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curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Jeez. Here's Curtis the atheist, threatening Judy,
also an atheist by most standards, with divine
retribution if she continues to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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The speech quoted by Curtis is delivered by Jules, a
professional hit man, just before he kills someone.
Therefore the content of the speech, claiming to be
the righteous hand of God, becomes a wry commentary
on
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
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Sorry if it was unclear. The Pulp Fiction quote is what your you
are a liar routine sounds like to me.
One more point here: I haven't called you a liar.
What I've said is that you are *dishonest*. There's
dis·hon·estPronunciation Key (ds-nst)
adj.
1. Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or deceive.
2. Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.
You are going to want to correct those silly folks over at
dictionary.com about this.
You are trying to make this distinction so you can imply
Thanks for trying Turq!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Jeez. Here's Curtis the atheist, threatening Judy,
also an atheist by most standards, with divine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dis·hon·estPronunciation Key (ds-nst)
adj.
1. Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or deceive.
2. Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.
You are going to want to correct those silly folks over
Judy: You have it exactly backward. I'm trying to help
others see that dishonesty is intolerable, ESPECIALLY
on a so-called spiritual forum.
JULES (Pulp Fiction)
There's a passage I got memorized,
seems appropriate for this
situation: Ezekiel 25:17. The path
of the righteous man is beset
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted:
JULES (Pulp Fiction)
There's a passage I got memorized,
seems appropriate for this
situation: Ezekiel 25:17. The path
of the righteous man is beset on
all sides by the inequities of the
selfish and the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Judy: You have it exactly backward. I'm trying to help
others see that dishonesty is intolerable, ESPECIALLY
on a so-called spiritual forum.
JULES (Pulp Fiction)
There's a passage I got memorized,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Really, the mentality of those who consider them-
selves the moral mind police of the world is mind-
blowing sometimes.
But it's not at all mind-blowing when someone whose
modus operandi (operandum?) is dishonesty
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Really, the mentality of those who consider them-
selves the moral mind police of the world is mind-
blowing sometimes.
But it's not at all
I was definitely thinking that you would dig that quote! Your
inquisition quotes are very interesting. Funny, sad, scary, and
fucked up all at once! Good find. I need to look into some of that
material. It is a fascinating study.
I think it applies very well to the usual movement style of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Really, the mentality of those who consider them-
selves the moral mind
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was definitely thinking that you would dig that quote! Your
inquisition quotes are very interesting. Funny, sad, scary, and
fucked up all at once! Good find. I need to look into some of that
material. It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
think we are dealing with something different, something more
personal. Sometimes the most vitriolic people are really the most
fragile. It would be unkind to say more, but I suspect you already
know everything
Brilliant!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
think we are dealing with something different, something more
personal. Sometimes the most vitriolic people are really
I can't help help thinking that Jackson's famous Bible quote (actually it's not a direct quote of the Bible but a compilation) from "Pulp Fiction" helped get him the part of God:
JACKSON VOICES GOD
Also see: SAMUEL L JACKSON
Movie superstar SAMUEL L JACKSON will voice God
In my haste to respond to your reproduction of the Pulp Fiction
quote I didn't notice that you, too, had read that he was going to
play the voice of God.
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I was definitely thinking that you would dig that quote!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I can't help help thinking that Jackson's famous Bible quote
(actually it's not a direct quote of the Bible but a compilation)
from Pulp Fiction helped get him the part of God:
Makes me wonder, however, how many
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I can't help help thinking that Jackson's famous Bible quote
(actually it's not a direct quote of the Bible but a compilation)
from Pulp
Go here and type in God said in the word/phrase search.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/
There is a lot more work for him than you would think! Reading it in
his voice makes me want to re-read the whole thing!
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In my haste to respond to your reproduction of the Pulp Fiction
quote I didn't notice that you, too, had read that he was going to
play the voice of God.
I don't think it can be posted too often! It makes me laugh
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Really, the mentality of those who consider them-
selves the moral mind police of the world is mind-
blowing sometimes.
But it's not at all
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Really, the mentality of those who consider them-
selves the moral mind police
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Judy: You have it exactly backward. I'm trying to help
others see that dishonesty is intolerable, ESPECIALLY
on a so-called
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Really,
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Jeez. Here's Curtis the atheist, threatening Judy,
also an atheist by most standards, with divine
retribution if she continues to call attention to
his dishonesty.
Now, *that's* weird.
Sorry if it was unclear. The Pulp Fiction quote is what your you are
a liar routine sounds like to me. I
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I wrote:]
Jeez. Here's Curtis the atheist, threatening Judy,
also an atheist by most standards, with divine
retribution if she continues to call attention to
his dishonesty.
Now, *that's* weird.
Sorry
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeez. Here's Curtis the atheist, threatening Judy,
also an atheist by most standards, with divine
retribution if she continues to call attention to
his dishonesty.
