spiritual about taking a bath in dirty, polluted water and spending time around a crazy, deranged crowd. Anyway Ann - I believe you should be everyone's good

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: (snip) I stand on my original statement -- primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread Richard J. Williams
I stand on my original statement -- primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive land. If such a spectacle as the Kumbh Mela were taking place in Africa, worshiping tribal river gods who were portrayed in *their* scriptures as engaged in non- stop war and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-11 Thread obbajeeba
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: I stand on my original statement -- primitive people worshiping primitive gods in a primitive land. If such a spectacle as the Kumbh Mela were taking place in Africa, worshiping tribal river gods who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there... honey why do you even have to ask me that? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/india-pitcher-festival-stampede-kumbh-mela_n_2658355.html Primitive people worshiping

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there... honey why do you even have to ask me that?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there... honey why do you even have to ask me that?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: To paraphrase Bob Dylan, And you ask why I don't go there... honey why do you even have to ask

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread srijau
reality check, you haven't got a clue about your own country http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bridge-collapse-anniversary-safe-drivers-now/story?id=16907710 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread Alex Stanley
My comment was facetious. The bit about major bridges on Interstate highways is an obvious reference to the Minnesota bridge collapse. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@... wrote: reality check, you haven't got a clue about your own country

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread srijau
where was the obvious part? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: My comment was facetious. The bit about major bridges on Interstate highways is an obvious reference to the Minnesota bridge collapse. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@ wrote: reality

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@... wrote: where was the obvious part? This part: Reality check, Nabs. Here in first world, superpower America, bridges never collapse, especially not major bridges on Interstate highways. What do you mean, which part? What I just quoted

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dozens killed by stampede at Kumbh Mela

2013-02-10 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley wrote: My comment was facetious. The bit about major bridges on Interstate highways is an obvious reference to the Minnesota bridge collapse. [PHOTO: The I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River which collapsed August 1, 2007, in Minneapolis