[FairfieldLife] Re: Last Rites for the Voice

2018-09-10 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-16 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 1:45 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites My 2 cents on Buddhism, the Soul, and Reincarnation: Reincarnation, yes; but no Soul. What reincarnates into a new human or other organism is a conglomeration of components to which are attached

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-15 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My 2 cents on Buddhism, the Soul, and Reincarnation: Reincarnation, yes; but no Soul. What reincarnates into a new human or other organism is a conglomeration of components to which are attached energy and the notion of unfinished business. Apparently, some of the old components are not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-15 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   My 2 cents on Buddhism, the Soul, and Reincarnation:  Reincarnation, yes; but no Soul.  What reincarnates into a new human or other organism is a conglomeration of components to which are attached energy and the notion of unfinished business

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   Natural Progressions ... animism polytheism monotheism/panthesism agnosticism atheism

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Natural Progressions ... animism polytheism monotheism/panthesism agnosticism atheism igtheism ... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : See, this is why I tend to avoid interactions with theists. Suggest that God doesn't exist (or in this case that no God is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites Re your previous comment: Buddhists believe in rebirth, not of a soul, but a reborn heap of proclivities or tendencies due to karma.: Correct again. What I would claim is that if anyone thinks tendencies - desires, fears, grasping, valuing, . . . - can be reborn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
, not with me. From: s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 3:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites Re your previous comment: Buddhists believe in rebirth, not of a soul, but a reborn heap

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering' previous lives and even

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering' previous lives and even 'remembering' the transit through the Bardo between death and rebirth

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-13 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering' previous lives and even 'remembering' the transit through the Bardo between death and rebirth. At the same time, I know that these 'memories' may be false, so I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : ... If I get a bullet in the brain before I get to see the end of this final season of Justified and find out what happens to Ava, I'm going to be a little

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
the Earth, including ice cores from Antartica. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering' previous lives and even 'remembering' the transit through the Bardo between death and rebirth

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re You would think that these guys would love Robert Anton Wilson. Something tells me they have never read any of his books.: My thoughts exactly. If they haven't read him then Cosmic Trigger I is a fun intro. Re your previous comment: Buddhists believe in rebirth, not of a soul, but a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
This is a strange thread - you would think that these guys wold love Robert Anton Wilson. Something tells me they have never read any of his books. They are just posting blah blah and trying out some button-pushing. It's almost depressing watching these guys in action. What a waste of good

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 3:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   Re your previous comment: Buddhists believe in rebirth, not of a soul, but a reborn heap of proclivities or tendencies due to karma.: Correct again. What I would claim

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
It's another sunny morning here in California. But it's a bit chilly. To make you feel better, Californians would rather see rain for awhile. On 02/11/2015 07:01 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re it's the end of the day here in sunny CA: Ah! The sun! It's been a while

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-12 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
12, 2015 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering' previous lives and even 'remembering' the transit through the Bardo between death and rebirth. At the same time, I know

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You have not defined what looking forward to work means. Looking forward to what comes next does not require that a next to exist for looking forward to work. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : This would not work if there is no next. ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Looking forward to what comes next does not require that a next to exist for looking forward to work. : WTF?! Is English not your first language? Barry presumably believes that his good self will carry on existing in some future state. If that strikes one as unlikely then looking back

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This would not work if there is no next. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The notion of spending my last moments concerned what others thought of me and hoping for them to forgive me doesn't appeal to me. What I hope for at the moment of death is a sense of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Goodness, don't you think you're getting a tad over-irritated? I know my response is the trigger, not the cause of your over-the-top reaction, but still...relax. Yep, I could have been clearer. So, here's my corrected response to anartaxius' comment: You have not defined what it means for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In the context of my comment, looking forward to a 'next' is certainly possible even if there is no 'next'. Expecting there to be a result from this though, would have no result if there was no 'next'. I was thinking of Wittgenstein's comments on death: 'At death the world comes to an end.'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re it's the end of the day here in sunny CA: Ah! The sun! It's been a while since I saw that here in London. I'm not irritated, never mind over-irritated. I do find it odd though that Barry believes he's got an immortal soul and yet scoffs at the idea of God. How anyone could suppose

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:02 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   This would not work if there is no next. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The notion of spending my last moments concerned what others thought

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 1:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   Re Looking forward to what comes next does not require that a next to exist for looking forward to work. : WTF?! Is English not your first language?  Barry

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. The two concepts are not related in any way. From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   Re it's the end of the day here in sunny CA

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites   I feel the way I do about the notion of reincarnation because of personal experience 'remembering' previous lives and even 'remembering' the transit through

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last rites

2015-02-10 Thread emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interesting post. Being wrapped in one's own selfhood during one's life simply could result in living in hell on earth (kinda like Barry seems to be doing). I don't personally really know through experience much about religion as I wasn't raised in one, but from what I have gleaned, from a