Now, *that's* weird.
Sorry if it was
I just want to point out one more instance of
Curtis's sleazy avoidance tactics:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
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My response was that, yes, I would have known after
some period of practice, based only on my experience
of the sutra. At least in my case, Curtis's assumption
about the role of the hype is in error.
Does Curtis acknowledge this? Of course not. He even
claims my experience has nothing to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
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My response was that, yes, I would have known after
some period of practice, based only on my experience
of the sutra. At least in my case, Curtis's assumption
about the role of the hype is in error.
Or perhaps you're chiding me for being so rude as
to call your integrity into question.
Yes that is it. You have made this move once too often with too many
people Judy. It is so unnecessary. I have done the best I can
answering your points. I have said my piece. I remember when you were
so
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
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Or perhaps you're chiding me for being so rude as
to call your integrity into question.
Yes that is it. You have made this move once too often with too
many people Judy. It is so unnecessary. I have done the
On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:25 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:"Or perhaps you're chiding me for being so rude as to call your integrity into question." Yes that is it. You have made this move once too often with too many people Judy. It is so unnecessary. I have done the best I can answering your
Here's the point:
Photographs aside, a critical thinker will ask if there is any
evidence that anyone has ever levitated. There is not.
No one is going to levitate either, I'm asserting.
It's all more BS from the TMO. Those who believe that levitation is
happening or will happen are probably
The fact that you are even discussing the impossibility of flying is
the result of a very successful marketing campaign isn't it? Based on
people hopping around, MMY asserted that people would soon fly. Now,
so many years later, for a dwindling group, the hope remains. This is
one of the most
Very well said.
Have you read Sam Harris' book, End of Faith, or something like
that? He says pretty much the same thing.
And, normally, I don't care if people want to belief preposterous
stuff, but lately with people strapping on bombs and blowing
themselves up in coffee houses because they
Yes that was right out of Sam Harris' perspective! He is one of my
favorite thinkers. I must add that I was a full believer in all
things TM at one time so my critique of this kind of belief is also a
critique of my own former beliefs. Taking on and then shedding the
beliefs of TM was an
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
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The fact that you are even discussing the impossibility of flying is
the result of a very successful marketing campaign isn't it? Based
on people hopping around, MMY asserted that people would soon fly.
It was
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very well said.
Have you read Sam Harris' book, End of Faith, or something like
that? He says pretty much the same thing.
Not quite.
From the recent interview with Harris in Salon.com:
S: One thing I find so fascinating
Since you turned me on to this article I know you understand his point
which is made in the rest of the article. In his book Sam Harris
points out that irrational beliefs are different only in content.
They are based on ancient scriptures dictating to modern people things
that cannot or have not
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
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Since you turned me on to this article I know you understand his
point
which is made in the rest of the article. In his book Sam Harris
points out that irrational beliefs are different only in content.
They are
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Since you turned me on to this article I know you understand his
point
which is made in the rest of the article. In his book Sam
I apologize for not reading the earlier posts where you quoted
extensively from Harris. You're right about him. He reflects my
thinking as well.
Esentially, it comes down to this. Claims made require testing.
MMY's claims with regard to yogic flying have been found seriously
wanting and those
Esentially, it comes down to this. Claims made require testing.
MMY's claims with regard to yogic flying have been found seriously
wanting and those desiring to believe those claims in the face of no
supporting evidence are deluding themselves. The TMO is real good
about advancing
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Since you turned me on to this article I know you
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize for not reading the earlier posts where you quoted
extensively from Harris.
snicker That was me, not Curtis.
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And the daily activity of those who practise Voodoo
TM is,
specifically, a Guru-dictated, Bhakti-based blind
belief system
performed within the orbit of a
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And the daily activity of those who practise Voodoo
TM is,
specifically, a
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I once practiced the original, non-VooDoo TM, that is, until the
movement started to make claims of levitation, invisibility, etc. At
that moment, I began to question what I was involved with, and for
the first time, think critically about it. I retreated as hastily as
I could.
In the decades
I once practiced the original, non-VooDoo TM, that is, until the
movement started to make claims of levitation, invisibility, etc. At
that moment, I began to question what I was involved with, and for
the first time, think critically about it. I retreated as hastily as
I could.
In the decades
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I once practiced the original, non-VooDoo TM, that is, until the
movement started to make claims of levitation, invisibility, etc.
At that moment, I began to question what I was involved with, and
for the first time, think
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I once practiced the original, non-VooDoo TM, that is, until the
movement started to make claims of levitation, invisibility, etc.
At
that moment, I began to question what I was involved with, and for
the first time,
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I once practiced the original, non-VooDoo TM, that is, until the
movement started to make claims of levitation, invisibility, etc.
At that moment, I
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I once practiced the original, non-VooDoo TM, that is, until
the
movement
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Just for the record, since about 1984, the TMO has
been quite clear
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